Upgrading Our Collective Consciousness – Matthew Modine #620

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, I’m excited to welcome Matthew Modine. You may know him best from his acting roles in television, film and theater. He’s also an accomplished film producer, film director and screenwriter. His career has spanned nearly four decades, and he’s won numerous industry nominations and awards.

What you may not know are the many ways in which he’s a tireless activist and environmentalist. During this wide-ranging, thought-provoking interview, our conversation touches on the moon landing, bottled water, paper straws, recycling, spirituality, reincarnation, changes in Hollywood, and much more. I learned a lot, and I hope you will, too.

We talk about consciousness and how we can raise both our own and the collective to upgrade ourselves, our workplaces, our communities, and our planet. Here are some highlights in Matthew’s own words:

• Responsibility: “I don’t know if I was conscious of it at the time, but I knew that there was a great metaphor in what my father had told me, is that when there’s a mess we all have a responsibility to do something to clean it up,”
• Connection: “I think that spirituality is a kind of connectedness to all of the life that exists on the planet.”
• Ocean Plastic: “The greater problem is the decomposing of those plastics. It doesn’t disappear, it just becomes smaller and smaller and becomes what we call microplastics.”
• Life: “You’re a part of this great cycle of life, you know? You’re not bigger or more important than it. You’re maybe a keystone character in it, an important part of the chain, but you’re not bigger and more important than the least of us.”
• Shared Humanity: “It is through the singing of songs and the telling of stories that we evolve culturally, that we learn to understand other people’s points of view.”

Enjoy the show!