Episode 110

Earth Dog

In our last Episode 109, Nothing, I coined the term elony, which roughly translates to virtuosity at letting the universe deliver epic outcomes. Practical application of arcane insights. In Episode 109, Nothing, I opined that Elon Musk seems like the most obvious embodiment of elony in our times. Seamus pointed out that Elon recently got into trouble for tweeting confusing / misleading information about Tesla, and the SEC smacked him down. So Elon can fuck up, which is good news. Since he is capable of making mistakes, he is likely human — just like us. He’s nothing special; just a guy who consistently tunes in to the larger part of himself AND seems to have compelling clarity about what he wants. Wanting is what I’d like to explore in the next couple of episodes. How to acknowledge what we want. Another word might be identify or even remember. We’re beginning a gentle segue out of the third season of the Daughter of Godcast, Summer Vacation, and back into our movie adventure. This is Episode 110, Earth Dog.

I might remind you that this podcast is about moviemaking, specifically making Daughter of God, a movie I wrote in 2005 and started shooting in 2006, 12 to 13 years ago. My first feature. How making this movie made me. Going from human being to being fully human.

Daughter of God, she is coming. Ever closer now, the Chinese year of the DOG wraps on February 4, 2019. Are there still lots of moving parts, adventures, and discoveries ahead? Oh yes, expect mucho manifesting in the next four months. With the end so close, I am ready to revel in what I want to experience while and when DOG gets done. What shape of completion feels the most exquisite? Emphasizing the experience of completion over the incidentals of completion (e.g., a feature film), is how we realize the best DOG ever. What do I want… to feel?

Desires. Aren’t they mysterious? How do we know what we want? Before we can follow our bliss, what is bliss? What is your compelling desire? Do you know? Would you like to know? Does knowing make a difference?

I’ve come to celebrate desire as the mechanism of reality creation. What we want is super important, vital, essential, the beginning of everything. To deny or ignore our desire is to douse the cosmic fires, short-circuit the glorious universe, and shut off the lights. Without powerful desire, we’re left groping in the dark.

Most of the turbulence associated with strong desire is the belief that dreams don’t come true. Or that they very rarely do unless we struggle and suffer — no pain, no gain. Even with hard work and perseverance, success is elusive.

Maybe the idea of hard work could be utter shite.

Maybe dreams coming true and struggle aren’t compatible, which is why dreams mostly don’t come true; we’ve been going about dreams coming true all wrong. What if the most effective dream-realizing action felt easy, even pleasurable — like calling on our full potential and getting a robust answer, or going deep into our resilience and flexibility, or having the delight and wonder of helping diverse elements fall perfectly into place.

We can’t invite our desires in and serve them biscuits and tea if we are fairly certain that no matter how hard we try desires are almost always thwarted. When trying and effort is the ONLY option, then desires have to stay outside where all the other dangerous wild things live.

Maybe the dreams-come-true recipe is strong desire coupled with confidence in the efficacy of great-feeling action. That IS the recipe, basically. Just for fun, pretend I’m telling the truth. That you now know how to make any dream come true. What desires would you let off the leash? What wild dreams would you dare to dream?

At first, this felt like a big leap for me to make. My transition to an effective dreams-come-true awareness is pretty far along now; the amazing, ecstatic completion of Daught