Transcribed from a live audio interview
What makes you feel most alien?
Our modern, what I would call trash culture— post- consumerist culture, where things are not made to last…things are made unhealthy, unsustainable. I feel like a Tartarian and so I feel like this is not my world. I feel like things should be made to last and healthy and for the benefit of humankind.
When you were a kid, what was the wildest or most joyful dream you had for the future?
“I wanted to be a scientist, and I was very much into the future. A lot of these ideas I didn’t have words for when I was a kid, but later I found the words for what my dream actually was. For example, a resource-based economy. I always thought money didn’t really make sense and wasn’t necessary for a society to function— and basically, that’s what a resource-based economy is. So there was that, free energy, and basically living in this flying-car kind of world.”
If you had to share one piece of advice, what would it be?
My best piece of advice is more of a thought experiment. The thought experiment is, what if the body and the spirit were not delineated? What is the body and the spirit were one? So, the body is the spirit. The body is the soul. There is no delineation between the two. Most religions and mythologies have a spirit world and an Earthly realm. What if we just started thinking that the spirit world is the Earthly world realm? So, on the micro-scale, the body is the spirit and on the macro-scale, Earth is heaven. I feel like that thought experiment helps one to live their summum bonum— their highest good, their greatest purpose, their highest calling. So, what if the body was the spirit? What if Earth was heaven?