Sebastian Junger

I mean, it's like so that kind of story is.

is super, super common.

So in my mind, right, I'm like, okay, I buy the centrifuge.

I buy the, you know, like endogenous DMT and the blah, blah, the gamma.

I get it.

I get it.

What I don't understand is the consistency of the visions.

Of the dead coming to – like my father did.

I mean you – I get that we hallucinate in times of extreme stress but not that – I don't get the content being consistent across cultures, across ages, manners of death, like on and on, like –

Really?

Like how do you – like so to me that doesn't prove there's a, quote, afterlife.

But it raises a legitimate question like what is it we're talking about here?

And so where I land – and I promise I won't like drag us into a long conversation about quantum physics.

But basically the rational – the argument that's both rational and open-minded –

And my mind has been enormously opened by this experience, not to God, but to maybe we just don't understand the nature of existence completely, right?

It's been open to that.

So the rational and open-minded explanation for some of this stuff, if you don't dismiss it, if you don't dismiss it as just neurochemistry and you're not going to go whole hog on, well, you know, God exists, then hallelujah.

If you're not going to do either of those two things, the conversation that I think can be had is,

is maybe there is some sort of post-death existence at the sort of quantum, meaning the subatomic level, that we just don't understand, and some post-death existence for the individual, and not necessarily post-death consciousness.

We're not on a hammock with a daiquiri.