Episode 7: David Hayward - Cartoonist, The Naked Pastor

This week's guest is David Hayward. He served as a pastor for 30 years. In 2009, he had an epiphany that we are all connected at a deep fundamental level and the only thing that seems to divide everyone is language, words and ideas. He left the ministry to pursue his passion for art and has amassed a large following on social media with his cartoons that challenge peoples beliefs and dogmas. David is the author of 9 books. He now helps people with spirituality regardless of their beliefs or background. You can find more about his works on his website: nakedpastorstore.com. I hope you enjoy this week's episode.

Topics

• Pastor for 30 years
• 2010: Couldn't grow anymore
• What does bible study look like?
• My thoughts on church
• What causes people to speak in tongues and faint in a church?
• Mystical experiences
• Ethical views vs. non polar views
• Right vs. wrong
• Pedophilia in the catholic church
• Mention: dr demartini course
• Mention: conversations with god book
• Mention: Sam Harris and Atheism
• One reality and the division of tribes through language and beliefs.
• Freedom of the individual without violating others is paramount
• Mask vs. non-maskers
• Covid-19 denier story
• The Bill Gates vaccines conspiracy
• Brain Chips/Neuralink, hackers, Elon Musk
• Mention: Peter H Diamandis Ray Kurzweill and conscious hives
• Mention: 10 day vipassana retreat
• Mention: Ken Wilberg, states and stages
• Mention: Michael Pollan changing your mind
• Ram Dass: Once you get the message hang up the phone
• Carl Jung: Be careful of unearned wisdom
• A vision of interconnectedness during an afternoon nap in 2009. 
• 8 levels of consciousness Clare W Graves
• Achieving bliss in the present vs. being in the future
• David's method on helping people go from spiritual dependence, co-dependence, independence, interdependence 
• David's days are filled with conflict. He's getting wonderful messages and hate mail
• NakedPastor.com
• Lifestyle of serenity
• Mention: dalai lamai, mahatmas ghandi, mother theresa, thomas murten, krishna murdy, buddah
• Ghandi's helpers: takes a lot of money to keep him poor
• Mention: Sam Harris as a body guard from Dalai Lamai*
• Joseph Campbell Power of Myth
• Jordan Peterson: Most expensive artifacts in the world are movies.
• Archetypes: Batman
• My rough definition of spirituality
• Suffering: Mental illness and reducing it.
• Balance the good and the bad to balance polarity
• Mention: Tony Robbins
• The origin of spiritualism
• David's views on Tarot Cards
• View on spirituality
• Spiritual vocation: When doing what you want and need merge
• Mention: The last shaman
• Depression
• Closing remarks and finding more about David Hayward: Written 9 books, has merchandise available on his store, can follow him on his social media accounts

Links and references:

• https://www.nakedpastorstore.com/
• Twitter: @nakedpastor
• Instagram: @nakedpastor

*Correction: In the last shaman movie, the main character was portrayed as fully recovered at the end of the movie after his Ayahuasca journey. However, he later mentioned on a talk that there was still a lot of clinical therapy work to reduce his depressive symptoms that happened after the movie.