“It is always a start.”

-Mobiustrip -

 

So this is the start of this part of the story. Where one significant achievement draws to an end and makes way for a new one to begin.

 

There is a mystery to all this that I know is important and as much as I want to share everything in great detail and be as accurate, precise and explicit as possible, I must allow people to discover their own awareness knowing first. 

 

There is as much theatre in this project as there is science and architecture. I might be bringing some props onto the world stage but even I don’t fully know what they are going to be used for yet.

 

There is a mastery to the mystery I must obey here.

 

Just over 3 years ago I had a call to adventure to push the limits of the creative process and trust in how emergent outcomes are enhanced if you don’t make them your end point. If “it is always a start” then there isn’t really an end point as such, so it must all be process in flow, all ways and always.

 

I had dived deep into exploring the origins of creativity in response to my frustrations with having to supply justification, in pragmatic terms, for being creative and investing precious resources (time, money and materials) into projects that I felt inspired to engage with. If I could just provide a clear and reasonable argument for the absolute need to respond to creativity wholeheartedly then I would be liberated from the conflicts of resource management and free to unleash all I had to give to the world. It was my way of living fully and no longer suffering from trying to fit into a world that seemed only to value pragmatic applications for outcomes that sustained the outcomes it was so heavily locked into, ad infinitum. 

 

The project that became the ePod was my way of expanding my well-being and I felt utterly convinced that it had to be more than just my own well-being that needed to benefit from it if it were to be truely expanded.

 

I then spent several years looking into “well-being” as I had seen how an inaccurate and incomplete understanding of what “well-being” was, often had the reverse effect of what it is intending to do. My research demanded I do better if it were to help.

 

This is of course all a matter of perspective and required further research so that when it came time to talk about it all I could do so with some authority.

 

If it weren’t challenging though I probably wouldn’t have invested the time.

 

And It is all challenge. 

 

I eventually realised that the only way I could bring some of the significant benefits of my research and work into the awareness of others was to build something that would hold their attention for long enough for them to deepen their curiosity sufficiently to form questions that they might then seek to answer.

 

This was my way of inviting conversations and seeing where they went from there. 

 

But it started because of my love for music and not for some visionary altruistic reason. 

 

It was just play. 

 

The heart of my need to be creative is to play. The heart of my play was music. For me music is the closest experience I get to the flow of the universe and I hope that through my efforts and sacrifices, to bring into reality something that I now know expands awareness if you are present, engaged and willing to learn, that others will discover their own awareness knowing and expand this universal well-being.

 

However. Well-being is not about ‘not suffering’. If we remove the suffering before it does what it needs to do we only shift the suffering into some other form until it does what it needs to do there instead. 

 

So I suffered for this project. Sleeping in a van and living alfresco with no running water, electricity or proper ablutions, missing my beloved family now living half a world away so that I can focus solely on some esoteric project, with only just enough money to pull the project together through shear determination and ingenuity.

 

It really tested my capacity to suffer and learn.

 

With clear understanding of holding true to my well-being integrity, I suffered until I had expanded my well-being sufficiently to achieve the start of this next part of the journey and do the harder part of expanding well-being for others.

 

This became about education but not in the explicit way we are all so familiar with. This is education without measurable outcomes. This is education that trusts in the creative process and that if you engage with whatever process you feel is significant and meaningful to you and do it wholeheartedly, whatever outcomes do emerge, they will be undeniably amazing. 

 

Fortune favours the prepared.

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It was through serendipity that produced a chance encounter that led to the plan of getting the ePod installed at Geraldine Primary School and allowing the school to develop an educational program that would utilise the unique geospheric structure of the ePod and it’s intelligently crafted interior to best suit their needs. 

 

I believe that Geraldine school is the ideal place for the ePod to first land as it is all about connecting with what is local, on a human level, and the relationships within. This is the geometry of life. It connects unity with uniqueness without losing either and if we learn this when we are young we will certainly expand universal well-being beyond what is currently possible.

 

I feel that the ePod is a testament to the very process of helping us learn this and I continue to discover the mysteries it unfolds for me too. 

 

So if you have deepened your curiosity sufficiently to form questions you might seek to answer, then maybe you have discovered your awareness knowing, and you are ready to accept the quest for depth, truth and beauty and tap into your own creative potential wholeheartedly. 

 

Flow well and be amazing.

 

This is just a start.