Rupert Chats About His Life and Spiritual Journey with Guru Viking

This episode with Steve James, aka Guru Viking, is quite different from a normal Rupert Spira podcast. Rather than being asked about the topics he generally speaks and writes about, Rupert  shares in depth about his life experiences – growing up, changing his career path, establishing himself as a renowned ceramic artist (after being Michael Cardew’s apprentice), his spiritual journey as both a student and teacher.

At age seven, he told his mother his view that ‘everything is God’s dream, and our job is to make it as pleasant as possible’, Rupert surmises that this childhood intuition hasn’t evolved very much.

Later in his youth, he found himself on track for a career in medicine or biochemistry. Then, in his mid-teens, after a science lesson at school, he was viscerally gripped by another realisation, that ‘there could be no end to objective knowledge, and there was no certainty because there would always be something else, one discovery after another’. He saw that science could never be a complete exploration of reality, could never answer existential questions. He wanted to find out what could be known for certain.

This coincided with his being introduced to the power of art, via an exhibition of the pots of Michael Cardew, and his attending Colet House in London, where he studied various spiritual disciplines. These two powerful influences reawakened his feeling for the divine and set him on a different path.

The conversation ends with Rupert describing how his love of beauty and truth, initially expressed in two avenues – art and spiritual enquiry – have come together, and the two avenues are now seen to be facets of the same thing. A conflict he had experienced for many years was resolved and integrated, and his life was unified. He is now in a position to see, and truly know, that for many artists, like Cézanne for instance, art is the means by which the exploration of reality is accomplished, and it is therefore of the highest spiritual order, akin to being a mystic.

Steve James, aka Guru Viking, is based in the United States and works globally with elite athletes and performing artists on matters of high-performance as well as spiritual introspection.

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