Thrive. Part 2.

[John Winston]

Subject: Thrive. Part 2.
May 24, 2012.

This brings up the subject of Crop Circles. If you look closely
at some commercials on TV, they contain the word, Thrive.

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She brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to
Clear Compass Media, and creating the movie THRIVE called
upon it all: as a former journalist, including for Newsweek
International; a producer of large projects and events; a
lifelong activist for social justice and as a mother and step
mother to nine children.
One especially encouraging insight that emerged in the
course of making THRIVE was that the most informed
people are consistently the most hopeful, because once the
nature of the problem is clear, so are the solutions.
Kimberly is committed to using her privilege to empower
these bold and leveraged solutions.

Daily Bell:
We were surprised by how good Thrive was, especially since
we'd been critical of it previously. Why did you make such a
high-budget production as opposed to, say, writing a book or
article?

Foster Gamble:
First of all, I want to comment on your being surprised. Frankly, I was
shocked and really disappointed that The Daily Bell was doing an
in-depth review of the film, really twice, without having seen it. It
was not the kind of critical thinking I usually associate with
the Daily Bell, so I am glad that some of your people, including
yourself, have actually seen the movie and appreciate it. So
now we can have much more meaningful conversation about
what we have done and who we are.
The message of this movie is really the result of literally
my entire life's research. I put most of my life savings into
making it because the goal was to actually alter the global
conversation in a way that could really make a difference in
the way that everyone on the planet could have the opportunity
to thrive. So, I knew that to do that, a book wouldn't reach
that many people, an article wouldn't reach that many people,
but if a film were really coherent and powerful and done in a
quality way so it carried as much beauty and credibility as
possible, that had the best shot of going all over the world
and changing the conversation. I am happy to say that seems to
be what is happening.

Daily Bell:
Give us some background on yourself for those who haven't
seen the movie.

Foster Gamble:
I was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio by extraordinarily wonderful
parents. My father was part of the Gamble family, who were
descendants of James Gamble, four generations ago, who
was the co-founder of Proctor and Gamble, the soap and
household products company. So I was raised in quite a
comfortable situation. I went to all the e-ite private schools
and went to P-inceton University, and was successful in
school in a lot of ways.
I was on the fast lane in the mainstream towards the usual
pyramid of success but I was completely disenchanted with it.
I looked around at the world that I was about to leave college
for and I saw that we were destroying our environment, we were
invading Cambodia for no good reason that I could figure out
and we were at the risk of destroying life as we know it on
planet Earth through a n-lear holocaust.
So when I found out that I was inheriting from my grandparents
just enough money that if I managed it carefully, I could
choose what I wanted to do with my life I had created the
film-making department with some others at Pr-nceton so I
was passionate about making films but I realized I didn't
have anything to say that was worth all the time and money
and knowledge that's necessary to make a feature film. So
instead, I dedicated my life at that point to finding out what
is causing so much human suffering.
With all the technology, and all the goodness of the human
s-irit that I know about, why is it that so few people are
really thriving? So I thought that would take a few years,
and when I figured that out, I would make a film about it.

Well, little did I know it would take more than forty years to
come to a sufficient understanding of what I think is in the
way of our thriving, but also a sufficient perspective on
the nature of solutions that could actually get us out of this
m-ss. So that's when I decided to make the film and to give it
the best possible shot of being successful and effective.

Daily Bell:
Give us some background on your wife, who appears in the
movie as well.

Foster Gamble:
Kimberly grew up in Los Angeles in a real film-making family.
Her dad was the major producer for Jack Lemmon's films
and her brother is the major production designer for Steven
Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis and also won the Academy
Award for production design in "Avatar" recently. So she
grew up around people who knew how to make a dream
come true and go from just thoughts in their heads to a very
successful project that could positively impact people's
lives.
She herself was very disenchanted with Hollywood and left
at an early age. She went to Berkeley and really has been an
activist all her life. She is a brilliant investigator and writer
and she worked for Newsweek International for 10 years,
mostly in Europe, and then she just created basic
entrepreneurial, activist projects the rest of her life, which
were both her occupation and the fulfillment of her mission.
So she's a very talented producer, and she ended up directing
Thrive. She did a fantastic job of bringing in the feminine
energy into topics which are so often dominated by either
sort of removed and purely intellectual men in science, or
angry ranting males in the c-nspiracy area.

I am glad to be talking to you in this conversation about
her because even in the liberty world, the percentages,
gender-wise, are so strongly focused toward the masculine
that we are really thrilled by the level of interest in these
topics that Thrive is generating, especially amongst women
and young people. There is no more powerful force that I
have come across in the universe so far than the motherly
protection of the female species. I have found over the years
in my activism, if women take something on, it's going to
happen.

Daily Bell:
Can you give us a synopsis of Thrive?

Foster Gamble:
Thrive is an investigation into what is in the way of our
thriving and what on Earth it is going to take for humanity
to be thriving on a healthy planet. The film starts with an
investigation of what we call 'The Code.' The code is a
pattern in nature, this donut-shaped toroidal vortex that
seems to be, from my studies, the only pattern by which
nature sustains a healthy system and that's quite a
statement.
Obviously, we live in a pretty large universe and as far as
we can tell, at least from the a-omic level to the clustering
of galaxies, every system organizes in a toroidal form that
can sustain itself.
So what is being offered to us is a blueprint from nature as
to how to design healthy living systems. There is nothing
more critical that we need at this point in history.

Later in the film, we get into how to use that as a compass
to chart a healthy course. But first of all, once we see the
implications of this code because it turns out that inventors
who have been aware of this fundamental pattern in nature
have designed devices that mimic this pattern and then can
be tuned like a musical instrument and at certain frequencies
will start pouring out clean, safe electricity.
That's great news, given the way we are polluting our skies
and fighting over o-l and running out of fossil fuel and all
that kind of stuff. So the great news is that those technologies
exist. The unfortunate part is that they have all been
brutally suppressed by the powers that shouldn't be.

So we go into an exploration: If this code is so important,
who else knew about it and who else knows about it? It turns
out that core elements of this geometry have been encoded by
multiple ancient cultures by the Egyptians, the Chinese, the
Mayans, the Aztecs over and over again.
Knowledge of these codes has been passed on in stories and
books and icons, buildings, for millennia so there was something
important that they wanted to pass on.

Then, in addition, in a sense from the future, we go into the
phenomenon of crop circles. These crop circles are patterns
in crops around the world. There have been at least 6,000
of these documented, but the estimates actually go up to
about 11,000. Certainly many of them are hoaxes but many of
them are absolutely inexplicable with their phenomenology, and
their detail, and no footprints on rainy nights. But more
importantly, hundreds of these patterns represent, at a very
deep level, exactly the same understanding of the geometric
patterns of energy that took me a lifetime to even begin to
glimpse. So I think, and I suggest in the film, that we are being
shown by civilizations more advanced than we are fundamentally
how energy works so that instead of ourselves destroying our
selves and polluting our planet we can actually learn to come
into harmony with these energetic patterns. So that's the
first chapter of the movie, The Code.

Part 2.

John Winston. joh...@mlode.com