mc xander

"We gotta face it head on this time and I’m touching base with the moving inner eye,
Farewell brother, we gotta go, Got to open the mind, touch the plateau."

This sums up the meaning of the entire song pretty succinctly. It is about the willingness to go on a internalized journey through the layers of self, forgoing the traditional roles and games of society, in favour of a quest for a deeper existential meaning and transformation.

"When I journey to the base of this pain I place the blame on the one who holds my name and no-one else, deal with the cards I’ve been dealt, I’m about to follow what I’ve always felt."

"I got the spinning conspiracies evoked close to me, one mans delusion is one mans satori, well I’m feeling the third eye presence, bright luminescence, my hands are shaking with the outside essence." 

This paragraph refers most explicitly to the types of psycho-somatic experiences that result from the practices of deep contemplation: the experiencing of subtle energy, inner lights, and a feeling of ‘jacking in’ to some external force (whether it is external or internal is a matter of scholarly debate that still rages however, personally I think it is unimportant – these ‘experiences’ are fleeting, it is the flowering of consciousness which is enduring)

"Enough muse on my recent demise, we got the way and the means so we rise, consciously, into the ether. If you remain true to yourself they will be believe you."  

An emphasis is on transcending the limitations of personality and to rise into a place of authentic being.. when you believe in yourself and come from a place of authenticity, it will be immediately noticeable for others who will come to trust you.

"I hold this close to me, you gotta know I hold this close to me."

“I hold this close to me” It describes multiple things, the first is that this journey is close in the sense of proximate; it happens in the private world of personal consciousness. The second sense is that I ‘hold it close’ because I regard it as important. It is like a faith, I say ‘like’ a faith because it is not the blind faith of religion, it is so close that it feels like it is part of me, not like a god; a metaphysical other that I can never experience. In fact this closeness to it means that it colours every detail of my experience, it is there in my love, my hate, my motivations and the meaning I make for things.

"Now elevate up from a place mundane, without the pulse of fear pushing terror to my brain," 

One thing that developmental psychologist Abraham Maslow noticed is that when one makes a leap from being concerned with more simple needs like food, shelter, sex and emotional safety (what he called ‘deficiency needs’) to what he called ‘being needs’ something remarkable happens: fear drops off. 

"they can keep their backward mindset I’ll defect and show the world what I’m seeing yet."

Bringing in the assumption, which is unavoidable, that there are inferior ideologies, world-views and discourses, and this means it is incumbent on humans to promote the better ones…

"Learning to expose the lie, we are falling to another dawning I hear the warning sign as calamity clamours for popularity "

It's not easy! all the old egocentric and ethnocentric worldviews are fighting desperately, even as more harmonious, global centric approaches to human existence emerge in a tiny fraction of the worlds population. One only need look at the expansionist crusades of the neo-cons, theocratic militancy, the re-emergence of fascism in Europe, to see this struggle will be a formidable one.   

"I’m left trying to justify why I can hear the poem like a rhapsody, you can never tear down the factory, you can never know why the ghetto vibrates I contemplate placing normality. You say I want to hold this close to me, well I’m wearing these words like a rosary as we’re moving deep inside, moving into the bright white light."

although confusion and chaos predominate in our lifes, sometimes we can recognize that in the journey through the layers of our person, we are moving inexorably towards clarity, compassion and oneness, here represented as a bright, white light.

Hope you enjoy the song X


White Light

MC Xander's debut, all-vocal Album, 'Eyeopeness' is out now! Get it at: 
www.mcxander.com
'Check this I’m sick of the tricks, sick of the purists. For ages we misfits not talking bout what day it is. The world has made us into capitalistic fatalists, I looking around this place but can’t find the folks that I came with. 
Will all the real truly free people please stand up, tell me somebody out there still hasn’t given up. Is this living of ours living up to the vision or does this revolution stop at your coffee cup, huh,
Fuck this, I’m sick of the shit, sick of the business, sick of the world tending to be my witness, sick of pretending to be this identity hypothesis, force my metamorphosis, throw my caution to the wind with total thoughtlessness.
I and I is a hungry soul, society gone bad but we need not fall so face the demons stealing into these maddening days, find them in the minds eye, take aim and blow them away.
We got to purify, from the inside out.
Check the bass, check the middle, check the treble but lets take this music to another level. We’re like pebbles dropping into the water causing ripples for our sons and daughters, there’s no borders, just all of us shouting orders. 
Today it's spiritual this, spiritual that, tell me you heard this: Presidents talking about a higher purpose. If they’re TALKING about this shit we’ve got to be LIVING it in earnest, become impervious, so the holy wars will never hurt us.
One love, one god, one world, one something.. but loads of words that don’t mean nothing. You can’t fool me with fantasy circus circling semblances of sacred service, only want to know what is your holy purpose.
I and I is a fighting soul, I am one man but I am you all, so spread the wealth, slake the worlds thirst but know we can only save the world when we say ourselves first.
We got to purify, from the inside out.
So yes be angry, yes be mad, yes be shocked and awed but whatever the fuck you do don’t be bored. Yes the beat don’t stop this epoch’s not the end, cities chock-a-block but still got oxygen, still got, something to fight for, die for, something to live my life for and I intend to be one of the survivors, but that’s is cos, the buck stops with us, no ifs no buts, no matter who you cuss. If your not on the bus it wont be enough to save you, if you don’t reach the ocean the tide wont turn in your favour and all those leaving planet earth will be like ‘See ya later’….
We got to purify, from the inside out.'


Spaceship Earth

Eyeopeness, MC Xander's debut all-vocal album is now available from:

www.mcxander.com


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Chrissel