Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
Even now, I follow a God that was tempted.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
But I'm personally, I'm not going to participate.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
I must want to feel more and more.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
I don't need something because...
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
vivid and sort of like gargoyle like as the piers morgan encounter to recognize that i don't want to even be in this world so why are you then russell what is it that keeps pulling you in and as always when i look back to when i was a little kid i wanted to be famous because i wanted to not feel worthless inside but also there was something in me that i'm beginning to understand is well you
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
Maybe this is going to kill you one day.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
And are you ready?
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
Because you don't want to follow me where I'm going, he says.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
You don't want to follow me where I'm going.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
Yeah, I didn't know that Beelzebub meant Lord of the Flies, but even at the time that that image came to me, that image came to me first, not as flies, but as iron filings.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
When this moment where I was in the field with my dog Bear, when I was sort of, you know, as is often the case, somewhat suicide adjacent,
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
I felt the cross come in my abdomen, come to me in my abdomen.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
I call it kinetic psychedelia.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
I imagine psychedelia always to be sort of, I don't know, visual or something.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
But it was like my stomach felt like, oh, what is that?
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
And from that second, I knew he's real.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
See our man Saul of Tarsus, you know, in my mother's womb, I was the protector of the Gentiles, he says, huh?
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
So I have worshipped and loved a lot of idols and a lot of gods, a lot of Hindu deities, a lot of earthly pleasures and a lot of transitory treasures.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
But
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
The heroin and crack is interesting to me and maybe to you because if you are really, really trying to suck some meaning out of this dead, inert world, chemicals can really help because they do alter your state.