"Source Code Flow" is a powerful rap anthem that reimagines the timeless teachings of the Lotus Sutra for the modern age. With sharp metaphors and a rhythmic flow, the song compares spiritual transformation to upgrading your operating system, finding renewable energy for the soul, and connecting to a high-speed network of wisdom. It’s a call to rise above digital overwhelm, climate anxiety, and social disconnection, offering a timeless "source code" for enlightenment in a fast-paced world. Perfect for seekers, thinkers, and anyone looking for a deeper connection in life.

Intro (Spoken or Rapped):
Yo, in a world of updates and fleeting trends,
Where the scroll never stops, and the stress never ends,
There’s a truth that’s timeless, a wisdom that grows,
Let me break it down for you—this is the Source Code Flow.

Verse 1:
I’m plugged into the matrix, drowning in streams,
Chasing likes and follows, but losing my dreams.
The Sutra’s the key, the master design,
A spiritual OS that rewires my mind.
No quick-fix app, no disposable patch,
It’s the solar power, no trend can match.
From the chaos of life, it’s the calm in the storm,
A timeless upgrade, where the soul is reborn.

Chorus:
(Chanted or Sung)
Source code flow, let the Dharma show,
Rewrite my life, let the wisdom grow.
From the digital haze to the truths I know,
The Lotus Sutra’s got that Source Code Flow.

Verse 2:
It’s like 5G speed for the spiritual grind,
Connecting my heart to the infinite mind.
Other teachings lag, like a dial-up line,
But the Sutra’s bandwidth is divine by design.
Climate anxiety, the world’s on fire,
But compassion’s the fuel that lifts us higher.
It’s renewable energy for the soul’s despair,
A solar-powered truth that’s always there.

Chorus:
(Chanted or Sung)
Source code flow, let the Dharma show,
Rewrite my life, let the wisdom grow.
From the digital haze to the truths I know,
The Lotus Sutra’s got that Source Code Flow.

Bridge (Spoken or Rapped):
Yo, it’s like this—
The Sutra’s not just a book, it’s a vibe,
A network of truths that keeps us alive.
It’s the fiber optic cable to the heart of it all,
While the world’s buffering, it answers the call.
It’s not just for monks or the ancient elite,
It’s for the hustlers, the seekers, the people in the street.
From the mugwort to the hemp, we rise straight and tall,
The Sutra’s the blueprint that unites us all.

Verse 3:
Social disconnection, we’re lost in the feed,
But the Sutra reminds us, we’re one in our need.
It’s the algorithm of love, the code of compassion,
A timeless design in a modern fashion.
So when the world’s too loud, and you’re losing your way,
Let the Sutra’s wisdom guide your day.
It’s the master key, the ultimate hack,
For a life of meaning, there’s no turning back.

Chorus:
(Chanted or Sung)
Source code flow, let the Dharma show,
Rewrite my life, let the wisdom grow.
From the digital haze to the truths I know,
The Lotus Sutra’s got that Source Code Flow.

Outro (Spoken or Rapped):
So don’t settle for patches, don’t settle for trends,
The Sutra’s the upgrade that never ends.
In a world of noise, let the Dharma glow,
This is the Lotus Sutra’s Source Code Flow.


Source Code Flow

"Upgrade My Soul" is a soulful country blues folk piece that weaves together heartfelt lyrics and a melodic narrative, inviting listeners on a journey of self-discovery and spiritual awakening. The song captures the essence of life’s constant changes and the quest for deeper meaning in a fast-paced world. 

With its rustic acoustic guitar riffs and smooth rhythmic beats, the track evokes a sense of nostalgia while addressing contemporary themes of personal growth and transformation. The poignant lyrics reflect the struggle between the old and the new, urging listeners to embrace a timeless wisdom that transcends generations. 

In essence, "Upgrade My Soul" combines the raw emotionality of country blues with the introspective storytelling of folk music, creating a sound that resonates deeply with anyone seeking to elevate their spirit and reconnect with their true self.

Verse 1  
I’m lost in the noise of this digital age,  
Scrolling for answers, trapped on the page.  
But there’s a master key, it’s ancient and true,  
The Lotus Sutra whispers, "It’s all within you."

 Chorus  
Upgrade my soul, rewrite my code,  
Guide me through the heavy load.  
A timeless truth in a fleeting time,  
Awakening hearts, one verse, one line.  

 Verse 2  
Like a network of wisdom, it lights up my mind,  
A fiber optic bridge to truths I couldn’t find.  
No need for quick fixes, no temporary patch,  
This is the source code no trend can match.  

 Chorus  
Upgrade my soul, rewrite my code,  
Guide me through the heavy load.  
A timeless truth in a fleeting time,  
Awakening hearts, one verse, one line.  

 Bridge  
(Spoken or sung softly with light instrumentation)  
It’s not just an app, it’s the whole design,  
A renewable power that transcends time.  
From climate fears to feeling alone,  
The Sutra reminds me, we’re never on our own.  

 Verse 3  
It’s the solar power for my weary heart,  
Sustainable light when the world falls apart.  
Through all the updates and fleeting trends,  
The Sutra’s wisdom, like love, never ends.  

 Chorus  
Upgrade my soul, rewrite my code,  
Guide me through the heavy load.  
A timeless truth in a fleeting time,  
Awakening hearts, one verse, one line.  

 Verse 4  
Like mugwort straightened in a field of hemp,  
Or a crooked soul finding the strength to repent.  
The Sutra’s a teacher, a path to align,  
Its lessons eternal, transcending the time.  

 Final Chorus  
Upgrade my soul, rewrite my code,  
Guide me through the heavy load.  
The Dharma sings in a quiet tone,  
Reminding us all, we’re never alone.  

 Outro  
(Soft and reflective)  
In a world of updates, trends that fade,  
The Lotus Sutra’s light won’t degrade.  
It’s the operating system for a weary soul,  
An eternal upgrade that makes us whole.  

Upgrade My Soul

"The Bodhisattva's Mirror" is a contemplative and gently melancholic folk song, infused with subtle blues influences. Inspired by Buddhist philosophy, the song explores the idea that enlightenment and compassion reside within all beings, and that every encounter offers an opportunity for transformation. The lyrics paint a picture of a Bodhisattva – an enlightened being dedicated to helping others – who appears in countless forms, reflecting back our own potential for awakening.

(Verse 1 - Folk Style - Simple Chords, steady rhythm) In this world of mist and pain, Where joy and sorrow fall like rain, A gentle spirit walks unseen, Reflectin' back what might have been. A Bodhisattva, soft and low, Watchin' seeds of kindness grow.

(Chorus - Slightly more Bluesy - a little more vocal power, maybe a harmonica fill) Oh, the mirror shines, it shows us true, Buddha-nature waitin' in me and you. Lookin' for a light to break the chain, Love is here, again and again.

(Verse 2 - Folk Style - slightly more rhythmic) Like moonlight dancin' on the lake, Or petals fallin' for goodness sake, This spirit changes, takes a guise, A teacher's wisdom in their eyes. A child's sweet face, a stranger's hand, Help is offered across the land.

(Chorus - Slightly more Bluesy - a little more vocal power, maybe a harmonica fill) Oh, the mirror shines, it shows us true, Buddha-nature waitin' in me and you. Lookin' for a light to break the chain, Love is here, again and again.

(Verse 3 - Blues influenced - a little more space in the rhythm, slightly more vocal inflection) Greed can rust the heart within, But compassion lets the healing begin. A cool breeze whisperin' in the soul, Makin' broken spirits whole. Walk with care on this weary ground, Every breath a sacred sound.

(Verse 4 - Folk Style - building slightly in intensity) From mountain high to ocean deep, While we're wakin' and while we sleep, A song is callin', soft and clear, "Awaken, love is always here!" In every face, a mystery, A chance for transformation, you see.

(Chorus - Strongest yet - full vocal, harmonica prominent) Oh, the mirror shines, it shows us true, Buddha-nature waitin' in me and you. Lookin' for a light to break the chain, Love is here, again and again.

(Bridge - Bluesy - slower, more introspective - maybe a simple guitar solo) Who can say which form we'll find, To leave the troubled world behind? Each one a teacher, hid from view, Waitin' for a heart that's open and new.

(Outro - Folk Style - fades out slowly - fingerpicked guitar) So open your eyes, and look around, Love is here, on sacred ground. Love is here... Love is here... (Instrumental fade)

The Bodhisattva’s Mirror

Do you see the hidden threads connecting us all? "We Are All Cogwheels" invites you beyond the feeling of individual separation to explore the profound reality of our interconnectedness, both physically and spiritually. Imagine humanity as a vast, intricate machine where our creations—culture, technology, financial systems—and global events act as vital, interacting cogwheels. A shift in one area ripples through the entire mechanism, impacting our collective experience, consciousness, and well-being in ways often unseen.

Ep 13 - We Are All Connected; Like Cogwheels

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My guest this month is Mike Fiorito. An Adjunct Professor of English at City Tech (CUNY), Mike is a freelance journalist and author of several books: For All We Know, Mescalito Riding His White Horse, Falling from Trees, The Hated Ones, Sleeping with Fishes, Call Me Guido, Freud’s Haberdashery Habits, and Hallucinating Huxley. 

Mescalito Riding His White Horse received the 2024 Independent Press Distinguished Favorite Award in Spirituality. 

Falling from Trees received the 2022 Independent Press Distinguished Favorite Award in Short Stories. 

For All We Know, his UFO themed science-fiction novel, published in May 2024.

Mike’s new book, UFO Symphonic-Journeys into Sound, was published February 1st, 2025. 

UFO Symphonic: Journeys into Sound explores the profound connection between music and the mysteries of existence. The book delves into music as a form of complex communication and a potential bridge to other realms. Through personal accounts and stories from experiencers, Fiorito examines the symbolic language of sound, dreams, and high strangeness. It invites readers on an extraordinary journey into the unknown, raising thought-provoking questions about the role of music in connecting past, present, and future.

In this discussion, Mike and I talk about his latest book, and Mike shares several anecdotes from different people that Mike interviewed. Some highlights from this conversation include:

-          the concept of “The Harmony of the Spheres” that emphasizes the interconnectedness of the cosmos and the spiritual journey of the soul; the main idea of which is that the cosmos is ordered by mathematical principles, and that planets and stars move in harmony with these principles, producing a kind of eternal music;

-         How the stories Mike shared bring up a lot of ideas related to the notion of ‘tapping into’ a larger system (that we might call consciousness, or cosmos; additionally, it seems to be suggesting a type of mind-universe alignment;

-         Joshua Cutchin’s story about creating a new narrative that combines folklore and UFO phenomena; and the connection between paranormal phenomena and death (which lines up beautifully with a book we read for our prior Patreon book club meeting -- Dr. Jeff Kripal and Whitley Strieber’s book, The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained. In the Dedication, Whitley Strieber notes that his wife Anne said, after carefully reading and organizing the numerous letters that they received, that the UFO experiences all had something to do with death, too.);

-         Sebastiano De Filippi’s section, who also discusses similar ideas to Joshua’s about music in his work as a conductor;

-         Concepts such as entanglement and tulpas; and much more!

For more, please visit: www.rejectedreligion.com or www.patreon.com/RejectedReligion

Music and Editing: Daniel P. Shea
End Production: Stephanie Shea

Rejected Religion Patreon Tier 3 Free Content Mike Fiorito UFO Symphonic: Journeys into Sound

Are you projecting human qualities onto things that aren't human? Like talking animals?

We see a lot of anthropomorphized nature spirits in fairy tales and in children's books. So we're comfortable with the fairy where, we are comfortable with the garden gnome.

There's like a layer of what I would call positivity that we tend to put on nature spirits, which is fine. However, there's also a lot of nature spirits that aren't necessarily fairy tale material, right?

They're like the bog spirits and the stinky ones and the weird ones and all of that fungus and depth and rot and interconnectedness and darkness that exists in nature, will you have that?

Do you want to perceive the earth spirits? Because earth is deep, dark, and dank, right? The earth is full of all sorts of things. And there has to be, at some point, space for them to be what they are, not what you're comfortable with.

And that's what I would ask you to surrender is what you're comfortable with in favor of what they are.

This is a preview from the Spirits of the Earth class with Shannon O'Hara from May 2023.

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Be the space for nature spirits to be who they are

¿Proyectas cualidades humanas a las cosas que no son humanas? ¿Como animales que hablan?

Vemos un montón de espíritus de la naturaleza antropomorfizados en los cuentos de hadas y libros infantiles. Así que nos sentimos cómodos con las hadas y también con los nomos de jardín.

Existe una especie de lo que yo llamaría positividad que solemos poner a los espíritus de la naturaleza, lo que está bien. Sin embargo, también hay un montón de espíritus de la naturaleza que no necesariamente forman parte del material de los cuentos de hadas, ¿verdad?

Son, por ejemplo, los espíritus de los pantanos y los apestosos y los raros, y todos esos hongos, profundidad y putrefacción, así como la interconectividad y oscuridad que existen en la naturaleza, ¿elegirás eso?

¿Deseas percibir los espíritus de la Tierra? Porque la tierra es profunda, oscura, fría y húmeda, ¿verdad? La tierra está llena de todo tipo de cosas. Y tiene que haber, en algún lugar, espacio para que esas cosas sean lo que son, y no aquello con lo que tú te sientes cómodo.

Yo te pediría que dejaras de lado aquello que te resulta cómodo a favor de lo que ellos son.

Este es un previo de la clase de los espíritus de la naturaleza con Shannon O'Hara de mayo 2023.

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Sé el espacio para que los espíritus de la naturaleza sean quienes son

هل نحن نسقط صفات انسانيه على الاشياء التي ليست من الانس؟ مثل الحيوانات الناطقه؟

نرى الكثير من ارواح الطبيعه المستأنسه في قصص الجنيات وكتب الاطفال. لذا فنحن مرتاحون للجنيات وللقنوم في الحدائق

تشبه طبقه التي اسميها الايجابيه التي نميل أن نضعها في ارواح الطبيعه وهذا الامر عادي. ولكن هناك الكثير من ارواح الطبيعه التي ليست بالضروره من الجنيات أليس كذلك؟

إنهم مثل ارواح البوق وذات الروائح الكريهه والغريبه وكافه الفطريات والعمق والعفن تترابط والظلام المتواجد في الطبيعه هل تود ان تحصل على ذلك؟

هل تود ان تدرك ارواح الارض؟ لان الارض عميقه ومظلمه أليس كذلك؟ الارض مليئه بكافة انواع الاشياء. ويتوجب ان يكون لهم مساحه ليكونوا ما هم عليه وليس ما انت مرتاح له

وهذا الامر الذي أود أن أسألك أن تتخلى بما أنت مرتاح له بمقابل ما هم عليه

هذه مراجعه لكلاس ارواح الطبيعه مع شانون اوهارا من مايو 2023

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كن المساحه لارواح الطبيعه لتكون ما هي عليه

The Musical Poemwriter

Soft Tissue

What do you do when the world's suffering feels too vast to bear? When your two hands seem powerless against an ocean of problems?

This song was born from an ancient Buddhist teaching about Avalokitesvara—the Bodhisattva who listens to the cries of the world—and a very modern question: How do we stay engaged with compassion when we feel overwhelmed and alone?

"Empty the Ocean" tells the story of someone trying to clean a polluted harbor one bucket at a time, and the wisdom teaching that transforms exhaustion into sustainable action. It's a song about the shift from power to wisdom, from isolation to interconnection, from burnout to collective change.

Musically, it blends fingerpicked acoustic blues with spiritual folk and gospel testimony—think delta blues meets dharma teaching, with harmonica crying over ocean waves. The production includes singing bowls, harmonium, and the sound of water itself, creating a sonic meditation on compassion, accountability, and hope.
This isn't a song about giving up or transcending the world's problems. It's about understanding that we're not separate from those problems—or from each other. We are the ocean, waking up to itself, learning to clean and heal and change the flow.

For activists burning out. For helpers feeling helpless. For anyone who's ever stood at the edge of the world's pain and wondered what their small acts could possibly matter.

"We can't empty the ocean with our small human hands / But we ARE the ocean, waking to itself today"
Listen with headphones. Breathe with the rhythm. Let it remind you: you're not working alone.

Lyrics: 

[Verse 1]
Woke up this morning with a bucket in each hand
Gonna clean this whole ocean, gonna save this drowning land
But the water keeps on rolling, Lord, it never seems to end
I'm just one tired soul trying to make this whole world mend

[Chorus
You can't empty the ocean, baby, with your two small hands
You can't empty the ocean trying to move all that sand
But you can listen to the water, hear what it's trying to say
You can be the ocean cleaning itself today

[Verse 2]
Old woman told me, "Child, you're asking the wrong thing
You ain't got the power of God, you ain't got angel wings
But you got wisdom if you use it, you got eyes that still can see
There's one piece of trash right there, and that child who's asking 'Why?'"

[Chorus]
You can't empty the ocean, baby, with your two small hands
You can't empty the ocean trying to move all that sand
But you can listen to the water, hear what it's trying to say
You can be the ocean cleaning itself today

[Bridge]
She said, "You think you're just a drop, separate and small
But drops don't live in oceans—there's no separation at all
You're the water in the water, you're the wave upon the sea
When you act with truth and courage, you're changing history

[Verse 3]
Now I still come to the harbor when the morning light is new
But I ain't trying to empty nothing, I just do what I can do
Help a stranger with their burden, teach a child about the tide
Every little thing's connected on this oceanic ride

[Chorus]
No, you can't empty the ocean, baby, with your two small hands
You can't empty the ocean trying to move all that sand
But you can be the ocean, flowing where it needs to go
You're a thousand arms of kindness in the undertow

[Verse 4]
Sometimes I get weary, feel like giving up the fight 
But some folks say "just clean your shore" while factories dump at night
Being water in the water means you gotta change the flow
Sometimes love means speaking truth to power's undertow

[Final Chorus]
We can't empty the ocean, no, with our small human hands
Can't empty the ocean trying to move all that sand
But we ARE the ocean, waking to itself today
We're the deep listening, we're the compassionate way

[Outro]
"Deep as forever... never full, never empty...
Each drop reflecting the whole...
Just listen... just respond...
You're not working alone."

Empty the Ocean

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Welcome to the musical world of The William Altig Choir, where ancient wisdom meets contemporary sound.

Inspired by the teachings of the Lotus Sutra and infused with deep spiritual themes, my music blends the rich traditions of blues and folk with modern elements, creating a unique fusion that resonates with both the heart and soul.

I've been captivated by the Lotus Sutra's messages of compassion, wisdom, and transformation since my youth. It's a journey of self-discovery that has found its voice in my music. Each song is a reflection of my own spiritual awakening and a celebration of universal truths.

My style is characterized by emotive storytelling, powerful lyrics, and a commitment to exploring the depths of human experience. Featuring contemplative blues, acoustic slide guitar, saxophone melodies, and the harmonies of a gospel choir, my music reflects a quest for enlightenment and a better understanding of the self.

Join me on this musical journey. Together, we can explore the teachings of the Lotus Sutra, finding solace, hope, and a deeper connection to the world around us.

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