With over a billion videos on YouTube it's hard to get heard above the clatter, evern if you have great videos like a Princess (Mee McCormick, left) you'll meet in this fairy tale.
How I met the amazing Princess is a lesson in good karma. I was doing in Las Vegas at the Holistic Treatment conference where I was manning the booth for client Bradley Quick's (left) amazing charity. I donate almost half my time and videos to Bradley's The Cool Change Foundation.
Lee McCormick (right in photo) was breezing past the booth at the Holistic Treatment Conference when I stopped him to talk about BuzzBroz and our work helping Bradley's great mission bring about a cool change in people lives to beat addiction.
Lee and I hit if off immediately. I learned Lee runs an amazing recovery center in Tennessee called The Ranch, we hope to work for one day. His work there simply awesome and cutting edge. And as it turns out Lee also has a 10/10/10 event planned on The Ranch in Tennessee like mine revolving around 2012. Talk about synchronicity!
Lee used my laptop to show me his lovely and talented wife Mee's YouTube channel for Princess Know It All TV and the views were not what the deserved to be. WOW! This was high production value, quality entertainment, better than most of what we see on TV on any given day and it has real soul.
Lee said he'd get back to me and after a few months not hearing from him I forgot about our nice but brief encounter in Vegas.
One day out of the blue Lee called. I immediately recalled the quick talk we had about Mee's YouTube videos and the rest is history.
Now, thanks to BuzzBroz's ability to get videos the views they deserve on YouTube - Mee McCormick, as lovely as Julia Roberts, deep as Oprah and funny as Lucy - is on her way to becoming a YouTube star with millions of viewers.
Chalk up this Vegas karmic jackpot opp to work for a magical Princess - so named because whenever she thinks she knows it all Mee learns she doesn't - to giving my time and talent to Mr. Quick's charity which I hope you'll drop by and make a donation to if you liked this story.
I began covering Souldrama events around the world just a few short months ago thanks to my client and pal Bradley Quick introducing me to guide to the soul Souldrama founder Connie Miller.
This journey was cross country to Long Beach Island, New Jersey. The group was 90% American, people from coast to coast but mainly from New Jersey, with one student from Greece.
What made this event extra special for me as a Hollywood filmmaker was that Barnet Bain, producer of WHAT DREAMS MAY COME was in attendance and shared a viewing and discussion of the film deep metaphysical premise. Barnet is one of the true Hollywood visionaries and it was an honor to have him present and acting out key roles in all our dramas. His facilitation of Souldrama LBI was a triumph of the soul for him and for the brilliant Connie Miller for letting it evolve soulfully.
What was cool for me was to see how we all carry on the dramas of our life like some internal never ending show. It was, dare I say, far more exciting than going to the the typical commercialized, un-Barnet Bain-like, Hollywood movies to look, unflitered, deep, deep into the hearts of people who were mostly strangers until the group formed, but who felt like family as the 8 days drew to a close.
I got Barnet interested in Souldrama after hearing him speak on a radio talk show which I cover. And I was thrilled he got and gave so much from the event on LBI, an affluent island near Atlantic City that has 18 miles of beautiful beaches to enjoy.
In fact, I had such a wonderful time that I rescheduled an assignment in Malibu to enjoy the entire 8 days workshop and honored myself and the group by taking the time to properly finish this chapter of my work on myself, exemplified by this drawing of a safe house for my inner child that Barnet Bain and I created together.
After covering a spiritual group therapy workshop in Italy that led to a vision in Italy of a gentle 2012, it felt great to be back in my adopted home town of Chicago doing social media for something as down to earth as a hair salon.
This was however no ordinary hair salon, since it is located in America’s tallest building, Willis Tower, FKA, and forever to me, The Sears Tower. At 110 stories Sears held the world’s tallest for over 25 years until some Asian and Saudi towers surpassed it height but not in greatness.
The name of the hair salon is A Cut Above and its location on Lower Level One makes it tricky for some people to find, especially post 9/11. As America’s tallest building and a symbol for capitalistic society the Tower is a target for terrorist attacks. So security is the tightest some of the tightest in the world, more on that security later.
Here's the video we made to help people find A Cut Above Salon.
Back on 9/11 I worried enough for the safety of the owner of the salon, the lovely Karen Kennedy, to call her and make sure she was OK. Karen and I dated after my divorce. I blew it by asking her to marry me. But despite going our separate ways we stay in touch and watch out for one another.
So one day this past Spring when I got an email form Karen asking for a proposal for a website design I was excited. Karen had been suffering the classic web issue of the site taking forever to get built and shelling out thousands of dollars. I told I could put and end to her web misery with a GoDaddy template site she’d be able to maintain herself.
Karen was skeptical about learning to run a website but I assured her Godaddy’s 24 hour service would come to the rescue if she if got stuck. Within a few phone conferences I had a clear idea of what Karen wanted on the website and I finished for her in a matter of days.
In fact it’s always the custom banners that take the longest in the process for simple, easy to use websites, and Karen was no exception, or I could have been done in a day with her 5 page site. All created for only $1000.
So not for a fraction of what she had paid Karen without yet getting her website up and running with her former web designer she was in business.
But when it came time to train Karen on how to maintain the site with simple changes my phone training left something to be desired. So I offered to fly from LA, at my own expense, to visit her in Chicago for one on one training. What had been impossible to teach Karen over the phone about Godaddy Website Tonite navigation proved a breeze in person.
And as long as I was in Chicago I paid Karen a visit at her salon and got her YouTube station up and running. Take a look. Isn’t Karen adorable?
Oh, the security at the tower almost tackled me when they saw me taking pictures of how to find Karen in the mammoth structure. I had to get Karen to accompany me to get the shot.
My visit to Chicago allowed me to old friends, visit old haunts, see my kids and family in Wisconsin. Everyone took my vision in Italy experience in stride. Fortunately they can see even if my head is in now the clouds, which happens to the Sears Tower from time to time, that my feet are still on the ground.
BuzzBroz Creates Facebook Page / DreamShield: Vision of a Gentle 2012
Good news. 2012 is not the end of the world! At least according to social media company BuzzBroz founder Ken Sheetz, me.
How am I so sure...? Well, I had a whopper of a vision while on assignment in Italy covering Souldrama for BuzzBroz client Connie Miller this past May at a spiritual resort and yoga retreat called Santa Maria Del Sole.
NEW AGE VISIONS ARE NEW FOR ME
I'm a regular Joe from Wisconsin who's had an amazing life and career that has included building skyscrapers, Oprah's Harpo Studios, film TV and now social media.
My bread and butter is grounded corporate client work, like tennis shoe company Podi, mega real estate development Museum Park and charity work for The Cool Change Foundation. So, thanks to some heavy duty soul-searching and consulting a lot of people with experience in this New Age stuff, I am happy to report that I still have my feet on the ground. even if my head is in the clouds.
HOW ALL THIS VISION STUFF GOT BUZZING
Besides our corporate work, BuzzBroz produces YouTube HD videos that have gotten over a million views, covering everything from ancient Mayan calendar 2012 predictions of Armageddon to galactic transformation by world renowned ET expert Sheldan Nidle that you can watch for yourself YouTube.com/filippovotaggio, a channel built by BuzzBroz.
Early in 2010 I got a referral for a cool job to travel to Puglia Italy to cover Connie Miller's Souldrama.com with YouTube videos. Souldrama is a group workshop for therapists and lay people that uses psychotherapy, psychodrama and energetic healing techniques. The workshops take place all over the world.
OFF TO SANTA MARIA DEL SOLE - ONE VERY SPIRITUAL RESORT
In May Connie was in Italy and I was thrilled to be there covering the event for her. From the moment my train arrived in scenic Ostuni, located on the heel of the boot of Italy, the 5 star treatment of the Santa Maria Del Sole staff began.
Soon as I met Connie Miller's amazing Souldrama workshop members - who came from all over the world: Greece, America, Brazil, Holland and Italy - I knew I was going get amazing material on matters of the soul.
PASTA TALK OF 2012 FEARS
On one of my last nights at Santa Maria Del Sole, over amazing pasta, the resort is Vegan as well as non-smoking, I learn from Salvatore, a rock star turned owner of the fab resort, that fears of 2012 are just as strong in this peaceful farm land of Italy as they are back in smog-choked-New Age LA.
Salvatore tells me that a survival group recently visited the resort in search of a high ground to build a shelter from the floods of 2012.
The next day, SoulDrama's Connie Miller, whose gift for getting right to your issues and connecting you to your soul are amazing to say the least, surprises us with a treat: A group healing with the resort's world renowned healer Guilia.
VISION FOR A GENTLE 2012
I lay down on my rather uncomfortable yoga mat, wondering if I can lay here for very long with the group.
As Guilia chants over us in Italian. I cannot understand a word she intones, but I find it soothing. My eyes close, the discomfort of the yoga mat forgotten.
Celestial beings, what some might call angels, what some might call ETs, join us, filling the empty yoga mats.
The grid of the amazing group of healers from all over the world, from Brazil, Greece, Holland, America and Italy, plus celestial beings, Connie and Juila is now complete.
In my mind's eye I see a faint, yet powerful, blue energy connect us all. The yellow brick vaulted ceiling of the former horse stables we lay in, now a yoga hall, turn to solid gold.
The gold bars above crackle with electrical energy like a superconductor. Overwhelmed by the awesome power of the group energy, I am fully alive for what feels like the first time ever.
Guilia's chanting became ever more passionate.
The floor beneath us becomes crystal clear. Not glass, more like some new kind of super plastic. The room is now a cylinder, our group is floating on the clear floor. The gold energy bricks shimmer with energy waves above and below us.
The north and south the ends of the room rocket outward. On and on the room extends, racing for opposite poles of the planet. The energy bands collide and fuse. They are pure white and circle north and south about the entire earth.
Our international group, I realize in wonder, is the power center of a global band of spiritual energy. Now more energy flash outward from the side arches. They circle the earth in an instant, east to west and back.
I feel in tune with the entire planet. The room turns to pure white light, humming with a spiritual power of great immensity.
"Wow!" escapes my lips as Guilia comes to the end of her healing chant. Her assistant asks us to sit up in English. The first words I've understood in half an hour.
WOW... PROCESSING THE VISION
"Wow what?" Connie asks me with a gentle smile, sitting up on the yoga mat beside me.
I mutter something I don't recall; not ready to talk about the vision yet.
Over dinner I talk to a few of the group students, hoping some had had a similar vision. No dice. My vision is my own. Many students report they simply fell asleep. When asked what I think my vision means I say feebly that maybe the energy bands represent the internet and getting buzz going about Souldrama and the resort.
CONVERSATION WITH MY SOUL
I was not heading out to Venice until the next day for some much needed R&R. Salvatore kindly finds me another place to stay as most of the group has scattered for the four corners of the globe.
In the middle of the night, alone in the strange little and un-spiritual hotel, my vision finds a voice. It's not like something I heard with my ears but in my mind. I drowsily think Connie's workshop must have awakened my soul's voice.
My soul says softly, like its imparting wisdom to a child, "Your vision was not about social media, Ken."
"No?" I answer mumbling in my waking dream state.
"Those energy bands were created to hold the earth together, to make 2012 gentle."
"No Mayan calendar Armageddon?"
"Nope."
"No ET galactic transformation?"
"Also handled. But there is still work to be done on the energy bands."
"This is not over?" I gripe, nearly waking myself to full consciousness.
"On 10/10/10 at 10:10:10 the energy bands must be strengthened."
"What?! Why? How?" I loudly ask, waking from my meditative half slumber, losing my soul connection like a dropped celestial cell phone call.
I feel rattled to my core. I write in my journal about all this amazing stuff before I can forget it and barely sleep the rest of the night.
POST VISION INTERVIEW WITH GUILIA
The next day I head right back to Santa Maria Del Sole and share the vision of a gentle 2012 with Salvatore and Guilia. I filmed it and you can watch and listen me while I am still in shock.
As you'll see near the end of the interview, Guilia shocks me by telling me my vision of a gentle 2012 is exactly what she had been hoping for!
As we part and I climb into the van for the airport Guilia asks me to share any more visions that would come.
"More visions?" I ask, worried this is not over.
And come the after visions did. One night, half asleep back in LA, I saw the energy bands begin to turn with a mighty groan like an echoing of a giant trumpet. Faster and faster the energy bands spun until they became a shield, what I would come to call the DreamShield.
And that's how the Facebook page for a global event on 10/10/10, and for the years leading up to a gentle 2012 got started.
PROCESSING THE VISION OF A GENTLE 2012
Now, it's not every day a regular Joe from a family of Wisconsin welders participates in a series of visions to save our home planet from 2012. So I had a whole lot to process.
I was so shook from all this even went home to the Midwest, my home, to get grounded and tell family and friends about all this.
I was happily not thrown on the loony bin and I found most them surprisingly supportive. Of course a few looked at me with concern. But we got past it and I headed back to Caly, where I felt like all this New Age stuff really belonged.
Back in LA the best advice I got in all my research and soul searching was from a great filmmaker, Barnet Bain, producer of WHAT DREAMS MAY COME and THE CELESTENE PROPHECY.
Barnet was kind enough to help me get a handle on on this New Age stuff. He tells me visions are both real and unreal at the same time. That clicks because it all feels both real and science fiction, which I love and write in screenplays, at the same time.
I plan to film this topic all the way through 2012 and beyond and gather it into a documentary. You'll be able to watch it in pieces on videos we post to the DreamShield facebook page.
DREAMSHIELD 10/10/10: VISION FOR A GENTLE 2012
I hope like I've learned, you can enjoy this vision thing as both real and unreal at the same time. Join us on Facebook. Link is in the sidebar.
Worst case you can all have fun dreaming of a gentle 2012 with us. Best case you'll have helped save the world from Armageddon and aliens.
With over a billion videos on YouTube it's hard to get heard above the clatter, evern if you have great videos like a Princess (Mee McCormick, left) you'll meet in this fairy tale.
