The comedian on: connecting instead of separating, feeling whole, and the upside of being an affirmation addict.
Pete Holmes is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actor. He created and starred in HBO's Crashing and hosted The Pete Holmes Show on TBS. He has released stand-up specials on HBO, Netflix, and Comedy Central, hosts the popular You Made It Weird podcast, and is the author of Comedy Sex God.
This episode is a live conversation recorded in NYC as part of a benefit for the amazing organization New York Insight Meditation Center.
In this episode we talk about:
- How Pete Holmes's evangelical upbringing shaped his early ideas about fear, morality, and God
- Psychedelics, awareness, identity and consciousness
- Mysticism and metaphor versus literal belief
- Meditation and different paths of practice
- What meditation reveals about awareness, forgetting, and remembering
- Being an affirmation addict
- Service and helping others
- Happiness versus peace of mind
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