Welcome to Search Engine. I'm PJ Vote. No question too big, no question too small. This week, Dan Harris, author of the best-selling memoir about meditation and Buddhism called 10% Happier, has a question. A very intriguing one involving a psychic. That's after these ads.

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Hey.

Dan, how's it going?

Good. How are you?

I just ate an enormous bagel.

You know, like the ones where you got to take a nap. I'm glad you're

eating. It sounds like you had a stomach bug over the weekend. I was very, I was, God, I don't even

want to fill in the picture for you. I've never been that ill. I've just never been that ill in my

life, nor a virus. Don't get it.

I've had it. I, um, I've had food poisoning on pretty much every continent.

My father has a great expression about this. When you have a stomach flu like that, he says you

switch between thinking you're going to die and fearing you won't? That's exactly the reality.

That was exactly it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It made me realize that when I'm old, I'm not going to be a fighter, like, at all.

I'm going to, like, cough twice and be like, take me off life support.

I'm like, you're, cough twice and be like, take me off life support. They'll be like, you're not like support.

Dan Harris, to the rest of the world, is not primarily known for all the food poisoning he's had.

He's known these days as an author and host of a popular podcast called 10% Happier.

That's about meditation and mindfulness and a lot of other things.

Recently, Dan found himself investigating this question, and I asked him if we could ride along

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