01 Who Are You?

I am the silence, observing the quarreling mind. I am the complete circle that knows no end. And each time that the rotation is made the circle becomes smaller but the experience broadens. I am nothing but heart, in all its seemingly complex venues, a still place where everything can happen and nothing ever does. I am as I said earlier, a work in progress. Growth and life and death and change and all things bury me with their ideas so as to set me free from my own mind.

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Today I feel like I am the silence in the making of this movie. Tokyo is loud and big and I feel small and quiet. I am this world.

02 What is your personal history? Where did you come from? What makes you, you?

Personal history: Why did I include this question? Can you see me laughing? Well I was born and raised in Texas and when I was just six years old…..kidding. I’m going to make it short. I had my first spiritual experience when I was eleven. I wanted to know more about the purpose for my existence. I was rebellious and reckless as a teenager to the point of self-destruction, yet I had reason. I always wanted more from life than I saw available. So I went on a spiritual crusade. I had teachers and masters and experimented fully in many religions. In short, I was relentless. I hit rock bottom in every aspect until one day I decided that it was all a big, huge waste of time and energy. From that point on I started to listen to what was being offered to me but that I could not see before. I am a work in progress and I hope the succession continues for the entirety of this life.

Where did I come from: Texas. Before Texas I don’t know but I am finding my way back with the help of this beautiful world.

What makes me: Nothing and Everything. And since these biographies will change once a month, I am sure the answers will too.

03 Why is the question of “Who Are You,” an important question to you, personally and for the world?

It is important to me because I don’t know myself more and more each day. And I like not knowing me because somehow I know my being better the less I know myself. HMMM!
I think the heart is becoming the eye of the world. It is no mystery that we evolve, but it is a mystery as to where we are evolving too. All I have to do is look around and I don’t know about you but I see potential, a whole lot of it. That is why the question is important to me personally and the world.

04 Why are you giving a part of your life to make this project?

I have to ask myself here, are you kidding me? I give me whole life to this “project.” It is the immense vastness of the choice to continually ask myself this question that has been the propeller of my life. It drags me inward, pushes me to evolve, and confronts me. It changes me everyday. I am not giving part of my life. I am giving my whole life.

05 What do you think it means to the people around you, such as your family and friends? And what do you think it will mean to the people who will watch it?

Part One: I think that this will confirm to my family and some of my friends of my utter insanity. That is cool, because now I won’t feel like I need to hide it! Okay that was a lie because I haven’t hid my insanity to anyone, and this will just reaffirm my peeps beliefs about me. I am kidding, really I am. I think some will view what we are doing as a waste of time or not get it at all. I think others will respect the fact that we are doing this and admire the work it takes to accomplish a project of this scope. I also believe some of my clan will see value in this film and be excited that it is being made, because it is for them and everyone. The rest, see sentence one of this paragraph.

Part Two: Wow what a loaded question I ask here! Shame on me for asking the crew to answer this, and shame on me for going ahead and answering! I don’t know what it will mean to the people who will view it. I don’t know that any of us do. I am hopeful that it will inspire people to ask themselves who they are and really listen to what the heart has to say. I hope it inspires people to change their lives, get up and do something to help change the world by seeing themselves through the eyes of the world. I only hope this because it has been my experience when asking myself this question that I change and because of that everything changes. I know how the question has inspired me and how it continues to inspire me.

06 What does it mean to you to be involved with this project on a personal level?

Because I wrote these questions, I am laughing right now. To me involvement equates to evolving. It isn’t really a project to me. It is my life. It could be an insane act of throwing money into a bonfire while dancing the polka in a straight jacket. But that would just be that, because I don’t really have a choice, unless you consider a choice-less choice to be a choice. My involvement is personal in the way that I want to keep going in this spiritual vacuum. I feel like I am just paying attention to my heart and the wakefulness of living in that place. My intention is love and my direction comes from my intention. So I guess this mission means I am alive and listening.

07 What is this documentary about?

The short of it is love… at least that is our intention. Awareness of where in the world we are regarding our consciousness is what we seek to show. To explain this documentary is a hard thing to do. I guess it is really about letting the documentary explain itself. I can preface the project by telling you what I believe this documentary is about, however it won’t matter in the end because you will have your own idea. I know I am not explaining much, so let me show you the basic treatment.
The world is full of complex and simple spirituality. People are only aware as much as they choose to be, usually within the confines of their own spiritual path. There is much interest with people I meet to go into deeper states of consciousness. Conversely there is a lot of disinterest about this subject. We want to show the diversity of the world, from a spiritual perspective, by asking the question, “Who Are You?” Then we want to explore why that question is important or not, and show it visually so that all of us, you and me, see the importance of questioning our lives for our own personal realization and the evolving world around us. We want to see change in our world. We want to show it and we want to be it.