A life rarely reveals itself as a straight line. There are experiences that shape us before we understand them. This Soul Biography traces the arc of such a life where somewhere inside a profound loss, an early knowing returned: that life might be asking something more.
What begins as a yearning for freedom can become something quieter and more radical – the recognition that freedom may not depend on our limitations, wounds or circumstances disappearing. In the stillness, another possibility can emerge. Not free from. Free with.
This an ancient trailer sequence of Soul Biographies as they used to be, and in many respects still are.
This is unusual. Filmed Fall of 2019. This 30 minutes of footage is pretty much uncut. Insights, admissions and all. It is deeply reflective and revealing of where this work is now to be pointed, and the contrarian nature of life and purpose finding you rather than you heading off to find it.
I sat in front of the camera with nothing to bring. There was stillness, space and time. And the knowing that these three were well suited partners. The resulting three minutes speak of something I’ve noticed. Something you may find useful – A human warmth and profound human connection that lives beyond all our seeming differences.
Morgan Fisher spent many successful and raucous years playing in major rock bands. He gave it up. And then one day on an express train from Osaka to Kyoto he was hit by the awareness of something so simple. So simple yet so profound that it’s quite possible that he might have missed it altogether.
An extremely short film on the dangers of self importance. Self importance should carry a government health warning. But since it doesn’t, there is work to be done. Featuring the Film Maker.
It’s a feeling inside that defies definition. It’s an experience of wholeness. An experience of tranquility. Of peace. An experience of home. It’s an experience of life. I could stay here all day.
‘It happens with people. It happens in solitude. It happens in the midst of incredible busyness. And incredible stillness.’ Might you take a step towards a contemplative life. A meditative life. A life of quiet and courageous transformation.
As we stand in strange uncertain times, or perhaps as we fall to our knees under the sheer weight of not knowing, did we hear what it is that this age is asking of us?