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We're a couple, so it adds an extra layer of joy and of pain, I will say, to navigate business and personal life. But it's where we get the greatest insights. We can be the most vulnerable, and we've always shown up on screen as being with the community that we're building or with the client. And I think that openness and showing them who we really are helps them realize, we're all the same. So that's the unique proposition that it's wonderful what we're doing as an action, but to do it together is magical, and that's real purpose, is the energy of two souls working together. We were always using sound therapy. We were using visualizations, meditation practices. But it's evolved into small communities that are growing inside of companies. And people who want a break, a shift from what they're doing, we come in and we can give them that shift in very quick periods of time. Once we can realize that we're not the only person in the world that has these thoughts, once we realize we're not the only person in this world that has those doubts, that has those fears, we recognize that life isn't that life is short, that we need to actually take risks. We need to put ourselves out there because this is the lifetime that we're meant to do it.

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I was constantly referring people, and I thought, 'Why am I constantly referring people? I don't know everyone. I don't know every healer out there. Why isn't there a trusted place they can go to start exploring, see who they connect to, see what modalities they're interested in?' That was the birth of the idea, like, 'Wait a minute, I can create this online platform and community where people can begin exploring on their own and connecting with different modalities, different practitioners, retreats, courses.' That was the birth of SoulSearch. At SoulSearch, we are here to support the building of a community of practitioners where together we support one another to co-create this new earth and also create abundance for all, including all the practitioners. It is amazing how many people I see every day coming to us. People who come to our events who have never even heard of anything metaphysical before, coming in and saying, 'I do not know why I am here. I just saw your ad on Instagram or on Facebook.' And then they show up and they are like, 'Wow, I am getting so many questions answered. I never thought I fit in. I always knew there was something more.'

"I created a local CBO, a Community-Based Organization, in my hometown. I mobilized young people, using my local church to bring together young people aged 15 to 30, both boys and girls. I started that by myself, living a purposeful life and reaching out to people that I thought would carry the values I carry. I'm glad that they were able to buy into my ideas, and together we teamed up. Now they are able to discover their potentials, what they are able to do with their lives."

We are each other's mirrors. And when we reflect to one another our truth, we become so much stronger. And that's why I love what Holomovement is doing and the Purpose Lab, because this way we're going to become united and get so much stronger. The more truthful we are to our purpose and the truth, the more others are going to find their truth. It's a vibration, right? Everything is vibration. So we just have to vibrate on the level of truth. The higher you go, the more I'm going to go with you, especially if we're in the same field. So it's going to have this ripple effect.

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Yeah, ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation was designed to support young people finding their purpose, getting out of trouble and into community. So people called, in the '80s, '90s, the 'at risk youth.' Well, every youth is at risk of following something that people don't encourage them to do. This was the problem. We started to host young people to allow themselves to first enter into the ceremonial mind, that when the logical mind is restricted by the absence of certain formal knowledge, the initiation mind begins to open. We saw now they were seeking context for something that no one was truly acknowledging in their lives, which was a ceremonial space. So the multicultural space is the fact that we took them through all these cultural protocols of ceremony, and they recovered a sense of connection to energy, then meaning, then life, then world. So it's been 28, 29 years now that that organization has been in the world, where we've moved from youth development to community development to organizational institutional development, and now to a certain way, prophetic hospitality, or hospitality for the prophetic world, the world of beings that constitutes our higher shared purpose.

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I contribute to the building of many conscious networks that are working on finding these new ways of collaborating, co-creating, coming together, and we experiment with a lot of new ways of coming together or old ways, usually actually ancient ways, I would say, in which we feel that we can be fully ourselves and do that. There's this series of events of One World with World Unity Week, Peace Week, enlightening our way together and being beloved community. That's a cycle that's been going on till 2020. We've been doing that every year. I contribute to that. I contribute to many other world movements like the Holomovement by strategically connecting, really weaving people in, and supporting the systems to the people, to deeply listen to each other. A lot of multistakeholder collaboration involves putting something in the purpose, some complex issue that nobody can do on their own and that they really need each other for. Then the purpose holder, let's say, invites them in to commit themselves to that purpose and find that part in their organization or in themselves.

I maintain communication with the parent so that we can ensure a good and successful education, and that the child can develop adequately and the parent practices it at home. So we're already doing it. Similarly, among young people right now, I'm like a projection for the youth here, because many young people perhaps don't really know. And lately, every time young people leave school, they have nothing. They're thinking, 'What am I going to do? Nobody tells me.' Many young people come to my house to talk with me, to tell me, 'I don't know what to do, what should I do?' And for me, that's wonderful, that they see me as a projection, an image of achievement, or perhaps of vision, and they can too. I show them that I can also help them achieve their dreams, that anything is possible. If I see a scholarship or something, let's go find this. I will help you. I send them all the necessary information, and that's hardly ever seen around here.

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I think my biggest fear of becoming an artist was I would be alone. If you think of any artistic endeavor as an artist, it's very solo. You're going inward. You're by yourself, and you're spending hours in your craft. What I didn't want to happen was to just retreat into my home and be hidden again. So, I decided to get a public space, an art studio that I could share and open up with others. And that's what really led to this journey of having a shop, having everything that you see here that I did not anticipate. I did not plan to open up a crystal store. I didn't plan to have a gallery. It was just a byproduct of what I was doing. I love that I get to have my own store and shop because I get to interact with people daily in a way I never used to as a graphic designer. I watch people walk through my door, and they feel a sense of relief, excitement, and happiness. Sometimes they cry when they walk in because their soul feels this feeling of permission. They're watching me live this life of my dreams, and it's showing them that it's possible.

If it's okay, I would just like to mention that there is quite a lot of research on the importance of meaning and purpose in physical health. One of the biggest causes of disease and disability throughout our lives, as all of us know, is chronic stress. All of the fight or flight responses being switched on all the time cause wear and tear on our tissues and are linked with pretty much every chronic disease that you care to name. Having meaning and having purpose is one of those things that pops up again and again as what scientists call a biological shield. There are different biological shields. Social connection is a really important biological shield, but meaning is also really important. That's been shown all the way down to levels of gene expression in people's white blood cells, to the cells of their immune system actually being pushed away from inflammation and towards anti-tumor and antiviral responses in people who have a greater meaning, a greater purpose.

When it's fully developed, Turiya really has two parts. When you look at it on the map, it's a square. One half is the retreat center, one half is the eco-village. The eco-village has about 20 lots. People can have 5 acres to half an acre. There could be people with tiny homes. There can be people with a whole acre farm or homestead, depending on what people want to do. It's really a village where yes, we have some rules, but once you purchase your lot, you can pretty much do what you want with it as long as it's along the lines of being eco-friendly. The retreat people can be by themselves, and in the middle, if people want to meet, there's like a marketplace with the greenhouse terraces where people can socialize and do stuff. We have our own two hills. The idea is that people in the village can be in the village and do their own thing. They can work at the retreat if they want to.

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I founded Sedona Quantum Consciousness five years ago when I moved to Sedona. With an understanding of frequencies and the benefit of technologies that provide healing frequencies, I decided to combine some of the tools we have, like the biocharger, with this prayer space and meditation space. Mission Mondays are very unique as people come in with their missions, and they talk to the audience about what their mission is. We collectively amplify the highest potential of that mission, setting a collective intention to pull it up a few notches. We stay in that prayerful space for 15 minutes while the biocharger is running, then move to the next mission. We have been running this for about six months now, and more people are aligning with it because they not only have their own missions but love supporting others. While we can all support financially or with our time, this does not take much. It is a great way to be in community doing something we call serving at a higher level. Frequency Fridays were our first event because I found that it was one thing to enjoy collective prayer, but what if we coupled it with Sedona sound baths? We do 15 minutes in the prayerful state, setting an intention and grounding it with certainty, and then move into the mystical world with a sound bath for the next 30 to 45 minutes.

My advice is to start exploring, either with someone or alone, asking what you actually like to do. A good starting point is the classic question: if money weren't an issue, what would you do with your time? That doesn't have to define your mission, but it helps you see what you want. Many people don't even know what they like. Their parents or life have neglected their hobbies, and they've adulted so much that they've forgotten what they enjoy. That's sad because it means you've forgotten yourself. For me, doing The Artist's Way allowed me to take steps to discover what I wanted to connect to. Some people don't even know what's available for them to enjoy. Start by finding activities that make you happy, that give you joy. Desires are important to explore because they come from you, not from somewhere else.

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I started to see people of color because I am a person of color and tried to be effective in business and interpersonal relationships. I also started to see the LGBTQ community as part of my tribe because they were othered in their existence. I began to lean in and work with underserved or underdeveloped communities early on. When the AIDS crisis happened in Africa, I felt, as an African-American, that it was impacting me, especially as an African-American male. I couldn't figure out why, and I realized I could be helpful to African men. I volunteered for an AIDS organization, Phoenix Body Positive, back in the day. I got involved in communities so I could ensure people felt seen and supported, and I tried to use my skill sets to uplift and help them. I knew I was looking for my tribe. I was in choir, and I became a concert choir member very early on. That took me into other things in life because we were competing nationally and then internationally.

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I do this by traveling, connecting with people, and bringing people together. We have been hosting these gatherings, bringing together as many diverse people as possible, very unlikely groups that would never meet, like an astronaut and a refugee. We have found that an astronaut and a refugee have much more in common than differences. They both share an incredible resilience of going into the unknown, into uncharted territories that no other human has gone before. That creates an alchemy where, even though they come from different backgrounds and socioeconomic upbringings, they share this knowing in their hearts something about humanity. That creates an incredible transformation in the gathering, where everyday people who are also invited get to listen and hear these extraordinary journeys from an astronaut and refugees. It opens people's hearts and helps them realize how much we have in common. I have a strong belief that the word strangers should not exist because there is no such thing. Strangers is a word we invented to divide us, to make us forget who we are and our relationship with each other. So let us remove that word from the dictionary because we are not strangers. We are family, and we have just forgotten, and we remember it every day.

My main thing about my success and anyone else I've ever met is no one does this alone. Get your people. Get inspiring people around you. Here's a big one. If you're around complainers, find a new set of friends. I've never met people who complain habitually who are joyful or doing things that I want to be part of. The sacred crew metaphor is the idea that you're in a lifeboat. Who do you want to be alongside when things get rough, when you're seeing the best sunset of your life, when the dolphins are jumping, when there's a leak? It's very intentional to think, who can I count on? Not everybody has to have the same skills. Let's say I'm in a really bad mood. I've got seven different people I could call because somebody might not be home. You have to democratize your suffering and your joy. One thing's for sure, are they people who are happy for you? That's a big litmus test because a lot of people are going to be there for your misery. We call it misery poker. But how many people, when you do something amazing, are as happy for you as they'd be for themselves? Part of my work for my entire life, and it's in my astrology chart since I've been 20, is that I lead groups. I lead very intentional groups of people from all over the world, and they become each other's sacred crew.

So I began a vision group in my living room. We met every Thursday night to become the vibration of a community that we wanted to build. We didn't start linearly with business plans or any of that. We wanted to be internally the frequency of unconditional love and peace, and then let the rest happen rather than, you know, let's go do a business plan. So I led this vision group, and on November 30, 1986, I had my first public service, and it's been going on ever since. Now, 189

"When you're in community and people hold you in all of your parts, then you have the space and the wherewithal to journey inward, to access more of your life's mission and purpose, and weave it into your daily living, and share it with community and have it activated. You aren't sitting alone in your apartment on a computer searching for a way to feel in connection and in community. That really is the ultimate life purpose, bringing your full self into communal spaces and having the joint resonance around that."

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"We need community more than anything else, more than we need to breathe, we need to belong. Creating these small groups have been a really important part of my life in big intention experiments because I've seen massive healings with people, people who have healed medical conditions, stage four cancer, three people getting up out of their wheelchairs, untold people with stage four cancer reversing it. I had a woman who was going blind, doctors could do nothing for her, one power of eight group and she's completely healed, she has 20/20 vision now. We've had so many situations like that where people have been healed as a result of just coming together in this group and doing these techniques that I teach them. Then with the big groups, we found extraordinary rebound effects, where half of the people taking part in our intention experiments, focusing on lowering violence somewhere, feel more love for everyone they come in contact with. Somebody said to me, you're doing more than research, you're cracking open people's hearts."

"We build safe containers where people feel safe. Everyone is acknowledged, and everyone receives the resources they need to fulfill their purpose. In communities of coherence, we guide people to be in the right placement. People need to find their purpose in their heart so they can find resonance with others. It is like music. You might be out of tune and not fit into teams, causing trouble. But once you find your tune, then you resonate with others. People vibrating at the same scale will resonate with you. When you connect to your heart and purpose, you will find resonance with others."

"Some of the conditions that are really important for most people in terms of growing their purpose: they need a supportive community of like-minded folks, but not too like-minded, so that they're also willing to challenge you and keep you on track. They need time in nature, they need spiritual connection, and often a daily mind-body practice."

] "When I think of the idea of a collective consciousness or morphogenic field, I think of nodes, almost like the planet has a set amount of nodes around it, and they all communicate with each other. How do we change that? We change that by influencing those nodes or those areas in a specific way to change the energy of the people. By you doing it with your heart, you're connecting with people, and you're part of that big field, your existence, no matter what."

"Peter and I run a lab, a creativity lab called Source to Screen, and the whole purpose of it is to help bring people into alignment. What happens is that we take three days and break it down into spiritual lessons applied to creativity. Creation is getting out of your own way so that ideas can come and find you. Manifestation is taking those ideas and bringing them down into the physical world. Then there is transmission, am I reaching people. Each group that comes to do this is weirdly aligned with each other, and literally we start these WhatsApp groups and they cannot stop talking to each other. Some people have come to work with each other, and it is really exciting. It is exciting to see people trusting, finding their voice, reaching out, leaning in, and finding ways to actually express themselves in ways that bring them joy and give purpose to their lives."

"The city council is unique. It's a body of seven, and it actually has to be a body of four, the quorum. It's a team effort. Sometimes you have a team that works well together, sometimes you don't. It's better not to, because you want different ideas, different challenges, and that makes the win that much better. We have an amazing staff here at City Hall. Most of them work almost two jobs because everybody backfills each other. If you want to get the job done right, you have to work with other people."

"One of the projects that we support with Purpose Earth is called Cazala Weaving. It's bringing together Bedouin Muslim women with Israeli women, and they are creating these extraordinarily beautiful textiles. They're working in community, even with the most recent horrific, devastating debacle in the Middle East. They are joined heart to heart, hip to hip, elbow to elbow. They're encouraging their community to lay down their differences and their anger."

"What I decided was to bring those girls that I've met together and invite other girls around the world to come together, connect with each other. That evolved into a more complex nonprofit where we do educational programs for girls to learn how to connect with themselves, but also to learn about who they are. Our programs go from Who am I to Who am I in relationship to In relationship to my community and the world."

Best Future Club was defined as the group of changemakers who are ready to change their communities through their actions. We could meet every Thursday and discuss different topics as changemakers, and then we could send different people into different communities in the refugee camp and support the different parents, children who don't have access to education. Of course, I was one of the, now in Nakivale, it's the only place where there is a Rotary Club in all the camps, refugee camps all over the world. It's only Nakivale that's where there is Rotary.

"When I'm in the flow, people begin to feel like they have more space to expand into the fullness. They have interconnections they didn't think they had. Synchronicities happen all the time, and it's so much fun. We just open to a heart space that is healing, beautiful. It's what I think most of us really want in relationship, and a sense of community arises. I love this process. I love talking about each other's passion. I love supporting each other's passion. I think it helps each of us in our own passion and finding what's right for us when we listen to others and talk about how their passion comes alive in them."

Then these young millennials came into my life, who were feeling, who saw that there was a limit to the linear mind. They were all these entrepreneurs that go to Tony Robbins events and everything, who were actually really coming up against brick walls, looking at their strategies, and they said, Gary, you've got tools to open up the soul and the heart, and that's what everyone needs and wants more than anything. I looked at them and went, are you kidding me? They've awakened my dream. That's when you remember that we are all imaginal cells in this great emergence of the butterfly of the universe, that we're all interconnected to.

"When you get creative people together in a space, when you have the right elements together, the sum is greater than its parts, and everybody's vibing off of each other. The expression of wonder that I was witnessing in myself and others then became something almost more beautiful than the art itself. To be able to facilitate that in other people became highly rewarding in a different way. It's like improv, the whole yes, and thing. If you're not caught up in your ego, this exponential growth of that creative spirit and force. That's where the muse comes from, and that's where we're unlocking parts of ourselves."

It is like a world full of adventures with Jano. More or less, it is like being inside of Minecraft or Nintendo or any game. There is always an adventure. It seems like an adventure, but instead of a real life adventure, it is an adventure of knowledge. Real life is an adventure of knowledge. Knowledge is real life for me, and knowledge for me is one of the things I value most in people, besides their loyalty. When he saw me and I started asking him things, I found out he knew a ton. I wondered, what is he going to do with this gift. I remember that day when on the bus they told me another kid was going to come named Mateo, and I was like wow, I was so excited that we were going together.

"We are big on mentorship, we're big on having a learning environment. We moved here with six employees from our previous job, and the majority of them were apprentices, people that were in an apprenticeship program I was overseeing. Trying to continue that and keep that momentum rolling, where we continuously create an environment where people can learn and be pushed into situations where they're a little uncomfortable and out of their comfort zone, is important. That way, they're growing constantly. We just sent one of our sous chefs to his first ever ACF competition, and he placed bronze in his first go out of about 12 people. Little moments like that show that something is working."

"That has been a step-by-step process, meeting key people and forming friendships in those different communities: my Islamic friends, my Sufi friends, my Baha'i friends, all of the above, my Hindu friends, my yoga devotees, Aboriginal connections to land and country, and progressively developing an increasing understanding and recognition of how infinite, endless, and eternal it all is. That has activated me through friendships, by meeting people at the right time, in different ways, for different events and projects, and just falling in love with humanity has been a huge part of what has brought me to the recognition and realization of how to activate my purpose. I think it's a process, ultimately, of just saying yes, and then that leads to the next thing."

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"I truly believe connection is the opposite of addiction. The Connection Room is a place to bring people together. It hosts events, training, and other modalities. We rent it out for baby showers, weddings, and retreats, including a four-day Spiritual Radiant Awakening retreat. I also started the Northern Arizona Roots Music Festival, a clean music concert, because music is healing for me. Unlike other concerts where people are smoking and drinking, we created a sober environment. And Erase the Stigma, a free learning event for the community. I would get five to seven speakers, 20 to 30 booths from organizations helping people with addictions. It takes a village, really. It takes a whole bunch of people working with just one person to meet them where they're at, guide them, be an example, and actually love them through the process."

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The inspiration was, what if we created a hub that brings all these different myriads of practices under one umbrella, where people could go on their own terms, find practices of interest, and connect with others of like mind? That was the inspiration for creating Contemplative Life, the nonprofit. Through Contemplative Life, I came across the work I am doing now with Prosocial World. I was introduced to David Sloan Wilson, my colleague and co-founder of Prosocial World. As I learned more about it, the light bulb came on. Oh my word, this is what so many have been looking for. It is an integrated scientific framework for cooperation. It integrates three sciences: the work of Elinor Ostrom, who won the Nobel Prize in economics for her work on avoiding the tragedy of the commons, modern evolutionary science, which is the science of cooperation and conscious evolution, and contextual behavioral science. Science and spirituality need each other. Science needs spirituality for the same reason I suggested before, it does not go deep enough. On the other side, spiritual communities are some of the most dysfunctional of any communities, so they need the mechanics of cooperation and the things that science can provide.

"The last step is to really find support, either a person, a coach, a teacher, or ideally a group. This was the biggest gift I gave to myself: I found my soul group and I traveled with them over time doing this deep, explorative work. It has to be a safe group, and it has to be a solid container. When you find your right group, they help you feel safe enough so that you can take off a mask, let that vulnerability show through, so that you can get to that core. They can reflect back to you, I see you, and better yet, I can feel you, and I love it, and keep on doing it. That's the work. Your group will be able to know you faster than you ever will yourself, which is kind of mind-blowing."

"If you were to sit down with my colleagues and partners, they would share what I am sharing, which is it is just a beautiful place to be. People do not have sharp elbows. It is a caring environment, a thoughtful environment, an environment where people really are grateful for each other's contributions. It is truly a conscious workplace. These things can take time to really create and gain momentum, but as they come into their fullness, it is a beautiful thing. You never want to go back to those old fear-based environments that all of us are probably familiar with."