Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
RICHARD YOUNG: Your BS meter reading is low, actually. I
think you came really close describing who I am. And I think
better than I've ever heard it before actually [Laughs].
TRIP: All right, well thank you. I will, I'll chalk it up to the DNA
meter, it's very good, and it’s good for proprietary technology.
RICHARD YOUNG: I'm sure it is, yes.
TRIP: Well in your book, you say, "Our institutionalized religions
have given us a totally inadequate definition and understanding of
the profound transformation of consciousness that constitutes
true salvation". Talk about that.
RICHARD YOUNG: Well, as I talk about in the book, I grew up in
a very conservative Christian traditional, Protestant Christian
tradition, and the emphasis was always on the outward aspects of
religion and spirituality. And it never really satisfied some hunger
that was deep inside of me. So I set on a search on my own
basically through books and seminars, and meditation retreats,
and discovered the rich inner world that my religious tradition had
never pointed out to me really. And the more I got in touch with
that richness and that inner world, the more precious it became to
me, and the more motivated I was to tell other people about this
mystical land that lies inside all of us that we are mostly ignorant
of, at least mostly in the terms of the tradition where I grew up.
So I became very, very excited and passionate about trying to help
people look inward and find that place inside of themselves
wherein they can find the answers to their questions. And I think
more than just the answers to your questions, but you can find the
source of your own being, and that's transformative, that changes
everything. And so the last 20 or 25 years that’s been what I've
been doing.
TRIP: Good stuff.
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