Dr. David DeSteno
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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And what she said was, I mean, part of it is to keep the culture.
But part of it is too, she says, it is sometimes an amazing experience when I stop to think that the words I am saying now have been said by Jews for thousands of years going back.
And those same words will be said, hopefully, thousands of years going forward.
And what it does is it situates me in this sequence of time.
And I know that the challenges that I'm facing have been faced by people before and will be faced by people afterward.
And in that experience, I feel part of something greater.
And I think, you know, one thing we're seeing now, you keep hearing on the news how people are leaving traditional faith, and they are.
But there's a subset of people who are actually going back to more orthodox faiths, traditional Catholicism, orthodox Judaism.
And what they'll often say is there's an appreciation in these forms where it's still the Latin mass or other types of things for things that have felt true and universal through time.
And when I worship that way, I feel that connection to humanity and this sense that we're all in this together.
And they find and feel a sense of deeper purpose.
Like things just aren't relative and changing here and there depending upon people's norms and mores at the moment.
And so there's no work that I can think of that points to this, but I think the phenomenon you're describing is one that is very...
felt by a lot of people, especially if they engage in practices that have a longer tradition going back.
anymore it just seems like it's like right there i mean things that we you know 30 years ago if someone told you the way quantum mechanics work you would have thought they were insane and so um i think we have to have some intellectual humility that there are forces in this world as you're saying that we don't have access to yet in terms of our conscious awareness but nonetheless they can act on us your point though i think about um
The 12-step program is an interesting one because they do work for a lot of people.
And what the data show about kind of giving over some control, believing in a higher power, is it actually is useful for avoiding addiction.
So people who are engaged with religious practice have some protection against addiction.
The rates are lower.
But when you...
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