Little Cosmologies

Last week I recorded a story for my subconscious to help me step into my destiny as a writer. I've been listening to it every day for over a week and the results have been incredible!

In this episode, I share everything I've learned from this experiment and all the positive changes I feel in myself as a result. I also talk about how you can use AI to develop your intuitive awareness and use it in service of your creative projects.

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This week, I was thinking about a few short stories I wrote around 2016.

In these stories, my main characters all suffered from a lack: a lack of love, passion, desire, belief or connection. The people around them were living, but my protagonists were stuck.

They didn’t know what they wanted or how that made them feel, and even if they did they wouldn’t be able to articulate it.

Their condition was a reflection of my own.

In today’s episode, I talk about how your writing can show you the inner work you need to do, plus how my intuition guided me this week to work on my projects in a way that didn't involve writing.

I'm in Vancouver now!

In this episode, I talk about my move here, how tired it made me, and how I kept ignoring all of my guidance that was telling me to rest. 

Between unpacking, being with my daugther, and catching up on business-related work, I have been so tired.

All of my guidance was telling me to rest, but I felt a pressure to devote time to my writing projects. I hadn't worked on them in a couple of weeks and I felt guilty for ignoring them.

But whenever I tried to work on them, I sat in front of the screen uninspired and without anything to give.

Eventually, I gave into my guidance and rested. As soon as I did, I was reminded (through tarot cards, a book I returned to, my Akashic Records) of how we can make our creative work easy and effortless. 

In this episode, I'm talking about the effortless way to create. Enjoy!

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In the past month and a half, I’ve made huge progress on the TV show I’m developing, I’ve written a children’s chapter book in full, I’ve had ideas for two more books, I’ve relaunched this podcast, I started a newsletter on Substack and have two different series of articles going up there every week. 

The best part about all this work is that it hasn’t been hard. At all.

Because I've learned exactly how to use my intuition to receive the specific projects I'm here to create and how I can recall the energy (the muse) that delivered these ideas every time I sit down to work so that the creative process is easy and fun!

In this episode, I share how you can do this, too!

I discuss:

• how to invite your intuition in
• how to remain open to receiving ideas and clarity on your work
• why never to force a project
• how I learned my anxiety and depression was related to the creative work I'm here to make
• why it's important to be selfish with your art
• how you can work with me to discover the specific projects you're here to create and how you can use your intuition to bring these out to the world with ease

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I’m very excited for today’s episode because it’s a first for the Little Cosmologies podcast - I’m not here alone! I have a guest joining me. Her name is Sholeh Wolpé. She’s a poet, author, translator, playwright, and, as you'll see, an incredibly insightful person.

In our conversation, we spend a lot of time discussing a book she translated called The Conference of the Birds. Written in the late 12th Century by a man named Farid ud-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds is an allegorical poem about our spiritual journey.

It’s when I felt most lost that I found Attar, and I found the language of the "Path" — a concept he uses to describe our lifelong journey to find the light of the Beloved reflected within us. 

The title of today's episode is taken from Sholeh's wonderful forward to the book.

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Sholeh Wolpé

The Conference of the Birds

Abacus of Loss

Last month I wrote a letter to the universe and asked for very specific things to come into my life. Most of them were things that support me on my path as a writer. After writing that letter, everything changed.

I felt like I had taken off a mask I had been wearing for a long time and I had more clarity than ever on what I wanted my life to look like.

By far, the biggest change to come from this letter is that I’ll be moving to Vancouver next month.

I moved to LA last fall because I felt it was absolutely necessary for me to be here, without really knowing why.

And now that I’m leaving it’s left me to wonder what was the purpose of coming here? I felt such a strong pull to be here. I was even told in my Akashic Records that this is my home. So why do I now feel pulled to leave?

Maybe this whole time in LA was for me to have a place with supportive energy to make me more confident in expressing what I want — and also in discovering what it is I want. For a long time, I couldn’t articulate it, because I didn’t know exactly what I wanted.

I’m here now and I’ve grown so much. I’ve seen what I want. I want to be with my daughter, who lives in Vancouver, and I want to make a very good living as a writer, storyteller and creative. And I can make that happen in Vancouver.

In today’s episode of the Little Cosmologies podcast (link in bio), I go into detail about my letter to the universe, including all of the many changes it sparked. I end it by talking about the documentary Jim & Andy (about Jim Carrey’s experience playing Andy Kaufman for the film Man on the Moon).

It’s a really great documentary. If you haven’t, I recommend watching it. At the end of the documentary, Jim Carrey talks about being yourself, your true self. He says that at some point you need to take a chance on being loved or hated for that person, for being you, or kill who you really are.

For a long time, I killed who I was. And now it’s time to take the chance. 

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• Interview with Emmanuel Carrère

I’m back! Welcome to a new season of the Little Cosmologies podcast! Today, I’m talking about giving yourself permission to create something different. Release your expectations of what you think you should create (because you’ve always done that or said you would do that) and invite new possibilities into your creative world.

When I opened myself to the new, an idea for a children’s chapter book series rapidly unfolded and within a few evenings I had a strong draft of the first book! And then I thought about this podcast — it can be anything. So why not try something new with it?

There’s a lot of beauty in finding the unexpected like this, and it’s only possible when we’re not clinging to stuff from the past, like who we think we should be or what we should create. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done before. Are you open to what you can do now?

I invite you to bask in the infinite possibilities and total openness of the present moment. It’s like standing under the sun — you’re so warm you feel like you’re glowing. And as Ram Dass says, nothing kills the glow faster than clinging.

I also talk about how I’m using AI as my writing partner, give you a brief synopsis of the TV series I’m creating, plus let you know what you can expect in the season ahead.

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Be well.

x Ben

Like Spotify Wrapped but for those magical place-time moments, when nothing was really happening but you were experiencing it all. The audio was pulled from a video I posted on YouTube. Watch it here.

I’ve been a bit of a nomad this year. Since January, I’ve been living in short term Airbnbs and I’ve moved, on average, once a month. Today, I’m sharing how I've found freedom in living with less attachment to physical things - even a consistent home.

I'm back and I'm talking about what I've been up! My trip to Scotland, the screenplay I'm writing, an upcoming move, and a story of how Ram Dass has been helping me in this new chapter of my life. Enjoy!