340. Ben Alderson-Day — Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Power of Narrative and Legend
There's something going on there at different levels right you know that kind of whether it's hypoxia or whether it's sensory environments sure you're going to get. The things that you really interact with the things that you take home with you that have real meaning are often more those like social things or those sensitive presence or the things that feel like they have function. And I'm always interested in but also slightly suspicious is too strong a word but essentially that power of kind of narrative and legend looms large of a lot of those accounts. You've got that sense of companions or presences that comfort people just in timeYou've got that kind of like legend or that feeling that these experiences are
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