Original subtitles

- Welcome to Blue Marble Sky.

We're super grateful you're here with us.

- Our hope is the next 75 minutes take you on a journey.

We ask that you listen and stay open to how these words

may reflect on your own experience.

- So originally, we were thinking

about submitting this to film festivals

and selling the project.

- But ultimately, it didn't feel right,

and the real value in this project

isn't in the money, but in the message behind it.

- And so, that's why it's for free,

and it always will be.

- So enjoy!

(water rushing) (water splashing)

(birds chirping)

There was once a man who was living just fine.

Then, in a moment, everything changed.

(device beeping)

Stage IV pancreatic cancer,

with around 180 days left to live.

In the wake of his sadness, the man found hope

in an empty jar.

He made the choice to break routine,

and start filling up his life

with things that truly mattered.

He called these final days blue marble days,

and after each one, he'd go home

and drop a marble inside.

The man eventually passed, but his legacy,

well, that's what sparked all this.

- [Man] Turn off.

(upbeat music)

- Please, please, I need a drink.

♪ Was it going on ♪

♪ Got it on ♪

♪ Phinney, Phinney a dream ♪

- Hey do you have an extra phinney pack by any chance?

(men murmuring)

- [Henry] Oh yeah, good vibes, sitting around right now.

- [Fletcher] Oh no dude, that was so tiresome.

- Like the amount of people out there dude.

(upbeat music)

(soft music)

- [Henry] I remember when like I got to Tulane

I didn't feel like I had any real clue what,

why was I in college.

(soft piano music)

- Yeah dude, hey, come this way, come this way!

It seemed natural that I joined a fraternity.

And I was pledging that fraternity my freshman year

in the spring when Mardi Gras rolls around.

(crowd cheering)

You know being a pledge I had

some specific things I had to do.

And I remember that night I was supposed to be going

the porta Johns and I get a call and it's one of

the brothers who's essentially telling me that I got to

come to the parade spot because I've been selected to be

the first bead pledge for Mardi Gras.

And being in this bead pledge means that essentially,

I'm the gesture for the for the night.

(crowd murmuring)

- [Man] Take it slow, keep going, keep going.

- That everyone puts the beads on top of my head

and just shoves alcohol down my throat until I passed out.

And then someone puts me in a car

and I eventually get back to a couch on

the fraternity house.

The problem was that night,

the second part didn't actually happen.

I didn't make it in a car

and I definitely didn't make it on a couch.

(soft music)

I woke up the next morning, 45 minutes away,

naked in a hospital bed, but no phone and no wallet.

And this, I don't know if I'd ever experienced

this fear to that level.

(soft piano music)

There's a disappointment I felt, I felt like a failure.

Like I, I so desperately wanted just to belong.

And I found a community of people that

I thought was a brotherhood.

And I just felt alone.

(water rushing)

(soft piano music)

- [Henry] Oh, excuse me, miss,

I think the cancer is like, the--

- [Fletcher] Right?

- [Henry] Yeah, like any good film like any good story.

The energy and the heart we're putting behind it

is just only like increasing as, as it's progressing.

We can't get tired of it.

- In the story? - Yeah.

- Oh, of course.

I'm gonna keep you there to the finish for everything.

- Pour everything we've got.

(footsteps creaking)

(crowd murmuring)

- [Fletcher] Sup guys?

- Welcome, welcome.

All right guys, so first off, thanks for coming.

(crosstalk)

- Think there's always been some level

of mystery around what we've actually done

in the past couple years.

So-- - Are they in school?

Are they not in school?

Are they in Asia?

Are they in Thi?

Like, it's never really been super clear.

So this whole thing is, it's kind of just like going back

and then the evolution of how it all came to be.

- And the funny the funny thing is,

when we started when we really began this journey,

we had a dream.

But the danger of a dream is it's never gonna look

like what you thought it was gonna look like.

- Ever since I was a little kid,

I had this dream of running out from the tunnel on Saturdays

and imagining the crowd and everyone just going wild.

And my dream of playing college football was something

that always drove me.

So I was willing to sacrifice

and do whatever it took to come

and make that dream a reality.

(audience cheering)

The spring game rolls around

and my dad flies in and I have all

this excitement and this nervousness

is stirring around in my stomach.

(whistle blows)

I'm lined up.

Quarterback calls inaudible

(players murmuring)

And the ball sails over my head

and I jumped up and corner comes and just goes

- I get diagnosed with a concussion.

Every morning I wake up It feels

like there's this like an elephant sitting on my head.

I'd get this feeling of not knowing who that person was

when I'd look into the mirror

and it scared the shit out of me.

And it was,

(soft piano music)

all my confidence all my like gusto

and just life had just been sucked out of me.

I didn't know how to tell my friends this

I didn't know how to tell my family this

because they still in my head had

these expectations of me to to be that flesh.

- You know we we mistake certain

physical markers for health.

So you you could say I came back from the doctor

and I got a clean bill of health.

I don't believe that's that's true.

Health is not just the manifestation

of certain physical signs it is easier sometimes

to do those other things when physically you feel good,

but that's not what health is, like health

is a kind of robust sense of the world

where you wanna give to it

- It was after the the symptoms

of the concussion were gone,

and the doctor said "Hey, if you wanna think

"when you're older, you have to stop playing football

"and hang up the cleats"

And I was just like, yeah.

It's everything I knew about myself,

it's everything that I had sacrifice

was to come play football and I just got that taken away.

My whole identity was just crushed.

(soft piano music)

- We're social animals.

Humans are social animals.

We don't exist in, in a bubble.

We, we may jokingly say, "Oh, hi and Facebook,

"I have so many followers."

But we also need, if we also want to feel connected.

We also want to feel part of somebody, part of a system,

we say, it takes a village to raise a child.

It takes a village forever.

From birth till death, it takes a village.

- There're really big myth about what love is

and what happiness is in our modern world.

And if you define them wrong, they are not related at all,

or maybe related in the wrong way.

So because happiness is very different the Western culture,

in the absence of happiness sort of replaces happiness

with that quick buzz that we call fun.

It's like let's go to a party somewhere and just listen

to loud music and have a couple of drinks

and laugh a little bit and think of that as happiness,

that goes really really well with conditional love.

- We are we're the product of history.

And I think we have to be honest,

when we look back at our own history,

and that need to consume, that need to hoard,

that need to take.

It's part of Western civilization.

That's, that's, that's all of this our history.

What we're talking about is rooted in

the history of how we got to where we are today.

(car engine revving)

- It felt like a lot of my friends had really betrayed me.

(laughs)

Like they left me there.

So I just, I don't know, I was forced to really rethink

a lot of things, forced to rethink who I was hanging around.

And who Henry was cause I realized that night that

I didn't like this direction I was going,

I didn't like myself

and I would just have this one track

mind to get as drunk as I could.

And so, I started trying to make changes in my life.

- I had to go on this voyage in order to figure out

who I was 'cause I had completely lost myself.

So, in order to find myself,

I knew I had to go on this journey.

And the only thing I knew how to do was to run.

Nola, I appreciate the times.

I appreciate the love,

but Ta-ta for now.

(upbeat music)

- [Both] I like this one.

- [Fletcher] Organizing the car when you can be.

- Welcome to the closet,

there's kitchen in here.

(laughs) We've no way to stay.

- That's the world's largest pistachio.

- The largest.

- Told you but he just did a quick bathe in the sewer.

- Yeah, most people think you can't eat cactus,

- Oh, nice retirement balloon.

- I like it my rocks, like totally my rocks.

- (laughs) That's where we slept right there.

- I don't think any of this audio's picking up.

(screams)

(water flowing)

- I've got to go, I've been here for--

(laughs)

- Oh you've just picked it last night

'cause we haven't had a map.

(laughs)

♪ And I know I shouldn't worry ♪

♪ Oh, but not worries for we then ♪

♪ And I know I shouldn't hurry ♪

♪ Cause I don't get lost again ♪

♪ I know I don't know anything ♪

♪ I don't wanna know more ♪

- Oh, I could have to pee.

- Go to the bathroom.

- Yeah, I think.

♪ And I'm feeling best when I get no rest ♪

♪ The ultimate test I'm heading out west ♪

♪ I know that I'm blessed ♪

♪ But guess what ♪

♪ I'm not content ♪

♪ I thought I would be at surface ♪

♪ But my balance wasn't great ♪

♪ Still I didn't mind to fall ♪

♪ And I had a great day I met a new friend ♪

♪ We stayed out late ♪

♪ I thought that I could love her but ♪

♪ She forgot my name ♪

♪ I think it's all about the moment ♪

♪ I think it's all about the movement ♪

♪ I think it's all about the moment ♪

♪ I think it's all about the movement ♪

♪ I think it's all about the moment ♪

♪ I think it's all about the better better ♪

♪ I think it's all about the better better ♪

♪ I've wanted to cross this blue and green ♪

♪ I've wondered plenty what does this all mean ♪

♪ I've stopped, I've took a breath ♪

♪ But if I'm not moving those are memories ♪

♪ And loosing trues and best to ♪

♪ Surround myself by other possible ♪

♪ Just and I though brother high ♪

♪ The best for not for the love you mean ♪

♪ Like the end of your dreams ♪

♪ And I know I shouldn't worry ♪

♪ All of my worries growing thin ♪

♪ And I know that I should hurry ♪

♪ Cause I don't get lost again ♪

♪ I know I don't know anything ♪

♪ I don't wanna know more ♪

♪ I just wanna live each day ♪

♪ A little better ♪

♪ Then, before ♪

(water flowing)

- I think young people, all of us included.

I think everyone is looking for love

and would do anything we can to find it.

So some people are on a journey where they are like

they're looking for every area

or the love that they never received when they were young.

- Everybody emotion is surprisingly felt exactly

the same way in every culture.

The interesting difference between all of us

is how we respond, how we define

and respond to the stimuli that gets us into those emotions

and how we prioritize them.

- I'm about to take you on a tour

of the healing house, here we go.

What is the Zen Palace?

I think we describe it as a commune of sorts,

but it's this lady her name's Lauren Rock

and she is a psychic energy healer

and she opens up her house for different entrepreneurs,

creators, people to come in and stay for stents at a time.

(door opens)

- [Augie] Fletcher's in here right now,

I'll text your app.

Fletch, Fletch.

Fletcher.

He's created this gym, known as Gold's Gym,

which he's spray painted it all gold.

You have a fire pit, and then a super grassy area

where you can do yoga.

Yeah, just kind of created this environment back there.

There was tons of plants and in garden bunch of oranges

and lemons that we could actually just finally relax.

- We're going this way with it?

(soft music)

- And it's funny because even before I get there,

I get this text from Lauren and she says, "I can't wait

"for you to get here and meet Augie."

I think you're gonna create something beautiful together.

- You know my first experience with with Augie was

he like brought me in and he like

started asking about blue marble.

And it was like this like New Moon ceremony

and like he's lining up all these like incenses

I'm like who is this dude?

Sort of thing.

(birds chipping)

- [Man] Could you quit moving, so we can get you on camera.

It's about eight o'clock in the morning, and what are you about to do?

- Go to school.

- [Man] Go to which grade?

- First grade.

- [Man] First grade.

And what is the most exciting thing

that's gonna happen to you today?

- Nothing.

Not yet, that's right, nothing.

Because, they didn't get the play ground built,

so I can't go outside.

- [Man] Oh, they'll let you go outside.

- My earliest memory

is also one of the most important memories.

(engine revving)

(bell ringing)

(crowd clapping)

I was at a fair and they asked for volunteers

to come on stage to play instruments.

And I was on my dad's shoulders,

and I raised my hand immediately and then they picked me.

And I came up on stage, they gave me a tambourine.

And I was just banging away.

I think I was three years old.

And I had a moment where I went outside of myself

and could see myself.

We grew up originally in Seattle

and then we moved out to Kingston,

Washington and had a very normal life.

- [Man] First we have Augie?

(Augie mumbling)

Okay, here we have another lizard.

Very good. Can you smile with the fish face?

Okay, are you schemee sad with the fish?

Uh-huh, very good.

Now Augie this morning we got a bee sting in you.

- One day I came home.

My parents took me us out the back on the picnic table.

And they told us that they were splitting up that

it was over, and it was a massive shock to me.

And that became a really dark period for in my life.

(soft piano music)

I went from being a straight A student involved

in a lot of different external activities

to slowly degrading.

And I was also very eccentric.

And so I was made fun of a lot already.

And definitely just call it a faggot all the time,

even though I didn't identify as homosexual.

It was just the anger behind it and the pain that

people were putting on me.

Went through one just episode after another

and slipped into this really deep, deep depression.

Ended up having to leave the school that I was in

one day, I was at my grandma's house

and just decided

that the best thing for me to do at this point was just to end it.

- There will always be paying,

we live in a broken world, people are broken,

the world is broken, like we just live in a broken world.

And suffering is actually the control of people that

want to cause their control over the world to happen.

Right?

Sometimes it happens to us

or sometimes we cause that suffering on other people.

- That when there is pain,

it is a sign that we've gone too far.

From our core, we've gone too far

from our fundamental nature

and the pain is a calling telling us return.

- I'm sitting in a table at a treatment unit.

And there's a doctor, a police officer, and a counselor.

And then my parents, and they just asked me,

do you wanna get better?

And I said, "Yeah, I wanna get better."

And the doctor said, "I want you to remember

"the last time you were really happy."

And I remember the very first moment in my life

when I was three, and I was on that stage,

and I was playing that tambourine.

(imitates tambourine music)

And then that became.

He said, "I want you to hold on to that image.

"I want you to hold on to that image.

"And that's what we're gonna get you there.

"We're gonna get you back to that image."

And that was that was how I was able

the heal, to heal.

(laughing)

- Hi, Babaa.

- [Man] Okay, Dark Zader is on egg patrol.

- Oh, God (laughs)

- [Woman] Something happened to that egg.

(soft piano music)

(water flowing)

- Where are the passports, oowf!

And we gotta figure out on how to cash out, we need,

horrible sore throat right now.

Really bad.

- [Woman] Thank you, there's a separate inbox

for both of you guys. - [Man] Okay, thanks

- You can probably use this for support if you want.

- How long are you guys gonna be there?

- We're actually going,

we're going to 12 countries in 30 days.

- Wow.

- That's gonna be-- (Fletcher laughs)

- That's interesting

- We're following, we're following this guy around.

- Okay.

- He's a love wizard.

- He's a what?

A love wizard?

- Yeah. (laughing)

(soft music)

- There's a question that oftentimes

you start to ask yourself and it's like, why am I here?

What am I doing here?

What is always this mean?

What is God?

What's the point?

And so around 25 I asked myself that question,

what am I here for?

Like, why am I here?

I would see street performers and I had this feeling

in myself like I gosh, you know, I that feels like,

I wanna do that there's something in me that wanna do that

but it just in my mind felt like

I wasn't supposed to or something.

I had this idea of what if there was somebody

that was on the street, performing who didn't want anything.

The only thing they wanted was to spread joy,

to give love to give the energy of love.

The year that I was born in 1983, my dad invented these,

these cards and they're these little pop open cards.

And so they were around me my whole life.

They have little inspiration notes inside of them.

Put in my two weeks notice and that a week that

I put him into, so every day after work,

I went downtown and I just dressed up as this character

and made these signs that hope and love

and I handed out these cards to people

just to make their day, I didn't want any money

I didn't want anything in return.

And I didn't really know what I was doing.

I didn't know I just felt like I had to do it.

I was talking to a friend and he says

to me, "I really liked your performing art,

"you're a performing artists."

And then no one had ever said that to me

for like no one had said you're an artist

and there was this permission is granted to myself

as an artist where I felt, oh my gosh, I'm an artist.

Like, I'm an artist.

And the same time it felt like I was connecting

to something higher.

There was, I was channeling this energy,

the spirit the the pure spirit in my soul,

the everything that you see when a little kids chasing

after a bubble, or when when they're dancing to music,

all of a sudden, randomly it was I was connecting to this,

the source energy of myself.

- You need to feel that it's important

to follow your own path.

And you need to feel that the world needs me.

Which I believe it does.

I believe it needs everybody.

I mean, it needs each of us trying to be of help.

- And so all of you for the past three,

four years he's gone around the world,

handing out these these cards of affirmation

in an effort to raise the vibration of love.

- But we start to realize that

he really, even if I don't necessarily agree with everything

he does or believes he's very selfless in his intent

on this mission, and I wanted to know,

is he actually succeeding in this attempt to spread love

and I It was really,

how does a man with such a simple message

impact a largely selfish world?

Right, and I wanted and I almost had to know

I was so curious about what he was doing

and was it actually working?

Was he doing anything?

And what does it really means to spread love?

- Well this is my second to last performance

in on my trip before I take a little breather.

But I'm supercharged, ready to spread the city love.

You meet a lot of people but you're not.

You're in a place and you're having this moment

and you're like, wow is amazing

and there's nobody there to share it with.

And as humans, a lot of our life is meant to share.

I came back home after the first half of my mission.

And I felt like I it was okay for me at this point

to have a base, and that the mission

was gonna be different this time.

- I was sitting outside at the Zen palace

and I was writing in my journal

about everything that was going on.

And Henry comes outside, he's like, "Dude,

"I'm really feeling called to go over

"to Africa with Augie and tell his story,

"and I need you to go with me."

And I look at him, like, "Hell no, dude, like,

"there's no way we can go over to Africa.

"It doesn't make sense."

Every time I thought about it,

there were just moments of like fear and anxiety.

It would come up in my head and in my body

and it would tighten me up.

And it was 'cause I was resisting.

I was resisting this whole trip.

I was resisting this inner feeling this inner purpose that

I was supposed to go and tell this guy's story.

And the more I resisted, the more I could feel it

in my body the more I could feel it in my days

and that the anx was building up.

I could feel it I was running from something

instead of like running for something,

running into something.

(soft piano music)

- [Henry] Hot, struct up?

- Yeah, I guess we gotta get to the airport

so we don't miss our flight.

- We're out to see a wizard

- A wonderful wizard of love.

- All right.

Whoa, that's heavy.

We're having a mama's boy.

Huh, this is so heavy!

(plane engine revving)

- What is love?

What is self love?

And how do we connect to others in in a world that

I think is increasingly telling us that we need

to find love in other places,

I find love in this kind of romantic Hollywood ideal,

but also self love in terms of being the best

and having the most.

I think it's interesting to think

about how these cultural views of love,

things that we hear maybe from Hollywood,

the messages we get of what love is actually changes

our experience, and that our feelings can kind of map

on to how we've defined it culturally.

- [Augie] All right buddy, well I'm like,

my uber is like ten minutes out

and then I'll be there in like,

I'm just gonna drop my bags and then we'll just go.

- All right, yeah, that sounds good.

I think, I mean, I know that the subway line, it's quick.

Quick hop to Union Square.

So as soon as you get here we're ready to roll.

- [Augie] All right.

- All right anyways.

- [Augie] What do you think?

- See you.

I'm just talking to the where's he's on his way over here,

but we're going to meet up with Matthew silver.

So this guy is someone who legend in New York.

And people know him for this.

Being this eccentric street performer.

- A naked guy runs around here in Times Square

for most of the afternoon like a wild man,

uninhibited and unimpeded.

- Really, this guys message there's so much

to mean to it and what it say.

So he's the one that really thought out this term

Love Consciousness that is a lot of ways inspired

Augie to do what he's doing.

- What the hell am I getting myself into?

What is this wizard gonna do?

What is his performance?

And I was so in my own head,

about trying to formulate all these expectations.

- [Matt] Did you wanna collaborate?

- [Augie] Yeah, yeah.

I was just gonna like vibe off you.

- And the first thing Augie does is he goes

and draws his huge heart in the middle of Union Square

and calls it the love zone.

And they just start doing the most absurd things.

- (screams) The thing.

The love thing is before us.

Love, love.

(audience cheering)

Loving your face!

Loving everybody's face!

This is it anyway, this is it.

Anyway, you don't have to change a thing.

- I was honestly, I was pretty scared because Augie

had introduced us to the, to this character Matthew silver.

And, you know, I was a little intimidated

to meet the wizard.

And this guy was just on the next level of just absurdity.

- [Matt] Yeah.

- I went up to this guy.

And I'm like, hey, man, what do you seeing?

- The most positive people in the world.

- [Fletcher] What is it about them?

Negative or positive.

- I mean, what's what's negative about that?

Nothing, nothing I thought about.

They're just out here, they may be crazy,

but they're preaching positivity.

What's better than that?

People spend five minutes here just watching that

you have a better day.

That's what I'm doing at least.

- And I sat there with those words

and just felt a layer

of my onion skin just leave me right there.

And he was my light bulb for the day.

- I think I think he write the emotion in my face.

I literally like just got off with a bad phone call.

I had tears in my eyes.

He looked at me like, he's like "feel the love!"

I just felt the energy.

I feel like you know, life isn't serious as you take it

and we need some of this to this in this Hulken city.

Where everybody looks at each other like they're disposable.

You know.

- [Fletcher] when you are conscious about your intention

and you're conscious about that

intention being centered around love,

then that's what you project.

- [Henry] Pretty, pretty instantly Fletcher

and I had to decide like, we're gonna kinda stay

on the on the edge of this whole thing?

Or are we doing it?

- In a sense at the very core of existence

of the very core reality or the very core of consciousness,

there is a call, there is love calling.

Love is making love is sending out a call.

And when it comes to our consciousness,

depending on what's the present there,

it seems to be desire seems to be I want this

or I want that.

- In essence, we are one maybe to strive

to achieve that level of love.

That highest level of really divine love

where it's a recognition of oneness

and not no longer distinguish between self another

because the truth is, the more I can love myself,

the more my capacity deepens to love another,

the more I love another,

the more that love arises in me so that I can get it

to another so then it's ultimately also in me.

- Are we gonna die there than actually just go

headfirst into this whole thing.

And New York set the tone, it set the tone for the trip?

It set the tone for what to expect.

It affirmed our belief that this is a message that

people need to hear.

(soft piano music)

- New York, Brooklyn,

it's been super real dudes.

But it's soft Ethiopia.

Not really sure where that (mumbles).

It's not that many people go to Ethiopia.

- [Lady] Hey, what's your name?

(engine revving)

- [Augie] What's going on in there?

- Great wind flow.

I remember sitting in the airport,

and we're eating kind of our last American meal.

- I just remember getting a call from my older brothers.

And they call me and they conference me and they just said,

Henry, we're worried about you.

We just don't think you've thought this trip out.

- I'm thinking to myself.

What have I done?

I've just made a huge mistake.

I can't believe I am allowing these guys

to come on this trip and that I felt this immense amount

of responsibility all of a sudden

- And it's starting to kinda hit me.

- You don't know what countries are going into.

You're going into it with the wizard

who's gonna be running around,

like how are people gonna perceive this?

- And I had no idea what was gonna happen

when we got to Ethiopia.

I did no idea how this was this was gonna be received.

- This is dangerous like what are you doing?

(upbeat music)

(soft piano music)

- So it's first time in the streets.

We're already making friends.

- This guy comes up to us

and says culture and dance.

And us being very trusting people

and me being very open to new experiences.

I'm like, Yeah, let's do it.

Culture dance.

And we're walking, we're walking,

and we start getting into kind of an odd part of town

I'd say, but you know, culture and dancing,

it can happen anyway.

- We have no idea where we're going.

It's starting to kinda put the guard up

like maybe this isn't the best idea

but we're gonna see what happens.

And we walk in the house and just get braided by women.

- [Lady] Nice to meet you.

(crowd murmuring)

- We'll come back,

- You're coming back?

- We'll come back, yeah.

Let's keep moving, let's keep moving.

- I'm look to our right drugs on the table.

And they're just hugging us

like trying to just chorus us into the house

and pretty quickly,

contrary to maybe what Fletcher wanted at the time.

- I was curious.

- We turned around

and got out of there about as quickly as we can.

- Welcome. - Thank you.

Hey, here.

- Thank you. - You're welcome.

You made it.

I'm here, I made it.

It was 35 years in the making.

(soft piano music)

- I think in the same way

that I can individual develops a belief system

or a family network develops a belief system

and nation develops a belief system.

I think they're the lie that

other cultures well might bring

down our socio-economic status

or other cultures will bring in an ideology

that we don't want, or other cultures are aren't as intelligent or whatever,

whatever they've experienced,

or their prejudices have told them.

- We're in a point in time right now,

when we have to pay attention

to what we're seeing before us,

we can't divorce or pretend that the things

that are in front of us don't have a history

and don't have a meaning.

We can't pretend to not see color.

We can't pretend that what we're looking

at the spaces that we inhabit or embody,

as people don't matter.

- The fact that Fletcher and I even have

the ability to tell the story in the first place

to go over there and understanding

the history of imperialism

in the human race of white people going

into third world countries trying to help, right?

And so I definitely battled

with that of what's the best way to go about that?

Because our intention wasn't that, right?

Our intention wasn't even to help people

but simply to love people and the next place Augie

just happened to be going was Africa.

- The willingness to sit down and go,

"Oh, this is the way I'm being perceived."

"This is the way my presence impacts the world around me."

It's not a it's not a journey.

We have to stop being willful in our ignorance.

And we have to actually start examining where we are,

who we are and what we're broadcasting.

(soft piano music)

- Hi, walking on the runway,

about to board a flight.

That is all that she brought on Ethiopia.

What a stop, what country, I learned a lot.

The next stopped Uganda.

(plane engine revving)

- Are you seeing this?

Most of the time you meet someone on the plane.

You're like, "Hi, well good luck with your life."

- And we had a friend Bernard.

Come on in.

His name is Bernard and he had been gone

from his home country from Kampala for an entire year

cutting hair to try to make some money for his family.

Our drone ends up getting taken in security.

It's Ben that instead of seeing his

he sees his family through the window,

they're right outside the door

and he makes the decision to stay with us.

- Oh my gosh.

Oh, whatsup Backle!

Fletcher, Fletcher.

- Nice to know.

- Just to be able to step into this bubble of love.

And it was the most welcome

I've ever felt anywhere in my life.

Just immediately, being able to experience just just love.

(soft piano music)

- We had traveled to Uganda,

really to meet this one love warrior who Augie

had been communicating with back and forth,

and his name was Akuru.

All right so here's what is happening right now.

(door closes)

We're going to meet a Akuru with Augie aka The Wiz.

Has talked to you for over a year?

- Oh yeah, I haven't met him yet,

it's my first time meeting him.

- Over a year.

Aro!

- [Man] Yeah man.

- How are you?

- I'm good.

(laughs)

- What's up?

I'm Fletcher. - I'm George.

- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.

- Welcome to Uganda.

- Thank you, thank you.

- Real life men!

- Yeah! - I see you.

- I'm so happy that you people are here.

- To keep moving, the water which at move--

(laughing) - He teaches dance and yoga to women, kids all over Uganda.

And his dream is to do it all over Africa.

(group cheering)

- [Akuru] And today we are going to be

on the streets spreading love, peace and unity

to people of Uganda and they should know that

we are different colors but we are one people we are one.

It's not about the color, but we are one

and we have to make this one to come reality.

- And he's not asking for anything for it.

He has a genuine belief in a genuine love.

(signing foreign song)

- When we go out into the world and we are giving,

giving, giving, giving, and we end up and having,

not abundance in a selfish way, like or give so that

you can get kind of thing.

But we, we end up making ourselves almost like a servant

or steward of love.

So that through us love can help others

gain fulfillment because that's what love wants

love wants others to be happy.

And we as we sort of sign up okay,

I want to be one of your agents.

(motorcycle engine revving)

- When we first started communicating,

he explained to me his living situation a little bit,

but it wasn't till we actually went into the slums

when he brought us into the slums

and showed us that he was living in

about a 10 by 10 concrete slab.

- You're welcome. - How are you, Henry.

Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you. - Hello.

- And it's him and his brother

and his mom living in this tiny space.

- This for me was was probably

the most impactful moment of the trip.

And we were able to meet his, his brother and his, his mom.

And we interviewed acquitted and his mom in their house.

I just remember, Augie had share this moment

with Akuru's mom where he felt her hands

and he asked her when was the last time

she had taken a day off

and she just couldn't even really understand the question.

And coming to find out that she's terminally ill.

And she's still is just every single day,

every single moment, sacrificing For her kids.

- There are people who are going through life,

who are figuring out things like survival.

How do I eat?

How do I feed my family?

That's their primary concern.

And it's valid.

There are times in our lives

when simply surviving triumph's contemplations of love.

- Those of us who are hearing this and who have

the great fortune of living, relatively safe,

abundant lives who have our needs met,

we are in a position of responsibility

to model to role model for those who are not.

We are responsible to extend our love we are responsible

to become our best selves and be compassionate

and be and train our minds and become refuges

if you wanna call it

that for those who don't necessarily have the ability

to access deep self love and compassion.

Because they have other things to deal with.

- All right, it's a step back?

- Yeah, like when you're this one eh!

- Yeah, yeah. (laughs)

(footsteps creaking)

- Somebody had come to Uganda

and had brought yoga practice and he was in an accident

when he was a kid where a car actually ran over his back.

And he has some incredible scars on his back

and it really causing problems as he grew up

in the adult and yoga he found, heal his body.

- So we're at the place

and Akuru is gonna teach yoga today.

- His mission, what he explained to me

was to bring yoga to all of Africa.

And the purpose being so that people

can reunite with themselves.

- It was a genuine love and support for one another.

And a lot of people were like messing up here

messing up there with yoga, and certain poses,

but it wasn't about that it was about

the coming together and moving your body as a group.

- Bring your hands at center.

And the you twist your worry.

Take it more and then you will here the benefit from back.

(dramatic music) - It was so cool to be able to connect

and see him and his work and see how healing this

was for these people to come together in a community

to come together and move their bodies.

- It's a great opportunity

to be an individual in your own expression in community.

We don't look a like all.

So I am here with you,

I see you is so powerful to be seen,

and I think at our roots it is like, hey, I'm here I am

and and I'm an individual and so I might need

to take side plank on my need

or I might take this that plank

and go this huge expression and I'm still okay,

I'm still here in community with you.

I'm not isolated.

(singing in foreign language)

- And they just started bouncing tunes

and people were going in and dancing.

And I was watching these ladies go in

and just shake their hips and these little kids go in

and like move their bones like I've never seen

and that wasn't really allowing myself

to kind of go participate in the dance and then phew!

I'm in the middle of the circle.

(gentle music)

- I don't know why I was dancing like I was dancing.

But I think it was because I let go and when I let go,

my hips start doing funny things

and I don't argue with them.

After that, it was just such

an awesome interaction with these kids.

And you know, I dance and then they dance

and then they showed me like different dances

and then I'd like give them a high five

and just kind of run around with them

and offer so much just energy for them

and receiving that too.

- May we all share in to the word

as we all bow down to (speaking in foreign language).

Thank you for the class, how was it?

(crowd clapping)

- We're at the Benz Hair Clinic with Bens.

- Little children in behaviorism before conditioning

little children are just one with everything.

You give them the experiments of little Albert

which were the origin of behaviorism in psychology.

You give little Albert a white rat

or a puppy or a snake

and the child doesn't differentiate it doesn't see that

boundary of there is me and there is something else.

And the other thing is a threat

or something I shouldn't dislike

or should have aversion towards.

If you look at life this way,

there is nothing but love.

There's absolutely nothing.

It's the it's the default setting you start from.

I love you, I love everything I love every everything that

ever came my way is my default setting.

So what you need to know to do to get back to that

default is to remove

the things that affected you differently.

It's to remove that separation.

It's to remove that view of like,

I dislike this person

because he's different than I am

or because she's different than I am

and go back to I like this person

because there is so much more in common between us.

Then there is the kids difference.

- [Man] Yes.

(chuckles)

- I'll see you tomorrow. - So nice to meet you.

- Bye. - Bye, bye.

- Hi. - Hi, how are you?

- Well, I think love and forgiveness are very close.

They're like cousins.

I think forgiveness is an attribute of love.

I think someone who loves,

wants the happiness of other self or other.

I think that's my definition of love,

is genuinely wanting the welfare,

the happiness of the other.

- In order for you to love someone,

you have to actually first love yourself,

which sounds counter-cultural,

but how can I give away what I don't first have?

Right?

So forgiveness is the same way for me.

If I haven't received forgiveness,

then I will always use people to meet my needs.

So it doesn't do away with the pain that's happened to you.

But it does do away with the pain that you once felt

and now you're free from.

It comes a story.

So now it's a scare.

- Jesus was some crazy hippie.

He said love everybody, even your enemies.

Holy crap Love your enemies that's insanity,

but should do that some years ago very brutal world.

How did he do that other hand you think

if I can love my enemies, how can they hurt me?

If I am so secure and so comfortable with who I am

and connecting to people in the world,

and someone hates me.

It doesn't hurt me anymore.

- When we forgive.

What we're mostly doing is taking away our own excuses

for not being kind.

And in in that way, every time we forgive,

we're a little bit of a peacemaker.

It'll hold you back from being your best self.

But if you deal with your woundedness you become,

kinder and friends with it.

Then the next person who harmed you,

you say "Well, one, I learned had to deal with this."

And two, this may just be part of this life

where I have to grow in this Capacity.

(rain drops)

- Head to the airport but it's poured out rain!

(screams)

We're very tired

and we get on the plane fly out of into Nairobi.

Nairobi is a massive city in Kenya.

- All right.

Make your future generation bright.

- Okay, see you man. - Steve, Steve.

(laughs)

- Yeah, we're at Kenya.

(soft music)

- [Henry] And you get there and scope out

the scene is just hustle and bustle.

Lots of people are around.

- So Augie goes and he runs to a public restroom

there's a line out the door

and he's changing into his wiz suit.

And he just comes out and everyone is like, "What!"

- As Augie was whizzing out around the city

this guy came and approached me and asked me he's like,

what are you guys doing? I gave him the shpiel like exploring,

what is what is love and all the stuff

and this professor,

he flips the tables and starts interviewing me.

And I find myself in the hot seat.

And he's asking me these questions like,

how do I love?

What does that word mean to me?

And I'm trying my best to answer these questions.

And the most powerful part of my interaction

with this professor was when he would grab people off

the streets, random people,

he'd say, "Look at this person on the eyes do you know him?"

I'd say no, he's like, "Tell him you love him.

"And give them a hug."

And I embracing a hug with him.

And then what he did was he'd like put them behind me.

So it was like almost like a semi circle

of like a football like a football huddle of people.

And he did it probably was like 10 to 15 people like

a little boy coming by a child.

He's like, do you know this kid?

I'm like, no.

Says, "Look him in the eyes and tell him you love him."

And that moment for me was when I started

to figure out how to love a stranger.

How you could look another human in the eyes and say,

damn, you're another human.

I don't know you, but I love you.

- Our true nature is unconditional love.

The reason why we are so caught up

in conditional love is because of conditioning.

Your nature if you really, really, really understand

the reality of who we are as beings,

the truth is there is something

to you more than your physical form.

- So I don't really talk to you as soon as I do

something kind for you,

I only release it when you reciprocate.

And that's the fricking crazy ass stupid

structure about love.

I have to give and hope I'll get in return.

And that is a leap of faith.

That's the stupid part about love.

I have to give it first and I may or may not get it back.

- This is what love on display looks like

for everyone to see.

And watching this crowd gather around.

And for me to just witness this

and just to sit back and listen.

We come into to Tanzania and to Zanzibar and it's Ramadan.

- We have just made it to Zanzibar,

And it's about one in the morning?

We go into wherever you're supposed to check in.

And there's this lady sitting there

and we tell her like, "Hey, hi, we're here."

- Okay guys, you know what.

I gotta tell you something really hilarious.

- No bet.

- Okay, so the thing is.

After we spoke, I was thinking you guys

were coming tomorrow night

- Yeah.

- But you came tonight,

so your room is occupied tonight.

- Okay.

- But funny thing it's occupied by me.

(laughs)

- All right, so we got here at three in the morning.

They didn't know we're coming

and what's going on guys?

- We're staying with Tina, Tina is the manager

- [Fletcher] I think mosquito got in our net.

(water flowing)

(birds chipping)

- Hi, there my beautiful friends,

so nine days until I get started.

And who knows what's gonna happen.

I'm gonna make so many so many more

incredible people along the way.

And yeah, anyone is welcome to come

and join me to help spread

this message of love to the world.

(soft piano music)

- Almost immediately, once people figured out

what we're doing, they're like, you have to meet Nick.

You have to meet this guy.

He's crazy like you guys.

And he's spreading love.

Like, okay, like whatever you say.

And it was the like,

pretty quickly he ends up coming over

to our hostel 'cause he's heard about us.

And this guy, just had such a warmth about him.

- I look at what's happening in the world and I just see,

see everything that's going on

and kind of globally where I'd see that

it all stems from the lack of love.

I felt this one day I was running

and it just popped out of me

and I was like, wow, started crying.

And it's the best feeling I've ever experienced

in my entire life.

And I realized I was like,

yeah I've just found I've found my purpose,

and I found what I'm supposed to be doing.

And yeah, and I dropped out of uni.

And, and yet, I flew over here, four months later.

I'm running and hitchhiking, barefoot,

through every country on the east side

of Africa so I'm going like this.

And it's just, it's just to spread a message of love

and unity without stipulations of what that has to be,

right and without borders.

This perception that we have what the whole world is

not just Africa, but the whole entire world.

It's not It's not wrong.

It's just out these thoughts that we have in these,

you know, the main what the media tells us about Africa

and the end of the rest of the world.

It's not the actual reality of what's happening.

- I think love is that thing giving up control.

What is love, love is going, I can't fight this thing.

This is new.

I can accept this new thing that I've become,

or I can fight to expel it,

and go back to being that thing that I understand

and that I have control.

- Sadly, a lot of times we think especially

in World News, it's like, I'm just gonna, like,

go and hide from it all and it's like, stay out there.

We need you.

We need light out there. We need people of hope.

We need voices they're gonna speak.

- It's inevitable that it's gonna spill out of you.

I think love is a very relational thing.

I think once we really access it,

there's this almost this natural,

natural desire to just share it and express it

because if you exclude it, then it's just coming out of you.

To be really expressive and sharing of love takes,

to some extent courage.

It takes courage to be loving.

You're not worried about how people respond

or if it's reciprocated.

I think it's just it's a matter of just giving

without expecting anything back.

And the joy of that is unbelievable, gives me goosebumps.

- Sincerely, take care of yourself.

Allow yourself to love yourself.

And from that place, sincere sincere use of love,

then you can spread love to others.

They will not be superficial, it will not be,

you will not be hesitating.

It will be from a sincere place

of I know how it is to love because I love here,

then I can really love there.

- Being loved is I love myself.

So when I love myself I'm in this position,

what position being there for others.

(slow piano music)

- [Henry] If you're interested in living a happier,

healthier longer, more fulfilled life,

you have to give to others.

And that's sort of weirdly selfish.

(soft piano music)

- Hello, you're welcome.

I have a present for you.

I sat on the airplane on the way back

and meditated for about eight hours.

And I just repeated over and over again.

Your highest vibration, your highest vibration,

your highest vibration.

And I knew that when I was done that the purpose

of our lives for me is to finding your truth in your heart.

Living that because it makes you glow

to be key puts you into your highest vibration.

And the more people that can be living in their

like their highest vibration,

their highest speed of light it ends up

turning on other lights, more lights,

and more lights and more lights.

And really the greatest service that any of us

could ever do in the world

is to be the best versions of ourselves.

(soft guitar music)

(waves crashing)

- We're going so fast, like, all of this happens,

in two and a half, three weeks.

And then I'm back, and I'm sitting at home.

And none of my family's really there.

I think as I, as I sat at home, actually,

there was a lot, a lot going on inside of me.

Because, you know, what I've realized is that,

we have these experiences and experiences are incredible,

but its reflection, and it's allowing ourselves

to zoom out and gain perspective that actually allows

those experiences to change us.

But what I realized in that moment

is really what I was living

is a life dependent on circumstance.

I thought it was about the people,

the places and the things.

But in that moment, I understood that it actually

was about how can I build a life that doesn't matter

about the people, places

and the things that is non circumstantial, right?

- I started to surrender and to surrender,

I had these connotations that surrendering was terrible.

Because I played sports my whole life

when you surrender in sports, when you surrender in battle,

you're waving the white flag means you lose.

But no.

I started to explore that word.

And surrender for me became this,

this beautiful poetic gesture.

That I'll surrendering into

the fact that I am love, that I'm unique.

- [Henry] When all seems lost.

Take a second to stop,

and look up.

Remember that every person that's ever been

or ever will be, has lived under the same sky

And at the heart of it all, is Love.

A single word that when put to action

possesses the power to transform everything.

I look back on my own journey and see that

the incessant partying, the epic adventures,

even following a wizard,

was all motivated by my longing to experience love.

And while I wouldn't change a single thing,

I now realize I went halfway around the world

searching for something, that was there all along.

The good news.

It's there for you too.

And if you're lucky enough to be watching this,

it's because your jar is still open.

Your journey to love, still unfinished.

Now the choice is yours.

How do you wanna feel it?

♪ I searched the whole world to find who I need ♪

♪ You gave me your heart ♪

♪ One time, now I see you're greater than all this things ♪

♪ Greater than all this things, yeey ♪

♪ It's so blue, marbles sky ♪

♪ It's so blue, Marbles sky ♪

(soft guitar music)

♪ You opened my eyes to your light ♪

♪ Open my eyes to your light ♪

♪ Open my eyes to your light ♪

(soft guitar music)

♪ You opened my eyes to your light ♪

♪ Open my eyes to your light ♪

♪ Open my eyes to your light ♪

♪ You opened my eyes to your light ♪

♪ Open my eyes to your light ♪

♪ Open my eyes to your light ♪

♪ You open my eyes to your light ♪

♪ Open my eyes to your light ♪

♪ Open my eyes to your light ♪

♪ Ooh, ooh ♪

♪ It's so blue ♪

♪ Marble sky ♪

♪ It's so blue ♪

♪ Marble sky ♪

- The greatest gift I can offer the world is love.

Done. (soft guitar music)

♪ Jesus you're the spring of my life ♪

♪ Draw my heart deep, you hold my heart tight ♪

♪ Held me when I was afraid ♪

♪ Everything that I thought I could give ♪

♪ In the mountains I've searched ♪

♪ In the hills I convinced myself ♪

♪ But you came and changed my life ♪

♪ It's so blue ♪

♪ Marble sky ♪

♪ It's so blue ♪

♪ Marble sky ♪

(humming)

♪ I searched the whole world to find who I need ♪

♪ You gave me your heart ♪

♪ One time, now I see you're greater than all this things ♪

♪ Greater than all this things, yeey ♪

♪ It's so blue, marbles sky ♪

♪ It's so blue, marbles sky ♪

(soft guitar music)

♪ You opened my eyes to your light ♪

♪ Open my eyes to your light ♪

♪ Open my eyes to your light ♪

♪ You opened my eyes to your light ♪

♪ Open my eyes to your light ♪

♪ Open my eyes to your light ♪

♪ You opened my eyes to your light ♪

♪ Open my eyes to your light ♪

♪ Open my eyes to your light ♪

♪ You opened my eyes to your light ♪

♪ Open my eyes to your light ♪

♪ Open my eyes to your light ♪

♪ It's so blue ♪

♪ Marble sky ♪

♪ It's so blue ♪

♪ Marble sky ♪

(soft guitar music)