SPLASH! Audrey dove in!
Here's the follow up to last week's interview with everyday visionary, Audrey Parker. If you're a visionary or you want to be one, listening to the full audio will fill your spirit. It gets deeply moving, and you get to see the process of how one EVOLVES as a visionary.
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That was a very energizing interview . Audrey’s passion for her vision is “positively” electric. Very powerful!
Though I did feel badly that a line of demarcation was drawn between those young enough to “get it”, and make a difference.. and those who were too old to be included. Don’t count us out.. it’s been proven that you CAN teach an old dog new tricks.
Your message drives home deeply to the deepest parts of my spirit. It stirs something within that I don’t believe that anyone or anything I have ever encountered has ever touched. Yet, I think there is some sense of fear or caution on my part. I feel the call, I understand it, it makes sense to me, it speaks to who I am at my deepest levels….. yet, it feels as though I have been so beat up by life, so disillusioned, so reprogrammed, retrained, re-educated, over the years that it is hard to answer that call….I feel as though someone, something very important with a significant message is calling to me insistently and I’m trying to find the common ground, the launching point, the answers to my questions of a lifetime, that will allow me to move forward in a revolutionary new path from where I am at. I saw a program about a famous rich rapper who is doing lots of great stuff with his wealth, giving back, mobilizing his community politically, etc., etc. and I saw one of his supporters, an African American man make the statement that poverty begins here..he pointed to his temple. saying it begins in the mind. And they are doing their best to break that poverty mentality and show their people that they can succeed, they can make it. It was profound and I can’t get that image out of my mind…I can see that could apply to everything else in life. It all begins there…..in our minds. I’ve been re-assessing things within my own life lately….but distracted by the practical necessities of living, jobs etc….but, I feel I’m swimming around the edges of great, profound mysteries of life, the answers to the dilemmas of one such as I. The truths that will set me free to be liberated to another level…………anyway, you got me thinking with your 3:45 a.m. message of all these things. J.M.
Yes, Audrey, those feelings you had, wondering if people would come to your gathering, if they would be the “right” people, if they would be affected by what you had to offer – I still have those questions in my mind after 5 or more years of hosting World Conversations for whoever shows up. Will anyone show up? Can I help them empower and inspire each other? And you know, it always works!
Every Sunday after the World Conversation, I feel the high I heard in your voice. I can’t wait to tell others of the wonderful people I met from all over the world, And what they are doing with their lives.
This is too big a decades-long story to tell here, of commitment to a Vision that I live every day of my life. I love my life. It is sometimes very hard, unfair, challenging, always creative. Mine is one of the happiest and most creative, contributing lives I know.
Yes Michael, turn them on to the fact that they can contribute so much, and really come alive doing it.
I keep looking for a section from you, Michael, about other Visionaries who are committed and have found their path. Like Muhammed Unis. Like Ashoka.
Thanks for sharing, Michael, Audrey, JM et al
Sami