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Justin McSweeny

Host of the IdeaCast Interview Series and creator of illuminelife.org, exploring philosophy of mind, meaning-making, and consciousness.

Oct 9, 2026

0:51
If you could sort of define what your belief system is, what is the framework, the philosophy, religion, the foundation of your belief system, and a little bit about how you got there, and then we'll go from there.
1:09
Okay, I can maybe best start from my sort of provenance story, like where I'm coming from in where I've arrived or where I'm journeying the point of my journey that we are right now in childhood.
1:25
my parents divorced when I was about six.
1:26
And so my mom thought perhaps trying to, you know, sort of think through her mind, uh, would be good to ground me with, um, with something religious, something institutional.
1:36
So we went with, she went with Catholicism and, uh, I went into parochial school, Catholic school, I think in, um, second or third grade and went through the paces there.
1:49
And then, uh, Went to get...
1:51
I think you do confirmation, then Holy Communion.

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82:20
Yeah.

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