The Spiritual Philosophy of JIM CARREY | Atoms Playing Avatars

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Anthony Galli
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6 min readSep 27, 2017

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When the curtain came down, Jim Carrey was a changed man.

After playing Andy Kaufman in the movie Man on the Moon, he wasn’t sure who Jim Carrey was anymore.

His existential crisis led to an epiphany.

“As an actor you play characters and then if you go deep enough into those characters you realize that your own character is pretty thin to begin with. And then you suddenly have this separation and go, “Who’s Jim Carrey?” Oh, he doesn’t actually exist. There is just a relative mass of manifestation of consciousness appearing and then someone gave him a bunch of ideas. They gave him a name, religion, nationality, and then he clustered them into something that’s suppose to be a personality. It doesn’t actually…

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