Faith & Spirituality
Brand Claims Felt Physical Cross in Abdomen Before Christian Conversion
Pints with Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
"I was in the field with my dog Bear, when I was sort of, as is often the case, somewhat suicide adjacent. I felt the cross come in my abdomen, come to me in my abdomen. Like, I call it a kinetic psychedelia. It was like my stomach felt like, oh, like, what is that? And from that second, I knew he's real."
Russell Brand described a mystical experience in a field with his German Shepherd where he physically felt a cross form in his abdomen while contemplating suicide. He called it 'kinetic psychedelia' and said the sensation immediately convinced him that Christ is real. Brand later connected this to Rick Warren's testimony about his son's suicide, sent to him by a friend the same day.
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