Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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What is the origin of our transcendent experiences? How should we interpret feelings of being connected to nature and the cosmos, of being part of something larger than ourselves, of being overcome with awe and wonder? Can such feelings arise from the forces of natural selection and the human brain, or must they be derived from some all-powerful Creator?

Physicist Alan Lightman in conversation with Steve Paulson.

The Morgan Library and Museum
December 5, 2023