Dr. David DeSteno

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So most people think of Burning Man as this kind of debaucherous party in the desert, which for some people it is.

It is.

But this is work by the neuroscientist Molly Crockett at Princeton.

She went to Burning Man.

She was a burner herself.

It's coming up soon.

Are you going?

Yeah, no.

God, no.

I hate the heat.

It doesn't surprise me.

Are you going to go?

What she showed is that there's a segment of people there.

that report having profound spiritual experiences.

Now, if you think of Burning Man, right, it's one of these what we would call a liminal space, right?

It is everything that's normal in life doesn't happen there.

People go to take different names.

They wear different clothes.

You are exposed to an environment that is relatively harsh in the desert.

And people who have gone tell me the only way that you can really survive is you have to depend on other people.

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