I have had one of the most eccentric evenings of my working life.

I can now reveal that the meeting tonight was with one of the richest men in Texas, Mr. Trammell Crow. Evidently it’s extremely hard to get a meeting with Trammell Crow. He saw me tonight at 8:30pm on a Sunday night, and the meeting lasted three hours.

Yes, three hours.

We didn’t finish until just on 11:30pm

Mr. Trammell Crow’s father built a good deal of Dallas, and Trammell has continued in his father’s footsteps, making his group of companies amongst the wealthiest and most powerful in Dallas, if not state wide.

Trammell though differed from his father in that he became an active environmentalist, and a collector of Asian Art. He needed a place to show his art so he built a magnificent museum right in the heart of downtown Dallas.

The museum distinguishes itself by holding free meditation classes each day – and hence it’s been dubbed “The Wellness Museum” by folks in Dallas.

Trammell is notoriously eccentric, and tonight he didn’t disappoint. We (Jennifer, Rachit, Renee – who had set up the meeting – and I) went to the address we were given by his assistant, but there was no-one at home. All the lights were out. Plus the house looked a little dowdy. Not the kind of place I was expecting, given Mr. Crow’s propensity for art.

We walked around the house but the place was dark and looked deserted. We texted his assistant and she tried to find out what was going on.

And then I heard a distant voice yelling out: Bill!

Trammell Crow then appeared out of the darkness. He was slim, aged 63, with grey hair tied back in a pony-tail, and the gait and gaze of a pirate. He then took us along a darkened path to his residence, (the darkened building being his office).

His house was truly magnificent – and on a huge block of land. It was like a palace surrounded by immaculate gardens. Inside the house was full of eye-popping art. His taste was superb.

One of the first statements he made was that he would have had better luck with his staff if he believed in intuition. Uh oh, I thought. He doesn’t believe in intuition. This is not going to go well.

But we talked, and he took notes, and he asked a lot of very smart questions. It was quickly apparent that his eccentric laid back demeanour was a guise only. He had a very sharp and inquisitive mind.

Above all he was a gentleman and he was gracious. Late on a Sunday evening he gave me three hours of his precious time.

Where was it left?

After him saying that he never invests in films because they’re too risky, he said that he would be interested in reading an investment proposal, and looking at a script. He then gave me his private card, with his personal email and phone number. His parting words were: If I can invest in something that does good and makes me money, then why not?

He then walked us out of the house, into the magnificent grounds, and directed us back the way we came, through the darkness, to our cars.

How do I feel about it all? Well, I think that this evening was a very special occasion. Trammell Crow is a brilliant eccentric man. A man who cares deeply about the state of the world. A man who loves art and creativity. A man who is trying to raise consciousness.

Will he back my film? I don’t know. Yet. But if nothing comes of the meeting tonight, then I at least have the memories of meeting an extraordinary man under highly unusual circumstances.

I met her again today.

My angel. She told me she was my Guardian Angel.

And that she loved me.

I introduced her to my wife, Jennifer.

Jennifer thought she was an angel.

Someone with an expanded consciousness, she said.

Later, I went and talked to her again – Madeline.

Mary Magdeline, she reminded me, like in the Bible.

It went something like this:

Me – How will you change the world?
She – I can’t tell you.
Me – When is this going to happen?
She – You will know.
Me – How will I know?
She – Because you will be with me, by my side.
Me – I will?
She – Yes, we have been together before. I have been a part of your life, in the past.
Me – When?
She – You don’t believe me?
Me – Yes, I believe you.
She – And I will be with you later, too. When you need me. I’m your Guardian Angel.
Me – Are you mine exclusively or do I have to share you with other people?
She, laughing – I’m everyone’s. There is only one Guardian Angel.
Then she cupped my face in her hand, looked at me with radiant love, and said: I love you Bill.

I went back to my table and told Jennifer that my Guardian Angel had just told me she loved me. Jennifer nodded, and said: Good. So she should…

Seriously, this just happened.

I noticed that the last post I just put up was my 600th post.

And this blog is getting close to 200,000 comments.

That’s since April of 2013.

Thank you guys for hanging in there with me on this crazy site. I wanted to shut it down after the Camino, but some of you urged me to keep posting, and here we are!

With each post I learn.
And with each comment you make, I learn.

Thank you…

In preparing for this meeting tonight, I’m anticipating what I might be asked.

And perhaps one of the questions could be: Why are you making this film?

I’ve thought about this a lot, of course, because it’s been 15 years from the time I had that incident in the car – when a “voice” forewarned me about an impending accident, and I narrowed missed death. Ever since I’ve wanted to know more about that voice. And why my life was saved.

Why has it taken me so long to begin making the film? Because I needed to mature my thoughts. I needed to take it step by step.

I didn’t jump in and read every possible book immediately. It simply wasn’t possible. There was some reading I was ready for, and some other books that were beyond me at the time. So the research had to take it’s own natural progression.

Then there was the technical side – how do you make a film on intuition? What sort of film should it be? What shape should it take? What should it’s tone be – perhaps one of the most crucial questions I ask myself when I consider making a film.

Most importantly, what will it’s audience be? Because that would dictate many of the questions above.

Should I make a film for TV, or for cinema? Would this be a film for the Discovery Channel, or free-to-air TV, or an independent film, in which case how would I get distribution?

I began to look at other like films – always a good thing to do when faced with these kind of questions. A cinema film called What the Bleep Do We Know? came out in 2004 and dealt with metaphysical issues. It made a ton of money at the time, and subsequently on DVD in particular.

It’s success told me that there was a market out there for this kind of film.

Then came The Secret in 2006, which did even better. It was a phenomenal success world wide. It did all it’s massive business on DVD, through brilliant but unconventional marketing.

This once again affirmed to me that there was a big audience out there for this kind of material. More than this though, I felt very strongly that these two films had laid the path for me to release a film on intuition.

The audience had gained knowledge from these two films, but more importantly the films had made them feel comfortable discussing esoteric and metaphysical concepts. It was okay to talk openly about such things as The Spiritual Laws of Attraction.

Interestingly though, although both films were strongly spiritual, they neatly avoided religion.

Outside of these films, mainstream pundits such as Deepak Chopra and Oprah Winfrey were openly discussing spirituality and metaphysics in books and on TV. In fact The Secret’s success could be attributed to the fact that Oprah embraced the film, and the subsequent book, and exhorted her huge following to go check out The Secret.

Deepak Chopra has since become a hugely successful (and wealthy) author through his books on mediation, spiritual healing, and other concepts that twenty years ago never would have got a foothold in the mainstream.

Meanwhile I was still struggling with my film. I’d written treatment after treatment, script after script, and still I didn’t feel like I had a structure that would work. One of the big dilemmas for me was: should I make the film objective, or subjective? A huge huge question. In other words, should this be a film about intuition? Or should this be a film about my take on intuition?

I resisted the second one because I personally didn’t want to set myself up as a guru, because clearly I wasn’t. But I felt an objective approach would condemn the film to being something you’d see on the BBC, and I felt strongly that for this to work it had to be innately subjective. The film wouldn’t work for its core audience if it was journalistic. In my parlance, it had to delve into the “whacky,” because that’s where the audience lay.

The immense success of The Secret showed me that a global audience was now prepared to embrace “whacky” concepts such as intuition. In fact they wanted to embrace this stuff. There was a massive hunger out there that wasn’t being catered to.

Some of you might know that I’m a journalist by training. I began at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and worked there for ten years in news, current affairs, then documentary before sashaying into movies. It was fabulous training.

I knew that I would bring certain journalistic skills to the film regardless. It’s ingrained in me. But even so I didn’t want the film to be “balanced.” It had to be severely unbalanced for it to work for it’s audience, which was global and huge.

As these thoughts were maturing, so my reading was becoming more sophisticated and my thoughts on an approach to the film were coming together too.

I can’t begin to tell you how valuable Jennifer’s contribution was during this period. She was way ahead of me in her spiritual growth, and she was adroitly pointing me towards books and websites that she knew I’d be ready for. She withheld other material which she knew I wasn’t yet ready for.

Finally I discovered a way in to the film – a concept and a structure which I felt would work. Really, what had started this whole thing was the voice in the car which saved my life, and so I began to conceive the film from a personal perspective – my journey to find out what that voice was.

I was reluctant to put myself out there, because I was initially afraid of what that would do to my personal and professional reputation, but I felt that if I wanted to tell this story, and get it out to the world, then this would be the best way to do it.

I was then faced with another technical dilemma – should I approach it from the point of view of someone who has learned, and is now imparting that knowledge? Or should it be from the perspective of someone who is searching, and the audience is finding out as I am finding out.

I struggled with that for a long time. Because I knew it would have a fundamental impact on the tone, but also the content and structure. I finally decided to place it from a position of informed retrospectivity. In other words, this is what I’ve discovered, and this is how I discovered it.

The next big question was: should this be informational only, or should it be instructional? I felt very strongly that it should be both. That this is what the audience would want. It’s one thing to make a film about intuition, but I felt that the audience would also want to know how they can become more intuitive. And so I decided to include that within the structure.

Finally, after about twelve years of researching and trying to figure out how to make this film, I felt I was ready to write. And so I wrote a treatment that I’m now working to. It’s changing, as I learn more and as the film evolves, as it must – but the basic structure remains firm.

Okay, getting back to the initial question: Why am I making this film?

I’m making it firstly to find out what that voice was that saved my life. Where did it come from? How did it communicate with me in such a way? And why at that particular moment, just as I was about to be killed – and why not since? And I would also like to know why my life was saved.

I’m using that basic line of enquiry to then explore more fully what intuition is, and how it works. And why it works. I’m looking at it from three viewpoints: from the spiritual, the religious, and the scientific.

Ultimately I’m using my personal experience, and my enquiry, to make a film which will demystify intuition to a large audience. So that they can learn to trust it. And use it in their daily lives. Because I believe that intuition is a facility that’s there within each of us to guide us towards our full potential.

And with that realisation of full potential comes true and profound happiness.

Bigger picture: I want to make this world a more intuitive place, because I believe that if we each act more intuitively, there will be less conflict, less aggression, there will be greater harmony, we’ll treat each other, and this planet, with more compassion, and fear will drop away. And so will ignorance.

That’s my bigger picture.

Today was a marking time day in preparation for tomorrow. Tomorrow is Day 15 – the last day in Dallas – and the day everything comes to a head.

I can’t say more at this stage.
Other than interesting things are unfolding.

Today there was a big Christmas parade that went up the main street of downtown Dallas, right in front of The Adolphus. We filmed some of it – and also filmed me walking around in the Most Beneficial Galactic Cosmic Rays.

At lunch time I met a wonderful lady who’d made contact, saying she wanted to have some involvement with the film. Over a $5.95 hamburger, which Jennifer refused to eat because she said it was disgusting, we chatted with this lady. She was retired, a former financial services worker, and she told me very sweetly what an inspiration I was to her, and how brave I was, coming to Dallas on an intuitive whim as I have.

I thanked her for her kind words, but said that I don’t see following my intuition as being brave any more.

I see NOT following my intuition as being brave, because I know that somewhere down the line, I’m going to have to dig myself out of a hole.

THAT’S brave.

This afternoon I spoke on camera to a lovely young woman who works as an intuitive healer. She said emphatically that intuition is all there is in life. That you’re leading an incomplete life if you don’t follow your intuition.

Not following your intuition, she said, leads ultimately to pain and suffering and can also lead to ill health. I’ve had other interviewees say this as well. That getting sick sometimes provides the necessary bout of self-awareness to bring you back to your intuitive self.

I can speak from personal experience and say that’s very true.

The times in my life when I’ve had the biggest setbacks, or been most miserable, have been those times when I’ve shut down my intuitive guidance and operated out of what’s been required of me, rather than what’s been in my heart.

One of the best interviews I’ve done so far for this film was with the head of the Krishna Consciousness Temple here in Dallas. He said that intuition is synonymous with truth, and truth can never be harmful. It can only lead to happiness and fulfilment.

Jennifer and I are exhausted. It’s been an intense two weeks. We haven’t stopped, we haven’t had any time off, we are whacked. Tomorrow, being Sunday, we’re taking the morning off to just relax.

In the afternoon we have some more filming to do with Joni. She has a wonderful concept that each chakra is associated with a particular planet. That effectively the solar system resides within your chakra system. I’m looking forward to learning more about this.

And then tomorrow night is the big meeting.
Which should be fascinating.

The last full day in Dallas.

It seems that some of you have brought your own story to my story. Which I find wonderful. I marvel at our capacity to build worlds where no worlds exist.

This is what I do – and it’s what you do too.
It’s what we all do to find order within chaos.
To make sense of it all.

Let me explain The Texas Cosmic Rays Experiment –

Dr. Bimal Bhatt asked for my birth details before I left Australia to go to India. I’d known him for some years through a mutual acquaintance. His was the only phone number I had with me when I landed in Mumbai.

When we arrived in Mumbai Dr. Bhatt kindly invited us to his house for dinner, and the next day I did an interview with him for the PGS film. The interview was strong. And after the interview he asked if I wanted him to read me my astrological charts, which he’d prepared.

I’d forgotten completely that I’d sent him my birth details, and I had no idea he was such an accomplished astrologer. I knew him to be a spiritual man, yes, but principally a very successful lawyer and businessman.

So the next day we went to his office and he read me my charts.

Dr. Bhatt was as surprised as me when he discovered what my charts predicted. Whilst he’d prepared the charts, he hadn’t actually gone through them and analysed them until that morning.

Why did I film the reading? Intuition, I guess. I had a gut feeling I should. That’s all I can say. I had no idea what was coming.

A while ago I put up the complete video recording of the reading – I dropped the password protection for 24 hrs so you could all see it in full. Those of you who saw it will know that Dr. Bhatt said that I shouldn’t necessarily do nothing. That I shouldn’t be passive.

And if you look at The Prediction video, he said that after the Cosmic Rays had started to infiltrate my body, and make their way to my brain, good ideas would come. And I would make bold decisions. And people would come to me with big deals.

In fact after I told him I was going to Dallas, he gave me a list of instructions, of things to do. He said that I should actively seek business opportunities.

For instance he said that I should go to the biggest church in Dallas, it didn’t matter which church but it should be the biggest in the centre of the city, (to show God that I was pious, he said) and I should talk to the Archbishop or whoever was in charge, and get from him a list of the wealthy people in his congregation, and ask him for an introduction.

Over the following weeks before I left for Dallas, Bimal sent me all kinds of instructions on what to do once I got to Dallas.

Bimal’s commercial business partner is a man named Pradeep. I’ve known Pradeep as long as I’ve known Bimal. Together these men have made bold commercial decisions based on their charts. And they’ve done what Bimal told me to do – they’ve gone to foreign countries and opened  themselves up to the whims of the Cosmos.

And it’s paid off handsomely for them, time and time again.

So when I decided I was going to Dallas, I contacted Pradeep and asked him how I should approach it. Pradeep is a wonderful man. A ball of unbounded energy and optimism. And an extremely clever businessman.

He said that before I leave Australia, I should line up as much as possible, so that I had people to meet and things to do as soon as I landed. He told me that’s what he’d done in the past, when he’d done similar trips with Bimal.

So that’s what I did.

The first thing I did was google “Dallas+astrology,” and up came several entries for Joni Patry. I checked out her website, and saw that she was a published author of several respected and well reviewed books on Vedic Astrology. She was also a major player within the Vedic Astrology community in the US, and so I figured she was knowledgeable and authoritative.

There are a lot of flakey astrologers out there. She was obviously not one of them. She was the real deal.

The reason I contacted her was because I wanted to interview her, as part of the film I was going to make on the “experiment” – possibly a separate film to the PGS film. Basically I needed someone to explain what Vedic astrology really is, and how it works.

We spoke on the phone and she told me that she wouldn’t be in Dallas when Jennifer and Rachit and I arrived on November 23rd. She’d been invited to Turkey to do seminars and predictive readings. She said she wouldn’t be back until two days before Thanksgiving, which would be our Day 3 in Dallas.

Before she left for Turkey she invited us to her family’s Thanksgiving lunch, which was very kind and generous of her. That is the only prior arrangement I made with Joni.

Let me explain Rachit.

In going to Dallas I knew we would be filming. And unlike the PGS film, I knew this would be a film about my journey, and I would be on camera a lot. I couldn’t physically film myself, so I needed a cameraman.

I considered bringing someone from Australia, and I spoke to my favourite (and highly experienced) doco Director of Photography, but I quickly realised it wouldn’t work. Whilst he was excited about the film and what I was intending to do, he didn’t want to stay in a cheap motel, he didn’t want to be “on” 24/7, and he’d cost too much. I didn’t want to spend much money on this.

I thought of hiring someone locally out of Dallas, but again the rates were prohibitive, and also for this to work I needed someone prepared to be on hand, on call, day and night.

And then I thought of Rachit. He was perfect because at his London Film School his major was cinematography. He’d been shooting his own short films for non-profit organisations in India, plus – and this was the biggest plus – he’d been with us all through India.

We had a “shorthand” working together, he knew the gear and what I was doing and how I was doing it, he was prepared to stay in a dog kennel if I was going to stay in a dog kennel, and he was prepared to work for my budget.

Not only that but Rachit is smart, sensitive, and has a very pure compassionate energy. Also, I was about to film an Indian story in the US, and I felt I needed to have an Indian perspective on it all. I value his input, just like I value Jennifer’s. I’m constantly turning to these two people for opinions and advice.

So we flew Rachit out to LA a day before we were due to fly to Dallas, and then we all arrived in Dallas on the 23rd.

Let me explain “no money.”

Again if you look at the extended video, Bimal didn’t say I should go to Dallas with no money. What he said was that I should carry no money. He said that my wife Jennifer should carry the money, and actually he said I could use one or two thousand dollars during my time in Dallas, But essentially he wanted me to feel like I had no money.

In asking my wife for money, he was wanting me to change my mode of thinking about money. And in staying in a cheap motel and eating cheap food, he was wanting me to think about what it would be like to have no money. So that I would be encouraged to change my circumstances. To think of ways of making money. To make me hungrier, not in a literal sense, but dynamically hungrier.

Despite all the instructions from Bimal and Pradeep, I’d left Australia with only two contacts in Dallas, and both weren’t even there when I arrived. Joni was in Turkey, and a Medical Intuitive whom I’d contacted, Dr. Rita Louise, lived about 200mls out of the city. She was prepared to drive in for a day though sometime during my stay so that I could interview her.

So when we landed at DFW airport, I had no-one to contact, no support whatsoever. Which was really what I wanted anyway. I wanted to to start with nothing. So I hopped in a cab and told the driver to take me to the cheapest motel he knew. It took nearly an hour and a half to find a motel cheap enough – the Shady Oaks Motel, for $28 a night.

When we checked in I was prepared to stay for 15 days, and yet my PGS told me not to pay by the week. Bimal had said that someone might come and take us out of the cheap motel, and we’d end up in five star luxury – so intuitively I paid day by day.

But I did not know when things would change.

Meanwhile Jennifer was getting progressively more affected by the foul energies coming through the thin walls from the room next door. At the time she didn’t want me mentioning this on the blog – she felt it would be an invasion of the other people’s privacy – but I can tell you now that there was some ugly stuff happening next door, and it was having a deleterious effect on Jennifer energetically.

Each day she was getting sicker and sicker.

I knew that we had to get out of there, and my feeling was that we would have to move up the road to the Galaxy Motel, which would probably be about $50 a night, but at least it wouldn’t have that foul gunk coming through the walls.

Meanwhile I was carrying no money and we were eating in cheap Mexican restaurants (I refused to eat cheap junk food) and having great lunches or dinners for $4.95.

And in fact we were at El Tequito Cafe in a low rent part of town having a Mexican breakfast when I got a message from Joni on my phone. She’d arrived back from Turkey, she’d read my blog, and she was horrified to see that we were staying at the Shady Oaks Motel. This was the morning of Day 4.

I’ve filmed myself listening to her voicemail message in the El Tequito – and it was wonderful: I’m going to get you out of that HELL HOLE!… get packed up I’m coming right over and getting you out of there… 

She very kindly offered to put us all up at her house, but I gratefully declined. It was coming on Thanksgiving, and she had her sons coming in from other parts of the country, and I didn’t want to impose.

But she and her husband Daniel – a truly delightful man – used their connections in the travel and hotel industries (Joni used to work for an airline and Daniel was a former French restauranteur) and together they set about finding us better digs. And that’s how we ended up in The Adolphus which is, as Bimal predicted, a five star hotel.

Now, as for timing – Joni had been in Turkey. She arrived back on our Day 3, and contacted me the morning of Day 4. None of this had been pre-arranged. That was her timing. based on her work and travel schedule. She took it upon herself to get us out of the Shady Oaks. That was on her instigation – I didn’t ask her to. I was quite prepared to stay in cheap digs for the duration, or until something happened.

Also, some of you might be wondering if Joni knew Dr. Bimal Bhatt or he knew her.

Nup.

They don’t know each other. They’ve never communicated, and still haven’t. Joni separately later did my charts and came up with the same prediction as Bimal, however she said that wasn’t unusual. If the charts are prepared correctly, with the same information, then the results will be the same.

I’ve tried to approach this whole experiment with pure intent – and by that, I mean staying pure to Bimal’s instructions.

Bimal wanted me to go to Dallas on this particular half lunar cycle because ultimately he wanted me to get the bad Cosmic Rays out of my system – those energies which he believed had been holding me back – and replace them with the good Dallas Golden Cosmic Rays, as he calls them, so that I can fulfil my destiny as predicted in the charts.

And remember, he said that really I should stay in Dallas for 11 years, if I am to fully realise my destiny.

As I alluded in last night’s post. major things are in process. I don’t know how they’re going to play out, but I’m relaxed about it all. If they play out as I’m hoping, then I’ll tell you all about it. if they don’t, then I won’t. It will be just another step along the road – another “sign” that I’m heading in the right direction.

The one thing I’ve learned through all this though – no, I’ve learned plenty – but one thing I’ve learned is that you can be volitional – you must be volitional – and then you must let go, to allow The Most Beneficial Galactic Cosmic Rays to do their magic.

I’m now waiting for magic to happen.

I was told to be patient.

I was told that things would unfold as they should.

I was told not to worry.

I was told to trust.

I have tried to be patient.

I have tried really hard not to get anxious.

I have trusted.

Kind of.

No – I have trusted.

And now things are starting to happen.

I can’t disclose more at this stage –

All I can say is that things are starting to happen.

The Most Beneficial Galactic Cosmic Rays are kicking in…

Shortly after beginning this experiment, I posted on this blog that I didn’t care what people thought of me.

A friend of mine, Steve, (who has strangely disappeared from this blog lately) commented that he didn’t believe me. He thought that I did care what people thought. And I told him emphatically that I didn’t.

I was speaking from the perspective of vanity. What I look like. Because Steve cares a lot about his looks. He’s a champion bodybuilder. I’d just posted a silly shot of me wearing a cosmic ray reflective collar, and I thought Steve was commenting on my appearance. So my response to him at the time was true – I didn’t, and I don’t, care what people think of what I look like. My appearance.

But from the perspective of personal and professional reputation – who I am as against what I look like – then yes, I do very much care what people think of me. From that point of view Steve was right.

Within the film industry I would like to think that I have a solid reputation. Not everyone is going to like every film I’ve ever made, but I would hope that over nearly forty years of professional life I’ve earned a reputation of being someone who is diligent, who has integrity, and who cares about humanity. Irrespective of any commercial or artistic success or failure, I hope I’ve achieved a reputation for being an honest craftsman who works hard and cares about others.

I could very easily blow that reputation in fifteen days in Dallas.

I have not been honest with you here in these past postings to protect my reputation. I have often times withheld my true feelings, my true beliefs.

The film industry judges harshly.

For a start, humility within the film industry is deemed a weakness. The film industry works on hype, on spin, on everyone telling everyone else how good they are.

If you walk into a room full of studio execs or financiers or distributors or producers, and you’re humble, they’ll think you’re a pussy. You’ll get nowhere. They prefer bombast. A dog-and-pony show. They prefer touts and spruikers. They like you to be loud and brash.

I refuse to play that game.

The Camino humbled me. Ever since, I’ve tried every day to be humble. And I’ve carried with me the perhaps naive belief that I will be judged ultimately on my past work, and my present actions. So I don’t talk myself up. If others want to talk me up, then that’s okay, but I won’t.

The film industry is also very suspicious of what I’ll call “woo woo.” Spiritual, religious, or supernatural beliefs. It seems contradictory that for those power-brokers and decision-makers who work in the dream factory, which is what Hollywood is sometimes called, they should be so earth-bound. So resistant to the etheric. So dismissive of those who hold beliefs that are innately spiritual.

Those Hollywood big-guns who at a cocktail party might scoff at anyone who professes to believe in angels, will next day greenlight a $150m movie about comic book heroes with supernatural powers. Or a pilot that takes a spacecraft into other dimensions. Or a young girl who falls in love with a vampire. They feel safe in calling it fantasy.

Within the film industry it’s dangerous to publicly express beliefs that are outside the norm.

I will state now that I’ve been deeply affected by what’s happened over this past eleven days. Even though at times on this blog I might have come across as being jocular or sceptical or an intransigent disbeliever, I have at times been profoundly overwhelmed by what’s happened, and what I’ve been told.

How could I not be? Because think about it – what I’ve been told:

• That I have a message to give to the world.
• That the message will have a major beneficial impact on the world.
• That as a consequence I will acquire immense wealth.
• That I will use that money for the betterment of mankind.
• That I will be afforded universal respect and admiration for what I’m doing.
• That I will be treated like a King.

I now have two esteemed Vedic astrologers from opposite ends of the earth – one from the East and one from the West – both telling me that this is going to happen. They have no doubt.

Okay, so let me ask you: if you were in my shoes and you were told this stuff, how would you respond? Would you believe it? And if so, then what would you do? Or would you blithely dismiss it and assign it to the bin full of odd and crazy things that have happened in your life, then think nothing more about it?

You see, I believe it. I believe it unconditionally. Without reservation. I believe that what they’ve predicted is going to happen.

• I believe that I have a message to give to the world.
• I believe that message will be of great benefit to humanity.
• I believe that it’s going to make me a lot of money.
• I know that if I make a lot of money, then I’ll use it to do more good work.
• I suppose that if all that happens, then I’ll be respected.

In the spirit of full disclosure, let me tell you what else I believe.

• I believe in divine guidance.
• I believe in an all encompassing, all pervasive force of pure unimaginable love that some would call God.
• I believe in destiny
• I believe in free will
• I believe in reincarnation
• I believe that children choose their parents
• I believe that we’re each born into this earthly realm to achieve certain things and learn certain lessons.
• I believe in the subtle body
• I believe we each have a soul
• I believe that our soul is everlasting
• I believe that our soul is always constantly seeking a higher plane.
• I don’t believe in death
• I don’t believe in religion
• I don’t believe in evil
• But I do believe in ignorance, which spawns fear and hate
• I believe in divine messengers
• I believe we are each given signs, constantly, to help direct us along our path.
• I believe in a Higher Self, or Selves
• I believe in miracles
• I believe that ultimately, the only thing that truly matters is love.

That’s what I believe. Some of what I believe.
And I still have so much to learn.

I have filmed over thirty interviews in India, Italy and now the US, with some of the wisest and most learned spiritualists, theologians, scholars, religious leaders, philosophers, and even a living Saint. And they’ve all told me the same thing – that the voice I heard in the car that saved my life was a divine intervention. And that my life was saved because of past good karma. They tell me my life was saved for a purpose. And it’s now up to me to fulfil that purpose.

Most of these eminent people agreed to an interview because they saw that in telling a personal story, I was in fact telling a universal story that could reach millions, and could help raise human consciousness and awareness.

That’s what I want to do. I just want to get on and make my film, and get it out there. That’s my purpose.

So in the interest of full disclosure, those are my beliefs, and that is what I want to do.

I don’t care what you think of me…

Strange things happening –

• A technical glitch in a key PGS interview which requires me to go back and reshoot. The reshoot is better, way better. Thank you technical glitch. I wouldn’t have got this great stuff otherwise
• A park right outside the front of a Mexican cafe – three times in a row now, same spot. It’s normally impossible to park on this street, but each time I’ve driven up, someone pulls out right in front of me, allowing me to park in the spot they’ve just vacated. And each time it’s right outside the front of the door. One is fortuitous, twice is coincidence, three times is miraculous.
• I had an inexplicable desire to drive to Plano, a suburb in north Dallas. Because I am being intuitively led on this film, I drove there. While there I learn that the next interviewee, instead of being way down south, is in the suburb next to Plano. We meet her and in the course of our conversation, she makes a crucial call to a possible major investor. If I hadn’t been in Plano and got to her before close of business, that call would never have happened.

Joni today connected me with a very important lady in the Indian community. She in turn has connected me with someone who is one of the wealthiest men in Dallas. We have a meeting tomorrow. This man could finance my film from his petty cash tin.

We’ll see how things pan out tomorrow.

Today though was all about an interview I did for the intuition film with a senior member of the International Society of Krisha Consciousness. I would say that it stands alongside Swamiji Chidanand in Delhi as being amongst the best interviews I’ve shot so far.

Wise, articulate, and with a common sense logic, the man spoke about how intuition plays such a crucial role in our daily lives. Strangely for a religious leader, he was very scornful of organised religion. He said the reason that most people in the west, and many in the east too, are disillusioned with religion is that many so-called leaders are frauds, and some are charlatans. Religion has let them down. They would prefer to embrace spirituality instead.

I can’t tell you everything that’s going on right now, but I’ll just say that because I’ve come to Dallas, several things are moving on several fronts. It’s very exciting.

Jennifer and I had dinner with an old friend and her son, who is a 20 year old college student. I gave him some advice before we parted this evening. I said to him:

No-one ever changed the world by having a job. 

He in turn gave me this advice:

To go south of the border you need to go west of the sun. 

Tomorrow I’ll put up a post telling you honestly how I feel. And what I believe. I have been a bit demur up to now – afraid that you might think I’ve gone woo woo whacko.

Maybe I am –

Things are starting to happen.

It’s been three days since I did that exercise with the photo book – when I picked two photos that featured three men standing in stark landscapes.

Joni at the time said it meant that in three days, something would happen.

Three days later and it’s happening.

It’s underway.

I felt confident enough today to briefly step outside the immediate downward draft of the Most Beneficial Galactic Cosmic Rays, and go to Fort Worth – a cowboy town thirty miles east of Dallas.

I walked into a shop and this was what was presented to me –

Seems I try and get away from this stuff and it follows me.

Jennifer and Rachit and I had a Texan BBQ lunch with Joni and her husband Daniel. They have become wonderful friends, and their generosity and kindness has made our stay in Dallas very special.

Earlier in the morning Good Morning Texas taped Joni doing a predictive reading for the coming year. She used the opportunity to spruik my intuition film.

As a result of her promoting my film – on her website and in her newsletter – I’ve been contacted by some people who I believe will make a significant contribution to the film. I’ll be following up with some of them next week when I return to California.

To finish today’s post, a photo I took at Fort Worth –