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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.”

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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

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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. They were kind of speaking to me that way. I went, ‘Oh, that’s what the visions are.’ There was this crest of moun- tains that were above my head, run- ning along beside me for about a

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I do matters in the world, then the lamps and ceilings, when the family there’s nothing left but to feel had those things, would turn brown. love and joy.” Carrey recalls locking himself in the Those spiritual experiences and bathroom with his parents’ cigarettes. sentiments also give him a deep “I was sobbing sitting on the toilet with feeling of security. “Fear is allevi- this big carton of Benson & Hedges to a near-whisper. “I just lay there, and ated by the realization of its unimpor- while they were trying to get me out so the fear went out of my body,” he con- tance,” Carrey says. “I really am cele- they could have another cigarette,” he tinues. “I felt completely elated and brating the fact that I’ve gotten to a says. Carrey himself later took up and safer than I’ve ever been. At one point place in my life where the fear of loss is abandoned the habit. the full moon started coming up over not a driving force in my life at all.” The family’s emotional dynamics and the mountain between our feet, and I It was an issue when he was a boy, depression left another, more indeli- waited. I didn’t look back at this thing however, when poverty forced the fam- for the longest time. I was freaked in ily to pitch tents and live out of their the most wonderful amazing way, but I Volkswagen minibus. “To watch my watched this moon come up. Once it father go through that really tore me had gotten even with our toes, I looked up,” Carrey says. Taking an added toll back at the mountain, and the shadows on the family were Carrey’s mother of the mountain had shifted again. Kathleen’s emotional and physical ill- “Now the man had turned his head nesses, afflictions that she would con- and was looking toward me with a big stantly draw the family’s attention to. smile on his face, and I was in heaven. It Says Carrey: “I was always feeling like, was bliss. I laid there all night complete- ‘Wow, it’s a ticking time bomb.’” ly in bliss. I’ve had three or four of these Fanning Carrey’s fears was his par- moments in my life that have been so ents’ heavy smoking, a habit so intense profound, and they’re hard to relate to people.” Among Carrey’s many faces on film are Carrey says he embarked on the vision Stanley Ipkiss’ alter ego in The Mask, quest looking for a break from himself Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber and his worries. But mostly he was and, opposite, pet detective Ace Ventura and comedian Andy Kaufman in Man on seeking answers—clarification on how the Moon. to move forward in life. “No matter what, you can’t have the same goals you had when you were in your 20s and early 30s ten or fifteen years later,” he Photo by Bureau L.A. Collection/Sygma/Corbis says. “You have to find a different rea- ble, imprint on Carrey. Because son to be thrilled about life, you know? Carrey’s talents were apparent at a So I was looking for those things.” young age, he says he found him- There’s no particular decision Carrey self called upon, particularly by his recalls making as a result of the vision mother, to be the one who defined the quest, but he says bringing those expe- family’s identity and worth. Carrey riences to mind whenever he feels says he obliged with entertaining troubled leave him feeling contented comic antics and filled that void for a while. because he saw the need. “It’s like God winks, or whatever it is “I was about seven years old, and I that seems to want to visit me every remember specifically deciding that I once in awhile and remind me that was going to prove to my mother that there’s something really big going on her life was worth something by prov- here. If you want to call it God or want ing to her that I was a miracle, that she to call it energy or whatever you want gave birth to a miracle. That was a big to call it, it just is. It doesn’t necessarily driving force in my desire to become have an intention. I’m not sure that we special in the world. But I also saw the even matter. I only know that we are, way my father could turn on a room, and even that’s debatable. A lot of peo- and I said, ‘Wow, that’s what I want to ple might feel disquieted by that, but I do with my life.’

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and these questions,” he adds. “How Roland Rolls is basically the answer to the question of identity.”

Serving the Audience Even today Carrey’s selfless posture on entertaining is a throwback to the way he stepped up to support his mother’s emotional well-being through his talent, says Carrey’s friend Bennett Miller, director of the films “Capote” and “Moneyball.” “That personifies him as somebody who cares deeply and regards as a responsi- bility, perhaps in a bodhisattva way, that others enjoy his gift before he ultimately does,” Bennett says, refer- encing Buddhist enlightenment. “He is completely giving in that regard, and that dynamic has evolved into a Photo by Bureau L.A. Collection/Sygma/Corbis Photo top and right by Bureau L.A. Collection/Sygma/Corbis global sensation.” his mother, “but there was a need in Miller recalls being a passenger in her to feel the love that she didn’t get Carrey’s convertible in Hollywood from her parents. I was always trying when the actor noticed a bus of to take care of my mother’s emotional tourists doing the circuit of celebrity life.” As a young girl, Carrey’s mother homes. When the bus stopped for a was cast in the role of caregiver to her traffic light, Carrey pulled alongside, younger sister because her parents got the tourists’ attention, and said, were alcoholics. “Hey everybody, stay alert and keep Years later, Carrey says he recog- your eyes open. You never know when nized the family dynamics when he you’re going to see a celebrity.” read Drama of the Gifted Child, in which “I didn’t see anybody register in psychotherapist Alice Miller traced that moment that it was Jim Carrey, feelings of emptiness and alienation in but you knew in two or three minutes adults to the pressures they endured they would,” Miller recalls, adding that as children to meet their parents’ Carrey didn’t need to stay for the pay- expectations. “Steve Martin gave that off. “He delivers it, takes off and book to me years ago, and said, ‘You knows that he’s given them something might want to read this; it’s you.’” they’re going to enjoy.” Carrey says his childhood made him That roadside encounter with the strong and wily. “Eventually it made tourists points to two sides of me seek answers to these problems Carrey—the comic wildman and the

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it. There’s all this interference this flow that’s happening, this energy. and emotional noise.” And it’s a wonderful feeling. More and A case in point is his previous more I feel like the ‘me’ and the ‘I’ is night’s work on the set of “Dumb disappearing, and sometimes I find it and Dumber To.” In one scene, strange that these limbs flop out in Carrey performs outlandish phys- front of my vision once in a while. I for- meditative explorer with a divine goal. ical comedy but within seconds is called get that I’m in a body because I do feel Carrey acknowledges he has struggled upon to cry realistically. In the same the whole field as one thing.” with his identity for years by trying to shoot, he wolfs down hot dogs and John Raatz, the founder of the “reconcile” the “crazy, comedy guy” thinks a piece might have worked its Global Alliance for Transformational with “this guy who was searching for way into his lung. Entertainment, a four-year-old group answers and looking for higher con- “There are so many physical difficul- that counts Carrey and spiritual author sciousness.” He adds, “That second guy ties with what I do,” Carrey says. “I gen- Eckhart Tolle as honorary co-founders, has kind of taken over my life.” erally go home thinking, ‘Okay, I got it says Carrey is going through a renais- That wrestling match over identity done.’ But at best there’s the feeling of sance period. Raatz’ organization pro- is illustrated in the distaste Carrey says divine dissatisfaction, because I know motes entertainment and media con- he often has for acting versus the joy the effect is going to be amazing, and tent that improves society. the result yields. He says he has always yet I don’t feel so great emotionally.” “I think of Jim as what I call a high- viewed his work as a service to his He has only recently begun to come functioning creative,” Raatz says. audience. to terms with the gap between his per- “Their creative juices are available to Photos by Ron Stanley

“That’s why it worked, and that’s why former identity, the one enduring all them 24/7. Yet the depth of that cre- I did well,” he says, “because I thought the travails of human existence into ativity I think in Jim keeps getting of it as a service. What do they really which he, in his terms, has to descend, deeper and deeper as he opens to these need? I figured they need to be free and that of the deeper thinker weigh- new levels within himself.” from concern. So I have this thing that ing matters of the spirit. Carrey’s daughter Jane, who co-wrote I jokingly call The Church of FFC— “I don’t want to make it sound like songs for the How Roland Rolls eBook, Freedom from Concern. That has been when I go home suddenly I become this says her father is the happiest she’s my focus all along.” lofty thing,” he says. “All it is, when I seen him. The book’s development, she He pauses, then adds with a nervous get into the car, it’s a little switch of said, was “organic” and marks a mile- laugh, “The job itself of acting is a psy- perspective. That’s it. It’s a simple dif- stone because it allowed her father to chologically troubling conundrum.” ference, and it’s completely freeing. connect the meaning of his parents’ He does not like memorizing lines ‘There is no Jim Carrey.’ ” lives with hers and that of her son. and sometimes finds shifting between “Having Jackson around, and seeing emotions draining. Carrey also tends to Living the Flow things the way a child sees things has make the work difficult for himself by In his spiritual view Jim Carrey the taught us a lot,” Jane Carrey says. “I writing last-minute jokes or tricky 500- man is as amorphous—and as peaceful think that’s Roland; that beauty and word speeches that he has to spit out in and contented—as his book character living in the present is how kids usually 30 seconds. And there are other busi- Roland the wave after Roland crashes see things until we muck it up, until we ness and production conflicts upon a beach. He is shapeless, yet as adults put in the fear and doubt.” moviemaking is replete with. plugged into the universe and wholly Her father says his spiritual awaken- “There are street sweepers at the accepting of his self-discovery. ing, in addition to helping lift his fears wrong time and people yelling,” he “In my life, all I feel is the energy and doubts, has given him clarity about complains, “drunks coming out of bars, field, and I’m free from myself com- patterns in his life. Every 15 years or screaming ‘Jim Carrey’ right in the pletely,” Carrey says. “I don’t feel so, for example, he denies his fans what middle of a line, when I’ve almost got human. I’m literally just this part of they love about his work so he can

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develop something new. The How Roland Rolls. At a New York new project fosters some anger, City signing last month, he then acceptance, and Carrey choked up as he finished a read- brings back the old work. ing for a group of children sit- “They’re relieved because the ting around him. Seated in the old thing is back as well, so they front row, McLean and Alice give the new thing even more of Frank and their daughters a chance,” he says. “It’s been that Sophie, 16, and Gemma, 10, pattern all the way through: I from Glasgow, Scotland, hung deny them what they want, I go on every word and watched glee- out there and suffer the slings fully as Carrey mugged for the and arrows, then I bring the old cameras and pressed the flesh thing back, and they go, ‘Okay, with fans giving the comic their well you can do that new thing, best version of the Carrey catch- too, as long as you give us what phrase “Awwlrighty then!” The we want.’” Franks had planned a visit to The most recent example in New York in November but that cycle is some public derision rescheduled for last month Photo by Bureau L.A. Collection/Sygma/Corbis Carrey has drawn for his stance Carrey as Truman Burbank in “The Truman Show,” when they learned about against gun violence, criticism he a role the actor says continues to resonate with him. Carrey’s signing. meets with equanimity. “Now Carrey may return to a book I’m coming back and doing ‘Dumb and “I’ll play, because I love to play. But I’m tour before long; he says he is keeping a Dumber,’ and I think people can see not going to act outside the movies; I’m journal of his observations to put into that my intentions are pure when they going to be who I am.” a New Age book. He counts spiritual see something like Roland, what I really Carrey is moved by his book tour for continued on page 45 want to give to the world. “Now, because I’ve suffered those moments of ridicule or whatever it is, I think people are more willing to see me as a whole person and a person who has actual thoughts and feelings that are serious. I’m not a lunatic. I’m not just this maniac. My funny happens on purpose. It’s not a disease.” Enduring turbulence before periods of calm is a recurring theme with Carrey. “And it doesn’t happen just once in your life,” Carrey says “The hero’s journey happens over and over again. You have to go through the for- est to the unknown. You have to be willing to be sloppy and messy to get to that better place. “It’s funny how ‘The Truman Show’ became a very poignant message in my life that keeps coming back to me all the time,” Carrey continues. “To be your authentic self you have to allow yourself to go into the unknown and walk through that door despite what every- body thinks is right for you and despite what everybody wants for themselves.” Carrey once took to Twitter to stand his ground and declare what he calls his authentic self: “The ambassador is dead. Long live Jim Carrey.” He adds,

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spiritual journey. Feeling unap- don’t have a desire to prove anything preciated at one point, he says to anybody. I want to just kind of relax he painted a series of works more and more into this field of energy about disappearing and feeling that is responsible for an inexhaustible invisible. “‘Maybe that’s true of variety of forms and possibilities. all artists,” Carrey says. “We That’s where I want to be.” want to be appreciated, but we don’t As long as his work comes from the continued from page 25 want direct scrutiny. So we create Church of Freedom from Concern, authors Esther Hicks and Tolle among avatars, and our art is our avatar.” Carrey doesn’t need to see the end his friends, and Roland has garnered While Carrey sees his father in his result. His friend Miller, the director, praise from Deepak Chopra and film work, he is happy that his painting says Carrey recently told him how he Marianne Williamson. represents a part of his mother’s side of envisions his own memorial. He will The multidimensional Carrey isn’t the family; both his mother and grand- make provisions to fly his friends and stopping there. With an art studio that father were artists. He plans to build an family to a beautiful island where his he steals away to in New York’s West art studio in his Los Angeles office. ashes will go up in a lavish fireworks Village, he has become an avid painter “My plan is to create and to share display. In the grand finale, the fire- whose work explores his feelings and and to love people,” Carrey says. “I works will form a smiley face. O

Carrey’s Natural Approaches to Wellness

One of Jim Carrey’s big lessons about the link between physical actor occasionally eats food with sugar but says he notices a and emotional health came from sliced bread, milk and sweets. change when he does. Carrey saw that connection firsthand when an acupuncturist “I wake up the next day and I’m concerned. And I don’t know recommended the film star stay away from wheat, dairy and sugar what about. I’m just concerned about nothing. The concern for a three-week trial. Look at labels with an eagle eye, do what comes first, and then it attaches itself to things. It will point at you have to, but don’t let those things in your body, the acupunc- something, because it’s there already. So it will start to find tar- turist told him. gets to explain itself. A lot of anger is that way, too. Eckhart “It was very difficult at first. The first 8 to 14 days were super [Tolle] talks about ‘pain bodies.’ The pain body is there. It’s how emotional,” Carrey recalls. “I kept breaking down at stupid com- you are already, and then it attaches to things. It starts to blame mercials and things like that. I’d watch television, and anything things for its existence.” emotional I’d just start purging. All this emotion would come up.” Carrey’s conclusion after the three-week trial? “The food that With the floodgates open, Carrey says it we eat affects our ability to perceive the occurred to him that many people repress real joy of life, the real energy that’s their emotions out of fear. “I think it’s respon- happening.” sible for a lot of cancers and stuff like that, feelings that aren’t felt,” he says. Instead of freeing their feelings, they use food, nicotine Fighting Depression or some other crutch. Cautious about overreliance on prescription “They’ll use whatever, but their feelings are drugs, Carrey has adopted a natural trying to get out and be expressed. It’s your approach to treating depression introduced body trying to get your attention and saying, by holistic healing author Burton Goldberg. ‘Come back to your body. There’s something “He introduced me to this new way of you need to deal with. Come back. Stop liv- kind of treating depression, which is without ing in the future. Get back in here, and love the uptake inhibitors, to slowly get off the yourself—now. And feel your feelings.’” uptake inhibitors with the help of a doctor,” Two weeks into the acupuncturist’s trial, Carrey says. Carrey says he started to feel elated. “I Instead, Carrey began taking a therapeu- started feeling really good about things. Not tic dose of hydroxytryptophan, tyrosine and depressed. I got midway through the third week, and I started GABA (gamma amino buytric acid) to help build serotonin, a feeling so incredibly blissful that I was like, ‘Wow. I don’t ever brain chemical crucial to mood regulation. want to go back. I feel incredible. I feel grounded. I feel free. I Before beginning the natural treatments, Carrey recalls, his feel joyful. I’m clear. I’m not worried.’ doctors performed blood and urine tests. “The doctor called me By the end of the third week, Carrey kept checking his image in and said, ‘How have you been functioning?’ You shouldn’t be the mirror. “My eyes were like diamonds. I was like, ‘Who is this?’ able to get out of bed. You have no dopamine and no serotonin, I even had a kind of disassociative experience looking in the mir- practically nothing.’ And I said, ‘It really has been an intellectual ror when I was at the gym at the end of the third week. I had a and willful exercise. I literally just take my thousand pound feet peek at myself in the mirror, and didn’t know who I was looking and put them one in front of the other, because I know what the at. I went, ‘Who the hell is that?’ I got kind of startled. Like, ‘Who right thing to do is. But it’s been a struggle.’” is that?’ Then there was a feeling of, ‘I really like this person.’” The natural treatments brought his levels to normal, he says. That three-week trial was five years ago. Since then, the lanky “I pretty much have been doing that since.” —A.R. Photo by Armando Gallo/Retna/Corbis

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