#30 - I Am a Universe in and of Myself

This week marks a few big milestones for the project. It’s Episode #30, the final full conversation of the podcast’s first year, and it’s also the very first international call.

Our caller from Canada takes us through a wide-ranging conversation about death, culture, science, and what it means to see ourselves as part of something larger. From how the brain behaves in our final moments to how different cultures approach death, the discussion moves between the personal and the collective, the scientific and the spiritual.

At the heart of it all is one powerful idea: that each of us is a universe in and of ourselves.

NOTE: If you’d like to watch this conversation instead of just listening, you can find the video version on YouTube.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Book recommendations: Mostly Happy by Pam Buston and Speak by Louisa Hall
• The idea that when we die, our bodies return to nature and our energy to the cosmos
• How the brain might create whole new realities at the moment of death
• An incredible story of a man in a coma who believed he had lived decades in another life
• Growing up between cultures, and how Western and non-Western perspectives shape the way we see death
• The tension between science and spirituality — and the limits of what science can explain
• Why collective well-being is inseparable from individual well-being
• Reflections on seeing death up close in today’s world, and what it teaches us about community
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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