Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence

From TED.com-- 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.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_humanity_s_stairway_to_self_transcendence.html