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The Rich Roll Podcast

Rainn Wilson Is Calling For A Spiritual Revolution

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

Our post-modern culture has largely dismissed faith and spirituality as a collective pursuit. But today’s guest has a different perspective. He argues that we need to find practical spiritual solutions to help humanity move forward. In other words, we need a total spiritual revolution—what he calls, a Soul Boom. Enter Rainn Wilson, the co-founder of the media company SoulPancake, co-host of the podcast Metaphysical Milkshake with Reza Azlan, and the author of the new book “Soul Boom: Why We Need A Spiritual Revolution”. Oh yeah, and he once played a character in a television show called 'The Office.' You might have heard of it. Today we discuss Rainn’s Bahá’í faith, his conception of the divine, the importance of finding meaning in life, the positives (and negatives) of religious belief, how to build a movement of change, finding the sacred in our everyday lives, and why the solutions to the existential problems we currently face require a spiritual revolution. This conversation is an equal parts fun and profound call to awaken our spiritual selves and engage in a deeper, more meaningful experience of the world around us. I hope you learn as much as I did. Show notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s Sponsors: InsideTracker: insidetracker.com/RichRoll Athletic Greens: https://www.athleticgreens.com/richroll GoMacro: gomacro.com BetterHelp: BetterHelp.com/richroll Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:00.0

The Rich Roll Podcast.

0:15.3

We threw the spiritual baby out with the religious bathwater.

0:20.0

We are missing something by throwing out religion categorically.

0:24.0

We're missing some things that religion gives us, which is purpose, meaning and a sense

0:30.9

of the transcendent, the sense that there is something more to strive for.

0:36.5

You could make the argument that our post-modern culture has largely dismissed any notion

0:41.6

that faith or spirituality can be a collective pursuit, and certainly not the bedrock of our

0:47.5

society.

0:48.5

Personal beliefs should be just that, personal, unique to every and each individual, and

0:53.2

securely separated from the state.

0:55.6

My guest today has a bit of a different perspective.

0:58.2

Rain Wilson.

0:59.2

Rain Wilson.

1:03.5

He suggests a new way forward through total spiritual revolution, what he calls soul boom.

1:10.3

Now you might be wondering why the guy best known for Portraying Dwight Shrut on the hit

1:15.1

TV series The Office is here to wax lyrical about matters spiritual, but the truth is that

1:21.2

Rain is a deep reservoir of wisdom who has more than earned a position of authority on matters

1:27.4

ethereal.

1:28.4

First, Rain is the co-founder of the media company Soul Pancake, which focused on content related

1:34.2

to the human experience and positive social change.

1:37.1

He co-hosted the podcast Metaphysical Milkshake with Resa Oslan.

1:40.9

They came on the podcast together a while back, and that podcast made a point of diving

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