Gary Malkin

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.