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Someone told me to look at the E News interview with Jim Carrey at New York Fashion Week. I found it amusing because the reporter just did not know what to do with him. You probably recall that he starred in the Truman Show, where unbeknownst to him, he was the star of a reality show.
When asked why he was there, he said he thought of the most meaningless thing and Fashion Week popped into his head. I do appreciate the artistry in creating beautiful clothes, just as I do that of the person who prepares a lovely meal, or a teacher who finds a way to explain a concept. What I don't understand is the hype that goes along with the fashion and celebrity world.
So, Carrey's replies were from a metaphysical perspective and started many conversations about what he meant. I was going to write a thread about it, but Joe Martino at Collective Evolution already did so. So I'll pass it along.
He was asked to respond to questions about the interview, as the internet had gone wild reading about it.
In his response he draws upon a number of important reflection points we have been covering here at CE for many years and are glad to see are making their way into mainstream conversation a little more.
“As an actor you play characters, and if you go deep enough into those characters, you realize your own character is pretty thin to begin with. You suddenly have this separation and go, ‘Who’s Jim Carrey? Oh, he doesn’t exist actually,’ ” Carrey said. “There’s just a relative manifestation of consciousness appearing, and someone gave him a name, a religion, a nationality, and he clustered those together into something that’s supposed to be a personality, and it doesn’t actually exist. None of that stuff, if you drill down, is real.”
“I believe I got famous so I could let go of fame, and it’s still happening, but not with me,” he continued. “I’m not a part of it anymore. Dressing happens, doing hair happens, interviewing happens, but it happens without me, without the idea of a ‘me.’ You know what I’m saying? It’s a weird little semantic jump, and it’s not that far, but it’s a universe apart from where most people are.”
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/09/14/jim-carreys-response-to-reactions-over-his-bizarre-interview-really-has-people-thinking/
When asked why he was there, he said he thought of the most meaningless thing and Fashion Week popped into his head. I do appreciate the artistry in creating beautiful clothes, just as I do that of the person who prepares a lovely meal, or a teacher who finds a way to explain a concept. What I don't understand is the hype that goes along with the fashion and celebrity world.
So, Carrey's replies were from a metaphysical perspective and started many conversations about what he meant. I was going to write a thread about it, but Joe Martino at Collective Evolution already did so. So I'll pass it along.
He was asked to respond to questions about the interview, as the internet had gone wild reading about it.
In his response he draws upon a number of important reflection points we have been covering here at CE for many years and are glad to see are making their way into mainstream conversation a little more.
“As an actor you play characters, and if you go deep enough into those characters, you realize your own character is pretty thin to begin with. You suddenly have this separation and go, ‘Who’s Jim Carrey? Oh, he doesn’t exist actually,’ ” Carrey said. “There’s just a relative manifestation of consciousness appearing, and someone gave him a name, a religion, a nationality, and he clustered those together into something that’s supposed to be a personality, and it doesn’t actually exist. None of that stuff, if you drill down, is real.”
“I believe I got famous so I could let go of fame, and it’s still happening, but not with me,” he continued. “I’m not a part of it anymore. Dressing happens, doing hair happens, interviewing happens, but it happens without me, without the idea of a ‘me.’ You know what I’m saying? It’s a weird little semantic jump, and it’s not that far, but it’s a universe apart from where most people are.”
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/09/14/jim-carreys-response-to-reactions-over-his-bizarre-interview-really-has-people-thinking/
