Who Is The Creator Of GENERATION INSTANT GRATIFICATION?
Brigitte Secard wrote the book “Soulfire” at age 28 in one week to evolve non-violence and peace into the 21st century for a pop-culture generation; emphasizing the necessity to awaken on the individual level. The book title was based on Gandhi’s concept of Soulforce, invoking the need to evolve the legacy espoused by Leo Tolstoy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Nelson Mandela into modern times and contend with contemporary themes for a 21st century world in critical condition. Reverend James Lawson, from the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), and a partner to Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement, gave the keynote address at her book launch event in Hollywood, California.
The book Soulfire was created out of demand for her content after she had worked individually with countless numbers of people of all backgrounds and ages, to help them come home to themselves and find peace in a modern world where no other guru, priest, or therapist had been able to help them. In fact, she actually helped many gurus, priests, and therapists themselves awaken and break the chains of their own suffering. It was then that the obvious connection from micro to macro became apparent. It became clear that helping one person at a time in alleyways, elevators, and parking lots at all hours of the day and night was no longer an option. Thousands of lives had been ignited with this flame of peace, but there were many millions more still in urgent need for something people had never seen before. And so by faith, she continued to devote herself to delivering this fire of awakening far and wide, for both the individual as well as the entire human condition.
From 2003 to 2005, she traveled alone across the United States, speaking anywhere and everywhere from prisons to hospitals to sports bars to elementary schools and colleges, art galleries, transgender clubs, churches, senior citizen centers and every other place imaginable to get this message of new paradigms and solutions out to a global society awash in suffering, internal collapse and medicated angst. She volunteered her time, donating her speaking fees back to the organizations that had asked her to work with them, and focused her efforts outside of the public eye, one group at a time.
Brigitte was subsequently invited to South Africa to meet with the family members of Nelson Mandela and Mohandas Gandhi. She arrived on Youth Day, on June 16th 2005, to attend the event held at Soweto Stadium as the personal guest of the Mandela family. While in South Africa, she called a press conference and gave a speech at Gandhi Square in Johannesburg, addressing the modern mutations of violence, racism, crime, depression, intolerance towards immigrants, the root causes of HIV, and the presence of both sublimated and overt hatred in a post-apartheid society; as well as the prevalence of these topics everywhere else around the world. Soon after this speech, she met with Ela Gandhi, (granddaughter to M. Gandhi) whom she filmed an interview with, on the topic of the need for innovating the legacy forward of Gandhi, King, Malcolm X and Mandela for this next generation. In July 2005, she traveled from Africa to the United Nations in Geneva, as the Goodwill Ambassador to the IHRC (International Human Rights Consortium) and was asked to speak before the United Nations for her work on evolving non-violence in the global landscape. This made her one of the only people to have ever spoken before both the U.N. and Playboy; as sexuality is a significant component of her message. She had been invited as a guest on the Playboy XM worldwide satellite radio for a 20 minute interview, and she was kept on air another 2 and a half hours, such was the audience response from both men and women.
The Westminster Independent Newspaper in London did a feature story on Soulfire, calling her “A Global Cultural and Socio-Political Phenomenon.” She was also a featured guest on the television show “The Rub” on Si TV, the Latino-themed cable network; and has also been featured in numerous newspapers, magazines and radio interviews, both in the United States and internationally.
Since returning from Africa and Geneva, she has been sequestered underground to prepare this content for a world audience. She has now written and is directing-producing a pop-culture documentary+book+project to most effectively deliver these unprecedented and original paradigms for greatest impact entitled (and intended for): GENERATION INSTANT GRATIFICATION.
