A consistent piece of feedback on the video has been how authentic and real the people in it are – which is absolutely true! No one was "acting" – people were all being who they really are.
A great example is Edwin Lemus, who we found and invited at the last minute to video the "four directions" ritual for the final line of the song ("East, West, South and North, we are bringing our voices forth"). As we then got to know Edwin, we learned that he had just spent several months traveling around the country, doing honoring ceremonies in open fields for our future and Barack Obama. While doing these, he "saw" that with Obama's leadership, unprecedented prosperity will be experienced by all, in particular, prosperity to our souls.
One of my greatest hopes for the video is that it inspires people to be real, to focus on what really matters, and to see what is true on who can offer us real leadership that supports the greater whole.
Barack Obama is one of the most "real" people I've seen in the arena of politics (or anywhere, for that matter!). We have a deep conditioning to unwind in our country around mistrusting what is real and buying into what is not real. "We have a chance to create a new day..." Let's seize it!
Sharing an e-mail Comment written from Hawaii by a women of mixed heritage: "...Thanks for seeing beyond the human eye..."
