Sebastian Junger

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?

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?

Like, what was that?

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?

Like which is it?

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.