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Making Sense of Death

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Paradox of Mortality Salience

Research shows mortality salience under that state of consciousness actually gives you the most heightened states of transcendence a person could possibly have. So this was a big sort of paradox I was trying to reconcile with these two dueling literatures. The pre-rational can sound a lot like the trans-rational, he says.

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