The Greatest Party on Earth: A Mythic Celebration of Love, Art, and Choice

The Greatest Party on Earth: A Mythic Celebration of Love, Art, and Choice - Benji

We just threw the coolest party on planet earth.  I’ve been to a lot of parties in my day and have had a lot of good times, but nothing I have ever experienced touched my heart like what we got to live together this past week.  Not only was it our annual Mythic Party that we annually host inviting our friends from all over the world to come collectively paint with us, it was also the wedding of Mikis’ son Spyro and his lovely bride Marlen.  Needless to say it was a very important and absolutely magical event.  We poured our hearts and souls into welcoming the largest gathering TierraMitica has ever seen, including our argonaut and Peruvian family and a large host of Spyros and Marlen’s friends and family from Greece.  

I hosted this event meaning all the coordination and event management rested safely on my very strong and very capable shoulders, although I’ll admit the size and scale of everything had me more than a little nervous leading up to the starting line.  But I made a choice.  I am going to pour every ounce of strength, determination and heart into this, give it all of my love and do my absolute best to make this a rockin’ good awesome time for everyone!  See… it always comes down to a choice.  That’s where the magic is.  That is where we find the mythic inside of ourselves.  And boy oh boy did I ever find the mythic in me.

Mikis has been teaching me for years that the paradox makes everything distorted.  I realized something during this event about two seemingly simple concepts.  Easy and hard.  I used to think that organizing an event with a million logistical details, waking up at the break of dawn and working my ass off all day to make it all work until the wee hours of the night, organizing 74 people into one big team, coordinating a paint party, a wedding, catering 3 meals a day, ensuring the limited supply of water and electricity are budgeted responsibly, creating multiple jam sets for an inexperienced band, and keeping an awesome enthusiastic energy throughout would be hard.  Hard work.  But it’s not.  I now know one of the greatest secrets in a human experience, how to live an easy life: fall madly, deeply, wildly in love in a mythic endeavor that means something to you and give it everything you got.  Work your ass off, and work diligently towards something you believe is absolutely awesome!  Make your own efforts and your own growth your reward and show yourself what you are capable of.  Inspire others with your passion and enthusiasm to help you create your vision, and build an energetic momentum that can achieve triumphant results and collectively soak in the pride of living the wild ride together!  WHAT A RIDE!!!

There were giant challenges.  The group of young Greeks that attended for the wedding were not very interested in the painting, and ended up departing halfway through following the night of the wedding.  But what I witnessed was another of the most important insights that became obvious during this event.  The contrast between people who have been touched by the energy and philosophy of TierraMitica over the years, and those who have lived their lives in the modern world without being given the gift of insight into its underlying paradoxes. 

Almost ten years ago I first encountered Mikis and he presented to me a vision of a new evolution of humanity, and he offered me the opportunity to create it with him and the most daring souls on the face of the planet, the TierraMiticans.  To become a mythic being.  I have certainly had my ups and downs along this path, but never has it been so obvious to me, so clear, the progress we have all made along this path and that we are absolutely and undeniably becoming something different.  He called it “Homo Delectus”: a human of choice.  

Choices were made during this event, to be enthusiastic, work together, party together, and create not only magnificent artwork but also a heartfelt magical event to celebrate love and union and togetherness.  Those who chose this were energized beyond their perceived limits and had an absolute blast creating something mythic together!  The cooperation and passion made it easy for them, despite the long hours and workload.  Together we created magic and had an awesome time!  And there was also the choice to be half in, require constant breaks from painting, to grumble, and to not allow the collective spirit of creating something awesome together into your heart.  They became exhausted, uninspired and left the event.

Fuck.  This microstory is the story of our lives.  We have all experienced this without actually having the insight to understanding what is happening inside of ourselves.  And it is all so simple.  An easy life, free of internal turmoil, mindfuck, self-doubt and instead charged with the stunning brilliance of the human heart, self love and actually writing a story of your life worth fucking telling is giving everything you have to something that means something to you.  A mythic life is working your ass off to make that internal vision of yourself and the life you want to experience come true!  

This party meant something to me, and meant something to the people I love, and together we gave it everything we had and had an absolutely awesome time!  I became lifelong friends with Peruvian artists even though we can barely understand each-other, but could fully feel each other’s hearts.  We painted a masterpiece on the walls of our music studio and the most magical adventure scenes in our newly constructed nursery where our children will grow up dreaming of mythic lives for themselves.  We danced and laughed and sang together.  We threw the greatest party on planet earth, not because of drugs, alcohol and fake euphoria, but with the power of our hearts and our enthusiastic willingness to embark on this adventure together.  It was glorious!  At the finish line and our grand celebration at the finale of the party I witnessed an entire amphitheatre full of mythic beings energized and shining forth their brilliance enjoying a wild ride together.  Nothing compares to this.  

I’m starting to see the future.  I’m starting to see that we are on the greatest adventure in human history, and it's even more glorious than I ever dared to imagine or have thus far been capable of envisioning.  This family we all share, that we have all in one way or another helped to create, is going to grow into a leviathan of awesome.  The stories we will write, the memories we will live together, the talent and passion we will cultivate.  The love, the magic.  This has only just begun.  

I have only just begun.  

See, I am no different than those that left, and just moments ago in my life I would have likely done the same.  It is the choices I have been making, the internal lines I have drawn for myself, and the burning desire I have cultivated to give my life everything that I got that has allowed me to enjoy this triumphant achievement.  And it's not because I just threw the greatest party on planet earth.  It’s because I’m proud of myself.  Because I know, undeniably who the fuck I am.  What I’m made of.  And I look forward with an inferno inside of my heart to writing the most glorious story of my life with the most amazing human beings I am so grateful to call my family.

What a ride to the stars, I’m so happy that I came.  What a ride to the heart, I finally feel this game.

Benji