#369 — Escaping Death

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Sam Harris speaks with Sebastian Junger about danger and death. They discuss Sebastian's career as a journalist in war zones, the connection between danger and meaning, his experience of nearly dying from a burst aneurysm in his abdomen, his lingering trauma, the concept of "awe," psychedelics, near-death experiences, atheism, psychic phenomena, consciousness and the brain, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast, this is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're hearing this you're not currently on our subscriber feed and will only be hearing the first part of this conversation. In order to access full episodes of the Making Sense Podcast, you'll need to subscribe at Sam Harris.org. There you'll also find our
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0:29.0	don't run ads on the podcast and therefore it's made possible entirely through the support of our subscribers.
0:34.0	So if you enjoy what we're doing here, please consider becoming one. Today I'm speaking with Sebastian Younger.
0:48.0	Sebastian is a New York Times best-selling author of several books, Tribe, War, Freedom, A Death in Belmont, Fire, and The Perfect Storm.
1:00.0	He was also a co-director on the documentary film Restrepo, which was nominated for an Academy Award.
1:06.8	He is the winner of a Peabody Award and the National Magazine Award for Reporting. And his most recent book is In My Time of Dying,
1:16.4	How I Came Face to Face with the idea of an afterlife.
1:20.3	And it is a wonderful book, which is the focus of our discussion.
1:24.0	We talk about Sebastian's experience as a journalist in war zones,
1:29.0	the connection between danger and meaning.
1:32.0	Sebastian's experience of nearly dying from a burst aneurysm in his abdomen
1:36.6	and his lingering trauma, the concept of awe, psychedelic's, near-death experiences, atheism,
1:44.0	psychic phenomena,
1:46.0	consciousness in the brain,
1:48.0	and other topics.
1:50.0	And I bring with Sebastian Younger.
2:00.0	I am here with Sebastian Younger. Sebastian, thanks for joining me.
2:02.0	It's my pleasure. Thank you very much for having me.
2:04.0	Well, I've been a huge fan of your work, I think, since the perfect storm, which I remember reading in hardcover.
2:11.0	I don't, I don't, was that like 97 or something when did that come out?
2:14.2	Yeah 97 like a million years ago. Yeah yeah that was that was an amazing read and I've really
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