The Story That Chose Her
5/20/202640 min
Animation producer and first-time director Pilar Flynn shares the extraordinary story of a creative download that arrived during a meditation retreat beneath ancient redwoods. The experience was so specific, that it told her to adapt a beloved story by literary icon Isabel Allende, assemble a Latino creative team, and pursue an Oscar campaign.
Pilar had never directed before, had no funding, and no obvious path forward. Yet one by one, impossible doors opened.
In this conversation, Pilar and Ky explore intuition, ancestral guidance, magical realism, fear, worthiness, and what happens when creativity feels less like...
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First 90 secondsKai Dickens· Host0:00
Hi, everyone. I'm Kai Dickens, and welcome back to The Talk Tracks. Today, we have an incredible story about a creative download, or some would say big magic. If you haven't listened to Season 2, Episode 3 about the consciousness of creativity and how ideas choose us, I really encourage you to start there. But today, you're going to meet Pilar Flynn, a producer and now a director in the animation space, and hear one of the most remarkable big magic creativity choosing us stories I've heard in a long time. So Pilar, welcome to The Talk Tracks. [instrumental music] Hi, everyone. I'm Kai Dickens, and welcome to The Talk Tracks, brought to you weekly from TTT Media. In this series, we explore the threads that weave together our understanding of reality, science, spirituality, consciousness, and yes, even unexplained phenomena like psi abilities. We examine the mysteries that sit just beyond the edge of what science can currently explain, alongside researchers, thinkers, families, and experiencers. If you haven't yet listened to The Telepathy Tapes, I encourage you to start there. It lays the foundation for everything that we'll be exploring, because every era has ideas once dismissed as impossible, until someone was willing to investigate them seriously. And on this show, we do just that. If you wanna see our incredible guests in person, we have a video version of this episode on The Telepathy Tapes YouTube page.
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