Russell Brand...my Indigo Brother!

If you don't know who Russell Brand is, you are either Amish or hiding under a rock on purpose. But of course, those who are Amish won't be reading this, but you get my drift. And it is likely their less conservative cousins, the Mennonites won't have heard of him either just because he is quite the liberal thinker and definitely has a wider perception of Divine Consciousness than is taught in the more conservative sectors of religion. And they would likely take every offense at his outrageously sexual way of being, let alone his strong dislike of the current "authority" structure.

Why am I writing about Russell Brand in this particular blog?

Because I realized just how much of an Indigo Soul he really is. He's one of the early Indigos, born in 1975 (interestingly enough, the same year Jon Anderson & Vangelis recorded the song "So Long Ago, So Clear" for Vangelis' "Heaven & Hell" album).

"But the Indigos didn't start coming in full-strength till 1978," you say.

Well, he's one of the earlier ones, for sure. All the hallmarks are there: the intense dislike of "Because-I-Said-So" type authority, the desire to dismantle the current structures in place and replace them with higher expressions. And he definitely "thinks outside of the box" when it comes to communicating his ideas.

And modern media is the form that he is using to get his message of Oneness across--however crazily he does it. Little wonder, as he's a Gemini. He just had a birthday, in fact. Hard to believe he's 39 because he damn well doesn't look it.

I'm personally impressed with him because he's gone from being a former sex and drug addict to communicating some of the highest spiritual ideas and philosophies one can ever come across on this planet.

Indigos, being old souls, will pick apart, piece by piece, what needs to be changed and then find some way of changing it, however quietly or loudly. Russell Brand is no exception. He has taken an honest look at what might precipitate addictions of any kind, can make fun of his own checkered past (that seems to be one cardinal rule of standup--you have to be willing to poke fun at yourself!) and he's taken apart the system-at-large--is still doing so--and has clearly communicated what's wrong with it and how we might best fix it. He also promotes a "let's fix it together" way of thinking, an idea whose time is long overdue.

The reason I'm writing about Russell and his beautifully colorful, rebellious, "don't-care-what-they-think-of-me" attitude is I just finished watching his "Messiah Complex" standup routine on YouTube. It runs about an hour and 39 minutes...and he manages to cram so. Much. MATERIAL in that precious hour and 39 minutes. And he is so outrageously hilarious in addition to being insanely erudite and intelligent, both spiritually and intellectually.

The way he mixed in his philosophy, his spiritual outlook, and his humor felt like an alchemical mixture of stand-up, a TED Talk and slam poetry (especially there at the very end when he waxes VERY hilariously poetic about Divine Feminine Sexuality). It is likely that folks would label him ADD/ADHD in that very clinical, pathologizing, even behavior-shaming way that's been done the last ten or so years.

This is where I'm with Doreen Virtue. Such energy, high vibration and colorful being is NOT deserving of being pathologized and shamed. He's not "Attention Deficit." He's got his Attention Dialed into a Higher Dimension. He's calling OUR attention to a different way of seeing the world. If anything, I think many "ordinary" humans are the ones who are "attention deficient."

Ordinary humans pay attention to nothing but what's put in front of them, and they accept that reality because they're told they cannot change that reality. And they pay no attention to higher ways of being and thinking and doing. Higher ways that seek to change the desultory path that many humans take--the proverbial "hamster wheel" of life.

Like Russell Brand, I call "bullsh*t" on that kind of life. That is not the way I want to live. Like Don Juan Matus from the Carlos Castaneda books, I want to live my life in the Second Attention. That can be challenging to do. But it is worth doing.

Some may say that Russell Brand would be a poor role model for younger people because he talks about sex, and he talks about it in so-called "crude" ways, and he used to be a drug junkie. Such finger-waggers ignore his choice to see life and live life in a spiritual way. I think it's because they're so put off by his lack of fear.

Can you just imagine it?...all those finger-waggers saying the following stuff to their kids, if they were REALLY honest about what they're trying to teach...

(Assumes a look-down-the-nose, posh-sounding accent)

"Now, then, my dear! Living in fear is ever so much better a way of life because it makes you appear all proper and civilized and you should never once act crazy and eccentric--especially in MY household because, well, that sort of behavior just won't do at all. Not if you want to be seen as an upstanding citizen--and not if you don't want to embarrass me, your poor dear mother, in front of my friends. For if you do, I shall enter into a state of severe shock and affront from which only smelling salts can wake me!"

Know what I--and Russell Brand, my Indigo Brother would say to that kind of shaming attitude? "F*** off!" (I know, not the sort of thing you'd expect me to write in a spirituality blog...but as an Indigo myself, I never claimed to be super-pious and stuffed-shirt when it comes to my spirituality--which gives me an idea for another blog post!!!!)

For those of you who don't know what smelling salts are, they are as follows, as taken from Wikipedia:

"Smelling salts, also known as spirit of hartshorn or sal volatile, are chemical compounds used for arousing consciousness."

Smelling salts are often an ammonia solution used for after someone has fainted, or if someone is on the verge of fainting. So where does the "spirit of hartshorn" come in? It used to be that the solution of smelling salts--the ammonia--was derived from shavings of harts' (male deer) antlers and hooves. Modern day solutions often add eucalyptus or lavender oil, likely to offset or act in conjunction with the strong smell of ammonia.

Who knew a spirituality post would end up with a small chemistry lesson, eh? ;-)

No, this post wasn't all that deep. BUT--I do hope the words made you laugh at least a little bit.

But if you want a REALLY big laugh, go watch Russell Brand's "Messiah Complex" show on YouTube--and then go visit his own channel, to which I promptly subscribed. I LOVE the way he thinks and if I had to pick a modern day comedian (other than Robin Williams) to hang out with, it'd be Russell. I know, some 'spiritual' types would look sideways at me for wanting to hang out with someone who doesn't "act" spiritual.

But like my Indigo Brother, I'm gonna challenge that notion of what "being spiritual" should "look like." I guess if you think being spiritual means being all stuffed-shirt, chaste language 24/7, never once cracking a joke about sex at ALL, then by all means live that way, but don't judge those of us with an actual sense of humor.  To me, half of spirituality is the ways you can make fun of one's own tendencies to be overly serious. And to define certain kinds of humor as "coarse" or "crude" just tells me one thing: you haven't the ability to look at certain things, see them in a different perspective and laugh at the whole business!

Russell Brand could easily change out the words: "Milk, it does the body good," to: "Humor and sex BOTH do the body good!" ;-)

Speaking for myself, I like to think Russell Brand and I would get on just fine!

Peace and Laughter,
Kat ^.^