Mayan Dream Musings

Today’s Musing is about the real world of my Soul/Deepbody SELF.

For months I have posted the intent on my website (the artist/contact page) that I will be traveling to Guatemala in October. Lately it’s been “niggling” at me and I was wondering if I shouldn’t change that writing because I have no tickets or a space on any trip to Guatemala or Honduras for October. Something kept saying “Don’t change that”.

Yesterday morning a deep inner silence had descended on me. I went to breakfast with Ann…the inner silence very present….and something she said about the October trip prompted an inner voice to say “There is an opening on that trip”.

I went home from that breakfast and into meditation. The inner silence was like a blanket outside of me covering me, and inside of me profoundly supporting. It was very clear that I could be on the October trip to Guatemala/Honduras if I said yes to the level of change that would occur through my travels.

WHOOSH! I called Mona who makes all of the travel arrangements, and an airline seat for the trip from Fort Wayne to Guatemala had opened up that had not been there previously. Also, we had enough frequent flyer miles to get a free ticket….and the economy ticket was available. So I asked her to hold the ticket.

Then I had to take care of a family commitment. My sister Jean and I were driving my parents to Canada for a family reunion that would conflict with the trip to Guatemala. I called Jean and asked if she would be okay to make the drive without me helping. No problem! Also….I had to know that my parents would be in the arms of the same deep silence that was moving me, and that they would be okay without me. After all, I have the power of attorney for their finances and their health decisions if something should happen to both of them that makes it impossible for them to decide for themselves. It seems that SOUL is taking good care of them. They are excited about me having the opportunity to travel.

Then I e-mailed Conrad and asked “Is there a space on the trip?” Yes and he welcomed me onto the trip at the last minute.

Then I had to call Walter at school and ask: “Are you okay with this?” He was thrilled for me….and of course he has just himself returned from Honduras in August. We will have SO MUCH to share when I return home.

So…now the journey to Lake Atitlan and then to Copan is a reality. Tonight I go into the recording studio to record a Soul/Deepbody album that is specifically for this trip. This new music will support me to the level of change that is possible through my journeys. It is also available to anyone else who wants to share the energy of this music.

WHOOSH! Never again will I be able to use the excuse that something cannot happen because of money, or time, or family commitments, or anothing else…if it is within the SOUL/DEEPBODY DESIRE. The world of the SOUL/DEEPBODY is REAL…..not imagination.

Expect lots of new music to come. These journeys are always inspirational to new music, and this time to new performance and new teaching also.

Talk to you all again soon.

The adventure continues. The second musical piece in the series of free downloads in the Earth Essence music is up on my website: Wolf…Knower of the Unseen.

Each of these pieces….around five minutes in length…take about 1-1/2 hours to compose. For the wolf piece, we began by searching the wolf sound. Thanks to a company called Sonomics, we can purchase sounds which contain copyright permission to use. All of you probably don’t know that when I create an album, if I want to include nature sounds, we either have to record our own sounds (ocean, waterfall, thunder, rain, birds, etc) or find someone who has this service. It is illegal to google wolves and then steal someone’s wolf sound, or elephant sound…the list goes on. The Wolf comes from Sonomics. For other albums or pieces of music we have used Walter’s recording of Mexican thunder and rain, Tom’s recordings of birds, water, rain, cicadas, frogs, brooks, wind. However, there are no wolves in Fort Wayne and the surrounding area (unfortunately)! So, thank you Sonomics.

I began by playing the awesome gong, which led directly into the first wolf call. Then I laid down the drum track. The drum for the Wolf piece was one of the large congas in Tom’s studio and I drummed the running of the wolves over the white snowy plains with the white light of the full moon within and around the wolf. We spent a little time editing for “rogue” drum beats, then onward to the next track of the Kurzweil wood flute. The melody flowed over the drum beat….sounding the qualities of intuition, knowing, travel between worlds. Then the primordial sea track anchored drums, wolves, flute into the body of the Earth. I call this sound the primordial sea sound, but it was originally recorded as Cathedral Voice. Interesting! This sound plays as long, stretched-out fields of sound. Finally, I placed the other wolf calls, and other sounds of the unknown world of the Wolf. A little more editing occurred as the wood flute melody of the unseen was honed to its final shape.

Mastering is the finishing process of allowing a piece of music to be its highest and finest potential. Layers are tweaked for volume relative to each other, and sounds may be tweaked for more warmth, or more breath, or whatever the unknown world asks. Little bits of noise which don’t belong with the recording are taken out if they occur somewhere in the recorded nature sounds. Some of this is done at the time of initial recording, and some at the end.

Finally, all is saved, and then transferred to MP3 files and then sent via e-mail to Vern who places then on the website so that you can download them.

This music joins the first piece, “Birds of the Morning”, as my gift to you for your own adventurous journey.

Watch for “Hawk: Soaring High” to come on October 2, “Dusk” to appear on October 18, and “Spider Woman” to appear on November 2.

As you collect these pieces, thank our Mother Earth and let’s all do our part in her healing.

Talk to you again soon.

Friday is a good day for a sense of humor to prevail. No one ever calls or e-mails or orders on a Friday. Everyone must already be on the weekend.
Good idea!

So…..what can we have fun with? How about the trials of attempting to put photos up on a myspace account that repeatedly says that my photos are not
in the right format….even though it asks for jpeg and my photos are IN JPEG.
How about the wonders of trying to read and make sense out of a book on podcasting and videocasting and garage band. Yikes! How about looking at all of the technology in ipods and video ipods and wondering how I would ever be able to learn and use all that is possible.

So maybe instead of frying my brain today with this stuff…I drum for a while, and play the Kurzweil for a while, and go walking, and have coffee with a friend, ship a few orders, listen to some wonderful lectures, and stop at the Bookstore to pick up a book on Myspace…..and before I know it, it will be 5:00PM and time for dinner plans to evolve.

To all….have a great weekend.

We have the first beautiful Autumn day here in Indiana. The air feels different. It is crisp and cool and very clean. There is a breeze rustling the leaves….the birds are starting to gather to begin their migration. It’s so very beautiful!

Pacal is the cocketiel who chooses to live with us. He is thirteen years old and still in the prime of bird life. Right now he is sitting on my shoulder and occasionally biting my head to let me know that I am moving around too much for his comfort. Cocketiels are like cats….they don’t belong to us, they choose us as companions. He is named after Pacal, one of the greatest Mayan kings and shamans who lived in Palenque during the fullness of the Mayan civilization. The companion who is sitting on my shoulder reminds me of my Mayan connections. He reminds me on my own wild nature. He reminds me of the great unknown universe that is around me and that supports and inspires me.
Pacal as bird is sitting on my shoulder, and Pacal as shaman is also probably in the room in some form.

Talk to you again soon.

Over the last months I have been placing ads in one of the major magazines which goes to retail stores who sell my kind of music. Today I received my copy of the magazine for the Holiday Issue…..a big deal as you can imagine. Stores usually begin to stock up for Christmas around this time of year, and my ad is going to be right there….looking at them! I have placed ads with this magazine four times throughout the last year…..one of my pathways to the larger world.

This magazine is a beautiful, artistic magazine. The colors are vibrant and the ads for music, art, different items are artwork in themselves.

So today I saw my ad in the holiday edition. It featured The Journey of Joy artwork which is really a soul painting that Ilene created for me. So, in the ad, I am looking out at all of the people who have this magazine in their hands and who would love my music. Ilene’s artwork fits into the holiday season with its energy of light, with it’s beautiful, deep hues of greens and blues and as the bearer of the energy of JOY.

This magazine is where musicians who are truly “out in the world” advertise. These musicians, including me, are passionate about our purpose. We really care. It feels very good to be able to advertise through such a rich resource with so many other people.

My ad is located right in the middle of an energy vortex of musical reviews. I wasn’t reviewed, but I was right there. That’s an energy to feed and rejoice.
In the Spring issue, EMERGENCE will be a new item, and I will ask for it to be reviewed. This is a free service of the magazine…given at their discretion…not mine. So my own intent is really important.

As a self-published musician who is moving into her second year as a fully self-employed person, this resource is powerful. I touch many, many people and stores who I will never meet. What a wonderful privilege!

Don’t forget to download your new free music on this website. Talk to you again soon.

Tuesday after a long holiday weekend….we celebrated a birthday, and rested a lot, and just enjoyed the unusually beautiful weather of sun and about 78 degrees. Now on Tuesday, I can begin the creative process again with a rested body and calm mind. Last week I did a lot of intense inner work to allow myself to grow to become the new person who performs and teaches EMERGENCE.
As I said in the Wisdom Musings, the inner work is way more important than the outer work…although without the outer work, none of you would know that I was a performer and composer. The outer stuff emerges at the direction of my inner spiritual world.

The Earth Essence Music is up on the website for your free download. I love being able to offer gifts of music, and so this website of mine is a treasure. Without Vern to constantly update the Mayan Dream website for me, it could not be this treasure. Vern has a more than full time position and yet he takes time to listen to my e-mails, and allow me to create through my website by quickly and efficiently following up with new ideas. His work is always quality work!

As I was finishing the album cover for the EMERGENCE album, I began the process of thanking people for the various aspects of the album. However, I realized that I could not list everyone…..so many people have supported me by their e-mails, and notes, and meditations…or by asking me “how is it going today”. Many people have been mentors for the various aspects of creating this next album. Of course, some have worked very hard with me for months: Tom, Walter, Conrad, Ann, Susan, Vern. So many people have walked the extra mile to help me be successful.

I am TOTALLY grateful to all of you. The announcement of the availability of the EMERGENCE CD should be out in the mail within the next week. How cool is that!!

Today I will have a new photo taken by Kim of Kimzwerks so that the photo on the CD cover is the most recent. Susan is working on the last aspect of the graphic design….changing the font of the title EMERGENCE in response to feedback that the font I chose was not readable enough by everyone. (See….I do listen!). Ann is taking the painting which is the artwork for the cover to the person who will provide the best quality digital photo….we want the color of the artwork on the CD to be absolutely the finest. Then, on Thursday Tom Tempel and I will meet to send out the entire package to Discmakers: The master CD, the CD of the digital photo of the artwork, the CD of the graphic design work, the CD of the photo of me, my letter which ties it all together with the required forms filled out, and a check for the amount of duplicating 1000 CDs. Then Discmakers will design the CD cover and disc to include everything that I sent, and send me back a proof. Upon my approval, they will go to press with all of the printed material. Meanwhile the music will be duplicated. Everything is put together in a CD case by Discmakers, shrinkwrapped, and then I will receive my many, many boxes of completed EMERGENCE CDs. They should be in my studio/office by September 30 (maybe sooner).

Meanwhile, I am setting up CD signings, press release, brochures, contacting distributors to alert them to a new CD, placing advertisements in magazines, etc. It takes a lot of energy to place a CD in the public marketplace. Vern is preparing to add the EMERGENCE CD to the order page for credit card purchases through the website…I expect that to be up and running in about two weeks. So much to do…..but how exciting!

Tomorrow, I have the privilege and joy of composing and recording Soul/Deepbody music for a dear friend musician. This will be SO MUCH FUN!

I’m enjoying the time today to get a lot things completed that require “sit down” time. I’m enjoying the beautiful hot weather that has come back into Indiana.

Have a wonderful day. I’ll talk again soon.

There are days when our Earth is so extraordinarily beautiful, and this was one of those days. The temperature was 78 degrees and it was sunny with clear air.
A gentle breeze….everything green from our recent rains….cicadas singing…..squirrels beginning their Fall dances. All of my being just goes “ahhh”.

After yesterday’s pretty serious Musing on Wisdom, today is lighter. I felt Wisdom AS all of the beauty of Earth. I felt how woven I am into the fabric of all of nature. Everything was playing today. Such fun!

Talk with you again.

EMERGENCE is so close to being available for general sale. EMERGENCE is about WISDOM emerging through Mother EARTH and tells her story.
This music and myself are totally interwoven. So….as WISDOM is being storied in the music of EMERGENCE, so SHE must be the anchor of my life.

This week I’m exploring the difference between action taken through WISDOM and action taken through my mind. Many things have come to help me understand what WISDOM really is for me at this time in my life.

All of the music I compose comes from WISDOM. All of my technical training in music could not produce the inspiration for my music, and it could not allow me to play a track of music with no written notes, and then go back and add the second track of music with no written notes….and on and on through the many number of tracks. My mind could not create the richness of story that my music tells.

WISDOM gives me my dream world. SHE brings forward images from other times and places…..people, places that I have not met in this life. SHE combines imagery in dreams that lead me into a larger SELF.

WISDOM gives me a way of looking at life and my own journey that is compassionate, with unconditional love, kindness, strength. My mind tends to look at history and say “It’s happened this way, and so this is what will happen again”. That is NOT Wisdom. My mind tends to create negative stories such as “I should discontinue this project because it is not making money like I want; or taking up too much time; or I can’t see the result or end goal.”
WISDOM looks at the larger picture. What is the support of this project for me and for others? What is the spiritual story? There is never an end goal in WISDOM.

WISDOM nurtures me in love. SHE tells me what a deep, rich soul life I have as a human being. SHE reminds me of my sacred purpose and how important it is. SHE encourages me to continue to explore because my creative process has enormous worth. SHE has words for me of love, or support. My mind criticizes me and tells me that I don’t have the right credentials, or don’t know enough, or am not a good enough person. It is a tearing down of my being. It is NOT Wisdom.

Or…..my mind can create wonderful fantasy stories that are based in my ego.
These stories are wishful, not in my purpose, not capable of being acted on in the world. My mind does not understand the world of spirit…the interconnectedness of all things. So it creates wonderful projects which are ego-enhancing but not really part of my life purpose. WISDOM KNOWS how projects, relationships, composing, etc. are all interrelated with the world weaving and with all of the unseen world. SHE speaks about possibilities and how in the larger picture these possibilities can come into physical form. WISDOM knows these things.

So this week, as I prepare for EMERGENCE to come out and for the HEALING MUSIC to come out, I am looking at all aspects of my life. Where am I making decisions based on Mind, and where am I conforming my life to WISDOM?
EMERGENCE is the coming forth of WISDOM into the world….and especially into my own world in a deeper way.

There is a beautiful picture of Wisdom in the Book of Sirach, written around 200 BC (24:1:13-19) “Wisdom sings her own praises, before her own people she proclaims her glory. Like a cedar on Lebanon I am raised aloft, like a cypress on Mount Hermon, like a palm tree in Engedi, like a rosebush in Jericho, like a fair olive tree in the field…like cinnamon, or fragrant balm, or precious myrrh, I give forth perfume…I spread out my branches like a terebinth, my branches are so bright and so graceful. I bud forth delights like the vine, my blossoms become fruit fair and rich. Come to me all you that yearn for me, and be filled with my fruits; you will remember me as sweeter than honey, better to have than the honeycomb.” End of quote.

Preparing for a new album to come out means hearing Wisdom speak within me in a new way. This process is the key, core, most important part of this adventure.

Talk with you soon. Much love to all.

One of the most energizing aspects of recording music has been composing and recording music that dips into the energy and essence of animals. As I sit here writing, I am listening to birdsong of robins, cardinals, mourning dove, red winged blackbirds….morning song….recorded by Tom Tempel at his lake house, and placed with the beautiful strings, flute of the Kurzweil. About 4-1/2 minutes of beauty which will be available to you for free download after Labor Day.

Now the wolf is howling to the moon….actually several wolves….with the gong, and the breathe of the Kurzweil wood flute….my drumming….the awesome Kurzweil sound that I call the primordial sea sound….the wolf is running across white with white light surrounding him….snowy plains and the moon. This particular piece of music is the aspect of wolf which lives in the unknown worlds….intuitive….communicator….Available for free download after September 18th. Almost 5 minutes of music.

The hawk screams….answered by other hawk….carried on the wind recorded by Tom….the pulse of the earth drum…..the Kurzweil strings evoking the vastness of sky…hawk flying free…open to all potential….hawk as visionary. Available for free download after October 2nd.

Build a new collection of music….download each animal’s music as it appears on my website. There will be a link on the home page called “EARTH ESSENCE”
that will bring you to a special page for descriptions, some artwork, and the download.

There is a myth “out there” that people who are interested in meditation, the world of spirit, power animals, the energy body, etc. can’t learn how to download. Not true! It’s so easy and instructions for downloading will be included with the page on the website. Age doesn’t matter either. One of the fastest growing groups of people who are extremely good on the computer is the group from 50-80 years old.

Go for it!

This weekend Walter and I celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. When we were married in 1967 we just knew that all things were possible. We had no money and Walter still had to finish his bachelor’s degree. I dropped out of college to get a job. Our children started coming within the first two years of marriage. Life was actually very hard after the initial “euphoria” of falling in love and having the first apartment. I can remember being so very tired…trying to work a job in the business world and stay up at nights with small children and babies. I can remember how stressful it was not knowing where the money was going to come from for food, doctors, school expenses. Walter worked sometimes three jobs at the same time. It is REALLY difficult to have a personal relationship, or an intimate relationship with your spouse when both of you are exhausted and stressed.

In spite of all of this….our children grew up to be exceptional people who are loving, kind, open, and excellent parents.

Because of all of the difficulties of our early and middle years of marriage, I have been molded into more of who I am meant to be in this lifetime. The difficulties were a grace!

40 years of marriage to the same person has taught me so many things. Walter and I have made, on a deep level, a commitment to explore the unseen world, the body as an energy system, creativity, and relationship. When difficulty comes forward, we make the decision to work it through as spiritual transformation. We don’t always do it perfectly, and sometimes it takes a long time to move a core issue through our marriage. But we love each other and that takes care of a lot of problems.

40 years of marriage has taught me to look beyond the personality issues, to look beyond what seems to be “real” but really is not. It has taught me patience (not my easiest quality). It continues to teach me trust, communication, and how to be myself and yet be in such a deep relationship. Walter and I desire to support each other to our highest potential, not to feed into any small, limited perceptions or actions. This is why we are in relationship.

Of course, this marriage has given us our three (now adult) children who are awesome. I would not EVER have missed the opportunity to give birth to my boys, and to raise them into adulthood with Walter. This has been sometimes difficult, but always wonderful. We shared common beliefs about how to raise a family. As life is an expansive gift….our family has expanded to include much loved daughters-in-law, and grandchildren. What a gift!!!

What are the chances that two people who have a purpose to explore transformation and the energies of the unseen world would meet in a Catholic university, get married, and stay married despite all difficulties, and sometimes some real trauma? It must be SOUL purpose for both Walter and myself.

Walter did indeed come back from his trip to Honduras transformed, and so it is my part now to also continue to transform as we co-create our relationship.
Cheers!!

Walter….I love you and will always love you.

EMERGENCE continues its journey of completion….look for the CDs to be ready for sale sometime in September. This week I created the first three 4-5 minute pieces of music for free download which expand upon the Earth Trilogy music which celebrates Mother Earth (Heart of Sky/Heart of Earth, EMERGENCE, and a yet unknown third album in this trilogy). Watch for my e-broadcast that they are up and available for free download on the website. The first new piece is called “Soaring High” and is about HAWK. The second new piece is called “Birds of the Morning” and celebrates all of the smaller birds of the Midwest which contribute their heart song as the sun rises. The third new piece is called knower of the unseen and it honors that particular aspect of WOLF.

Talk to you again soon!

Today is about gentleness and rest in the midst of much loved activity. As Diane said in her comments this morning: Breathe deeply and release “ahhhhhhhhh”
Thank you Diane!!

Boy is it hot! We are having an unusual summer, and especially these last days (and looking to all of next week) of temperatures 90 or higher with no rain.
We are reading a lot about Mother Earth and her attempts to communicate with us…we are not hearing very well….and her necessary balancing of forces which are out of balance. I wonder what this is telling me. For sure, I am very much in tune with the plants and animals who need me for water. The plants have to be moved from the direct, hot sun, into cooler places. When it is beautiful outside, it is easy to admire the beauty of nature and maybe take it for granted. When Earth is hot and dry…I take action to help out.

This reminds me of my own life process. When things are going easily and I am not being challenged, I always enjoy the gift. When life becomes unsettling…..when change is happening….when my mind cannot determine results….when emotions may run high…..when my body is shifting into a new energy….all of this is when I have the most growth. I take more time to go deep into the unseen world to ask for guidance and support….and what I am to do. The unseen world….SHE WHO IS….always is present for loving support and wisdom.

So Mother Earth….what are you asking of us?

Walt (my husband) is on a trip to Copan, Honduras until August 9th with Conrad and a group. This intense time of retreat will bring him home a different person, and a rested person. So…..since we are co-creating a relationship together, I have to become also a different person. This is pretty exciting, and I mean that sincerely! Can’t wait.

All of my creativity continues to be on “high rev”. I am already feeling the third album in the Earth trilogy. Album one: Heart of Sky/Heart of Earth; Album Two: Emergence; Album Three: The Alive, Sensual Earth (I have no idea what the name of this album is).

So all sorts of options start to come forward: Can I release a three album set called the Earth Trilogy?

Here’s another idea: Tempel Recording has the capability to create a video interview with me which could be put at the beginning or end of an album……or as a separate DVD enclosed with the album…..or as part of the Earth Trilogy…..the possibilities are endless it feels.

Here’s another idea: How about a meditation to this music???

In two weeks, I will be recording the five minute pieces about the Earth which will be available for free download….one piece every other week. This is my way of expanding on the Earth Trilogy which can’t possibly contain all of the wonders of Mother Earth. They will start appearing on my website and on the myspace website the first week in September. Look for them.

The Healing Music album has taken off “whoosh”"! I am shipping quantities to places in the US and in Canada. How cool is that! The more all of my music gets out, the more it can touch people’s lives. My purpose is service through the creation and performance of transformational music that carries the life of compassion, unconditional love, kindness, courage…all of which is transformational and healing. Teaching is in there somewhere also.
SO….sales = service. Sales = my music touching people’s lives. From this perspective, marketing becomes important. People cannot buy what they don’t know. Marketing become sacred. I have discovered that I can market from the same place that I compose. It saves me a lot of time, anguish, money, discomfort, etc. to market from the space of the unknown world.

To all of you companion adventurers…..Hooray for you! We’re all in this together, helping one another, inspiring one another. May we encourage each other to be as LARGE as we can be in this lifetime.

Talk with you all again soon!

EMERGENCE is moving! The incredible artwork of Ann Beeching is photographed, and Susan Stamm is well on her way to having the graphic design ready for the Discmakers process of duplication.

Some of you already have the music because it is done and is available to those of you who want to work with it and have the artwork later. Let me know if you want a copy of the music now.

EMERGENCE is bringing a really new ME into existence. I can’t stay in former habit patterns of negativity, narrow thinking, victimization when I listen to my own music. What a gift this music is me personally!!!

Having my own business means that always I have to reach inside and find new ways of perceiving people and events from a creative, ensouled space. My first reactions may not necessarily be from this creative, ensouled space (Go figure!!) and yet if I’m not aware, I may make decisions or interact with people from a small and limited “non-EMERGENCE” space. This is not a good thing! Probably the greatest gift of moving into self-employment has been the constant feedback from people and events of whether I am in a small ME or the ensouled creative “EMERGENCE” ME.

It’s going to be another absolutely gorgeous day here in Indiana. Talk with you soon.

Let’s get serious. We’re really going to talk about chipmunks? Yep!

We have chipmunks and have been unable to trap these intelligent creatures. Chipmunks have caused us lots of damage….for example, chewing up the inside of the dryer drum two years ago….or chewing up an entire set of lawn chairs one winter. So….they are very cute, but not on my most favorite animal list.

However, this one chipmunk has been keeping me company right outside my sliding glass office doors for several weeks. Yesterday it occurred to me to ask if this was a power animal. Did it have something to tell me? So I “googled” the chipmunk as power animal.

Some of the characteristics of chipmunk are curiosity, fearlessness, playfulness, and independence. Hmmmm……what do you suppose the chipmunk is asking of me?

Anyway this chipmunk is just SO cute and happy! A nice energy to have right outside of my office door. So now let’s bring all of it’s characteristics INSIDE my office and INSIDE of me. (Except for the chewing things up part!)

Today I actually got out the “Celebrating 1…13…15″ flyers to thank all of you who have supported me through the years. It’s wonderful that THIS July I am celebrating a year of living my dream to be a composer, recording artist full time. Thank you to all.

Talk to you tomorrow.

I sit here around 9:30PM listening to thunder announce the severe weather that is coming into the area. Already one of our counties has a tornado warning. We have that feeling of “waiting”.

Today I spent most of the day preparing for the Soul/Deepbody recording session, and then recording music. This was an especially powerful descent into my creative core relationship with the SOURCE of all creation. So much so that I wasn’t sure what I had created. When this happens, my personality wants to jump up and say “Was it any good?” That is when I surrender into a deep meditation, and then go and listen back to the music.

Oh my gosh! This new music is such an expression of FIRE in the world….of the erotic…of communication with nature. The golden Eagle cries to the vast sky as it soars above the horsewoman running freely. Goddesses of nature weave and support beauty and creativity. Fire and Erotic dance….Eastern flute…drum…sitar…powerful!

I express over and over again how grateful I am for the privilege of composing Soul/Deepbody music.

Check out the website for the brand new EMERGENCE link: Vern has placed tantalizing bits of each track of music next to the description for that track. You will see Ann’s artwork for the cover.

Again….if any of you want to begin to work with the music of EMERGENCE before it officially comes out in September, send me a check for $15 and I will send you the music now, and the official CD when it is available. Be sure and include name and address for shipment.

Talk with you tomorrow. Time to get offline and honor the power also of lightning and what it can do to a computer.

It is dusk which has to be my MOST favorite outdoor time. It is a soft time and the cicadas are singing….frogs peeping….birds doing that throaty thing they do (which is so endearing) when they are settling down to sleep. The greens have a gray cast and everything is soft.

Some of you with Soul/Deepbody music have an aspect of dusk in your album.

I have been thinking a lot about death lately. It’s a strange thing to think about the planet Earth without me in it. There is a transformation that we all have to go through….leaving our bodies in the earth and going back to whatever we go back to. All religions and philosophies have different ideas about what this place of Spirit is….and no one really knows. So dying is the ultimate journey for me into the Unknown.

My dear friend, whose funeral I attended last Saturday, died in his sleep with a smile on his face. Traces of the smile were still on his face when he was laying in his coffin. I am sure that his beloved wife came to get him!

Today, Monday, was the usual taking care of the various business details of Mayan Dream Productions, Int’l. Also, I had a wonderful conversation with the person whose Soul/Deepbody music I will create this Wednesday. I have such a respect for the depth of spiritual awareness of everyone whose music I have composed. WOW!

The afternoon was one of support of family as they went to the cancer center to find out what is happening for them. We talked about quality of life and of the meaning of death.

Dusk is turning into night. It is beautiful.

Talk to you soon.

Yesterday….a busy day of shipping, etc. and around 4:00 off to the market to get ears of corn for corn-on-the-cob (yes, this is Indiana!) and other miscellaneous because Ann and Susan are coming over for supper and….then…we are going to see Harry Potter 5. Got home….one third of the house….including the stove…has no electricity. Okay!! So…a quick call to friends to say, come over anyway, but I have no stove for cooking. We had a super dinner, having cooked corn on the cob in the electric frying pan…hee hee..Ann brought tons of veggies and fruit as if to feed the entire block….Susan baked an awesome blueberry/cherry crisp. We sat outside in the shade of our beautiful trees with the temperature around 78 degrees and sunshine through the trees. It was wonderful and fun.

Still today….no electricity in these particular areas of the house and it’s likely to remain that way throughout the weekend. And I’m not missing my stove or my living/dinner room lights! Mayan Dream Productions Int’l office still has all of its juice, so life is good. Walt is in Las Vegas at a Math conference (yes…really!) so he doesn’t miss the stove or lights either.

The trickster…keeping life interesting!

Harry Potter 5 was really good. I haven’t read the books, so it’s always new and exciting to me. What I found particularly good was the portrayal of the nasty woman in pink. The “powers that be” who rule the ministry of magic were moving from fear….and as a result their perceptions and actions were getting smaller and smaller. The woman in pink personified what happens when fear takes over and attempts to place life into a tight little box with total disregard for the unknown world. When that fearful person takes over, life quickly becomes REALLY bad. I can’t remember the name of the person who acted this part, but she was great. Harry Potter also is beginning to come up against the core of his purpose, and he is having to bring forward resources and belief in the unknown….under extreme conditions. This is not easy stuff! Living our purpose is not for wimps!

So….I have to see this movie many times over.

Tomorrow I will be at the funeral of a friend who worked for the diocese and the Office of Worship (remember, I was director of the Office of Worship for eight years). He was gentle, very in tune with the world of spirit, and was missing his wife Vicki who died in her sleep three years ago. My friend also died in his sleep, and is now reconnected with his beloved life partner.
I can’t be sad that he has died because it was so good for him to finally get to the place he was longing for.

As I sit here I am listening to Atitlan Fire music. I can’t wait to get back to Central America.

Talk with you tomorrow.

Today I have the privilege and total fun of composing Soul/Deepbody music.

Ilene Satala recently taught a creativity class where she spoke about the various places that we can live within ourselves. There is the five sensory place of knowing which is limited to that which we see, hear, taste, smell, feel. This place is pretty limited, and is not particularly creative. From that space, we relive the same things over and over. There is also the Ensouled Deepbody space. Ilene says: “Ensouled Deep-Body is where your creativity lives. Your body loves to create sending supportive chemistry into your body. Your Soul supplies motivation and inspiration for you to live your purpose through creative expression. This level uses the energy body to supply you with abundant energy to create for long periods of time. The flow never ends and knows no restrictions. It is all about living large and creating large.” End of quote.

I have found that the Soul/Deepbody, for me, is the sacred place of connection to the SOURCE. I ask to be brought into that space and it is there for me.

The Soul/Deepbody music that is created for an individual supports the individual in living their birth energy….their purpose….and assists in the connection of the individual to their own Soul/Deepbody force.

So…today I get to compose Soul/Deepbody music. How awesome!

The Healing Music album continues also to unfold for me. What is this music all about? We go back to my question of “what is healing?”. Healing is a journey toward connection with our Maker. The Healing Music is taking me on this journey and showing me depths of connection that I did not understand before. It’s sort of like being immersed in a river of Wisdom, and having that Wisdom support and transform me.

We are finally getting rain. Yeh!!!

Talk with you tomorrow.

For those of you who follow this Musings and are reading this…..if you would like a copy of the complete EMERGENCE music NOW, it is possible.

The EMERGENCE album with Ann’s marvelous artwork and the full “shrink-wrapped” version will not be available until September because of the time it takes to get it through the duplication/design phase.

However, I will send you a basic CD package, no artwork, but all of the music in its final form…..for $10. Then, when the final form of the CD is ready in September I will send you that CD for an additional $5. Shipping and handling is included in this price.

Yes?? Then send me a check for $15 for both CDs and I will send you the basic CD ASAP, and the final version when it comes out in September.

Take care, enjoy the day.

I am sitting here at my desk delighting in the beauty of early morning. Life is emerging for another day. The sunlight streams through the greens of summer trees as a golden blessing. The bird song is simply gorgeous. Flowers are in full bloom as pinks and reds and yellows…staying bright through my own caring of them. We are experiencing (as is a lot of the country) a serious lack of rain, so the plant and bird life around me is depending on me to provide water.

Our planet is such a beautiful life force. It’s no wonder that it is inspiring and leading me to celebrate it with music. I do believe also that all of us who are honoring our planet and caring for it….we will make a difference in tipping its balance back into health.

The music for the third album in the Earth trilogy is beginning to come forward.
This third album will be all about the fullness of life and its potential in our Earth.

Meanwhile, EMERGENCE will be out very soon now. The artwork will be going to the photographer this week. The description, MP3 file samples of all tracks are also going up….there was a delay….but everything will be on the website this week. All happens in the natural timing of the Universe!

Don’t forget to check out yesterday’s Musing entry. See you tomorrow.