It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody how we doing when I heard that Sebastian Younger the best-selling author and award-winning and

intensely skeptical combat reporter when I heard that this dude had decided to write a book about

whether there's an afterlife.

I was like, yes, please, let's get that guy on the show.

He has a wild story, which you're going to hear him tell in full, but the TLDR is he had a pancreatic aneurysm that almost killed him back in June of

2020 and as he lay dying he says he felt his late father's presence speaking words of comfort to him.

He did ultimately survive, although he did also nearly die, and the experience prompted

him as a journalist and a self-described stone cold

atheists to investigate near-death experiences in order to, and these are his words,

calm his soul. He's written a whole new book about it. It's called In My Time of

Dying How I Came Face to Face with the idea of an afterlife. This comes on the

heels of a whole series of huge hit books including the perfect storm, fire, a death in Belmont, war, tribe, and freedom.

This is a rangy and fascinating and sometimes very fun conversation about life, death, consciousness,

multiverse's awe, and love.

We talk about what the science says about the surprisingly common experiences of people

who come back after having nearly died, the bizarre and contradictory mysteries of quantum physics

and what they might be able to tell us about the universe, what happens when we die and the possibility

of a universal consciousness, and we talk about where he, Sebastian, netted out on all of this after years of investigating.

Sebastian Younger, right after this.

But first some BSP, as you've heard me say before, the hardest part of personal growth, self-improvement, spiritual development,

whatever you want to call it. The hardest part is forgetting.

You listen to a great podcast, you read a great book,

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