Just One Question | James Hollis: Why Am I Here?

Hello and welcome to Just One Question from Insights at the Edge. I'm Chris Rock. And I'm Mallory Corbin. We're producers at the Sounds True Podcast Network. We work with Tammy on Insights at the Edge to bring you transformational ideas from with some teachers around the world. And every week on this show, we pull out some of the most inspiring, most transformational ideas from those hundreds of conversations, and we bring them to you in the form of one question and one answer. We hope you enjoy. This week, Mallory, I want to share one of my favorite authors that I found through Sounds True, and that is Dr. James Hollis. Who insists on being called James.

Oh my gosh. He is just like the sweetest man. I love I love any time I get to work with him. He's great. I was a little starstruck when we were. I remember I remember. Uh so James was my gateway into Young psychology, he's written a lot about that and about finding meaning in life. Especially later in life, which is where I happen to be. Oh, you're not that old. Just waiting for you. Anyway, um when he talked with Tammy in twenty twenty five.

He had just published Living with Borrowed Dust. And there's a lot in those essays about life and death and meeting, and as you will hear, the abyss. Sounds ominous. Yeah. Uh what I love here is that Tammy asks him whether he means by the abyss. Which he defines as the openness of being, but then James brings his own question because he says that the abyss opens every time we ask a radical question. And what is a more radical question than

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