My first guest is Onyay Pheori of the William Close Earth Harp Collective, of America's Got Talent fame. She is a violinist, vocalist and healer on an amazing journey which has taken her through the amazon to learn with indigenous healers and to places like Machu Pichu to play for the spirits of the land.
April 11th is Larisa Stow, of Larisa Stow and the Shakti Tribe, whom Onyay was with in another musical incarnation, The Gathering Guru...This was the first song I heard them sing back in 2005 or earlier.
Since then, Larisa Stow and the Shakti Tribe have been traveling the world doing music festivals and holding healing retreats in Bali and India. She is an amazing vibrant loving light.
She rocks out as it goes on. If Heart could chant... :)
April 18th we have Joe Kwon of The Avett Brothers, who rocked the Grammy's last year with his rockstar cello playing alongside Bob Dylan and Mumford and Sons.
http://vimeo.com/20567315
I love the fact that passionate, musically-talented, multi-dimensional and unique bands with folks from my generation are mainstream now. It almost amazes me that truly talented folks are being recognized with all of the manufactured bologna being marketing all the time. It gives me faith and hope to see organic people, natural artists, groups and performers who embody the balance of sacred male and female energy. We don't all have to be hollowed-out facsimiles of caricatures of stereotypes anymore. That's just so not us. If people with a global consciousness, who believe love is the face of God, who see the divine within each other, can help support those who have forgotten, to remember that love it at the root of the human experience, we can really transform our planet in miraculous ways. If we can help them remember that love isn't the desecration of the planet or a race to acquire status symbols and leave others in the lurch, that love isn't found in the humiliation or financial, physical or emotional enslavement of others, then the paradigm will continue to shift toward a global good. Living and loving together in absolute faith that we are all reflections of each other and deserve the same things is the only way our souls can find pleasure and meaning on this shared planet. Just as the earth is a living organism, so is humanity and when pain is felt by one, it is felt by all.
Should we depleting the earth of its oil? It's a non-renewable resource, and as part of the earth's cooling system may be integral to a livable climate. The internal earth temperature and the atmospheric temperature are connected. Science suggests that if you cloud seed in one part of the earth, you steal rain from another part of the earth. There is only so much moisture in the earth's atmosphere. You cannot destroy the rainforest and expect global rain fall not to diminish, because trees are part of the water cycle. It is our duty to remind one another of our interconnectedness, our wholeness and the exquisite sustenance that gratitude for our co-creations brings.
The feeling of separateness is not in children, until someone puts it there. Until we mothers, fathers, friends, neighbors, passing strangers and gym teachers collectively put it there in bits and pieces until separateness defines us from others in everything we do. As we choose our children's toys, help them make choices about playdates, and encourage their tastes, aspects of their personalities, and reinforce our concept of what their identity should be, we play huge roles in cultivating their behavior. It seems some parents are still under the impression that their children's expression of masculinity or femininity is 100% biological and not learned...as they excitedly, gleefully and pridefully reveal that their boy or girl narrowly fits into the concept of male or female...'She just ran right to the pink dolls and never wanted anything else.' What, she fell out of the birth canal into the pink aisle of Toys R Us, and scooted over to HappyLandPowerPuffsPrincesses?
Gender assignment is like clockwork, it's telegraphed in everything. And that's just one way in which many of us learn to feel separate. Today, in class I had the students sit boy girl boy girl...which schools don't make them do anymore...since all the liberal hippies and feminists retired...and, the creativity and joy that bloomed as a result blew me away!!! The kids were excited to sit boy girl boy girl, and the librarian helping me after I made this suggestion, she's a veteran...said, "What girl wants to sit next to Christopher?" All the girls jumped up and down hands raised. "Now, by a show of hands, what boys want to sit next to Allison?" All the boys jumped up and down raising their hands. It was like they were birds set free from a cage of societal conditioning. Kinda makes me wanna sit 'boy girl'. Now, I'm seeing things from a new perspective. We may experiment with patterns from now on, instead of a fast rule. Mix it up, like 'boy boy girl girl'.
Kinda makes me wonder how the bog people, the neanderthals, and further back how the Cromagnum behaved. Were they egalitarian? Did they have fixed gender roles? Did women hunt, with so little laundry and meal preparation going on. Were they aggression? Were they peaceful, albeit an occasional spear in a cranium? Did they meditate? Did they chant to the divine rhythms of the earth? Did they have hugging parties and snuggle fests like gorillas do?
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