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I belong
I want to belong I want to belong And I resist as if belonging will kill me, subsume me, fold me into a cavern of oblivion, of no-thing-ness, of no air, no breathing. It frightens me. I cannot trust… but I want to, because I want to belong.
Fear is the point
We live with gold in our hearts, at the base of our souls, yet we can run around the surface of both, doing our best to avoid that gold for fear that it may not actually be there, that we are in fact the one person on the planet who
A different kind of silence
‘Yes, we were very close. We spoke often, and easily. I love him. It was sudden – we think a heart attack.’ Suddenly a silent weight drops down a deep, long, vertical tunnel with no apparent sides. It takes its time until it hits the floor of the echo chamber
Field of Resonance – changing reality through sound.
On June 30, 2020, I shared this presentation (then called ‘sound for transforming space and healing conflict) in COMING DOWN TO EARTH conflict transformation summit. We are blessed to be beings of sound and vibration. We are not fixed – and neither are our situations. How we know affects how
Arts for changing reality in liminal space
On July 3, 2020, I gave this talk in COMING DOWN TO EARTH conflict transformation summit using this slideshow. It was an experiential workshop – we used poetry, spoken word, video, and live music. We spent the time exploring our own relationships to conflict – both personal and global, looking
Sound Dowsing your 2020 vision
‘Sound Dowsing your 2020 vision – maximize your potential & happiness.’(A presentation for virtual West Coast Dowsers Conference 2020) There is an energy in us waiting to express itself. Whilst it is unseen, it is tellingly impactful and so alive in each of us! Our relationship to this energy influences what
Listening for the silence.
“Who do we become in the silence? Where does silence happen? What is silence to sound? Is silence empty?” Sound and Song These days I recognize it as home, the silence. Does that sound like an unexpected thing to hear from a musician? For many years, singing and songwriting
Grieve your future, find your hope.
Written for you who see only trouble when you think of Extinction Rebellion. For those who are Extinction Rebellion. And for those that, like me, have to take time to grieve. As a Western consumerist culture, we are often asked to avoid our grief – this seems unfortunate, unhelpful and
Hacking Consciousness – upgrading our human software
If Consciousness were a software programme, we humans seem to be running an archaically old version of it. It has bugs, requires malware that we can’t seem to find and run, and looks set to ultimately render the whole hard drive (us within an interdependent system) inoperable.
