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Rainn Wilson

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

and to wrap it in silk and say prayers over the body. And it's an incredibly beautiful experience. I think there's many other faith traditions that prepare the body in a similar way. And for a very good reason. I'm there with the corpse of my father. and I see his little eyebrow hair sticking out and his little mole that he has here.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

and to wrap it in silk and say prayers over the body. And it's an incredibly beautiful experience. I think there's many other faith traditions that prepare the body in a similar way. And for a very good reason. I'm there with the corpse of my father. and I see his little eyebrow hair sticking out and his little mole that he has here.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

And then, you know, the scar he had on his neck from a surgery and, you know, his thinning, you know, gray hair. He was 79 at the time. And it became so clear to me, just like a gong ringing, just gong. This body is not my father. His light, his spirit, his experience, his consciousness, his beingness, his personality, his laugh, his beauty has moved on.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

And then, you know, the scar he had on his neck from a surgery and, you know, his thinning, you know, gray hair. He was 79 at the time. And it became so clear to me, just like a gong ringing, just gong. This body is not my father. His light, his spirit, his experience, his consciousness, his beingness, his personality, his laugh, his beauty has moved on.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

And then, you know, the scar he had on his neck from a surgery and, you know, his thinning, you know, gray hair. He was 79 at the time. And it became so clear to me, just like a gong ringing, just gong. This body is not my father. His light, his spirit, his experience, his consciousness, his beingness, his personality, his laugh, his beauty has moved on.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

And this was the vessel that contained it for 79 years. And, you know, I love that vessel. I have an experience with that vessel. I've hugged that vessel hundreds of times. But that's not the reality of my father. And anyone who has that experience of seeing someone that's passed, this can really... help one to see the continuity of existence.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

And this was the vessel that contained it for 79 years. And, you know, I love that vessel. I have an experience with that vessel. I've hugged that vessel hundreds of times. But that's not the reality of my father. And anyone who has that experience of seeing someone that's passed, this can really... help one to see the continuity of existence.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

And this was the vessel that contained it for 79 years. And, you know, I love that vessel. I have an experience with that vessel. I've hugged that vessel hundreds of times. But that's not the reality of my father. And anyone who has that experience of seeing someone that's passed, this can really... help one to see the continuity of existence.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

And everything I read, everything I think, every time I connect with nature, I see a continuity of existence. And so I just have a profound fundamental sureness about that. It's in every faith tradition. You can read about near-death experiences. And in every culture of the world, near-death experiences have the same kind of essential tenets, right? And...

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

And everything I read, everything I think, every time I connect with nature, I see a continuity of existence. And so I just have a profound fundamental sureness about that. It's in every faith tradition. You can read about near-death experiences. And in every culture of the world, near-death experiences have the same kind of essential tenets, right? And...

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

And everything I read, everything I think, every time I connect with nature, I see a continuity of existence. And so I just have a profound fundamental sureness about that. It's in every faith tradition. You can read about near-death experiences. And in every culture of the world, near-death experiences have the same kind of essential tenets, right? And...

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

this idea that our ancestors, our family members, greet us and move us on is in every culture on the planet. You know, from Pygmies to Andean Indians to Inuit peoples to you name it, Vikings. It's in the mythology of being a human being.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

this idea that our ancestors, our family members, greet us and move us on is in every culture on the planet. You know, from Pygmies to Andean Indians to Inuit peoples to you name it, Vikings. It's in the mythology of being a human being.

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

this idea that our ancestors, our family members, greet us and move us on is in every culture on the planet. You know, from Pygmies to Andean Indians to Inuit peoples to you name it, Vikings. It's in the mythology of being a human being.

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

When I had this YouTube channel, SoulPancake, we commissioned a show from a young filmmaker, Justin Baldoni, also a member of the Baha'i Faith. Good friends with his sister. Oh, really? Yeah. You know Sarah? And their family. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's great. We commissioned Justin Baldoni to do a show about death that was his idea called My Last Days. And... It was a viral hit.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

When I had this YouTube channel, SoulPancake, we commissioned a show from a young filmmaker, Justin Baldoni, also a member of the Baha'i Faith. Good friends with his sister. Oh, really? Yeah. You know Sarah? And their family. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's great. We commissioned Justin Baldoni to do a show about death that was his idea called My Last Days. And... It was a viral hit.

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

When I had this YouTube channel, SoulPancake, we commissioned a show from a young filmmaker, Justin Baldoni, also a member of the Baha'i Faith. Good friends with his sister. Oh, really? Yeah. You know Sarah? And their family. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's great. We commissioned Justin Baldoni to do a show about death that was his idea called My Last Days. And... It was a viral hit.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

These shows had hundreds of millions of views, and they were all about lessons about life from people at the end of their life. Who better to learn from than someone who's facing their own mortality? And every episode is just gorgeous and touching and heart-wrenching and uplifting.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

These shows had hundreds of millions of views, and they were all about lessons about life from people at the end of their life. Who better to learn from than someone who's facing their own mortality? And every episode is just gorgeous and touching and heart-wrenching and uplifting.

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

These shows had hundreds of millions of views, and they were all about lessons about life from people at the end of their life. Who better to learn from than someone who's facing their own mortality? And every episode is just gorgeous and touching and heart-wrenching and uplifting.