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"I really admired just the sense of purpose and the sense of depth in a lot of the Jewish people that took the Torah seriously," he says. "Zen Buddhist philosopher Ken Wilbur was one of the first ones that started to open me up to the spiritual side of things" His parents would have found it strange, but not as threatened by it as they would have been with Christianity. 'Judaism is something they're more familiar with and don't have as many biases against'