Monday, March 30, 2009

An anonymous listener writes:

I am loving the TLC Ascension piece! Its energy is sacred and uplifting,and I truly feel myself transported into a different dimension, connecting to higher frequencies. I imagine this music being played in a temple in the 5th dimension as a form of prayer and divine connection.

You can hear a sample and purchase this CD for $22.50 or get it for free when you buy a $25 a year membership to Visionary Music which includes over $60 worth of music.

Monday, March 23, 2009

True Lemon

I was in the grocery store today and noticed a box product in the juice aisle. It's called True Lemon, and while I didn't bother to inspect it very closely, I surmize it was a powder substance to replace the taste of real lemon. It prompted a mini-awakening.

True lemon? Give me a break! There's nothing true about it. It doesn't even resemble the shape of a lemon, which at least their competitor's conscentrated lemon juice does. "True Lemon" is a powder...a white, ashy, dried up dust. It may taste like lemon, but it is still not a lemon. Calling it "true" doesn't make it so. And what's more, the real lemon is just two aisles away...fresh, alive, and beautiful. This boxed stuff cost over $3! I could buy a whole bag of lemons for $2.56.

I hope you realize this isn't about True Lemon. It's about how often we slap a label on something phony and cheap, call it "Pure Goodness", and buy it! We could have the real thing if we just walked a little further, if we just dared to pick up the real thing, rather than be hypnotized by a lie on a box. There is nothing true about "True Lemon". And why that pisses me off so much, I can't quite understand. Except that I'm just really tired of being surrounded by lies.

I want the real thing. Although, to be fair, this is another meaning to the word "lemon." So, like the car that won't run, maybe "True Lemon" isn't so poorly named afterall.

Demand the real thing, people. Or years from now, our children will believe a lemon is shaped like a box.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

No Turning Back

We are the voices of the women. We will no longer be suppressed.

Stop beating us. Stop burning us. Stop persecuting us. Stop fearing us. Stop hating us. Stop raping us. Stop manipulating us. Stop oppressing us. Stop killing us. Stop killing our children (and who are not our children?). Stop betraying us. Stop lying to us. Stop taking from us. Stop separating us. Stop torturing us. Stop resenting us.

Start hearing us. Start loving us. Start respecting us. Start honoring us. Start opening to us. Start supporting us. Start trusting us. Start knowing us. Start protecting us and our children. Start reaching out to us. Start begging for our forgiveness. Start acknowleging us and empower us. We have come to save the world. Listen to our truth.

From this day forward, we step into the this life with our power, our ferocity. We are embodied, bold, powerful and wise. We are women. And there is no turning back.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

A Question of Taste

Music is without a doubt a question of taste. Some people only like listening to one type of music. Others have broader palates and enjoy many types. Still others have an ear for all kinds of sounds, hearing music in everything, while others remain very sensitive to the abundance of auditory stimulation in the world doing what they can to protect themselves from it.

I have been working with Visionary Music's DNA Activation music for many years now and am just beginning to work with their second series. The fourth in that series is a very dissonant, difficult piece for me to listen to. I actually get nauseous and headachy at certain parts when I listen to it. It makes the entire world move under my feet like an opposing sliding floor of a fun house and causes the molecules of my body to rise up and float off. So why do I listen to it?

For some of us, sound is our path. We use sound as a tool, a practice, and a challenge in our spiritual growth. If this is your interest, then you may want to consider acquiring a taste for the strange and dissonant. We can certainly filter sounds through our limited perception, thank God, but we can't always pick and choose what we are exposed to in life. Life is full of dissonance just as it is also full of harmony. But can you hear the harmony within dissonance? Can you get past the challenge of a sound and move into the silence that contains it? How willing are you to expose yourself to something challenging and uncomfortable...not just for the sake of doing so but for a higher purpose?

A master I revere, Hazrat Inayat Khan wrote:"...in order to open the doors of his heart, to keep its sensitiveness, the one who communicates with life within and without is open to all influences, whether agreeable or disagreeable, and is without any protection. His only escape from all the disturbances of life is through rising above them."

In some ways, that is what I think this Level 2 #4 CD is training me to do...to be open to all influences and to rise above them all into soundless sound.

I have interfaced with Shapeshifter's music enough to know that pockets of it unfold and present themselves when I am ready and not before. There are CD's that I didn't like at all at first that have become my favorites because now, I can actually hear them.I know that passages I find difficult are moving something in me that I cling to and offer me support in moving energies that I have been resisting or suppressing. I have faith in the process.

Don't get me wrong here. I would never sit and listen to just any old music that made me sick to my stomach. I would never purposefully subject myself to noise. There are those who have chosen plant medicine as a path. To me, the idea of taking Ayahuasca and throwing up all night just don't appeal. And yet, I don't doubt that people with that practice experience amazing insights. I don't doubt it's value. But I also don't think they would then go around ingesting e-coli contaminated foods for the thrill or endurance-testing. Some things really are toxic and/or devoid of Life, whereas other things are sacred instruments that help us evolve. Like medicine, it might taste bad when going down, but these instruments can change and heal us. Shapeshifter's music is my medicine, neither better nor worse than any other medicine, just the best medicine for me.