Robert Greene
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1,078 appearances
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2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 26 May
Robert Greene’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so in my book that I'm writing, the last chapter is about death and people who had near-death experiences.
And there was this theme of, I was diagnosed with stage four cancer, as you mentioned.
I have only three months to live.
I've never felt more alive than in these three months.
I don't have to think about social media.
I don't have to think about my admission.
I don't have to think about all these other little problems.
Suddenly the world opens up to me and I'm thinking about what really matters, about what really life is about, right?
Because no amount of technology is going to keep me alive.
And even if it does, I'm still going to have the cancer will come back.
And so you're forced to think about what really matters to you.
And that's what death can do for you, you know?
And so, you know, we're taking away things that really matter to human beings and we're paying a price for it.
And so we have to find a way back to some of these things that our ancestors understood about the human animal and how we need an anchor in our lives.
um i don't know when the bill pre-order probably fairly soon like within a month or two i think it's been announced uh it'll be out in november and the title it's called the law of the sublime the book is about the sublime and uh the idea is when we as a human animal as a social creature we live with certain conventions and limits and codes that tell us this is how we're supposed to think this is how we're supposed to live this how we're supposed to behave
And the sublime are experiences that lie outside that circle, that kind of expand our consciousness.
And I say that there's a lot of things going on in science that should naturally do this.
the nature of human consciousness, like the origin of the universe and the origin of life and all of these amazing discoveries that should be expanding our minds outside this circle.
And as the mind expands, you naturally feel this kind of awe, this kind of cosmic sense that was once a part of religion.
But at the same time that science is expanding this and we should be going, whoa, whoa,
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