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Roy \\u201cFutureman\\u201d Wooten has been playing music with his brothers his entire life. I was fortunate to be able to talk with him for the 100th Planetary Gig Talk podcast at Wooten Woods while there for Victor Wooten\\u2019s Spirit of Music camp. Please check out this amazing performer and futurist thinker. Here are some of the conversational tidbits for you:

- Roy says artists and musicians are carrying the weight of the world, because what we do with art will speak for the ages.
- His mother loved music, especially listening to Nina Simone on the Sunday morning radio, and she said that music helps people get through the week, and could carry people through tough times.
- Roy says, \\u201cMusic is taking us on a journey, and \\u2026 if we have a question about something, the question is the beginning of the quest; \\u2026 if you stick with your questions, it\\u2019s gonna take you on a quest with intention.\\u201d He says, \\u201cYou don\\u2019t know how you\\u2019re influencing people when you are doing what you love.\\u201d
- Roy discovered the seminal book A Course in Miracles when he was young; he still remembers the line in the ad he saw from the Course: \\u201cOnly the veil that is drawn across reality is lifted, nothing has changed, yet the awareness of changelessness comes swiftly as the veil of time is pushed aside.\\u201d
- Roy says he and his brothers used to discuss spiritual principles like those in the course quite a lot. Victor mentioned the Course to me when I interviewed him last year for this podcast.
- The Course says, according to Roy, there is only love and fear, and love has to take the form of forgiveness, which is the axis of the world.
- Roy also talked about the principles of the Hawaiian principles of Ho\\u2019oponopono, based on the book Zero Limits. Roy says it is really about forgiving ourselves first. Ho\\u2019oponopono says everything is in you, and if you can look at life in a different way, it can change you.
- Roy says the world often leans toward a chaotic place, but that the artist is the centering thing; the artist has a role in society that is more than most artists know. There is a heroic journey for artists.
- He says, \\u201cThe only thing that will create cohesion and order is frequency.\\u201d Music has a sacred quality, and \\u201cwhen we are dealing with music, we are dealing with the theory of everything.\\u201d
- He says, \\u201cMusicians are magicians; there is magic happening [in music].\\u201d
- He talked about the theories of the Dogon tribe in Africa, where Stephen Jay visited, who believed that, \\u201cMusic is a conscious force and what we call god is really music.\\u201d
- \\u201cMusic knows who you are \\u2026 when you join music, music joins you, and you begin to be able to speak your voice.\\u201d
- \\u201cSome people are afraid of their truth \\u2026 a lot of times your genius is residing in you, but it\\u2019s in a comfortable place, and you have to get uncomfortable before it can come out, before you are willing to let it come out.\\u201d