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The surprisingly common experience of near death experiences and what science still can't explain about them.

Sebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, Fire, A Death in Belmont, War and Tribe, and In My Time of Dying. As an award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world, and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award.

In this episode we talk about:

Junger’s near death experience and the impact it had on him
The conclusions he came to after investigation the possibilities of an afterlife
The mysteries of quantum physics and what they might tell us about life and death
How he believes we can all experience awe on a daily basis

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