Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones): The Colonized Consciousness

My guest today is Jerome Patrick Flynn. Here in North America, he is probably best known for his portrayal of the sellsword character, Bronn, in the Emmy award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones. Or perhaps you know him from his appearance in Netflix's Black Mirror or the 2019 Action/Thriller ‘John Wick: Chapter 3.’

What is perhaps not so well known about Jerome and is the focus of the conversation you're about to hear is his life behind the camera. It's there where he's traversed a decades-long path of activism, animism, and mindfulness.

Jerome's life took a dramatic interior turn while on a meditation retreat in India in the early '90s. Since then he has been a committed student of meditation and mindfulness and continues to strive for a deeper understanding and expression of what it is to be an authentic human on this planet at this time.

Born in the United Kingdom, Jerome became a vegan when he was 18, though in his words "slipped" back into vegetarianism before a full return to veganism 6 years ago. He's a passionate animal rights and environmental activist, serving as an ambassador for multiple charities including the Global White Lion Trust, VIVA, Tree Sisters, World Vision, Mindfulness in Schools, and Yes2Life.

Show Notes:

Book Recommendations from Chad and Jerome:

The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be (J. B. MacKinnon) The Book (Alan Watts) Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer) Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change (Sherri Mitchell) Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul (Stephen Jenkinson) Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble (Stephen Jenkinson) Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception Into the Dreaming of Earth (Stephen Harrod Buhner) A New Path: To Transcend the Great Forgetting Through Incorporating Ancestral Practices Into Contemporary Living (Arthur Haines)
Useful Links/Video Resources:

How Speaking English Impacts Our Relationship With Nature- Arthur Haines #12 (ReWild Yourself Podcast with Daniel Vitalis 9/1/14) Tom Dostou: The Seven Fires Prophecy Calm: The #1 App for Meditation and Sleep (feat. Jerome Flynn)
Connect with Jerome on Social Media:

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Intro Music:

Lonely Few (Beth Bombara)
Outro Music:

Can We Auto-Correct Humanity? (Prince Ea)
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