On what he is seeing more clearly now that he has opened his third eye:
MS: It’s about the assumptions you make in your daily life. It’s about the assumptions you don’t question and taking the time to sit back and question all of the assumptions that you make. That will re-adjust the perspective that you see things from.
On how he feels about getting to show off more of his personality in Impact Wrestling than he has in other promotions:
MS: I certainly feel I’ve got a lot to say right now and that’s just because I feel like I have earned the platform to say it. I want to make a big impact on this world and not just in pro wrestling. On a planetary scale there is no reason we can’t affect a billion people given the wonderful world that we live in and all of the wonderful things I have been afforded my whole life. A lot of what I am doing right now comes from this crazy debt of gratitude to humanity for getting to exist and live in this wild world. If you had the ability to do some of the things I have done, see some of the places I’ve seen and fly on jet planes from Tokyo to London to New York to Toronto and Mexico City. It’s a truly an amazing world we are living in and I am just trying to share with everybody that, no matter where you go on this planet Earth, people are all the same. We are all one, we care about our friends and our family and we just want to be happy. We all go through struggles and the way we handle our struggles is what makes us. Some people get scared and fearful of their neighbors. Others rise up and try to help our neighbors. I am on the side of letting everyone know that there is an abundance of everything. An abundance of resources, technology, energy and love. If we all work together we can have a more peaceful and harmonious world and not have to worry about nuclear attacks, Syria and the madness. We can enjoy this lovely game called life.
On what differentiates this generation of X-Division talent versus previous generations:
MS: I couldn’t tell you because I don’t care about those other generations. Even when I was a youngster in 2003 showing up at the Asylum in Nashville during the NWA-TNA tapings and watching the inaugural X-Division matches. Those were of the most classic nature. All of that is irrelevant because it is the past, the future isn’t really relevant either. All that matters is the present. It’s not about me to think about the historical nature of things or other generations. I don’t think about that stuff. I am not attached to the outcomes, the belts, my generation or anything like that. That’s for other people. That is for the analysts. I am the doer, I am the person, I am the wrestler and I am the person taking steps. I am the participant and I don’t sit in the back and play analyzer.
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