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Almost Awakened: 139: Beyond God and Religion

Almost Awakened

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The Distrust of Feeling Good in Religious Believers

"I have something I would love to explore a little bit deeper. So the dynamic that for some reason for religious believers distrust feeling good," he says. "We're so used to feeling bad about ourselves that our brains like, you know, thermostat is just kind of forever set at feeling bad is normal and normal is good." He adds: "If I drink a Coke today, like I'll be a crack whore tomorrow".

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