My name is Mark Viscente.

I'm a director, producer, writer, and troublemaker.

I'm most known as the director of the film, What the Bleep Do We Know?

And as one of the Nixium whistleblowers featured in the HBO series, The Vow.

Let's just say, I know a thing or two about cults.

I don't consider myself a cult expert, but I'm definitely an expert in being screwed over,

waking up, and knowing how to spot them. And let me tell you, they're everywhere.

One of my many passions is to help people see patterns of abuse across multiple contexts,

from personal to family to group to societal. It's all the same pattern at every scale. I want

to arm people with the knowledge to recognize and navigate these kinds of abuses so they can experience

true freedom and be their most authentic selves. Along the way, I'm going to touch on psychology,

spirituality, consciousness, morality, cults, science, filmmaking, media, and philosophy. You never quite know what you're going to get,

as it really does depend on WTF is on my mind.

Hello, welcome back.

This is a very exciting episode.

I'm having a conversation with Guy Pearce, And Guy and I have known each other for, I think, about six months now. We have been texting back and forth. We've actually met. And at our last meeting, I said to him, hey, Guy, I'd love to get you on my podcast. There's a lot of stuff I'd love to talk about. Because he's a really deep guy. Guy is a deep guy. And he said, yeah, that sounds great. But I also have questions for you.

So I said, well, why don't we have this backwards and forwards? You ask me questions. I ask you

questions. So this is not so much of an interview of me interviewing Guy. It's sort of a backwards

and forwards conversation. Incredible conversation.

For those of you who don't know who Guy Pearce is, he is an actor and a musician,

let me read you his bio. Guy Pearce was born October 5th, 1967 in the UK to Margaret

Anne and Stuart Graham Pierce. His father was born in Auckland, New Zealand, to English

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