Is there a potent mission to being an artist at the time of the 9/11 and of a depressed economy? Could it be that troubled times are indicative of the tremendous societal need for visionaries to show up as leaders, and offer ecologically sound creative solutions to the current challenges humanity is facing? And if there is truth to the contemporary artist mindset appearing to be enslaved by its own conditioned beliefs and subsequent identities, how then can it be freed? This presentation will progress through ten ideas revealing a pathway for artists to travel. It will reveal how the creative power to be shifting reality can promote the success and acceptance for which artists have longed. It will stress how coming back to serving the community will