Lawrence Lanoff is, as he describes it, “a sex positive, streetwise, business savvy life coach,” also known as Catholic rehab. Follow him on Twitter @soullight
Links to more info about some of the things we covered:
- Christoper Hitchens’ takedown of the Dalai Lama
- Lawrence’s early interest in Pyramid Power
- Transcendental Meditation, which Lawrence calls a “full-on complete waste of money.” (I looked into it a couple years ago but was turned off by the price, then I found an alternative called Natural Stress Relief. I tried it out but I’ve found that I get the same benefits from yoga. I still would like to try a Vipassana retreat, however.)
- At about 36:50 we talk about ayahuasca, which I did in a ceremony shortly after this interview. (You can hear the results at the end of the episode starting at 48:00.)
- Lawrence says there are four major belief systems that you can trace all spiritual systems back to:
- “It’s all good, even the bad” e.g. Buddhism
- “Life is a struggle between good and evil” – Christianity, Islam etc
- “My way or the highway” – many cults follow this line of thought
- Objectivity – a scientific-ish attempt to find objective reality (many atheists follow this)
The show opens with James Brown’s Sex Machine we wrap it up with Steve Reich’s Six Marimbas.
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