How Neal Sendlak of @GnosticInformant Found God in Prison

when I went to prison. Oh, really? Yeah. 2011 I went to prison for POS use and all that stuff. And uh and then I started reading the Bible cover to cover when I was in there. And then I started going to the library and reading other religious stuff like stuff about Buddhism, Upanadas, Vadas. And I was like comparing them and kind of like looking at both and which one of these is true. But then when I I didn't really answer that question in prison. I became a Christian. I thought Christianity was the best. Thought the Bible was the most like complete and the other ones were like, "Eh, JV." Yeah. Exactly. And then when I got out, I went had nosed a nose dive deep into the church. Went to church twice a week. Uh was the first one there. I had I had the key to the church. I got there before the pastor. Sometimes I started that's how I learned how to edit videos. I was he wanted to he wanted to record all of his sermons and I would edit them upload them on his YouTube channel. That's how I got editing from that. Why did you start reading about all of these things in prison? Because I really wanted to at first I was trying to find out if if the Bible was historically accurate, if it matched up with what like science is saying about like evolution and old earth and round like all that stuff. And I was trying I remember like trying to make it fit. Like I remember reading the Bible and going, "All right, it says right here that the earth is 6,000 years old because it's, you know, we're putting Adam is only this many years before Jesus or we're like 4,000 BC." And I was like, "But maybe this is like an allegory. Maybe Adam represents the first civilized human. Maybe there's like some sort of allegorical thing behind all this." And I started thinking like that. And uh that's kind of how I got into narcissism too because the Gnostics were very much interpreting everything allegorically. Was there anyone coming to prison that was like uh helping you along? Think about these thoughts. There were there were outside churches coming in. Okay. They were doing like baptisms and all types of stuff. Sundays was that was everybody pretty responsive to that in church in in prison? Yeah. Everyone, it seemed like everybody was either a Muslim or a Christian or some some faith because it gave it it was like a free get out of the unit for an hour. Everyone took advantage of it. Oh, everyone wanted to go and it was like it was a nice way to see people from the other units. There's videos going on there. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. People would go to church just so they can see their friend from a different unit that they're never going to see unless they go there and they would pass things along to each other. Um Whoa. Yeah. So, it was like everyone did it. There was there was only one Jewish person I met in jail. He didn't have he was having a rough time. Wait, did you say they were doing drug deals at the church services? At the church services. How are people sourcing in prison? Are people just they so they what they would do was they would have their a visit come in and the visitor if there was a if it was a his girlfriend they would like kiss him and transfer it through the mouth and sometimes they would swallow it or some people they would go in the bathroom put it up their and bring it back to the unit that way but they did it that is the main method either either swallow it or boof it. No, that's how you did. Yeah. And you'd be surprised they did it. They did it because they it was if whoever had the was the king. You had currency. You had everything. Yeah. You were the you were absolutely That was It was the imperative. There was a lot of there. Tons of it. Wow. Did the guards not care? They Is it kind of like look the other way? Kind of keep it down. Number one, it depends on the guards. Some of them are less Some of them are just trying to do their time. Yeah. Yeah. Trying to get in there, do their 8 hours, go home. They're just doing their job. They're like, "Just don't kill each other." Then there's other ones that are like, you know, they got the badge, they got the power trip, then they they're the ones looking. So you So as an inmate, you knew which guards to, okay, this guy's on a shift. Everyone chill out for the next eight hours. Yeah. And the next guy comes in. All right, now we're free again. So you knew based on who the CO was, what to do, how to act. You guys are taking me back now thinking about, oh, this is pretty crazy.