Sebastian Junger

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.

Those are human projections, right?

But maybe at the quantum level,

We just don't quite understand what death is, what reality is, what consciousness is.

So my father was a physicist.

And just weirdly, my great aunt had a long, passionate affair with Schrodinger, the physicist who...

Schrodinger's cat, right?

And one of the mysteries of quantum physics, and I'm sure you've come into this in your studies and your research and your conversations, one of the profound mysteries of quantum physics that was sort of broken wide open about 100 years ago by people like Schrodinger and Heisenberg