Dr. David DeSteno
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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I think for some people, what it really is, is this sense of awe, right?
When you see something that is so spectacularly complex like the eye, you're kind of awed by it.
How did it evolve in just this way?
And so that emotion itself, the experience of awe itself,
actually makes people more open to supernatural experiences.
So this is wonderful work done by a student of mine, now a professor at St.
Olaf, Carlo Valdisolo.
And what he showed is that when you allow people to feel awe by showing them natural beauty, like pictures of the Grand Canyon or wonderful sunsets or however you go when you induce it architecturally, people suddenly give more probability
to the idea that there is something beyond them.
Right.
And so here again, you're seeing the combo.
You're seeing, well, this how could this ever formed?
I'm in awe of it.
Oh, I'm feeling that emotion that makes me more open to the idea that there is, in fact, something beyond.
And it seems to feel right.
And let's face it, most people, if you're not trained scientifically, you don't really understand how to think probably logically.
And I'm not saying that's a problem with people.
It's just part of our business.
Right.
We have to learn how to think that way.
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