Dr. Tara Swart

Yeah. And it was just this idea of how society shows what's important and what's powerful too. I'd add that as well, that it's also what we deem as powerful. And I wanted to get your take on what is your perspective on God and the source in that sense? Like what have you discovered or seen from your research in that space?

Yeah. And it was just this idea of how society shows what's important and what's powerful too. I'd add that as well, that it's also what we deem as powerful. And I wanted to get your take on what is your perspective on God and the source in that sense? Like what have you discovered or seen from your research in that space?

You don't have to if you don't want to.

You don't have to if you don't want to.

Even with the experiences that people have had under psychedelics or things like that, I've heard or met so many people who've had like God interactions or God-like interactions and things. I'm sure you have too. That's what I was trying to get at from the research point of view. But you're saying that that's still not, you wouldn't count it as proof in the scientific sense.

Even with the experiences that people have had under psychedelics or things like that, I've heard or met so many people who've had like God interactions or God-like interactions and things. I'm sure you have too. That's what I was trying to get at from the research point of view. But you're saying that that's still not, you wouldn't count it as proof in the scientific sense.

Yeah. Yeah. No, no. And that's totally, that's totally interesting and fair. And it's, yeah, it's just been something I've been fascinated by from a scientific point of view, because it's, it's, um, yeah, trying to understand the as we've talked about today, the otherworldly or other realm is something that's beyond us.

Yeah. Yeah. No, no. And that's totally, that's totally interesting and fair. And it's, yeah, it's just been something I've been fascinated by from a scientific point of view, because it's, it's, um, yeah, trying to understand the as we've talked about today, the otherworldly or other realm is something that's beyond us.

Like we don't even have, like you said, the brain doesn't even allow us to go there.

Like we don't even have, like you said, the brain doesn't even allow us to go there.

religiosity or belief in god is is beneficial to our mental health and none or fundamentalism is actually you know negative for our mental health we've talked about so much today i know we've really gone there and and it was more than i thought too i've like avoided i've avoided every bullet point my team sent me and thought about i love that because it's been so much more fun just diving into your amazing mind and research and just getting getting an inkling is there anything that we haven't talked about that you really want to touch on i don't

religiosity or belief in god is is beneficial to our mental health and none or fundamentalism is actually you know negative for our mental health we've talked about so much today i know we've really gone there and and it was more than i thought too i've like avoided i've avoided every bullet point my team sent me and thought about i love that because it's been so much more fun just diving into your amazing mind and research and just getting getting an inkling is there anything that we haven't talked about that you really want to touch on i don't

I'm like, just making sure that to sit with someone and really pick their brain and someone who can speak about so many different things in such a broad range of topics is so rare. I'm so grateful to you for that because I love how much, how curious you are. I love how much you're willing to push the envelope. I love how

I'm like, just making sure that to sit with someone and really pick their brain and someone who can speak about so many different things in such a broad range of topics is so rare. I'm so grateful to you for that because I love how much, how curious you are. I love how much you're willing to push the envelope. I love how

challenging you are of both sides of the idea whether it's spirituality or science and uh we we end every on purpose episode with a final five so i'd love to ask you these five questions some of them are things we ask everyone and some of them will be geared towards you okay so dr taraswa these are your final five the first question is uh what is the best advice you've ever heard or received

challenging you are of both sides of the idea whether it's spirituality or science and uh we we end every on purpose episode with a final five so i'd love to ask you these five questions some of them are things we ask everyone and some of them will be geared towards you okay so dr taraswa these are your final five the first question is uh what is the best advice you've ever heard or received

What do you understand about it differently now?

What do you understand about it differently now?

I love that. Question number two, what is the worst advice you ever heard or received?

I love that. Question number two, what is the worst advice you ever heard or received?