Sebastian Junger
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I went to my own mortality.
The front line we're all headed to and that most of us are scared of.
And I was allowed to look over the edge.
And then I came back.
I was allowed to come back.
Did I come back with sacred knowledge?
In other words, with knowledge that would be helpful to me and to other people, lead their lives with less fear, more dignity, et cetera.
And that was the challenge.
And I set about doing it.
At that moment, I just lay there.
I was like, all right, what did I learn?
And the big question that I had to answer for myself was,
What the hell did I see with my father?
And does that mean that there's something, quote, more, right?
Is there something after we die that we can sort of like look forward to and count on?
Or is it just the dying brain hallucinating some shit because we're so frigging scared and the synapses are shorting out and it's going haywire and that's what you get.
You see some weird stuff, right?