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Jason Silva’s Origin Story | Origins: The Journey of Humankind


I think that I was a restless kid a very
creative but restless kid that wanted
answers so I was afflicted by the bug of
question and questioning everything and
that inquiry sent me to beautiful spaces
of mind and imagination but also sent me
to very dark space whether it was
thinking about mortality or thinking
about impermanence and all these
horrible things I felt that my way of
dealing with pushing away the darkness
was by losing myself and beautiful
things so in ethical transcendent
experiences the Rhapsody of poetry or is
it the high you get from a beautiful
film when it sucks you into its
wonderland or the orgasmic ecstasy of
falling in love ineffability magical
transient spaces of mind that were
characterized by feelings of
selflessness and timelessness so losing
yourself it essentially became my escape
from existential dread and I felt like
it was my responsibility to find a way
of closing these numinous experiences
that’s where the verbosity you know the
desire to bring back these experiences
and share them with others has come from
so in the same way that a musician might
find inspiration and then he composes a
song to describe that experience or the
way that a poet might have some inspired
Rhapsody with a lover and that comes
back and write a few words that such a
billion people people say some things
just can’t be put into words I disagree
I think that’s a form of laziness I
think that what’s magical about words is
that they can be used to describe
everything I really do believe that and
so the more complex sublime beautiful
and ineffable and experience the more I
want to try and make a piece of content
about what that is it’s me in a way
having a creative battle against
ineffability so it’s like going a
universe is saying you cannot explain me
and I’m like oh yes I can
so that’s kind of my thing
control issue for sure
[Music]
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