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.
Fierce Love ~ a mirror held to what is broken. Not to condemn but to awaken. This is a film for those who know they now have no choice. For those who know that it’s time. Their time.
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.
The ability to see through the eyes of another holds the key to empathy, and I mean ‘see’ in its most expansive of definitions. And such empathy exists as a quality that might transform the complexion of everything. This film reveals the experience of a world through the eyes of paranoid schizophrenia.
Imagine your life, or your child’s life following its course and then an abrupt and brutal turn. The sudden onset of Schizophrenia. A violent shock to what was. A loss. At a loss. And a soul rendered desolate and alone.
Perhaps with understanding comes the falling away of judgment. And with the falling away of judgment comes the ability to see another with a profound accuracy. And perhaps with such an ability to see comes the opportunity to share in a wealth beyond measure. Filmed in a maximum security prison in Central America.
One can be asked what one wants a thousand times, yet the words remain impotent. Unheard amongst the deafening echoes of our modern age. And then one day, the world quiets. And those very same words find their way to the attention of your soul.