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Facing Mortality and Beyond: Peak Performance in the Most Crucial Moments | Sebastian Junger

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

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4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this compelling episode, James converses with Sebastian Junger, acclaimed author and war reporter, about his harrowing near-death experience and his exploration of the afterlife in his latest book, "In My Time of Dying." Junger shares the profound and mystifying moments he faced at the brink of death, challenging his atheistic beliefs and scientific understanding. This episode isn't just about a personal encounter with mortality but dives into the larger implications of consciousness, the mysteries of the human mind, and what it means to truly live after facing death.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Imagine you're about to die.

0:06.7

Imagine you're about to die.

0:08.6

Let's say you were hit by a car,

0:10.6

you're bleeding out, you're on the way to the hospital, but you just have this sense that you're not going to live.

0:18.0

And you see visions of, let's say, someone you knew in the past, let's say someone you knew in the past let's say a mother or a

0:26.0

father and they're saying don't worry we're here for you come down this light at the end of a tunnel.

0:34.4

Does that change your experience of life if you then survive?

0:40.4

Well, we're going to hear from Sebastian Younger, who wrote,

0:45.0

in my time of dying, how I came face to face with the idea of an

0:47.8

afterlife.

0:48.8

And if you don't know who Sebastian is, he's written tons of books

0:51.1

about being a war reporter and his experience in war zones and

0:55.1

other experiences like that and his books are always very intense but this is

0:59.5

perhaps his most intense book that I've read where he's not talking about deaths in the battlefield

1:07.9

or in a war zone, but his own experience of dying and what happened to him during that experience and it really it

1:17.2

really makes you think I've been thinking about it a lot for personal reasons

1:21.2

this past week and it really was interesting to me so I hope everybody

1:25.9

enjoys it if you do please retweet it please share it with your friends please subscribe to the

1:30.4

podcast so all the good little algorithms work for me so thanks so much and

1:36.2

here is Sebastian

1:42.3

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

1:47.0

This is the James Altiger show. What compelled you to write it? I mean, it's very different from, I don't want to say it's very different from your other books. I think stylistically it's similar, but it's different in the terms of that you're veering into a lot of speculation instead of kind of

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