if you don't own something you're not the boss you have to take full responsibility for everything that you do why be subservient you must be the master of your own kingdom a feel you makes a lot of sense you've got to own that you can't just walk into things with your eyes half open you got walk into things with your eyes fully open you got to know what you're getting into you have to take possession of your life is this a thought process that you have to constantly reaffirm or is this cemented it's exactly that
it's exactly that you drift on this point right and it is whatever form of meditation or Mantra that you decide to espouse there needs to be some period in your day where you remember that there's a world out there trying to tell you who you are and there's a world in here that's trying to tell you who you are now where do you want to put your ex because the world outside is very noisy and very tempting and has all the razamataz it has all the tinsel and all the glitter it's got all the toys
but that's because you don't think you're enough in the first place ah if you don't think you're enough in the first place the whole idea of the world to sell you stuff is first of all they have to make you feel bad about yourself less than in some way and I don't resent this system by the way it is the system but what's the expression about don't hate don't hate the player hate the game don't hate the game love the game because you're in it mate so own the game accept the rules and move on
into the rules so the world will try and tell you who you are and you have to tell yourself who you are and there's this ongoing battle and somehow there needs to be a Reconciliation between the two but in the end you've got to have all the eggs in your basket there's also an ongoing internal battle though isn't there there's the you that you want people to think you are and there's the you who you are and trying to figure out like how do I how do I figure out who I am like am am
do do I have a correct Assumption of how other people are perceiving me and how I actually am objectively or am I bullshitting the world with this suit and pocket square yeah I would say it's exactly the scenario that we're talking about there there's essentially only two worlds there's the inner world of energy and there's the outer World of Energy there's there's two identities one's real one's false the external world is I'm asking you to tell me who I am that's what we're all playing at and as soon as you start play that game we
run into all sorts of trouble call it the ego call it whatever you want to call it but that's the dynamic that we're in and somehow we have to give ourselves enough confidence to reassure ourselves that we are enough it's what the essence of narrative I'm a Storyteller the essence of narrative is only about this Dynamic there is nothing else in a story other than this dynamic so the struggle between other people's perceptions and your own wants and desires and who you truly are your your significant real self that's it that's all there is you
tell me a story that didn't that we engaged in that's famous that's not about this journey I'll give you an example The Prodigal Son Parable Christian seems religious doesn't really make much sense do you know the story sure but why don't you lay it out so there's a father he has two sons an older son a younger son and he says to them who wants to spend their inheritance the younger son says me Dad I'll going spend it and the younger son takes all the dough and he runs off and sniffs c*ke off stripper's tits
for a number of years until he realizes this is getting pretty boring and I'm in a lot of trouble he ends up feeding throwing food to pigs that's his job and he can't even eat the food that he gives to the pics at which point he says Dad will you take me back dad then goes to they don't meet this somehow happens not through telephones it just happens at which point dad goes to the fatty calf says kill the fatty calf older son says hold on Dad what's going on I've stayed with you since the
beginning I've been loyal to you and I hear the stories of my younger brother coming back who's been sniffing off strippers tits for the last half knows how many years and you're prepared to kill the fatty calve what's the SP dad I want to know the story he says you're right son don't worry about that you take a little side a little step to the side you'll always be with me you're a good boy at which point he goes out to meet the prodigal son the wasteful son the wasteful son returns and he says you
were lost and now you're found that's the end of the story it's quite hard to make sense of that in a literal sense you go oh dad was a bit unfair and you should have been kind to the oldest son cuz he never ran off and did anything but the essence of the story is that you are the father you are enough your older son is your intellect he says oh don't do this don't do that he's trying to reconcile make sense of a prosaic and material world the youngest son being the wild feral entity
that he is wants to go out in the world and find out what it's all about so in his recklessness and sense of adventure he finds that he can't escape himself so he has to return to himself and at which point he has to accept who he is which point the intellect is left out the equation pretty much as the older brother because he can't understand the significance of the Journey of the wasteful brother in the end you have to to leave yourself to understand the value of yourself you have to lose stuff before you
realize that all the stuff that you're losing is ephemeral and transitory it's not yours you're enough you're always enough but you've got to somehow prostitute yourself before you realize your own value that is the essence of all stories that's deep guy Richie is that something you you think about all the time or is this I mean is this like a cemented philosophy let so King Arthur the story you just made a man is a king has a son the father is runs into a bit of aggro the son jumps into uh a little uh boat
a little Skillet and he's not skillet that's what you cook your chops on isn't it yeah um skiff a little skiff the skiff takes off down the river he gets found by prostitutes he's bought up in a brothel he understands the waves of the street he becomes a king on the street he works his way out the different ladders and then he pulls a sword from a stone at a certain point in his life a certain point of evolution and then from there he goes on to be the king there's a bit of a tossle
all along the way lots of wrestling matches in the end he fights down his demons and he becomes the king so what's the significance of this narrative that every man in himself is aristocratic that he is his own King he takes to sojourn into the material world has to climb up all the different runs on the ladder and ultimately has to return to himself the significance of the extraction from the sword from the stone is the stone is the material world the material world which seems all solid because it controls you whilst you're projecting your
sense of identity upon it the extraction of the stone is taking back your own authority your own Divinity your own authority your own identity whatever it is that you got to call it your own power you're no longer looking for a sense of self outside of yourself and then you have to face the demons that you've created in your history by facing them and fighting them and owning them you put them in the face of who you are and that's a wrestling match you have to take away all these crutches and that's all that we
struggle from in life is taking away our crutches oh please tell me who I am oh please give me a bit more money so other people think I'm clever oh and then I'll have a nice car and people think I'm clever you got to take away all these crutches and stand as the man that you are and you're liberated from your whole thing that is the story of King Arthur but it's not just the story of King Arthur it's the story of all narrative do you think that most people that are watching the film are
going to get that though they're just going to get an entertaining story they're just going to see a bunch of cool stuff some drama play out but this is fascinating that you're operating so many levels underneath it yeah but I'm a Storyteller it's my business so if I'm in the business of story I might as well understand story and do you need to understand all that I'm not sure if you do it depends where you are on the ladder so you can just go along have a nice bit of entertainment good guy bad guy everything's
literal there's nothing wrong with literalism it is what it is it's the game you can glean what you can glean when you're ready to to glean what you're ready to glean are you a Joseph Campbell fan I am a Joseph Campbell fan yeah yeah that I mean that's a reoccurring theme in his work this the hero's journey yes the hero's journey this underlying sort of narrative that just really guides all all stories and all ancient tales and that there's something inherently human about them important about these stories and they resonate with our our wants and
needs and goals and and even also maybe the structure that we really truly need in our own life yeah I mean all the stories from whatever period I'm sympathetic to this particular um to Joseph Campbell's philosophy on this but he's not the only one right right the weird thing about religion is religion has done to the spiritual significance of narrative what the businessman did to the suit he's literalized it he didn't realize that putting on a suit is putting on a suit of armor is putting on something that's rather spectacular you're just doing it for
convention you're doing it for others you're not doing it for you and in our literal mind we look at a narrative and we see the narrative for what we believe it to be the exterior aspect of the narrative so we completely we see the world upside down we're not actually interested in the essence of the narrative because we're so busy pandering after the approval of others so everything that we see every narrative that we listen to every film that you see you're not really interested in its Soul you're interested in its body because that's what
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