Dr. David DeSteno
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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And they have this thing there called the
The culture of giving or gifting, I forget the actual name, but there's no money at Burning Man.
Everything is basically through the kindness of others in exchange.
And so people are in this environment where their normal life, their normal clothes, their normal identity is stripped away.
They're experiencing the harshness of the elements of the heat on the playa.
And they experience that they can exist there because of the kindness of others.
And people who interpret it this way, Molly finds, report not only feeling this profound kind of self-transcendent experience, but when they come back, it stays.
And they actually tend to be more pro-social.
And so some religions have realized this now.
So I have a friend of mine named Alex Leach, who's an Episcopal minister, runs a camp.
Because at Burning Man, there are all these camps.
And his camp is called Religious AF.
I don't know if I can say that word on there.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Far worse has been that.
Right, right, right.
Religious as fuck.
And what they are there is he's there.
And he told me the reason he found this is because when he first started going, he said, I never felt God as palpably, the presence of God as palpably as I could feel it there.
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