Dear Brother,

We need your voice.

We need your truth.

We need your story.

We need your pain.

Today’s podcast provides a massive permission slip for you to open the floodgates of public creativity.

This originated as a voice note that I sent to the Kingly Business Incubator within Council of Kings.

I felt to give all of you a deeper taste of the kinds of transmissions I’m sending to the brothers who are part of our alliance of builders.

Here is the full, lightly-edited transcript as well, for those who prefer to read it:

Hey brothers,

Creation and creativity can be very easy. It is very easy when it’s just flowing. You just let it flow.

We can get so many ideas that creativity is hard, that it all has to be meticulously planned out and meticulously edited, and that there are all these steps you have to go through.

A lot of that can just be burned down. You can throw away all those ideas.

Because the most important thing, initially, is to get into the zone of creating and publishing ongoingly.

If you don’t have that skill, if you haven’t opened the volcano of being able to create ongoingly, then it’s not going to matter how good your strategy is, if you are not able to be a firehose of creation.

If that’s your calling, then first and foremost, you need to open the firehose.

And that can be really liberating and really simple.

Literally, you can just press record on a video, stream of consciousness, talk about something, and immediately upload it exactly as it is. It’s that simple.

The vast majority of my videos have just been me doing that, with zero editing.

Similar with social media posts or blog posts. You can just sit down, write something — 100, 200, 500 words stream of consciousness — hit publish, and toss it out there.

The vast majority of my posts are written that way with very little editing. Maybe I read back through them once or twice before publishing, then just put them out there.

If it’s a longer essay, I might do some deeper revision or editing. But so much of my creativity occurs as a pure flow of inspiration: just letting it flow, letting it rip, putting it out there.

And I think a lot of you guys are actually creating a lot in your life, but there’s a gap between creating and publishing.

You’re creating tons of gold in your journals, in your poetry books, in the background, but you’re not hitting the publish button.

That’s a gap to overcome as well.

You want to become comfortable with open-sourcing your life, open-sourcing your process, if you’re called in that direction. Not everyone is authentically called to go there.

But I think a lot of us here have this authentic calling to open-source our lives, our process, and our creativity for the good of all.

That’s part of our medicine: to pulse and blast our signal into the field.

It’s a very noisy world, and your signal is valuable.

The signal that comes from your heart, your wisdom, your inner child, your true voice, your true pain.

Another common fallacy is:“Oh, I can’t create or record right now because I’m in pain. I’m struggling.”

But that’s the gold.

We need that.

That’s the juice.

We need to hear about your pain, your struggle.

You recording a stream-of-consciousness video about your real pain will probably be more powerful than a hundred videos of you having a peak experience and saying, “I’m so enlightened right now and life is easy.”

We need your pain.

There’s so much juice there. So much rawness, potency, power, and realness.

Another common fallacy in the spiritual community is,“Oh, I’m not enlightened enough yet, so who am I to share anything?”

Nobody’s actually enlightened.

Enlightenment is a fiction.

There is no destination of enlightenment.

No one is fully enlightened. Anyone claiming to be fully enlightened is full of s**t, and you should stop listening to that person because God is inexhaustible.

There’s a reason God is known as infinity.

Infinity goes on forever.

There’s no end to deepening with God and opening to God.

And thank heavens for that, because that is eternal fulfillment.

It fulfills on ever deeper levels. Further and further oceanic depths of mystery are revealed. Ever more profound love is revealed, embodied, and shared.

And when you realize that, it’s just like:“Oh, we’re all like children on our hands and knees, just getting started, and eternity’s going to be a long beautiful time.”

You have way more of value to share than you might realize.

So you’ve got to burn down those barriers and get that skill moving of volcanically putting it out there.

Eliminate that gap between creation and publishing.

Eliminate that gap between experiencing and creating.

All of life is art, and all of life can be translated into art at any time.

And the best way is when it’s easy.

The best way is when it’s pure inspiration.

It might feel like bleeding onto the page, but it’s still gushing out of you naturally because it’s real, it’s overflowing.

You’re having an insight, or you feel something hit you in the heart, and you’re like:“I feel a spontaneous overflow, a creative inspiration to translate this into art right now. Translate this into a video. Translate this into an audio.”

Like I’m doing right now.

Burn down the gap and get comfortable being that firehose of signal.

Then over time, you can shape your signal more.

For one, you can see who your organic signal is attracting. That’s extremely valuable because those people are going to be your true soul family.

If you are sharing your raw soul, the people who resonate with that are going to be the souls most closely linked with you and most similar to your template in this lifetime.

So that’s a huge upside of prolific creativity:You call in the soul fam.

And at the same time, over time, you can also get clearer on:“What are some of my most central messages?”

If I’m trying to create an ecosystem or a business around what I’m doing, what am I actually offering people?

What services am I offering?

And how can I start to shape my art and content to speak even more directly to the person I’m creating for, educating them about what I’m offering?

But you won’t be able to do that effectively if you haven’t already developed the skill of being the firehose of creativity, being the volcano, giving zero f***s what people may think about it.

And the way to do that is baptism by fire: Just putting the reps in.

You can’t think your way into not caring what people think.

You repeatedly subject yourself to the fire and realize that it doesn’t actually affect your deepest essence.

Connect to the part of you that is completely beyond any criticism or any other human ape’s opinion of what you’re doing.

Be open to feedback, for sure. Be open to reflections.

But don’t give a f**k what people think.

Just put your organic signal out there.

Know that if you’re really laying your heart and soul on the line and sharing what’s real for you, that echoes for eternity, and the opinion of no mortal can touch that.

So just put it out there.

And yeah, as you develop that skill, you can shape it more over time to become more dialed in around what you’re specifically offering.

But even then, for me, I still need to make plenty of space for organic inspiration and organic creativity.

It’s never worked for me to be overly rigid, formulaic, or overly planned out.

I’m sure some people can do that, but for me, sometimes I wake up thinking I’m going to work on one thing, and then suddenly I’m like:“I feel like I’m meant to make a song right now.”

Then I trust that, make the song, and listen to it a hundred times over the next days. It becomes a charge-up, a power-up that I needed.

So you want to leave open space for pure inspiration and honor that inspiration when it’s coming through.

Otherwise it can dry up. You can lose touch with it.

The well of inspiration is limitless. But if you’re not honoring your pure inspiration, it might vacate for a while. It might go speak to someone else and try to find another portal to manifest through because you’re not honoring it.

So honor that inspiration.

And don’t keep it to yourself.

Don’t keep it locked up in your journal where no one can see it.

Put it out there so other people can receive it, benefit from it, and find medicine in it.

Thanks for listening, brothers.

Much love.

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