This event was held live at Google’s Playa Vista office, prior to the SAG strike.

Comedic actor, producer, and writer, Rainn Wilson, best known as Dwight Schrute in The Office, discusses his book Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution, a deep-dive into the problem-solving benefits that spirituality gives us to create solutions for an increasingly challenging world.

Filled with genuine insight—and enlightening Kung Fu and Star Trek references—Soul Boom delves into ancient wisdom to seek out practical, transformative answers to life’s biggest questions, in hopes of finding healing transformation on both a personal and global level.

Get the book here: https://goo.gle/46bitA9.

Rainn Wilson is an Emmy nominated and SAG award-winning actor, writer, producer, and NY Times Best-Selling author who has found himself in a variety of comedic and theatrical roles throughout his career. His first breakthrough role came when he played assistant mortician Arthur Martin on HBO’s Six Feet Under, winning him and the cast a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. Wilson is best known for playing the inimitable Dwight Schrute for nine seasons on NBC’s Emmy award winning comedy, The Office, a role which garnered him three Emmy Award nominations.

In 2009, Wilson founded the digital media company SoulPancake, and the channel has since amassed over 3.5 million subscribers and over 100 million views. SoulPancake discusses religion, art, science, philosophy, culture, etc., and is designed to “open your mind, challenge your friends, and feel damn good.” As an extension of the site, Rainn wrote his first book, SoulPancake: Chew on Life's Big Questions in 2010, which was a New York Times best-seller. In November 2015, Wilson followed SoulPancake: Chew on Life's Big Questions with his autobiographical memoir titled The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy which was published by Dutton. Through SoulPancake, he co-hosted a weekly podcast, “Metaphysical Milkshake” alongside scholar Reza Aslan. Wilson is the co-founder of a non-profit in Haiti called The Lidè Foundation, along with his wife, author Holiday Reinhorn, that provides arts and literacy education for at-risk adolescent girls.

Moderated by Angela Courtin.

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