Re: My Writing / spiritual advice.

Sayeth mama bata, itotele and onkonkolo. Babaluahye be with you!


Tif wrote:
On Apr 27, 2:14 pm, gemjack <geminijackso...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:23:54 -0700 (PDT), treadl...@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Apr 27, 10:33 am, really real <reallyr...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Was't it Sunday last night in England? What happened to the religious
songs? Does Trying to Get to Heaven compensate for the missing God songs?

1. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Bob on keyboard)
2. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bob on keyboard)
3. Tangled Up In Blue (Bob on keyboard)
4. Million Miles (Bob on keyboard)
5. Rollin' And Tumblin' (Bob on keyboard)
6. Tryin' To Get To Heaven (Bob on keyboard)
7. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum (Bob center stage)
8. Sugar Baby (Bob on keyboard)
  9. High Water (For Charley Patton) (Bob on keyboard)
10. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)(Bob on keyboard)
11. Po' Boy (Bob on keyboard)
12. Highway 61 Revisited (Bob on keyboard)
  13. Ain't Talkin' (Bob on keyboard)
14. Summer Days (Bob on keyboard)
  15. Like A Rolling Stone (Bob on keyboard)       (encore)
16. All Along The Watchtower (Bob on keyboard)
17. Spirit On The Water (Bob on keyboard)
18. Blowin' In The Wind (Bob on keyboard)

The majority of his songs have an important religious dimension which
may explain their longevity.

I thought it was the lively beat that did it.
-GJ

Both. Spirit beats the drum and biological shofar blows the air
through, cleansing the vessel. Ultimately it is the beat of the
heart, the HeartLink, that leads the parade of all lively beats. It's
already happening at the level of the still small voice ( i lifted
that one from the T'nach ( Old Testament in common parlance), i
believe it is found in Elijah story.

Back to Center : Listening to the heart link: you feel and hear it
inside, your neighbors share theirs with you whenever you rest head on
chest, for a little time of restoration, otherwise named Menukhah or
Shabbat Menukha. Easy and free and relaxing into a different kind of
surrender, not to be experienced as an ordeal. A spontaneous behavior
with no ulterior motives, a recovered New Humanity instinct.
In old time, people used to draw near to each other when the night
came about, and the drum would play, sometimes through the night.

If unity is the purpose of religion, as it calls itself, it seems to
me that drummers "get it" faster than clergy and assemblies of
faithful now.
Plus, let's face it, the minute you attach your voice or instrument to
only one building, one group, you got to deal with personalities and
their systems. It can get complicated. It's different when your goal
is to drum. Easier to travel then and mix in different circles, find
old friends in new circles. Sounds more fun, yes? It's light and easy,
also strong and far reaching. Very soon, human consciousness will have
expanded so much in a steady mass of us that another kind of web-
reality will have established itself. Whenever you see one of its
manifestations, or feel it, or smell it, or decide to simply create it
in the spontaneity of the moment, stop, acknowledge it, consciously
detach self from some old pattern that does not serve you well anyway,
reattach to that something new.

I apologize if I sound preachy, this ain't my intention. I have tools
and am intent on sharing them, some knowledge too. If you have come
this far in reading my words and allowing them to be, just to be, you
may find in you the desire to _ existentially _ experiment _with some
of those ideas, the ones that have brought to your door the valued out
of the box element of surprise

Times they are a'changin'. And so are we. Might as well relax into
it.
.

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