Duncan Trussell

evil in the world there is an omnipresent force in the world and this is what i love in the bible when they say it's powers and principalities there is a i don't know what you want to call it an egregore i guess you could say a kind of connective embodiment of

what it means to be off the path, what it means to be selfish, what it means to be self-concerned, what it means to rationalize hurting other people.

And that thing has a personality.

It's fucking out there.

And it gets, you know, like...

You know, whenever you find yourself talking shit about yourself, whenever you find yourself really down on yourself or whenever you find yourself really like, you know, like thinking the things that would lead you to killing yourself, that is...

Contact with what I think is, for lack of a better word, a demonic entity.

It beckons everyone towards self-destruction.

It beckons you towards self-destruction.

I don't know why.

I don't know why it's into that shit.

Yeah.

Well, that's, that's an actual, that's tantric Buddhism.

Dude.

Yeah, man.

This is where I go to – I've probably yapped about it on this podcast before.

My favorite Jack Kornfield quote, tend to the part of the garden you can touch.

Because what happens is it grabs your mind.

Now I'm thinking about –

City politics in Portland.