Andrew Huberman talks with Robert Greene about his new book The Law of the Sublime. They cover how consciousness gets constricted into a small circle, and how doorways to the sublime can reopen it through attention, time perception, nature, music, love and science.
Greene's stroke ended his plans for travel and drugs, so he found the sublime in his backyard and wrote the book by hand over seven years. Key ideas: Gurdjieff's self-remembering, childhood time felt as a river, near-death time compression, and technology and reporting as barriers. He also covers love as vulnerable falling, the loss of religion, and finding a life's task via childhood memories and frustrations. His next projects: a book on the invisible, and tech-world fiction.