We'll only have a kind of detente where hopefully we're not blowing each other up as we slowly, slowly destroy our planet all the while. Human animals are self-serving and aggressive and backstabbing and will never have peace. And nowadays, you bring up world peace and you just get that big, collective eyeroll like, oh, my God, you're the most naive idiot to walk the face of the earth to even consider world peace. And we believed that we could have peace, especially with the end of the Cold War. WILSON: I am old enough, NPR, to remember the '70s, when people would actually talk about world peace. And coming out of the ashes of that war, humanity has essentially solved racism, solved sexism, has solved income inequality, and is then able, in its maturity, to go out into space and explore and spread the word. You see, the backstory to "Star Trek" that a lot of people don't know is that there has been a horrific World War III.
WILSON: But it's also about the next stage of the evolution of humanity on planet Earth. (SOUNDBITE OF ALEXANDER COURAGE AND GENEE RODDENBERRY'S "THEME FROM STAR TREK") WILSON: So for me, when I look at "Star Trek," yes, it is a bunch of folks on a spaceship boldly going where no man has gone before. And as we heard earlier, one of his favorite shows was "Star Trek." And he explained why watching it religiously was actually kind of a religious experience for him.
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Well, remember, he's a TV star, so he didn't just watch a lot of TV as a kid for entertainment. MCCAMMON: OK, well, I'm excited to hear how this all played out with Rainn Wilson and where he's at with all of these giant questions. But the common thread is that they're all people who are trying to find their own answers to life's biggest questions. Some of the names you'll recognize some of the names you won't. MARTIN: Every week, we're going to bring you a very intimate conversation with a person who is working on building their own spiritual identity.
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And, Rachel, I'm so excited for this new series you've started, you know, selfishly, because I think about this stuff all the time too. Over the next several weeks, we're launching this series, and we're calling it Enlighten Me. What is our purpose here in this world, and how do we create meaning in our lives? So we're going to use this space as a place to explore these questions. MARTIN: To be honest, these are some of my own personal preoccupations, you know? I am thinking through the same things. MCCAMMON: Yeah, from the sound of it, he's been thinking about these questions in different ways for a really long time, maybe his whole life. Is there a divine power? And what is our moral purpose in the world? He talks very openly about big questions like God. He has done the thinking on all the biggest questions. MCCAMMON: Yeah, so what is the answer? I mean, what does Rainn Wilson have to say about spirituality? MCCAMMON: NPR's Rachel Martin is here to answer that question. WILSON: Why the hell would the guy who played Dwight on "The Office" be writing a book about spirituality? MCCAMMON: In his new book "Soul Boom," Rainn Wilson tells the story of his spiritual life, from the sci-fi he watched growing up to rediscovering the Baha'i faith he was raised in. WILSON: I can't tell you how much that show meant to me on so many different levels. The actor Rainn Wilson says while other kids may have been focused on the spaceships and alien creatures, he was seeing deeper messages that, unironically, have helped guide his life. RAINN WILSON: When I discovered "Star Trek," it changed my life.
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