Dropping Out and Tuning In - Why I'm Quitting to Pursue Religion

A personal chat about some recent changes which connect to larger themes floating around society at the moment specifically, burnout, meaning, and questioning what really matters in life. See my work: lanehuitt.com

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0:00 From business collapse to a spiritual quest
3:50 Quitting it all: A Buddhist temple residency begins
6:00 Confronting religious trauma and disfellowship
10:20 Expanding consciousness: Psychedelics and meditation insights
18:15 Reclaiming the spiritual impulse with intention
20:15 The profound journey: Embracing suffering for depth

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0:00 Business collapse leads to Buddhist temple quest
0:35 Five years building a construction business, planning furniture venture
1:40 Dream furniture business crumbles due to bad projects
2:40 Economic "tariff shock" and client loss causes exhaustion
3:50 Abandoning furniture dream for a Buddhist temple residency
5:00 Transformation: deep inner work beyond a simple makeover
6:00 Religious trauma from Jehovah's Witness "disfellowshipment" at 18
7:25 Drug abuse, rehab, and questioning the "disease model of addiction"
8:30 Finding equanimity but deeply unhappy in a bland perfect life
10:20 Psychedelics and meditation: the material world isn't everything
11:00 Western society's allergy to ambiguity and need for certainty
12:15 Doing the hard thing: building a custom door by hand
13:15 Continuing the hard thing: creating a handmade door with Japanese tools
14:15 Hard work pays off, despite the sweat and frustration
15:15 Business crumbled, spiritual path emerges: a new direction
16:15 Childhood devotion to Jehovah's Witnesses and "deconversion" at 2020
17:15 Realizing his religious impulse won't go away, just goes subconscious
18:15 Consciously engaging with a healthy religious impulse
19:15 The human need to "conceive the inconceivable" in religion
20:15 Soul's journey: embracing suffering as a path to depth
21:15 Religious impulse is deep-seated; feeding it with meaning, not just dogma
22:15 Thank you for watching my chaotic journey; subscribe for more!

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