Sebastian Junger

And he was like, no, this is the emergency.

Like, I had no idea.

right i'm i'm 10 minutes from dead i have no idea i'm dying zero right thank god because i would have been terrified and i would have been thinking about my family and i would you know i mean you know like yeah you don't want that right and um so he said this is the emergency i was like well if you say so go ahead have at it right so while he's working on prepping my neck um

And it actually didn't hurt at all, right?

So if you ever have to have this done, don't worry about it.

But while I'm lying there and he's sort of working on my neck, getting...

It felt like it took longer than it probably actually did.

But while I'm there, all of a sudden, and I have to stop and say, I'm an atheist.

I'm a lifelong atheist.

I'm a rationalist.

I'm not spiritual.

I'm not a mystic.

I'm not woo-woo.

Like, I'm nothing, right?

And my dad was an atheist and a physicist.

I have to say all this because of what's coming.

And I'm still an atheist, by the way.

So all of a sudden...

I sensed below me and to my left this black pit open up, this black abyss, like this infinite black void.

And I was getting pulled into it.