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"I think your purpose is your passion, it's in your life, you're doing it already, you just don't know that. You are it already. It is you already. If you claim it, then you can name it and then you can be it. You are your life's purpose, you are your life mission, the fulfillment of the fullness of you. That's it."

"When you're in community and people hold you in all of your parts, then you have the space and the wherewithal to journey inward, to access more of your life's mission and purpose, and weave it into your daily living, and share it with community and have it activated. You aren't sitting alone in your apartment on a computer searching for a way to feel in connection and in community. That really is the ultimate life purpose, bringing your full self into communal spaces and having the joint resonance around that."

"When the Dalai Lama said, go be free, do that, yes, I formed the International Cultural Arts and Healing Sciences Institute and tried to put programming together. I do this thing called music as medicine programming. It is a divine gift right there at our fingertips. It doesn't require you to be a Taylor Swift or a Beyonce. People can access it and communicate through it everywhere, all the time."

"I remember being in the back of our house. Our houses were surrounded by a nature preserve, like enclaves. In our area there was a creek, and we used to go from preserve to preserve and walk around in nature all day. This was back in the day when your parents were out, you were home, you were a latchkey kid. I remember sitting on this rock, being in nature, and singing to the frogs, the birds, and the trees."

"I go around as a cultural arts ambassador to different places around the world, bringing people together with music and working with people who are frozen in this chrysalis of pain and trauma from war, refugees, and at risk children, youth, and families who are immobilized in pain, fear, and shock. The way to get to them is not to say, let me talk to you, can you fill out this form. It is about, I see you, I feel you, I hear you, I need you to come back. The way back is through song. I sing to them, they start crying, then we process the grief and pain and get to a place of starting to heal. I feel that it really is the balm that heals the soul and the soul of the world."

"I remember sitting on this rock in the nature preserve, being in nature, and singing to the frogs, the birds, and the trees. I started noticing that the birds would respond when I sang. I would sing and the birds were quiet. Then I would be quiet and they would sing back. We started doing this concert. Even in my child mind, I thought, this is not real, am I making this up. After that I started singing with the birds every day. It sparked a curiosity in me. There's a way that we can communicate without words. There's a way that you can have a heart connection through this interplay of sound that doesn't necessarily require a certain level of cerebral intake."

"The only thing that would quell that fear, that anxiousness, outside of a very strong will to live, was music. It was not rock and roll music. It was really about sound. There were lots of harmonies and natural sounds that touched my core and really penetrated on a cellular level. It was what I locked into, what I could focus all my attention and energy on, so I could heal from within while the doctors tried to heal externally. I knew it had such a miraculous effect because every day the doctors would come in and say, we cannot believe how much your bone has grown back. We cannot believe that your blood work is coming back with all of this amazing data. I would demand to see my lab work. I would demand to see my X rays. I would say, this is low, let me focus on this. When I was focusing and meditating, it was this music that I focused on. It really created a sound path for me to bathe in and stay in so I could reach a level of ease and distress while all the stress was happening in my body."

"I survived a hate crime. I was run over with a truck by five young men. Racism. I was just sitting in a field of flowers. I was dragged 86 feet on a gravel dirt road. I had a separated hemothorax, pneumothorax. My ribs punctured my lungs. Every day they would come in and say, well, you might not live today, but if you do, we are going to have to cut your legs off from the hips down. I could only move two fingers, and I would write, not today, maybe tomorrow, not today."

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"My purpose really does involve a lot of music as medicine. The only thing that would quell that fear, that anxiousness, outside of a very strong will to live, was music. There was one sound healer named Brother Ah, and he would pour water from one glass to another, chant, and use very intentional prayer music. It touched my core and really penetrated on a cellular level. It was what I locked into, what I could focus all my attention and energy on, so I could heal from within while the doctors tried to heal externally. Every day the doctors would come in and say, we cannot believe how much your bone has grown back. When I came out of that, I knew that this is 100 percent what I am doing. I formed the International Cultural Arts and Healing Sciences Institute and tried to put programming together. I do this thing called music as medicine programming, and we use it with UNHCR, the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, with the American Psychological Association, with the Department of Health and Human Services, and with the Foreign Services Institute. I go around as a cultural arts ambassador to different places around the world, bringing people together with music and working with people who are frozen in this chrysalis of pain and trauma from war, refugees, and at risk children."

"There's an audacious side to me, probably from a mentor of mine, from my early journalistic days, who said, I haven't said no till they kick you down the stairs. That really stayed with me. I guess there's always been a certain audacity, a certain idea that yeah, I could do it, and I hold on to that all the time."

"I have a really strong need to change things, to rip down old paradigms and to create new ones, and I have a really strong need to help other people. I think that went through with our work with What Doctors Don't Tell You. We have covered just about every kind of illness and tried to offer people healthy solutions that don't harm. We are very aware of the state of modern medicine and the fact that it is just an extraordinarily greedy business now, with nothing to do with healing. That has been a really important factor for me."

"One of the struggles that I encountered was working sometimes with editors whose work I didn't agree with. The words are really important to me, the rhythms are really important to me, so I think it was that struggle of maintaining my own integrity that was difficult sometimes. Also trying to put together what are some big ideas, I must have worn out a carpet upstairs just walking back and forth on it, trying to figure out what does this all mean, how does this all fit together, and trying to also turn that into language that ordinary folks can understand, including me."

"I guess I think of my purpose now as changing paradigm, the I win you lose paradigm, and trying to do something different, and trying to be more loving in groups, large and small, and to create grids, and to show how these extraordinary mirror effects happen. The final thing that I feel has morphed out of all of the work that I've done is some thinking recently about thinking, well, those people in charge, they really don't know what they're doing, we need an army of change makers. I suddenly thought, well, I guess I have an army of change makers. I've got tens of thousands of power of eight groups around the world. What if I brought them together and gave them some free tools and had them join together, groups and other groups, we could affect change from the bottom up. So that's what I've been doing now in what I call the Eight Revolution. My purpose is to change the way things are, and I guess I do it one word at a time."

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"If you're creating and talking about a new paradigm, the scientific community, the standard scientific community, is not going to hug you back. They are going to say critical things without really understanding. My field has been said to be nothing more than Star Wars. It's got 400 plus scientific references, it's just in a paradigm that the old paradigm doesn't yet understand but is coming into understanding now. I wrote that book 25 years ago. We have a magazine called What Doctors Don't Tell You, and we write about what works and what doesn't work in conventional and alternative medicine. Occasionally we get skeptic organizations trying to shut us down and try to take us out of newsstands and all sorts of things like that. We've learned these people are not going to hug back, and you have to stand up and fight for yourself sometimes, which we have, and we've prevailed."

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"I went on in my 20s to become a journalist. I was going to put bad guys in jail. I started putting bad guys in jail, and I broke baby selling rings and had hidden cameras and tape recorders. Then I moved over to writing about health and looking at the scientific evidence. That is when I started thinking about the power of the mind and the power of intention, because I saw very good studies of spiritual healing. I kept wondering what does that mean, and how far can we take this. If you can have a thought and send it to someone else and make them better, then that undermines everything we think about how the world works. So I set off to find out why, and that resulted in my book The Field, where I'd interviewed lots of frontier physicists, biologists and other scientists, but recognized that scientists speak in math. They also don't want to move beyond their experimental data to say what does this all mean. I realized with some alarm I was going to have to put this all together. So I did, with The Field, and it described a new science, the coming of a completely new understanding of who we are and how we should live. It also changed the messenger, that really became my purpose."

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"We need community more than anything else, more than we need to breathe, we need to belong. Creating these small groups have been a really important part of my life in big intention experiments because I've seen massive healings with people, people who have healed medical conditions, stage four cancer, three people getting up out of their wheelchairs, untold people with stage four cancer reversing it. I had a woman who was going blind, doctors could do nothing for her, one power of eight group and she's completely healed, she has 20/20 vision now. We've had so many situations like that where people have been healed as a result of just coming together in this group and doing these techniques that I teach them. Then with the big groups, we found extraordinary rebound effects, where half of the people taking part in our intention experiments, focusing on lowering violence somewhere, feel more love for everyone they come in contact with. Somebody said to me, you're doing more than research, you're cracking open people's hearts."

"For me, it's really simple. When I want to get something done, I actually set many goals and many intentions and I work at it. If I'm writing a book, I won't leave my desk until I've written at least 1,000 words a day. Then I know my other goal is I've got to have 5,000 done by the end of the week, and then I've got to have something else done by the end of that week. By the end of the month, I've got a very clean chapter, and by the end of the year, I have my book. I literally do that. I'm at my desk at 9:30 every day. The real key elements for me are setting myself intentions, large and small. There's always been a certain audacity, a certain idea that yeah, I could do it, and I hold on to that all the time. I always try to aim as high as I can. I think those things are really important in understanding how to find your purpose. Never ever play small, always play the big."

"Education should be nurturing the higher purpose of kids and giving them all the resources they need to fulfill that purpose, whether they are skills, people, resources, access to a market that they can reach and bring their gift. Whether you're an architect, an engineer, a poet, a chef, or a healer, anything that brings your heart to shine with energy, love, and passion."

"Many times, you have to trust yourself, take a step into the void, and trust that a magical step will appear so you can keep walking through the becoming. I think that's something that I've been doing over and over."

"I have always learned that when a person or a group connects to higher purpose, that brings you the energy to be a better person. People that are in addictions, depressions, or any sort of trouble, the moment you tap into a higher purpose, that will bring you the energy every morning to stand up, wake up early, do exercise, go and study, go and work. We need emotional education. Any unhealed emotion moves to an addiction, and that could be an addiction to food, to work. It doesn't need to be alcohol and drugs, but it could be many types of invisible destructive habits."

"The advice to find your purpose is to stop for a moment, really go back to that moment where you were full of dreams and energy. What were those dreams? What was that purpose? Go back, get them, and trust yourself. Never stop. My key for finding higher purpose and keeping myself there is to find those who resonate with you. Do not go alone."

"As I was studying and trying to understand the purpose of why we are here on Earth, I started learning from indigenous wisdom leaders, wisdom keepers, and evolutionary pioneers, avant garde thinkers. At eighteen, I started finding spiritual masters and teachers. Then I realized and understood my purpose."

"We build safe containers where people feel safe. Everyone is acknowledged, and everyone receives the resources they need to fulfill their purpose. In communities of coherence, we guide people to be in the right placement. People need to find their purpose in their heart so they can find resonance with others. It is like music. You might be out of tune and not fit into teams, causing trouble. But once you find your tune, then you resonate with others. People vibrating at the same scale will resonate with you. When you connect to your heart and purpose, you will find resonance with others."

"I am meta weaving a movement, so I have to work on weaving many disciplines. Something I learned is not to go too fast, because people will not be able to listen or understand. There is an art of not coming all the way back and becoming one of the million people doing the same thing, but being a little bit ahead and getting people to hear you, so you can push the present to the future. That has been one of the greatest challenges for me."

"People say, why are you not just doing money, why do you not focus on having a house and enough money for your retirement, you are careless. You are careless because you are not focusing on making money and you are doing so many things. I will tell you, money is not the most important thing. I am meta weaving a movement, so I have to work on weaving many disciplines. A friend once told me, your problem is that you are in the believing edge. You are too ahead, nobody sees what you are doing, nobody understands what you are doing. He gave me good advice, take some steps back, move to the living edge, that is when you become famous and wealthy. But for me, that is still being in the comfort zone, and we do not have time."

"The biggest struggle I have had living my purpose is that nobody believes it is possible. We are living in a global crisis of belief. People do not believe anymore. What I am saying now, I have been saying the same thing for the past fifteen years, and now I think the world is ready to listen. Many times, you just have to stay. One of the hardest things for me is to stay on the fire in the waters of uncertainty and ambiguity, and hold the fire. Many times, you have to trust yourself, take a step into the void, and trust that a magical step will appear so you can keep walking through the becoming. You must be a believer and stay strong, called to purpose. There's a fine line between being persistent and being obstinate. You need to have wisdom to know when to stop and go back and when to be persistent and stick to your values and your high purpose."

"When I was eighteen or nineteen, I joined an international organization of students, and that took me to travel the world and become a world citizen. Then I understood social justice. I started traveling and seeing why this person lives in very good conditions and this person does not. This is not fair. We can do better. We can find better solutions. That is what I was doing with young students from all over the world, working together and bringing better solutions than what the grown ups could."

"We can become spiritual beings. We need to reconnect to our divinity, our supra human Jedi capacities, and at the same time we can do better on this planet. There is no reason why there is hunger, sickness, and the problems that the planet has. We have enough resources, intelligence, action, commitment, and skill to do it. I understood social justice. I started traveling and seeing why this person lives in very good conditions and this person does not. This is not fair. We can do better. We can find better solutions. That is what I was doing with young students from all over the world, working together and bringing better solutions than what the grown ups could."

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"At eighteen, I started finding spiritual masters and teachers. Then I realized and understood my purpose, that the purpose of the planet is to evolve into higher consciousness. We are evolving to become a planetary and universal humanity. I was like, that is exactly what I am about here. I have been developing a methodology I call social alchemy, where I combine social intelligence, collective intelligence practices, and spiritual intelligence practices. We need to unite the heart, the mind, and the spirit. Our vision is to build communities of coherence that can synergize with other communities on a bioregional basis. Bioregions are the stepping stones from the age of the nation-state to the age of planetary consciousness."

"My purpose started, my passion started very soon. I would say when I was three to six years old. I was very intrigued by all of the questions that I could not find answers to from family, church, or school. I had questions like, what happens when we die. Are we alone in the universe. What about all this paranormal, that apparently some humans have, others do not. So I went into a huge pilgrimage. Since I was six, started at three, but when I was six and able to speak a little bit better, I started the quest. At twelve, I started finding people. I was led, I was able to speak to strangers. I started gathering more information that I could not get beyond the barrier of my family, friends, and schools."

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"You see this in leaders, in gurus, people who are trying to do really wonderful, creative things. You'll see them get completely off track and kind of possessed by something that is working against the very purpose that they're trying to promote in the world. I've been very lucky to have the opportunity to manifest my purpose in so many ways through work at The Institute of Noetic Sciences and my work at UC San Diego, where I'm now directing the Center for Mindfulness. I work on the science of imagination and the science of psychedelics. If I had told my 19-year-old self that that's where I would end up, she might have been blown away."

"One of the things that the person who led this purpose method said is, if your purpose doesn't scare you a little bit, it's not your purpose. You definitely want to have a little bit of, oh gosh, I don't even know if I could do that, and then you're on the right track. While one person may have a download that their purpose is to start a multinational NGO that feeds and clothes millions of people, or to stop wars from happening, another person's purpose might be to replace the tiles that have worn away from their child's school. The scale is not relevant in purpose territory."

"It can take a few years to set up the conditions under which my purpose could manifest. Especially if your purpose is something that is going against society's conditioning or your conditioning, you've got to have tons of things in your life that give nutrients to the new purpose in order to allow it to grow. In the territory of purpose there are no rules about time, space, or scale. People can live into their purpose when they're 85. People can find their purpose when they're young. You may not have the same purpose at age 30 that you do at 40, 50, 60, or 70. You may have a through line, but allowing it to be flexible and dynamic, and really paying attention to it and cultivating it, rather than thinking it's just going to appear one day."

"Some of the conditions that are really important for most people in terms of growing their purpose: they need a supportive community of like-minded folks, but not too like-minded, so that they're also willing to challenge you and keep you on track. They need time in nature, they need spiritual connection, and often a daily mind-body practice."

"When we are living into our purpose, there are of course times when it's hard work, or it's hard to be out ahead of the pack, and you feel lonely, or it's hard to fail and make mistakes. Those are hard, but when you are allowing it to come through you rather than from you, it's less effort, it in fact becomes a lot of flow and a sort of effortlessness. You can be tired, the same way you're tired after working out in a really healthy way, but you don't have that drained feeling. Allowing your purpose to work through you means that your job is not actually to invent or follow your purpose. Your job is to simply become as transparent as you possibly can, which means stay clear with what you eat, with what you put into your body, with other people in your life, with your values. The clearer I get and the more aligned, it's going to flow. The great inventor Thomas Edison said, I've never invented anything, I'm just a needle on a phonograph."

"I absolutely encountered struggles on my way toward manifesting my purpose. Even in the midst of being at a very high level of feeling like, on the outside anyway, people would have said, wow, she is really living her purpose, I definitely had a period of time where I got lost and felt really out of control, not happy, not useful, and turned to addictions. I had to actually go through treatment during that time and come back on track. I say it out loud because so many people who are really pursuing their purpose have a secret life where they're really not pursuing it, and it just means that some of the conditions that one must have in place to stay balanced and flexible while living a purpose were lacking. They were missing, or they wore away over time. Sometimes we can work so hard that we just forget about taking care of ourselves, or we have so many plates spinning that it kind of has to come out sideways somewhere. It reminded me, even in the midst of this beautiful career moment, that number one, anyone can get lost, and number two, you've got to spend extra energy to keep all of your support structures in place, or you can very easily get lost."

"Your job then is not to directly pursue the purpose right away. It's to ask yourself, what conditions do I need to cultivate in my life to make that purpose really blossom, really flourish. We can get kind of mad at ourselves because we're not doing our purpose when we didn't take the time to set the conditions, and it can take a few years to set up. It's sort of like a garden. You get a seed planted either by yourself, by your family, by the universe, and then your job is to provide the soil and the nutrients and the sunshine and water and stakes in the ground to allow this seed to grow. Same thing in your own life. What they need is a supportive community of like-minded folks, time in nature, spiritual connection, and often a daily mind-body practice that helps them stay at a certain level of spiritual fitness and resilience. If your purpose is big enough, it's going to be scary, and it's going to cause trouble, so you've got to have a certain level of agility, flexibility, and nimbleness to get through all of the obstacles that might be put in your path."

"I spoke to my dad one day. He said, listen, if you've been brought here to this particular point, your job is to continue, just keep moving. Today, we have doctors working with us, part of our team. We have referrals because we kept believing what we were doing. My dad always said, flow with life but be mindful, flow."

"All I could see was low immunity, low immunity markers, low vitamin D3 levels, low B12. For me, that's what the body needs for the immune system. Something said, just start putting this back into his plan. Nothing, we just put the fundamentals back in place, what the body needed. He looks at cellular nutrition, getting adequate exercise, good restful sleep, emotional well-being, and he also looks at the spirit."

"My purpose is my next patient, it's never changed. My goal is my next patient. People say, but what about your family? Yeah, that's there, that's my responsibility, that's my love, but this is my purpose. And if I'm able to fulfill this purpose, everything around me gets better. So that's my passion, and that's my purpose. A lot of people ask me, what my purpose is. My purpose is my next patient."

"When I started off about 13 years ago, I was this one guy in India talking about a field of medicine that only existed in the United States of America, and that too with difficulty. We had all the enemies, from a lot of doctors to whatever. My dad said, listen, if you've been brought here to this particular point, your job is to continue, just keep moving. Today, we have doctors working with us, part of our team. We have referrals because we kept believing what we were doing. Many times the challenge was, are we doing the right thing, but we were getting results. We were getting more and more patients than we could handle. We had a waitlist of 300 patients at a particular time."

"I just lived life mindfully and I flowed. I never knew, I absolutely never had a plan to do what I'm doing today. I studied, but I moved into the corporate world, but I lived life. I remember my dad always saying, flow with life but be mindful, flow. Our purposes can keep changing. Right now, if I'm going to swim, it's to have a great swim, enjoy myself. So I believe purpose is kind of blown out of proportion today. That one purpose, purpose, no, it can be different for all of us. Today, the purpose of a child is to play and have a good time. That purpose is going to change as the child grows. So I think we need to expand our thinking about a purpose but be more mindful about intention."

He looks at cellular nutrition, getting adequate exercise, good restful sleep, emotional well-being, and he also looks at the spirit. We're not selling a product, we don't have anything to sell. We're coaching people, we're changing their lifestyles. My purpose is my next patient, it's never changed. My goal is my next patient. People say, but what about your family? Yeah, that's there, that's my responsibility, that's my love, but this is my purpose. And if I'm able to fulfill this purpose, everything around me gets better."

"At the age of 34, it hit me. I got my calling. I realized I had a gift, and I enjoyed, I enjoyed what I did. That became my passion. It doesn't mean I can't have other passions, but this gives me joy. It gives me so much joy. Even though my line has a lot of death, I wake up every morning with three or four messages of patients who have passed through overnight, but it gets me joy to know that, hey, you have a gift, you can use it, it's got a result, you're making value and impact. That's my purpose, that's my passion."

"I had a cancer patient. I got a call late at night one day in Mumbai. There was a very big family in India. They said, we're going to fly you down, you need to see a patient. I said, what kind of case is it? They said cancer, and he has a few weeks left to live. So I said, how can I help? I'm a nutritionist, like what can I do? And the wife was very insistent. She was saying, Luke, please come. I went, and while I was there, the patient was sleeping. I was going through his medical records, five years of cancer, and all I could see was low immunity, low immunity markers, low vitamin D3 levels, low B12. Something said, like, hey, just start putting this back into his plan. This guy lived on for four years. In a week my life changed. I had calls coming in from different parts because of Word of Mouth. They were like, what magic did you do? Nothing, we just put the fundamentals back in place, what the body needed, B12, D3 for the immune system, bring down inflammatory markers. That was a changing point, and that's when I realized that, hey, there's something beyond that a lot of people are missing. I see it, and I said I want to fill that gap with lifestyle medicine."

] "When I think of the idea of a collective consciousness or morphogenic field, I think of nodes, almost like the planet has a set amount of nodes around it, and they all communicate with each other. How do we change that? We change that by influencing those nodes or those areas in a specific way to change the energy of the people. By you doing it with your heart, you're connecting with people, and you're part of that big field, your existence, no matter what."

"What's one thing that we can relate on, or several things that we can all relate on, that we're all experiencing, and how do we come together to come up with a solution to that together? That is what I feel my soul's mission, soul's purpose, is, to create content that gets into that, not just the little pieces, not just what we think of climate change or belief systems or meditation, but the whole, the big picture, the main core that connects all of us. Those things are what I'm really focusing on, and to take a brighter, broader stance so there's no one left behind."

"I think it's really scary to try to find your soul's purpose. Everything around us, even if you do a lot of work on yourself, is telling you to be something, to buy something, if you have all of this, if you have these people in your life, you're going to be someone, and then you're going to feel better about yourself. When you're doing a lot of work on yourself, you're constantly dipping in and out of, it's not important, it's important, it's not important, it's important. It's really hard. It's a hard journey. I had a shaman tell me once, look, you could do the work, everybody does the work, but the thing is, it's not to get rid of all of it. I think if you have thoughts like these, they don't go away, even when you try to fit in."

"The biggest struggle I faced living out my purpose was I kind of felt alone. A lot of my friends are not necessarily deep into the space, so I couldn't have these really deep conversations with them. Then I would meet people that I had these really deep conversations with, and it felt like we were arguing about our points, and that wasn't any fun. It felt like the hardest thing was taking a lot of time alone to contemplate how I really felt about it. Being a social person, that was really hard for me, to feel disconnected even though what I was doing was about connecting everybody."

"I was living in LA, and I was in my 20s. I was sitting out back, looking up at the sky. I remember thinking, there's so much out there I don't know. People were like, come back in the house, we're doing shots. I thought, I want to be in a place where I can expand. I had all these feelings. I want to discover more, I want to go deeper, I want to figure more things out. Those moments just kept happening. Every time that I spent too much time being normal, I'd have another moment where I'm like, God, there's just so much out there I must know."

"My advice for anybody trying to figure out what their soul's mission is: spend more time in nature, spend more time by yourself, figure out what really drives you. Are you really driven to do that because it's going to get you more money, it's going to get you some kind of status, and eventually you'll have more freedom? Or are you doing something because deep inside it feels like freedom? What does freedom feel like, that moment where you feel safe, or you're at home, or you're like a little kid? There's that one little feeling that you have. That's when you feel that you've tapped into something, and you might feel it at the strangest times."

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"I believe my soul's purpose is to help build the new Zeitgeist, to create those new nodes of consciousness, to influence in a positive way, an inspiring way, our collective consciousness, and through the medium of telling stories. It was about how do I make something that allows people to think outside the box, that allows people to sit and think, wow, I never thought of that before. Because if I've done that, then what I've done is I've ignited something in themselves they didn't know existed. When I started to piece together a connection that connected all of the sciences, ancient Egypt, ancient spirituality, sacred geometry, quantum physics, biology, I thought this would be a good story to tell because it connects everybody in the same vein. It's respecting everybody's research, but the mystery is not how each of those sectors finds something really interesting, but more how they're all connected and how they have a bigger message."

"Personal growth is something that I highly recommend for everyone on the planet because we are not taught that at a young age. We are not taught that our soul is evolving, that we are here for a purpose, that we are here for a reason. It is never too late, but I do feel like as a society we are not exposed to it in the way that we should be."

"I have always been a very passionate person. I get really enthralled in things, I get really immersed in what I enjoy. The reflection of my life has improved over the years as I have gotten more and more into my purpose and my path. My life is actually a reflection of a lot of beauty, joy, fun, and excitement. I live a very exciting life. As you start to uncover the truth of who you are, the truth of your soul, the truth of your essence, your life is going to look a lot different. You feel every day when you wake up, this is how it is supposed to be, this feels right."

"Everything you possess, this knowledge, somehow our upbringing, our society, our family reshapes us. It doesn't let us be exactly who we are, but I think it's one wonderful thing: if you can tap into that, realize your potential, you can achieve so much more. The key to that is very simple, which is to be true to yourself. Embedded in my fingerprints, I have a deep understanding, I have a deep clarity of who I am and what I am here for. I chose this, I chose everything, and I am very happy and passionate to do that."

"If someone is not sure about their purpose and they are looking for their purpose, I recommend opening up, opening yourself up to questioning, inviting assistance from your higher realms, your angels, your spirit guides, it is something I have always been open to. If you are open to it and paying attention, it will find you."

"I had also been meditating for many years prior to even discovering palmistry. It is through that inner reflection and inner seeking that you can really learn, and things will start to show up for you. If you ask, you are going to get it. I guarantee you are going to get it. How it comes can be different. For me it came through a book at the library. For you it might come another way. It might be a person showing up in your life. It might be a job opportunity that opens up. There are an infinite number of ways it could show up for you. If you are open to it and paying attention, it will find you."

"I actually found my teacher online at the time, and he is the one who created the whole fingerprint life purpose system. He's been reading hands since the 1960s, he's in his 70s now, and I was like, I need to learn from him. So I reached out to him, and he actually sent fingerprint patterns to me in the mail, and we did it over the phone. We studied fingerprints together, and it was an amazing experience because to learn from him, he had been reading hands for over 40 years. I wanted to learn from him because I definitely felt a connection. His name is Richard Unger, and he founded the International Institute of Hand Analysis. He is considered one of the most prominent fingerprint readers in the world. I was really fortunate to study with him when I was first learning how to read fingerprints."

"What I learned from that was that my purpose is the passionate wise woman. I am here to teach my passions, and I am here to educate people through my passions. That makes perfect sense to me because I have always been a very passionate person. I get really enthralled in things, I get really immersed in what I enjoy. What I enjoy is usually something very esoteric, and most people have either never heard of it before, know very little about it, or have misperceptions. I would like to dispel the myths that are out there and all of the superficial aspects because it really used to be a very well respected science."

"My purpose actually found me, which I'm very grateful for. I used to own a restaurant, and I ran that for seven years with my ex husband in southern Utah. We sold it when I was in my early thirties, so essentially I was retired by age 31. I did what most retired people do, I got an RV and I traveled the country. After a few months, I started to get very antsy, and I felt like I needed to be doing more than just traveling and having fun. I felt like there was more for me to do. I was way too young to actually be retired. So I went to the library, and I picked up this book and had a profound deja vu moment. It was something that found me versus me finding it."

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"I went to the library, and the library is a place I highly recommend when somebody is looking for something productive to do. I ended up finding a book on palmistry. I had never studied it before, I didn't know anything about it. I picked up this book and had a profound deja vu moment where I knew that I had studied it before. It was so familiar to me, and I thought, what is going on. I got a really clear message from within, somewhere you need to study this again. I ended up testing out the material from the book with various people in my inner circle. The response was overwhelmingly positive. That was the turning point for me. Palmistry is the reflection of you. Your fingerprints form four to five months before you're born, they never change. They are the DNA soul imprint of you, they're your roadmap, and that's how I read them. I read them like a roadmap. You can discover your life purpose, it's in your fingerprints. You can learn your personality archetype, your subconscious influences, how you look at the world, how you interact with the world. The list goes on and on. It's amazing how much is in your hands."

"Let's come to this place, Rishikesh, which is the birthplace of yoga, where the ancient rishis went to sit in caves and get the wisdom of how to live, and let's make it a three-day festival. The first day can just be a think tank for how to live in the world, let's bring all the thought leaders of the world. The second day, let's make it a pilgrimage. Let's walk to the place where the Beatles went. The third day is bringing global musicians from East and West on the same stage together. It's not just about the music and the pilgrimage. It's really literally the technology. We're in the world of information. How are we going to live with this information? The balance we need more of comes from ancient wisdom. Let's bring this together and come together to rethink how to be human, how to live optimally on the planet."

I just have to give credit to my husband and partner, Peter, because if it wasn't for Peter, I probably would not have made this film. Peter was like, I think there's something here, I think we really need to explore this, and he was right. Every time I showed up again, and Peter showed up again, and our company and our partners all showed up again, we showed up differently."

"Peter and I run a lab, a creativity lab called Source to Screen, and the whole purpose of it is to help bring people into alignment. What happens is that we take three days and break it down into spiritual lessons applied to creativity. Creation is getting out of your own way so that ideas can come and find you. Manifestation is taking those ideas and bringing them down into the physical world. Then there is transmission, am I reaching people. Each group that comes to do this is weirdly aligned with each other, and literally we start these WhatsApp groups and they cannot stop talking to each other. Some people have come to work with each other, and it is really exciting. It is exciting to see people trusting, finding their voice, reaching out, leaning in, and finding ways to actually express themselves in ways that bring them joy and give purpose to their lives."

We met with the organization Self Realization Fellowship that Yogananda founded, and I knew in that moment that something about the times needed this message. It hit home for me, and I knew in the room, I could feel the antenna going up, like something's trying to happen. So I followed that. I followed that voice. That is when I started having these downloads. When I started to move and lean in instead of feeling sorry for myself and shutting down, but courageously leaning in, the downloads started coming."

"We held up a flag and we said, let's shift the company's purpose. We have to make films that awaken the human spirit. We declared it. We started speaking on panels at Illuminate, then we were invited to other panels. Year after year, my husband and I would go back, and we just felt like this is the mission. How do we collaborate more? Who do we have to collaborate with? That seems to be what's constantly being asked of us."

"That is when I started having these downloads. When I started to move and lean in instead of feeling sorry for myself and shutting down, but courageously leaning in and saying, yes, doors are slamming, and I am going to sit here, I am going to sit in this, and I am just going to see. We held up a flag and we said, let's shift the company's purpose. We have to make films that awaken the human spirit. We declared it. We started speaking on panels at Illuminate, then we were invited to other panels, and we went to India. We started collecting people from around the world that were part of this movement. Owning it instead of denying it, owning it instead of running away from it because it was scary."

"I went back and started to put together what I thought were a series of really good projects. I was going to go get them funded, and all the people I normally would go to for funding just looked at me blankly. I felt crazy. I felt like I was speaking a foreign language. I had been nominated for an Academy Award and I had been nominated for an Emmy, and this was maybe two years after the Emmy nomination. I thought doors would open, but instead it was like, wait, who are you, no, we do not want any of that. It felt incredibly lonely. Those seven years of the unraveling of the ego and the ideas of who I thought I was, those were rough, plus I'm raising children, so it's so much learning. The lesson was just to keep showing up. Every time I showed up again, and Peter showed up again, and our company and our partners all showed up again, we showed up differently, and there was always a little bit of a shift, a little bit of a change, a lesson that we learned, a letting go of some previous idea that we were hanging and clinging on to."

"The question I always ask is, what's trying to happen. Peter and I run a creativity lab called Source to Screen, and the whole purpose of it is to help bring people into that alignment. The idea is that great ideas are trying to find us. It's not us finding great ideas. Carl Jung said great ideas come and they find you, and that is actually so true. They find us when we are actually living in alignment with ourselves, when we are loving ourselves, when we are accepting ourselves fully. The more we are accepting who we are, the uniqueness of who we are, when we are in that place, ideas come and find us because then we are a perfect vessel for that to execute. All the spiritual lessons were there to learn, for our own spiritual growth, and also because something else, and this is the big lesson always, I think, is the question I always ask: what's trying to happen? Flow comes in the most bizarre ways, so if we can just get out of our heads and not second guess it and just trust, that is ultimately what it comes down to."

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"My soul's mission really goes hand in hand with an awakening that I had, that I wasn't looking for, that came into my life. It was after making a spiritual film about a yoga master named Paramahansa Yogananda called Awake, The Life of Yogananda. I had an idea, and in fact I just have to give credit to my husband and partner, Peter, because if it wasn't for Peter, I probably would not have made this film. We took the meeting, and in that first meeting I knew that something was happening. I knew that something about the times needed this message. I could feel the antenna going up, like something's trying to happen. So I followed that voice. What I didn't know is that at the end of a really long, laborious process of making this film, it took six years, that I would find myself in a very particular place in my life that I didn't recognize. Something was stirring within me. I had gone to India. I had had a physiological shift happening in my body. My consciousness was shifting in my being, and I didn't really know what to make of it. At the end of making that film, I went back to business as usual, and I took on a job working on a TV series, and I thought, something isn't feeling right. I knew that my direction was moving forward. I couldn't go back, and I couldn't go back to being the person I was before."

"The city council is unique. It's a body of seven, and it actually has to be a body of four, the quorum. It's a team effort. Sometimes you have a team that works well together, sometimes you don't. It's better not to, because you want different ideas, different challenges, and that makes the win that much better. We have an amazing staff here at City Hall. Most of them work almost two jobs because everybody backfills each other. If you want to get the job done right, you have to work with other people."

"I got involved in the Sedona Fire District governing board and ran for that. That was a little bit simpler. I worked into it, and then a few years later I ran for the city council. That was a challenge, but not as much as it was to be mayor. I never even looked or aspired to be mayor. I just wanted to give back in my way, try to help in some way. The more I did on the city council, the more I was able to do that. Somebody suggested I run for mayor, and I did. Now I'm just starting my second term, and I'm really excited. The passion hasn't dimmed at all. In fact, it's getting better and more powerful with me."

"No matter what you look at, don't go for the job. Jobs are fine to an extent, but go for the career. No matter what it is you're looking for, go for a career, and hopefully if you find the right career, those people will feel good inside. I know plumbers and electricians who say, I went to someone's house today, they had no power, they didn't know what to do, and I was fair with my price and I helped this single mother with three kids, and I felt good today. We need a plumber, we need an electrician, we need a firefighter, we need police officers because they touch people in their own way."

"What inspired me, especially in law enforcement, was just coincidence in my neighborhood. I was always befriended by different cops. They would tell me what they did, and we'd spend maybe 20 minutes talking while they were patrolling the neighborhood. My parents were very supportive. They said, whatever you want to do, just aspire to be something good and something that's giving. They were both working people. I saw how hard my father would work. He would leave at 5:00 in the morning and come home at 6:00 at night. My mom worked in a dress shop. She was a saleswoman, and she would work long hours."

"I don't know if you know or not, but I was part of 9/11. My department was the owner of the World Trade Center. The psychological effects of that were tremendous. For 18 months, nobody had even one day off at all, except if you had to go to a doctor and show a note. Everybody had to work, and there were no exceptions. The psychological aspects of being a police officer, plus my job wasn't the conventional neighborhood officer. As a police officer in New York at the airport, you're working at the gateway to the United States, where people from around the world come, so you have to have the mindset of being able to work with all nationalities, all different beliefs."

"My mother fought and fought for the desk chair. I was a little kid, maybe eight or nine, and I watched her fight. I do that now as a cop. You have to fight to get where you want. It's not easy. Not a single day is easy. They can be fun, but they're not easy. You have to fight to get what you want to be. I spend a lot of time down at the state capital fighting. I don't give up. That's how my family has supported me to get where I am today. Never surrender, never give up. You just can't."

"My purpose in life has always been to help people. Back in New York on Long Island, I was a police officer at Kennedy Airport for 31 years. Then in 2010, I retired, moved to Sedona, and now here it is, 14 years later, and I am the mayor of Sedona. You've heard the saying you want to leave a place better than when you found it. I want to be a part of the win. I want to be a part of a success. I want to leave Sedona better than when I arrived here in 2010. In city government, I'm fighting for the people. I'm listening to people, listening to the residents, and when there's a need, I'll fight. I don't give up."

"When I was a teenager, I was with a group of friends in the middle of a huge snowstorm, and one of our neighbors was missing her child. We looked all around nearby. All of my friends worked together with the police department to just walk the neighborhood to help find this child. I mean, we were just kids, but we wanted to have a purpose, and we wanted to help people. We actually found the child in a parking lot where somebody had removed a manhole cover. The child was in the manhole, covered with snow, and just walking through a parking lot, we heard calling out for help, and we found the child. The exhilaration you get when you actually save someone is remarkable, and it left an impression on my life, like this is really cool, helping people. That's where my life has really moved forward, and I haven't regretted it at all. I get huge excitement out of it every day. I never even thought of that whole story until I got your list of questions. I said, wait a minute, and it all came back. I was 15, 16 years old, and here I am, 68 years old, and I hadn't ever thought of that. Your questions really brought back some good memories for me."

"What advice would I have for people looking for their purpose? When you want to run from it, it's calling you. Answer the phone. It's like, I'm trying to get a hold of you. Come on, you've got to make an effort. Wake up, grow up, clean up, show up. To show up, to open up, to lift up."

"I never lived on a mountain alone, and I'm there now, thirty years. The elements of nature will come back and teach you how to be here if you embrace her and befriend her. Releasing your fear. When there's a big windstorm, you think the whole house is going to blow down, or there's a bear, or four feet of snow."

"Take that step to finding what makes your heart really beat. What is that? My body secretes it, right? It's talking to you all the time. Are you listening? Do a lot more movement. You won't be so lazy. You might find little pains here and there, but they're shifting you. Your back goes out, oh, I need more support."

"How are you digesting your food? Because if your gut brain isn't working with your head brain, and coming from your heart brain, we're missing something, we're out of balance. I became a vegetarian when I was sixteen because I didn't like my complexion, and I didn't like what I was looking like and feeling like. You can't go on eating that hardcore stuff to be a yogini. You can't digest it anymore."

"We have to go back and look at that seven-year-old, and we have to embrace our inner child because if we don't speak to her, in my case, she's going to be like kicking you in the shin, going, I don't feel safe here. It's a part of us."

"Patience pays. Let the hand of God. Patience. Hands down. No one has tolerance for patience. All we want is tolerance and patience because patience is timeless. Eventually, you'll break through, and if you're listening, you'll break through. Be patient because you're healing. If the arm's broken, you're healing. Give it a minute, a month, or three months. Do not medicate. It's too easy. Pain talks to you. It loves you."

"Going to New York, Paris first, and then New York was very scary. In India, when I went, when I changed my life after Paris, after Paris and New York, suddenly now years in India, every year going back for more. Torture, more walking on the matanga by yourself, not gossiping, just figuring, dipping in her and coming back out. It's very awakening."

"When we do things consistently with devotion, bhakti, we find a way through every block. To change your habit, do a forty-day meditation. It balances all your tatvas. We change the pattern with forty-day meditation, consistently, continuously. You don't have to do it at the same time. Just sit, scroll through your fingers, and allow. You can do this on your own and find balance."

"How I got to where I am with my yogic practice: survival, second chakra, negative mind. Where did all the hatred come from? Where did all this anger come from? I started looking at myself. Early on, since I was eight years old, I could see the sensitivity. I thought very quickly early on in my career that I have to change this. There's something I don't like about myself. I could see the mirror."

"You say, how do you change the world to make it a more peaceful place? Get everybody to do Breath of Fire. When you pump your naval, it starts to really get all the aggression out of you. I'm pumping that naval, so Prana is super aggressive but subtle. I do it this way, I do it correctly, but it suits me this way to do this breath. You learn how to be discerning with Kundalini Yoga, and it teaches you."

"The sadhana before the sun rises gives you the capability of hearing and listening, seeing how you're doing throughout your whole day. It stays with you. If you can do a sadhana, which is the Aquarian sadhana, which starts with Ji, the Song of the Soul, Gurunanak, and you just listen for twenty minutes, then you move the body through all the ten bodies. You walk with grace. You look great, from the inside out."

"When I was in my first career as a model, the most beautiful, stunning exteriors walked through the door, sat next to me. If there was any kind of envy, jealousy, I thought very quickly early on in my career that I have to change this. There's something I don't like about myself. I could see the mirror. Instead of medicate, meditate. Hands down, line up all those demons every morning before the sun rises, because that's when they come out. Self-love, self-care is work, but it's possible for everyone, no matter what the condition. This has helped me find my purpose. Believe me, I'd rather run out the door, see you, ciao. It's a lot of work, but it's such pleasurable work because it really turns itself around pretty quickly, instead of sabotage."

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People have lost the ability to trust themselves and the guidance that comes through them because they feel others aren't going to accept it. So yes, trust is very important. I also feel that we have multiple purposes. One of my purposes was being a mother. One of my purposes is being a wife. I'm caretaker of the library, so we have many purposes. I do feel, though, that we have a divine purpose as well, an ultimate purpose that we grow into. Like you said, we just take it little by little, and we will ultimately find our purpose as we grow and our awareness and consciousness expand. We'll find it when we get rid of all the blockages and things that keep us from it.

As I was massaging in resort spas, I would hear voices from spirits for the person on the table. In the beginning, I knew it wasn't me, so I would have this little banter in my head, going, I can't tell the person that. Then I decided, no, who am I not to tell the person what this spirit is bringing in. When I started to do that, I realized that the people who were receiving the information were so grateful. So that started me with the unfolding of what I do today. In this living, I did discover that we've had past lives where we had the library before, so that was kind of interesting to me.

Right before a lecture, I had a dream. I was walking along the ocean with all the seekers of the world, all walking together, and in the distance I saw a figure, a woman dressed in blue holding a microphone. As we got closer, she was covered up in a smoke or a fog. To my right, to her left, were horseshoe stands with all the people who have written self-help books and have courses, six-level courses, and seminars. A big wind blew off the ocean, and I heard the following: all one needs for greater enlightenment is a beautiful heart, an open mind, and a humble spirit, and you will reach enlightenment. That dream led me to even further opening up, where I have since developed the philosophy of a beautiful heart, an open mind, and a humble spirit. My very wise Deborah said, well, that's the lifestyle, but people are going to ask how you do it. You do it with love, in love, and through love.

What's the secret? Maybe the producers of this should go to Nike because I'm going to say, just do it. Why at 23 did I call and virtually embarrass myself with another man saying, hey, do you like me, is there a problem? You just do it.

Then came phone numbers, just a phone number, and with that phone number I would call and someone would answer, we're waiting for you, we have something we want you to caretake. That has been my journey. Of course, the premier dream, I was in a library, a line of people, and at the front is a podium with this man with white hair looking down. I come and I go, yes, and the man says, we now would like you to study Paracelsus, whatever name. Then I would go out and seek all the information on what I was given. A lot of people ask, do you live in the library, do you just stay in there and read, and I have to say no, I don't. But what does happen is, when I'm ready, the books jump out at me, and then there's a purpose and a timing for me to gather the information.

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The biggest project for me is to preserve the writings of the great women and men of history and understand who inspired them, and then who inspired the one who inspired them. What starts as one shelf in a bookcase can grow to 56 bookcases because inspiration can come from many different areas. I designate or separate wisdom and knowledge. Knowledge is an accumulation of facts, wisdom is a higher standard, it's more absolute truths. I find myself looking at both of those while I'm in the library, and then I'm lost. I'm lost. So that's my challenge. Caretaking the library is a privilege and an honor, and it's an amazing place to have actually in my home, our home.

I discovered my purpose to be a facilitator of individuals, to help them, empower them, to release wounds or conditions, anything that keeps them blocked from reaching their fullest potential and purpose. I do that by helping them identify and acknowledge these issues, and then through various tools I help them release it. I've learned through experience, through working with people and my own life, that when we hang on to emotions long enough, they will manifest on the physical level and create a disease. Then they focus on how to get rid of that disease. Normally, they're looking outside, typically outside of themselves, and I help them look inside themselves to clear that. Then they're able to really look within, start trusting their inner selves, and release what no longer serves, healing themselves, to create a space for them to reach their purpose and potential. I just have had such gratitude for helping people release what no longer serves them and actually seeing them melt in front of my eyes when it's released, and that they can move forward now and be unrestricted in what was holding them back.

The road that led me to that realization of being a facilitator was that I started out as a massage therapist. As I was massaging in resort spas, I would hear voices from spirits for the person on the table. In the beginning, I knew it wasn't me, so I would have this little banter in my head, going, I can't tell the person that. Then I decided, no, who am I not to tell the person what this spirit is bringing in. To give them a message, and when I started to do that, I realized that the people who were receiving the information were so grateful. I mean, some of them broke down crying, they were so happy to hear from the person that had passed on and gave them a message. So that started me with the unfolding of what I do today.

I called him, his name was Bob, and I said, Bob, is there anything bothering you about me? He said, what? I asked a second time, is there anything bothering you about me? He said, no. Something possessed me, and I asked the third time. He said, what are you sick, what's your problem? I said, I want to be a better person. He said, there is something that's bothered me. He said, do you remember what you did to our teammate Harold? When Harold would come in and make a mistake, you didn't say anything, but you kind of glared at him. After the tournament Harold and I would go out for pizza and he would throw up because he couldn't win your approval. I thought you were a real hog. After he hung up and told me, I cried. After that, I had five and six dreams a night for the next three months on every phase of my personality, likes, dislikes, just a review from Spirit, dream after dream.

I've discovered my purpose over the last several years by guidance coming actually from the spiritual world and in my dreams. I often had dreams that were very, very specific, including being in a library, strangely enough, as you see in the background. As a result of that dream, I found a passion for gathering information. For me, it was very, very easy compared to most people I've met over time who were searching. I believe it happened because I just listened. Even though it was a dream, I just followed that dream. I was guided by a spirit that all my future guidance would come in my dreams. I was 23 years old. I was very excited, so excited to have a dream that I went one week without sleeping because I kept thinking, I'm going to go to sleep, I'm going to have a dream. After one week of being completely exhausted, I had the following dream. I heard a voice, a voice I recognized, an athletic friend from three years previously, say, what kind of animal is Steve? A picture book of animals opened, and a finger pointed to a particular animal. He said, do you remember what you did to our teammate Harold? Everybody looked up to you because you were an All American player, and when Harold would come in and make a mistake, you didn't say anything, but you kind of glared at him. After the tournament Harold and I would go out for pizza and he would throw up because he couldn't win your approval. I thought you were a real hog. After he hung up and told me, I cried. After that, I had five and six dreams a night for the next three months on every phase of my personality, likes, dislikes, just a review from Spirit, dream after dream. Then came phone numbers, just a phone number, and with that phone number I would call and someone would answer, we're waiting for you, we have something we want you to caretake. That has been my journey. I believe very strongly now. People say my dreams are silly, I can't remember them. Well, I didn't either. My dreams were silly, but I put a legal pad next to my bed, and whatever came through I was saying to Spirit, to my higher self, I am interested in your guidance.

"I started by making the LLC and looking up some alternatives to paints and glues that I could start using in projects. From there, year by year it grew by starting my first project, then getting the second one, and continually researching in between, reconnecting with old co-workers, getting advice from people. Now, about five years later, I have a brick and mortar space in Montana."

"When I got there, I actually tried all these different things. I tried a production design class, cinematography, art direction, all these creative aspects. Because I was so creative, I knew I wanted to do something with my hands, something more hands-on, but nothing felt like a good fit. The longer I went into my freshman year, the more I realized I hadn't found my thing. What actually made it click was when I found animation."

"I also had an internship with a film producer, and of course producing, you think of money, you think of working your way up in a studio, so my parents were kind of swaying me to take that path. But it just didn't feel good, it didn't feel creative enough, it didn't feel like it was nurturing my soul. It felt a little thankless and like it just wasn't quite my place."

"Something that really helped me, not directly in finding my purpose but in learning more about myself, were different modalities like astrology, numerology, and human design. Sometimes having yourself reflected back to you in a different way can help you see yourself differently, see what you love, or just see yourself. Sometimes you just need someone else to put it into words, and that can make something click."

"I was one of the only undergrads in that class, and I was the most motivated. I did every assignment, made my puppet from beginning to end, and just loved it. That teacher told me to get internships and learn on the job. I applied to three or four studios. I didn't hear back from some, a few others said they already had their intern. I gave up for a second, and then I ran into that teacher. One of the biggest things for me was always putting my passions at the forefront of my life. Whatever is resonating at the moment, whatever you love, there really are no rules."

"It was my junior year that I literally ran into a door that had a flyer for a puppet-making course. I didn't know what puppet-making was. That was my introduction to stop motion animation specifically, and that was when I 100% knew that was the direction I wanted to go. I gave up for a second, and then I ran into that teacher in the grocery store parking lot right before summer started. She told me to try one studio I hadn't tried yet. Sure enough, they said yes. They hired me on my birthday. That was another sign."

"That teacher is the one who told me to get internships and learn on the job. I gave up for a second, and then I ran into that teacher in the grocery store parking lot right before summer started. She told me to try one studio I hadn't tried yet. Sure enough, I reached out to them, they said yes, I came in for an interview, and I started soon after. That was very much a reason why I'm doing what I'm doing today because someone said yes to me, which I think is a huge thing."

"The studio's mission is creating alignment with nature. From the people working for the studio to family and friends, people are getting on board with the idea of creating an alignment with nature and recognizing that we are part of nature and not separate from it. Part of the studio's mission is reconnecting and enjoying being out there, being in nature, and then also bringing those materials in to use to create. We've gotten so far from that. We've gotten so far into these synthetic ways of creating. Even natural things can last forever."

"My sister was becoming chronically ill. She had some endocrine issues and kept seeing doctors, but no one had answers. I became partly her caretaker because some days she couldn't get out of bed. We ended up moving home to San Diego with my parents. On the flip side, I was learning and growing more as a person. I was getting healthier, and we were starting to find solutions for my sister's health. Through her health journey and through getting healthier, I started to recognize the things about the stop motion industry that were the reason I ultimately left. I had no idea before; it just wasn't something I thought about in my life at all. It was like that final piece of the puzzle came together."

"The conundrum became how do I do that without going back to the industry that is the reason I left. The only answer was to make my own studio. That's what I did. I started by making the LLC and looking up alternatives to paints and glues. Year by year it grew by starting my first project, then getting the second one, and continually researching in between, reconnecting with old co-workers, getting advice from people. Now, about five years later, I have a brick and mortar space in Montana. Everything culminated for me from following the inkling of what I love, figuring out what I care about, and putting those together to make my career and what feels like my purpose today."

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"The darker side of that industry is that there are toxic materials, you're under fluorescent lights all day. What was fun and exciting quickly became thankless, tiring, and creatively draining. I had several years of confusion, asking why I wasn't happy doing this anymore. The second half of finding my true purpose was actually leaving my dream job. At the same time, my sister was becoming chronically ill. She had some endocrine issues and kept seeing doctors, but no one had answers. Through her health journey and through getting healthier, I started to recognize the things about the stop motion industry that were the reason I ultimately left: long hours, unhealthy lifestyle, toxic materials, and a toxic environment. Pairing that with the fact that I was learning more about the Earth and toxicity, all of that became very important to me. Then I finally admitted to myself that I still liked stop motion animation and I still wanted to do it. The only answer was to make my own studio."

"In my first animation class, I fell in love and knew that was the path I wanted to take. It was my junior year before I had to sign up for classes that I literally ran into a door that had a flyer for a puppet-making course. I took a graduate-level course, and I was an undergrad. That was my introduction to stop motion animation specifically, and that was when I 100% knew that was the direction I wanted to go. I was the most motivated. I did every assignment, made my puppet from beginning to end, and just loved it. All of this part of my purpose, because it was rooted in my passion, was very easy. The steps kind of laid themselves out."

"We need to move forward with an understanding of how we are cosmic beings. We need to understand that we are multidimensional beings, and that energy really helps us to allow this planet to change. Maybe we didn't even evolve exclusively on this planet. Maybe we're part of the cosmos. Is that fearful for some people, maybe yes. But really, it's the reality that science is teaching us."

"We have now achieved a moment through the internet to have a university without walls, to have a download of information that allows us to do in a few years what normally would take generations. We're here really to help humanity to get that bigger picture and to realize it's not something we have to fear. It's something we have to understand, that makes us grow in our image of ourselves. We all have an important purpose, especially right now. The planet is going through so many changes, and we're all excited about it."

"We were led by spirit to areas of archaeology in Egypt where we found the tomb of Osiris through music and through radar working together. We were led to places in Japan where we were invited as archaeologists to go under the ocean to find Yonaguni. We were guided by earlier experience and use of remote viewing, the ability to see beyond our physical three dimensions, other dimensional realities."

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"So music, sacred art, or cosmology using sacred pictures, as well as new science looking at the frontiers of where we're going as a human race, is the secret really. Music and song are part of putting your mind into that sacred space. It puts you into that relaxed state, that state that allows you to receive more information. Also, I believe because we use some of the sacred expressions and names and words, it's almost like a cosmic telephone line. The sounds, the words, the music are all part of putting your mind into that sacred space."

"As a young professor I began to use energy mantras. This created a morphogenic field that opened for me. A being of light briefly appeared before my eyes, and that changed really my plan of life. I began to realize that there was a whole language of light above and beyond the phonemes and morphemes of human language, and that led to the writing of this book, The Keys of Enoch. In the process of putting together what we will call a musical linguistics, language of sound vibration, and using that intensely for several years, I had this experience of suddenly awakening with a morphogenic door of vibration opening."

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"This book represents really the psychology, the philosophy, the sociology of how we are all endowed with a divine spark to bring about a new humanity. Humanity that works not only in the third dimension but the fifth dimension, a unity between heaven and Earth. We would say in scientific language the ability to reach out to cosmicization and realize we're one family, one joy, one heartbeat of the discovery of the higher self. Everyone has to understand the need for a greater cosmology than living on a small little planet, and this is our mission, this is our purpose. When we begin to understand that we are not only not alone in the universe, we're not even alone in the consciousness reality of what we think and what we feel."

"The Holomovement is my husband's dream, Emanuel Cilman. He was my first mentor, and I met him a long time ago on a bus on the way to the pyramids of Teotihuacan. He started talking to me about quantum physics, which I knew nothing about. I was kind of in a desperate state trying to figure out my life, and all of a sudden, hearing about Bell's theorem, I just went, wow, that's incredible. I felt this extraordinary connection with the universe."

"My dear beautiful friend Laura Pena tells the girls that we work with, if you want to find your purpose, find what makes you cry. I think that's true. When I was 26, I woke up and I cried. I cried because I thought I was so old, so over the hill, and I thought by then I was going to know exactly what I wanted to do with my life. I cried because I had no idea."

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"More than anything is my morning practice. I was introduced to something very beautiful that was created by Michael Murphy. It is called integral transformative practice. It is a beautiful practice that I started doing many years ago. It involves motion, there is a lot of aikido and water wheel motions, and beautiful physical expressions. It involves affirmation, it involves meditation, and I have adapted it to my own practice."

"One of the projects that we support with Purpose Earth is called Cazala Weaving. It's bringing together Bedouin Muslim women with Israeli women, and they are creating these extraordinarily beautiful textiles. They're working in community, even with the most recent horrific, devastating debacle in the Middle East. They are joined heart to heart, hip to hip, elbow to elbow. They're encouraging their community to lay down their differences and their anger."

"It's been about 170,000 people from 85 countries around the world, and I have had the privilege of meeting so many magical, passionate young people. Traveling opens people to their purpose, to their calling. Moving out of your comfort zone is the number one thing that every one of us can do to have a deeper connection with the world around us, because we have so many more likenesses than differences."

"I started praying when I took up yoga, and yoga was the path that led me to many very deep spiritual experiences. I always found that it was toward the end of my yoga session, and I have always done it on my own. I go deep. The deeper I stretch and the deeper I find that I'm going into a state of meditation, the more I become open to what I would call the messages of the universe that are being shared with me."

"I started praying. I started praying when I took up yoga, and yoga was the path that led me to many very deep spiritual experiences. The day that I was 26, I did my yoga practice, most mornings I do, and I put out a prayer. It's almost like talking with my higher self. It's sort of like knowing that the highest part of me is connected with the highest part of everything, and that the only thing that impedes our being able to connect with the messages of the universe is our own voice that never shuts down in our minds until we quiet it. I put out, please guide me, show me, show me a sign, bring me somebody in my life that will make a difference."

"I started working in cultural exchange, and that was magic for me. I suddenly realized that all my focus on me was changing to the we, to the collective we. I started working with international students from all over the world, and that was such an extraordinary experience because I was facilitating their experiences. When I turned 26, I cried because I thought I was so old, so over the hill, and I thought by then I was going to know exactly what I wanted to do with my life. That's when I actually put out a prayer to the universe, and I discovered cultural exchange shortly after that. Suddenly I found myself in this industry that I thought, this is beautiful. I'm bringing people together, I lost my sense of worrying about self, and suddenly I was much more concerned about others. It was hugely impactful."

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"What has brought me the most joy through all of my work with Purpose Earth, with Greenheart, cultural exchange, and now with the Holomovement is action. Theoretically, it's great to hear about what our potential is, but it's not until we actually set those thoughts, those intentions into action that we really recognize what can truly happen, what can take place. It's so much fun, it's so much fun to just push up your sleeves and recognize that we're part of a huge community of people that all want to take action."

"When I was about 10 years old, I had a dream that I lived in this beautiful cottage, this incredibly beautiful cottage. It had a fireplace, it had some half timbering, and it was set in a beautiful forest. One day, this knock came on the door. It was this boom, boom, boom. I was trembling in the dream, and I went to open the door, and there was a spirit being there, and the spirit invited me to join it on this sort of magic carpet, this invisible magic carpet, and I knew that I had to go. I got behind it and put my arms around him, and we took off. We looked down, and the house became smaller and smaller. Then the landscape began to change, and I realized that I was over devastation, probably World War II Germany, and I began to cry. The spirit being said to me, you will have a choice in your life, to stay in your beautiful cottage or to go out into the world and make a difference. When I turned 26, that was one of the moments where I had that recollection of saying, I'm focusing too much on me."

"It's funny, I'm like, I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse that when the going gets tough, I'm like, I'm just going to figure it out. People always tell me, you're crazy. I'll write another cookbook, or I launched this online cooking school during the pandemic because I was like, well, people still want to learn how to cook. It totally came through for me when I needed it."

"I always loved to eat. I mean, from the time I could talk, I was always talking about food. In high school and college, I really took to cooking, and then I realized that no matter who you're cooking for, they appreciate it, and you can show love through it. I forget that the thing I probably enjoy most about it is how you can affect other people through it. Everybody loves food, and to talk about food or to be given that gift, I get so much satisfaction out of people finding joy in what I do."

"The best part about growing older is that I'm more locked into it. I know it's there, and when I steer away from it, when I get away from it, my body tells me immediately, like you are not on track anymore. I can make decisions based on my gut around this, and anytime I'm like, what is really making me happy, it always comes back to this. It comes back to serving others in this way. Anytime I do something just because someone's like, oh, it's going to pay really well, I know. The more you listen to yourself, the easier it becomes to stay in it."

"I've never had a big ego around what I do, but I do believe we all show up as ourselves. No one is like me, no one is like you, no one can do it exactly like I do. I don't really worry about competition in what I do. I've always been able to understand that I'm not competing against anybody except myself, and that's really helped give me the courage to be like, if somebody's hiring me, it's because they want me."

"It's amazing to me that it never felt calculated. I just kept saying yes to the things that felt right to me, truly on a gut level. That thing that everybody thought was a bad idea for me was actually the best place to start. My parents were like, what are you doing? You're going to work in a retail store. But it turned out to be the most amazing training. I was running a $25 million store at age 22. By saying yes every time I was asked to do something for my externship, I ended up testing recipes for a cookbook for the owner of the cooking school, 200 recipes in six weeks. It was completely insane, but that led to her calling a really well-known food writer. Everything just kept going."

"It's super scary to have the courage to always follow it. There were a couple of times when I was making really decent money, great benefits, and things like that, but it no longer felt like the right thing to do. Even when I was going to quit to go to cooking school, I had just been promoted, and everybody thought this was amazing, but it wasn't part of what I really wanted to do. When I left Williams Sonoma, people thought I was crazy because I had just been promoted to VP, had all the amazing benefits, and here I've got two young children to support. But I was like, this is, I can't be all things to all people, and I'm going to figure this out. It's so crazy that the universe kind of shows up for you if you believe enough in yourself."

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"From the time I could talk, I was always talking about food. Cooking, and then I realized that no matter who you're cooking for, they appreciate it, and you can show love through it. Whether it was somebody that I knew, a member of my family, or someone in the community, it just became this thing that gave me such a good feeling. It is in my heart and soul. It's just the thing that lights me up. Every single step I took has helped lead to where I am today. Every time I said yes to something, I just kept asking, is it around food? Does it feel like the right decision for me? I know it's my purpose because I light up when other people light up from it. The more you listen to yourself, the easier it becomes to stay in it."

"Then some crazy magic and synchronicities appeared on my journey, which led me to find a holistic healer who actually became a godsend for me because he became my guide and helped me wean myself off all the drugs and medication. Blessing Ross really helped me. Then he took me to the Amazon."

"Once I was inspired to get back into creating and photographing people, everything just opened up. It's like when you're aligned, and people always talk about synchronicity, it just lines up for you, and it did. I went online to discover the beginning of COVID. No one was going out, no one was going to balls, no one was going to proms, and a lot of these beautiful dresses had been left behind. I was picking up $1,200 dresses, brand new, with tax, for 25 bucks, and that's when I got addicted. I managed to pull together an amazing Hollywood wardrobe."

"As Joseph Campbell said, follow your bliss. I've adapted that and say, follow your blisters, because you really do have to apply yourself. You've got to be 100% on it. If you're not 100% on it, then you're opening the doorway for self-sabotage, self-doubt, disbelief. Believe and apply yourself, and it's like life, anything's possible. I'm doing now what I wish to do until I drop dead. There's no retirement plan or vision of that. This is what I want to do. If someone gave me 10 billion dollars, I would be buying a fairy tale castle and doing the same thing because I love it, because it is honoring all those gifts."

"It's been a long journey to get to this point of finally realizing that we're all here with unique gifts and talents. I've done everything I've done. I've made music, I've been a music producer, professional DJ, I've done many, many things, but I've honored all those aspects from the sound therapy to the color therapy, to the artistic expression, to the psychological aspects of people accepting themselves, to creating something that is a rather unique experience but very, very powerful. My purpose is to help people, especially women, tune in, find, and connect with their inner beauty and express it in the most beautiful and wondrous ways. How do I do it? Well, it's a process, a total process of using all my life experiences."

"Then a little spark within myself lit up, and then some crazy magic and synchronicities appeared on my journey, which led me to find a holistic healer who actually became a godsend for me because he became my guide and helped me wean myself off all the drugs and medication. It was a very long process because I was in such a crazy hell, it was insane. Blessing Ross really helped me. Then he took me to the Amazon. This was the early days of people working with plant spirit medicine. It wasn't only about working with ayahuasca. We actually worked with all the healing plants, especially in my case of healing. We prepared three months before I went to the Amazon. I was there for a month, and we were there for two weeks even before we were introduced to the individual parts of ayahuasca. Then we had 13 consecutive nights of ceremony, which blew my mind. That got me into holistic medicine, alternative medicine, shamanism, mysticism."

"I was eight months in a wheelchair with my leg elevated. I then had six corrective operations over an eight year period. The whole time I was on opiates, which sent me completely psychotic. Then I was sent to a psychiatrist who decided to give me other drugs, including Prozac, which completely fried my brain, and I was in a completely alternative reality to everybody, my wife, my family, my friends, completely out there in a hell which I had created for myself. Suicidal at that point, I burnt everything. I got rid of all my possessions. I didn't want any trace in the place. I burned all my photography. I burned all the music. I was a music producer. I burnt all my music and got rid of everything. I didn't commit suicide because I'm still sitting here talking to you. Then a little spark within myself lit up, and then some crazy magic and synchronicities appeared on my journey, which led me to find a holistic healer who actually became a godsend for me because he became my guide and helped me wean myself off all the drugs and medication."

"I met this wonderful woman called Laura Rose, and I applied for a grant. She was part of this grant, she was a mentor for me, and one day she asked me, would you like to make this into a nonprofit? Through Purpose Earth and through this organization that Laura Rose is part of, they supported us into becoming a nonprofit. The process was so easy."

"The first moment was in 2012. I had a dream, a literal dream. I was sleeping and woke up with the name She is the Universe in my head. I didn't know what to do with this. This was so strange for me, but I trusted it. I didn't know how to trust myself then, but I bought a domain name."

"What I decided was to bring those girls that I've met together and invite other girls around the world to come together, connect with each other. That evolved into a more complex nonprofit where we do educational programs for girls to learn how to connect with themselves, but also to learn about who they are. Our programs go from Who am I to Who am I in relationship to In relationship to my community and the world."

"For those that maybe they are curious about something, you can start there. Follow those curiosities, follow what you are interested in right now, and go try that, because that might lead you to the next thing, that will lead you to the next thing, that might lead you to your beautiful, beautiful purpose."

"I think the biggest challenge for me in living my purpose is that before I started doing this, I had an identity of who I was. I'm living a very unconventional life to be able to do what I do right now, and I think the hardest part is to know in your heart what's next, and to know yes, this is something I want to do, but even then I have doubts because I don't know the how. Right now I'm in this place, really into two worlds: the world of the person I was and the new world of the person I am becoming, this woman of being of service to the world and to girls. The other me is this person who graduated from art school, and I'm having a hard time marrying those two parts of me."

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"It wasn't until 2014, when my life fell apart. I got divorced, I quit my job, that year I moved from New York City, where I had been for many years, and basically, it changed my entire life. For me, it was a sequence. It was a series of moments. The first moment was in 2012. I had a dream, a literal dream. I was sleeping and woke up with the name She is the Universe in my head. I didn't know what to do with this. This was so strange for me, but I trusted it. I bought a domain name. I took action in the way that I knew how."

"I've been following that intuition and my heart because the heart knows. This is all a system of inner knowing that, if you learn how to listen to it, can be very powerful. This compass is our intuition, this part of us, especially for women, that tells us what is right for us. Every time I find myself at a crossroads, I keep asking myself, what do you want, heart? I touch my heart and ask, what do you want, what do you want, what do you want, and pause. Taking it slow and pausing when we're in the middle of trying to make a big decision is huge. My heart is pulling me in a different direction, and the people I keep meeting are asking me about this."

"I came in 2016 to bring friends who wanted to volunteer at an organization that works with girls. I was just there to translate, but I entered the space, and girls were running around, they were free, and they were laughing. I thought, wow, I can't believe that there is a place in the world, especially in my country, where girls can feel free. Of course, I didn't know what I was going to do with that, but I started crying. They were giving us a tour of the space, and I just couldn't stop crying, and I knew then that there was something there for me. For me, there are two main paths. One is through your joy, what makes you so happy. Another path for me to get into that purpose is to find what breaks your heart, what is it that when you see it, you feel like, ah, someone should do something about that, and then you do it. For me, it is to see women and girls who are amazing but cannot see their own brilliance, and that heartbreak led to this. So let the heartbreak, let it break, let it break."

What I've learned, if I cannot do something bigger, I can still do something small that is within my means, and support the people around me. That's what I learned from my life. If sometimes I dream to support a thousand people, and when I look at my means, I don't have that money, I don't have means to support a thousand people, then I always try my best to start with two people that I can afford. And from two people I go to three people. From three people I go to four people. That's how I do it. The advice that I can have, it's always good to find what you're good at. To the young people outside there, it's no good to minimize what's the small thing you can do. We don't need to wait until it's big. You have a lot to impact someone else's life. Use the small you have and make someone else happy.

Best Future Club was defined as the group of changemakers who are ready to change their communities through their actions. We could meet every Thursday and discuss different topics as changemakers, and then we could send different people into different communities in the refugee camp and support the different parents, children who don't have access to education. Of course, I was one of the, now in Nakivale, it's the only place where there is a Rotary Club in all the camps, refugee camps all over the world. It's only Nakivale that's where there is Rotary.

Despite the fact that I was helping the community in Uganda, or Nakivale, still I was not secure because Nakivale is a small place whereby when you help people, it's not like here when you do good people want to uplift you, people want to see you going to the next level. But there, when you are trying to do good things, there are those who will appreciate you and there are those who will try to deny your rights. There are those who will try to terminate you. So with all those, you saw how insecure I was and my family, and they decided to say, let's take this family to another place where they can be safe.

My grandfather was my real role model, may he rest in peace, because he always instructed me. He always wanted me to be a better person. He always believed in me. He always told me that wherever you will be, wherever you will go, you'll be constructing, you'll be building, you'll never be a destroyer. You'll be making people around you happy. That's what he used to tell me, and he was doing his best because he raised me. Beside him, I also had some leaders and Rotary who were believing in me. They were there for me. They saw something that was positive in me, and they could nurture me.

We've been able to be the first refugees all over the world to receive the Rotary International Global Grant. It's a grant which is more than 140,000, and it has never happened. We, as Best Future, we made it. It was more of helping education, helping children access education. We purchased desks, we installed tanks at the place so that the community can access water. Now more than 100 people get safe water from BFC every day. Every day, every time I remind myself that I'm not here in this world just for nothing. I'm here to support others. I was born, I always have a mission to accomplish, and that's providing education to young children, refugees, those who have no opportunities. My big vision is to have Best Future Center implemented in all the refugee camps in Africa, having refugees access education, children. I want to see the world of literate people.

When we arrived in Uganda, that was after completing my secondary school, I decided to join English classes. And after joining English classes, I knew I was not doing it just for myself. I was doing it for my family because I knew in Uganda, if you can't speak English, you are dying. I did English courses. After doing this process, I started home teaching. Home teaching was a program that I started in 2013. It was to support those families that do not have time to go to schools. Then in 2016, that's when we started Best Future Center. What I've learned, if I cannot do something bigger, I can still do something small that is within my means, and support the people around me. If sometimes I dream to support a thousand people, and when I look at my means, I don't have that money, then I always try my best to start with two people that I can afford. And from two people I go to three people. From three people I go to four people. That's how I do it.

From the time I was in my country, I had strong passion for education. I started preaching in the big church of more than 500 people when I was 11 years old. My grandpa was a very big pastor. He wanted me to be that. I was very close to him. Then he could give me a chance to preach as a child to very many people. He could just give me verses in the Bible and I could teach. Then that gave me a strong passion as a child to go to school. And I did teaching methodologies, pedagogy, at school back in my country. Then when I reached Uganda, I already had that passion because education is something I like most. Then when I reached Uganda, I found that people were willing to go to school, but all the schools were far from them. So that's when I said, why shouldn't I use my skills? Why shouldn't I use my passion for education to support these children?

It was in 1996, on January 1st. I left Congo because of insecurity. There was too much war there. In 2012, we decided to leave Congo, which was our country, and left everything there, house, everything. We went to Uganda as refugees, me together with my family. In Uganda, we were staying in Nakivale refugee settlement. In Uganda, it was terrible because when you leave everything in your country, everything, then you go to start a new life in a new area where you know nobody there. They could not give us anything. They could only give us a piece of land. And apart from a piece of land, the government of Uganda could give us a plastic sheet, and we have to construct a house with poles and plastic sheets by ourselves, and that was very difficult. You could find people go hungry. You had everything in your country. Just because of insecurity, you find yourself homeless. You have nothing at all. That part was very difficult, and it took us some time to regain hope.

I truly believe that our purpose is to take what we have learned through our lived experience, both good and bad, that translates into wisdom, so take that wisdom and use it to help other people. Every single one of us has a unique story. We see the world through a different lens, and we all have this incredible story that we can use to help other people so other people do not have to suffer like we did in order to get the benefit from the lessons that we learned. There is actually a scientific term for that. It is called vicarious post traumatic growth. It is a gift that we give one another, and I believe that is what our purpose is.

I did not want to join an existing movement. I was asked to, and it probably would have been an easier thing to do than creating my own, but I thought that did not work for my son and that has not worked for other kids. Our system is failing kids, so why do the same thing over and over expecting a different result. I am going to look to the root cause of the despair, of the pain and suffering that leads to not only the violence that murdered my son, but also substance abuse and mental illness and homelessness, all of these diseases of despair that actually can be reduced and prevented by the right kind of education early on.

The amazing thing about Choose Love is that it has spread by word of mouth and referral of our programming, and we are now in over 14,500 schools. We are being taught in every state in the United States, and in some states we are the number one taught essential life skills program, and then in 120 countries, which is really incredible. I truly believe that our purpose is to take what we have learned through our lived experience, both good and bad, that translates into wisdom, so take that wisdom and use it to help other people. I truly believe that is why we are here on Earth. Every single one of us has a unique story. We see the world through a different lens, and we all have this incredible story that we can use to help other people so other people do not have to suffer like we did in order to get the benefit from the lessons that we learned.

I believe that choosing love is inherent in our purpose. I believe that we either make decisions out of fear or out of love. What I have learned from my personal experience and being able to look back on my life from what I know now, I realize that almost every decision I ever made, and I am talking about bigger decisions like jobs, like relationships, were made out of fear, and after Jesse's murder I made a decision to make decisions out of love because those outcomes look vastly different. I truly believe that if we could learn to choose love as a thoughtful response, that is a direct path to finding meaning in our pain, as well as then launching us into purpose.

The formula starts with courage, and that is the courage to face whatever difficulty you are having in your life, to pause, to get curious, and ask how is this going to help me grow, what am I going to learn from this, how am I going to be strengthened by this situation. Of course, Jesse showed us a tremendous example of courage when he stood up to the shooter who had just murdered his principal and guidance counselor right outside of his classroom door and then turned to come into Jesse's classroom. He killed his teacher, who was standing right behind him, and then his gun ran out of bullets. During the short delay, Jesse directed his friends to run, and he is credited with saving many of their lives. So we talk about that courage, that example of courage, that is the capacity for courage that every single one of us has. He was a six year old little boy. Think about that. We all have that capacity, and that is the capacity to stand up and face difficulty, uncertainty, doubt, and feeling like we are not worthy.

I think one of the struggles that I faced in finding my purpose is that it came out of my son's murder, but I am so grateful for that silver lining, for that gift that I found there, and then come to find out that that is where purpose can come from, through pain, finding purpose in pain. Through my research on what happened to my son and how to prevent it proactively, I came across a term called post traumatic growth. This is a scientific term that describes how we are designed as human beings to grow through difficulty, roadblocks, and challenges in our life. That is how we are designed. So now the Choose Love movement is teaching kids, giving them that understanding that yes, you are going to feel pain, but it is there for a reason. It is to help you grow. That takes some of the fear away from the challenge in your life because our natural inclination is to resist and avoid pain. Finding my purpose in life, and that is a tremendous way to heal and to live.

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My purpose is to spread love, to teach people how to choose love as a thoughtful response in every situation, circumstance, and interaction. I came to my purpose through the murder of my six year old son, Jesse McCord Lewis. He was murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in his first grade classroom alongside 19 of his classmates and six educators, in what is still the worst mass shooting in US history in an elementary school. I came home from that day and found a message that Jesse had written on our kitchen chalkboard that he left for us. It was three words, nurturing, healing, love, written phonetically. He was just learning how to write in first grade. The message was incredibly clear to me that that was the solution to what had happened to him, and that if we could focus on love, that we could overcome the darkness. So I took that message and started spreading it in schools, homes, and communities around the country, around the US and the world.

"I loved Ken Wilber's thinking. I did my dissertation on him. I wound up really feeling like transpersonal psychology was real, and what was possible just went, my mind just really expanded. We have such a narrow vision of ourselves, and I think I certainly did, but to expand into a sense of our interconnection, our lack of separation, our transpersonal capacities, and how much we can really impact each other, how much we impact the world around us, I think we're only beginning to figure out how strongly true this is."

"When I'm in the flow, people begin to feel like they have more space to expand into the fullness. They have interconnections they didn't think they had. Synchronicities happen all the time, and it's so much fun. We just open to a heart space that is healing, beautiful. It's what I think most of us really want in relationship, and a sense of community arises. I love this process. I love talking about each other's passion. I love supporting each other's passion. I think it helps each of us in our own passion and finding what's right for us when we listen to others and talk about how their passion comes alive in them."

"The passion shows up in interesting ways, when it feels a need that you didn't even know you had, and all of a sudden you go, ah, you get lost in it. You lose track of time, you lose track of yourself, and just this joyfulness arises, an easy ease of focus. You wind up just doing research, and it's not hard, it's not like it's for a project for school. You just notice how your body feels, how relaxed, how in tune, how alive you feel. I think these are all just clues, and don't judge yourself too harshly. Just see what's arising, and it doesn't have to be hot, it can just be warm. Just follow the warmth."

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"I believe in synchronicity, so this is a story of synchronicity. I was living in England, in Wimbledon, and I was just starting my psychotherapeutic journey. I was late taking the tube up to Regent College. I showed up in my class, and everybody else had chosen the books to present. There were about 30 of us, and I got a book nobody else wanted to touch, which was Ken Wilber's Spectrum of Consciousness, and that changed my life. I loved this book. I loved Ken Wilber's thinking. I did my dissertation on him. I wound up really feeling like transpersonal psychology was real, and what was possible just went, my mind just really expanded. I got to tell him this story in person once, and it was just so fun that this found me. It was something that found me versus me finding it."

One of the things I love is when you can be in a place like a child, embracing your inner child, your inner innocence, with things that a child would do: play, curiosity, beginner's mind, writing with your left hand to awaken your little child and see what he wants. The answer lies within something that is deeply embedded in every human being, which is the desire to be connected, to be loved, to be seen, and to awaken that part of you that remembers when you were the happiest you ever were. That's always the rabbit hole to go down.

Then these young millennials came into my life, who were feeling, who saw that there was a limit to the linear mind. They were all these entrepreneurs that go to Tony Robbins events and everything, who were actually really coming up against brick walls, looking at their strategies, and they said, Gary, you've got tools to open up the soul and the heart, and that's what everyone needs and wants more than anything. I looked at them and went, are you kidding me? They've awakened my dream. That's when you remember that we are all imaginal cells in this great emergence of the butterfly of the universe, that we're all interconnected to.

When I found a piano at a friend's house at a play date at five years old, or it found me, I instantly could play harmony and melody without even knowing how. I really understood that I tapped into a way that music could awaken you to your heart and soul engagement in a way that was beyond anything you'd ever known. I have had the great honor and privilege of being a portal of musical experiences that has touched millions of people in really meaningful ways. That is the greatest gift of my life, seeing the impact it's had.

The advice I give is always start with asking the question, what makes your heart sing? What really delights you? What do you want, and often we've put a limit on what we believe we can have, what we want. When we talk about the Holomovement, it's realizing that joy is one of the most important practices. It's not only the most important result of aligning into the unity of experience, it's the most important strategy for coming into the unity of experience. It's both the Alpha and the Omega.

The Global Wisdom Foundation is a living library of awakening people to the revelation of spoken wisdom from the luminaries, known and unknown in our world, set to music or images in a way that in five, six, seven minutes drops people into a state of remembrance, into that state of wordlessness, into that state of awe that conveys wisdom in a way that changes their lives. The other component of it is offering a tour of musical celebration, where we celebrate our multiplicity and our diversity. I want to go around the world offering these concerts that demonstrate what I'm talking about, who we are, and what we're here for: celebration, joy, connection, gratitude, wisdom, song, spoken word, creativity. These are the things that are the lifeblood of what makes us human.

In the project that I've been devoted to since my first career, I was scoring TV, film, and commercials and was very successful. My second career was when I really understood that I tapped into a way that music could awaken you to your heart and soul engagement in a way that was beyond anything you'd ever known. I didn't realize how hard it would be in a culture so addicted to the linear mind. I gave up on my dream a few years ago, thinking this is not going to happen in my lifetime. Then these young millennials came into my life, who saw that there was a limit to the linear mind. They said, Gary, you've got tools to open up the soul and the heart, and that's what everyone needs and wants more than anything. I looked at them and went, are you kidding me? They're ready for this, and so they've awakened my dream.

My biggest challenge used to be, I was so good at having my heart open, and I lived my life with my heart on my sleeve in a culture where young boys and men don't do that. To be a young boy and a man with enormous access to flow, creativity, and its feminine side was a big challenge for me. The reason why I'm also really excited about this tour idea is that the thing that made me such an object of being bullied and made fun of as a child, where I was always wearing my art on my sleeve, for some crazy reason I could never be any other way. Now I'm in the latter part of my life, and it turns out that as much as people love my music, it's my transparency that people are so excited about. It gives people permission to just be themselves, because that's all it is about, being yourself. I dare to make mistakes like I make and to reveal them as the greatest gifts to my humanity, to look at my mistakes as evidence of my humanity and my perfect imperfection. After a lifetime of having phenomenal inner critic problems and being at the mercy of a very cruel voice that said I would never be enough in its eyes, I'm really happy to say that I'm at peace with self love, self acceptance in a way that even helps me be more powerful as an impact on people's lives.

Why I believe people are not connected to their purpose, not aware of their purpose, or not following their purpose is because we are living in a perfect storm in a culture that is afraid of, and doesn't mention, illness, dying, death, grief, and loss. It becomes this waxy buildup of unacknowledged and unaddressed grievances that becomes the most powerful stealer of people's brilliance and their awareness of their purpose. I actually created this four-step process that is phenomenally effective and actually awakens and unravels the grief that is tarnishing people's access to their purpose. I see it over and over again. When you help people unburden unaddressed grief, what happens immediately is they start to become sensitive to who they are, what matters most, what makes their heart sing, and what they most care about. Whether it's the beautiful awakening of children, supporting elders, or caring for the environment, people start waking up to, that's who I am. It was after their grief work that this awakened. I have to say, 95% of all violent acts and deeds come from unaddressed loss, and all the experts acknowledge this. I really do believe it could solve world peace, creating world peace one heart at a time.

When I found a piano at a friend's house at a play date at five years old, or it found me, I instantly could play harmony and melody without even knowing how. The mother came upon me as she was picking me up and didn't know what to make of it all. I remember that it was literally like coming up from under the water after holding your breath for five years. Suddenly the world as I knew it was like the moment in The Wizard of Oz when everything is black and white, you have the tornado, and she comes out of the broken-down house and opens up to the land of Oz with this beautiful color. For me, it was this moment of something that reflected a presence of innate knowing that life was about truth, beauty, and goodness. There was something in me that knew that life, like Rudolf Steiner says, is essentially about truth, beauty, and goodness.

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When I found a piano at a friend's house at a play date at five years old, or it found me, I instantly could play harmony and melody without even knowing how. The mother came upon me as she was picking me up and didn't know what to make of it all. I remember that it was literally like coming up from under the water after holding your breath for five years. Suddenly the world as I knew it was like the moment in The Wizard of Oz when everything is black and white, you have the tornado, and she comes out of the broken-down house and opens up to the land of Oz with this beautiful color. I believe that music, specifically designed music, music that is designed to expand the range of human emotion because music is the universal language of human emotion and it is based on vibrations that become sculpted into what I call Vibra Sual that awaken our expansiveness of human emotion. Music has a destiny to fulfill, to save us from the addiction to the linear mind, which offers the addiction of certainty, control, linearity, and speed, to something that insists on allowing the listening so we can become somatic experiments of beauty and be agents of contribution that will make this world a place that remembers that we are a miracle.

"Other things came from the universe and pulled me in a direction, and I went in that direction fortunately. If you go on your hunch, take your hunch, and if it's a pure feeling, try to move forward toward that hunch. Just experiment with that dynamic idea that came to you. Why not, right? I have a piece of art over there called, Why Not Jump Off the Cliff and Try It. I don't take credit for it myself, it came through me, and so this happened and I just kept going."

"I didn't quite know, but I know I had an inspiration that came over me in 1976 when I was sitting in my little silver Honda car. I thought, I think I'd like to be in glitter, no, in art and business, I'd like to meld those two because I was a financial rep at the time, but really my entire background was art. I'd been drawing, making things in all different medias since I was a little kid. In 1976, that's a long time ago, I had a friend who said, Barb, why don't you help me design this booth? That was just one thing, and then she got me a job with a graphic design studio in Detroit. It was just one thing happening and pulling me toward it."

"Then Desert Storm happened, and all the phones stopped ringing. Adversity, right? We got one phone call a month because everybody stopped buying. I moved it all back into my house from the 1,500-square-foot studio. I remember when my brother said, what are you doing out here in Arizona, in the middle of nowhere? Come home to Detroit, work on some big things. I said, this is my dream, this is my dream, I can't stop it. After I really made that commitment, that that was my dream within myself, then it started changing. Like I said, these outside influences come to you and pull you and fill a niche in the world."

I made up 21 card designs and took them around to alternative card stores in Detroit, which there were only about five, and they ordered them. That's how I started. I took out some paper and I had a pen, and I put my pen to the paper and I said, okay, where is this pen going? I just started doing and I tried not to think, and I also tried not to judge myself. If you want to be a runner but you just don't have the motivation, just get in your running clothes and step outside. Don't think about the rest of it, just move forward."

"My entire background was art. I'd been drawing, making things in all different medias since I was a little kid. I was a formally trained calligrapher. It's your creativity, it's God's creativity, it's coming through you as well. It's your inspiration, something inspiring you, and you're able to then inspire outward. I think that I have inspired people."

"I just kind of stepped out on a limb, dove off that cliff, and it worked out. That is part of love coming out of you too. It's your creativity, it's God's creativity, it's coming through you as well. It's your inspiration, something inspiring you, and you're able to then inspire outward."

"Alfred Topman in Detroit. He was a big magnate of shopping centers in the United States. I said to him, Alfred, what should I do? He said, honey, do what you love. What should I invest in? Invest in yourself. That was it. A friend of mine from when I was a financial rep funded my company for $20,000, and he kept the books for two years. D. Grunick, a very famous person in the rubber stamp industry, saw me at the New York State Show and said this would be fabulous for art rubber stamping."

"My mother was a florist and my father was a creative engineer in Detroit. I had glass glitter from her. She gave me her extra glass glitter from the 50s and 40s. I made my own Christmas cards every year in a different medium, so sometimes I watercolored them. One year I did them in glitter, chunky glitter from the dime store, and I sent out like 50 cards and got about 12 phone calls back about how much they liked them. It was just like immediate response."

"I was all about taking it from a craft product to an art-level product medium for people to use, and I think I have accomplished that. Glitter is dynamic, it does something inside of you that's just beautiful. I think it would be a really good product in the mental health industry because it makes you feel good with the world, with yourself, it inspires you. Plus, it was a very new medium, it was just amazing. We have done some amazing things. We did the Victoria's Secret runway show for about eight years. We decorated the White House Christmas tree with the children of Arizona."

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"It was my passion, my love for color, my love for beauty, that happens when that glitter is dynamic and just does something inside your brain. I think it's wonderful, makes you happy. I was all about taking it from a craft product to an art-level product medium for people to use, and I think I have accomplished that. A gentleman friend of mine, Alfred Topman in Detroit, I said to him, what should I do? He said, honey, do what you love. What should I invest in? He said, invest in yourself. That single statement was probably the most moving statement anybody had ever said to me: invest in yourself. Do what you love and invest in yourself."

"I made up 21 card designs and took them around to alternative card stores in Detroit, which there were only about five, and they ordered them. That's how I started. I took out some paper and I had a pen, and I put my pen to the paper and I said, okay, where is this pen going? I just started doing and I tried not to think, and I also tried not to judge myself. If you want to be a runner but you just don't have the motivation, just get in your running clothes and step outside. Don't think about the rest of it, just move forward."

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"It was my passion, my love for color, my love for beauty, that happens when that glitter is dynamic and just does something inside your brain. I think it's wonderful, makes you happy. I was all about taking it from a craft product to an art-level product medium for people to use, and I think I have accomplished that. A gentleman friend of mine, Alfred Topman in Detroit, I said to him, what should I do? He said, honey, do what you love. What should I invest in? He said, invest in yourself. That single statement was probably the most moving statement anybody had ever said to me: invest in yourself. Do what you love and invest in yourself."

"It was my passion, my love for color, my love for beauty, that happens when that glitter is dynamic and just does something inside your brain. I think it's wonderful, makes you happy. I was all about taking it from a craft product to an art-level product medium for people to use, and I think I have accomplished that. A gentleman friend of mine, Alfred Topman in Detroit, I said to him, what should I do? He said, honey, do what you love. What should I invest in? He said, invest in yourself. That single statement was probably the most moving statement anybody had ever said to me: invest in yourself. Do what you love and invest in yourself."

I would say, simply ask. If we are looking for the opportunity to find our purpose, I would say simply ask, to really ask, to have that be something that is of interest to you, because I believe that our purposes find us. Instead of us going to look for a purpose, if we just ask, you know, I am here in service. I would like to be all that I came here to be. Put that out there over and over again, and I am sure that it will come back.

It took a year to have the light body completely reintegrate with the physical body, to the point where he was now able to be, I would say, functionally communicative. So yeah, it took that long, and during that year-long process, what was also happening was that there were all kinds of skill sets that I did not even know I had, or I had forgotten that I had, that came rushing back to the surface.

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Riley, the very first child that woke me up when he was four, is now twenty seven or twenty eight years old, maybe a little bit older than that. He is still verbally communicating. He kind of set the energy, he set the stage for all of this, and Jackson is, you might say, landing all of that energy and bringing it into the forefront so that anybody who wants it can benefit from it. In 2013, I was working with Professor William Tiller. He was a Stanford emeritus professor who had left Stanford to start looking into intention. He created something called the intention host device, where we could broadcast intention to autistic families around the world. We ran a scientific experiment where we broadcast this intention to these families. That experiment lasted three years. We did three different groups of children, and it was robustly successful, as Bill Tiller would say.

The biggest challenge to living my purpose was allowing myself to believe it wholeheartedly so that it could stand up against what other people might shoot down. It is one thing to have these experiences with these kids, to hear telepathically and see multidimensionally. It is another thing to put that information out into the world and have naysayers suggest that it could not quite be possible, when in your heart of hearts you know that it is.

From my vantage point, autism is a mismatch between the soul's vibrational expression and our human experience. The soul's vibrational expression for many of these kids is vast. I see them as the new human, or a new species, like a new iteration, part of our human evolution. What I have learned directly from the kids on the spectrum, they have collectively come here to help evolve human consciousness. The capacities that they have, as far as that, you might say, are associated with oneness or unity, they already have that. That is already their template. Every single human being on this planet comes in with whatever energetic template they come in as. They are all here to support the collective unification of humanity. As that energy rises, as that template of unity consciousness rises, what we notice is that we begin to lose those parts of ourselves that have created separation or divisiveness. We are at a time in human history, right here, right now, where those higher states of consciousness that these kids have been bringing can now land and manifest in this world at this time.

This child was nonverbal, unable to communicate, but he was nonverbal in the 3D physical world. When he grabbed my hand, my consciousness left my body, and the next thing I knew, we were in a completely different environment. He was opening a door, and as he opened the door, he said verbally, completely clear, welcome to my art studio. We were inside this art studio, and he was telling me verbally why he loves art in the 3D world, why he loves making art, and why he has his mother send different pieces of art to different people in his family. I was in this space with him where he was verbally communicating, and all of a sudden he said, my mom wants you. He started releasing tension on my hand, my consciousness went back into my body, and I turned my head slowly. His mom was still sitting next to me on the bench, and she said, what is wrong with you, you have been staring straight ahead for the last five minutes, what is going on. I went back and spent time with Jackson until he was done explaining to me some of the things that he wanted me to know, that he wanted his mother to know, and that he wanted me to share with others. Then he released my hand, my consciousness came back into my body, and he went back to being nonverbal. As of January 2024, he, for whatever reason, decided at that time that he could now verbally communicate in my field. His mother picked him up from his day program one day, and he verbally said, Susie. We have been spending every Monday, the last probably four Mondays now, maybe five Mondays, and he is verbally communicating.

There were all kinds of skill sets that I did not even know I had, or I had forgotten that I had, that came rushing back to the surface. Telepathy was one of those. I was also learning how to use multidimensional healing techniques that were innate to me, but I did not know they were innate until this little four year old boy put the key in and turned it. When he turned that key and opened me up, there was no doubt in my mind that this was my purpose. I think it has had a tremendous effect on those I have worked with. Those I have worked with have benefited greatly from me stepping into that purpose and not shutting it down, and they have benefited because they understand now more of who they are. I think anybody that starts living their purpose understands more of who they are, so they can then pass that along to somebody else.

It took a year to have the light body completely reintegrate with the physical body, to the point where he was now able to be, I would say, functionally communicative. So yeah, it took that long, and during that year-long process, what was also happening was that there were all kinds of skill sets that I did not even know I had, or I had forgotten that I had, that came rushing back to the surface. Telepathy was one of those. I was also learning how to use multidimensional healing techniques that were innate to me, but I did not know they were innate until this little four year old boy put the key in and turned it. When he turned that key and opened me up, there was no doubt in my mind that this was my purpose. I had the idea that I was going down one particular pathway, and I thought I was going to be a really wonderful speech language pathologist for the rest of my life. Then it was like taking a hard right and saying, no, this is what you are going to be doing instead.

"When you're doing what you feel is your purpose, what you feel like you were kept here to do, it becomes effortless. The questions start being removed from the whole thing, and you're just floating along, following the tendrils of the way that you're being brought through it. It really becomes easier when the doubt starts to be removed. You could just sit back and say, isn't this nice?"

"If I had to give any advice about what this process has taught me, the commonality between any person who has found their purpose is that they just start. So many of the projects I've worked on here are not the project I started. I learned how the project needed to look, feel, or translate based on the process of starting, creating an iteration, looking at that iteration, and being like, oh, that gives me this idea I never had before. Get your damn hands dirty. That's how you do dishes, get your hands wet."

"I think people can just start to live who they want to be, and a lot of that takes a lot of fearlessness and just committing to it. I'm never sure we're going to pay the rent. I know if that time is coming soon, but I'll get to the end of a month and just be like, we don't have rent, but it'll come. I never feel the anxiety. Tomorrow isn't promised, and you have to live with that as a mantra. What's the worst that can happen? I still have the same level of health. I'd still have the same friends, my family would still be there. All the things that matter would still be there. Failure is awesome. Every time we fail, we build ourselves into the person we're supposed to be."

"When you get creative people together in a space, when you have the right elements together, the sum is greater than its parts, and everybody's vibing off of each other. The expression of wonder that I was witnessing in myself and others then became something almost more beautiful than the art itself. To be able to facilitate that in other people became highly rewarding in a different way. It's like improv, the whole yes, and thing. If you're not caught up in your ego, this exponential growth of that creative spirit and force. That's where the muse comes from, and that's where we're unlocking parts of ourselves."

"I think that I've discovered that my purpose in this lifetime is wonder. The moment that it hit me that that was my purpose was when I finally found myself in the midst of this art studio that I created, and all of a sudden I was like, oh, I'm living my purpose. But it wasn't something that I knew that I was going to be pursuing prior to that. It's one of those moments where you're like, oh, here I am doing something that I love, and I'm happy, and I just want to keep doing it. I was telling my friend Adam, this is one of the times, I wouldn't say the first time in my life that I felt this, but it is the first time that I felt this so strongly, that I pray to God that I can stick around to keep doing it like that. I've never wanted to be alive more in order to continue to experience this and witness all of this."

It makes me very sad remembering when they had trapped in a zoo that I loved made me very sad when I saw that lion that was literally looking for a way out, crying. Its eyes were always teary because it was trapped there, and it made me very sad when I saw it there locked up. It occurred to me too, when they took it out, that was my wish for my birthday, that they would set them free. Super happy, finally here in Argentina, they released the animals in the zoo to return them to their families. I think that when they banned zoos, they thought of something like how would you feel if they caught you, left you in a place, fed you noodles with flour or something you didn't like, and separated you from your family, the ones you loved a lot. That is hoIt makes me very sad remembering when they had trapped in a zoo that I loved made me very sad when I saw that lion that was literally looking for a way out, crying. Its eyes were always teary because it was trapped there, and it made me very sad when I saw it there locked up. It occurred to me too, when they took it out, that was my wish for my birthday, that they would set them free. Super happy, finally here in Argentina, they released the animals in the zoo to return them to their families. I think that when they banned zoos, they thought of something like how would you feel if they caught you, left you in a place, fed you noodles with flour or something you didn't like, and separated you from your family, the ones you loved a lot. That is how those animals felt. w those animals felt.

When I grow up, I would like to work at CERN, which is where the LHC is, the largest particle accelerator in the world. I would also like to play the trombone. I would love to also play in an orchestra. There are people who maybe think, I can't talk to this person because surely they won't like what they might say, and this has happened with Jano. But when he saw me and I found out that he knew so much, I knew that there are many trustworthy people who are very interested in the wisdom he knows. When he saw me and I started asking him things, I found out he knew a ton. I wondered, what is he going to do with this gift.

It is like a world full of adventures with Jano. More or less, it is like being inside of Minecraft or Nintendo or any game. There is always an adventure. It seems like an adventure, but instead of a real life adventure, it is an adventure of knowledge. Real life is an adventure of knowledge. Knowledge is real life for me, and knowledge for me is one of the things I value most in people, besides their loyalty. When he saw me and I started asking him things, I found out he knew a ton. I wondered, what is he going to do with this gift. I remember that day when on the bus they told me another kid was going to come named Mateo, and I was like wow, I was so excited that we were going together.

For example, I can play the electric guitar, I can play the trombone - the trombone, honestly, I'm just learning to play, it's been about a month - and then the clarinet, which I have been playing for two and a half years. There's a lot of mathematics in music, and for example, waves and harmonics. For example, take the resonance wave of a particular object. A resonance wave, very briefly, is a vibration. It is a vibration that a certain object produces. It takes advantage of the space it has to vibrate, and that is what makes it vibrate. Say, for example, sometimes when you're playing, it happens to me. I play the clarinet, and then things in my room start to vibrate. For example, my flamenco guitar starts vibrating like that because of the waves of resonance. In fact, I'm making a periodic table, but it has instruments. There are so many instruments in the world. It's crazy, but it's a big project, and I really like it. So for me, music, I love it.

But the truth is, I am passionate about those two things: music, which I am extremely passionate about, and also quantum physics. A film is something that I really enjoy. I also enjoy music, learning beautiful melodies. I also like art, where I can let my imagination out. I can even put whatever comes to mind on paper, and this is something that I can't do on a screen or anything. I love basketball because it's a very beautiful sport, and when I do it, I can practice my jumps. It's something that I like because I like to be free running, and this is what I love.

I'm passionate about, honestly, a lot of things. For example, I'm very passionate about quantum physics, which is basically the science that talks about the smallest things, things at the atomic and subatomic levels. I'm also very passionate about music. Really, my passion is the art of cinema. Also, being a YouTuber interests me a lot because, besides video games, I really enjoy making anything related to recording, making videos, shorts, editing, uploading to YouTube. When one feels signs of having found something they really like, something they are passionate about, something that makes them feel like they are in another universe, something they enjoy talking about. For example, quantum physics. The problem is that it is very difficult to find someone to talk to. It's a subject that is super eccentric, but when you found me, I became very interested in quantum physics.

Through life I redefined my purpose a number of times. Development is not just starting at point A and going to point B in a straight line. A lot of times it is ups and downs, and that's what I experienced. By example, I teach people to be at ease, trust life will take care of us. It's okay to make mistakes, it's okay to get lost, because it's exactly that which redefines us, that can be a pivoting point for us."

"Some examples are tapping very deep into their inner child, things they knew they needed to work on, they tried, but it's something they never wanted to do, they escaped. When I brought it up, I've seen a couple of examples recently where they transform, they become different people. They feel like, oh yeah, now I can start my business, doors are open for me, and I love it."

"Being in a meditative state, calming my mind down, and asking this question even during the day, I do get answers. Everybody can do that. There are different techniques to do that, and we all have access. It's like a muscle, you need to practice, you need to tap into that."

"Everything you possess, this knowledge, somehow our upbringing, our society, our family reshapes us. It doesn't let us be exactly who we are, but if you can tap into that, realize your potential, you can achieve so much more. The key to that is very simple: be true to yourself. You possess knowledge of who you are. If you tap deeply into yourself, you'll understand who you are. If you trust yourself, this knowledge will be available for you, you can use it all the time."

"At the age of 16, I had to provide for myself, live in a different place, and then that city became a different country. My travels are actually my teachers. Here I am with a message, whatever happens in life, good or bad, it's all needed, it's all important, it shapes us, it helps us to determine who we are."

"When we get crisis in life, we don't like them, it's painful, it hurts, but that's exactly when we grow, it's absolutely needed. Certainly it took time to realize that when it hurts, we don't understand much, all we do is survive. I have to witness, I am a very different person from who I was, and I'm looking forward to that. I like it, I actually love my challenges. Not that I love pain, but I know it's a very important process in life."

"There are different techniques. For me, for instance, it works in dreams. I ask before I go to bed. I go to bed with big questions that are snagging me, and I keep asking, I walk around them in my thoughts, why this happened, I need an answer, please, I need the answer. It has happened to me that I get the answer in the morning, and it is so clear. I cannot say it happens every time, but it depends on how much you need it, how ready you are for that answer. It's always in you."

"Astrology, I love doing it simply because it's very detailed, and I've witnessed so many charts and people's lives that it correlates so well with what they experience and what I see in the chart. Going back to the astrological chart, I love actually seeing a confirmation there. I can see the planet positions, aspects, angles, and all these little things that we can see as astrologers. Sometimes a person might be lost, might be doing something that's not related to their life. Showing the past can help. Sometimes people are well advanced and know what they're doing in life. They are doing so well that all they need is just confirmation."

"I became a Vedic astrologer to help people, and I love doing it. I created this website, Knowledge in You, with the idea that all knowledge is actually hidden in you. When I can see transformation in people, changing, navigating their life, showing them potentials, especially when they have challenging moments in life, it just transforms me, it enlightens me, it makes me much bigger. I think it's very important for me to help others to see that there is a path. I feel like I'm part of a big transformation for people, and this is what keeps me going."

"In my difficult times, back in my childhood, I had hard times when I had to become independent really quickly. At the age of 16, I had to provide for myself, live in a different place, and then that city became a different country. It was challenging, and with that, I had to discover myself. I didn't know who I was, so it was an interesting journey. It was very challenging but interesting, and only later I could conclude this was a great, great time for me, so my travels are actually my teachers. Whatever happens in life, good or bad, it's all needed, it's all important, it shapes us, it helps us to determine who we are."

"She was a big, important point in my life, I have to admit. When I started doing astrology, I realized I wanted to be a person like she is. I want to be someone who can transform people, who can give them hope and new meaning, because everything is there in life. You can achieve everything in life. This is what I want to be for others. I want to be the pivoting point to help navigate that life can be different and dramatically beautiful. It's all there for us, we just need to allow ourselves to love and be available for this beautiful change."

Deep within every individual lies an intrinsic understanding of their life’s path, purpose, and true essence. Some have already accessed this well of wisdom, seeking only affirmation of what they intuitively know. Others are still navigating the uncertainties of life, yearning for guidance and clarity. It is often during moments of upheaval or transition that we find ourselves questioning which direction to take. Do you question your path?

"I was at a point in my life very desperate. I really had no place to live, finally found and rented an apartment, had to work many hours, 11 hours every day, and was exhausted. There was almost no meaning for me in life. I was so tired, and then I had to part with my beloved boyfriend. I remember the day so well. I was in the subway and just couldn't hold my tears, even in public. When I got out of the subway, I remember meeting this lady. She had a sign, tarot reading, I can read your palm. I was so desperate. I said, what's the big deal, I'm going to stop by, I really need help. I started talking to her. She looked at my palm, and what she told me, I could not believe. It transformed me into a completely new person. She told me my life was going to change dramatically, and what I had to suffer right now was nonsense. Don't worry. This transformation helped me enormously, because this was the pivoting point for me. I went home and felt so light, so great, that I really believed everything she said. Partly because she was able to tell me my past with such a degree of accuracy, it was mindblowing."

ri Aurobindo (1872-1950) was a modern Indian yogi who founded the form of yoga known as Integral Yoga, a theory and practice of consciousness (yoga darshana) aiming at the evolution of humans into a race of cosmic and transcendental beings, who he termed “supramental beings.” Apart from his own practice, he (writing in English) is today recognized as one of the early contributors to the modern academic fields of consciousness studies and transpersonal psychology. In these fields, he is known for introducing neologisms such as psychic being, overmind, and supermind.

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My teacher at that time, Alberto Villoldo, asked this question, which made me really begin to realize perhaps the magnitude of living this purpose and bringing it alive. And the question was, how do you get out of this lifetime alive? In other words, how do you transcend the world in which you are living now consciously in the present moment, not when you die. I'm a great friend of Sri Aurobindo, and this was the whole idea of his message, this great mystic man, this holy man. It is the descension of the divine, the involution of the divine nature of who we are in evolution.

I began the quest, so to speak, the seeking part of the journey of my life experience, asking, there must be more. What is my purpose? Why am I even here? These kinds of questions. The discovery of my purpose was, well, quite a journey, to be quite frank with you. Kind of like moving through the depths of hell in some ways, moving to the exhilaration of just looking out over a beautiful mountain landscape.

This evolutionary miracle shifts our own personal perceptual paradigm. It offers something that is quite remarkable, a synchronization. Now we're synchronized with the light field, and in the synchronization we're synchronizing with others. We're meeting the people that we're meant to meet. We're meeting the information that's meant to be received. We're receiving in real time. That journey, the great challenge of coming into purpose, the challenges are far outweighed by the receptivity of what the universe offers in terms of the manifestation of the life that your soul is meant to live. It's virtually instantaneous when you're really synchronizing and you're really in the presence of that.

I live here in a garden. I'm just blessed to live in this very natural world, this very organic place, and in the fertility of this garden. I just invite everyone to recognize that they are the garden too. In this moment in time, although many of us feel that we've created a lot of toxicity in our garden, be it the news that we consume, the relationships that we're in, or the food we have, all this kind of junction and toxicity, the invitation now is to move into the recultivating of your garden, to regenerating your garden. On the most practical and pragmatic approach, the conditions are available to you right here, right now.

There was great fear at times. Some of my colleagues in my business and real estate referred to me by saying, well, what happened to you, you are one of those now, Adam. There was the breakdown in my own family unit, my belief systems, to adopting myself into the human family as being part of that and not being separate from that. So it was quite a journey. And of course, I am still living in it. And the more I am in it, the more I recognize that I really do not know much at all.

There was great fear at times. Some of my colleagues in my business and real estate referred to me by saying, well, what happened to you, you are one of those now, Adam. There was the breakdown in my own family unit, my belief systems, to adopting myself into the human family as being part of that and not being separate from that. So it was quite a journey. And of course, I am still living in it. And the more I am in it, the more I recognize that I really do not know much at all.

Ultimately the journey to purpose, in my personal life, came about really through a lot of trial and error, a lot of success and failure, both in my business life and my personal life, and ultimately a determination of discovering this greater potential that all of us have, but that would be our consciousness, our spiritual potential. It wasn't so much about you being a businessman, or being a father, or playing a role in the outer world. It was that my journey was to discover the authentic, true Adam, and that has been the journey to my true purpose. The journey to purpose, the journey to your greater work in the world, what I found came through returning to what is also referred to as the meeting place, coming back to the place within our heart and our mind, a connection as one that says, I'm going to choose again, I'm going to choose love, I'm going to choose the experience of my truth of who I am and my essence and in my Oneness, in my unity with all.

Really the training around shamanism and the discovering, exploration about all the things that shamanism is and is not, and how it incorporates everything in our lives, from our social and familial imprinting to our connection to the quantum field, to our oneness with Pachamama, it was very fascinating when my teacher at that time, Alberto Villoldo, asked this question, which made me really begin to realize perhaps the magnitude of living this purpose and bringing it alive. And the question was, how do you get out of this lifetime alive? In other words, how do you transcend the world in which you are living now consciously in the present moment, not when you die. The greatest challenge was ultimately recognizing that this shift of perception away from the world as I knew it, the dualistic, separate nature of what we all live in, in the 3D reality, to let that peace unfold, let it go, to allow the neurology, the wiring, the hard wiring, the reptilian brain of fight or flight, to be in the journey of seeing how that organically found its own way.

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This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite. This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way: Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God

I became a deep student of A Course in Miracles, and A Course in Miracles asked this very question, and the answer came that the purpose is the same for all of us. Listen up for a second, this is interesting. It's the same for all of us, which makes it really simple, and that purpose is to return and to remember your authentic, true, soulful self. And it wasn't so much about you being a businessman, or being a father, or playing a role in the outer world. It was that my journey was to discover the authentic, true Adam, and that has been the journey to my true purpose. I've always been very fascinated with my learning as a student, and I teach A Course in Miracles as a very core part of my work along with shamanism. The beauty of that body of work is that it synthesizes these places of choice. It's that we all share three things in common. One is we all exist in duality. The other piece of this is that we all love, we're all one, and the other piece of the choice is we can choose between one or the other.

That came in 2006 when I was vision questing in the holy mountains of Peru, the Indian holy mountains. We were trekking with a group at the time, exploring what is known as the Rainbow Lagoon. This was a very sacred and holy place for the shamanic lineage that I am associated with, my shamanic family, so to speak. We were receiving rites of passage, these initiatory rites, these rights to really move deeper into our purpose, to claim our authenticity, to activate within our own DNA the journey that we are to take, although unknown, but it was the journey to take. I was trekking at about 14,500 ft, and we did a ceremony that was specifically dedicated to the rite of the Earthkeeper. The rite of the Earthkeeper was a rite that initiated the initiate into this deeper place of service. The key there was that I heard my calling of service, and the calling of my service was relational to the rite of the earthkeeper and the initiation to tend to, from the little pebble of sand to all human beings, to all life in whatever form it may be, to tend to the well being of Earth and to tend to the well being, of course, of my own personal Earth and journey. But ultimately, that was the moment that said yes, this is my authentic purpose, this is my truest self. And it was quite a moment because it came on the heels of what would almost be the antithesis of where I had been living my life. I will never forget my literary agent said, Adam, you were the Earth conqueror and now you are the Earth keeper.

"It's always that chase. It's always like, hey, maybe this isn't right. I have to go find and work for somebody that does understand what is right and wrong. Because there are a lot of people that do this for a living, and not all of them are able to do it at that level. I think it's just finding those people to work with and work for, which we did a good job. We moved around a lot trying to chase that."

"Like every other decision I make, I try to take a really large swatch of things. I try a bunch of stuff until I find the one thing I really like. In my heart, I know I really like cooking, so that's what I decided to chase and go after. Once I went after it, I think it's more important to find other people who are like-minded and can push you in the right direction."

"All the most fun times of the year were the Italian family gatherings centered around food. My father in the parish men's club, my grandma cooking. Spaghetti dinner, and I think that all of those large moments where everybody was together, it was always a very holiday-esque type thing, and it was always centered around food. I had a really natural connection to food from childhood that became the foundation for everything."

"We are big on mentorship, we're big on having a learning environment. We moved here with six employees from our previous job, and the majority of them were apprentices, people that were in an apprenticeship program I was overseeing. Trying to continue that and keep that momentum rolling, where we continuously create an environment where people can learn and be pushed into situations where they're a little uncomfortable and out of their comfort zone, is important. That way, they're growing constantly. We just sent one of our sous chefs to his first ever ACF competition, and he placed bronze in his first go out of about 12 people. Little moments like that show that something is working."

"We are big on mentorship, we're big on having a learning environment. I think it's really hard to find those learning environments. We're trying our best to create the best example of internal promotion and making sure people are constantly learning. It's more important to find other people who are like-minded and can push you in the right direction. For me, true north is based on people who are doing all the things I place importance on, like taking care of the people around them and making sure the culture is evolving."

"My family is primarily Italian, and we grew up with Grandma and Dad cooking in the house a lot. My father was also involved in the parish men's club, and there was a small community of other Italians who did the crab feast and other events. A lot of people didn't cook for a living. My dad didn't cook for a living, but when it came to cooking, they all decided they were going to do this for about a week straight leading up to an event. A lot of guys who had no business being in the kitchen did this twice or three times a year to raise money for the church. It was more or less that group of people, the gathering, and everything centered around food."

"When I think back, all the most fun times of the year and the times I looked forward to were the same excitement that surrounded Christmas or any other holiday. It was more those times of the year that seemed the most exciting. My dad cooked a lot at home, my grandma cooked a lot at home, so it was a really natural thing when I thought, oh man, I have to figure out what I'm going to do. I could go work on cars because I really liked automotive stuff, or I could go cook, and I decided to go cook. The passion hasn't dimmed at all. In fact, it's getting better and more powerful with me."

"My grandmother was very intentional about making sure I was confident about who I was. I've always been a stout woman, short and heavy-set, and I'm okay with that. Sometimes when we don't fit the mold of how society sees us, it can change how we see ourselves. My grandmother made sure that did not happen."

"My grandmother was very intentional about making sure I was confident about who I was. We have to start young. This is something we have to teach, something we need to embed in our children at a very young age. Children explore, and they are born with the belief that they can do anything. But we put restrictions, set boundaries, and then they start to think maybe they can't. I need you to come forward again. I need you to come with the mindset of a child. I need you to explore."

"You have to just take one step forward. That is the hardest part. When an individual hasn't begun that journey of finding their purpose and passion, they are too scared to take that first step. That first step is simple. I am going to believe in me. I am rooting for me every day, every single day I am rooting for me. I wake up every day and think about what it is that I want to do, what helps with what I am doing, and how to move forward."

"How well do you know yourself. That starts with our emotional track. What makes you happy, what makes you sad, what triggers you, what brings you joy, what motivates you. I start asking those types of questions. A lot of times, people stumble and have to stop and really think. If I ask a very similar question to someone that they are around all the time, they can answer without hesitation. If I ask a wife, what brings your husband joy, she can answer. I really want you to start looking in the mirror, not looking to hope to see something, but to see what you see and be okay with that."

"I had a five-year-old. I was a single parent, and it was at that moment I had to decide, do I go after my dreams, or do I continue to just hold a job and take care of my child. Every day I kept thinking, if I don't take this opportunity, will it ever come around again? I tapped into my village, my support system. I asked my family, my mother, and my great-grandmother at that time, are you all willing to assist me by helping to see after my daughter while I go away for four months on tour in Europe? It went well, and I never looked back. I have been touring my daughter's entire life. My daughter just turned thirty-three."

"The more I got to know Marty, the more Marty was getting to know others, and others were beginning to accept me because I am authentically myself. I am unapologetically myself. You get to decide, Marty is my cup of tea. But it's okay because I am going to be Marty no matter what you decide. I really want you to start looking in the mirror with intention, not looking to hope to see something, but looking to see what you actually see and being okay with that. If it is something you see that you are not okay with, start working on those changes. I cannot change anyone else, I can only change myself."

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"I created this method, and I used the arts to do it. Broken people can't hold all these pieces together and move forward. You've got to stop and mend those broken pieces so you can be whole to have purpose. I would say we need to help people heal so that they can move forward. Honestly, the answer is you have to become whole. If you really want to walk in purpose, you have to be whole. That was me. I looked like a wall of broken, shattered pieces until I became whole. Once I became whole, I could do anything. That's when I believed in Marty, probably because I saw the rest of her. At first, I was just seeing myself."

"I watched my father abuse my mother. That was not love, it was abuse. Seeing that abuse had an effect on me because trauma is transferable. My father was transferring trauma, and I could feel it. There was not a good match there, so I was showing up sometimes not at my best, reacting to the energy and trauma around me. When things happened, I reacted, and my response was fight, flight, or freeze. I was a fighter. But that is not who I am at my core. I am a person of love. So when I would react that way, versus responded, my reaction caused a lot of chaos from the inside. That's why I said this self-work is important. It's that reflection of knowing who you are. My circumstances put me in fight mode, but at my core, who I am is love. I needed to work on me."

"I started singing at the age of twelve, when I discovered that I had a voice and could sing. I realized it was something that made me feel good. When you sing, you are releasing, and someone else is hearing, so they are receiving. When you can see that they are starting to feel what you are feeling as you release it, I said, this is medicine. Through that medicine, it allowed me to have that exchange with others. I realized that in some of my darkest times and in some of my biggest celebrations, there was music. When I understood the power of the voice from singing and speaking, doing theater, being able to express outside of the framework of how you live or who you are, it afforded me an opportunity to heal. I said, well, if I could bottle this up and teach others some of these simple tools and techniques."

I had really self-destructive thoughts for most of my childhood and adolescence, paralyzing thoughts like, who am I to do this? I had real impostor syndrome. I had to get that cracked open through a project. I did a film, and I was literally shaking the night it came out because I had never put myself out there like that. Thankfully, it was received really well, and I had this moment of going, I know people like what I make. Get out of your own way.

I think when you're focusing on things that are bigger than any of us, that provides a shield. It's not about me, so my ego gets out of the way. There's a bigger story to tell, and you just let it come through you, let it out, and just keep going.

Finding your purpose is deeply subjective. There's no formula. It's about surrendering, opening yourself up, and letting go. If you're striving too hard, it's not there. The magic starts when you surrender and trust the process. We're scared of letting go because society teaches control and certainty, but the magic lies in staying open, seeing who you meet, and what comes in. Extraordinary moments happen when you trust the process. It's different for everyone, but it's about letting go.

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For a long time, I thought I wanted to be an actor. I had done acting things, and every now and again I'd get a job that was really satisfying, but they were rare. I got to a point where I thought, why am I telling other people's stories? I have things to say. Why aren't I saying them? I saw how powerful films could be in creating change or altering a mood in a cinema, so I decided to make a film. I saw the benefits of that film and how it started to change people's lives. That forever changed me because I saw it as an incredible agent for change, a tool to make a profound impact in the world. I never looked back, knowing this is what I'm going to do for the rest of my life because I found something I like doing and am good at, and I feel very grateful for that.

To give context in terms of obstacles, I think finding purpose was about getting out of my own way. I had really self-destructive thoughts for most of my childhood and adolescence, paralyzing thoughts like, who am I to do this? I had real impostor syndrome. I had to get that cracked open through a project. I did a film, and I was literally shaking the night it came out because I had never put myself out there like that. Thankfully, it was received really well, and I had this moment of going, I know people like what I make. Get out of your own way. I sat up at 2 in the morning and I wrote myself a letter as though I was 85, and it made me think about whether I was brave enough to tell the stories I wanted. Did I actually keep hiding behind my own insecurities and my thoughts, or did I seize this beautiful, precious life that we get in all the space and time? Come on, get over yourself, say what you want to say. That stayed with me, and I'm still doing that, still battling that sometimes.

I remember being quite sick and in a hospital bed, sharing a room with three men in their 80s. One night I couldn't sleep, and I sat up at 2 in the morning and wrote myself a letter as though I was 85. It made me think, was I brave enough to tell the stories I wanted? Was I hiding behind my insecurities, or was I seizing this precious life? Come on, get over yourself, say what you want to say. That stayed with me, and I'm still doing that, still battling that sometimes.

"Living into that, feeling into that, and celebrating that, it should be fun, it should be something we enjoy. So find, follow your bliss, find your yes, resonate, connect with your community, bring it forth, and go big. Dream big, think big, the planet needs it right now. It needs you right now to be the biggest, most extraordinary version of who you are."

"My purpose is working in multidimensional ways to bring that into being on Earth, like all of us who are here now, deeply called, in a way born into this moment. I'm here, use me. I don't know how it's going to work out, I can't see all of the solutions, but you can. So I'm here, and I say yes. It's time to say yes, it's time to surrender, it's time to say yes, I am here, show me the way, I'm on board, let's go."

"Human selves are always two steps forward, one step sideways, one step backward, up and down and around, but that whole process, when you're in it, can be incredibly confrontational: the call, the fall, the rise, the grace. When you're in the middle of it, it can be incredibly lonely and incredibly challenging at the deepest soul level. I've experienced that in different ways, and yet when you zoom out and look at it at a larger picture, you can just see grace, beauty, and destiny. That's all you see on the other side of the tapestry. It's messy with all the strings, but you turn it around and you see this extraordinary, beautiful picture."

"The challenge is just to start, to take that first step. There is value in not knowing how it goes. There is value in not understanding exactly where it's going to lead. The way that the evolutionary, purposeful universe works is it loves mystery and not knowing. So just leave the house, get in the car, and drive. You never know where you're going to end up, but you've got to get out of your comfort zone. You've got to get out of that safe place where you feel you're in control, because you're not, and that's not taking you where you need to go."

"Traveling to Tibet when I was also 12, with my father, my mother, and my sister, and spending three months there with the Chinese and Tibetan cultures, absolutely expanded my suburban consciousness at that time. It just got me so excited about the beauty of the complete wonderments of our diversity and the unity, which transcends and holds it all. To me it was seen through all the diversity of human cultures, the revelatory seeds that have been planted in indigenous spiritual traditions, in the Eastern spiritual traditions, in the Abrahamic revelations, parts of the divine complete wholeness that have been placed in these different traditions."

"What makes your hair stand on your arm, what makes you shiver, what makes you weep? There is your purpose. There it is, in finding what really makes our heart expand, tremble, and break. Purpose is when we're secure and safe, yet we're on the edge of something beyond our imagination. So what makes you tremble, what makes you shiver, what makes you weep? Therein you will find your purpose."

"That has been a step-by-step process, meeting key people and forming friendships in those different communities: my Islamic friends, my Sufi friends, my Baha'i friends, all of the above, my Hindu friends, my yoga devotees, Aboriginal connections to land and country, and progressively developing an increasing understanding and recognition of how infinite, endless, and eternal it all is. That has activated me through friendships, by meeting people at the right time, in different ways, for different events and projects, and just falling in love with humanity has been a huge part of what has brought me to the recognition and realization of how to activate my purpose. I think it's a process, ultimately, of just saying yes, and then that leads to the next thing."

"I have discovered my purpose to be facilitating greater spiritual consciousness on the planet, reconnecting our planet to the source of living reality, which is understood by many different names as God, the universe, and life, light, the highest, deepest, most beautiful truth, and that we on the planet became disconnected from that in a variety of different ways through no fault of our own, and yet here we are in a time of reconnection. So I have discovered my purpose to be an anchor for that reconnection and to proclaim the good news that we are connected to the source, that we are children of God, that we are one family, with all of our beauty and diversity."

"That has activated me by being in indigenous communities through my father's work when I was a young boy, 10, 11, 12 years old, being out. Traveling to Tibet when I was also 12, with my father, my mother, and my sister, and spending three months there with the Chinese and Tibetan cultures, absolutely expanded my suburban consciousness at that time. It just got me so excited about the beauty of the complete wonderments of our diversity and the unity, which transcends and holds it all."

"Embodying and living into that eternal yes has been the key to unlocking all of these adventures, all of these stories, all of these communities, all of these friendships, and partnerships. It all comes down to a single willingness to say yes. It's not easy being human. There are a lot of challenges, a lot of needs, material, financial, societal. There are many reasons to block the call, and we want to empathize, and yet at the same time, we're called to be courageous. I'm here, use me. I don't know how it's going to work out, I can't see all of the solutions, but you can. So I'm here, and I say yes, and in that moment, the universe changes. Everything changes, everything shifts when somebody steps on that threshold and stands there under the cosmos on the earth and says yes, I am here, use me. If we were to wait for all the traffic lights to go green before we left the house, we'd never leave. Jump in the river of life. Jump in the river of life and have faith that it will carry you, because it will."

"I had years of experience as a trial attorney. I was a prosecutor, then criminal defense, and complex civil litigation. I had to work with forensics. I had to work with physicists, chemists, neurobiologists, scientists. In addition to accident reconstruction and law enforcement, it gave me a background in a wide array of science and disciplines. Plus, I was a head injury litigation specialist. When I started focusing specifically on mediumship, I realized my study of the human brain gave me the insights to help explain the physiology and scientific basis for spirit contact."

"The hardest challenge in embracing my purpose to become an evidential medium is putting up with not the skeptics but the cynics. Skepticism means that I do not believe, but if you present proof, I may be persuaded. There are people whose brains are just closed. When you approach something through the scientific method, and that is how I believe and that is my approach, we approach spiritual phenomena through the scientific method, which is objective analysis and observation. We collect the data, and we do not jump to conclusions."

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"I will never forget, I was in New York City at Columbia University and I was speaking there. My book Evidence of Eternity had just come out, and there was this really big guy there, he looked like a big football player, and he stood up and started walking up to me, and he said, you saved my life. I read your book Never Letting Go, and it changed my life, and I turned myself around, and now I am back in college. I was so overcome with grief, but you gave me a reason to live. I never met this guy in person, but my words helped him."

"As I started getting older, I was drawn to the clergy, which is not an unusual thing for a medium, except I felt there were too many rules and regulations and it was too restricting. Instead of going into the clergy, I decided to become an attorney, and I jumped out of the rules and regulations frying pan right into the regulatory fire. I was drawn to the practice of law because it allowed me to help people, and also because it allowed me to use my ability to speak, write, and express myself. First and foremost, my life's purpose is helping people."

What happened after that was that within a couple of weeks I was offered a job to leave the practice of law and enter a government agency to head up their interfacing with the court system, and I knew this was not by chance. She got me a speaking engagement at Harvard University. I hung up my cell phone and looked at Rocky, and I said, I just quit the practice of law. She said, Mark, look around, where are you. I said, Harvard. She said, do not you think you are exactly where you are supposed to be."

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"The scientific basis for spiritual contact can be found in my electromagnetic soul theory, which I write about and introduce in my book, The Afterlife Frequency. Drawing upon years of research and over 15,000 readings that I have done for people, I developed the electromagnetic soul theory. In the electromagnetic soul theory, we know that everything in the material world, at the subatomic level, is all made of the same particle of electromagnetic energy. Combining all of that, energy neither being created nor destroyed, and faith that the soul pre exists the body, I developed the electromagnetic soul theory, the EMS, which is a 21st century term to describe what we really are, pure consciousness that is eternal electromagnetic energy."

"When I discovered my purpose and passion in life would have to be when I was about four years old, because I started seeing spirits when I was around three and a half. Growing up in a family where seeing spirits was not unusual was just part of who I was. This was seen as a gift from God, and they were much more open about it."

"My parents had a fascinating background. My dad was a US Navy SEAL who became a NASA engineer, and my mother was a commercial illustrator, artist, and fashion designer. I remember when I started interacting with spirits and Mom said, oh, he has got it, and my dad's response was, oh, he has got it. My mother's maternal grandmother, Giovana, was known in the Italian community of North Jersey and New York City as the woman who knows things. In 2016, PBS did a special on Italian Americans and included an entire segment on my maternal great grandmother Giovana, referencing her psychic abilities."

"I think that service to our fellow human beings is our purpose in life. Think of our purpose in life, that we're all pebbles, and when that pebble hits the pond, the proverbial concentric circles touch other pebbles, so by being that listener that listens to another person, you do not know how the good act that you have done has touched other people, which touch other people, which touch other people. So you already know your purpose, just let it shine."

"I had years of experience as a trial attorney. I had the speaking ability, the research ability, and the practice of law. I was a prosecutor, then criminal defense, and complex civil litigation. I had to work with forensics. I had to work with physicists, chemists, neurobiologists, scientists. Plus, I was a head injury litigation specialist. When I started focusing specifically on mediumship, I realized my study of the human brain gave me the insights to help explain the physiology and scientific basis for spirit contact. Finding your purpose in life, it's already there, it's understanding what it is. It's taking the skill set that you've been given and doing the best you can with it."

"It was the elected official from the government agency, and he said, look, a particular political party is having a lot of problems with the fact that I have a psychic on staff, and somebody who talks to dead people. Suddenly I felt an inspiration, and I said to him, I will make this easy for you, consider this my resignation. He said okay. I hung up my cell phone and looked at Rocky, and I said, I just quit the practice of law. She said, Mark, look around, where are you. I said, Harvard. She said, and what are you doing in an hour. I said, giving a talk on the afterlife and signing copies of my new book. She said, do not you think you are exactly where you are supposed to be."

"When I discovered my purpose and passion in life would have to be when I was about four years old, because I started seeing spirits when I was around three and a half. It is not unusual for a toddler to see people who are not there and have invisible friends, but when Mommy and Daddy, who were both mediums, could also see them, it added a whole new dimension. I was born into a family of psychic mediums, and I have tracked this proclivity, this genetic predisposition, back into the 1890s. That is why I am known as a fourth generation psychic medium. As a psychic medium, I have to bring forth pieces of evidence transmitted to me by spirits to guarantee the authenticity of the contact and verify for the recipient that the information coming through is accurate and beneficial for them."

"The next day, I was in court and the judge's assistant came into the courtroom and said, Mark, you have a call. I knew intuitively this was not going to be good. My secretary was on the phone, she was crying. She said, your dad called, your mom died. My mother had passed in her sleep peacefully. Nonetheless, even though I am a medium and I can connect with spirits, I spiraled into this horrific depression. I pulled over to a convenience store parking lot, and I said, look, I cannot go into my office crying. Suddenly, this flash of light went off in the car. I instinctively turned to the passenger side, and I saw the silhouette of my mother in this beautiful silver white light. Her voice filled my mind's ear and said, Mark, you have the gift of mediumship so that you will not be crushed by grief, but now you must help those who are grappling with theirs. She said, Mark, your life's mission, your life's purpose, is to help people understand that God exists, that heaven, the afterlife exists, that souls are eternal living beings, that humans can communicate with souls, and that we will all be reunited in the light that you call God when it is your appointed time to leave your material world. It was as if a door not only opened, it was pulled right off the hinges and I was shoved through it."

"It took 23 years after my original research for science to catch on. A new science called epigenetics. I am the only guy standing there going, I do not think that is true, and 23 years later, finally science caught on and I was vindicated."

"What if all the people around me were experiencing the same wonderful life. Then it would not just be me having an experience of my personal heaven on Earth, the whole planet could experience heaven on Earth. It was a driving force that says, I am going to go out there and talk to everybody that I can to help them get out of the victim mentality and get into the creative nature of who they are."

"I realized I could not stay a professor in a medical school because by curriculum they wanted me to go in and do teaching about genes, and I said this is not true. I left with a new purpose, and my purpose was to inform people of the new science, which took 23 years after my original research, a new science called epigenetics. I wanted to wake people up because I woke up, my life completely changed."

"The most challenging moments I have had in my career was when my research revealed the new science that my colleagues did not understand. Everybody was into genes, genes this, genes that, all the money was going to genes, and I am the only guy standing there going, I do not think that is true. My colleagues looked at me like I was a crazy person. I actually felt for a while that I might be crazy because everyone else was against my whole belief system. I even went back to my graduate school and asked one of the world's top cell biologists, tell me what is wrong with my idea. He said, it is too simple. I actually laughed out loud in his face. I said, Lenny, let me tell you, the first week in graduate school I was taught Occam's Razor, the simplest hypothesis is the best hypothesis. I said, if you think it is too simple, I want to thank you for that. 23 years later, finally science caught on and I was vindicated. So I went from crazy person to jubilant person."

"If I am controlling my genes, which control my behavior, then how come my life was not so good. I started to realize, oh, behaviors that I learned during the first seven years of my life, the programming part, were not supporting that. The result led me to how can I change those, and I understood their nature. I was introduced by friends to ways of changing those belief systems, so I actively changed those belief systems, and immediately my life became totally different. People do not realize that the behavior they are playing most of the day is not who they are, that they are playing a program. The creative conscious mind is the one with wishes and desires and aspirations. But you are not operating from that mind, you are operating from the programmed mind, which is in the subconscious. 95 percent of the day, their behavior is taken over by their subconscious program."

"My research on stem cells back in 1967 revealed that genes did not control our lives, that it was the environment that was shaping our genetic activity. If you really ask me, I have two distinct lives on this planet, before the awareness of epigenetics and after the awareness of epigenetics. Before the awareness of epigenetics we were victims of heredity. I did not pick the genes, they controlled me. After epigenetics, the whole thing turned around and said, no, I am not a victim of the genes, I am a master of the genes. I wake up every day now going, thank God I am still alive on this planet, because the joy of recognizing I am the creator of my life, I am not the victim of my genes, changed my entire life. I wake up and I live in heaven, even in the middle of all crazy people. I am not buying into their world, I buy my own world, and I love it."

There's something called morning pages, mandatory journaling every morning, analog, not digital. You can't be on your computer. You actually get a pen and that vibration goes into that page. It doesn't matter what you write. It's just the act. Let the water flow. Let the water flow. And then little things start to bubble up, percolate up.

My mother, who was a bit of a mystic, used to always say that to me. Everything happens for a reason. Invoke your masters, your gurus, your ancestors. Ancestors are very useful, very useful for helping you along the path. Just invoke. We all have the spirit guides, you know, and just take the steps one at a time. Every indigenous culture has ancestor worship. In every sweat lodge, the first people that you thank are the ancestors because they are with you. That lineage, it's in your DNA.

Here's the deal. It just takes a little bit of courage and then flow will flow in, right? It's about taking that first step. And a metaphor that we love to use is rusty water. If, in the old days of steel pipes or whatever, you went away backpacking all summer and you came back and you wanted to take a bath and you turned on your bath, the water would come out brown, right? So what do you do? Do you panic? Do you stop? Do you call the plumber? No. You just let it flow, because brown water becomes clear. So you have to be willing to write the brown sentence if you're a writer, or whatever, or it's called dare to suck. Just get in there, fall on your face, because in that act then flow will embrace you, will lift you up.

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I remember when I read Carlos Castaneda in my 20s, it was like, oh my gosh, I know this. Yeah, I know this. There are some things that happen like that. There's a great book by Julia Cameron called The Artist's Way. And it is a three-month program. You read the book and you start doing this thing that helps you listen to that voice. Every journey begins with one step. So, take that first step. The Artist's Way is a great first step. Another great book is Shambhala, The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Trungpa. You know, get in the saddle, be willing to be a human warrior.

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In the creativity workshop that Paola and I co-facilitate, Source to Screen, one of the quotes that we use is Carl Jung, people don't have ideas, ideas have people, they find us. And it's kind of this weird, mystical, sacred thing where, like, get out of the way and drop in, drop in, and attune, and find your center, and then stuff comes up, you know, inward, outward, from beyond, it floats in. It's not even a chasing of flow. It's an allowing. It's an allowing of the sequence to play out the way it's supposed to.

I knew it was a good idea. And I put it in a drawer for a few years. I was still not totally following the call, and then I dusted it off. I think all creators struggle. It's part of the creative act, you know. It's the warriorhood. You got to get back in the saddle. It doesn't matter how many times you fall, fail, it's part of the struggle. It's discipline. It's warriorhood. And the payoff to it all is that in 2025, I'm going to get the rights back to Waterworld. There is a statute in the American federal copyright statute that allows creators to reclaim their copyrights after 35 years.

The four most famous rock stars on the planet decided that the outer world, material fame, success, money, access was not enough. It didn't bring lasting happiness. So they decided to unplug the Beatles and go to India, to Rishikesh, which is this tiny Himalayan foothill town, the birthplace of yoga, to study meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and it moved the needle. And it was when they started meditating and going inward without any drugs that their songwriting became exalted, and the anthems that we sing to this day on peace, love, and unity were all written after India. All You Need Is Love, Across the Universe, Imagine, Let It Be, My Sweet Lord. All of these songs came from the Beatles finding their purpose. In our Come Together project, we really want to honor that moment in history and bring it to this new generation.

Magic happens when you're in purpose. Everything has meaning. My mother, who was a bit of a mystic, used to always say that to me. Everything happens for a reason. And I'm beginning to realize that the totality of my life has come to this point right here, talking to you. It all has some kind of meaning and purpose. A few years ago, I got a call from someone who was convening a roundtable at the United Nations to address the issue of rising sea levels. And some crazy person came up with the idea, what about floating cities? They actually enlisted a team and they invited me to the United Nations as this crazy screenwriter to comment on it. And, you know, it's wild what a journey this has been.

Do we have the courage, because there are so many inner obstacles, we all have them. I mean, I still have fear, doubt, all of them, but you have to persevere. Just take the next step. Just take one step. Everyone has the voice of doubt and I still have the voice of doubt, you know. I just meet it very quickly. I'm like, oh, there's that doubt. Yep. Okay, I'm still writing a sentence. Sorry, doubt. Okay. Yeah, it's a terrible sentence. It's a sucky sentence, but I'm still writing it. And maybe the next sentence will be a little better. Heed the call. Heed the call. Have the courage to heed the call.

I wrote that thing in three weeks. It's my first script. I was 25 years old. I wrote it on the original Macintosh, the one from the ad, and it just poured out of me. And then I knew a couple people and got it into the right hands, and within two weeks it was sold. And there was something very powerful about that story. And I don't even want to take credit for it because the way these things work, it's not even me. Something is coming through. And then, you know, like a decade later I'm like, no, I'm just a storyteller. And I kind of accepted the calling that was right in my face, like this has been handed to you, you know. So now I'm honored. I mean, I feel so blessed. I love writing. I love storytelling. That is my purpose.

And then I walked into a filmmaking class and that was an aha moment for me because it was like, wait, there's a whole bunch of technology here. So, I can geek out. I can definitely geek out on the tech, but also there's this storytelling thing. The idea of merging storytelling and technology to me was like, aha, this is it. I really felt that. I felt that walking into that room that first class, and I am a storyteller now. And there was something very powerful about that story. And I don't even want to take credit for it because the way these things work, it's not even me. Something is coming through. It was the flood myth. The flood myth is ingrained in our DNA.

"The biggest struggle, I would not call it a struggle, it was more of a hurdle to get to the next step. The first was understanding it at an intellectual level. The second was understanding it at a level beyond the intellect, where it is almost like knowing it in your heart. The third is that you have to work on yourself through a lot of systematic processes to get to that experiential state. I do not think I am anywhere close, and I am working towards it. I often say that I do not have to figure this out, somebody else has done it for us. The operating manual exists, and I just have to read, understand, and practice the operating manual."

"On a personal, spiritual level, given my roots in India, I think of my primary purpose in life as self-actualization, or self-realization, as Indian spirituality would call it. Getting to a state of nirvana. The primary purpose of life is self-realization. One of the words for it is yoga, which comes from the Sanskrit word yuk, to join, where the individual self rejoins or reconnects to the universal consciousness. It is not even that you have to rejoin, it is not like you ever got separated. You are always connected to that source. It is just covered up because of our ego and self-identification with the limited construct of our body and our life. So it is a discovery process."

"For very young people, I say it does not matter if you do not yet have a wealth of experience. Try different things, because part of the delight and joy of life is that we have the freedom to try. You will eventually take a lot of turns, and that is okay. That is the whole purpose of life, experiment with it. Do tiny experiments multiple times, and you will start hearing or seeing that a certain direction seems to call on you. You will know almost instantly that certain types of jobs, purposes, or locations are not your thing. Do not give up and do not be dispirited. You are not failing, you are actually succeeding."

"What I love doing is speaking. Spoken word is my power tool. That is my self expression, that is my art form. Giving talks on complex topics, like what I did yesterday on AI and demystifying it, I enjoy doing it. I am good at it, I am world class, being a five time semi finalist at the world championship of public speaking. I actively work on that skill to develop it so that I can pass on ideas to other people. There is a demand in the world, and my company uses me to go talk to the world about AI."

"Walk in nature with a small pad and a pencil in your pocket. Walk slowly and take in everything you see around you. Do not listen to electronics. Walk for forty five minutes to an hour, just asking the question, what is my purpose in life. Do not force an answer. As you walk through deep forests, or along big bodies of water, or near mountains, your mind calms down, your central nervous system goes into a different kind of flow state. After you walk for half an hour, go sit on a bench facing a valley or looking at the ocean. As you sit there, the answer slowly starts drifting in. You will only hear it as a faint whisper."

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"In a professional sense, I have defined my purpose as using my two core professional trainings and skills, the world of technology and the world of business, and how the two can come together. Using technology and business for the greater good. By greater good, I mean increasing the quality of life on the planet for everyone, reducing suffering, and helping everyone find their purpose and joy. We are all fellow pilgrims, so not just do it for yourself, do it along with others and help others as well."

"One method I advocate is the Ikigai method. You find your Ikigai at the intersection of four circles: do what you truly love, do what you are good at, do what there is a demand for, and do what the world will pay for. Another question I often ask is this: start with a blank sheet of paper and imagine that some higher authority comes to you and says, you have done an amazing job, you picked up all these skills, talents, and resources. Now tell us, what is it that you want to do with your life. Imagine there are no constraints, resources will appear, and you will not fail. What would you do. Most people struggle to come up with an answer, but I say do not give up. What you write down is your soul's true calling and the purpose it is trying to express."

"Go back and look at your life. Look at the times when you were doing something and were in full flow, completely lost and immersed in it. You felt you could do it endlessly and experienced a state of joy. When I am on stage, inspiring, moving a lot of people, motivating, using the power of my words, I know that is when I am in a Flow State. We are all wired differently. We have to identify those times. When you go looking for those times and write stories about them, you will find patterns. Everyone will find patterns as to when they felt flow."

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"I decided to do Vipassana meditation, the formal ten day set, fourteen hours of meditation a day. The first four days were a struggle. Your mind goes around all of the things that were long forgotten. After day four, around day five, my mind started quieting down and went into a state of stillness. It was very present. For the first time, I understood what some of these mystics talk about when they speak of being fully present. When I stepped out into the garden, I could see everything, every dew drop, every leaf, every flower, every level of sparkle and color that I had never witnessed before because I was so distracted. In that quiet state, I was able to access a certain level of creativity. Ideas started coming up for products I could be developing. My mind had never been that creative. That same level of creativity is available to you. The stillness, when you ask a deep question like what is my true purpose in life, reveals it."

"I had mentors who opened intensive outpatient programs and outpatient treatment centers. They kept telling me, Damian, you really need to get over your block and open an outpatient treatment center. You need money to make money, and the more money you make, the more people you can provide scholarships for. My first night out my grandparents were in one of the 12 step fellowships, and they took me to a meeting. I just kept going back, and that changed my life."

"The vision always looks good, but the journey is hard. Hiring the right therapists was difficult, and getting an insurance network took forever. We just started doing it and learning along the way. We did the buildout on a bootstrap budget, going around the state picking up windows and using Amazon and donations for furniture. There were just five or six of us doing ten jobs each. We worked hard, and it was tough for the staff we had. We still didn't have enough staff to provide the quality services we wanted. We just hit 10 years, and now in our 11th year, we have a 45% success rate."

"My kids were in permanent guardianship, and they told me I would never get them back. I was my own attorney, and I got them back. It took me three years, but I got my kids back. I wanted to start this program for free. One of the things I learned going through this process was communication and my own relationship with money. I had this whole idea that in order to get any kind of good recovery, you had to pay $30,000 a month or so, which I didn't agree with. I think I have confidence. I think I really can make a difference in people's lives. I don't want to seem arrogant at all. I always think I should be doing more."

"Steps to Recovery Homes started in 2013 with three credit cards, a lot of passion, heart, and hopes and dreams. I had no idea what I was doing. I got with a friend, and we met for two hours a week for four months and put the nonprofit together. They told us it would take like a year and a half to get a nonprofit. We got it in months. I was also going around to other businesses and knocking on doors to tell them what I was doing. I said, here's what I'm doing, I want you to get involved. I built an annual sponsorship program and went down to every business and asked them to sponsor us. I named the $100 level the Perseverance Level because I thought it really fit, just keep going."

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"I truly believe connection is the opposite of addiction. The Connection Room is a place to bring people together. It hosts events, training, and other modalities. We rent it out for baby showers, weddings, and retreats, including a four-day Spiritual Radiant Awakening retreat. I also started the Northern Arizona Roots Music Festival, a clean music concert, because music is healing for me. Unlike other concerts where people are smoking and drinking, we created a sober environment. And Erase the Stigma, a free learning event for the community. I would get five to seven speakers, 20 to 30 booths from organizations helping people with addictions. It takes a village, really. It takes a whole bunch of people working with just one person to meet them where they're at, guide them, be an example, and actually love them through the process."

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"When I got clean, one of the questions I had was, if I could just help one person, it would make my life meaningful and give it some purpose. I started helping people, bringing them in, getting them clothes and haircuts, helping from the ground up. With Miracles Happen, we started giving jobs, providing furniture when people moved out, and donating to other nonprofits. If someone's house burned down, we'd donate trailer loads of furniture. It was really nice to be part of the solution. Last month, there were four people that had 10 years clean who had been through our program. One of them just had twins. He came in, he was going to die, he was like a skeleton. He got his teeth back, he got his worth back, he started his life, now he's married, he has two twins, he's productive. It makes such a big difference just by saving one life."

"I remember being in the gym, in the locker room, curled up in a ball, crying. Memories from when I was seven years old came up. I remember hitting my head and pulling my hair out, screaming at God, why am I here? If my mom doesn't love me, why am I on this planet? Then I got into using substances, and all of a sudden I felt better about myself. Using substances made me feel better about who I was, and I didn't even know it. I was getting approval from other people, but I had no idea who I was. I just went through this cycle. When I got clean, I had buried a lot of that, so it started coming up. We take people just like myself, and when these things happen, they don't know what to do."

"What we realized was using isn't the problem. Using is just a symptom. For me, I used for so long just to self-medicate, and it worked for a long time, then it stopped working. When I got clean, I thought I had a problem with a certain substance, and I realized that I didn't have any skills - basic communication skills, how to budget, how to keep my life together, how to be a parent, how to be a father, how to be a son, how to be an employee. There was so much I didn't know. I realized, oh my gosh, I need to do some real work if I'm going to stay clean. Getting clean and staying clean are two different things. You can stop using, but how do you stay stopped? That's where all this other stuff comes in. It really comes down to fear, trauma, abandonment, neglect, whatever is driving that. If they can heal that while giving them a purpose or career that they want to be in, that they feel fulfilled in, that they're making a difference, it changes everything."

"The last time I got arrested, I had 11 felonies in one stop. They were going to give me 28 years in prison. I ended up doing five. I went to prison, and I had a lot of thinking to do. When I was in there, I had three boys. I got out, and my first night out my grandparents were in one of the 12 step fellowships, and they took me to a meeting. I just kept going back, and that changed my life. My kids were in permanent guardianship, and they told me I would never get them back. I was my own attorney, and I got them back. It took me three years, but I got my kids back. I went and got a degree, and I built my life up. I have been through getting my rights back, I got my rights restored. My kids are 25, 21, and 20 now. They're of service, honest, and hold jobs. They have healthy relationships. This is a big contrast to how I grew up. I was a mess. I got expelled from two high schools, was stealing, and got into trouble."

"It was through yoga that I recognized, while teaching classes, that there was information that I was sharing that was not coming from me. Now we understand that as channeling, but I felt like it was kind of put into the atmosphere with no strings attached."

"I consider purpose to be split into two things. I think that every single human being, myself included, has one very large and very important purpose, which is to recognize who you are and to live a happy life within that information. A lot of us are trying to bust out of our DNA, our desires; we're trying to make ourselves into something else. I think if we really simplify purpose, it's to love the life that you are living and make it as big and beautiful as possible. What happens when we adopt that as our individual purpose is we take care of ourselves. We then have more energy, more time, more resources to take care of those around us. It goes from personal to planetary."

"I was brought up in the hustle culture of New York City and LA and feeling all of this external pressure to be someone other than I was. I just got to a point where I couldn't take it anymore. I call them Kali moments. Kali, the Hindu goddess, she's the great destroyer. You might have a Kali year or two. If we look to astrology, it's called the Saturn return. These are deep periods of time where anything inauthentic gets stripped away. That is a part of the journey towards purpose. The inauthentic, the things that no longer resonate, they will fall away. That is beautiful. When that happens, it is painful, but it is beautiful. I think for those who this might resonate with, it's important to remember it doesn't stay like that forever. It gets better, and there will be a time when you look back on the great shedding with so much joy and gratitude."

"If you're attached to needing to find it, there's no space to even be in the light that is you. I like to tell people, release the attachment to whatever you think you should be doing right now and figure out how to create joy in the now. The journey towards happiness or towards purpose may bring uncomfortable questions. Lean into those questions and be gentle with yourself. In that discovery process, because at the end of the day, it's all good. It's all good. You are safe, you've done nothing wrong, you are loved. You're actually on your way, and you're further along than you think you are, I promise."

"I just got to a point where I couldn't take it anymore, and so yoga was my escape. I joined a teacher training just because I was like, I need to do something with my time that isn't drinking, isn't partying, isn't damaging myself, and that became a years-long love affair that really changed the trajectory of my life. It was through yoga that I recognized, while teaching classes, that there was information that I was sharing that was not coming from me."

One of the things that happened after these early formative experiences is I was filled with other inquiry and curiosity about what this experience of mystery is like from different points of view and frames of reference. That curiosity set me down the path of spending time in monasteries, ashrams, and temples, and working with a Native American elder and chief, not so much as an observer but as a practitioner, to be with them in a humble and receptive way to have some sense of the gift offered through these practices, rites, and rituals.

When I realized that nobody knew, it freed me up to go on my own journey and start inquiring from the universe itself. I grew up in the country, so I spent a lot of time in the woods. I began having a relationship with nature and asking questions, asking questions to the forest, asking questions to the sky, and over time inspiration and ideas, and answers began to emerge from that inquiry, and the inquiry became deeper and deeper over time.

I have spent years in technology and as an entrepreneur, but in the last decade or so, the focus has really been on serving this purpose and integrating both my contemplative life with my life as a business person and entrepreneur, and my experience in technology. Bringing these streams together. The beautiful thing is that everything needed to heal the world, to heal individual and collective trauma, to create a transformed environment in the world, is all here. Everything we need, all of the resources, all of the conditions, are arriving at the right time. It would probably be something we long for and dream of, and something far more than we can even imagine, how beautiful and how wonderful it could be. It will go into dimensions of human experience and possibility that we have never encountered before. I would say it would thrust us into a state of divine wonder.

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The inspiration was, what if we created a hub that brings all these different myriads of practices under one umbrella, where people could go on their own terms, find practices of interest, and connect with others of like mind? That was the inspiration for creating Contemplative Life, the nonprofit. Through Contemplative Life, I came across the work I am doing now with Prosocial World. I was introduced to David Sloan Wilson, my colleague and co-founder of Prosocial World. As I learned more about it, the light bulb came on. Oh my word, this is what so many have been looking for. It is an integrated scientific framework for cooperation. It integrates three sciences: the work of Elinor Ostrom, who won the Nobel Prize in economics for her work on avoiding the tragedy of the commons, modern evolutionary science, which is the science of cooperation and conscious evolution, and contextual behavioral science. Science and spirituality need each other. Science needs spirituality for the same reason I suggested before, it does not go deep enough. On the other side, spiritual communities are some of the most dysfunctional of any communities, so they need the mechanics of cooperation and the things that science can provide.

Life is peaks and valleys. I reached a peak when I was a teenager, and I reached a deep valley almost a year later. Bright high, deep dark, it was awful. Part of the reason was that when what happened to me as a teenager occurred, I did not have the psychological, emotional, or spiritual framework to orient it. One of the things that was also a wake up call for me was that sometime after those experiences, I went back to some of the adults in my life that I respected and asked them if they had had things like this happen. I got the same recurring response. First, have you been doing drugs, because it probably sounds like a drug experience. Then the second response was, is there something wrong with you, or there must be something wrong with you. I realized that I could not talk openly about these things. I went inward with it. I did not talk much about these things for many, many years to almost anybody. Part of the dark part is I longed and yearned to get back to that state that I was in, and it took some time, some years of work, to finally realize, oh my word, I do not need to get back to the state. The state has never left. It is hiding in plain sight. What I need to do is realize it. It is not about a peak experience. It is about this experience right here, right now, in this moment, in every moment.

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I have always had practice in my life - practices in my life as a husband and father, practices in business, bringing it into the boardroom, into company culture, working with young children, pre-teens, teenagers, and Millennials. Working as a hospice volunteer with those who want to die consciously, bringing practices into the end of life, and even into higher education, where those teaching and learning can embody contemplative pedagogy. In that journey, I have worked with a lot of the leaders of the mindfulness movement and the contemplative movement. Part of the contemplative journey is the practice of remembering, so that I can experience the mystery right now, because the mystery is not happening right now. When does it happen.

About the age of ten, I had a lot of questions, and I began to ask questions like, why is there something instead of nothing, what is really the meaning, the purpose of life, who is God. I got the catechism, but really, who is God. The answers that I got back from the people, the adults who were important in my life, were very disconcerting, because even at that early age I realized that what they were sharing with me was not coming from the depth of their own experience. It was what they believed, what they heard, what they read, what they were taught. It was really the first moment of liberation for a young mind and heart, because I thought to myself, surely these things can be known. What kind of a creator God would embody us into human existence without having the opportunity of knowing what, why, and how. When I realized that nobody knew, it freed me up to go on my own journey and start inquiring from the universe itself.

What has worked for me is self knowledge, working on self knowledge, working on self observation, and cultivating the skills of witnessing. Part of what happens when we develop skills of observation is that we realize that things we associate with self or I are not really connected all that much. What I mean is that subject object consciousness is, the observer can witness, but the eye cannot see the eye seeing. What you are witnessing cannot be you, because you are the witness. If that is true in the external world, perhaps it is true in the internal world. When I begin to witness thoughts, feelings, and sensations, I am witnessing what is rising. Historically, in the unobserved state, I would associate that with me, with self. In the state of witnessing, realizing that if I am observing it, if I am witnessing it, it really cannot be me. It is not that it is not arising, but I do not have to attach my self sense to it. Developing skills of observation, where what is arising does not have to be identified with as self, we can realize that it is there, but also realize that something is witnessing that. Developing that skill alone will probably change other things. There is a saying that I have found to be true, your level of being attracts your life. Developing those skills of observation and non identification changes perceptions of self, of others, and of the mystery itself. When those perceptions change, our level of being changes with that. As the level of being changes, the life that we are drawing in also changes, and it increases at an increasing rate.

At the age of fifteen, something extraordinary happened. I was having a conversation with a neighbor friend of mine, and the conversation was about the nature of the self and the ego. Something extraordinary happened. The witness consciousness essentially left my body. The I am presence was looking at my body, but it was not in my body. When something like that happens, it changes all your frameworks, all your lenses of perception. There were other things that happened in the room that were visible to both of us at that time. A light suddenly splashed and ran up the wall, and it set off a chain of circumstances that lasted a week, one extraordinary event after another.

I was walking out in the woods, and I saw a fallen log, so I sat down, got quiet, and went into a state of meditation for a very long period of time. In that state, I could feel as if I could feel the sap running through the heartwood of the trees around me, like it was the blood running through my own veins. I could feel the wind as it moved through the trees, both the sound it was making and how it came through in different variations from the trees and the leaves. I could feel when the leaves moved because the canopy above would shift, and little sparkles of light would come through and then disappear. I literally felt one with nature at a profound level. After a period of time, I do not know how long because I was not keeping track, I began to open my eyes. Out in front of me, I saw a white tailed deer looking at me. Then I saw a rabbit, a squirrel, and birds. It seemed so normal, but there was a sense that maybe nature was also experiencing something extraordinary and felt very safe. Then something else happened that was incredibly memorable. As I was sitting there, a shaft of light came out of a small aperture in the canopy above, where leaves had not grown. It was just one little opening where the light came through. All of a sudden, next to me on the bare earth, there was one flower that had sprung up with orange and purple leaves, and the light was shining directly on that flower. It spoke to me about the mystery of the human condition, because I wondered about all the conditions that had to line up for that to happen, that seed, however it got there, maybe a bird, maybe the wind, the moisture that had to be there, how the leaves and the trees grew so that there was just one opening, so that the sun could get through and fall on that flower. It showed me this is the mystery of the human experience, right here. This is the mystery of being alive as human. It was that series of experiences that made me realize that the purpose of life is like the purpose of the flower, to bloom and to love.

"Then we set some goals. Let's dream big. What gets you excited? What feels really exciting to you? Then we go there, and the next step is we start to combine the two. It's very important to have a strategic plan to follow because in that movement toward your big excited goal is where the real work will occur. That's when you start to come up against yourself, and that's where the tools come in. My goal is always to empower them with their own special tools that they can use moving forward. I believe in setting yourself up for success, not waiting until you're up against the wall to then be scrambling."

"We always start with, who are you at your core? There are probably ten different assessments or conversations that we can use to dig into that. I'm always listening in terms of what are the threads and trying to highlight that for them. It's a process of unfolding. It's not a doing, it's a feeling thing. What you're feeling for is that essence of your soul, your inner core, your higher self, however you want to think of that."

"The biggest struggle I faced in living my own purpose was coming up against the programming of my family and society about, you know, you're not really that, or you're not meant to do that. People from our family do these sorts of things, or you're a girl or a woman, so you should follow this track. Primarily in my spirituality, it was a big place where that would show up. Those can be some of the most difficult days to overcome. But they can be, and I like to tell everybody, I have done my share of personal growth work by necessity, but it's possible, and if I can do it, anyone can do it. I would love to encourage anybody who's listening to this to do it because it's powerful work."

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"When I discovered my purpose and passion was in service to humanity, that showed up early on in life and has sort of shown itself throughout. There's definitely been a thread there in my life. Currently, I'm working with the World Upshift organization, and we're working to upshift all the other tremendous work that's happening in the world. I do volunteer work as well in service of humanity, and I've done that my entire life. I look back even starting as early as sixth grade, helping Cambodian children who were becoming orphaned from the war."

"The last step is to really find support, either a person, a coach, a teacher, or ideally a group. This was the biggest gift I gave to myself: I found my soul group and I traveled with them over time doing this deep, explorative work. It has to be a safe group, and it has to be a solid container. When you find your right group, they help you feel safe enough so that you can take off a mask, let that vulnerability show through, so that you can get to that core. They can reflect back to you, I see you, and better yet, I can feel you, and I love it, and keep on doing it. That's the work. Your group will be able to know you faster than you ever will yourself, which is kind of mind-blowing."

"Often, it's, well, I became a doctor because my mother wanted me to be a doctor, or an architect. That was the last gentleman I was talking to. He actually wanted to be a doctor, but his mother said no, be an architect, and there was not a lot of thought that went into it. Until they get to that place where they feel it's a pain of sorts. I know there's more. I can serve more. I can feel more alive. We always start with, who are you at your core? The raw part of it is getting to those things that you've had in place maybe since you were five years old, that are so comfortable and well-worn that you don't even realize they are a wall to your heart or to your true essence. I have done my share of personal growth work by necessity, but it's possible, and I will say if I can do it, anyone can do it."

"What you're feeling for is that essence of your soul, your inner core, your higher self. That's the piece of you that came in, that you knew when you were a little baby, was the truth of who you are, and then for some reason that was programmed out of us. They say, for the first seven years, we are developed into becoming someone pretty much the opposite of who we really are. So when people come to this pain point and they want to discover what's more, we need to go back there and discover who we really were when we came in and address each of those things, each of those places where we took a vow that said, I will not be who I really am. Instead, I will sit in, I will be quiet, I will play small in order to stay with the family, the society, the tribe. We need to visit those places and move through them. When you do, what's on the other side is freedom, joy, full expression, power, and hopefully, ultimately, the ability to serve humanity in a much deeper, more powerful, meaningful way."

"There were real challenges with our beautiful home. There were toxins. Her health was severely affected for a while, as was my son Dylan's, because of a DNA body type that could not rid itself of toxins easily. They were both incredibly challenged for a period of years. That led us to therapists who were conscious and guided us in discussion. In therapy, as we talked about conscious living, the therapist asked how often love is expressed between us. That triggered action in terms of sharing love and doing things, not just saying it, but planning nice things."

"If you were to sit down with my colleagues and partners, they would share what I am sharing, which is it is just a beautiful place to be. People do not have sharp elbows. It is a caring environment, a thoughtful environment, an environment where people really are grateful for each other's contributions. It is truly a conscious workplace. These things can take time to really create and gain momentum, but as they come into their fullness, it is a beautiful thing. You never want to go back to those old fear-based environments that all of us are probably familiar with."

"There were 18 months between the time I closed everything in the technology world and the launch of Humanity's Team with Neale Donald Walsch. During those 18 months, I stayed true to the calling. There was uncertainty. I did not even know we were going to launch Humanity's Team for a year and a half. I only knew there was a spiritual calling I was meant to serve. That time allowed me to relax, find balance, and become completely empty so I could fill up with what I would need to do when we launched Humanity's Team."

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"We launched in Wilsonville, Oregon in June 2003 with Neale Donald Walsch, the other primary co-founder. The co-founder of Humanity's Team, Neale Donald Walsch, who wrote the Conversations with God books, explains that life is a turning stone. Neil Donald Walsh and I created the master class The Art and Science of Living Consciously. There was about six months of research."

"We want to do what feels good, from the time we were kids. What really feels good is an enduring good, not a sugar high good. In Silicon Valley, I was in sugar high good land, where all of the private jet world and stuff is a sugar high good, not an enduring good. An enduring good is where you can see a smile on people's faces, awareness created through the work you are doing, impact, and support that people feel. That feels really good."

"The synchronicities happened, the miracles came, the resources showed up. When we do that, it is not a magic carpet ride. There are challenges. But you will go to your destiny. The resources will show up, the people, the financial resources, and other things that make life good for your family. There are miracles. For example, the home my family has lived in for sixteen years in Boulder showed up at a price we could afford. There have been many miracles like that."

"I had to trust the process. In those moments in Silicon Valley, I was losing my strong desire to be only a business person, and the desire to follow my spiritual calling, this bigger self calling, was rising. The steps were leaving all the things that had served me. I sold the businesses, left the business associations I was part of, left Silicon Valley and the venture world, and opened myself to what would come. There were 18 months between the time I closed everything in the technology world and the launch of Humanity's Team with Neale Donald Walsch. During those 18 months, I stayed true to the calling. There was uncertainty. I did not even know we were going to launch Humanity's Team for a year and a half. I only knew there was a spiritual calling I was meant to serve. That time allowed me to relax, find balance, and become comple

"When I left Silicon Valley, sold everything, and moved to Boulder, people really thought I had lost my mind. I lost most of the friends I had because this notion of non separation, oneness, diversity, and unity seemed very far out for people in the early 2000s. It requires real discipline. I have had lots of friends all of my life. It was always easy for me to make friends. I went through more than ten years where I did not have many friends because of the spiritual calling I was following. In that same time frame, we did not have a business model that was working. We had people who needed income, and I was the executive director and co-founder. I needed to find a way to get income to these people, so it was very challenging in many ways in the early years of Humanity's Team."

"The calling is something you feel. It's like knowing a partner is right for you, or a home is right for you, or a place you move to feels right. It comes back to the still small voice. There is a feeling, a sense, a trust, a clarity. I don't have to think hard about it. It's more a feeling than a thought. This is right. This is what I'm supposed to do. These are the people I'm supposed to work with. The still small voice brings clarity in the form of a feeling for me. It is like driving a car with guard rails on both sides. I can feel when I am getting off base or when I am on target. There was a still small voice that guided me my whole life, and that still small voice has been critical all along."

"When I was in the Silicon Valley world, on a private jet and in a private ski area, especially the private ski area where Bill Gates and others belong, gated and off the charts luxury, I was there with my wife Stephanie. The cognitive dissonance was extreme. Incredible luxury, but what am I doing here with everything going on in the world? That was the experience, cognitive dissonance. I was not doing what I am doing now. It was a strong tap on the shoulder that there was another vision to serve and another journey to take. Cognitive dissonance comes in as a tap on the shoulder. Some say it turns into being hit by a two by four if you don't follow it. I believe that's true. I always followed the tap, so I never got hit by the two by four."

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"My calling is the big agenda, I'll call it, which is my true self, which is the world around me. There is no such thing as a separated self. Once I started tuning into the big agenda, which is the world around me, and really felt it was coming from a place of connection with the divine, which is the one that animates all of life and is omnipresent, meaning the planet, eight billion people, animal life, and plant life are part of this oneness too, once I started tuning into that and putting my energy into creating health and wellbeing for that, that's where the wind was at my back. The synchronicities happened, the miracles came, the resources showed up. Our true self is this whole world around us, this big agenda, this bigger self, not the little self I grew up with that was Steve Farrell just as this body. Once I made the decision that this was not who I was, that the bigger self is who I am serving, I did my best to serve that bigger self by creating educational programs through Humanity's Team. All we have to do is serve the big agenda, not the little agendas, the wants for little things, and it all happens."

"My name is Paula Walker, and I'm a filmmaker. I'm a director, and I started my first film wanting to dance. My grandmother, who's also been part of my guidance, a Black lady who was a school teacher, she gave me $6,000 in a paper bag to match Warner Brothers' money. That's how I started my company, Stradle Films, and we went on to make millions, but it all started from that paper bag that she gave me."

"It hasn't been easy. I've faced many challenges, many dark things, many things that make me go why me, why am I facing this challenge? But as you keep facing challenges, and you have to get up and move forward, and you want to keep your light, you start understanding that there is a home base that's internal, that's inside of you, and only you can find it and only you can hold it."

"Your purpose, you might know that you want to be a painter, but finding your voice as a painter is not easy. It's a process of cultivation, and that process of cultivating yourself as a human being involves all the things we need to cultivate, like sensitivity, consciousness, a sense of beauty, and then going deep inside to see what the soil is, what's inside of you, and then putting that out over and over again. A lot of times, when you have a unique voice, you're going to be rejected. But once you get it, once you get your destiny and your voice, you have it, and no one can take it away from you."

"After numerous disputes and failures, and trying to be a warrior and losing so many things, I had to make a choice. Which door did I want to live in? Do I want to live in the door of fear, suffering, and pain, or do I want to live in this world where I feel more vital? I had to learn that it didn't matter if I wanted or not. I could still be in this place. I could choose to be in this place as much as I wanted to. That's what I'm working on now."

"My aunt, I had an old aunt, and I think the first time I really tuned into it, she was really old. She would take me to the grocery store, and we would pick out fruit, like watermelon or melons, and she would have me smell it. Slowly and surely, you would be able to get to the fruit and smell which one had the sweetest taste. That's source. There's source. There's vitality. She would say, smell this, smell that. You develop your sense of smell, your sense of connection to the Earth. You sense the time, you hear the wind. You start with nature, and then suddenly, you feel this vitality inside of you. You turn off your mind, and the more you turn off your mind and listen to these internal things around us, the more it comes to you."

"The advice I would give to somebody looking for their heart and their path is to sink deeply into themselves. I think we don't have feeling in this culture. We don't feel our way into things, we think our way into things. But to find your path and define your purpose, you have to almost break away a little bit from the world. You have to go back to what inspired you. I always say, go back to what inspired you. Go back to the thing that sparked you, what was the thing that made you want to be a filmmaker, dancer, painter, or singer? What was the moment? You follow that, it's like your ancestral seed."

"My grandmother, who's also been part of my guidance, a Black lady who was a school teacher, I asked her for money. She gave me a certain amount, but I needed more. She asked for my business plan. I did my storyboards and laid out everything I was shooting, and she gave me $6,000 in a paper bag to match Warner Brothers' money. That's how I started my company, Stradle Films, and we went on to make millions, but it all started from that paper bag that she gave me. I said, Jeff, I want to direct, and he said sure. He gave me a track, and I found a producer, and we made this video. Pina Bausch was one of those pivotal people that influenced me as a director, as a filmmaker."

"Dance has been the constant road, my path, and then it took me to filmmaking and writing stories, always through that lens. There are things you can do, like dance, that help me. When I'm in class, I feel like I'm just tapping into Source, like I'm just plugging in, like an iPhone, like bam, I'm here. I had to slowly learn how to turn off that critical voice and feel the music, go to the heartbeat, the pulse of the music, and turn off my critical voice. Say, okay, I'm going to make a mistake, but I'm going to do this from inside of me, from my own source, from my own feeling. In that way, I slowly started to learn how to put things together and keep my own self alive."

"By living in my purpose and by living in my calling, I feel like I did have an effect on the people around me, but I have to say it's taken me almost my whole lifetime to have the confidence and to be able to do the internal work. It hasn't been easy. I've faced many challenges, many dark things, many things that make me go why me, why am I facing this challenge? But as you keep facing challenges, and you have to get up and move forward, and you want to keep your light, you start understanding that there is a home base that's internal, that's inside of you, and only you can find it and only you can hold it. It's taken me my whole life, and I don't feel like I've written it to where I wanted to go, but I'm still writing it, I'm still here."

"When I'm talking about Source and finding your alignment, I can explain it as feeling like you've found home, like you've found your home inside of yourself, this thing that you carry that's your home base. What I want to say about being in alignment is that once I found that alignment, being out of alignment did not feel good. It felt so bad. It felt so wrong. Being in alignment felt vital and alive. It felt like I was electric, buzzing like a bee. I started cultivating and working to be in that place because even if things don't go right in the world, I can be in that place. You are so alive. You feel the direction, you feel where you have to go, you know what you have to be. You're just happy. It's like bubbles, it's like bubbles that are going, or it's like a circuit, like energy, pure circuitry going through you."

"I remember I was in Italy, standing around, there was a dance event. I went with my husband, and it was Pina Bausch, and it blew my mind. Years later, I was standing in New York, getting out of a meeting, and I saw a sign that Pina Bausch was performing. I got in a car and said, take me there. She was performing that night at that moment. I jumped in the car. It was at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The performance had already started. I ran up the stairs and got to the place. The box office was closed. I knocked, and the guy came out. He said, the show has already started, all the tickets are done, there are no tickets. I said I came all the way from Los Angeles to see this. He gave me a ticket, said it would be front row. It was the last time she performed. She died right after that. I think about that experience and that time often. I feel like because I was guided to that last performance, it was guidance telling me that I was being guided by spirit, something higher, to give me the richness of her and the world that she had created."

"Your purpose, you might know that you want to be a painter, but finding your voice as a painter is not easy. It's a process of cultivation, and that process of cultivating yourself as a human being involves all the things we need to cultivate, like sensitivity, consciousness, a sense of beauty, and then going deep inside to see what the soil is, what's inside of you, and then putting that out over and over again. A lot of times, when you have a unique voice, you're going to be rejected because what we're taught is basically to make things as a product. Marketing yourself and finding a niche is different from finding your voice, and the voice is something no one can ever take away from you. It's a deep cultivation. As a commercial director, I found a voice, I found a style, but in commercials it becomes so much more about following something that's already preset. That was a very tricky period for me because I felt like my voice was being shut down, curtailed, lessened. But once you get it, once you get your destiny and your voice, you have it, and no one can take it away from you."

"I think it's very important. I knew when I was six years old. I was taken to a dance class, and I felt like I was where I needed to be. I remember I was dancing, and it felt like something opened up from above and hit me like a ray, a shaft of light, and I just knew I was supposed to be there. I remember I was in the Augo Flicker School of Ballet, practicing for a recital. I was six years old, and I really wasn't sure I was supposed to be there because I felt like I was not skinny, not white, not blonde, not pretty. But that shaft of light told me that I was supposed to be. It was hard, really hard. My parents didn't want me to dance. I immediately got in the car with my mom. She was a writer and very aware of a lot of things, and I just said I wanted to come here every day and study. I had my mission statement that I wanted to be a prima ballerina. My parents were really concerned. My dad was a doctor. They tried to block me from going. I remember we had a recital. I was put in the front row and I made a mistake. My mom had the teacher tell me that I wasn't suitable for ballet, and it broke my heart."

"There is guidance that we have if we can tap into it, if we can believe it. That spiritual alignment that everyone is talking about, we have to share with people, it's real, it does exist. I feel like I've been guided as a Black woman, and even though there have been defeats and serious setbacks, my guidance never leaves me. It's my North Star. That's how we have to live. The documentaries I've done, one Spirit took me to Haiti, Spirit took me to Selma, Alabama, where I'm from, where my family was from. It's like you're riding a wave as opposed to fighting a wave. Now what I'm learning how to do is to keep it going and to keep moving things forward. It doesn't feel like work anymore because I just go to Spirit, and all these things that have been inside of me just bubble up, and I go."

We had done some remodeling in our home and I had moved a stack of DVDs. I walked by one day and that video fell off and hit my leg. I picked it up, put it back on there, and walked by. A little bit later, I walk by again and it slides off and hits my leg again. It didn't just fall on the floor, it hit my leg. And I pick it up, and there's two DVDs by Barbara Marx Hubbard. And I have no idea where they came from. They still had the cellophane around them. I go to work one day and there's a message on the answering machine from a producer from the Oprah Winfrey Network. They wanted me to be a guest on a show. It came out of nowhere. I found the perfect mentor to help me, and that was just attracted in. I didn't even look for it.

If we learn how to be still and be quiet, we know that message. We know that we're all connected. We're connected to the planet. We're connected to the cosmos. That voice is there, and that will help us to really find purpose, to guide purpose. When we develop practices that bring us into our heart more, quiet the mind, and bring us into that soul's purpose, that higher divinely guided intelligence of the universe pushing us and nudging us and moving us forward.

The most important thing that anyone can do is come into their heart space and trust this force of love that's here. There's an encoding in the force of love and it drives us into purpose. All of the guidance is within. There's a whole universe in here, even our gut biome, to our heart space, to our brain. When we learn heart coherence and how to tune into the heart space, we will naturally become attuned to others around us. Tuning into the heart will guide us into purpose in a more realistic, grounded, functional way.

Finding my teammates, my coworkers, the people to collaborate with was a big process, but it still is. Met Barbara, and then slowly I began to weave those relationships and the mentors. There were 40 of us working together. Where is it? Who's my team? These imaginal cells then begin to find each other inside the chrysalis, and they begin to form. And the imaginal cells continue to find each other and then go, oh, we're already encoded. We know who we are. We know what we're to do. We've got this. When we learn heart coherence and how to tune into the heart space, we will naturally become attuned to others around us that are in that same frequency, on the same love team.

We had done some remodeling in our home and I had moved a stack of DVDs. I walked by one day and that video fell off and hit my leg. I picked it up, put it back on there, and walked by. A little bit later, I walk by again and it slides off and hits my leg again. It didn't just fall on the floor, it hit my leg. And I pick it up, and there's two DVDs by Barbara Marx Hubbard. And I have no idea where they came from. They still had the cellophane around them. I go to work one day and there's a message on the answering machine from a producer from the Oprah Winfrey Network. They wanted me to be a guest on a show. It came out of nowhere. I found the perfect mentor to help me, and that was just attracted in. I didn't even look for it.

The biggest struggle I've faced in following my purpose is probably loneliness and alienation. I live in a very conservative place with not a lot of people who are doing this work or understanding even what is consciousness. Finding my teammates, my coworkers, the people to collaborate with was a big process. And what I learned was I was hiding myself, or playing really small. And as soon as I could play big and be fully embodied into purpose, then others could see something that they couldn't see before. Being brave, being bold, being big, being courageously in it to really live purpose will help others to see everything that's already working.

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