Jessica Pimentel (Brujeria, Orange is the New Black): Fighting Depression with Buddhism - OTV Ep#16

Jessica Pimentel (extreme metal band Brujeria, Netflix's Orange is the New Black) shares her long history with Tibetan Buddhism and how to directly apply it to your life to elevate your mental health and combat depression and suffering. She also explores her creative life as a musician, actor and artist in general. This conversation is Episode #16 of the "Occupy the Void with Xtina" podcast, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts and major podcast platforms. Listen:

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CONTENT GUIDE:
00:00 Reaching out heart to heart from behind the camera / microphone
00:16 In the face of darkness, become the light
00:59 Introduction & Jessica’s spiritual journey from Taoism to Buddhism
03:11 Ignorance, clinging and craving - can you eradicate them?
03:41 Ignorance, suffering, karma, seeking happiness from the external
05:13 What do you strive for as a Tibetan Buddhist?
05:37 Doing things to help people’s lives in any small way
06:35 What has it added and subtracted from your life?
07:12 Playing dark characters and making dark music
08:21 Being the light, choosing her path in music & movies
09:51 Struggling and fighting back against darkness
11:49 Being able to recognise depression coming on
13:13 No suffering lasts forever
14:31 Mindset - its all relative, this too shall pass
15:43 Advice to those suffering from mental health issues
18:36 The power of visualisation
22:02 The Four Noble Truths & being inspired by suffering
25:55 A question hijacked by a query about Satan
28:48 Going on the quest to find answers
31:02 Jessica’s history with music
31:47 Mental health
33:30 Why did heavy music become your home?
34:37 Meeting Type O Negative’s Peter Steele in a park
37:17 The heavier the music, the nicer the people
38:05 Being with another creative, her partner Tomas Haake from Meshuggah
40:46 What would you define as mental health?
42:36 Quieting the voice in our head
44:17 The creative process
47:20 Upcoming projects
49:02 Young women and the dearth of badass role models