Riding the Waves of Our World– interview with Pro Surfer, Author & Impact Activist, John Angiulo
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John Angiulo, a lifelong surfer and author, created Surfing Saves to help people understand the power of waves, frequency, and vibration in life. His approach blends spiritual wisdom, personal experience, and scientific validation to guide individuals through life’s challenges. Through his book, film, and community gatherings, Angiulo invites people to ride the waves of existence and find harmony within themselves and the world around them.
Surfer, Author, Speaker, Philosopher, Activist
For readers meeting you for the first time, who is John Angiulo professionally and in everyday life?
My background is as a professional surfer, surf/wave educator and author. Personally, I want to use what I love to be of service to my family, community and humanity and what I love is surfing, writing, researching, sharing stories and connecting with people. So, I spend a lot of time with my family and friends, surf as much as is humanly possible and work to produce writing, content and experiences around waves and frequency that can educate and inspire people to experience more beauty in their existence. Currently, that means turning people onto my book Surfing Saves and everything around that project.
When did surfing first enter your life, and what did it give you that nothing else did?
My dad taught me to surf when I was five years old and it really is the cornerstone memory of my whole life. He pushed me on a wave, I rode it to the beach where my mom was there and hugged me. I remember thinking “I’m going to do this for the rest of my life.” And I still love surfing as much, if not more than ever, and it defines my whole life.
What it gave me that nothing else could was a sense of self-actualization. When I was surfing, it was always the closest experience to what I wanted to feel like in life. Sovereign, Connected, Free and Absolutely Ecstatic. The feeling we call “stoke” as surfers is really a flood of interdimensional energies activating the upper levels of our cosmic awareness and earthly experience. An eruption of elation. It gives me that, and still does, after 33 years. So that’s pretty special.
Tell us a little bit more about Surfing Saves and what exactly that book and project is all about?
Surfing Saves is a book, film and impact campaign focalized on using surfing as the ultimate analogy for our existence to ground down life lessons and allow people to understanding how to utilize wave and frequency techniques and technology in their daily reality. It’s all about how surfing and time in nature can help us save ourselves from the sickness that is embedded in our society.
The book is the foundational material showing how surfing impacted me and many others, how it inspires us to reconnect with nature and our souls, while providing the blueprint for reading, riding, and thriving in the waves of our world. Backed up with spiritual contemplation and scientific validation the book also offers insight into how to apply these lessons into the ocean of our existence, into our actual lives. The impact campaign is about bringing communities together for group coherence. Those are larger-scale meditations to expand a higher order frequency into the world and providing practical insight into holding frequency in our own lives so we can maintain resonance. Overall, the impact is about showing people how to use waves/frequency/vibration to activate, regenerate and evolve themselves.
How did the idea for Surfing Saves first emerge – was it a book, a philosophy, or a lived experience first?
Really, it started in two ways: a philosophy and art project. The concept first emerged as a teaching philosophy that I used to call Waves of Reality. Around a similar time, I did an art project with a friend for this concept he had, “surfing saves”. We created a photograph of two boards making a cross, produced some t-shirts and overall, it was a success at that stage of the game. It was fifteen years later that I began working on this current realized iteration of the project. Essentially, I ended up fusion the photograph with the philosophy, making it the initial emblem for utilizing surfing as an analogy to work more fluidly & freely with our reality; to surf the waves of our world. That’s the origin story.
Your project includes a book, film, events, and community gatherings. Why was it important to create a movement instead of just publishing a book?
The real reason for having a multi-faceted approach is that those are the ways I enjoy working and the ways I feel I can help the most people. Due to the current tumultuous state of the world, I want to offer as many avenues into this project as are possible for people to be able to engage and use the Surfing Saves philosophy to better themselves immediately. Some people like to read, some people like to watch and listen, some people like to get out in nature together, which is of course, my favorite. Regardless, I want to give as many people as possible a chance to use the lessons I’ve learned in their own lives.
What does surfing teach you about life that most people miss when they only see it as a sport?
Most importantly, to me, surfing teaches you how to understand waves. Everything in our world is made up of waves, energetic oscillations that move through dimensional mediums. When we understand waves, it makes the working of our world much easier to understand, utilize and alter. That is the real axiomatic basis for this whole philosophy, surfing can show us how to read and ride the waves of our world. That’s what the book does, shows us how to be leaders in our lives through more deeply understanding the world we exist in.
How would you briefly explain the Surfing Saves mission to someone?
We live in a world that is literally woven by waves, so the mission of Surfing Saves is to use surfing as an analogy for existence, so people can learn to understand and use waves and frequency to better their daily lives. Or, even more simply, help them surf through life, the ocean of our existence.
You’ve set an ambitious goal of reaching one million people. What drives that level of impact for you?
As these waves of transformation sweep across our world, each of us has to find the way we were designed to contribute to the evolution of our community and humanity as a whole. For me, Surfing Saves is the first step in that direction. It carries deep codes, the greatest lessons I’ve been given insight to through a life of the ocean and that’s the best way I can be of service to everyone right now, by sharing this learning.
That learning encoded in that book is about how individuals can use waves/frequency/vibration to resonate with themselves, harmonize with local community and create coherence globally. That’s how we can individually and collectively alter our reality.
Ultimately, for me, it’s all about being of joyous service to as many people as possible and 1 million seems like a good start.
You’ve developed what you call the Havens Wavens 9D model, which first appears in Surfing Saves. In everyday terms, what problem does it help people solve? How does it help improve our world? What kind of world are you trying to leave for future generations?
We live in an ocean of energetic waves, a world of waves. Ideally, you would have a wave model in order to ride through that energetic ocean, a metaphorical surfboard. The 9D Wave Havens Model is a simple model that can act as a surfboard, a structure, to help people remain balanced in the ocean of their lives.
It provides a structure and foundational basis for people to actually functionally use this philosophy to create self and community resilience and regulation through the waves of change we are being bombarded with. The foundations of this functional philosophy are all in Surfing Saves. In fact, it is the structure the book itself is built upon.
I’m going to be dropping into that concept much more deeply in the follow-up book coming in 2027. For now, Surfing Saves hold the key codes to use this knowledge to surf through the wave lengths of our lives.
How can people best get involved with or support the Surfing Saves project?
There are a few simple ways that anyone can get involved with Surfing Saves.
First, follow on social media to keep connected. @_surfingsaves_
Second, buy the Surfing Saves Book from the link in bio.
Three, join us for Community Coherence Gatherings.
Four, DM to learn how to contribute to the Film and Impact portions of the project.
Other than that, my hope is you keep in resonance with your soul authenticity, harmony with your conscious community, and in coherence with the highest frequency that we can collectively Be, or, as I like to say, Keep The Vibe Alive So the Tribe Can Thrive!
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