Musicians are some of the wokest beings in the universe. Change my mind.

[Princess Arabia]

1 minute ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

Eeeeeeeeeeexactly

Love it!

[Applegarden8]

8 hours ago, ivankiss said:

No, they just pretend to be 

Well, I cannot agree with you. Playing an instrument is cool and all but a monk looking at you and raising sensations I never felt before is something else. A guy explaining and mapping an ancient scripture and these words having such an impact on your system is something else. 

Just thinking about doing the tapas and sadhana they do and the lifestyles they commit for reasons not underestandable by us is something else man. Just feel this guy, even after his death that presence is there.

 

[Carl-Richard]

On 18.11.2023 at 2:32 AM, Razard86 said:

There is no difference between humble and arrogance.

Yes, yes there is.

[Princess Arabia]

4 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

Yes, yes there is.

All dualities must collapse

20 minutes ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

 

 

[Oppositionless]

I like this line from Beware

Trips to where, few have been
Out of thin air, upon high winds
Rites begin when the sun descends
Have felt what few will ever know
Have seen the truth beneath the glow,
Of the ebb and flow, where roots of all mysteries grow
I am below, so far below
The bottom line
Transmitting live, transmissions rise
From the depths out of controlled by
Suspended glance of an unblinking eyes
Imminent gaze cast 'pon the path that winds
'Pon the path I find, and claim as mine
To ride the waves, of unrest
Made to make me shine as a testament
To why the ways of the blind will never get
Shit but shanked by my disrespect
Dismiss this life, worship death
Cold blood night of serpent's breath
Exhaled like spells from the endlessness
In the bottomless wells of emptiness
Channeled to invoke what we represent

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxa91EwFco&pp=ygUSYmV3YXJlIGRlYXRoIGdyaXBz

Dismiss this life, worship sounds like nihilism, but it’s exactly the opposite.

Edited November 20, 2023 by Oppositionless

[Carl-Richard]

4 hours ago, Princess Arabia said:

All dualities must collapse

Then collapse "bias" and "non-bias" too. 

There is no way to point out bias without being biased yourself, so you might as well just be biased without pointing it out and making an infinite recursion of finger pointing out of it.

Edited November 21, 2023 by Carl-Richard

[Carl-Richard]

On 18.11.2023 at 1:54 AM, ivankiss said:

I am cooking my favorite pasta bolognese alla Ivanovski, while watching / listening to this super cool interview between Devin Townsend and Steve Vai.

Hahaha, what a coincidence, but I'm going to do the exact same thing right now  (I love pasta bolognese).

[Francis777]

Depends on whether or not you think creativity correlates directly to awakening.

If you were to say you understood creation in its complete entirety, I’d be inclined to agree that your pretty damn woke.

I mean, what’s the difference between awakening and complete understanding of the creation of everything?

[Carl-Richard]

There is a chance I could write a master thesis on something related to this using brain imaging techniques ("are musicians better meditators than non-musicians?"). It would be a simple experiment of having people lay in an fMRI scanner while meditating vs. not meditating and comparing between musicians vs. non-musicians (vs. trained meditators?). Better meditators would be expected to have more decreased activity in for example the precuneus (part of the Default Mode Network) and increased activity in the medial frontal lobes (task-positive areas). One of my professors happens to be a researcher in the neuroscience of music, so he might take interest in that (besides, our faculty leader currently researches the clinical applications of mindfulness).

Edited November 25, 2023 by Carl-Richard

[MuadDib]

On 18/11/2023 at 11:12 AM, Leo Gura said:

Kanye West

 

[ivankiss]

Truth in progressive death metal? You bet. And it's tasty.

No creator in the heavens above (I am the lightning)
Rest your weary mind
No demons in the furnace below (I am the frenzy)
I have realized, I am God
I have realized, I am God

[thierry]

2 minutes ago, ivankiss said:

Truth in progressive death metal? You bet. And it's tasty.

No creator in the heavens above (I am the lightning)
Rest your weary mind
No demons in the furnace below (I am the frenzy)
I have realized, I am God
I have realized, I am God

No bro Truth is flowing through Aurora ;p

 

[ivankiss]

@thierry She's pretty cool, yeah. In comparison to other lame - ass mainstream garbage, that is 

[mindfulstepz]

Agree 100% , Music can be direct connection to source, and then so much can be translated into a relatively short amount of soundwaves to really make an impact on the collective unconscious

It’s funny, I’m a long time musician, and writer, but had given it up over the past few years as a potential outlet but the spiritual path has brought me right back to it and I’m definitely planning to push through the resistance and make some new songs soon

[Thought Art]

Depends on the artist. Alex Grey has an interesting map and comments about this sorta thing

[mindfulstepz]

Thus convo got me looking back into history a bit… so back in 2011 I had a full blown awakening, took me by surprise tbh and I was still too wrapped up in dualistic thinking to make complete sense of it BUT…

I wrote one hiphop verse while in was in awakening consciousness, and remembered I had put it on YouTube, would it be ok to share it here?

it’s not so much self promotion, it’s to give others an idea of what music & lyrics may sound like when one is in awakened state. It’s not perfect (some dualism & ego still present) but it still bangs 11 years later, objectively. 

Edited December 4, 2023 by mindfulstepz

[Thought Art]

@mindfulstepz sure go ahead

[mindfulstepz]

15 hours ago, Thought Art said:

@mindfulstepz sure go ahead

Cool, here is link. This was around the 4th or 5th day of being wide open and realizing “hey wtf we’re all just one big organism here, it’s all light” 

signal from source was as strong as my level of consciousness would allow at the time…   but still had much work to be done in regards to healing & distillation of ego  (as I would find out over the next 12 years) 

It’s one verse, ends at 1:50

 

Edited December 5, 2023 by mindfulstepz

[ivankiss]

I thought this was super cool and interesting...

Somewhere around the 2:15:30 mark Steve says to Devin:

"Nobody can act outside of their conditioning at any given time of their life..."

To which Devin fantastically replies with the perfect question: 

"Ok, but how is that a choice then? If you can't act outside of your conditioning, how can you make a choice to act in a different way?"

At this point I thought it's checkmate and Steve won't be able to come back with the right answer on spot.

But he fucking did. He kind of blew my mind, again.

Both of them. Such a beautiful interaction. 

Anyways... Steve said something along the lines of:

"No matter where you're at, and no matter where you've evolved to... You're there. The actions that you take and the thoughts that you think are reflective of where you are at any given time. You are not able to make the choice to change the way you act and think until you realize that you have that choice."

To which Devin says:

"So the realization is a separate mechanism?" - (again, wonderful question)

And Steve replies:

"Well, the realization is recognizing that you're already doing it now... You are creating your reality, at any given moment."

Edited December 6, 2023 by ivankiss

[Merkabah Star]

@mindfulstepz that track was great. Thanks for sharing.