Saturday, October 31, 2009

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!


Yes – we can fly! Enjoy the Magic!

I am currently enjoying the more positive aspects of magical consciousness
... but ...
If you'd like a visit with a weirdly creepy/cool song for Halloween, try this:
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You
The original version from the old vinyl record:
or a live performance:
That's a blast from the past that makes the weird shit-o-meter jump all around. The guy can really ham it up!

Bwaahahahaahaha!

Blessings for a light-hearted look at the dark side,
Shakura Cathryn
"The detour into fear began when we remembered not to laugh." ~Anonymous

Friday, October 30, 2009

Organic Gardening at the White House

I love to see this....
Organic Gardening at the White House!
Michelle Obama, First Gardener in Chief

"Now this is a sweet potato," she said, judging a specimen. "This could feed an army."

Digging up those root veggies.

Michelle thanks an earthworm for helping out with this year's gardening.

Kids helping with the harvest.

White House produce.

May there be abundant organic food for all!
May we care for this planet with loving attention!

Blessings,
Sakura Cathryn
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." ~Albert Einstein
"Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man." ~Stewart Udall
"The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth." ~Thomas Berry
"Have you ever considered how much the blooming flowers, the singing birds, the laughter of children, the contentment of our neighbors and the silent joy of the earth and sky impact and contribute to our happiness and peace of mind? Focus on that and when you quiet your worries, you will hear the song of the new world." ~Author unknown to me.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Vibration Creates Form

After my last post of poetry about the man who could not hear the singing of the stars, I have been having a conversation with a friend about the "music" of creation -- the frequencies and sounds of all the atoms in the Universe, vibrating matter into the various forms we see.

And then today I find the link to this video: I love the synchronicities of life!

I just wish we could have heard the sounds that were played to create the patterns of movement of the materials in the video.
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From : http://www.soundsofsirius.com/artic_healpower.htm

“The human body itself is intrinsically musical, right down to the DNA that makes up our genes. Even our DNA has its own melody. The idea that DNA and music might be connected comes from the work of a geneticist, Dr. Susumu Ohno. In order to understand Dr. Ohno's insights, we need to understand that every organism's genes are composed of strands of DNA, which in turn are made up of four so-called nucleotides. In an imaginative leap, Dr. Ohno assigned musical notes to these four substances The result was a melodic composition that was finally fleshed out with harmonies, by his wife, Midori, a musician. When completely transcribed, the scores were then performed by professional musicians on instruments such as the piano or organ, violin, and viola.


Dr. Ohno, has so far, notated over fifteen "songs of the DNA" of a variety of living organisms. He finds that the more evolved an organism is, the more complicated its music. To listeners knowledgeable about classical music, these DNA-based compositions have been taken variously for the music of Bach, Brahms, Chopin, and other great composers. These melodies are majestic and inspiring. Many persons hearing them for the first time are moved to tears; they cannot believe that their bodies, which they believed to be mere collections of chemicals, contain such uplifting, inspiring harmonies -- that they are musical.”
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It seems to me that I have always known that the sounds create the forms. And EVERYTHING has it's sound, even if we can't hear it with the limited range of the human ear. The Universe is singing itself into Being!

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...

Blessings,
Shakura Cathryn
www.moonsinger.com
www.dancingpeace.blogspot.com 
http://sites.google.com/site/dupnaz/  

I can still hear what I thought
At the edge of silence where the inside jokes
Of my heartbeat, my arterial traffic,
The C above high C of my inner ear, myself
Tunelessly humming, but now I know what they are:
My fair share of the music of the spheres
And clusters of ripening stars,
Of the songs from the throats of the old gods
Still tending even tone-deaf creatures
Through their exiles in the desert.
~ David Wagoner

Monday, October 19, 2009

The Silence of the Stars


The Silence of the Stars


When Laurens van der Post one night
In the Kalihari Desert told the Bushmen
He couldn't hear the stars
Singing, they didn't believe him. They looked at him,
Half-smiling. They examined his face
To see whether he was joking
Or deceiving them. Then two of those small men
Who plant nothing, who have almost
Nothing to hunt, who live
On almost nothing, and with no one
But themselves, led him away
From the crackling thorn-scrub fire
And stood with him under the night sky
And listened. One of them whispered,
Do you not hear them now?
And van der Post listened, not wanting
To disbelieve, but had to answer,
No. They walked him slowly
Like a sick man to the small dim
Circle of firelight and told him
They were terribly sorry,
And he felt even sorrier
For himself and blamed his ancestors
For their strange loss of hearing,
Which was his loss now. On some clear nights
When nearby houses have turned off their visions,
When the traffic dwindles, when through streets
Are between sirens and the jets overhead
Are between crossings, when the wind
Is hanging fire in the fir trees,
And the long-eared owl in the neighboring grove
Between calls is regarding his own darkness,
I look at the stars again as I first did
To school myself in the names of constellations
And remember my first sense of their terrible distance,
I can still hear what I thought
At the edge of silence where the inside jokes
Of my heartbeat, my arterial traffic,
The C above high C of my inner ear, myself
Tunelessly humming, but now I know what they are:
My fair share of the music of the spheres
And clusters of ripening stars,
Of the songs from the throats of the old gods
Still tending even tone-deaf creatures
Through their exiles in the desert.


~ David Wagoner


(Traveling Light)
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Blessings,
Shakura Cathryn
"The sky and it's stars make music to you." ~Denderah temple wall

Friday, October 16, 2009

The Omo People


I find these people to be incredibly beautiful and creative. A culture of artists!

Blessings,
Shakura Cathryn
"Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty." ~Charles Baudelaire  

Thursday, October 1, 2009

If It Be Your Will - Leonard Cohen



“Awhile ago, faced with some obstacles of my own... I wrote this song… well, it’s more of a prayer….” ~Leonard Cohen


The lyrics of this one are really touching my heart today....
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If it be your will that I speak no more
and my voice be still as it was before
I will speak no more
I shall abide until I am spoken for
If it be your will


If it be your will that a voice be true
from this broken hill I will sing to you
from this broken hill all your praises they shall ring
if it be your will to let me sing
from this broken hill all your praises they shall ring
if it be your will to let me sing


If it be your will, if there is a choice
let the rivers fill, let the hills rejoice
let your mercy spill on all these burning hearts in hell
if it be your will to make us well


And draw us near and bind us tight
all your children here in their rags of light
in our rags of light all dressed to kill
and end this night if it be your will


If it be your will...
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There are a number of versions of this on YouTube. It was difficult to choose which one to post here. There is something so touching about the deep sorrow in Leonard Cohen's voice - it almost contains a silence within the sound - that makes it even more poignant.


There is another wonderful version here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxBKmk8Y81w
It's a live version of a concert with the Webb Sisters. It opens with Leonard Cohen speaking the words, and then the beautiful voices of the Webb Sisters. Unfortunately,not all of the song is there... but it's worth watching for several reasons.


If it be your will... I will sing to you,
With Love and Blessings,
Shakura Cathryn
www.moonsinger.com
www.dancingpeace.blogspot.com
http://sites.google.com/site/dupnaz/  
“I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.” ~Theodore Roethke

Totally Unique Thoughts




This is definitely worth sharing!

From the newsletter of Totally Unique Thoughts – www.tut.com. I have removed the commercial stuff and added the pictures.
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Do you know why dogs are so quick to wag their tails and cats are so quick to purr? Even the ones that have been lonely, abused, and betrayed?

Because, as is true of all animals, they were instilled with the distant awareness that no matter what the world shows them, they're still deeply loved and needed, that their presence alone has made a difference, and that in just the shake of a leg, seemingly without reason or rhyme, everything can FANTASTICALLY change for the better.

As is true of all people, except sometimes they tend to forget.

Purrfectly,

The Universe


Oh yeah, Cathryn Tezha, they also instinctively believe in miracles.

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Prayer for the Animal Kingdom:
http://www.moonsinger.com/prayerforanimals.htm

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Blessings,
Shakura Cathryn
www.moonsinger.com
www.dancingpeace.blogspot.com
http://sites.google.com/site/dupnaz/
"All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it." ~Samuel Butler