Join Emmy Award winner Gary Malkin in a conversation about the destiny music and transformative media can play in aligning us all around the fire of life itself.
“For millennia, gathering around fire has been inspiring conversations that evoke the imagination, help people remember and understand others in their social networks, heal rifts of the day, and convey information about ways of being that generate productive behavior and relational trust.” - Polly Wiessner, Anthropologist
Sometime about 400,000 years ago, human beings learned to control and access the gifts of fire. Beyond the obvious utilitarian results of this primal resource, anthropologists suggests that fire consistently provided a context within which our ancestors could expand their minds, open their hearts, and access their souls, together, in ways that solidified social networks and delivered meaning and connection to life itself.
Now, with the advent of the virtual “fires” around which we gather – online screens that enable us to connect with one another no matter where we are –more multi-dimensional ways are required to awaken the primordial forces that unite us with our shared concerns for coming home to ourselves, creating peace, alleviating suffering, and bridging our differences. The primal need to rest in the power of simply being together, without overly relying on our linear/rational modes of communication, is as essential to us as breath.
Although nothing can come close to being in proximity with one other in real time, we can learn to harness the generative powers of music, sound, and awe-inspiring images of nature to provide a proxy for the ancient fires of our ancestors. Research has shown that of all our senses, hearing is among the first to arrive—in utero—and the last to go before we take our last breath. This suggests that music, sounds, and stories might offer us accelerated pathways to our essential nature, manifesting as heightened and more integrated states of being. When sharing the vibrational impact that these experiential resources can offer in our virtual gatherings, we can be more fully present with our bodies, hearts, and souls in alignment with our minds, generating loving awareness and providing a more heart-centered communal experience of the “now”. This enables us to feel the fullness of our humanity, resulting in greater aliveness, meaning, and compassion, especially as we deepen our capacities to convene, collaborate and co-create together during these heart-wrenching times.
Gary Malkin is an Emmy award-winning composer, performer, and public speaker whose work redefines the role of music as a transformational catalyst to awaken emotional and spiritual intelligence into the fabric of our lives. He has interviewed and musically enhanced the spoken wisdom of hundreds of the world’s most influential thought leaders, including Deepak Chopra, Bob Proctor, Angeles Arrien, Desmond Tutu, and Elisabeth Kubler Ross, among many others. Through his life-affirming company, WisdomoftheWorld.com, he creates aesthetic ways to face life transitions with more gratitude and Grace, especially through the globally-acclaimed listening resource, Graceful Passages, co-created with the healing creative team, Michael and Doris Stillwater. For the last twenty years, this transformative work has supported nearly a million people to accept the life’s losses with greater compassion and acceptance. Gary has spent the last four decades creating music for all forms of media including Netflix’s new production of the long-running television series Unsolved Mysteries. He is also the composer of Foster and Kiimberly Gamble's groundbreaking documentaries, Thrive I and II, which have been seen by nearly 100 million people in 28 languages. Frequently featured on global webinars and teaching Multi-Sensory Education for organizations such as the European-based Global Institute for Evolving Women, Gary provides humanizing musical solutions for many of the challenges facing our society today. An active member of the Association for Transformational Leaders and the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, you can learn more about his work at www.WisdomoftheWorld.com
Co-convener:
Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
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