2020

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PN5JJDh78I

This excerpt from A Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Carl Sagan's suggestion, by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pale_Blue_Dot.png). As the spacecraft left our planetary neighborhood for the fringes of the solar system, engineers turned it around for one last look at its home planet. Voyager 1 was about 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) away, and approximately 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane, when it captured this portrait of our world. Caught in the center of scattered light rays (a result of taking the picture so close to the Sun), Earth appears as a tiny point of light, a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size.

Music: Ludovico Einaudi with a track titled, very fittingly, "The Earth Prelude"

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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

-- Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

Carl Sagan - You Are Here (Pale Blue Dot) [Sagan Time]

Monlam, The Great Prayer Festival.

Since 1409, thousands of monks (of the three main monasteries of Drepung, Sera and Ganden) gathered for chanting prayers and performing religious rituals at the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa.

"The main purpose of the Great Prayer Festival is to pray for the long life of all the holy Gurus of all traditions, for the survival and spreading of the Dharma in the minds of all sentient beings, and for world peace. The communal prayers, offered with strong faith and devotion, help to overcome obstacles to peace and generate conducive conditions for everyone to live in harmony."

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Monlam

Standing on the precipice of the unknown.
All is of, or nothing is.
Breathe, and immerse in the quiet power.

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May you allow these sounds to take you deeper into your internal explorations as we shift inward for the season.

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⏣Track List⏣
Irene  - Wuachuma
Where Are You (Aparde Remix) - Robert Babicz
Seashell Song (Joe Miller Remix) - Asten
Flyga - Hosini
Awakenings (Adrien RO Remix) - Sebastian Busto
Manasarovar - Volen Sentir
Rayo De Luz - Hicky & Kalo
Undercurrents - Frost
Without feat. Felicia Douglass (Tim Green Remix) - BAILE
Native Therapy - Zone+, M.O.S.
Alcyon - Simon Vuarambon
First Move - Kasper Koman
The Opera - Tim Green
Atlas Song - Jónsi & Alex
En Vintersaga - Hosini 
Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears - A Winged Victory for the Sullen

Fall In Five

As We Dance Through Thunder and Flares

Blurred Time

Take Me

Shango

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Hello everyone……yes, these days are very uncertain,  very unknown. A virus which is spreading all over the world and causing so much damage and fear. A modern war in 2020……who could have expected this, exactly…..not many. That reminds me of life in general. This virus shows us again that planning our lives is almost impossible. We don’t have control of everything so therefore can’t predict any outcome of our plans. All we can do is love and live with our full intention and live our lives from our heart and hopefully being very passionate about our mission. We all have our missions in life, one has a bigger impact to the world than others but we all have our roles which are all very important. We all can make changes. We need to be present today because we don’t have a clue what will happen in the next few days, weeks, months. Not to ourselves and not to our loved ones or any other people on this planet. So this is also a time for new opportunities for many. Don’t we want to do what we love, just follow your heart, intuition, listen to what’s inside. Isn’t that what really matters? Let’s be grateful for what we have and for all the people who are fighting for other peoples lives, not only these days but year round. They are our heroes!  We can be our own heroes by fully listening to our core, then we can be proud of who we are. Be intentional and honest to yourself and follow that. And most of all be kind, be loving, be helpful to people who need it most. Do you have an older neighbour or friend or family member who is too afraid to go outside to do grocery shopping? Please help them, buy their groceries or cook them a meal, show them some love and kindness and don’t forget to smile. I know, it’s not always easy but it can make a difference to yourself and the ones around you. Give yourself and others some real love. Thank you.

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Alex Cruz - Deep & Sexy Podcast #42 (Real Love)

Remember to love yourself in these times of change. Breathe and become closer with the earth. You are not alone. Keep Moving. Keep Smiling. Keep Dancing.

Never Alone

A special Caturday set dedicated to NYC. Today, we dance for you. 🖤
Thank you to every New Yorker for your extraordinary efforts, especially medical workers, Governor Andrew Cuomo and all of the people doing essential services so that we can #stayhome. 

*40,000 retired medical workers have volunteered to help staff NYC’s new Surge Healthcare Force
*6,000 mental health professionals have volunteered to help counsel those struggling in our community
*NYC shelters are running out of dogs & cats to foster. They all have homes now.
*New York’s shuttered hotels are offering housing for our medical workers 
*NYC volunteers are coordinating grassroots efforts to shop for and feed our sick and elderly 
*Relief funds for freelancers, undocumented workers, artists, etc are being created
*New Yorkers are FINALLY staying home
*Dude still has his sign. 
*Nana is safe. 

This is the New York I know. This is the New York I love.
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CATURDAY 009 | FOR NYC | Courtney Scott

What a surreal existence we are all sharing at the moment.  Time is standing still now it seems.  The wait for an answer. The wait for the light at the end of tunnel, wherever we may be.   

I often think of my life pre corona virus and I feel it took, place ages ago.  In some other distant time when almost everything was a given.   Not now though.   

Only thing that is a given now is the power of love. 

The power of compassion. 
The power of empathy.  
The power of inwardness. 

The power of realizing that nothing is ever to be taken for granted.  

The power of gratitude.    

We are in a part of the world that allows us to suspend our reality here and there.  I plunge in the ocean as if the water is oxygen. Every drop on my body reminds me to breath the air.  To be present and to remember that the water I feel is the same water someone else feels on the other side of the seemingly infinite horizon.  
But it’s not infinite.  Nothing is.  
Only love.  
Love is infinite.  
Love is everything. 

And so is music.  

 It is what has brought me all thats is pure in my life.   
That is true.  
This is why you’re listening now. 
This is why it’s never more important to feel, to taste, to hear  and see music.  It’s why I’ve called you to us.  It’s why my brothers are with me today. 

Please close your eyes now. 
Let’s suspend our reality and allow immense optimism reign. 

Thank you for lending us 
your ears
Your hearts 
And your souls. 

Performed live on March 21, 2020 during the Covid 19 pandemic, from the Yucatan Peninsula.

2020

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