0:00:01.839,0:00:07.640
the streets of of London for how long uh

0:00:04.359,0:00:10.480
3 years now three years Ley yeah all

0:00:07.640,0:00:13.120
right what triggered your homelessness

0:00:10.480,0:00:15.320
uh mental health originally and then

0:00:13.120,0:00:17.439
once you’re homeless uh you seem to be

0:00:15.320,0:00:20.359
under a different set of rules to the

0:00:17.439,0:00:22.400
rest of the world sorry once you once

0:00:20.359,0:00:25.119
you are homeless it was mental health

0:00:22.400,0:00:26.960
originally I stopped engaging with

0:00:25.119,0:00:29.679
everything had a

0:00:26.960,0:00:31.759
breakdown and um but then once you are

0:00:29.679,0:00:33.239
home you you seem to be under a

0:00:31.759,0:00:35.559
different set of rules to the rest of

0:00:33.239,0:00:38.239
the world and how long ago was that that

0:00:35.559,0:00:40.480
was 3 years ago 3 years ago you become

0:00:38.239,0:00:42.320
homeless yeah yeah in London yeah in

0:00:40.480,0:00:44.360
London and uh you’ve been homeless

0:00:42.320,0:00:46.520
before that I was in Brighton before

0:00:44.360,0:00:49.000
that in Brighton are you from Brighton

0:00:46.520,0:00:51.280
yourself I was I’m from Devon

0:00:49.000,0:00:54.600
originally I’ve lived in bright I was

0:00:51.280,0:00:56.399
Liv in Brighton for about 20 years in oh

0:00:54.600,0:00:59.280
from Devon but in Brighton how was being

0:00:56.399,0:01:01.359
homeless in Brighton oh yeah oh Brighton

0:00:59.280,0:01:04.040
very different

0:01:01.359,0:01:06.080
very different but it’s not the same

0:01:04.040,0:01:08.759
thing cuz I was from cuz I lived there

0:01:06.080,0:01:11.560
for a long time so I had support network

0:01:08.759,0:01:13.320
I had places to stay I was not wasn’t on

0:01:11.560,0:01:15.320
the streets so much in

0:01:13.320,0:01:17.240
Brighton you weren’t on the streets so

0:01:15.320,0:01:19.200
much not so much yeah more that I had

0:01:17.240,0:01:22.920
places kind of homeless but being in

0:01:19.200,0:01:26.119
shelters and I knew people I had friends

0:01:22.920,0:01:28.560
to stay with and yeah things like that

0:01:26.119,0:01:32.640
yeah I let well tell us about your

0:01:28.560,0:01:35.320
childhood and well um said from Dev on

0:01:32.640,0:01:38.799
right yeah I had a lovely childhood but

0:01:35.320,0:01:41.159
my childhood’s not nothing to do with be

0:01:38.799,0:01:44.520
me being homeless now I don’t think

0:01:41.159,0:01:50.520
really um I think I was made homeless

0:01:44.520,0:01:54.200
cuz but to to wake me up I think I’ve

0:01:50.520,0:02:00.360
been yeah I needed to reach

0:01:54.200,0:02:03.399
um botom to be spiritually woken and I

0:02:00.360,0:02:06.119
found God now so that’s what happened to

0:02:03.399,0:02:09.119
you yeah you you reach the bottom yeah

0:02:06.119,0:02:12.319
yeah totally yeah and that’s what that’s

0:02:09.119,0:02:15.560
what woke me up spiritually and now I’m

0:02:12.319,0:02:17.519
on the right path now I feel like all

0:02:15.560,0:02:19.920
right woke you up spiritually what do

0:02:17.519,0:02:22.120
you mean by that I mean it sounds like

0:02:19.920,0:02:28.160
it was a it was a good good experience a

0:02:22.120,0:02:31.000
very good experience yeah um so yeah um

0:02:28.160,0:02:34.599
you I didn’t realize that there was

0:02:31.000,0:02:36.400
anything oh hello thank you so much

0:02:34.599,0:02:38.400
amazing thank

0:02:36.400,0:02:43.040
you

0:02:38.400,0:02:44.480
cupcak I love L’s cupcakes so basically

0:02:43.040,0:02:47.360
when you reach

0:02:44.480,0:02:50.000
when I was not looking for God I wasn’t

0:02:47.360,0:02:51.519
looking for anything remotely spiritual

0:02:50.000,0:02:54.599
I was always one of those people that

0:02:51.519,0:02:58.000
said I believe in something but I don’t

0:02:54.599,0:03:00.599
know what a higher power or whatever but

0:02:58.000,0:03:04.560
not particularly God

0:03:00.599,0:03:08.440
um and I think I was put off by the word

0:03:04.560,0:03:13.080
Gods by organized religion for most of

0:03:08.440,0:03:17.080
my life and yeah

0:03:13.080,0:03:20.319
having this reaching the Rock Bottom

0:03:17.080,0:03:22.680
when you when you’re so miserable that

0:03:20.319,0:03:26.680
you don’t want to be in your own head

0:03:22.680,0:03:30.519
anymore um it sort of triggered this

0:03:26.680,0:03:33.360
spontaneous Dark Night of the Soul

0:03:30.519,0:03:39.840
where it’s like your Consciousness

0:03:33.360,0:03:43.519
detaches from your ego and you

0:03:39.840,0:03:45.519
you’re you you you achieve a higher

0:03:43.519,0:03:49.680
state of consciousness you gain a higher

0:03:45.519,0:03:51.920
state of consciousness so so this is

0:03:49.680,0:03:55.360
what you achieve through hting the

0:03:51.920,0:03:57.280
bottom conscious separated from the ego

0:03:55.360,0:03:58.840
yeah yeah basically and you kind of

0:03:57.280,0:04:00.760
still in the same state you’re like

0:03:58.840,0:04:03.840
feeling like

0:04:00.760,0:04:06.400
so