Peter Attia· MD
I can feel very calm and myself i don't know where that comes from i think that's i don't know where that comes from it's just maybe that's born not made but that i certainly had that feeling and did you have to train yourself to do that because to be an introvert and yet to be able to be so energized by that type of an experience uh seems counterintuitive to me yeah well the reason i got into acting why i wanted to do it i i had i told you i was brought up in a very religious sort of upbringing i certainly that idea that there is a spiritual element to life there is a higher purpose to life to everything you do the activity in the end is not as important as fulfilling that and my definition of that is far broader than what i was growing up i certainly don't believe there is a literal heaven and hell and only those people who believe this set of beliefs are going to the heaven and everyone else but that's what i was taught growing up i don't believe that i don't think it's as linear in any way but i wanted to get into acting for that socratean idea of know thyself like in you know on the delta oracle there's just two words know thyself that's it understand who you are why you're here and acting for me was the way to do that for you it was medicine like and that was your path you meant to be clearly meant to be on right for me it was was acting so i was always more interested in that i can tell you now the most spiritual moments i've had in my life have all been on stage it's like the moment in moving stops and things are floating in a that feeling of timelessness where things can happen you can be singing a song but somehow you can be acting you feel a connection with 2 000 strangers 20 000 strangers we're just all sudden together that feeling of consciousness whatever that is i've only i've had those always on stage i i in a different way obviously with family and close friends you can get that moment but that's certainly that outer body experience that people talk about that spiritual experience for me has only ever happened on stage and that's why i always go back to it that's always my goal um why i was embarrassed by that line in that review he just wants you to love him loving you loving