Thank you Jeff! I think this is so important, to open  to a degree that feels loving and that is in our training zone. I caused myself a lot of damage when I tried to have equanimity with lots of noise when I had a brain injury .Thanks for this 🙏

This was so helpful during a bout of bad anxiety. Thank you for teaching and uploading.

there’s a koan that says “when the temple bell has finished ringing, the sound continues on in the flowers”. we are those flowers. look at this sensory cell that is this mix's background. it wants to take it all in, every nuance, filter it, tune it, so we might sing every more purely the bright song of the universe as it moves through us. 

it seems that is what we are here to do: get the picture. or the song. or the smell. once we grasp it fully, at least once, we are changed. we become loving towards ourselves and all things, because there is so much beauty, there is no room left for hate.  so, that's the goal, at least for me: apprehend the majesty of this place so I know the size of the gift, and get out of my own way once and for all. yours. so i may know my place as on my knees in humility and wonder, giving thanks to god, this beautiful process that has caught me in her tender wings, buoyed my hearts to such great heights, brought me into communion with the brightest of lights. I send these songs, my favourite of the ones I found last year, into the atmosphere with that hope that its aim is true, meets you in that ringing place with room enough for all people. 

don’t believe the hype that this is the end of something, it is only ever the beginning of us knowing who we are and what we are capable of. love.

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since i was small, i found meaning through music. first i combed my parents records, listening for something that stopped me. when i had money of my own, i asked them to drive me to the city so i could buy my own. every dollar went there. when i saw my first walkman, and realized i could listen to music anywhere, i moved from LP’s to cassettes.  until i could get one, i bungee-corded a boom box in front of the tractor’s steering wheel, and blared it louder than the engine. everyone within a mile knew that it took a nation of millions to hold us back. or at least public enemy. 

i am not exactly clear where the obsession came from. my parents put on a record here and there, but there lives didn’t revolve around it (ha) like mine did. though i eventually ended up in toronto to study medicine, its music scene is why i stayed, and as i grew into the person i am now, how i found my friends. we met at shows, on dancefloors, record stores, subway parties, block jams, festivals around the world. 

in 1999, a neurology resident asked me to “watch” his technics-1200 record players. you can’t WATCH record players; you must listen to them. i started visiting play de record in toronto, found a scene of ever greater music nerds, and graduated into the role of DJ, not from any particular skill, but from record buying compulsion. before cdj’s, to be a dj, you just needed to be a person willing to spend $20 on one song. i was that person. 

medicine, as you might imagine, greatly interfered with the rising star of my musical career. in the end, i liked helping people even more, and while i might train-wreck a mix if i was half-paying attention, i couldn’t do the same with a person’s care in the trauma room. i decided to devote my life to that, and remain music’s biggest fan.  

dj’ng is so different now than it was those many years ago. people play mostly in tight bpm’s, songs match with the click of a button. you don’t EVER spend twenty dollars on a track. the art has moved on, and with more available  equipment, the skill level of the average person is remarkable. one thing remains the absolute same: when you are enveloped by a song, something deep within you starts singing too. time falls away, and you become part of the reckless beauty around you. 

i’ve seen a bazillion shows, live and dj’d. if i could choose one that influenced my dj stylings, it was in queen’s new york, at PS1’s first warmup, around the year 2000. after an hour of house or disco or whatever, miho hatori, from the band cibo mato, threw down a stevie wonder track, then a guns and roses one, then cypress hill. all records obvi. i was, like: that’s the type of dj i will be. 

i’ve made these mixtapes since about then. i made them for friends or lovers, party people, but mostly i made them for me. it meant devotion to a handful of songs, listening to them again and again, rearranging them. since they were so different, i couldn’t mix in, say, key. i would need to find a hook or a melody, link up a thought or emotion. arrange, rearrange. don’t make the listening too easy. provoke, release, stop the listener with something unexpected or new, and just when they want to press FFWD, move on.

above all, i get to fall in love with songs, like i did that first time i heard one, carrying through my mothers loving skin, into the soft nest of her womb, shaking me, letting me know that there was more to this world than i could ever get to, but there would always be a place for me. 

and you. i’m glad this beautiful commotion put us together. hope you like this music, and if you do, share it with people who might too. love.

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Here is the Desert Dwellers set from the Kinnection Campout hosted by the Tribal Council in North Carolina (May 17th 2015) 

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Desert Dwellers @ Kinnection Campout (2015  05-17)

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03 Nobody (Miguel Campbell Club Mix)

This 17-minute meditation was recorded in Costa Rica on March 19th, 2020. My retreat co-leader Scott Davis and I had been up all night taking care of someone in great distress. Scott is a Chinese Traditional Medicine practitioner; he has a very grounded and comforting way of putting his hands on people, feeling the pulse in their wrist, gently administering his acupuncture needles. I was very moved as I watched him tend to this person, and afterwards – feeling quite cracked open and raw – I came directly to the meditation hall and guided this practice. It's all about how to hold ourselves – and each other – with care.

For more free meditations, see www.jeffwarren.org

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Caring Hands

This 25-minutes long practice was recorded in Costa Rica on March 17th, 2020, in a time of great anxiety about coronavirus. It describes how to face emotional intensities and/or sensorial challenges in a paced and responsible way: the pendulation between opening and expanding capacity, and then moving back to safety and comfort and knowing our limits. Fear, like the virus itself, is contagious. It is also workable – in a sense, treatable. But first we need to understand the medicine. 

This meditation is more educational than relaxing, and it meant to be that way. Hopefully it will also be helpful.

For more free meditations, see www.jeffwarren.org

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Jeff Warren is a writer and meditation teacher. He is the co-author of The New York Times bestselling Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, author of The Head Trip - a travel guide to sleeping, dreaming and waking - and founder of The Consciousness Explorers Club, a nonprofit meditation adventure group based in Toronto.

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