Dave Brisbin 4.24.22
Jesus gave us just one Way to experience the oneness of the Father, which when followed looks like presence, emotional regulation, and vulnerability. But this Way remains elusive because it’s nothing less than the complete deconstruction of our egoic consciousness—everything we think we are and have—in favor of a truth we can only see when everything false is removed. Very hard to do, and Jesus says few go by the narrow road to new life, rebirth.

Our churches haven’t been teaching this Way; it’s a tough sell. We don’t want to hear about a path that doesn’t ascend straight to prosperity or salvation, that curves down into the depths of ourselves, painfully purging until we can see where we really need to go. Everything in us wants a kinder, gentler way, a miracle cure or a savior we can passively accept. But without the healing that only a dive into our deepest fears can bring, we will always be looking for something or someone to do for us what we can only do for ourselves: become vulnerable enough to experience the love that casts out fear.

If we keep looking for cures and saviors, we become prey to those who would lead us. Jesus says we must be wary, that some leaders are ravening wolves in sheep’s clothing, referring to the overlarge woolen prayer shawls covering the religious leaders of his day. Of course not all the leaders of Jesus’ day or ours are charlatans or hypocrites, and Jesus says the only way to discern falseness is by their fruits, their effect on each of us. But that effect isn’t just a result of their leading, but also of our following—our willingness to stop waiting to be saved and begin partnering with God in the process of salvation.

Until we submit to the realities of Jesus’ Way, we will never see that we were born “saved,” that is, loved and accepted as perfectly as we can ever be. Jesus’ Way is the way of remembering who we are and have always been…beloved. Remembering our belovedness means letting go of everything that says otherwise, and until we do, no shepherd, no matter how good can lead us past the wolves.

Wolves And Sheep

Lakshmi

Dave Brisbin 5.1.22
It’s amazing how differently we hear things depending on our emotional and intellectual investments. Sometimes when counseling couples, I actually see words changing meaning in the air between one partner’s lips and the other’s ears. It’s all about what we’re prepared to understand. We hear what we’re prepared to hear. It’s the same with scripture.

At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says that not everyone who calls out, “Lord, Lord, we’ve prophesied and done miracles in your name,” will enter the kingdom of heaven. And to put a really fine point on it, he finishes with: “I never knew you: depart from me, you who practice lawlessness.” Focused on afterlife as reward, and accomplishment and performance as the prerequisite for God’s favor, we immediately hear Jesus talking about our day of judgment with God—heaven or hell. But final and permanent damnation based on a principle we may have not even understood? That would violate everything Jesus lives out and says about the nature of God’s love, acceptance, forgiveness. Whatever this saying means, it’s not that.

To know in Hebrew/Aramaic doesn’t mean understanding facts. God knowing us, we knowing God, is about intimate experience, as only long time together without defense or pretense can create. Jesus is telling us that our investment in accomplishment and grandiosity is the opposite of and blockage to the intimacy that changes us from the inside out—the knowing of one thing: the allness of God’s love. Until we intimately know that love, nothing Jesus says will make sense.

This saying isn’t about the afterlife and final judgment of God at all. Jesus’ kingdom is always here and now, and we are crying Lord, Lord, each and every day we desire to experience the fulfillment Jesus calls kingdom. Depart from me you who practice lawlessness is a direct quote from Psalm 6, but there, David tells us that those confronted with their dysfunction turn from their lawlessness, literally repent. Jesus isn’t judging here. He’s confronting. Trying to help us change direction and repent our way back into the intimacy of kingdom.

Lord Lord

Hi friends ! It's been a while since the last Stellar Series. Today, we share with you the 69th episode of the Stellar Series which was recorded by Luna Sphere.

Luna Sphere is a musical project by Alec Tancredi, a curious enthusiast of audiovisual practices and expressions, formed during his time based in Berlin and currently relocated to Mexico City. Originally from Ibiza, he's been immersed in an electronic music environment since an early age. With a tendency to create a strong atmosphere and eager to evolve his sound, he has a wide range of musical influences and outputs which makes Luna Sphere an open playground for musical experimentation. 

Follow him : @luna_sphere

Picture credit : Punta Galera, 2021.
ig: _lunasphere_

Tracklist :
Aucuba Replica - Longane [Secuencias Temporales]
Misha Sultan - Heart [DiG Records]
Jonny Nash - Flower [Music From Memory]
Tarawangsawelas - Ada [Morphine Records]
Benedikt Frey - HANG LOOSE [ESP Institute]
Psee / Mårble / Koyil - Tamatamanāh [Hair Del.]
Awkward Moments - La Mort De La Phalène [Awkward Moments]
Kaf - Tvil [IO]
Grand River - Flies [Spazio Disponibile]
Will Oirson - Inland [The Something Something]
CPI - Rasa [Hivern Discs]
Polygonia - Wet Mind [IO]
Penelope Trappes - Silence [Houndstooth]
Orquesta De Las Nubes - Cama Diármonica [Music From Memory]
Roberto Musci - Claudia, Wilhelm R And Me [Music From Memory]

Stellar Series Episode 69 - Luna Sphere (Laguna de Ensueño)

Dave Brisbin 5.8.22
A woman who grew up in a painfully patriarchal Christian sect, told me she was uninterested in attending a Mother’s Day church service that simply gave roses to moms. She’s been trying to understand her place as a woman in a faith that seems to be all about men...subjugating women. Starting with God as Father. 

We know all about our Father. Why is there no mention of our Mother in scripture? Scholars have speculated that ancient Hebrews prohibited all rituals of the polytheistic nature religions encircling them to keep Israel focused on this life and their one God. Hebrews were forbidden to communicate with the dead, embalm, mummify, or even touch a corpse. They prohibited the worship of any physical image of God including nature as goddess—mother earth. But if these intentions and their own patriarchal culture kept explicit mention of our Mother out of scripture, the essential balance of father and mother in God is as clear as we’re willing to see.

Hochkmah, God’s wisdom, is personified as female in the book of Proverbs, and the Hebrew words for spirit and kingdom, ruach and malkutha, are both feminine, meaning we could literally refer to God’s spirit as she and kingdom as queendom. Scripture often portrays God as female: in childbirth, nursing or comforting her child, a protective mother bear or bird covering chicks with her wings. In Hosea, God takes her people in her arms, picks them up and holds them to her cheek, feeds them and cares for them with affection. In the gospels, Jesus always leads with touch, connection, affection before teaching and instruction, showing us it’s only when we have experienced the compassion of our Mother in our day to day lives that we can begin to understand the love of our Father at all. 

God is a perfect God only when justice and mercy, knowledge and wisdom, discipline and relationship, male and female, mother and father are equally honored and present. Without God’s matriarchy balancing us, anything we do, male or female, becomes just another patriarchy. Only our Mother guards our Father from the subjugation of others.

Our Mother

This is an excerpt of a sundowner session 
Once upon a time
On a shopping centre’s roof far far away -> @klunkerkranich
At the edge of perception

Is this the beginning? Or is it an end? Who can tell?

From one Source all things depend
And will once upon a cycle return?

Where do we go from here?

Pointless wars
Smoking gun pandemic management
Culture threat - everywhere, but just in my home town the past weeks: Cafe Fluss, Konstepidemin
Next week there will be congressional hearings with Pentagon on UFOs (+ paranormal phenomena? ;)

To those who sit on their high horse's and imagine that they're the apex of the universe’s evolution

Think
Look
Listen
Feel

What do we really know?

Who are we?
Why are we?

What is all this really?

Take a moment

See you through the cracks in the mirror on your surface of the reflection in a _fragment_.. ,)

Christian Seance

Christian Seance @ Klunkerkranich, Berlin (May 2022)

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Stroom ambient background music [{(FREE DOWNLOAD)}]

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Audio podcasts delivered at theeffect church in San Clemente, CA. theeffect is a community of imperfect people working together to find the emotional recovery and spiritual transformation that is theeffect of God’s love by unlearning limiting perceptions, beliefs, and compulsions, and engaging a first century Jesus in a non-religious and transforming way. See more at theeffect.org.

The deep love for contemplative music.

About requests for the podcast channel : anyone is free to send the music at stellartransitions.podcasts@gmail.com. It could be a Soundcloud link with enabled free download or a wetransfer link. 
It's about all different kinds of music that are made to letting go. You have to include an artwork that could be a photo, art, anything as long as it's made by the artist-contributor of the podcast. The duration is absolutely free, and you can choose by yourself the extra-title of the mix.

Hope you'll enjoy the stuff 🌱

True North with Dave Brisbin is a podcast about the things that can bring you back to center, whether God, spirituality, community or family or all of them. Never esoteric or abstract for its own sake; always practical and full of common sense, we’re interested in exploring the effect of what we believe on our lives and questioning what we believe in light of the deep connection we’re meant to live. Dave Brisbin is an author, speaker, coach, and songwriter. He is the teaching pastor of theeffect, a faith community and recovery ministry in San Clemente, CA and executive director of Encompass Recovery, an addiction treatment center in San Juan Capistrano. For more on finding deeper spiritual expression free from limiting beliefs and behavior, go to davebrisbin.com.

When you’ve been fried by bigger fish the antidote is the only cure.

Say hello to booking@christianseance.com

CHRISTIAN SEANCE's collection spans over many styles, in own words he would like to describe his sound as deep, sexy, quirky, FUN! With his music he wants to bring you on a journey and make your whole body and soul dance! 

Appearences (around Gothenburg unless specified);

2022
May.14 Balkan vs Swing ✤ 10th Anniversary ✤ @ Copenhagen
May.4 Klunkerkranich, Berlin
Apr.29 Not a Goodbye party @ Prince Sergeij / Yaki-Da 
Apr.23  Unbirthday w/ @mias-welt + sonia, eillom+iago
Apr.14 Skärtorsdag b2b w/ @sonia-fraendegaard @ Eli's Corner
Apr.9 @fragmentvm presents House of Ursa @ Prince Sergeij / Yaki-Da w/ @sunraid
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Mar.19 Cirkus Paralello b2b @fiafomo w/ @annettgapstream @langstrumpf
Mar.5 Inside//Out Sober Club w/ @d0gmama
Jan.15 A&F's Bday Bangers
2021
Dec.31 Private NYE (3h Midnight Year Opening Set)
Dec.25 Cozy PyjaXmas (Closing Set) + last hour b2b @fiafomo w/ @martin-lost @melayan
Dec.22 Yaki-Da / Prince Sergei w/ @iago_souza @marmolakmusic @ampmevent
Dec.21 Epic Tuesdays Finale

New tracks tagged #Contemplation