The comedian on: connecting instead of separating, feeling whole, and the upside of being an affirmation addict.

Pete Holmes is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actor. He created and starred in HBO's Crashing and hosted The Pete Holmes Show on TBS. He has released stand-up specials on HBO, Netflix, and Comedy Central, hosts the popular You Made It Weird podcast, and is the author of Comedy Sex God.

This episode is a live conversation recorded in NYC as part of a benefit for the amazing organization New York Insight Meditation Center.

In this episode we talk about:

• How Pete Holmes's evangelical upbringing shaped his early ideas about fear, morality, and God
• Psychedelics, awareness, identity and consciousness
• Mysticism and metaphor versus literal belief
• Meditation and different paths of practice
• What meditation reveals about awareness, forgetting, and remembering
• Being an affirmation addict
• Service and helping others
• Happiness versus peace of mind

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