Presentation to Uplift Festival, 12.14.2014

We are at a place of initiation, the crossroad of choice that will determine if we travel together into a higher way of being or plummet back into the darkness to continue searching for the light. We are on the precipice of an evolutionary leap, one that requires us to transcend our differences and integrate into a more harmonized way of being. All

So if we find ourselves the inheritors of a political, economic and cultural narrative that is leading us well and truly in the wrong direction, then it appears we have little choice but to come together and collectively rewrite a more resonant human story. But how do we do this? What are the narratives that need replacing? And which new ones might

These shifts happen all the time. Often, they involve a change of perspective and scale—seeing our own lives in much wider contexts of history, geography and culture, part of a bigger ‘now’, and a bigger ‘here’. They involve giving up older illusions and attachments, such as to the symbols of the tribe or the rituals of religions.