Sebastian Junger

And so I started researching NDEs, near-death experiences.

And there's a whole body of literature, a whole body of knowledge and frankly a whole cottage industry, somewhat shameless cottage industry around that, proof of heaven, blah, blah, blah.

But the flakiness aside, there's some legit – it's very, very common.

And the NDEs that people have had, thousands of cases of them from all over the world, different societies, different cultures, even different ages.

There are historical accounts of this.

And the interesting thing about them –

If you give a roomful of people LSD, they'll have a wide variety of hallucinations.

And we know how that works, right?

We know what happens in the brain when you take LSD.

No big mystery there.

And they'll hallucinate a whole bunch of crazy stuff, right?

With NDEs, what's sort of strange is that the experiences are – there are an infinite number of them, right?

It's not like some people see ham sandwiches and other people see kangaroos, right?

It's like they fall into some – like three or four basic buckets, right?

And that's across culture.

Throughout, you know, throughout the history and which sort of argues for a sort of seminal, seminal human experience rather than just a sort of function of brain chemistry and essentially drugs, right?

Endogenous drugs being released in your brain in your final moments.

And so there are a lot of people, very well credentialed, smart people who are like, listen, these accounts amount to evidence of an afterlife.

Right.

Sorry.