Tribute to RAW

Sharing another Psychedelic Salon podcast I listened to on holiday. Check out A Tribute to RAW by Douglas Rushkoff, Antero Alli, Tiffany Lee Brown, and Joseph Matheny. It's so nice to find out RAW was such a delight, would have loved to meet the man.

Zero!

311 Soundsystem 05 Can't fade me

We bust the sound

the kids all gather 'round

and what's comin' from their radios

they all turn down

the creativeness

we are scientists

move 'em with soul

move 'em with this

and when the bass kicks

we get intimate

and with the music and the people

yeah, they're into it

takin' off, crusin' through the air

the sound is aerodynamic

let me take you there

However

I'm a cool and mellow man

always got a plan

copin' up problems

every time I can

I'd like to be known

as a great communicator

if you got beef

don't save it for later

I battle evil

weekly, monthly, yearly

but every step I take

the devil stays near me

otherwise maintain on the globe

just another space trippin' vato

You can't fade me

Massive yang and yin

on this earth we spin

and sometimes I gotta center

find out who I am

I chill out

I let in the wind

I gotta feel the force of the planet

on my skin

I got news for ya, it ain't nothin' nice

we all got demons, we all got vice

the struggle never ends

to keep it in check

but I never stop trying

to make the trek

whadup

Uh, uh

which one is it

who ya gonna believe

undivided in my material being

undivided life

you can't fade me

desperate the cling

I made to posetivety

stay gettin' it on

till the doubt is gone

if you could be dissuaded

you were dead all along

like, what's up now

you can't fade me

still in the same old trade of positivity

Sync Book - 42 Minutes podcasts

Check out 42 Minutes, William Morgan and Douglas Bolles host a lively weekly conversation in which they naturally discuss "the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything" with the interesting authors, thinkers, syncers and philosophers of our day. The show is recorded live on Tuesday mornings at 11:11 a.m. (Eastern standard time), and has its genesis in a series of discussions regarding The Sync Book, of which, both hosts are authors. 

Here are some I listened to so far and really enjoyed: Ezra Sandzer-Bell, Ezra Sandzer-Bell (2), Neil Kramer (The Unfoldment), Frater X, Steve Willner & Jake Kotze, Jeremy(Violat0r).

Boom

For Steve Finnell

He's a Christian Blogger who invited me to follow his blog a Christian View in the comments of the linked post... That's like asking someone to come out of a multiflavoured icecream parlor to taste the shit on the sidewalk.

 LOL, too funny not to post, sorry folks.

Thanks to Relaxed Focus

311 Soundsystem 04 Flowing

Along the way to close my eyes

I lost where I was going

the more it will spin

the more that I try

to stop my mind flowing away, away

to all that I despise

along the way to close my eyes

You can't be let down if you don't expect the world

expect to lay awake and by your sleeping girl

if somebody cares then there is no way you can tell

cursed consciousness is your private hell

Along the way to close my eyes

I lost where I was going

the more it will spin

the more that I try

to stop my mind flowing away, away

to all that I despise

along the way to close my eyes

Tick, tick, tick the clock bludgeons your mind

endlessly replaying times that were unkind

go away sun I'm not prepared for you today

it seems you are, it seems you are, huh!

Carl Sagan's vivid recollection

311 Soundsystem 03 Large in the Margin

Check it check it check it out

got clout and you know that

Large in the margin

my drama unfolds behind closed doors

told on the down-low

i believe that I'm so but really, i don't know

maybe it's better, but I can't think so

maybe its better to fight, one never ever knows

believe the rumors that grow like tumors

more fun than the truth that we know

Trying too hard to reach higher plane

We'll fuck you up

when you least expect it

you think you're moving closer

when suddenly you wrecked it

but all the same, the pain gains wisdom

as if you ain't had enough then you're in some

prison of your own creation

mental dilation

look at what your facin' placin'

blame in every direction (what?)

but in the end it's your own infection, (di?)

There's no way to avoid listening

you'll always end up listening

here's hoping the voices aren't too unkind

here's hoping the voices are benign

it's easier when you hear it

there's no reason to fear it

it's you

it's you

You think they'll probably find you

well then you're probably right

cause they'll come back to remind you, for eternity

of when you gave up the fight, yeah

somehow they always will find you

the voices in the night, and every night

keep comin' back to remind you, for eternity

of when you gave up the fight

Richard Bach's Illusions

"What if somebody came along who could teach me how my world works and how to control it? ... What if a Siddhartha came to our time, with power over the illusions of the world because he knew the reality behind them? And what if I could meet him in person, if he was flying a biplane, for instance, and landed in the same meadow with me?"

This book inspired me when I most needed it while in Thailand, it sent me soaring, it also sent me crashing back down... hard. But that's the fault of my own limitations which I'm still working on. 

“This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.” 

“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however.”

“I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. ”

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.”

“Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.”

“We teach best what we most need to learn.”

“If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”

“Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.”

“The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.”

“The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.”

“Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -- even if what is published is not true.” 

“There is no such thing as a problem with out a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.”

“How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.” 

“You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.” 

“The world is a dream, you say, and it’s lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky.”
“No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?” 

“Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.” 

“Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.”

“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you have a problem.”