Nate Hagens

So again, it's important to wear those goggles or be in a totally dark room or something like that.

And that matters, right?

Yes.

But for many of us, especially me, I'm asleep within two minutes of me laying down.

So the darkness retreat is pretty short.

And then I'm into dreamland.

So getting back to my closing questions, we have a lot of young people, surprisingly, that watch this platform.

What specific general advice, life advice do you have for young humans in their teens and 20s who become aware of the economic environmental constraints of the global economy?

And it may or may not have to do with meditation or darkness, just general considerate advice from a lifetime of experience.

If you could wave a magic wand and there was no personal recourse to your decision, what is one thing you would do to improve the future of humanity in the biosphere?

Yeah, a couple years ago, I would have pushed back on that answer, but I now understand it better because it's our inability to be in the present moment that contributes to the crisis that we're in, I think.

So does a darkness practice enable people to be more in the present generally in their life when the lights are on?

So, um, this has been really interesting, uh, and, and, uh, personally, uh, valuable to me.

Um, what, what sort of research questions are driving you right now?

I mean, I know you just finished your book, um, and you're doing retreats and other things, but you're a scientist and you're curious, like what are the couple things that you are most passionate about looking into and discovering in the rest of this year?

Any closing comments for people watching or listening who either understand and agree with what you've laid out here or are very curious about it?

To be continued.

Super fun.

Thank you, Nate.

Thank you.