When Dave Richeson was eleven-years-old, he was accosted and almost shot dead by eight cops when leaving his Dallas hotel room to go to the swimming pool. He has been at police gunpoint twice since, for no other reason than the color of his skin. Today, he spends a lot of his time intelligently and powerfully advocating against America's still-deeply-ingrained racism; promoting Black Lives Matter and railing against the continued senseless killing of blacks by law enforcement officials.
Recorded prior to this week that saw two more slayings in Minnesota and Louisiana, and culminated in the murder of five police officers in Dallas; we discuss the way race relations is getting worse and examine what needs to be done to fix implicit racial bias in the country.
Dave is also a former money trader who chucked a high-powered job to set up a theatre company and pursue acting and creative writing. He currently works in PR and is a member of The Institute of Hermetic Philosophy. Set up 50 years ago by Chilean philosopher, Dario Salas Sommer, it is an educational program that believes in promoting the power of consciousness in today’s society. Throughout our lives we are programmed and conditioned to believe certain things which tend to cloud our interpretation of reality. Becoming ‘more conscious’ involves removing all this coagulated mental ‘gunk’; experiencing life and nature with a greater sense of truth and self-awareness; and eventually finding what it is you’re supposed to be doing with your life.
“The Stellar Man” that changed Dave’s life is here on amazon: http://tinyurl.com/gqswta6
And here’s the website for The Institute: www.ihpusa.org/
Release date: July 10th 2016
Runtime: 40m
Recorded: New York
Sponsored by Stitch Bar and Houndstooth Pub in New York’s Fashion District
