This week, we re talking to a man whose religion precedes monotheism, a shaman, a pagan lord, a man who if he suddenly grew antlers, I d hardly be surprised if he grew them out of his knees or his groin, even if he was an atheist. This is a conversation with the great philosopher, Yanis Varoufakis, the great Greek politician, and the great atheist, Sam Harris. In this conversation, we talk about spiritual wisdom and the benefits of breath work, and also there s a bit where we do a bit of horse dancing. And you should come to my place because it s beautiful, because it's beautiful, and I like to play with you like children, like children. And then we make a dynamic, dynamic, spiritual dynamic. A place where they truly uplift the world, like we have to make all over the world a place like that, like Dionysus. And I would like like to create a coven of cults like that. I was today about the cults that represent the chaotic, chaotic energy that has been represented by the cult of Dionus, and how they can be a place where we can come together and experiment and experiment, and play, and make a chaotic world. And that s what the world needs to be like. - Russell Brown Get your tickets for Community 2023, a three-day event with Vandana Shiva and a whole host of other magnificent names where you can, if you want, sleep in the woods and survive, or you can learn new skills you can swim. Get your ticket from Russell Brown. All of the profits go to help junkies and nutters get well. And all of your ticket is going to be a glorious weekend in Hay on the 16th of July in Hayon-Wye, get your tickets from RussellBrown. And if you re looking for ways to help vulnerable folks get well, get well - get your ticket to the Community Event 2023 in the Hayon Wye, you re gonna get your chance to get well! And remember, you gotta download the Rumble app right now and join us weekdays from 5pm - 5pm in the UK, that s 5pm 5pm, that's 5pm. That means you re getting a chance to be part of the RISE! - RUMBLE! (upbeat) RATE 5 PM - 6 PM - 7 PM - 8 PM - 9 PM - 10 PM - 11 PM - 12 PM -
00:00:57.000I think that is what we call Sam Harris now.
00:00:59.000Anyway, this week we're talking to a man whose religion precedes monotheism.
00:01:06.000A great shaman, a pagan lord, a man who if he suddenly grew antlers, I'd hardly be surprised, even if he grew them out of his knees or his groin.
00:01:16.000My friend, my co-conspirer when it came to the Community Event 2022, and I'm happy to say he's back in 2023 and he will be participating in that event.
00:01:28.000You can go to a link in the description to get your tickets for Community 2023, a three-day event with Vandana Shiva.
00:01:35.000And Wim Hof and a whole host of other magnificent names where you can, if you want, sleep in the woods and survive.
00:03:02.000You let go, you surrender and tell what is up on your mind.
00:03:07.000Then you will be set free and strong and healthy.
00:03:12.000I'm going to open up a center in Cumberland.
00:03:16.000I just decided that together with Enum, a place where people get a real uplift of their spirit, not only through the ice baths and the breathing, but also music, art, beautiful gardens, like Celestine Prophecy, but with two legs on the ground.
00:03:38.000And you should come to my place here because it's beautiful.
00:03:43.000I like to play with you like children, jump from the rock, go into the fire pit, enjoy the scenery, swim, saunas.
00:04:01.000And then we make it first one, and then we see how that works.
00:04:05.000That dynamic, spiritual dynamic, is absolutely what the world needs.
00:04:10.000A place where they truly uplift neurologically the spirit.
00:04:18.000Sentences like that we have to make all over the world.
00:04:21.000I would like to create a coven, like a place where we can come together and experiment and play.
00:04:28.000I was so pleased with the way that our community event, and I thought that you and Vandana Shiva represented the perfect parents for a coming together.
00:04:37.000That you are the perfect embodiment of the necessary spirit that has been submerged.
00:04:43.000I was reading today, Wim, about the cult of Dionysus and how Dionysus always represented the powerful energy
00:04:53.000gifted to mankind by God that can be chaotic and can be dangerous if it is not harnessed and understood.
00:05:02.000You, I believe, to be a representative of this great shamanic power
00:05:06.000that has for a long time been pushed underground.
00:05:08.000For a long time we've lived in the rational model.
00:05:11.000Maybe it was necessary to live in the rational model, to create great democracies and republics, to create technology and science and medicine.
00:05:20.000Maybe it was necessary to cede to rationalism for a couple of thousand years.
00:05:25.000But now it seems it's necessary to bring back this spirit of play, this great power.
00:05:31.000In your own life, Wim, I find it hard to imagine you prior to becoming this creature, Wim Hof.
00:05:38.000Tell me what you were like before the sad death of your wife, Godresta Sol, which I imagine to be significant in this transformation.
00:05:46.000And was there ever a time where you were like a regular guy that just believed the mainstream media?
00:05:51.000That just believed that the purpose of life was to get a job?
00:05:54.000That believed the purpose of life was to acquire material things and to do what you were told?
00:06:11.000And that actually brings me back to my birth, my delivery, which was done by my mother in the cold of the hall, almost suffocated with the words, Oh God, let this child live.
00:06:27.000And she only told me 30 years later that he taught that.
00:06:31.000And then I began to understand the pieces of the puzzle, why I was always completely different, very different of my identical twin brother.
00:06:42.000So when I was 12, I was looking into psychology, Hinduism, Buddhism.
00:06:48.000I became a vegetarian there when vegetarianism was an odd thing to do.
00:07:02.000You've been looked after like... So I just started over there.
00:07:09.000And there I said to myself, I pledged there an oath, and I told myself, if the world thinks that being sick, abuse, pollution, disease, depression, darkness, wars, exploitation, and unbridled exploitation of this world is a normal thing, I think it is sick.
00:08:05.000That becomes, after so many, 50 years ago, now it has become a tsunami.
00:08:12.000And that is a metaphor for the possible wavelength where I've arrived in my own brain, the neurology, and changed it so that I'm able to cut through the existing paradigm.
00:08:53.000You are made to become ready, to become a vessel, to become Align with the omnipresent wavelength that makes you able to connect with the omnipresence, with the omnipotency, and with the omniscience.
00:09:11.000And now, after 50 years, or 51, 2 years after Apollo, With all the NASA equipment and Cape Canaveral, Houston, the rockets and all those things, there is more in the iPhone now than all that together.
00:09:31.000So that neurology in humans, without them knowing, It's very powerful, but it needs to be sparked.
00:09:40.000It needs to be connected neurologically.
00:09:43.000That's why I work right now with great neuroscientists and surgeons, and I will show Beyond any doubt that we are able, within two minutes, like Henry V, how to win the war, you know, the arching and all that.
00:10:02.000That one, amen, this to those, because we are coming for peace.
00:10:10.000Only we bring it through love and understanding.
00:10:14.000I will show that within two minutes, We are able to go voluntarily, willfully that is, into the deepest part of the brain and activate it robustly and then I take a novice and I make him do the same because the neurology is there but it needs awakening and that's why you and me take care of and that unbridled energy I got
00:10:41.000Because of an invocation coming to my mother, being innocent, naive, yet very strong, in the fear of me dying as a nothing, right there, purple, I came to the world with that invocation.
00:11:03.000That's a tattoo, and it changes you, and you do not even... I was not even aware why I was always in love with the strange, with far away other cultures, other languages, traditions, and all.
00:11:17.000But from very young on, it took me... It was my mother.