Sunday, August 20, 2006

Today


No words...

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Thursday, August 17, 2006

«What's up, doc?»

Here's what I believe: We come into this world as some kind of starter kit. We are born with the tools and basic «stuff» necessary to create a complete human being. By complete human being I mean a being who has reached its full potential and is able to understand its purpose in the world.

I do believe in Divine Providence. Divine Providence is the force that flows through our hearts always – and will show itself when we are sober and at peace. Divine Providence is the sword that cuts through the world's falsehood. We have to make our hearts mirror the image of Divine Providence. This is one reason why I choose to call Future Whirl devotional music.

I have a deep sadness in my heart because of the recent wave of war and terror. I am not a believer in end time scenarios, but I think we're heading somewhere we didn't consciously intend to go, and don't want to go. An invisible hand is pulling us into the deeps, where darkness threatens to swallow us. Be a light in the world. Don't let yourself get pulled down.

I do believe in non-violence. Especially in this world we see that violence SIMPLY CAN'T be used as a means to bring about positive changes. Sure, it will create short term changes, but leaves wounds that some people believe can only be healed by counter-violence. Violence begets violence, it's an old adage, but it's true. Despite all its ills, «Western» society has some deep democratic structures that can be used to change things for the better. In the last couple of years, people have used them, and some good things have come from it.

That's what's up... and I am working on a piece called «Shining Ball». It's been in the making for a long time. It's for a special project, and it's been so hard to complete it. But I think it will be finished within the next two weeks.

Take care!
Bard


Thursday, August 10, 2006

DREAM KNOWING

The alarm is ringing... We have an old fashioned alarm clock in our room. No kind of snooze feature. It just keeps ringing until one gets up, goes over to the closet (I hide it in the closet under a t-shirt, because I hate the high pitched sound it makes) and turns it off. The sound begins to make an impact on my dreams. In dreams - my brain always manages to turn the sound into something else, never an alarm. I'm in denial. I love to sleep – or seen from another perspective, my alternate existence in dream-space. As always, I die to my dream and get born into this world, that we all share, on the far side of sleep. I do not believe that life is just a series of dream sequences. That this life is a dream, and upon dying we wake up in some other world, another dream, and so on. But one never knows. That's one thing most of us have in common, we just don't KNOW.

From today on, I think I want to start looking at what I actually KNOW as opposed to what I THINK. Knowledge is when information – through experience – has become a part of our being. It is not enough to be mere vessels for the energies and impulses of life. We need to absorb life into our very being and really KNOW it.


This could be a good start, if we want to make a change in the world... anyway those were my two cents – as the saying goes – on a thursday morning.

Paz,
Bard




Sunday, August 06, 2006

SISTER OF LIGHT – MYSTIC JOURNEY – SUN WHIRL

"So strong when you move thru me, like the divine mind moves thru the cosmos..."