Shadrach Village Web Series Launches!

It's a magical place!

I launched a new webisode show called Shadrach Village.

It's about a group of people who leave mainstream work and world to bring their dreams back alive.  They walk out on comfort to live in an old warehouse with no electricity or running water, because they feel like they are suffering even more greatly by living lives that don't make sense anymore.

Princess Oleska is the self-proclaimed leader of the village and it is all made possible by the generous contribution of the warehouse space by The Flushings, of Flushing Plumbing.

So, if you feel like you might remember just a little of something magic ... some dream that you had to lay down for one reason or another ... maybe a trip to the village is just what you need!

Update 2017: The platform for the webseries was taken down in 2012. I miss it and hope another mass production tv platform will open up soon so Shadrach Village can continue.

Spiritual Purpose

Been thinking 'bout this lately.

Am I here to experience being me?

Or am I here to change me into something better?

I've always read that earth is a school and we're all here to learn and grow.  While learning and growing seems inevitable with experience, I have never felt that was exactly the goal.

This idea of coming back repeatedly to fix karma doesn't sit exactly right in my consciousness either.  Fix it in editing, I say.  No need to reshoot the entire film, but that's the actor talking.

I don't have answers.

I question what this whole earth experience is about though.

I do that a lot these days.

Virtual Reality , Really?

Beckinfield Beckons....

A while back, I joined what is called a Mass Participation TV Project, or MPTV for short.

It's a concept ... create a virtual town online.  Have actors create characters to populate the fictional town.  See what happens.

What happens is kinda awesome.  I joined because I'm an actor and love creating believable characters.  I didn't realize, at the onset, how deeply thus acting experience would impact me.

Turns out, virtual reality is not that much different than what we think of as the real world.

I've formed relationships, not as myself but as my fictional character, with other characters created from the minds of other actors.

It's bizarre.

It's surreal.

It's metaphysical at a fairly amazing level.

Loving it.

Come see Leda Jo Gupta in Beckinfield.  Bet you'll be hooked if you stay very long....

Leda Jo Gupta, resident spiritual advisor of Beckinfield, California.

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Realization about Acting

Will I continue acting now?

I had an interesting shift around one of my lifelong passions, which is acting.  I've been a natural actor and ham since a very early age.  While teaching acting classes, I discovered that part of what drew me to acting was that it allowed me to safely be someone else, live in a different world without repercussion in this one, explore different realities.

That still feels good to me, to think of playing with reality in that way.  However, when I decided not to audition for a good role recently, I had a shift about the whole industry and the energy around it.  We are basically telling stories.  Judging from what is out there, we are mainly telling stories about hard times, challenges, abuse, violence, fearful situations and dangerous times.  Somehow, when I looked at this role (it was for a movie about child abuse and I know a little something about that incest and abuse) I suddenly saw that doing it would be perpetuating a story I no longer believe in perpetuating.

So, then the question is, how do we shift the patterns of abuse on the planet if nobody calls attention to them thru their story?  I don't know.  Yet, I'm feeling there is a way.  I'm feeling there is a way that is calling to me, to shift myself away from the stories of my past and into a moment of NOW that embodies the healed perspective without the story.

I'm noticing this shift around story in other areas of my life as well, and blogged about that this morning:  Who am I without my stories?

Living the Liberated Life and Dealing With the Pain Body

Consciousness Playtime Resources

On the Technique of Acting is my top recommended training resource on the creative arts.  It is further a delicious exercise manual for the matrix-minded individual.  Doing the creative exercises in this book and one other by Michael Chekhov, To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting, will not only stimulate creative inspiration but also expand consciousness and a sense of playfulness with the universe.

Dreams about acting; dreams about janitors

The Dream: I was talking with a janitor in an elevator. He said he was in a play and that the director was wanting him to nail the character, get the part right and then play it that way. The janitor said he didn't want to do that; that he was purposely playing the character entirely different every night and wanted to do it that way.


My take on the dream so far:
I really understood a lot of what this dream was saying to me, almost immediately.  The elevator was going up, not down, which is significant to my state of mind when I went to bed.  I was actively reaching outward to my soul group for information on my life path and asking for clarity.

A janitor takes care of other people's messes, basically, so the fact that it was a janitor who was telling me this was also significant.  I have felt, for quite some time, that my work as a spiritual healing facilitator was shifting and wanting to be more about allowing space for others to clean up their own lives rather than facilitating energy for them to do so.

And finally, I'm an actor so the reference to playing the part entirely different with each performance was not lost on me as a metaphysical reference to life.

Will be thinking on these things in days to come, for sure.

Related resources:  Hypnosis for actors > Vocal Training for Performers > Hypnosis for Stand Up Comedians