Name: Transmigration by Still the Stream
Duration: 7 min 7 s
Description: Textural orchestrations creating a sea of evolving themes, invoking a relaxing and inspired voyage of the mind and spirit.

Textural orchestrations creating a sea of evolving themes, invoking a relaxing and inspired voyage of the mind and spirit.

Transmigration

You might think it’s better
 Than it was a couple hundred years ago 
I think you better take a look
 You don’t think you’d ever 
Do something to ever get yourself that low  
You’ve lived forever by the book
 Where are you from?
 What were you born into? 
Things that have nothing to do with you 

Free, land of the free, home of the brave 
At least that’s what they say
 But if we cross the tracks and see we can’t really be 
 Land of the free, home of the slave
 
You like an easy answer, 
So do I, but like has never been that way 
I think you known that all along 
The problem is much bigger than you think  
Not something you can vote away 
We need to sing a different song 
Stop pointing fingers 
Start reaching out our hands
 Into the mess that we have made 

Free, land of the free, home of the brave 
At least that’s what they say
 But if we cross the tracks and see we can’t really be 
 Land of the free, home of the slave

Can’t take away from all the men and women who gave they’re lives  on the battlefield where the battles real but America’s a battle still 
Built off the backs of Black Brutus, blood-thirsty opportunists bid us to the highest consumer
 Monthly trips on slave ships, bodies shackled to the docks.  Fast forward to present day they try to tell me it’s done stopped
 When they throw us in the slums, miseducate all our young, and they flood us with these drugs and these guns then judge what we become (I’m just saying) 
Let’s be specific if you want statistics. One out of fifteen is imprisoned Coincidence is nonsense. 
 I see the same pattern #blacklivesmatter 
I scream for my people until we’re treated equal

Free, land of the free, home of the brave 
At least that’s what they say
 But if we cross the tracks and see we can’t really be 
 Land of the free, home of the slave


CREDITS:

DRUMS  - performed & recorded by Tim Horsley 
 www.TimHorsley.com

BASS  - performed & recorded by Joel Bezaire
www.NashvilleBassWorks.com

RHODES performed by Jeff Bartsch  
www.thePowerEdit.com

ORGAN  performed & recorded by Steve Peffer  
www.StevePeffer.com

RAP on “Free” written & performed by Low Pro

GUITARS & VOCALS  performed & recorded by Joe Gilder  
www.JoeGilderMusic.com



Free (ft. Low Pro)

Inaugurated with bogus crowd claims and tales of voter fraud, the post-truth presidency of Donald Trump is upon us.

Trump lives in a Red "warrior" worldspace alive with apparitions, rumors, conspiracies, and above all, scheming enemies. Placed in the context of cultural evolution Trump’s view actually represent a pre-truth mentality, typical of the world prior to modernity where warlords and monarchs ruled unconstrained by the divisions of power. This is a world where “might is right”, a world of plunder where the goal not just to defeat the enemy but to take their oil. A world where we don’t just build a wall, we make the Mexicans pay for it.

(Take heart though; in an actual Red world Trump would not just make them pay for it, he would make them build it, as slaves. So there is that.)

Modernity is fighting back against pre-truth thinking with objective facts, evidence and a plea for regular order, but it has been hobbled by the post-truth worldview of postmodernity, where all truth claims are suspect and feelings are privileged over facts. For a brilliant analysis of this phenomenon, check out Ken Wilber’s new essay Trump and a Post-Truth World on Integral Life. Also, look for my interview with Ken on the topic which will be posted in the coming days.

The Trump presidency begs a crucial question: can a government that has evolved beyond Red consciousness contain a leader who hasn't? If so, Trump may be the disruptive force we need to break up some calcified habits and thinking. If not … well, there are only 206 weeks left in his first term!

In this podcast I look at how integralists can understand and relate to the fight over pre-modern, modern and postmodern conceptions of truth, and how a new integration of the three can help us build a more authentically inclusive world.

Transmigration

Still the Stream

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