Ezra Klein

Yes, there are buckets. There is a consistency or a couple maybe consistencies to near-death experiences or to memories that young kids have of what at least some people take to be past lives or things like the radio turning on or, or, or, or, or. But none of these really fit, at least not all of them. in any of the big religions.

Yes, there are buckets. There is a consistency or a couple maybe consistencies to near-death experiences or to memories that young kids have of what at least some people take to be past lives or things like the radio turning on or, or, or, or, or. But none of these really fit, at least not all of them. in any of the big religions.

I've read enough of the religions to say that what I describe as the unruliness, when I say that, I mean enough things that don't fit a kind of simplified view of reality that it would make me wonder about materialism. But also, I don't think Judaism explains them all. I don't think that Catholicism explains them all. I'm not saying I know what does Hinduism explain

I've read enough of the religions to say that what I describe as the unruliness, when I say that, I mean enough things that don't fit a kind of simplified view of reality that it would make me wonder about materialism. But also, I don't think Judaism explains them all. I don't think that Catholicism explains them all. I'm not saying I know what does Hinduism explain

It's quite big, actually.

It's quite big, actually.

I'm not saying that I know what does.

I'm not saying that I know what does.

I'm not saying that I know what does. What I'm saying is that I'm very sympathetic to how it can kind of spin you into a profound openness. I know many people who have gone there where what it seems to me now is having come to believe that In these kinds of things, it's very hard for them to say where to stop believing.

I'm not saying that I know what does. What I'm saying is that I'm very sympathetic to how it can kind of spin you into a profound openness. I know many people who have gone there where what it seems to me now is having come to believe that In these kinds of things, it's very hard for them to say where to stop believing.

And they now believe a lot of things that are maybe contradictory or their gurus are all saying different things. But once you open yourself, it's hard. It can become hard to close back down. But for them, you know, some of them grew up in a faith tradition. For them, the faith tradition didn't explain too much of what they then began to see or experience or come to believe in.

And they now believe a lot of things that are maybe contradictory or their gurus are all saying different things. But once you open yourself, it's hard. It can become hard to close back down. But for them, you know, some of them grew up in a faith tradition. For them, the faith tradition didn't explain too much of what they then began to see or experience or come to believe in.

I don't think any of the traditions have a really good explanation for why we have sort of weirdly consistent alien abduction experiences, which I don't believe to be alien abductions, but I'm not sure what to make of them. What is your response to someone like that?

I don't think any of the traditions have a really good explanation for why we have sort of weirdly consistent alien abduction experiences, which I don't believe to be alien abductions, but I'm not sure what to make of them. What is your response to someone like that?

In the Vatican, there is quite a bit.

In the Vatican, there is quite a bit.

I really, really enjoyed it. And this was my, the point where it helped me clarify where my intuitions maybe go very differently, which is, I think at a fundamental level, I expect that

I really, really enjoyed it. And this was my, the point where it helped me clarify where my intuitions maybe go very differently, which is, I think at a fundamental level, I expect that

anything that has worked at mass scale across many different institutional regimes and organized religion is likely to have conformed so much to politics and institutions as to have strayed from how profoundly radical whatever kind of spiritual truth might exist is.

anything that has worked at mass scale across many different institutional regimes and organized religion is likely to have conformed so much to politics and institutions as to have strayed from how profoundly radical whatever kind of spiritual truth might exist is.