A DREAMING HEAVEN BEGINNING

I met Dana Walden one Sunday afternoon at our house up on Little Sycamore Canyon Road above Malibu. Our mutual friend, Gini Gentry, had called me a while ago and said she thought that Dana and I should meet to talk about music and film. Gini is a good witch and is known for setting up interesting opportunities, so I thought, “Why not?” I was living in L.A. and figured it would be cool to get connected to a creative scene. Dana and I sat in our living room looking out past the Santa Monica Mountains to the Pacific Ocean horizon. I offered him a listen to a song I had just written and when I pulled my guitar out of its case he said, “Wow, you have a D 18 S? You don’t see many of those. I have one at home too.” Bingo—one of those Universe connections. So we talked for a while and the conversation eventually got around to the Journeys I had been leading to Teotihuacan, Mexico. I told him about the magic and mystery of the Ancient City with it’s portals and pyramids, the doorways between dimensions and the powerful energetics that give this “City of the Gods” it’s unique presence. We talked about life, teachers, gurus, personal experiences, the music business, Los Angeles and then we got onto the idea of films and documentaries about real life journeys. As I shared the process of the Teotihuacan Journeys, Dana said, “It sounds like a cool set up for a documentary, to capture the experience and what the people go through on the journey.” As soon as Dana said that I got a hit—one of those instinctual, intuitive hits. YES! Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could capture the energy of Teotihuacan on film? It would be so great if the energetics could be translated through the light of the film into the light of the theater screen. Before Dana left that day we decided to put a journey together to see what might happen. I had no experience in film or film making but Dana had enough to get this deal put together so I called Gini and told her about it. She said, “Yes, that is the call—the call of the Mystery. It’s the way it works when you’re listening to Spirit and are willing to go for it.” A few months later Gini Gentry, Frank Hayhurst, myself, a crew of journeyers, a couple of cameramen and sound people, a designated producer or two, all loaded up and flew off to Teotihuacan to create “DREAMING HEAVEN” the movie. The Journey took on a life of it’s own as did the film making process. We put five years into the film and this spring of 2012 we will launch the platform—Film, Music and a Book all built from a conversation on a mountaintop one Sunday afternoon in Malibu. Life rolls on and Gini, Frank, Dana and I have all had a lot of life pass through us since we embarked on the Journey of “Dreaming Heaven” the movie. We are all a bit older and a bit wiser from this experience. Our greatest intent now is that this project will take on a life of it’s own out there in the Human Dream and we will have the opportunity to share our Dream of Heaven on Earth with you all.