Welcome to Spirit Jim. Remember those comic books you used to read as a kid? Or perhaps you still do?

Well, just maybe they're actually the most sophisticated mythological texts of the modern age.

The human brain processes narrative 22 times more effectively than raw data, which means the

stories you're being fed every single day,

through your news feed, your Netflix queue,

and your social media algorithm are not just entertainment.

They are literally reshaping your neural architecture.

Paul's guest today understands all this better than almost anyone he's met.

He's written for Marvel Comics, develop projects with Will I Am and the Black Eyed Peas,

and spent decades reverse engineering the machinery of myth,

studying how archetypes, symbols, and narrative structures don't just reflect the human psyche.

They actively construct it.

And somewhere in the middle of all that,

he found his way to sobriety, freemasonry,

and a tarot deck he first bought at 11 years old.

But before we get started,

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