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What Is Self-Transcendence? Definition and 6 Examples

By Courtney E. Ackerman — 2022

Self-transcendence is, at its core, about transcending (or rising above) the self and relating to that which is greater than the self.

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Jonathan Haidt: Religion, Evolution, and the Ecstasy of Self-Transcendence

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose ourselves? In a tour through the science of evolution by group selection, he proposes a provocative answer.

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Jonathan Haidt
2012
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Roland Griffiths, Tim Ferriss | The Future and Science of Psychedelics | SXSW 2018 (Audio Enhanced)

Bestselling author Tim Ferriss (Tools of Titans, The 4-Hour Workweek, etc.) probes the science, mysteries, and future of psychedelics with Dr. Roland R. Griffiths, a clinical pharmacologist at Johns Hopkins. Dr.

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Roland Griffiths
2020
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