This is in conversation from Apple News. I'm Shemeetha Basu. Today, exploring

life's big questions with Rain Wilson.

You probably know him best.

You probably know him best as this guy.

Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, would an idiot do that?

And if they would, I do not do that thing.

That's the actor Rain Wilson, in his Emmy-nominated role as Dwight Shrute on the hit

NBC comedy The Office. He says that's how people see him as Dwight. But of course he's not Dwight, he's rain. He's a real person who's lived a real life with real struggles. And the one constant that's helped ground him is spirituality. I love learning about religious faiths. I love reading the

Vedantas and the and the Bhagavat Gita and the writings of the Buddha and the Quran and the Bible.

This is not a topic that he takes lightly.

I've thought about going to like divinity school or something like that.

This is not like a hobby or pursuit that's like oh this is a fun quirky little

side interest kind of like pickle ball.

He's exploring these themes of spirituality and soul nourishing in a few ways.

One is his new book called Soul Boom, Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution.

The other, a TV show on Peacock called Rain Wilson and the Geography of Bliss where he travels to

different places around the world to learn how different cultures seek peace and fulfillment.

Now if all this talk of religion and spirituality

is a turn off for you, Rain says he gets it.

He understands why so many people are rejecting religion today. But what he asks is that you stick around,

listen to what he's got to say, hold on to what you like, and leave behind whatever you don't.

I even told him, look, I am a non-religious, non-spiritual person myself, but lots

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