The Edge of Death: Exploring Mortality w/ Sebastian Junger

Soul Boom

Rainn Wilson

Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Rainn Wilson sits down with acclaimed journalist, author, and war correspondent Sebastian Junger to discuss his harrowing near-death experience, the mysteries of consciousness, and the human connection to mortality. Sebastian recounts his brush with death caused by a ruptured aneurysm and the profound vision of his late father that challenged his atheistic worldview. This episode is a powerful exploration of what it means to face mortality and find meaning in our fleeting existence. Whether you’re a spiritual seeker or a science enthusiast, this conversation will leave you questioning the nature of reality and your own place in it. Thank you to our sponsors! Masterclass (up to 50% OFF!): https://MasterClass.com/SoulBoom Aura (promo code: SOULBOOM): https://auraframes.com Fetzer Institute: https://fetzer.org/ MERCH OUT NOW! https://soulboomstore.myshopify.com/ God-Shaped Hole Mug: https://bit.ly/GodShapedHoleMug Sign up for our newsletter! https://soulboom.substack.com SUBSCRIBE to Soul Boom!! https://bit.ly/Subscribe2SoulBoom Watch our Clips: https://bit.ly/SoulBoomCLIPS Watch WISDOM DUMP: https://bit.ly/WISDOMDUMP Follow us! Instagram: http://instagram.com/soulboom TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@soulboom Sponsor Soul Boom: [email protected] Work with Soul Boom: [email protected] Send Fan Creations, Questions, Comments: [email protected] Produced by: Kartik Chainani Executive Produced by: Ford Bowers, Samah Tokmachi Companion Arts Production Supervisor: Mike O'Brien Voicing Change Media Theme Music by: Marcos Moscat

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0:00.0	You're listening to Sobu.
0:03.0	The most terrifying thing about death, not that it can come with mortars and explosions and bullets,
0:09.0	but that is also incredibly casual and ordinary and offhand.
0:13.0	Doctors started to work on my neck to put the needle in.
0:16.0	That was when I had my experience on the threshold of death,
0:21.1	the experience that I've been wondering about ever since.
0:23.8	Well, since we're there, let's go there.
0:30.2	Hey there, it's me, Rain Wilson, and I want to dig into the human experience.
0:34.6	I want to have conversations about a spiritual revolution.
0:38.9	Let's get deep with our favorite thinkers, friends, and entertainers about life, meaning, and idiocy. Welcome to the
0:45.8	Soul Boom podcast. Sebastian, thanks so much for coming on Soul Boom.
0:55.0	Oh, my pleasure. Thank you for having me.
0:57.1	And crawling out here to the hellscape of suburban Los Angeles and being in our fake,
1:04.8	homey living room. Your book was my favorite book of last year in my time of dying.
1:09.9	I've read a lot of near-death experience books.
1:12.4	This is not that, which I greatly appreciated
1:16.2	because I get a little tired of hearing
1:18.9	about choruses of angels and tunnels of light.
1:22.4	If you want to sell a lot of books,
1:23.7	proclaim to have proven that there's an afterlife.
1:26.3	And then you sell a ton of books.
1:27.4	And the short answer is, like, I didn't do that because I'm a journalist. of books proclaimed to have proven that there's an afterlife. And then you sell a ton of books.
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