How Jim Carrey Rolls — Energytimes
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CoverCarrey2:cover 10/16/2013 10:05 Page 1 FREE! November/Decemb e r 2 0 1 3 $ 2 . 9 5 ® EENHANCINGYOURVITALITYTHROUGHNUTRITION,HEALTH&HARMONYNERGYTIMES 11TIPS FOR A LONGER LIFE Holiday GIFT GUIDE HOW Gluten- Free Jim for the Carrey Holidays Rolls Spiritually. And as a Children’s Book Author Pondering Identity. INTEGRATED PUBLISHING® | www.energytimes.com Carrey2:feature 10/15/2013 11:29 Page 2 18 I ENERGYTIMES • November/December 2013 Carrey2:feature 10/18/2013 16:52 Page 3 Spiritually. And as the Author By Allan Richter DURING A RECENT BREAK FROM of a New Children’s Book filming the sequel to the 1994 com- That Ponders Identity and edy “Dumb and Dumber” in Atlanta, Jim Carrey leaned back in Existential Questions. his seat in the Georgia Dome and relished the showdown between the being with people and being con- take the whole stadium in and feel Atlanta Falcons and New England nected to them. I kind of sit there all that energy. It’s really a blast.” Patriots. Carrey didn’t care one way and expand my consciousness and That holistic view means you or the other that the Patriots won, won’t find Carrey in a fantasy or who had even played for that league or tallying player statistics. matter. He reveled in the scene like “I don’t do any of that stuff, so I’m a sun worshiper at the beach. kind of useless in the broadcast “A lot of people watch football to booth,” Carrey chuckles. “I look at it see the game and to get into the on a different level. I look at sports thrill of competition,” Carrey said. as presence, I really do. When guys “I love football but I don’t have this are at the peak of their abilities and burning competitive edge to me they’re running after a ball and try- that is going to die if one of the ing to do the best they can to teams doesn’t do well. I’m a weird accomplish a task, and they’re com- fan, a spiritual fan. I like everybody pletely focused on it, you can’t help to have a fantastic game, and most- but be focused on them, and there- ly I like to be at the stadium. It’s a fore you’re free from the past and feeling of oneness, a feeling of the future.” November/December 2013 • ENERGYTIMES I 19 Carrey2:feature 10/18/2013 16:53 Page 4 Golden Globe-winning comic feel about things. From the time I was a actor has added children’s book very young kid, I’ve had wonders and author to his résumé with the miracles in my life. I’ve had a very mys- September release of How tical life, and I haven’t really talked too Roland Rolls (Some Kind of much about this with anybody.” Garden), about a wave named Carrey’s spiritual bent is most Roland who worries what will famously evident in the $10 million Fans of Carrey’s zany and sometimes happen to him when he hits a beach. check the then-struggling comic wrote naïve, often sanguine characters, and Roland wrestles with fears about his himself “for acting services rendered,” even of his more dramatic roles— mortality but finds a far more pro- post-dating it to Thanksgiving 1995. By Truman Burbank of “The Truman found existence in the realization that then, Carrey had become a superstar on Show,” for instance, about a hapless all things are connected and boundless. the successes of “Ace Ventura,” “The insurance salesman who discovers his The story, which Carrey dedicated to Mask” and “Dumb and Dumber.” The life has been one long TV reality his grandson Jackson, reflects Carrey’s story is part of modern Hollywood lore. show—might have a hard time squar- own childhood fears of loss. After his father died, Carrey slipped ing the extroverted comic with intro- the check into Percy Carrey’s pocket. “It spective terms like “oneness” A Mystic’s Life was his dream, too,” Carrey reflects. and “presence.” Yet here is the man For Carrey, 51, the book and the “He was always supportive of me. He who played the goofball pet detective lessons it conveys, gleaned from what drove people crazy, he was so thrilled Ace Ventura by speaking from his pos- he says are a lifetime of mystical expe- about my talent.” Carrey says he gives a terior like it was a ventriloquist’s riences, signal a spiritual coming out of “shout out” to his father in each film dummy now talking of expanded con- sorts. “It’s one of the simpler things performance by integrating the older sciousness and spirituality. I’ve ever done,” Carrey says, “and yet man’s mannerisms or traits; his father If Carrey’s fans haven’t recognized it’s really an important moment is most evident in Carrey’s earnest and these deeper concepts in his work thus because it’s the purest spiritual mes- optimistic Truman character. far, they will now. The two-time sage I’ve put out there as far as how I In those early years on the comedy circuit, after finishing performances at two or three clubs a night, Carrey would sit in the hills above Los Angeles and look over the city. With arms out- stretched and millions of fans before him, he recited a paragraph in which he envisioned great success. “Basically I was doing the law of attraction before I ever heard about The Secret,” Carrey said, referring to the 2006 book about the idea that experiences are the direct result of one’s thoughts. “I was just stating things as if they already are and feeling the result,” says Carrey, who as a young comic was already the father of a young daughter. “So I would go down to my single apart- ment with the bed on the floor and the baby in the basket across the room, and I was already a rich man, and I was already famous. I was already living the dream in that single apartment.” Carrey traces his first application of visualization techniques to when he was a boy of seven growing up in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. One morning before prayers at Catholic school, a substitute teacher said she prays when she wants something, and promises something in return. Carrey’s Photo by Armando Gallo/Retna/Corbis 20 I ENERGYTIMES • November/December 2013 Carrey2:feature 10/30/2013 16:40 Page 5 father, a saxophone player with his mile. As the night came on it got a lit- own orchestra who later became an tle cold and a little scary. There were accountant to make ends meet, could a lot of coyotes howling and things never afford to buy his son a bicycle. shuffling around. I was actually kind So the youngster went home and of terrified. Finally I was so exhausted prayed for one, promising to say the that I decided to lay down on the rosary every night. blanket. I was laying there, and I hear “Two weeks later I came home from all this wildlife going on around me. school, and my family was standing This is heavy to relate, but I said, around a brand new lime-green bicy- ‘God be with me.’ And I heard a little cle with a banana seat and chopper internal voice say, ‘I’m with you. I’ll handlebars,” Carrey recounts. “It lay with you all night.’” turned out that I won the bike in a At that moment, Carrey says he raffle that I didn’t enter. A friend of looked at the mountain range beside mine had entered the raffle for me him and saw the shape of a man lying when he went into a sporting goods on his back. “A mile long—nose, chin, store; he had no idea about my desire lips, every detail, a giant man lying on to have a bike. It happened, and I’ve his back beside me. His feet were this been doing it ever since. mountain peak at the end. It was “The only time I don’t get what I unbelievable. We were laying in the want is when I really don’t want it,” same direction. I quickly looked away. Carrey laughs. “You know how you Then I went, ‘This is happening. I’m want what you think you’re supposed being visited. I’m actually seeing God.’” to want? You’ll visualize and you’ll As Carrey gets deeper into the story, put it out in the universe. But there’s his words slow and his voice softens some part of you that’s saying, ‘I don’t really care about that.’” Fast forward to 2006, and Carrey is having another mystical experience. Led blindfolded to a remote spot atop a mountain plateau near Tucson, Arizona, by Lakota tribesmen, Carrey is on a vision quest, a rite of passage among some Native American tribes involving solitude in nature. Desert Visitations After fasting for days, he is equipped with 12 ounces of water, a knife with a four-inch blade and a small Indian blanket. The water is to last him 24 hours and the knife is to ward off mountain lions. He is warned not to lay or sit on the blanket because of scorpions, keeping him standing awake later that night for hours. As the afternoon wears on, the shifting sun casts moving shadows that Carrey says tell him stories and answer questions. “There would be images.