Dan Kohnfelder

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History textbooks will tell you that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a.k.a. Mahatma Gandhi, is one of the most revered names in Indian history for his achievements in ending British imperialism through non-violent, civil disobedience. What they won’t tell you is that there is a strong occult connection to his life of social justice, due to the efforts of Madame Helena Blavatsky and Annie Besant of the Theosophical Society.

WHAT IS THEOSOPHY? 
Theosophy is a collection of mystical and occult philosophies, largely based on ancient Eastern religion and spirituality. Founded by Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, Theosophy is based around the premise that no religion is higher than truth. Though it takes into account aspects of religion considered to be virtuous, it ascribes to none in particular. This sentiment would later be echoed by Gandhi in a famous quote when he said, “there is no God higher than truth.”

When Madame Blavatsky, a Russian author and occultist started the Theosophical Society, she lived in an apartment in New York City with co-founder Henry Steel Olcott. She had migrated to the U.S. after traveling throughout Tibet where she met “Masters of the Ancient Wisdoms,” later to be referred to as “mahatmas,” who supposedly helped her develop psychic abilities, including telepathy, clairvoyance, and astral projection. She claimed to remain telepathically in contact with these masters throughout her life.

08092018

09172018

『Spiderweb』
作詞・作曲 / Papyrusたくや

【Music Video】
https://youtu.be/WmS_kRQl5DU

寝ぼけた頭で 自分の気持ちとか
読めない文字で ノートに綴り始めた

増えてゆくメモに終わりはなくて
それならいっそ使わないことにした

いつか振り返った時 きっと悲しくなるから

自分の背中を押してくれる そんな歌を
ひとつぐらいは作ってみようと思ったんだ

もちろん君のことも
嫌いな奴のことも
神様 信じやしないだろう？
だったらほっといてくれ

大事な時間を 積み上げたものを
汚い言葉で汚したくないんだ

粗探しに夢中
蜘蛛の巣を張って
捕まえた瞬間に一気に喰らいつく

そんなにもお腹が空いたのかい？
残念だがおれは不味いんだ

ある日の窓の外はなんだか悲しげに見えた
深夜に映し出された真昼の街並みの様に

だから布団に潜り込んで
身勝手な想像をしたんだ
自分と仲間だけの楽園が在ればいいなんて…

(Attack)

ハズレにならない為に他人をハズレに追い込む
粗悪品 不良品だらけのチープで懐かしい機械

何かに触れた瞬間に誰かが閉じ込められる
そうだよな 喜ばれたいよな
おれ達はハズレじゃないよな

生きているって事実
ずっと気付けなくてごめんな
神様も大変だろうけど
できれば聴いて欲しいんだ

Spiderweb

Sample and hold circuits are used in linear systems. In some kinds of analog-to-digital converters, the input is compared to a voltage generated internally from a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The circuit tries a series of values and stops converting once the voltages are equal, within some defined error margin. If the input value was permitted to change during this comparison process, the resulting conversion would be inaccurate and possibly unrelated to the true input value. Such successive approximation converters will often incorporate internal sample and hold circuitry. In addition, sample and hold circuits are often used when multiple samples need to be measured at the same time. Each value is sampled and held, using a common sample clock.

Sample Hold

Part One discusses the kinetic problems that waltzing couples encountered in the face of ragtime dances and tango, the impact of World War One on social dance practices in fashionable London and the response of the press and the dance pedagogic profession to the post-war dance craze. Improvisational strategies are considered as contributory factors in the waltz's muted persistence throughout the war while throwing light on how certain social choreomusical practices might lead to the transmutation of dances into newly recognised forms. The persuasive role of London-based leaders such as Philip Richardson, Madame Vandyck and Belle Harding in these early years of modern ballroom dancing is brought to fresh attention. Part One concludes with the dance teachers’ inconclusive attempts during 1920–21 to define and recommend a waltz form compatible with both a discrete choreomusical identity and the stylistic dictates of modern ballroom dancing.

Muted Waltz

It has been suggested that more is known about the Moon than the deepest parts of the ocean.[2] Little was known about the extent of life on the deep ocean floor until the discovery of thriving colonies of shrimps and other organisms around hydrothermal vents in the late 1970s. Before the discovery of the undersea vents, it had been accepted that almost all life on earth obtained its energy (one way or another) from the sun. The new discoveries revealed groups of creatures that obtained nutrients and energy directly from thermal sources and chemical reactions associated with changes to mineral deposits. These organisms thrive in completely lightless and anaerobic environments in highly saline water that may reach 300 °F (150 °C), drawing their sustenance from hydrogen sulfide, which is highly toxic to almost all terrestrial life. The revolutionary discovery that life can exist under these extreme conditions changed opinions about the chances of there being life elsewhere in the universe. Scientists now speculate that Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, may be able to support life beneath its icy surface, where there is evidence[3] of a global ocean of liquid water.

Deep Sea

From Another Place

London, 1966: Paul McCartney met a group of three electronic musicians called Unit Delta Plus. McCartney was there because he had become fascinated by electronic music, and wanted to know how it was made. ...

The Sound of Tomorrow: How Electronic Music Was Smuggled Into the Mainstream
Book by Mark Brend

Synth Ethix

Imagine a perfect day off from responsibilities, commitments and obligations...You just want to relax with plenty of time for music while
Launching Daydreams From A Lounge Chair...
© 2018 Rick Shearer - music, production and cover design

Rick Shearer - Launching Daydreams From A Lounge Chair

Phase precession is a neurophysiological process in which the firing of action potentials by individual neurons is timed in relation to the phase of neural oscillations in the surrounding cells. In place cells, a type of neuron found in the hippocampal region of the brain, phase precession is believed to play a major role in the neural coding of information. John O'Keefe, who later shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that place cells help form a "map" of the body's position in space, co-discovered phase precession with Michael Recce in 1993.[1][2]

Phase Precession

Lyrics by Tony Harris (lyrics listed below)
Raw Vocal/Guitar by Tony

YOU MAY NOT BELIEVE IN HEAVEN			
	
THE FATHER AND THE SON			
			
YOU MAY THINK IT'S A FAIRY TALE			
			
A CROWN CAN'T BE WON			
			
			
YOU MAY NOT BELIEVE THAT JESUS			
			
WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD			
			
WALKED ON THE WATER			
			
LIKE THE BIBLE SAID			
			
			
(Short Chorus)			
I BELIEVE IN HEAVEN			
			
THE FATHER AND THE SON			
			
IT'S NOT A FAIRY TALE			
			
A CROWN CAN BE WON			
			
IT'S NOT A FAIRY TALE			
			
A CROWN CAN BE WON			
			
	
DON'T PUT ME DOWN			
			
FOR WHAT I BELIEVE			
			
FOR I WAS LOST			
			
NOW IF I'M WRONG

WHAT HAVE I LOST

IF YOUR WRONG

YOU'VE LOST EVERY..THING
YOU'VE LOST EVERY..THING


(Long Ending Chorus)
I BELIEVE IN HEAVEN

THE FATHER AND THE SON

IT'S NOT A FAIRY TALE

A CROWN CAN BE WON

I BELIEVE THAT JESUS

WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD

WALKED ON THE WATER 

LIKE THE BIBLE SAID

WALKED ON THE WATER

LIKE THE BIBLE SAID

IT'S NOT A FAIRYTALE

A CROWN CAN BE WON 



© 2018 Lyrics by Tony Harris

It's Not A Fairy Tale - (Raw Original upload)

Even many conservative scholars of the history of religion have a sense that the mystery schools of Egypt contain within their teachings a particular knowledge that came, if not from prehistoric times, from ancient times. The earliest human records legible, the Pyramid Texts of Egypt (c. 3000 B.C.E.), contain many prayers that are quoted from a far more ancient period, and it is apparent that the prayers were used in the texts as magical formulas and spells.

Mystery Schools (revision)

Reveries Drift

Demo

Waiting for Changes

Shuggie Otis (born Johnny Alexander Veliotes, Jr.; November 30, 1953)[2][3] is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist.

Otis's composition "Strawberry Letter 23" (as recorded by The Brothers Johnson) topped the Billboard R&B chart and reached #5 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1977.[3] He also achieved commercial success with his 1974 single "Inspiration Information" (from the album of the same name), reaching #56 on the R&B chart.[3]

Strawberry Letter (Remix of "Strawberry Letter 23" by Shuggie Otis)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlDwJkpdfwDCj55ZXhthomZQhH80ymVbc

Gospel 1a (Gregory Williams Speaks Theme)

Origami  (Work In Progress)

THE LEGEND

The Dream Away Lodge has been a Berkshire legend for more than 90 years. Rumored to have been a brothel and speakeasy during the great depression, this two hundred year old farmhouse at the edge of October Mountain State Forest is renown for its larger than life founders, Mamma Maria Frasca and her three musical daughters, and a colorful history, rich in music and local mythology.

Fine Food. Unique Cocktail Lounge.
An Atmosphere Long Remembered.

The 1975 visitation by Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg and the Rolling Thunder Review, led to the Dream Away’s prominent role in Part Two of Dylan’s epic film Renaldo and Clara – enhancing an already unmatched reputation as one of Berkshire County’s best loved and most closely held hilltown secrets.

DreamAway

Wall Control 2B

Slow descent into madness

Duke Ellington said there are only two kinds of music, good and bad.  Someday I hope to have my tracks fall to the former category. I figure I have 18 years to play at it. :)