Beyond Borders: A Journey to the Afterlife
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
4.8 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this gripping episode, I sit down with Sebastian Junger, journalist and author of "In My Time of Dying," to explore his transformative near-death experience and subsequent spiritual awakening. Sebastian delves into the profound impacts of his aneurysm, questioning the nature of reality and the boundaries of life and death through the lens of both mysticism and quantum physics. We discuss the interplay between his rationalist beliefs and the mystical experiences that challenged them, blending personal narrative with broader philosophical questions. Tune into a conversation that bridges the gap between the known and the unknown, scrutinizing the thin line between transcendent insight and mental illness. Visit our podcast page for episode notes, Sebastian's works, and more enriching content.
00:00 Nervous about talking to the amazing author.
03:49 War reporter turned family man experiences sudden pain.
08:40 Feeling pulled into endless black pit, panic.
09:58 Saved by interventional radiology after severe bleeding.
13:50 Questioning the value of a near-death experience.
17:55 Questioning reality after near-death experience, radiating uncertainty.
20:54 Shamanism in native societies and schizophrenia comparison.
22:56 Quantum physics, podcast support, online community invitation.
25:29 Fatherhood, mortality, and mysticism in the universe.
28:47 Curiosity about medical possibilities faces professional resistance.
32:26 Belief in afterlife offers comfort in death.
37:54 Quantum physics is akin to religion, intimidating.
40:17 Observation affects reality, universe as double-slit experiment.
43:27 Schrodinger and others explore the nature of consciousness.
45:50 Experiments defy physical intuition, knowledge is limited.
49:10 Entropy leads to even distribution of molecules.
52:02 Scientific knowledge has limits we may never know
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the space between. |
| 0:06.5 | I can get a little starstruck sometimes and today's episode was just that. |
| 0:11.6 | My heart was racing before I even started and I knew partly because this guest, Sebastian |
| 0:19.4 | Younger, who is a world-famous journalist and amazing author was coming on. |
| 0:27.2 | And I just have so much respect for him. |
| 0:29.6 | I've read his work before. |
| 0:32.1 | The Perfect Storm is his most famous novel, which many of you probably know, was made into a movie. |
| 0:38.4 | All that to say, I was really nervous to talk to him. |
| 0:41.8 | He was amazing. |
| 0:43.9 | His book in My Time of Dying, right here, which is out now, I had no intention, and I talk |
| 0:50.7 | about this a little on the podcast, of really sitting down and reading it when I did. I was going to wait. I was on spring break, and I thought, I'll have a relaxing |
| 0:57.4 | spring break, not reading about death dying and what happens afterwards, but really just like |
| 1:02.4 | enjoying a kind of beachy novel. This was not that, but it was amazing. And in this episode today, we talk about what happened to him, not just |
| 1:13.7 | his near-death experience, but also several profound experiences he had both after his near-death |
| 1:19.8 | experience and before his near-death experience. And then we really dig into quantum physics |
| 1:24.8 | to perhaps begin to start to understand the nature of reality. |
| 1:30.8 | And for the first time, I think, and I've had a lot of quantum physicists, not a lot, but a handful |
| 1:35.1 | of quantum physicists on the show, I felt like it made sense to me. And I was able to |
| 1:39.9 | partly understand quantum physics. So make sure you listen to the entire episode, especially at the |
| 1:47.9 | end where he tells us ultimately what he thinks he now knows about what happens after we die. |
| 1:55.0 | Here's today's episode with Sebastian Younger. |
| 2:09.0 | Welcome, Sebastian Younger to life, death, and the space between. |
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