"that's a brilliant evil question it's evil I've asked so many people this question no one's ever wanted to answer it well here I am Russell Brand is one of the most famous comedians in the world he's ..."

"Russell I read a comment at the top of a YouTube video that um of an interview you did and this was the comment this man is a hero he's truly an example of transcendence across the Spectrum from the a..."

"I have had a life that has been defined by addiction and the addiction and in particular the models of recovery that are available for addiction is a convenient framework for addressing the problems w..."

"predicated upon individualism and materialism your value and this is I think across the political spectrum and even in more compassionate narratives around identity individualism is still enshrined as..."

"and disconnected and lonely and somehow silently brilliant was to try and become successful was to try and become famous was to try and have resources to try and address all of the problems of my orig..."

"driven or dragged driven by their own you know because they're framed in books is driven but in reality they're being dragged by insecurities and shame and all of these things that feeling of not enou..."

"that need to be worn to access God more primarily or more privately I believe that in an absolute loving God that all of us have the right to be here that I don't need no special adornments or epiphet..."

"emotional sentiment towards that young man's circumstances as you look back on what he the situation he was in and what he was experiencing do you feel you feel sorry for him you know do you feel happ..."

"where you are and just again I think to reiterate that that that's why I mentioned addiction and Recovery early on because it provides you with I access to an archetype but this is who I was these wer..."

"regard now as a spiritual problem okay once again tagging that idea of connection that you've helped us set up this conversation using spirituality as a as a as a as a form of connection um you know w..."

"predicated on rational principles but all of us know what love is all of us know what intuition is all of us know as C.S Lewis beautifully outlines in Mere Christianity when we have transgressed again..."

"technique you won't get very far in this world without it and if you don't have it in a declared explicit and I don't mean doctrinal way I mean personal but somehow connected and communal way you will..."

"are we looking for the same thing then I was looking for the same thing then like when I was looking around Ben for smack and crack and all of that I was looking for the things that I'm looking for no..."

"the same thing what was old Russell finding and why wasn't the thing he found as good as the thing he finds now I.E what is the outcome of those that are choosing preference as their God like why is t..."

"self for the essence of the self you can only fail if you have not interrogated who is this in here what is this subjective experience that only I am having how do I deal with the tension of the Parad..."

"I know within my Consciousness quick one before we get back to this episode just give me 30 seconds of your time two things I wanted to say the first thing is a huge thank you for listening and tuning..."

"lot about recently you mentioned a God in your belly or that person or that signal in your belly that's that's trying to tell you how you feel and we've all become so phenomenally good at tuning out o..."

"Awakening I suppose what you have to earn what one way that you can do it this is the way that I would do it the way that I have done it is firstly to acknowledge the problem of my condition to admit ..."

"that he used to feel weak inferior incompetent uh impotent and he says now that he doesn't feel those feelings so maybe if I do what they did maybe I can change also so this so this and the third comp..."

"change these are all things derived from 12-step ideology the third thing is accept someone else's plan accept someone else's help it's surrender because in the s in the end this is the think perhaps ..."

"run our lives on when we find ourselves in such a situation I'm thinking again about that person who finds himself in a job because their parents have told them to go and get that job and now or they ..."

"mate I don't know what kind of experiences you've had there as a young man in Plymouth but for me trust ain't my go-to that's not my go-to it takes me a little while my strategy is do not re put yours..."

"that it's almost like it burns in me I can tell watch them watch what they're telling you watch what they're telling you I give it to my own children and I hope I'm not doing them a disservice questio..."

"to feel strong individualistic further I love them I love them when I'm trying to formulate and I know I'll make errors as a parent of course I will we all do and as you will Discover it is our duty t..."

"when we are a connected unit that communicate together in order to achieve a common goal time and time again when anthropologists and even uh contemporary psychologists study these forms of society th..."

"consume now you will consume now you will not understand you will not understand your role Bears repeating you know without shall worship no other gods than me because otherwise you will worship them ..."

"young men are in search of yes I agree I agree I agree no doubt one of the challenges it feels like we have culturally Stephen is we are unable to observe the difference between symptom and cause yeah..."

"also with we live in a such a curated space that it's difficult to discern what people are actually angry about sometimes what is it as one of my great teachers says to me what is it don't get caught ..."

"duty to reach out in particular to the people we disagree with in a spirit of love and good faith firstly then identify oh am I reaching out in good faith to people I already agree with no no no no no..."

"anytime soon and I would offer you this you have more in common with the people you are fighting with those you most loathe whatever Hue persuasion or a cultural garment you've conveniently strewn upo..."

"facilities to those that are affected by them do not have water companies in the United Kingdom like Thames water owned elsewhere in China or Canada or Kuwait or Qatar or wherever those facilities are..."

"metastasized monster devouring everything right down to Spirit we must recognize where centralized Authority is coalescing most and this we must address this we must address whether it is financial co..."

"Space right now that we're all participating in this one centralized idea and yet infinite diversity infinite individual Freedom infinite ways of Being Human we must all take responsibility for becomi..."

"I completely relate to that my question though is about step one because it what you described there sounds like it's at the top of Everest and sometimes when something feels it does for even for me i..."

"will ever yet undertake it is merely the realization of the truth that we are individual yes but we are connected also that there are goliaths that have incrementally coalesced due to the progression ..."

"for now whoever you want to be in there please do not relinquish that right by not taking it now for I tell you authoritarian forces are abundant and abound they are looking to colonize the very space..."

"otherwise I'll say something stupid I have to be conscious about what I do I have to familiarize myself with extremes continually so I thank you God have uh access to hot temperatures and cold tempera..."

"not natural to tangle like that and I love Brazilian Jiu Jitsu so much cause a Rogan actually was the first person I've ever talk about all that stuff and I do that a couple of times a week I do why I..."

"my body the body the body holds the key the body the body you've got a body is important the body of Christ it's very important to get in that cold water it's very important to get into that yoga very..."

"it's what we're going to do we're animals again this anthropological idea how might we have lived for those hundreds of thousands of years that pre-date the great miracle of Agriculture how might we h..."

"I I did a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu lesson or two and that man could have killed me at any moment I really knew he could have killed me he had me like tied up like a I don't know like a like a ball of elast..."

"connection the vulnerability the touch the awareness of sameness but differentness the acknowledgment that we are creatures that we are embodied creatures all of these things I think contribute to tha..."

"crazy so the hot the cold the BJJ the yoga uh there's someone I work with Once who said every day I get up I meditate I pray I do exercise I do green juice I do hot cold I attend a support group and t..."

"these goblins and Gremlins and I spoke to gabo mate as well I know you've interviewed him and I watched that fantastic unbelievable guy but I wonder if the the traumas the things that are hard I use t..."

"investigate it is not when people love you we always feel it's because of their strength or the capacity or the virtuosity but often it is the vulnerability and the fragility because we all know that ..."

"through having some uh Authority or value as accredited by a culture that I don't even bloody trust as compared with a metric that I don't even agree with instead of this now and again continual momen..."

"everywhere people overcome and I asked that because so many become frustrated that the wounding they haven't been able to overcome it they become frustrated by that because a lot of the kind of I don'..."

"indeed ignite that which is already their dormant and latent and are waiting to be born precisely the necessity for initiation we return to here the initiation is to activate activate that which is al..."

"you put aside all my preconceptions and use me God this this you utilizes the wound the wound becomes a portal you become a vessel I want to stay on how you live so I understand your sort of morning r..."

"part of a significant business Endeavor that I regard as a movement rather than a business but as you are all too aware if it doesn't function as a business it will not function at all so it has to ha..."

"a couple of days a week I'm available for different types of expedition and Adventure such as this one this is why for me the spiritual life it has to come first but not not out of a sort of an ethica..."

"undulates a lot this I understand to be very common to add experiences of extreme High extreme low fastness not natural to be Serene evaluating information very very quickly it feels fast sometimes ve..."

"will mess it up badly that's what it feels like so that's there's a lot of ceremony that is communing with that which is unknowable you know prayer ceremony with other people acknowledging the sacred ..."

"are you working on improving you talked highlighted you set up your strengths and then your things you hope to improve what are the things that you hope to improve for me always patience patience try ..."

"that I warmed my day I'm going to eat it up this is oh wow this gift I'm alive oh my God what a miracle is incredible and to stay in that feeling of Grace and stay in that feeling of gratitude and to ..."

"every book it's up to you mate do you consider yourself to be part of a religion I do yeah I mean this one the only one they're all the same I suppose if you want some help perennialism by Aldous Huxl..."

"born you're getting in the way you're getting in the way with your memories and your story and your projects and your values and your virtues all but the universal ubiquitous ever-present archetypal v..."

"within you waiting to be born that you've been distracted from understandably because of the Primal urges to compete and acquire and eat and defecay all of this is normal ordinary forgive yourself imm..."

"that what's in there is the same as what's in here that we have a shared purpose isn't love the felt awareness of the true Unity that undergirds apparent separation we come into form for a little whil..."

"around the corner that's a very special love that you've um you've you've found fatherhood what is what is I'm not a father yet but I'd love to look down the road and get some lessons from you as a fa..."

"to guide them through so I suppose what that asks of you is an understanding of your place in this world and acknowledgment both of your relative insignificance but simultaneous omniscience omnipotenc..."

"difficult for you to say as it relates to your children because it's so ordinary Stephen any old lady any old man who's chat to anywhere oh yeah my mum was like that my dad was like that my little gir..."

"I all we can do for each other Beyond father daughter is become who you are become who you are become who you are become who you are trust that it's going to be beautiful that you're not ugly that you..."

"and you said it halfway through this conversation that it's intentional your use of words yes you could you know you could use simpler words yes but you choose the poetry but I can describe it why bec..."

"you today you seem like you're just one step ahead of the thing coming out of your mouth and that's why you're able to string this poetry together in such a cohesive way in a coherent way because your..."

"June 25th which you can watch online globally you can pre-order it now I pre-ordered it and my partners pre-ordered it so we're even though we're gonna be watching on the same screen so there's two pr..."

"real class so thank you for that and also I have to mention Community which is an event that's taking place when is it July yeah July the 14th to July is it polite for me to ask your girlfriend's name..."

"can't be in person it must be online and then I found out it was in person as well so 14th of July to the 17th of July um in hey on way why is there a river that uh like that bifurcates England and Wa..."

"is a phenomenal thing so thank you for that we have a closing tradition on this podcast where the last guest leaves a question for the next guest not knowing who they're leaving it for um you can have..."