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The album title and most of the words come from a recent book of quotations from Rupert Spira.

This final segment 5 was completed on August 29, bringing the album to a close.  It weaves new material, with themes from the first movement at a faster tempo.

The closing coda is a recapitulation of the ending theme from the center movement.

All the pieces are in place, and the whole is revealed.

Thanks for sharing in this “Experiencing”.

This is becoming most enjoyable, watching an album take shape. I am discovering and recognizing it as it happens, but the Muse is creating, and I am an instrument.

Again, the words are coming from Rupert Spira, either directly, paraphrased, or influenced. The mid-section of this segment is a resetting of a 1996 song called “The One”.

Truth, love and beauty reside at the source of experience. They are our Self.

After David Crosby’s passing – a significant event in my life – I was listening to all things Croz. I got to the CSNY live album, 4-Way Street. Neil Young introduced a solo song by saying, “this one starts out slow and just kinda unravels from there…” I thought to myself, “yeah, I wanna do something like that.” Something that doesn’t go much of anywhere for a chunk of time, and yet when it comes on the iPod, I respond, “Oh good! I love this one.”

So here it is. “Experiencing”.

I’m much less frequent in the studio these days. When I’m there, the windows are shorter, and my work is slower. Still, there is much percolating within. This first chunk has been a slow joy and a lingering satisfaction. Is it part of a bigger project? No idea.

I am experiencing.

Doug

There is a light, steady, and most auspicious rain happening at this moment.

It is June 4^th, 2022, and I have just completed a new album–“The Year of the Dove: a Mystic Meander in 5D”

The project began in January, with the idea of collecting all the basic material for the album on the classical guitar, using the fingers on my right hand, as opposed to using a pick.

I began collecting poetry in January, generally on my morning walks.  As I passed the large Oak Tree just above the orchard, huge gatherings of Morning Doves would take flight from the tree quite suddenly, as if in collective “good morning.” Note: I have consciously dropped the “u” from Mourning Dove. These are birds of the morning, and I perceive no sorrow in them.

These greetings of ascending Morning Doves in huge numbers continued daily for weeks. An unprecedented experience across all the years past. Whatever else was going on in the rest of the world, it was “The Year of the Dove” at Rainbowland.

The Doves have continued their presence in evolving ways throughout the album journey. Often, a group of them has been in the labyrinth, arising into the trees on our approach.

Last night as I was heading into the studio, we discovered a Dove on the ground behind the Tree House. Clearly stunned, she was still alive, though barely moving. I sat with her for over an hour… praying, chanting “Om”… cooing…. She was still alive when I went to my room. In the morning, I buried her beneath the Oak tree where the large gatherings had started, and where our bird “Peachy” was laid to rest.

I completed the album this afternoon. At mid-point in the final orchestration, walking back to the office, I was greeted by 20 Doves, who ascended right in front of me into a nearby Oak. Later, walking back to the office after the album completion, I was greeted, one after the other, by 3 small groups of ascending Doves, and then a larger 4^th group of around 20. An extraordinary finale of Dove experience, on the day of the album completion.

The other intention I began with, was to create through music and poetry, a high frequency zone of focus (5D), to help me navigate the various collapses occurring across the 3^rd dimension. On this level especially, I find this album to be profoundly satisfying, and a blueprint and personal guiding light for this time to come.

Thanks for reading this. I hope you are touched by the music and words.

Love and Light,
Doug

PS – it’s worth mentioning that there was an inch of rain that began on the day of the album’s completion. Let it rain indeed. Jai Ma.