Walton Goggins
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And started studying Paramahansa Yogananda and Joel Goldsmith and the Urantia and the I Am and went on this spiritual journey.
Started when I was about 10 or 11 years old and had me reading all of those scriptures.
text so much so that I just kind of missed out on the classics because I felt like it was a waste of time.
If you weren't doing something that was expanding kind of your consciousness, then why would you do it?
I didn't realize until I was in a car with some friends that I had made in LA when I first moved out here, coming back from San Diego and hearing these people talk about Hemingway and
Somerset Maugham and Faulkner.
And, you know, they had the opportunity to be in school.
They had a college education and hearing them cross-reference these authors and how it was applicable to cinema or a song that they were listening to.
And I just was in the back seat, wasn't saying anything.
I was just listening to all of this.
And I just thought, I want that kind of in my life.
To circle back to what you said, I had to please a lot of people.
I had to please my father.
I wasn't around him that much, but when I was, I desperately had to do that.
That's not our problem.
Early in my life, my problem was profound insecurity based on poverty and not having those things to the point where in high school or middle school, girlfriend's parents were coming to pick me up and I would give them an address that wasn't my address.
And right before they were supposed to get me, I say, okay, mom, I gotta go.
My mom had no structure, no boundaries, no boundaries whatsoever.
My mom was like,
I trust you.