Uncomfortable Conversations with Gregory
105 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsSometimes we need a little shove to get outside our comfort zones and figure out who we really are. Join world-traveling entrepreneur and best-selling personal development author Gregory Diehl as he leads different guests on introspective journeys through the deep things in life nobody likes to talk about: love, sexuality, relationships, drug use, travel, politics, spirituality, family dynamics, the meaning of life - or whatever it takes to deconstruct your fundamental sense of self and core values. Prepare to be talked down to. Prepare to reconsider everything you thought you knew about yourself and reality. Resolve the contradiction within you so that you can live a better life.
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UCWG 054: A Step Beyond Fear
September 29, 2017 03:29 - 7 minutes - 6.13 MBHow you approach the unfamiliar determines how the path of exploration you will follow throughout your life. When you are in control of how you explore, unknown experiences will incite a curious and interested response. When exploration comes at you too rapidly at a pace you cannot control, your mind initiates a state of fearful emergency. It knows only that it is unprepared to handle what is coming for it. When you recognize Many experiences will do both. It a state of total unknown, you lo...
UCWG 053: The Power of Play
September 28, 2017 01:19 - 9 minutes - 8.05 MBThe time you have in youth is a precious gift with limited availability. Conditions are ideal when you are young to prepare for the adult trials that come late in life as bolder actions are required. You need not carry such great responsibility as you are right now, but if you hurry through the preparatory steps of human existence, you will not learn the lessons or gain the abilities essential to your survival. Do not underestimate the importance of playful behavior, as it is the doorway to ...
UCWG 052: Curiosity as Catalyst
September 27, 2017 03:44 - 10 minutes - 9.53 MBReality is always moving. The collective set of energy that defines you is either waxing or waning, toward or away from its ideal state. Under natural circumstances, you will reach your psychological apex shortly past your physical one. By infusing your mind unnatural levels of curiosity, you can alter the predetermined downward flow of your life. You can gain traction and prolong your ascent if you deliberately chase after unknown information that intrigues you. Curiosity can maintain your ...
UCWG 051: Undeveloped Abilities
September 26, 2017 04:22 - 11 minutes - 9.23 MBAs an exceptional person, you are in a lifelong commitment with growth and change. This means you can never be satisfied with what you presently know or can do. You must become an addict for expansion. Your natural strengths and weaknesses activate when you apply them to specific tasks. Through repeated action, new skill sets begin to emerge in your programming. Your possibilities for action expand. With practice, you achieve a state of perpetual learning and skill acquisition. This is the...
UCWG 050: Rightful Action in Trying Times
September 25, 2017 02:18 - 10 minutes - 8.83 MBTo develop new facets of yourself, it is sooner or later necessary that you transfer your progress from the inner world of invisible experience to the outer world of shared physics. What begins deep in the subconscious mind sprouts into your conscious thoughts and emotions. This makes it malleable. With bravery and intent, you can bring the seedlings of new ideals up to the realm of your body for infinite possible applications. You begin to transform reality to more closely match your ideals...
UCWG 049: Arbitrary Limitations
September 24, 2017 01:09 - 14 minutes - 11.6 MBIn this world, you must understand your limitations. You cannot pretend invincibility forever. If you’ve been reared in a privileged part of the world, you’ve always had the safety nets of society to cushion you from the impact of your choices, the negative effects of your failures. The further away you explore from the controlled settings of your childhood, the less armor against inability you’ll maintain on your journey. If you never leave the confines of your curated starting conditions, ...
UCWG 048: Your Hidden Strengths
September 23, 2017 03:23 - 11 minutes - 9.24 MBTo be exceptional is to be set apart from your peers in noticeable ways. Your differences will come in both positive and negative varieties, always in flux throughout your life. What has seemed like a burden until now may only be the embryo of an incredible strength you have not yet learned to use. In time, you will structure your life to enable mastery over every facet of your differences. You will become a force optimized for a purpose that you are designed for. This is the 6th part of a...
UCWG 047: Your Emotional Toolkit
September 22, 2017 02:14 - 16 minutes - 13.2 MBThe capacity to feel anything whatsoever is a product of powerful evolutionary forces. Treasure and protect this capacity from the dulling and abrasive influence of the ordinary world you are reared into. Do not let yourself be corrupted and have your innate power turned against you. Retain control of the inner fire of your emotions as you make your way through the world, as it will serve you in every battle and reward you in every victory. It is your lifelong responsibility to apply your em...
UCWG 046: The Way You Think
September 21, 2017 04:49 - 11 minutes - 9.21 MBAll power resides in the meaning you make from personal experiences. It matters little what actually happens to you in an objective sense. The manner in which you process information is what determines whether your subjective experiences will viable or detrimental for your goals. There is always more possible significance to events that what your mind intuitively interprets them to mean. Improve how well you can decrypt and activate the unobvious potential of every moment in your life. Thi...
UCWG 045: The Traps of Childhood
September 19, 2017 21:41 - 10 minutes - 8.27 MBIt is tempting to carry the understanding you adopted as a young child, growing up in a complex world, forward with you into the remainder of your adult life. The world you have yet to know is composed of wonders, terrors, and things unimaginable to the space allowed by your childhood beliefs. The foundation of youth has primed you for basic survival, keeping you alive until now, and little else of note. Now your ambition lies far beyond what your parents and other early influences prepared ...
UCWG 044: The Reason You Act
September 18, 2017 17:45 - 11 minutes - 9.46 MBMotivation takes many forms. Most readily, it comes from the enthusiasm for novel experiences we are all born with and follow without reservation as young children. Even when nothing is explicitly wrong with our experience, we lust for something more than what we currently have. In this state, the unfamiliar ceases to intimidate and begins to invite you into its mystery. Motivation can also be profoundly negative, experienced as a righteous kind of anger or frustration with one’s state of ex...
UCWG 043: Who Are You?
September 18, 2017 00:46 - 9 minutes - 7.53 MB"Who are you?" is the most common question you will likely ever encounter in your life and also the most important. Yet, almost always, you are only expected to provide a superficial answer. The real answer to this question can loom over you eternally, forever unsatisfied by the incomplete answers you are accustomed to offering. Your identity need not be defined by where you were born or the way you were raised, nor need it limit your ability to live how you desire. This is the 1st par...
UCWG 042: Who is a Better Messianic Figure: Jesus Christ or Superman? *Update*
August 29, 2017 00:52 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBThe Superman "S" Shield is the 2nd most recognizable symbol in the world. In only 75 years, it is on the verge of dethroning the Christian cross, despite a 2,000-year head start. How much longer until we, as a species, look to Superman as our common savior and ideal to live up to? Religious tales and devotional practices that stem from them go back the entire length of our species’ history. In attempting to reach a state of imminent communion with one’s conception of divinity, we follow ar...
UCWG 041: Can You Forge a Unique Path While Trapped in the Confines of a Conventional University?
August 24, 2017 03:24 - 54 minutes - 48.4 MBThe conventional four-year college path is one of the most outdated social structures of the modern world. This is not to say that it is completely without value for some people, only that its present application as a required entryway from childhood illusion to the cold, hard, ugly “real world” of adulthood. The typical college student in most part of the United States is defined by a lack of ambition and direction, filling their idle time with self-destructive substances and parties, not t...
UCWG 040: What if You Could Design Your Own Country?
August 18, 2017 00:59 - 40 minutes - 31 MBVít Jedlička is the president of the world’s youngest country. His new micronation, the Free Republic of Liberland, is only three square miles in size. It was established in April 2016 in an area between Croatia and Serbia which had been unclaimed by either country for many years. Unlike other emerging territories on Earth, there are no other claims to ownership on the land Liberland has been established on. Founded primarily on libertarian values, the nation of Liberland is designed to ca...
UCWG 039: How Do You Take the First Step of the Exceptional Path?
August 10, 2017 01:44 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBA regular listener of Uncomfortable Conversations With Gregory joins the show to have an emotionally vulnerable discussion about breaking away from the ordinary life she is trapped in. She learns that as much as she knows what she doesn't want from her life, she has never seriously considered what she actually values. She has had no rational way to take the first step away from familiarity and embrace the unknown. The nature of living in a complex society is such that it seems nearly impos...
UCWG 038: Why Do Men Today Fail to Develop Mature Masculinity?
August 01, 2017 20:48 - 51 minutes - 40.4 MBToday, more than ever, there seems to be a growing culture war between masculinity and femininity in society. Men are starting to feel threatened by the growing presence and empowerment of women, just as women are losing touch with their feminine nature as they are pushed to take on masculine roles coercively. Nothing is in its right place anymore, and society suffers because we have lost the natural balance between us. Masculinity does not have to look like any one stereotypical role in s...
UCWG 037: How Can Losing Your Sight Enhance the Clarity of Your Mind?
July 28, 2017 01:29 - 1 hour - 49 MBPerception is never a passive process to take in the objective truth of the reality around you. In every moment, you are making educated guesses to construct an internal, conceptual understanding of the world. You frequently mistake this conception for the genuine article. You take this for granted. Isaac Lidsky went from being a successful teenage actor on TV to losing his sight and learning to reassess every unconscious assumption he had about life as a result. Isaac contends that going...
UCWG 036: Isn’t Life Coaching Kind of Bullshit?
July 21, 2017 05:43 - 54 minutes - 46.4 MBLife coaching is an industry notoriously rampant with frauds and con artists who spout magic and creates cycles of dependency in the clients who come to them for help with their personal problems. They rarely teach systematic solutions and genuinely help people reach new levels of independent thinking. Their income depends on their clients coming back to them over and over for more coaching, instead of moving on to greater things. Marc Mawhinney is a coach who coaches coaches, helping them...
UCWG 035: How Does Looking at the World as a Single Destination Transform You?
July 15, 2017 00:06 - 1 hour - 45.1 MBNicos Hadjicostis wrote the book Destination Earth after traveling to more than 70 countries in 6 years in his 40's. His goal was to learn to look at all of earth as though it were a single destination, beyond arbitrary national and cultural borders. His book, and Gregory's own Travel As Transformation, are a rare type of book to explore the philosophical implications and profound personal transformation made possible only by travel. Though Gregory and Nicos agree on many things, there is st...
UCWG 034: Why Should Anyone Give a Damn About Spiritual Enlightenment?
July 07, 2017 21:45 - 2 hours - 118 MBAlexander, a young man struggling to express himself fully after reading Gregory’s book (Travel As Transformation), returns to Uncomfortable Conversations With Gregory after his appearance in UCWG 006: Does Knowledge Without Power Lead to Idle Suffering? to carry the dialogue on from their first conversation about being bold enough to pursue the interests of great intellect. The conversation this time around gets much more personal to both Gregory and Alexander’s unique perspectives on the...
UCWG 033: Are Disruptive Events Essential to an Exceptional Life?
June 29, 2017 16:41 - 44 minutes - 28.3 MBThere are two kinds of people in the world: those with the qualities of leaders and those with the qualities of followers. Many who are naturally leaders do not have the bravery required to act on their leadership qualities. They need an inspirational influence. They need a catalyst to awaken them to the powerful actions of which they are capable. JC Preston runs New Inceptions and the Angles of Lattitude podcast, where he shows young people how to acquire the qualities of leadership and s...
UCWG 032: When Does Personal Development Evolve into Interpersonal Development?
June 24, 2017 21:00 - 1 hour - 50.8 MBOur culture loves telling the story of one man taking on the world, working hard to do everything for himself. We build our movies and our myths around this archetype, and then unconsciously model it in our own lives. Useful as this type of path is, and even a necessary starting step, what comes next in the heroic journey? The lone warrior must eventually learn how to deal with other people. He must form a tribe of ideas and perspectives that complement his own. He must be humble enough to...
UCWG 031: Do You Dare To Follow Your Hero’s Journey to Find Self-Actualization?
June 16, 2017 17:32 - 1 hour - 48.5 MBLeo Gura is the founder of www.actualized.org, and the host of a popular Youtube channel on finding your life’s purposes and deep spirituality beyond stories. Leo and Gregory discuss the mythological principles of the Hero’s Journey, and what on earth all of that has to do with the path to finding one’s true self in life. Most people attempt to solve existential level problems with superficial ego-serving solutions that, at best, temporarily alleviate the symptoms of being non-actualized. ...
UCWG 030: How Do Heroes Test Their Resolve On The Mantle Of Reality?
June 09, 2017 19:26 - 1 hour - 39.4 MBThere comes a narrative turning point in the life of the person who makes their development their highest priority. When you find your internal motivation, your actions become immune to circumstance. But you can only reach this point through painful self-discovery. Veronica Kirin is an entrepreneurial success coach for women, an anthropologist, and the creator of an upcoming book featuring the life lessons of the “greatest generation” who grew up before our present technological abundance....
UCWG 029: How do Neuroatypicals Function in an Ordinary Society?
June 03, 2017 17:16 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBNatalie Marsh joins Uncomfortable Conversations to discuss the problems of unconventional, exceptional thinkers trying to thrive in a conventional world. Neuro atypicals, including those with Low Latent Inhibition (LLI), Autism, ADHD, and so on, must learn to construct their own societies in a world not made for how they naturally are, in spite of their great gifts. From the episode of Prison Break where Michael Scofield is diagnosed with Low Latent Inhibition: "People who suffer from ...
UCWG 028: How Do You Find Closure With Your Emotional Baggage?
May 27, 2017 17:08 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBAt 17, Katharina Knoll experienced the brutal murder of her boyfriend - a traumatic experience that has lasted with her the last 11 years, coming back into her psyche periodically as various events remind her of the event. Painful memories continue to haunt her without resolution because she has not learned to fulfill the expectations which had been cut short by his untimely death. The great struggle Katharina must go through now is to examine the arbitrary associations she has adopt with ...
UCWG 027: Are You Self-Aware Enough to Parent Your Own Offspring?
May 22, 2017 23:13 - 1 hour - 50.7 MBAt age 33, Antonio Pondichi had gone from growing up poor in communist Romania, to move a comfortably luxurious life in New York City as an adult where everything he ever needed was planned for him. One day, as his daughter reached age 5, he began to realize that many of the things he had been taught about how to live and raise her weren’t true. He moved his family and his life to the valley of Vilcabamba, Ecuador to explore unconventional ways of living that would allow all of them to find ...
UCWG 026: How Do You Experience Intimacy with the Various People in Your Life?
May 13, 2017 14:04 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBSimone Sauter is a veteran of Uncomfortable Conversations With Gregory. After her last appearance in UCWG 007: Why Do You Believe What You Believe About Relationships? she is back to talk about her concept of relationships has changed in her own life and in what she has seen in the lives of the clients she works with as a heartbreak coach. This time, we go far beyond conventional romantic intimacy and approach the subject on a larger sociological level. Gregory discusses his recent uncere...
UCWG 025: What Would it Take to Destroy You?
May 07, 2017 21:54 - 50 minutes - 37.7 MBThe necessary first step to personal development is removing yourself from comfort, but very few so-called personal development leaders acknowledge this in their methodology. They keep their devotees steeped in comfort and enthusiasm. What many people miss is that the willingness to be unhappy is what increases your overall capacity for happiness. Stacy Cross is a personal and entrepreneurial development coach who founded The Comfort killers. Stacy received an email one day from a stranger...
UCWG 024: What are the Processes and Objectives of Your Transformational Journey?
April 28, 2017 16:04 - 53 minutes - 73 MBTal Gur is an author and personal development professional who recently completed a transformational journey of spending 10 years accomplishing 100 specific goals around the world. He started at 31, and is now ready to share what he learned in his upcoming autobiographical book, The Art of Fully Living: One Man, Ten Years, a Hundred Life Goals. Tal devoted each year of his decade-long journey to a different aspect of his personal transformation. He learned that going to uncomfortable extre...
UCWG 023: Can Your Empathy Be Rational?
April 18, 2017 19:04 - 1 hour - 27.6 MBThe guest today is a self-professed sociopath who believes that the more self-aware you are, the less you emotions you feel. He claims that almost everyone with an IQ over 140 will have symptoms of an antisocial disorder like sociopathy. Sociopaths are superior because they have greater awareness of their emotions. Psychopaths are inferior because they are slaves to their emotions. A psychopath’s emotions are defined by violence and destruction. That is how they achieve ecstasy. There is a...
UCWG 022: What Would It Take for You to Kill Yourself?
April 11, 2017 20:07 - 1 hour - 53.3 MBDanny Flood is a writer, entrepreneur, and world traveler who chronicles useful information about life through his website, Open World Magazine. He joins Gregory to discuss two recent deaths: a suicide by Gregory’s hometown friend and an adventurer named Justin Alexander who never made it back from one of his more dangerous trips. Hope is the belief in random, positive change – the idea that the unknown future can be better than what you currently have. If you’re at the end of your rope, w...
UCWG 021: How Can Life Be Happy, Perfect, Magical, Wonderful, and Comfortable All the Time?
April 01, 2017 15:41 - 21 minutes - 18 MBWelcome to Comfortable Conversations With Gregory! On today’s extra special episode, we talk about how special and important you are and how to stay comfortable in any situation. Make sure you surround yourself only with people who believe what you believe. Always find trivial ways to feel better about yourself. Never consider the possibility that you need to change whatsoever. Have a child so that you will always have someone to feel superior to and no one can question your parenting choi...
UCWG 020: Does Your Profession Align with Your Purpose?
March 27, 2017 01:49 - 53 minutes - 41.7 MBAlexa Glo is a 28-year-old multinational seeker of identity and meaning in life. She and Gregory discuss the importance of putting down roots and solidifying your identity on earth through your actions, which often means your professional path in life. Home is where you feel most like yourself. Being outside your home is what gives you the perspective to know your home. The contrast of being something other than what you are is ultimately what shows you what you are. Purpose is a princip...
UCWG 019: Are You Accountable for Your Subjective Preferences?
March 19, 2017 03:36 - 1 hour - 72.6 MBToday’s guest, Rolf from Germany, is a strategic consultant for expensive professional problems. Ironically, he does not trust his own subjective evaluation on some of life’s most important topics, such as the worth of specific human lives. He states that he would rather flip a coin on certain life and death situations that be the one to make important decisions and live with the consequences. Yet, in other more menial areas he has no qualm about choosing and standing by his decisions. In ...
UCWG 018: How Do You Find Where You Belong?
March 08, 2017 22:36 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBGabriel Scheare is one of the co-founders of Fort Galt, an intentional community project in Valdivia, Chile that seeks to give its inhabitants optimal freedom over how they participate in society. He and Gregory discuss the project’s unfortunate origins in a similarly-named fraudulent operation known as Galt’s Gulch Chile, and aspirations of everyone involved to bring the power of society back to the hands of creative individuals instead of centralized government organizations. Gabriel dis...
UCWG 017: Is Your Personal Brand a Lie?
March 01, 2017 17:38 - 58 minutes - 38.3 MBBobby Casey works in the controversial “offshore services” industry helping people structure their business and manage their money with little-known opportunities around the world. These kinds of activities have earned great scrutiny from the mainstream financial world due to the misinformation, trickery, and illegal actions they are often associated with. Bobby shares stories from some of the less reputable contemporaries in his niche that have conned unsuspecting clients out of tens of tho...
UCWG 016: What is the Value of Human Life?
February 19, 2017 05:55 - 56 minutes - 36.3 MB“The only way you can determine who deserves to live or die is to know what the point of life is.” Many have defined humanity’s essence or unique value by simple factors like consciousness, intelligence, or self-awareness. But what do these standards imply for the whole of human civilization? Societies are organized around collective ideas about what the purpose of life is, or their utility in life toward each other. Every time you interact with another person, it is for a specific purpo...
UCWG 015: Do You Accept Yourself?
February 10, 2017 03:54 - 59 minutes - 38.5 MBA young woman learns that the rejection she feared so much from other people was only a mask for her own missing self-worth.
UCWG 014: What Keeps You Engaged in Reality?
February 05, 2017 03:05 - 57 minutes - 49.5 MBTravis felt is a life coach from California. He felt that he was trapped on a singular path as a young adult, until he discovered that he was about to rewrite his own narrative however he wanted. This lead him to question what it was he would do if he had no social pressure to follow any specific path. Travis invokes the Japanese concept of “ikigai” - combining what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can get paid for - into something resembling a purpose for th...
UCWG 013: Where Do You Stop Examining Your Thoughts?
February 01, 2017 15:44 - 1 hour - 53.9 MBIs intuition just unexamined thought? Or something beyond rational analysis? Many believe that when we get a strong feeling, a “deep inner knowing” about something that is contains a supernatural element that warrants respect and validity. To know what you think you know, you must locate your axioms of interpretation - the fundamental acceptances you use to understand everything else. They hold a sacred spot in your life beyond doubt or analysis. Michael Light (pen name of Michael Smith) ...
UCWG 012: Will You Survive the Cultural Singularity?
January 28, 2017 17:32 - 46 minutes - 85.5 MBGaby Kamp is a “third culture kid”, originally from the Netherlands, who grew up living in many countries throughout the world full time (most recently including Nigeria, Argentina, China, and Northern Ireland). She works professionally to coach others looking to adopt this mentality and lifestyle. She and Gregory discuss how cultural borders (whether physical, mental, political, or technological) are growing weaker and more arbitrary with every passing year. At such an accelerating rate of ...
UCWG 011: How Do You Choose Your Identity?
January 23, 2017 15:35 - 1 hour - 74.5 MB“As soon as I use words to describe myself, I limit myself.” Today’s guest, a young man named Josh Plotkin, enters the conversation with a prepared script of the identity (or his case non-identity) that he wants the public to associate him with. The longer he talks, the more clear it becomes that he uses generic descriptions of himself to cover the fact that he doesn’t want to limit himself through specific values and actions. He meanders from thought to thought without any consistent mean...
UCWG 010: Do You Own Your Darkness?
January 19, 2017 15:57 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBWe live in a world that encourages us to acknowledge only the bright and positive parts of ourselves. We are trained to ignore or outright deny anything capable of causing great sadness, sorrow, suffering, rage, or negativity of any kind. We run from the dark side of the force. David portrays himself as an overly positive man in his thirties. But under that shiny surface in another world of emotional capacity. Among other things, he is afraid to admit he is like his father, who he resents ...
UCWG 009: How Does Culture Define Your Place in the World?
January 14, 2017 21:36 - 1 hour - 87.3 MBGreg Curtin left America in his twenties to see what the world could offer him with hardly a plan to means to sustain himself. Now in his thirties, he has traveled around the world eagerly taking jobs wherever he could find them, always finding a way to keep himself afloat and pursuing his myriad passions. This lifestyle has carried with it obvious and non-obvious challenges alike. Aside from constant acclimation to new cultures, Greg learned that he could never reintegrate back to where h...
UCWG 008: Are You Living a Non-Contradictory Existence?
January 11, 2017 19:47 - 1 hour - 182 MBWe all conceive of the world through generalizations and broad categories. It’s necessary for us to function as rational beings. But sometimes the categories we inherit actually hurt our ability to see things accurately. Sometimes we can defy conventional categorization. We must work against the social pressure to conform to the stereotypes that other people cast for us in their limited mentalities of who we really are. Anastasia from Ukraine, who has known Gregory more intimately than mos...
UCWG 007: Why Do You Believe What You believe About Relationships?
January 08, 2017 20:48 - 1 hour - 171 MBSimone Sauter is life coach specializing in getting over heartbreak. She joins Gregory to discuss a recent bout of heartbreak that took even her by surprise. Together, they try to make meaning out of the mess of emotional turmoil these recent events have left her in. Over the course of their uncomfortable conversation, Simone gets the opportunity to reevaluate how she acquired the conceptions of relationships she has, how they are harming her, and ultimately how to replace them with somethin...
UCWG 006: Does Knowledge without Power Lead to Idle Suffering?
January 05, 2017 19:53 - 1 hour - 238 MBVery often, our greatest suffering stems from our ability to conceive of things we cannot obtain. The explorers who feel this great pain must either suffer with it internally or learn to branch out and pursue what makes them happy in greater landscapes around them. Gregory is joined today by a reader of one of his books (Travel As Transformation) who is seeking new sources of personal growth and fulfillment in his life. Alexander feels frustrated because he does not know where the next great...
UCWG 005: Are You Willing to Abandon Your Sacred Cows at Any Age?
January 03, 2017 17:38 - 1 hour - 66 MBAre You Willing to Abandon Your Sacred Cows at Any Age? Leaving the Jehovah’s Witness Cult and Your Own Family at 38. It’s often the case that we assume any major revelations and paradigms shifts must happen very early in life before our mindsets solidify. Jonathan Lockwood, a world-renowned voiceover artist and lover of premium Mexican mescal, was raised a Jehovah’s Witness. Despite being a reasonably intelligent man, he even became a cult elder at age 29. For some reason, at age 38 he de...