On this episode of Skeptico, a show about love in the extended consciousness realm.

We can't directly establish causation, right?

If you look at what Richard Dolan was describing of the tall grace and the reported experiences of these people of overwhelming love.

And you compare this to the near-death experience reports of this overwhelming love.

And then you look at, for instance, the New Testament, and it's all about love.

Love is all that matters.

We also look at the counterculture in the 60s, 1960s, with the Beatles, all you need is love.

And I just started to get a little bit suspicious of this. Why is it always just love?

Why is it only about that and not about, for instance, material accomplishments in this world?

Why is it always just love?

And why we might not want to go all fanboy on the love thing?

Hey, remember when you were in the Beatles and you did that album, Abbey Road, and the song goes, and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

You remember that?

Yes.

Is that true?

Yes, Chris.

In my experience, it is I find the more you give, the more you get.

I have an interview coming up in a minute with Nelson, insert pseudonym there, who did just a

fantastic interview with me a couple months ago.

I have no idea why I sat on this as long as I did.

It's actually so good that I've broken it up into two parts because we talk about so many

things and we talk about this other

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