 Good morning. Well, I just came from the dream time because I hadn't slept in a really long time and I woke up to come over to hear Sonia and I was like, am I still dreaming? Am I meeting a woman who shares the exact same morals and ethics that I do in my life? I talk about radical self-love with the same language and I was like, oh my god, I love her so much. Good morning, life. So, you know, I'm gonna just take it from where you left off because I like to talk about creativity because I think it's our greatest human resource. It's what's going to continue to catalyze the change that we need in this world today and it's what does everyone have but sometimes we forget we have it as our creative potential and what is it when you step into your creative potential? That is your, that's your God-self. That is, that is what has created everything in existence including this incredible holographic matrix of shared reality that we're living in. That is, that's creativity, right? It's what's created these incredible Buckminster Fuller epic domes that you're inside right now. It's composting toilets. It's all these incredible things. That's your creativity. That's your God-self for lack of a better word and I do that mainly through art and music and I'm a big proponent of using art and music as a vehicle for social change. So I'm one of the the rare, I guess, I get grouped into the DJ category of actually talking on stage and I believe that it's a social obligation. It is just our moral obligation really to use the stage when sharing music to actually say something other than, it's everybody having a good fucking time. So I usually like to talk about a few different things. When I'm on stage and so and that is creativity and that the other one is is collaboration because that is the foundation of my work. I am a hardcore collaborator and it's it's my favorite thing because I get a lot of me all the time can't get away from it and which is annoying unless I work with other people and so the essence of collaboration is improving your weaknesses with other strengths. That's what that's what collaboration is all about and that's how you build incredible communities like this and that's how you create large social movements not on your own it's by getting other teams who resonate with what you do and so you can create these things and discover your blind spots and really push yourself forward. So my tenth album is coming out in five days and the bulk of my work now is collaborative and when I look at the history of my work I'm like I don't even understand it. People are like, how have you written so much music? I'm a creative genius. Thank you. It's like I just have really cool people around me all the time and I think one of the foundations for collaboration is openness. When we start to become closed and think that we actually know everything is when you have the fall of all great civilizations and humanity as you know it and those kind of things. No big deal. But openness is when you start to flourish. Openness of saying like oh I'm open to your ideas. I'm open to what you have to say I'm not right. I don't know everything. That's when you have an incredible collaboration and I'm so happy that I don't know anything. It's really great. It saves me all the time. People are like, if anyone knew me they'd be like you liar you think you know everything all the time. But anyway so one thing I wanted to talk to you about because I was at the dinner table yesterday and listening to what everyone had to say and all the incredible things that everyone is doing here and I thought one thing that would be really cool to talk about is exploring things that are outside of what you normally do. And I thought I'd just tell you a little story about something that has that helped me. So principally I am a music producer and composer and music music things and music universe. Anything that you can do in the music universe I like to do. But I've been preferring to say that I'm a creator because music is what is my principle platform of sharing my message and what I do. But I can't do music all the time otherwise I'm bored and I don't it's not even that I'm bored it's just that I need to fill my well of creativity with other things. So several years ago I was in I was on Maui there was a woman who was like the very first patron of my work who Stephanie Farragault one of the most amazing women ever and she would invite me to Maui she said as long as you're making art and music you can stay in my house for as long as you want. You can just do if you can make art all over the house you make art in the kitchen you can make art you know and she was the first woman who inspired me to be more comfortable with my body the first time I ever like modeled nude for an art class and really helped me tap into my self-love. Anyway she passed away a few years ago and I was and I was reading through her books and I found this book called the artist way by Julia Cameron which if you haven't read that I recommend you do. And I was like oh I'll read this book so I could figure out some cool things in my presentations because I think I know everything and I picked it up in the first couple pages I was like it was it was talking about trying new things taking yourself on these artist dates and you know just trying new things I was like that's interesting for some reason something clicked and I was like I'm gonna become a photographer it's interesting I don't know where that came from. I work on music like maybe maybe too much and so I bought a camera and I started shooting I started learning and I kind of dove down the rabbit hole like I do with some things when you try new things you know and you're just like you're like I must know everything in the universe about this thing and so I did that with photography because they do that you know I've done fat art and fashion and jewelry design and a lot of other things but photography was my big one and I noticed that my music started changing and I was like this is weird photography has nothing to do with music like pretty much nothing it's the totally different medium and but what was what I was informing was new new parts of my creative process and in creativity doesn't really care how it's being expressed it just wants to be expressed you know it's it's your it's my my experience that it is my most direct way of communicating with the universe you know when I when I'm whether it's meditating or through my yoga practice or through you know active meditations barefoot walks in nature and things like that I when I feel could the creative spirit of of the universe it it feels like it wants to be expressed through my through creativity through something right and it doesn't feel like it actually cares how it's being expressed it just wants to be expressed but it doesn't you you need to know how to do that right you have to when I'm when I'm making music and I'm sitting in front of a composition and I'm looking at them like I have no idea what this needs right now you know and I'm thinking there's an infinite palette of things that I could be I could be choosing from strings and horns and and all these things you know what informed what is informing my creativity isn't like simply my mind it's it's more of the no mind right and and the no mind isn't something you cultivate with studying it's stuff that you just you have to practice being creative and the no mind will inform itself you don't have to that and that's what my whole point was with the with the photography was like I was just practicing making stuff I'm like shooting stuff I'm like oh I can take a picture of this really close and that looks like something like this like a picture of this really far away and look like this and that process of exploring creativity is what ended up informing my music and changing the process itself it wasn't I'm a photographer now and because I shoot things like this that's why I it's not a mental process it is practicing the art of exploring new things it's your childlike wonder it's your your creativity and your creative being is a child right it's exploring it's trying new things it's drawing on the walls before you learn to that that was not the right thing to do right you know and it's like whoever's who was the baby who's the taika taika oh my god that baby has such good rhythm it's unbelievable Elijah was playing who was here when Elijah was playing in the and take it literally in in the exact moment I was like I thought it was a adult I was like wow I was a night was a good time to do that good timing baby because that was a baby I'm like wow sweet baby ten years you're in my band take my number baby and amazing amazing amazing amazing so my suggestion for for any of you who are here doing something maybe that is more focused on the mind is to go play with your no mind yeah and there's so many ways you can do that whether that's I mean I like I think the arts are an incredible opportunity for you for people to explore new things especially who are very focused on the mind and the arts that's a very wide range of things from interpretive dance and you can do that whether it's like with contact dance or ecstatic dance or just getting out of the parts of your brain which are so focused on thinking and getting more into your heart where you can do a little bit more feeling you know I really resonated with what my brother Elijah was saying you know it's like we we think it's one or the other but we actually have we have several minds we got you know we have that one which a lot of people think with a lot and we have this one our power center you know we have this one our heart we're familiar a little bit with our with the chakra system here and this that we can think of those are as our like as our minds you know the where we think from we have this one which is you know our third eye and then we have this bliss God self of of our inner connection to everything in the universe that we feel with with people in spaces like this where it's like I know you already you know I feel like what the words that you're saying that the ethos that you're bringing into this world I know that because that is my highest self and you you will have that with a lot of people in this room but a lot of us are probably focused on like well how you know it is really important if you just live up here all the time you're never gonna get shit done right you know it's like I just want this perfect universe or we all live in domes and there's multiple layers of permaculture and everyone eats off the land and you're like you like rice and rice doesn't grow here and either do mangoes and they're delicious you got to figure out how to do stuff and that's practical and that takes the mind but when you get stuck in the mind you know look at our world our world is super stuck in the mind right now they have not been playing in the no-mind you know they forgot their childlike wonder that's one of my favorite thing my mom always just like you're just so happy all the time like I'm a child I love this universe look at this pine tree it's glorious look at this river it's so wet it's a that's like that you look at the child they're like wet water oh my god it's enough that it's wet water so yeah I'm the way I'd like I would invite you all to do this just play with something get weird experiment you don't have to be good at everything you don't need to be a professional dancer to enjoy dancing you don't need a professional singer to enjoy singing you don't even need to be good you don't even need to be good to be a professional that's the funny thing Bob Dylan has a horrible voice it's so bad and he is so good you know Leonard Cohen really bad voice beautiful poet I mean we all have a little gift but we get so caught up in and what is good what you know so I really invite us to redefine what we consider good and just throw that out the window and just have fun with it you know it's like this is be a child remember your childlike wonder it's it's such an important part of it is the balance of the of the mind you know when I sit and I make a composition there are two parts there's my 10,000 hours there are the all the things that I've studied all the all the artists the composers the musicians all the photographers all those parts of the different ways that I can put something together and then there's the most important part the things that make it so art and all of your ideas and your creativity they come through you not from you they don't belong to you and they're not yours and that is your mind and I'm out of time and I love you very much and I look forward to playing music for you