News-2022

Joy Amidst the Crash of Breaking Worlds

 

Joy Amidst the Crash of Breaking Worlds

A Concerto for Pop Piano and Poetry in 4 Movements

 

It is the fall of 2022. I completed this wonderful new album at 11:00pm on October 9th, under the light of a magical full moon.  

We’ve had four turkeys with us since late spring. We walk the labyrinth at sunset. Serendipitously, as the sun approaches the horizon line, the turkeys wind their way up from the meadow to a space adjacent to the labyrinth. From there, they fly high up into the Gray Pines for the night. We have been present at the center stone of the labyrinth to witness this magical ritual many evenings. Blessings beyond measure.

Recently, I have been listening to a lot of YouTube clips from Rupert Spira. Rupert brings a mind collapsing clarity to the non-dual perspective. It feels for me as if my entire experience is being “re-wired”. Both the lyrical reach and the musical reach of this album are into new frequency, and the creative process has been a thrilling experience.

The influence of Rupert Spira pervades the lyrics, as I reach to find my own words for the paradigm shift I am feeling. There are both direct quotes and paraphrases from Rupert’s talks throughout the album.

The lyrics are often expressing what I call “mantra modules,” poetic phrases that appear and reappear  through the movements.

I AM is the one life we all are living.

In the One Life,

Doug

 

The Year of the Dove: A Mystic Meander in 5D

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

It is June 4th, 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 4th 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 3rd 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.