Sometimes, not many in a lifetime, you experiment a clear transformation, a phase shift in the big video-game that is played between birth and death.

I could count in my fingers the times these passages happened to me, and I’d still have some fingers left for future experiences.

One of the greatest was the birth of my son.

Professionally, and personally too for the most part, a very important one happened at the Illustration Academy.

Some others happened inwards, in a more psychological and spiritual sense, as the one I had in the city of Itú in a rite of passage called Leader Training, and in this same place, two years later I had another experience walking across 20 feet of live burning ashes, after 10 hours of preparation. It was like an encounter with my tribal self, experimenting a personal, inner journey like no other.

When I saw Zeitgeist - The movie e Zeitgeist - Addendum, something clicked on my mind, like a deeper understanding about society, religion, politics and economy. Knowledge acquired about the external world, human nature in a collective, social aspect.

One of those experiences, on the brink of altered states of consciousness, just happened this week while organizing my discs here in my studio, after finding a gift from a dear friend, Christiano Parentoni: the double DVD “One Giant Leap / What About Me?”.

I inserted the DVD on the computer, totally unaware of another journey that was about to begin.

I was not ready for such a deep experience, hidden within a mere DVD. I froze in front of the monitor, from start to end, living one of those rare moments of deep insights and inner transformations.

I watched it again two days later, and once again I was overwhelmed by the emotion and depth of this amazing documentary that gathers musicians, philosophers, psychologists, tribal leaders, religious leaders, rockstars, all in all some very wise thinking minds (and others not so wise, to enhance the contrasts), filmed in dozens of different countries.

The result is a solid yet light content, wrapped up in an aesthetic beauty that floods your eyes.

It would be too pretentious from me if I’d try to translate all that I’ve seen in this DVD in a single post, so all I can do is to embed some of the videos available on this documentary website, and suggest you to buy the DVDs with the complete works, because that’s something to see over and over again, every now and then.

Chris, I may stay in your debt for quite some years, until I find a proportional quality gift to give back to you.

A warm and heart filled Thank You, my friend.