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Poetry and Reflection

The beginning of this song is the Gayatri Mantra - a sanskrit chant that basically means "you are the source, please illuminate my heart".  It's a prayer for enlightenment and is chanted by millions of people daily, usually I think at sunrise and sunset.
One evening, at a period in my life when I was burnt out and desperate, I was in that place when I was too tired to sleep and too tired to do anything else.  I decided that playing guitar would make me feel better.  I chanted the gayatri mantra for about 20 mins and then a thought occurred to me - if the source could illuminate my mind in plain english that I could understand what would it say?
The english words in the song are the answer that I received.
I'm so glad this song resonates for so many people, it just shows me our hearts are all the same...

You Are Safe

In this recording from 1972, Alan Watts lectures on mystical vision via art, aesthetics, and Buddhist and Daoist philosophy.

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“You and I have all conspired with ourselves to pretend that we are not really God, but of course we are. That is perfectly obvious. We are all apertures through which the universe is looking at itself. Only it is so arranged that we don’t know that in exactly the same way as we don't look at our own eyes.” – Alan Watts

Alan Watts: Aesthetics and Mystical Vision – Being in the Way Ep. 14

Bluebird by Charles Bukowski

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

As we birth this new paradigm 
The Spiritual Warrior must step forward 
with the knowing of who who he/she is 
The Warrior that is represented here is peace, love, strength, wisdom, the Great Knowing and courage 

Shiva gives us the strength to step through this portal of time into the new paradigm of the Golden Age/ The Age of Aquarius. 

Shiva represents the power of transformation and pure consciousness, the liberator of suffering 

Shiva~ The ONE who promises your bliss 
Shambo~ The auspicious ONE, the abode of joy 
Mahadeva Shambo~ The Great God
lyrics
We are the Warriors, Spiritual Warriors 
Here to Transform Through This Time 
We are the Warriors, Spiritual Warriors 
Here to Birth This New Paradigm 
New Paradigm 

Sing'in 

OM Namah Shivaya 
OM Namah Shivaya 
OM Namah Shivaya 
OM Namah Shivaya 

Shiva Shiva Shiva Shambo 
Shiva Shiva Shiva Shambo 
Shiva Shiva Shiva Shambo 
Shiva Shiva Shiva Shambo 

Mahadeva Shambo 
Mahadeva Shambo 
Mahadeva Shambo 
Mahadeva Shambo
credits
released December 13, 2015 
Written by Harmony and Katana 
Harmony Vocals & Composition 
Augstian Supriatna Bamboo Flute 
Reggae guitar by Super Delux 
All grooves, sonics, production and arrangement by Maneesh de Moor

Blessings of Your Grace

Spiritual Warrior

Download most all my music on my bandcamp here: https://maywa-yaku.bandcamp.com

:::Luna en ti:::

read by Tom O'Bedlam

“Alone”
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
________________

From childhood’s hour I have not been 
As others were I have not seen 
As others saw I could not bring 
My passions from a common spring


From the same source I have not taken 
My sorrow I could not awaken 
My heart to joy at the same tone
And all I lov’d I lov’d alone
Then in my childhood in the dawn 
Of a most stormy life was drawn 
From ev’ry depth of good and ill 
The mystery which binds me still
From the torrent, or the fountain
From the red cliff of the mountain 
From the sun that ’round me roll’d 
In its autumn tint of gold 
From the lightning in the sky 
As it pass’d me flying by
From the thunder, and the storm
And the cloud that took the form 
(When the rest of Heaven was blue) 
Of a demon in my view

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So Now? by Charles Bukowski

the words have come and gone,
I sit ill.
the phone rings, the cats sleep.
Linda vacuums.
I am waiting to live,
waiting to die. 
I wish I could ring in some bravery.
it's a lousy fix
but the tree outside doesn't know:
I watch it moving with the wind
in the late afternoon sun. 
there's nothing to declare here,
just a waiting.
each faces it alone. 
Oh, I was once young,
Oh, I was once unbelievably
young!

"Alone"  Edgar Allan Poe -  So Now?  Charles Bukowski

Omkara   Mooji  - Remember Who You Are

Jim Jarmusch's phone call to Roberto Benigni, recalling memories from Down By Law

A sweet song for an easeful journey!
Written and performed by Boombird @birdgoesboom
Recorded and Produced by Bonbon Spirit

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Lyrics:
Sacred memories, broken hearts at children's feet
Which of these were meant to be, do we know?
Swam across a primal sea, felt an ancient heartbeat
The more I walk the center, the more it grows

Beautiful day, and everything's going my way,
'cause I am walking my path with the flow
Beautiful day, and everything's going my way,
'cause I am walking my path with the flow

Layer by layer you hide your truth, but I can see all of you
I swim through every texture and every shade
Woman sheds her cloak of youth, beautiful and brilliant, too
Sunlight sees the scars as they fade

Beautiful day, and everything's going my way,
'cause I am walking my path with the flow
Beautiful day, and everything's going my way,
'cause I am walking my path with the flow

Beautiful day, and everything's going my way,
'cause I am walking my path with the flow
Beautiful day, and everything's going my way,
'cause I am walking my path with the flow

Boombird - Bitter Practice Sweet Mind (Bonbon Spirit mix)

Leonard Cohen & Philip Glass - The Book of Longing

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