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Really? no, Really?

What Really Happens When We Die - What One Man Saw on the Other Side

Oct 29, 2024
44:02

A violent undiagnosed aneurysm should have killed Sebastian Junger, a war reporter, a best-selling author, and an Academy Award winning documentarian. Junger came as close as anyone we know to dying, but he returned from the abyss and reveals what it was like.

For years Jason and Peter have heard about so-called NDE’s – near-death experiences where the clinically dead - miraculously resuscitated - come back to life with eerily familiar stories. Whether it’s long-dead relatives speaking to them from the afterlife, or encountering an enormous tunnel, illuminated by a brilliant, welcoming light…. are these stories evidence of a “Great Beyond”, or simply wild spasms of a dying brain? After Junger’s NDE, he launched an investigation and uncovered a possible third answer that may expand our understanding of the universe itself. Really, no really.

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IN THIS EPISODE:

  • The visions he saw that changed his conception of the universe.
  • Who encouraged him toward the void?
  • What causes similar near-death experiences… God or spasms of a dying brain?
  • Panpsychism: A scientific explanation of a possible and universal post-life existence.
  • Anxiety, derealization & depression, why Sebastian Junger doubted he was alive.
  • He was an atheist…now?
  • Jason and Peter share their out of body experiences.
  • Googleheim: Other things we just can’t know.

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FOLLOW SEBASTIAN:

His latest book: In My Time of Dying: How I came face to face with the idea of an afterlife

Website: SebastianJunger.com

Instagram: @SebastianJungerOfficial

X: @sebastianjunger

Facebook: @SebastianJunger

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