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Soul Boom

How Spirituality Can Save Us from Global Chaos (w/ Payam Akhavan)

Soul Boom

Rainn Wilson

Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

World peace isn’t just possible—it’s inevitable. But will we get there through collective vision or after unimaginable catastrophes? Renowned human rights lawyer and former UN prosecutor Payam Akhavan joins us on Soul Boom to discuss the forces pulling the world apart, and those bringing us together. They dive deep into the existential crises of our time: climate change, rising nationalism, economic inequality, and the urgent need for a global spiritual awakening. MERCH OUT NOW! https://soulboom.com/store God-Shaped Hole Mug: https://bit.ly/GodShapedHoleMug Sign up for our newsletter! https://soulboom.substack.com SUBSCRIBE to Soul Boom!! https://bit.ly/Subscribe2SoulBoom Watch our Clips: https://bit.ly/SoulBoomCLIPS Watch WISDOM DUMP: https://bit.ly/WISDOMDUMP Follow us! Instagram: http://instagram.com/soulboom TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@soulboom Sponsor Soul Boom: [email protected] Work with Soul Boom: [email protected] Send Fan Creations, Questions, Comments: [email protected] Executive Produced by: Kartik Chainani Executive Produced by: Ford Bowers, Samah Tokmachi Companion Arts Production Supervisor: Mike O'Brien Voicing Change Media Theme Music by: Marcos Moscat

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0:00.0

You're listening to Sobu.

0:05.0

World peace is not only possible, but it's inevitable.

0:09.0

Yeah.

0:10.0

The problem is that we're holding onto divisive, myopic, materialistic ideologies

0:18.0

that are inconsistent with the reality of the oneness of humankind.

0:23.6

The question is whether we will achieve it through a common vision

0:28.6

or only after unimaginable catastrophes leave us with no other choice.

0:34.6

Climate change is the game changer.

0:36.6

And those leaders that today are saying that this is a

0:40.8

hopes, they will be answerable to history. We will transform our patterns of thought and behavior

0:50.2

because we have no choice. That is what our collective survival requires.

1:01.2

Hey there, it's me, Rain Wilson, and I want to dig into the human experience.

1:05.8

I want to have conversations about a spiritual revolution.

1:09.1

Let's get deep with our favorite thinkers, friends, and entertainers

1:12.2

about life, meaning, and idiocy. Welcome to the Soul Boom podcast.

1:23.6

Hi, I'm welcome to Soul Boom. Thank you, Rain. It's great to be here. I'm so excited to have you here. I say that about every guest. I know. I'm so excited. This guest needs no introduction. This guest needs a lot of introduction because no one's heard of him. Unless you go to Massey College, University of Toronto, and work in human rights law,

1:46.0

no one knows who the hell you are. Why are you even here? How dare you? Listen, here's the deal.

1:52.2

Sorry, Ray. Our podcast is Soul Boom. It's based on ideas in the book. We talk a lot about mental

1:59.8

health. We talk about spiritual paths. We talk about personal

2:03.2

transformation. But a big part of the soul boom book is making a societal transformation. I have a

2:11.7

chapter where I talk about world peace and how there was this infamous photograph that no one knows who

2:21.5

took it, but it's the blue marble photograph taken from one of the Apollo missions, out

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