This week's guest is David Hayward. He served as a pastor for 30 years. In 2009, he had an epiphany that we are all connected at a deep fundamental level and the only thing that seems to divide everyone is language, words and ideas. He left the ministry to pursue his passion for art and has amassed a large following on social media with his cartoons that challenge peoples beliefs and dogmas. David is the author of 9 books. He now helps people with spirituality regardless of their beliefs or background. You can find more about his works on his website: nakedpastorstore.com. I hope you enjoy this week's episode.
Topics
- Pastor for 30 years
- 2010: Couldn't grow anymore
- What does bible study look like?
- My thoughts on church
- What causes people to speak in tongues and faint in a church?
- Mystical experiences
- Ethical views vs. non polar views
- Right vs. wrong
- Pedophilia in the catholic church
- Mention: dr demartini course
- Mention: conversations with god book
- Mention: Sam Harris and Atheism
- One reality and the division of tribes through language and beliefs.
- Freedom of the individual without violating others is paramount
- Mask vs. non-maskers
- Covid-19 denier story
- The Bill Gates vaccines conspiracy
- Brain Chips/Neuralink, hackers, Elon Musk
- Mention: Peter H Diamandis Ray Kurzweill and conscious hives
- Mention: 10 day vipassana retreat
- Mention: Ken Wilberg, states and stages
- Mention: Michael Pollan changing your mind
- Ram Dass: Once you get the message hang up the phone
- Carl Jung: Be careful of unearned wisdom
- A vision of interconnectedness during an afternoon nap in 2009.
- 8 levels of consciousness Clare W Graves
- Achieving bliss in the present vs. being in the future
- David's method on helping people go from spiritual dependence, co-dependence, independence, interdependence
- David's days are filled with conflict. He's getting wonderful messages and hate mail
- NakedPastor.com
- Lifestyle of serenity
- Mention: dalai lamai, mahatmas ghandi, mother theresa, thomas murten, krishna murdy, buddah
- Ghandi's helpers: takes a lot of money to keep him poor
- Mention: Sam Harris as a body guard from Dalai Lamai*
- Joseph Campbell Power of Myth
- Jordan Peterson: Most expensive artifacts in the world are movies.
- Archetypes: Batman
- My rough definition of spirituality
- Suffering: Mental illness and reducing it.
- Balance the good and the bad to balance polarity
- Mention: Tony Robbins
- The origin of spiritualism
- David's views on Tarot Cards
- View on spirituality
- Spiritual vocation: When doing what you want and need merge
- Mention: The last shaman
- Depression
- Closing remarks and finding more about David Hayward: Written 9 books, has merchandise available on his store, can follow him on his social media accounts
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*Correction: In the last shaman movie, the main character was portrayed as fully recovered at the end of the movie after his Ayahuasca journey. However, he later mentioned on a talk that there was still a lot of clinical therapy work to reduce his depressive symptoms that happened after the movie.
