 Yeah, I talk a lot about the story of self. This story is becoming obsolete. It's becoming no longer true. We don't resonate with it anymore. And it's actually generating crises that are insoluble from the methods of control. And that's what's clearing space, clearing the space for us to step into a new story of self and a new story of the people. This movement against the Keystone XL Pipeline, the Occupy movement, Arab Spring, these are all signalers of the emergence of the world's biggest and most profound social movement. And out of that love and that connection of people to each other, they're going to create a different way to do things. There's a holiness to the temple that is beautiful and sacred and I love being a part of that. Very much like the Playa, the temple is really the blank canvas for all of the things that we are carrying with us. Tamira is a research center for peace. It's a community with a huge vision of shifting the entire culture of this planet from one of war to one of peace. Even to start thinking about what that is, is a huge step. I live in a world where I'm not a brilliant businesswoman living out my dreams. And a DJ that makes music and talks about vaginas and sex, which is a complete and utter lie because I am exactly those of those things. Thank you all for being here at this incredible event. So I come to you actually from pretty far away from the west coast of Canada. My family comes from a background English and Irish in origin. And I was born right near the traditional territories of the Swaylertooth Nation, just outside what the newer arrivals call Vancouver. And I really made it my life's mission to try to find these pieces of this emergent culture that I think are sprouting up all around the world. I mean in places like Tamira, places right here at New Frontiers, and really tried to look at how can I gather in these seeds and really capture them and amplify them in a particular medium. In this case, for me, most of it is films. And more recently I really started to become aware of I think the process by which I went about this journey. A lot of the film clips you just saw, sometimes I even forget what I worked on because I just seem to be kind of going from one piece to the next as it just becomes apparent that this is the next step. This kind of new technology, you could say, intuitive technology, one word for it is synchronicity. And one definition of synchronicity is really that it's sort of this higher order perhaps that a lot of us may not necessarily be able to draw the connections to. We might not say, well, clearly that led to that, which led to that, and that's how I made it here. But really this kind of surrender into that there's this deeper unfolding going on of which we were all part. And that perhaps just as Benjamin talked about this idea of knowing truth, when there's that shared space of truth between us, at the same time I think all of us know when we're on the path. On the path of like, ah, yes, this is the next thing that I'm supposed to do as we all awaken to service towards this more beautiful world. My story really begins as far as filmmaking. This screenshot there is from the TED talk I gave actually where I came out with the Occupy Mask on. Because for me it really represented both, on the one hand my grandma said it was kind of creepy, the Occupy Mask, but at the same time it actually represented to me one of the core memes I think of the time that we're in, which is this energy of this trickster. This idea that we don't really know exactly how to get where we're trying to go. And I think this combination of imagination and creativity and maybe a bit of irreverence, in fact, is this sort of audacious possibility that we can be in service. And for me one big piece for that was actually recognizing after reading the book by Charles Eisenstein named Sacred Economics, in the end of that book he actually has this passage where he says if you're in a position where you have any sort of a surplus, let's say any kind of anything really, the best thing you can do now is invest it back in this more beautiful world. And for me at the time this is back in 2011 I thought well honestly I could scrape together enough to buy a plane ticket out to visit Charles because I had this idea that I could make a film. I could film about his book Sacred Economics. That's as far as I got. I Skyped him the next day and I said hey Charles I'd like to come and shoot this film with you. Can I come stay at your place? And he said sure. And then he said wait no I gotta ask my wife. And then he went and asked her and then he's like yeah okay you know you can do it. So I came out there and I really just just tried to be in a deep place of listening of like what is this film that I feel needs to be born but not knowing how to make it. And at the same time the Occupy movement actually erupted on the scene that basically while I was out there shooting all of a sudden New York was you know a flame with the seeds of this movement and he was asked to come speak there and so I ended up following him of course that was a thing to do down to Wall Street where there was this moment I think of recognition where I believe it was Nome Klein who had this beautiful quote where she said you know while a lot of the commentators at the time and particularly in the US I don't know what these hippies need or want with their bongo drums and nobody knows what they want whereas Nome Klein said well the rest of the world is saying what took you so long that there was this deep recognition almost emergent you know vision among all of these different groups that for so long have felt like they were alone like they were the ones kind of toiling away and nobody else seemed to to also be in service and that was one of the moments I think we all recognized like ah yes so many of us share this conceptions of this world and that maybe for the first time then a lot of these groups started to see each other and started to link up and you know for me that also led to this invitation I got to go to Tamara because after seeing that film they reached out and said ah we're doing some really amazing work here with these new models for the future you know would you be interested in coming out to check it out and that was before I had enough spaciousness and time to get out there which became the seeds of the film clip you saw there called Healing of Love which is really looking at again their models in love and partnership in a wider framework of trying to build this new piece culture since then as well I've made Amplify Her you saw a little bit there which for me is really this question of what is it about this rising feminine you know that clearly seems to be could be one of these emergent threads of this new world also how do we ground it in the experiences of real women in this case because of my own experience in the electronic music scene I thought oh interesting like how is it showing up for female DJs and producers and what is it that they're grappling with themselves as women in this time and the feminine and how is that actually again applicable across so many so many realms that we're seeing that film is actually coming out this summer I'm proud to say and hopefully it'll be premiering somewhere nearby I'd love for you to come visit so how do we understand the time we're in there's this writer named Jonah Sacks from San Francisco he wrote a book called Winning the Story Wars he also created a company called Free Range Studios and they have some of the most brilliant pieces of social activist video one is called The Story of Stuff which some of you may have seen The Matrix, Grocery Store Wars and lots of these beautiful pieces that really aimed at creating these pieces around this new story or understanding at least what is the depths of the old story that we're in and in this book he wrote about this thing called the myth gap where just as the myths that have guided the dominant civilization for so long they're really beginning to break down and that perhaps 2012 if anything really a key point where all of the unintegrated shadow of the dominant culture was now to be brought to light and then in fact this whole idea of the end of time or the end of apocalypse for the world was really this question of again are we willing to actually face the shadow of the dominant culture and what is that actually going to catalyze it has it catalyzed I think in all of us here in this world we're trying to build and so you could almost say that we do have a crisis of stories we have a crisis of myths with which we can really live into in fact for this world I think we can obviously look to the past there's tremendous wisdom of course in the peoples that have been living in a proximity to the land and in relationship for so long time and yet even then with the whole monolithic civilization built upon it again it's a different time that we're in and maybe what's being asked of us isn't to go back of course but again how do we actually go along together this is the thing that's also different this is a word called the noosphere it was coined almost 100 years ago but really what it refers to is just as we have these different layers encircling the globe such as the geosphere the biosphere some might even say the technosphere which is the sphere of the sort of technological landscape that we've created there's the noosphere which can be seen as the layer of human consciousness around the planet this is really something of course that's new at least new from a technological perspective some might argue that maybe there's already a psychic sphere that maybe we've lost our ability to access but this emergence of the noosphere is actually it's unprecedented and I think it's really important to understand actually what opportunities actually provides just as you know the latest video of a cat falling out of a tree or a gongum style might rock it around the planet I believe gongum style is up to something like 4 billion views or something right on youtube and on the one hand you could say oh that's silly why are we again sharing something silly kind of Korean pop culture video and yet what I see is the very possibility that video could be seen so many times says something about how interconnected we've now become and in fact I think we have the real possibility of consciously creating these memes consciously creating memes and then injecting them into the noosphere in a way of accelerating this more beautiful world and I want to spend a little bit of time around this idea of mind bombs so I with the founder of Adbusters magazine which is actually the fellow who is credited with coining or at least branding the Occupy movement their Adbusters magazine based out of Vancouver was the one that actually put a full paid spread in their magazine and said based upon and inspired by Egypt what was going on in Taylor Square had said you know what if we decided to occupy Wall Street and they had this big spread that said September 17th bring tent and that was really it and there was some on the ground activists that had been contacted were sort of seeding this momentum but really they didn't necessarily know exactly how it would play out and yet just that spark I think was able to ignite a lot of this latent longing in fact to really participate in this unfolding when I spoke to this fellow named Kelly Lassen he's the founder of Adbusters and I asked him what do you think where should the Occupy movement go next this is back now in 2012 oh we forget Occupy like what's next again his understanding about what he was doing and the way of actually creating these these mind bombs was that they serve for a time that in fact the most responsive expression or articulation of a certain meme is very specific to a time and once that moment's passed again we don't get attached to form that in fact we say okay that was beautiful at the time and then recognize you know what it never was about camping out in a park or the financial district but in that moment it was the most brazen revolutionary thing that we could do and since then we've actually seen other expressions take over for instance in Canada that started the Idle No More movement a lot of the indigenous activists there were able to catalyze this wave both in North America and I think as well in the US there's the Black Lives Matter again this idea of like how do we galvanize a type of shift by really harnessing the power and tapping into this noosphere and I think now the question is upon us as well I mean I start getting obsessed of course with this idea that there's such a thing as the perfect mind bomb that is the thing is the one thing that can be shared into the noosphere and that's the transformation from that one piece very likely not going to be like that I think the deep lesson that all of us are learning here and other gatherings around the world is that there's unity in diversity and in fact we need a diverse we need diverse expressions of this new story but all shared I think within this holistic framework that they're all trying to articulate something of which no single thing can possibly do it justice and so I want to share just a sort of key story selling strategies you know for all of you who may already be storytellers in some fashion whether you're aware of it or not or if you want to look at really crafting consciously these memes these mind bombs around your own work which is so necessary just here's a very brief best practices short's better than long you'd be surprised you'd be surprised to think about how planetary the first 20 minutes just reduced him to tears and like many others whereas the rest of it you know again was maybe just secondary to that initial incarnation of the beauty and the love that we have for this place and maybe that alone right could have been enough of an offering let's say also again in this kind of world that's constantly competing for attention you'd be surprised or maybe you aren't that if you are sent a video you open one up what's the first thing you do you look at how long it is exactly and if it's usually longer than two or even three you might say maybe later you know maybe I'll file it away for later and of course maybe you never go back so short is better the next thing is distill the meme and by this I mean again connect what you're expressing even though that'll have a specific expression about the particular thing you're doing whether it's integrated agriculture or water retention landscapes or things it's important to also distill what is the core myth that you're actually tying it to that this expression is a part of Charles Eisenstein in sacred economics for me and what I tried to express in that was he articulated very beautifully that the old story of which so many of our institutions are built on including the economic system is the story of independence you're an independent being in an indifferent universe driven to maximize your own self-interest and so forth and so we built an economic system based on that core myth what would an economic system look like based on another myth and he's called it in many others the myth of the interdependent being where now the money system is in service actually to creating systems which reinforce and in fact enact that type of interdependence it's very possible and in that particular book he goes over specific strategies but I think it's important that again as we don't as we go forth with the very specific work that we're trying to do to not get lost in the details when we're trying to convey to other people because just like for instance permaculture for me is such a deep reordering about our understanding of nature that it becomes one of courtship instead of domination right again those types of core memes are like whoa and they have to be in there and I got the time up so I'm just going to finish quickly finally think about film as a tool that in fact sacred economics I crafted deliberately for people who were already doing the work on the ground and needed something in which to galvanize people to get involved and so they could use the film as a tool and say oh this is the kind of core frame now in our own regional areas how do we make this happen right here so I encourage you to think about again has your crafting these stories can be used as tools for people to really bring this more beautiful world home and lastly these three things are really alive for me right now again what is the role of healing the masculine in this culture of ending of patriarchy the role of decolonization and re-indigenization actually for so many of us that have lost connect contact with our own ancestral roots and finally what is the role of grief in fact about the time we're in the necessary role that doesn't say you know collapse in a heap of it's all over nothing to be done but how does actually inform our way of being human in the world today lastly this idea of living from the future I think we do as we're trying to create this more beautiful world we can really get involved with this idea that if we just get to hear you know everything will be okay and if we don't everything's over it's done and I think it's important to understand that the world over we're going through collapse we're going through regeneration we're going through you know multiple iterations of story and it's not happening everywhere all at once and in fact that the future in this way becomes a willingness to be in the world now as if we're already there what does it look like to be in the world and with each other from that place, Thomas Huble this spiritual teacher from Austria he says it's living from the future is embodying the future consciousness now and in that way we're already there so thank you