Hi all,

I've been doing a lot of journeying to new places as many of you who've been reading this blog know. This journeying has let to new directions in my music for sure...recent successes over the last year are enough evidence of that, although the most compelling evidence is that I am HAPPY with what I am doing for the first time...ever...but, so far I haven't made many connections between these new thoughts...these new experiences...these new directions, and music beyond the toning I've mentioned before (which I did this morning and started seeing chakratic energy in addition to feeling my feet, hands, torso and head vibrating...).

In researching a local free jazz artist Mark Southerland to do a writeup for a brochure, I came across Sun Ra. I had known of Sun Ra before, but never really understood him and his message. It turns out, that his message is the same message as leading edge quantum physics, metaphysics, psychology, mathematics and the list goes on: that what we call this reality is more lie than any lie we could possibly make up. (see Tor Norretranders "The User Illusion" for a great survey of the research behind this thinking, or also see the movie "What the bleep..."). Sun Ra was also a third prong in civil rights beside Martin Luther King Jr.and Malcolm X and changed a lot of thinking.

I came across some great videos of Sun Ra on You-Tube. In "Brother from Another Planet (Pt. 4) he says:

"Those of the reality have lost their way, now they must listen to what myth has to say. Those of the reality have been slaves of a bad truth, so there's nothing left now but the myth. The myth is neither bad nor good, it's potentials are unlimited."

Without being too presumptuous, I think Deepak Chopra would agree.

Here's a great short clip with a really powerful message, aimed primarily at young black people in the 1970's but incredibly contemporary and potent for all of us.



"They can judge whether I'm really telling a lie or the truth…if I'm telling a lie, they have to judge whether the lie I'm telling them is more possible than the truth…" (Sun Ra, Brother from Another Planet, Pt 4)

Does it make sense ("truth") that people go to movie theaters and actually receive enjoyment out of watching people kill other people? Does it make more sense that people kill each other or love each other? Does it make more sense that a doctor can heal me, or that only I can heal myself? Does it make more sense that I get sick from some set of external realities (germs or otherwise)or that I have chosen to be sick in order to learn a lesson? Does it make more sense that people "make me angry" or that I choose to react in a way that is angry? Does it make more sense that someone else ruins my day, or that I ruin my own day? Does it make more sense that we are the only life in the universe, or that there is life teaming at all vibrational levels (up to Gamma rays and beyond) but we just can't perceive it? Does it make more sense that I arrived hear randomly or because of a genetic sequence from combining my parents, or that I chose to manifest in this body? I know my own answers...I'll leave you to your own.

When I was a child, I constantly asked the question: "How do I know i am me." This question, less than actually bothering me, more fascinated me. Having connected with some of my past lives this summer, I know now why I asked this question. My young self, before being indoctrinated with the "reality lie" was perhaps already in touch with those past lives, maybe even had memories fromthem, and realized that I am much bigger than this single manifestation. This is not so difficult for a child to understand or accept, and I suspect that I was asking the question when I was learning that I am [supposed to be according to the reality lie] separate from everyone else. I just wanted to be one...I KNEW I was one with everything...but was learning how to build a big box for myself with the help of adults that "knew much better..."

Alas, I learned my separation well, but fortunately am unlearning it, thanks to people like Sun Ra...bold prophets that have the courage to say: "this" is NOT what you've been taught that it is. It is much less...it is much more...

Sun Ra again:

"In my music I speak of unknown things, impossible things, ancient things, potential things."

Sun Ra - Brother From Another Planet - Pt.4



I like impossible things because the only thing that makes them impossible is the "reality" that I have learned, and I'm learning that that reality is very easy to shed-unlearning is easy...all I have to do is stop believing, and poof...what I thought was reality disappears... There are no boxes except the ones I choose to create, or the ones others choose to create that I choose to buy into.

There are no boxes...

peace,

paul