Did my parents (including my birth mother, Shay, who took off when I was two and who I didn’t really get to know until I was about fifteen) love me? The subtitle of the book is Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution, and this is what I don't feel is being addressed out there, that there are spiritual tools that are practical and profound that can transform our lives personally, but can also transform our society. The word “spirituality,” as the Oxford English Dictionary defines it, means “the quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things. An extended version of the interview about Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution is airing on Weekend All Things Considered in early May. For Wilson, this is a serious and essential pursuit, but he brings great humor and his own unique perspective to the conversation.

He is best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the NBC sitcom The Office, for which he earned three consecutive Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Then he says, in his 20s, when he was struggling to make it as an actor in New York and suffering from acute anxiety, depression and addiction — he began looking for answers.

Rainn Wilson played one of the greatest comic characters of all time, but the crisis we are living through is no joke. Brilliant, humorous, and deeply wise, Rainn Wilson makes the case for spiritual revolution like no other. To help pass the time, Dwight, Michael, Jim, Pam, and all the others from Dunder Mifflin accompanied her and I just about every night for three months straight. The issue with there being multiple ways to be God if an individual is part of the major world religions is that they contradict each other.

The good Christians will get into the city, and it will float away with Jesus to be with God, the Father, and the rest of the people will be left behind, left on earth to perish. He feels that, culturally, we’ve discounted spirituality-faith and the sacred-and we need profound healing and a unifying understanding of the world that the great spiritual traditions provide. Paintings that very few would actually see because he never really tried to sell any of them, so they would stack up in the basement like multicolored pizza boxes. My life story, the story of my journey toward being an actor, a member of the Baha’i Faith, and a spiritual student/thinker/enthusiast (as told in full in The Bassoon King, my serio-comic memoir of 2015), is a complicated one.It is a topic that everyone will deal with it, and now that I'm in my mid-fifties, as I know people that are passing away, I lost my father a couple years back. Most people that I have encountered had no idea how devoutly religious Wilson is to his faith which is the Baha’i Faith founded in the 1800s by a man named Bahá’u’lláh whose claim is to be the fulfillment of all the major world religions. My birth mother, Shay (formerly Patricia) of Weyauwega, Wisconsin, moved to Seattle and became an actress in experimental theater in the late ’60s.