Kung Fu, Star Trek and the many paths to spirituality | Rainn Wilson

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🗓️ 24 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Do you feel overwhelmed by the complex issues facing our world, not to mention your own personal problems? Spirituality is the key to staying grounded and hopeful -- even for skeptics, says actor and author Rainn Wilson. He explains why it's time for all of us to experience a spiritual shake-up and outlines two paths to tap into your innate wisdom, kindness and strength. The work begins within yourself. (This conversation, hosted by TED's Carla Zanoni, was part of an exclusive TED Membership event. Visit ted.com/membership to become a TED Member.)

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0:00.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:06.8	You probably know Rain Wilson for his most popular role, as Dwight from the office.
0:11.9	But the actor, producer and author is far more than that character, as you'll hear in
0:16.4	today's 2023 Ted Membership event, where he explains how to unlock the spiritual values
0:21.9	inside all of us.
0:23.3	An unpacks how spirituality is a connecting force.
0:27.4	He's in conversation with Ted's head of audience development, Carla Zanoni, and takes questions
0:32.6	from the audience, too.
0:34.8	After the break.
0:37.2	Folks, I wanted to talk a little bit today about some of the ideas that are contained
0:41.4	in my new book, Soul Boom, Why We Need A Spiritual Revolution.
0:45.6	But first things first, I thought it would be really important to initially define the
0:50.8	word spiritual.
0:52.2	What do we mean when we say the word spiritual?
0:54.3	That means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
0:57.5	When you're talking about a spiritual revolution, what exactly are we discussing?
1:03.0	How do we define our terms?
1:05.4	To a lot of people, spiritual means ghosts and sayonses and weegee boards.
1:12.8	That's certainly not what I'm talking about.
1:15.4	To many people, spirituality or spiritual refers to a kind of what I would call a vague feeling
1:24.0	in the heart while at a yoga class or meditating or a crystal or incense or something like that.
1:31.9	That's also not what I'm talking about.
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