Can a Psychic Medium Improve Your Life? Wrestling With the Balance Between Open-Mindedness and Skepticism

It's the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello, everybody. Today we are diving into a question that I have puzzled over for many, many years. How do you balance openness and skepticism?

In my book, I used a quote from one of my favorite punk bands, The Meat Puppets. Here's the quote: Open your mind, inpours the trash. That really sums up the dilemma. As soon as you get interested in something like meditation or, for lack of a better word, spirituality, you have to start wading through oceans of bullshit before you can find the good stuff. How do you know how to separate wheat from chaff?

So we're going to approach this question today, and the way we're going to approach it is a little bit different. than how we usually do it. Actually it's very different. In other words, this is a an unusual and dare I say special episode. We're not going to do a straight one-on-one interview, which is what we normally do.

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