In recent months, Jim Carrey has been very publicly “melting down” and making TV hosts uncomfortable as he dutifully stumps for his latest films while displaying the acute depatterning of his personality. Carrey maintains that he’s not off his rocker and that he’s achieved freedom from illusion.
Years of involvement in the Transcendental Meditation movement (TM), playing scores of different characters in Big Budget Hollywood films and being sued for Wrongful Death in the suicide of his ex-girlfriend might easily lead one to become highly dissociative and to view life from an intense level of abstraction but if his moksha is genuine and he is free from The Noble Truth of Suffering, then more power to him.
Carrey says, “I believe that I had to become a famous idea and get all the stuff that people dream about and accomplish a bunch of things that look like ‘success’ in order to give up my attachment to those things.
“You’re supposed to say, ‘We’re important,’ you’re supposed to say, ‘It’s all going to be alright,’ and you’re supposed to say, ‘Whatever you dream can come true,’ and you’re supposed to say all those things.
“I do believe in manifestation and the power of that kind of stuff but I don’t believe that any of it matters. You know, this mattering is to me, a human construct born out of a need. The same need you have to have for deities and things like that.
“I believe in an energy of God…everything is Divine…there’s…no thing that isn’t Divine. Everything is Divine and I’m that and it doesn’t matter to me what’s happening.
“I dealt with depression a few years ago and people still think, ‘You can tell he’s depressed.’ It’s not…I have sadness and joy and elation and satisfaction and gratitude beyond belief – but all of it is weather and it just spins around the planet, you know…It doesn’t settle on me enough to kill me. The happy place is realizing that you’re everything…that there’s no real you involved in the first place.
“I don’t believe in any of it…the feeling of Wholeness is a different feeling than Me-ness. They’re all characters that I played, including Jim Carrey, including Joel Barish, including any of those things, they’re all characters.
“People talk about depression all the time. The difference between depression and sadness; sadness is…whatever happened or didn’t happen for you; grief – and depression is your body saying, ‘F**k you, I don’t want to be this character anymore. I don’t want to hold up this this avatar that you’ve created in the world. It’s too much for me…’
“You should think of the word ‘depressed’ as *deep rest*, deep rest. Your body needs to be depressed. It needs deep rest from the character that you’ve been trying to play…
I think everybody should get rich and famous and get everything they dreamed so they can see that’s not the answer. – Jim Carrey
I realise that almost any one on earth has an opinion over who the other one is and in special how he/she should be.
By asking this question: Who am I and how should I be, it seems to me that almost any one stands still with an open mouth, astonished, now thinking …………….what a stupid question.
Mr. Carey has discovered a profound truth – you are not who you think you are. The real you has been buried by layers of “norms” or “labels” that now define you. The brother is laying out some pretty heavy introspection and as a result is considered undergoing a “meltdown”. Why? Because Mr. Carey no longer cares what others think about him. Wow! We cannot have people going around peeling away the layers and layers of propaganda most of us are buried under.
Congratulations Mr. Carey, on your discovery and your willingness to try and share that discovery with the rest of us. Of course, the vast majority can never grasp the full significance of his comments because they cannot understand from their current vantage point, buried under the ton of propaganda and social engineering. Go in Peace, my friend.
Well said. (Agree. We just can’t have anyone peeling away the layers of propaganda–especially those who are expected to be mouthpieces for the machine. No one ever seems to ask WHY these people are paid so much for so little.)
Monday, November 20, 2017–8:31 pm CST
I loved your article about Jim Carrey. I just wish you printed the whole entire transcript along with video.
Terry Marvin (Dallas, Texas)
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and at a certain point I realized hey
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wait a second you know if it’s so easy
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to lose Jim Carrey who the hell is Jim
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Carrey I’m not looking backward why
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don’t we just it was more like you’re
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supposed to say you know we’re important
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you’re supposed to say it’s all going to
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be alright and you’re supposed to say
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that you know whatever you dream can
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come true and you’re supposed to say all
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those things I do believe in
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manifestation power of that kind of
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stuff but I don’t believe that any of it
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matters
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you know this mattering is is to me a
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human construct born out of a need to
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same need is you have to have you know
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deities and things like that and I
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believe in an energy of God energy of
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you know everything is divine you know
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there’s just not there’s no there’s no
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thing that isn’t divine everything is
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divine and I’m that and it doesn’t
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matter to me what’s happening I’m
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finding that ultimately the the freedom
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from it is is something people are kind
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of hungry for it away they’re like I
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don’t want to be me either right you
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know and I and I go well look great
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because you never have been
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I believe that I had to become a famous
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you know idea and get all the stuff that
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people dream about and that accomplished
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a bunch of boy a bunch of things that
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means don’t you
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you know that that look like success in
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order to give up my attachment to those
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things it’s been a part of the evolution
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of egos is to spend your first half of
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your life acquiring and adding thinking
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you can add to yourself and and it looks
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great
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I mean it looks great when you got a
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cool car and you got a good nice clothes
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and you know and you’re and you’ve done
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something that people admire but it can
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never fulfill you you can ever be happy
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you know what I mean it’s not it’s not
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where happiness comes from and you know
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I dealt with depression you know a few
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years ago and people still think while
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he’s going through you can tell he’s
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depressed it’s not I haven’t known
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literally none I have sadness and joy
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and elation and satisfaction and
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gratitude beyond belief but all of it is
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wetter and it just spins around the
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planet you know it’s not it doesn’t
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settle me enough to kill me the happy
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place is realizing that you’re
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everything you know and that there’s no
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real you involved in the first place
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yeah it’s a so it’s a weird little
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semantic jump that you make where it
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sounds like well that’s totally fucking
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threatening man I can’t I can’t not be
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me I built this construct and it’s just
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ideas they’re just ideas you know the
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only thing that separates you from an
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african-american or an African Canadian
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is an idea you know and oh and the
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weather the adaption to the climate and
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whatever it is I don’t believe in any of
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it and and so the feeling of wholeness
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is is a different feeling than meanness
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they’re all characters that I played
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including Jim Carrey including Joel
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barish including any of those things
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they’re all characters you know they Jim
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Carrey was a less intentional character
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right because I thought I was just
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building something that people would
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like but it was a character you know so
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it’s you know I played the guy that was
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free from concerns so that people who
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watched me would be free from concern
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you know and in that at a certain point
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you go like okay well that’s great but
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you know it’s like the one thing I like
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people talk about depression all the
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time the difference between depression
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and sadness sadness is just you know
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from happenstance whatever happened or
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didn’t happen for you or you know
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grief or whatever it is and depression
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is your body saying fuck you I don’t
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want to be this character anymore I
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don’t want to hold up this this avatar
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that you’ve created in the world it’s
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too much for me right you know and you
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should think of the word I’ve depressed
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as deep rest deep rest your body needs
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to be depressed
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it needs deep rest from the character
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that you’ve been trying to play you know
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the Great and Powerful oz I’m the great
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powerful oz Oh daddy you got me you know
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kind of thing and you’re just the sweaty
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guy behind the curtain Conrad it’s an
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amazing metaphor you know in that movie
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what up with the liar
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you know what I’m gonna do about this
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it’s a pretty name that really is nice
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it’s uh means merciful right
Personally, as a life long seeker of truth and personal integration, I find Mr. Carrey’s matured life observations very insightful. He is clearly growing in the direction of universal realization and the recognition of what is valuable in life and what is no more than a tale/tail chase.
Western society is a train wreck of personal confusion, egotism, insecurity and quests looking everywhere but within. Jim Carrey seems to get that and considering the potency of mountains of temptation and distractions that come with fame and money, ah-men brother!
Joe,
my search for truth and love went to the insight, that truth and love is something what can NOT disappear.
In a scientific way it is now possible to say that gravitational love acts by attraction, where gravitation is the source of the entire univers.
So also of my individual being as a human moment.
I found my massive soul inside of me, where all human aspects can integrate.
Well, he seems to perceive that all people of the entire society plays a role/character.
Now he has to find his soul of light, which is loved and is NOT admired.
When this process is ongoing, he could find his soul with grave mass,
by which he can rise up out of the grave yard of a character.
It is indeed so that matter does not matter, although the “stars” survive by matterial matter. So not by soul mass.
It is all about universal love ENERGY.
Who accept that he/she IS a human moment of time, survivng on the rope of time, can find inside him/her self the middle.
In this middle is found universal love, by trying to discover who/what I really am.
My being is a three dimensional moment by a volume of 370 cm3, containing a spiritual intelligence, intellect, intuition, instinct by thinking, sensing and feeling.
In special:
Any one has to find the difference between sensing and feeling!!!!!
Still can’t tell if he walks his talk, given the fact he’s probably not given up sex and relationships- which is a game of the ego. I wouldn’t choose him as my guru but he’s fun to listen to.
There is an universal sexuality for the entire being, where a relationship is possible with universal love.
This is like being selfish, where the loning for being one-self is in focus.
When sexuality is used only for producing children, this I call the ego, by which all religions maintain in power and evolve thier power of control. As it is done by any government.
Don’t follow celebrities. I find the concept of stars as well as royalty without positive merit of any kind. Why waste time on desperate attention seekers who constantly market themselves for a profit both monetary and political? Mostly, I pity them for their obvious weakness. Then, occasionally one will awaken from the dream and begin speaking to truths. That’s usually just before Hollywood finds a way to demonize them and spit them out of the fold. Seems Carey awakened. Good for him.