Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
part of it too. So we just sing, I'm just like a bird singing, we're all
just birds singing our songs, so we sing to each other, or we don't.
[Laughs].
WIZARD: Leaves rustling in the wind.
TRIP: Did you hear the Wizard, like leaves rustling in the wind.
So you seem comfortable, I mean it's miraculous the words just do
keep coming, but you're not feeling anxious there when you're in
front of the 200 people, you're pretty relaxed and you're okay with
moments where the words don't come I take it. Has it always been
like that for you?
JEFF FOSTER: Yes. I've had quite a bit of experience, well it's
only a few years of experience, but I guess I have done quite a few
meetings now. No, it hasn't always been like that. When I did my
first meeting a few years ago, I think it was three or four years ago,
it wasn't natural for me to speak in public. I mean I was always
like growing up as a kid, and like a teenager and my early 20s, I
was quite intensely private, intensely shy, intensely self-conscious.
So it didn't come naturally to me as a character to get in front of
people and speak. So that was mysterious as well.
Years ago when I found myself saying yes to an invitation to talk,
that was unexpected [Laughing]. That's not something that Jeff
does. But then again, you can't really ever say anything about
yourself like that, you can't really ever say well that's not me. How
can you really say that? All you can really say is I'm not willing to
do that; I'm not willing to experience that. But I guess what
happened years ago is I just became more and more willing to
experience anything really. More willing to experience pain,
experience fear, experience all the stuff that we call negative, but
it's not really negative. We just call it negatives and we try and
escape it and think the positive, but really when you really face the
present experience, you find there's really nothing negative in it,
it's just energy, it's stuff moving, it's energy moving.
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