Dylan Townsend is calling it out. The world of spiritual satire seems to be growing everyday. My feeds are fed by jokes about the world of spirituality and new age, and look, I'm all for a good laugh. But if you're gonna come for spiritualgram you better have come out of the jungle baby. You better be able to connect Padmasambhava's teachings to Carl Jung's psychoanalysis. You better read the stars like a fortune cookie. And Dylan Townsend is just that. He left his home in Ireland for India to learn Yoga at 19 years old. He went to Venezuela to get to know plant medicine at 20. He's been ALL over this planet to learn and study under different spiritual traditions. And it is all culminating in his work in writing and film production on multiple new series headed for streamers soon. We cover a lot of ground! The interview starts with me contextualizing my book for a hot second... thank you, enjoy!

In this episode, we cover:

- The human-ness of the Bible

- Milarepa and multi-incarnation paintings of Thangka Buddhist paintings

- The Irish and US revolutions

- The brilliance of the film "Embrace of the Serpent"

- Being from Texas old school and the unique beauty of Austin, Texas

- Topanga Canyon as the Life Coach Capital of America

- Dylan's spiritual satire shows "Eden 2.0" and "Intentional"

- Fiction as the purest highest art form

- Back to Milarepa on the futility of this world, yet not being apathy

- Laozi on The Way vs. striving

- Everything in life is this moment

- Social media as antithetical to Buddhist self-defining

- "Prayer-formance" as the modern Pharisees vs. embodying wisdom deeply

- Social as content strategy vs. 'dear diary'

- The beauty of the availability of yoga and psychedelics nowadays

- The pejorative tone of "New Age"

- Dylan and Bob starting a new religion

- Astrology, the Eclipse, and transcending our astrological impacts

- And more

Connect with Dylan

https://www.instagram.com/dylan.p.townsend

www.dylantownsend.com

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https://open.spotify.com/show/7es7cjNdcSel032NLXr4wK?si=cf96e7379ab14052

Apple Podcasts

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/karmic-relief/id1515029592

More about Bob Peck

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