So Wilson hightailed it to the nearest Target, on a humid day. But the funeral home didn’t have a clean bowl for the water. It’s a Baháʼí custom to carefully wash the body after a person dies. In one such instance, Wilson finds a bit of humor in the sweaty circumstances after his father’s death. “Also along the way, the book is a little bit funny and fun to read, I hope.” “If I hadn't written that introductory chapter that talks about why the hell is the guy who played Dwight from ‘The Office’ writing a book about spirituality, I think that people wouldn't know what to do or what to think of it,” he notes. Perhaps you’re asking why is Dwight Schrute, beloved Dunder Mifflin employee from the hit show “The Office,” making the case for a spiritual revolution? Wilson made it a point to address that in the book’s preface. Why are we here riding around in these meat suits on planet Earth? Those are the kind of big questions that I love to ask.” “He rode around in this really wonderful, silly, fun, handsome vessel for all of his life. “(My father’s) body was just a vessel,” the actor says he realized. Wilson is plenty introspective in the book too, reflecting on his bouts with materialism (like when he panic-purchased Japanese soybeans during 2020 lockdown shortages) to the death of his father later that year. Through life experiences and his Baháʼí faith, which embraces an essential unity of all religions and the unity of humanity, Wilson takes readers on a 10-chapter journey that touches on how spirituality can be found in everything from official religious texts to quotes from Captain James T. More Must-Reads: Acting legends Chita Rivera, Laura Dern and Diane Ladd release books “It's super important that if we want change, that we start in our own hearts and we stay optimistic.” “The most important of the seven pillars for a spiritual revolution is to foster joy and squash cynicism,” he says. And he believes regardless of how you practice spirituality, anyone can lead said revolution. The terms Wilson sought to define eventually turned into his new book, “ Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution” (Hachette Go, 288 pp., out now). "Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution" at Bookshop for $26.04. ![]() "Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution" at Amazon for $19.60.Purchases you make through our links may earn us and our publishing partners a commission. So it was important to define our terms.” It's not about ghosts and shamans and demons. ![]() “To me, that has nothing to do with spirituality. “I'm like, ‘How is this spiritual?’” Wilson, 57, tells USA TODAY from his Washington state home. ![]() A celebrity ( Julianne Hough, he confirms) went through a spiritual transformation in Davos, Switzerland in which “stuck” energy was removed from her body by John Amaral, an energy practitioner featured on Gwyneth Paltrow's The Goop Lab. Headlines circulated describing her treatment as an "energy exorcism" that made her "scream and writhe." It was a 2020 headline that caught actor Rainn Wilson’s attention.
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