The Vanilla World View

2004-08-03T18:00:00.000-07:00

Let The Transformation Begin

It's time.....I said I would do this, and now that's exactly what I'll do. I've cast off the trappings of routine, of career, and I'm going to reappear two weeks hence at least 2000 miles from where I am right now.

My transformation begins tomorrow. When I next post, I will have begun a new lifetime......this may in fact be the seventh one so far. But does it matter? One must morph the life until one reaches the destination.

Musically I will also have a slightly different sound...but hopefully the message will be the same. I'm a slave to the Metaphysics of Love.....

Blessings. Until later......

2004-07-30T08:08:00.000-07:00

Love, Evolution, and Destiny Paths (in progress)

When we start to think of purpose, about why we're here and what we're supposed to do, it's easy for us to feel disoriented and confused, even nihilistic. Perhaps the following will help make you realize that everything is here for a reason.....that we are here for a reason.

Love, first of all, is an energy...actually, it's many different levels of energy, depending on intent, level of activation, and interaction. Love is a renewing force, a force that heals, uplifts, energizes; it's even a balm for the spirit. We humans are here on earth with a soul kernel, a spiritual package that we must open, unfold, and develop....it's the way we transcend death, the way we live longer, the way we live forever.

But we aren't meant to do this solo. Instead, we must engage in a symbiotic relationship with another, and in this relationship we exchange love energies, amplifying them and making them more effective by ricocheting them back and forth. If you see Love as a means of merely reproducing, you've got it wrong. Lust takes care of that...a lower form of the Love energy, a semi-cinnamon form, it operates quite effectively. But at the higher levels, Love is intended for much more ambitious purposes.

Simply put, love is the energy we use to save ourselves, and we save ourselves by saving others in soul-mate relationships. Interestingly enough, I suspect that the soul mates we meet in our lives are pre-ordained...they're waiting for us as we weave our destiny.

But what makes a Soul Mate? A Soul Mate is one whose Destiny Path resonates harmoniously with ours. I can't really get too detailed as to the why and the wherefore.....I can only say that your Destiny Path is like a guitar string, a string that is "played" when you interact with others. When the Paths mesh, or resonate, you make friends, fall in love, find your Soul Mate; when the Paths clash, you find conflict and struggle...but of course you should really walk away when there is a dissonance. This may explain friendship, enemies, War, Peace...but that's another chapter.

The "need to be loved" is a physical thing, yes, and should not be overlooked, as pleasure also contributes to positive energy, it also heals, and it also helps a person momentarily transcend the terrestrial level of thought.

But the need to be loved is also a spiritual thing, the soul's crying out for development, for unfolding, for realization, for fulfillment. It may also be a catalyst that forces one to change what one does in order to "get back on the Destiny Path" from which one may have strayed.

And yes, just because there is a Destiny Path doesn't mean that you'll follow it with your eyes closed. If you ignore the "road signs" that appear throughout your life, hints for you to do a certain thing, then you swerve into a dead-end, a life path that ends in unhappiness, dissatisfaction, a lack of fulfillment, even the loss of the soul. For if the soul doesn't develop, then it's finito when you die...the soul hasn't developed its wings sufficiently to "persist" after the death of the physical body.

The implications of what I have said above are enormous.....they even explain many of the concepts of our organized religions that we may accept, but may not understand. For most of our held beliefs are a true part of a vast metaphysical jigsaw puzzle.

And Love is the key, the mover, the motivator. Love is religion. Sex is associated with love, so sex too is religion, and shouldn't be kicked out of religious discussion. Add the sensual to the spiritual, and you made the two halves whole again...you've healed the Great Schism that has made our civilization so unhappy and unable to answer those eternally unanswerable questions.

2004-07-13T09:37:00.000-07:00

Chart Stoppers

I took a minute to check the chart action on the Web......

"Rock It Forward" is up to #2 in the Rock charts. Maybe the new improved sound has something to do with it. And now I added a "tail to the dragon"...ha ha....

"Dance It Forward" is at #3 in the Dance charts, but holding steady.

"Listen To My Whisper" has pretty much lost steam on the rap charts.

2004-07-08T07:22:00.000-07:00

Global Remastering To Begin

After a series of sound tests with different speakers and systems, I believe that we have managed to ramp up the sound quality of our music files by as much as 200%....check out "Rock It Forward", a sixth-wave track that I created from scratch using this standard.

Now the fun really begins....I will systematically remaster ALL of my previously released tracks. Only tracks from waves One and Two will, because of the way they were created, manage just a 100% quality increase. But that's still progress....

Yes, I'm relentless.....but one only achieves a goal by taking on the energy of an overwhelming force....

2004-07-06T09:15:00.000-07:00

The Remastering Game

My sound guru has been working with me lately in improving the sound quality of my music, easily the #1 problem as I see it. Over the next two weeks we will run some tests, with the new song, "Work The Forward Love" being the guinea pig. If we get the results we want, I will go back and remaster virtually everything I have released...you see, I do in fact live by that Manifesto. Those who have bought my other CDs will receive remastered versions of these CDs automatically......at my expense.

"Listen To My Whisper" made it to #3, but that's as far as it will go. So much for my target practice...although my latest song could do better. I'm actually more worried about the mixing game, about ramping the sound quality up...because my next focus is going to require all of the production power I can muster......more on that later.

2004-06-29T13:28:00.000-07:00

The Cyber Artist’s Revolutionary Manifesto

I, Sassure, realize that, with the advent of the Web, Digital Music Sharing, and a commercially feasible Digital Music Download model, I cannot, and will not, follow the methods and procedures used by brick-and-mortar recording artists whether today or in ages past. Everything has changed; the rules of the past have no relevance now.

First, I will release new songs whenever and however I please. I will not release a new CD every year or two years, and I will not wait until I have enough songs for a new CD. If I wish to release a single song, I will; if I wish to release a pair of songs, I will.

Second, when I am technologically competent to improve the sounds of my songs, or the arrangement of my songs, I will replace my songs with new and improved versions; I will do so whenever I wish. My work is a work-in-progress.....there is never any FINAL form of a song. I can add to it at will; I can change it at will. Let music historians sort the rest out.....

Third, I will sell my music whenever and however I please. I will sell my music at multiple sites if I wish; only by contract will I agree to release my music through a single distribution source. I am now in control of my music; I am therefore now in control of how that music is distributed.

Fourth, I will charge whatever I wish for my music, whenever I wish. I may lower the price of a CD from one day to the next, or I may raise it, or I may simply make a song or CD free for promotional purposes. As creator of my music, I need not explain or justify how I sell or distribute it.

Fifth, I will allow fans of my music to download my songs and create compilations of their own devising. I will have my own groupings of released songs, and if I wish I will group them in order to better organize them chronologically, but I will not expect fans to do the same.

Sixth, I will seek to improve the quality of the CDs my fans create. I will seek a software package that will reverse-render downloaded MP3s into original or near-original WAV files so that, when burned, the CDs will have a sound quality equivalent to what is available from the brick-and-mortar stores.

Seventh, I will create an image of my own devising, or none at all, to represent me, in order to preserve my rights of privacy. My age will be whatever I determine it to be. Let those who listen to my music decide if it's the right "age" for them.

Eight, I will decide if, when, and how any live performances will take place to support the music that is available online. The old model was to tour and play songs in concert in order to become better known. The new model understands that my online presence and distribution of my music is equivalent to the old model's relentless touring and performing. Under the new model, I will perform live if I wish, and I will tour if I wish, to support my music that has already proven itself online.

Nine, this new model of music distribution means that I am in control of my expenditures. If I wish to hire a lawyer, I will, but I will not be bound to do so in order to perpetuate the old model's unfair and outrageously uneven compensation structure. My hiring of a manager, of a promoter, of a legal adviser, will be done as necessary, not as a de facto requirement.

Finally, ten, I declare that, as a cyber-artist in an online world that spans global markets, I am working on a tabula rasa, a blank slate. It's a new world now, and what fixtures, agreements, arrangements, partnerships, and collaborations I may initiate or create will be from scratch, will occur on a level playing field. I will not recognize the applicability of older-model structures and arrangements to this new environment.

Rather than simply a corollary or addendum to the brick-and-mortar music world, I wish to declare that the online Digital Music Revolution is an entity unto itself, that it must develop as a separate entity, and that those of us who wish to work solely within this revolutionary entity must not feel compelled to justify our new-model existence based on old-model standards.

This document, created June 29, 2004, may be revised at any time. Like my music, this manifesto is a work-in-progress. Like my music, this Revolution is a work-in-progress.

--Sassure,
Boston

2004-06-25T04:03:00.000-07:00

Dancing It Forward

You may not have noticed, but I replaced the "Dance It Forward" MP3 on the site with an improved version. Doing something like this would have been unheard-of just a couple of years ago. I expect this sort of thing to be pretty common practice...at least once the Revolution is fully underway.

I may put together some sort of Digital Music Manifesto, a summation of what once was, but now is no longer, and a summation of what is to come, and what will become standard practice.

It's a new dawn......well, it worked when Grace Slick said it at Woodstock......

2004-06-09T09:05:00.000-07:00

Slow As We Go

I have no pose. I have no game,
Only Love, steady force, Nature force,
Midnight power.
Counting every strand of your hair,
Sparking fragrant skin everywhere,
Slow as we go....

Ebb and flow, the
Ocean of your Love, the
Coral of your soul
I lean upon, I set on fire.
I swim beneath the stars
But rising higher,
Electric rings of Ethereal Desire,
Slow as we go....

Breathe with me forever
Flower Love, misty dream.
You waver here before me in a
Creamy haze of majesty.
I love the whole of you, the
Fine control of you, the
Silky essence of the Dance you do,
Slow as we go,
Slow as we go....

2004-06-02T08:50:00.000-07:00

Steady As We Go

I just found out that "Tantric Night Flight" was in the Indiejukebox Top 20 for May....which is why I haven't yanked it from the site yet....it and "Approaching Nirvana" are both top downloads for the Vanilla World View CD. My instrumental, "Mesmerism", has fared pretty well too...soon I'll have it on CNET's music.download.com site.

There's been a lot of reaction to "The Way The Music Died", a PBS special that recently aired. I don't know about music dying, but things are about to change in ways you would never imagine. I see a ton of digital music download sites active by mid-2005.....then the major record labels will begin partnering with the most successful, and there will be a huge shift away from the old way of making CDs. For one thing, you'll be able to order a CD with a lineup of songs you choose. Artists themselves will release songs on a regular basis, instead of every time Halley's Comet passes. And so on and so forth....

As my own hour of transformation approaches, I am trying to wrap up the Dance It Forward CD......to that end I am adding in a new one, "Love Ascension"...or at least I will when I finish the thing. Since I'm looking at twelve tracks, I will therefore toss one out as well.....easy come, easy go.....though they may show up in a later incarnation, a later project.

2004-05-26T07:40:00.000-07:00

The Fifth Wave: A Prelude

The Fifth Wave is about to launch.....in the next few days I will be posting the first song, "Listen To My Whisper" -- after I iron a few kinks out. Though it will be the first publicly posted song, it's actually the second -- "The Bridges That Lead To You" is too low-key and unusual to be a lead-off song, so I'm holding it back.

"Listen To My Whisper" in a beta-beta form can be found on Soundclick, if you simply can't wait. A rap/dance/pop whirligig, the thing by its very audacity will probably garner some attention.

Plans for the Fifth Wave include "Back To San Francisco", a multi-part track that will feature some strange, technical pyrotechnics, as well as an anthem to be called "Love Ascension"......the songs in general will be more low-key, but much more elaborate in construction, with more special effects. There will be two exceptions: "Listen To My Whisper", which will replace "Unfold Me" on the DANCE IT FORWARD track lineup; and a yet-to-be-named track that will be a little experiment of mine.....

By the way, I'm glad I didn't hype the "#1 with a bullet" prediction for "Echo You" too strenuously.......my spirit superiors apparently decided to stop my impertinence, so they broke the MP3 charts site...and it's still broken, after well over three weeks! I can take the hint.......maybe I was supposed to wait until the start of the Fifth Wave.

2004-05-12T07:51:00.000-07:00

Upcoming Bits And Pieces

Two items of note:

1. The Fifth Wave will begin soon with "The Bridges That Lead To You", a song that will highlight a few evolutions my sound has taken. The direction will be a bit different, as always. "same old same old" doesn't apply here.....'what the hell is that?" is more my style.....

2. In my effort to out-hype Hype itself, I'll release "Echo You" soon...you know, the track that I predicted will reach #1 in the Web charts within 60 days.....which won't be easy, considering that the #1 song is up in the stratosphere. We'll see......

2004-05-06T07:36:00.000-07:00

Dance It Forward: The CD

Soon the Dance It Forward CD will be ready to go with Amazon. To help give it a little boost I am going to release a new song, entitled "Echo You", that I think may go all the way to #1. Remember the old baseball story about Babe Ruth's pointing to the bleachers and saying he would hit a home run "there", and then doing that very thing? To show you the force of one human will, I am going to do the same thing....with a single song. Check back for launch time.....

To keep things in perpective, the songs on this dance CD are all linear, of course, and they all amplify certain elements of my theory of Destiny Paths. As I said, I want to redefine the purpose of music, bring back the importance of the message without spoiling the fun."Dance It Forward"? The point here is that two mirroring energy generators are better than one, that dancing/living/loving is a passionate manifestation of positive energy, of Love energy -- be it Vanilla, Cinnamon, or Ginger. The purpose of "soul mates" is to catalyze our spiritual development by providing a echo-mirror energy boost through a kindred soul, through someone with whom you have had contact many times over past lifetimes, souls whom you touch, energize, and then ascend......

The CD will contain 11 tracks.....9 full-scale dance numbers, and 2 chill-out intermezzos. Those two, "Cinnamon Talk" and "Vanilla Love", are obviously about the two Love energies...one is a chill-out bossa nova tour de force, and was a whole lot of fun to put together. You'll find a lot better harmonizing here as well. One song, "Learning The Dance", is actually a three-song medley......

The past six months have been draining for me, it's true, but 2004 isn't exactly an ordinary year.....and you'll find out why soon enough.....for that matter, so will I......

2004-04-15T05:00:00.000-07:00

That Dance Song

"That" dance song is "Dance It Forward", my contribution to the Deep House world repository, a song that has gotten me quite a bit of fan mail. There are two versions floating around cyberspace, one shorter and one longer. The shorter one is actually a beta, lacking the semi-alternate-universe ending that in a way is what makes the song really take off. So don't say I didn't warn you.....

So that's two dance tracks, one at #5 and the other, "Tantric Night Flight", at #12 in the Web mp3 dance charts. And "Maybe It's Magic" at #6 in the rock charts, and "When She Returns" at #5 in the pop charts.

And now THE VANILLA WORLD VIEW CD has at last been released on cdbaby. Made up of third and fourth-wave songs, this CD is a great evolutionary step beyond LINEAR LOVE, though LINEAR LOVE is also a great step beyond my first, TANTRIC RAINBOWS. If I can, I'll pull that first one and get it out of circulation...maybe I'll upgrade the whole thing. But I have too many other projects going right at the moment.

My next project is a sexual-spiritual dance CD. I do like deep house, and I have some ideas that I'd like to try out in that genre. I had planned on an all-acoustic CD, but that one will have to wait..........

2004-04-07T10:05:00.000-07:00

Track List: The Vanilla World View CD

1. intro: the vanilla world view

2. when she returns

3. ginger love

4. parallel lives

5. touching me

6. lovespice

7. rainbows fall apart in pairs

8. maybe it's magic

9. the balance of love

10. the changes

11. master me

12. rock the meditation: come back to the aura

13. meet me in the criss cross

14. precision

15. you're not innocent tonight

16. the ecstasy

17. tantric night flight

18. approaching nirvana

2004-03-31T06:16:00.000-08:00

The Vanilla World View CD

I'll be releasing the Vanilla World View CD by the beginning of April. A combination of third-wave and fourth-wave songs, with a spoken introduction and a guided meditation and a mantra to boot, this CD will contain 18 songs, including as-yet unreleased third-wave songs like "Precision", "You're Not Innocent Tonight", and "Master Me"; and including new fourth-wave songs like "Lovespice" and "Touching Me". In a sudden reversal, I've decided to go once again with cdbaby...LINEAR LOVE is starting to make some noise over there, and I don't want things to quiet down any time soon.....

One thing should be evident by now: the new digital music revolution and the Web have made it possible for me to evolve at warp speed. For any normal band at any time up till now, the evolution represented by these four waves of songs would ordinarily require four years to transpire...not less than a year. The norm now is for an artist to release a CD, and then two years down the road to finally release another -- when his listeners have already moved on, or joined cults, or gone new age, or run for President......but that is about to change. Everything you've come to expect as normal will be tuned upside-down. Perhaps I will be partly responsible. Perhaps I am merely irresponsible.

Is there such a thing as an indomitable Will? If one directs this Force and warps his own destiny path, what will be the result? Since last September I've been doing exactly that. Only time will tell what the Will of a single individual is capable of.....

2004-03-18T08:21:00.000-08:00

Destiny Paths

When we speak of Destiny, what are we really talking about?

Are we talking about a controlling intelligent God force that moves us as one would move chess pieces?

Are we talking about some uniquely encoded "spiritual DNA" that each of us possesses, containing info about our past lives and spiritual development?

Are we talking about a future that we, using our Force of Will, can make a reality?

Or perhaps we are talking about the future that we, guided by the mechanistic forces around us, are being pushed towards. Our birth circumstances, our parents, our geographic location, and numerous other factors combine to limit what each of us can do, to point us in a particular direction.

Those of us who develop and possess a powerful Force of Will may be able to break away from a future imposed upon us by our naturalistic, deterministic environment.

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I imagine that each of us threads a labyrinth, following a pathway marked out for us by reality, by nature, by our birth, by our parentage, by our culture. The path we follow is flanked by rather high walls on either side, so we can't easily change paths.

By a concentrated act of will, we may be able to scale those walls and fall into a different path...a path which is now based upon both our background AND the fact that we scaled the wall through an act of will. We have therefore, in a sense, taken a "turn" on our Destiny Path.

The Hindu caste system appears to be a reflection of this determinism -- though one can't "scale the wall" until one dies and is reborn. A glance at http://www.naturalism.org makes me realize that there are similar schools of thought here as well.

2004-03-11T05:33:00.000-08:00

The Fourth Wave Continues

"Approaching Nirvana", which is really what the Vanilla World View is all about, marks my second foray into the Fourth Wave project activities. I usually don't mix waves, but I will make this piece the final track of the Vanilla World View CD.

And in a blast from the past, I just learned that "21 Candles", the final track from the LINEAR LOVE CD, is one of the top downloads in Germany and Austria. That's really nice to hear, especially since those two countries are favorites of mine and have been for many years now.

I am looking into acquiring a Seagull acoustic guitar soon, as some of my Fourth Wave plans call for some acoustical musical experiments. But for now, we're in the process of moving out of the Vanilla Shack. There's a "destiny path divergence" ahead, and I have to be ready.....more later.

2004-03-01T08:22:00.000-08:00

Preamble: The Fourth Wave

Soon I'll be posting a song, "When She Returns", that will herald the beginning of the Fourth Wave. Think of each wave as an evolution, a progression, a slow-but-sure propulsion towards the Aim, the Goal. Driven by Will, by personal force, we can heal ourselves, we can create Love, we can create connections, we can bend the threads of Destiny. The forward progression here will be relentless, just as you must relentlessly push to evolve your soul. The Fourth Wave will incorporate sublimation, subtlety, but you will be able to feel a gradual gathering of strength........

2004-02-26T08:03:00.000-08:00

The Purpose Of Love

We can wang chung all day about how wonderful Love is, but why does it exist in the first place?

Some say that it's just an emotional adjunct to the physical reproductive process.

Some say that it is the "language" we use to communicate/interact with God, or the God force.

I see the validity of both points of view. But there's yet another:

Love is the force we use to reproduce spiritually. Applying this force on others, we are in effect applying it upon ourselves...resulting in both mind expansion as well as soul expansion, soul development. The more soul development we have, the higher planes of consciousness we reach; when we reach the planes of consciousness that transcend the physical, then we are "reproducing" ourselves on a plane that won't disappear or dissipate when the physical body gives up the ghost.

This, I believe, is the truly cosmic purpose of Love.

2004-02-10T06:24:00.000-08:00

Where The Music Is Heading

I listened to a new CD by a quite talented singer recently....but, although her voice was wonderful and the music was dreamy, the songs were repetitive to the point where, after the first minute, I was compelled to skip ahead to the last 30 seconds, knowing that I wouldn't miss anything. That, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with today's music.

Rap may have its imperfections, but it does make one valuable contribution: it tends, by its very nature, to be linear...the songs don't repeat much because the rap must move forward.

Taking that as a cue, I created LINEAR LOVE, the second-wave CD, merging rap with a few mainstream pop elements. The results were better than I had anticipated.

So the next step is to apply the linearity of rap to the pop-song structure...but I've been doing that already for some time now. I'm just tweaking out other issues like sound problems, vocal syncs, keyboard arrangements, endings, ta-da ta-da. Progress is being made, happily. The Vanilla World View CD, the Third Wave CD, is in an alpha state of completeness.

From here on out, any donations that are received at the Vanilla Shack, c/o Dan Gallagher, 344 Main Street, Watertown, MA 02472, will be answered with a mailed-out Vanilla World View CD.....but there's one twist. No two CDs mailed out will be the same. Some will include songs that may never see the light of day. New heavy artillery such as "Tantric Night Flight" and "Master Me" will be included as well.

2004 is heating up, and, as "The Changes" shows, the time for action is imminent. Life and art here at the Shack are relentlessly intertwined.....for, as the lyrics say, "I'm moving out"......that is, we're selling the Shack and moving closer to where crucial events will take place later in the year. The site, however, will be unaffected....you know, "Sailing To Byzantium" and all that stuff......

2004-02-04T10:13:00.000-08:00

Lyric Cafe: Meet Me In The Criss Cross

Bend with me, but just don't break
The future's cords we helped create;
Like a net we go catching Love
As it sails through time,
Made and radiated fine,
A see-through glass we can't define.

Meet me in the Criss Cross;
I'll meet you very soon;
The threads are weaving tighter;
Our lives are coming closer;
I'll meet you in the first array of June.....

Flow with me
But just don't drift
Away from Destiny,
Away from where I'll be,
To ride down
Some forgotten stream
Where nothing holds,
Where angels don't belong.

Meet me in the Criss Cross;
I'll meet you by the sea.
We'll travel to an island
Of What's To Be.
Meet me in the Criss Cross,
Eternity of you and me,
Together in the mesh of time,
The Web of Destiny.

They say each of us
Has seven Soul Mates;
I know you're my lucky four.
The wheels of Love turn onward;
The spin is what I'm waiting for......
Meet me at the Criss Cross......

2004-02-04T07:19:00.000-08:00

Ruminations

The theory of Love and Destiny -- the upshot of which is that Love is a "catalyst energy" that both pushes us forward along our Destiny path and helps develop the soul so that it reaches higher planes of consciousness -- will appear from time to time in the songs. Though it's most noticeable in "Meet Me At The Criss Cross", it's also part of "The Tropic Of Everywhere", and it even forms the backdrop for "Linear Love". What's most interesting is that the labyrinthine paths of our destiny have multiple threads...so that there are a number of possible futures, not merely one...a complication that time travelers will have to face if they ever attempt to "travel" into the future. For the paths, the lines, the threads of the labyrinth may also morph...but the extent of this is as yet unclear.

Possibly the next song in the Third Wave cycle will be "You're Not Innocent Tonight"....I do know that the final song in this cycle will be "The Next Dimension"....the point is that during Ignition I will continue to ramp up the music, progressively....and share it on the site.

"You're Not Innocent Tonight" will appear in two versions....but for full effect, the listener will need to listen to both versions to create a triangulation: listen to version one, then two, then one again. One version is contemplative, one is kinetic. Spirituality and sexuality are actually interreferenced states of awareness and transcendence; both have a significant impact upon the thread of one's Destiny, the path of one's soul.

2004-01-30T04:25:00.000-08:00

Love And Destiny: A Prophecy In Song?

One of the songs that will appear on the upcoming Vanilla World View CD is entitled, "Meet Me At The Criss Cross", which is both an elaboration of the Lines Of Destiny theory and an experiment. As I've mentioned before, I don't write songs as someone would make shoes....the things come to me, they're in a sense dictated to me. So I'm setting down the lyrics for the song, and when I'm done I look back over them and notice that they refer to an intended meeting with a future Soul Mate. They specifically point out that for me this Soul Mate will be my fourth, and that I will meet her "in the first array of June". They also call this one my "lucky four".

Needless to say, I was quite intrigued. I have in fact met three Soul Mates in my life so far. Why am I fated to cross paths with number four?

And frankly, I can't tell you what days are covered by "the first array of June".....I'm assuming that perhaps this is a reference to the first moon cycle. And is it THIS June?

I don't know.....but this song has become both prophecy and experiment. Imagine being able to know in advance of impending meetings with individuals who will play a significant role in one's life......

I now know that Love is not just a superficial adjunct to sex and reproduction...it's actually a mechanism for advancing one spiritually along a Progress Path towards a higher consciousness. Our Soul Mates are "chosen" (?) to specifically help us evolve, and it behooves us to intersect Life Paths with them if at all possible.

You must heed the "signs" when they appear, and when a change in your life is signaled, don't resist it. I haven't so far, and it's cost me dearly in human terms, but I think I've gained immeasurably in spiritual terms.

The Search is ongoing, and continues......

2004-01-28T15:10:00.000-08:00

Theory: Love and Destiny

From experience and observation, I've concluded that we are allotted more than one soul mate in a given incarnation (at least one mystical text says we are allotted seven). You may meet all of them, or you may meet only one of them. Part of this may be due to the nature of your previous incarnations, but there's another, more esoteric side to the coin.

What you are destined to do depends upon the choices you make when you come to what I call "metaphysical forks in the path", or moments in your life when faced with the chance to change the "course" of your life. An individual's destiny may in fact be several paths, each leading to at least one soul mate, to an eventual fate. I don't know exactly how the thing works, but I have a feeling that, when presented with the chance to make a major change in your life, you are supposed to take the hint and take that different direction. The path you leave behind is in fact a "dead end" destiny; many who complain that their lives are empty are doing so because they didn't take the right turn at the right place.....

There may an even deeper level at work here: the path you take when you come to a "fork" in your life's road may actually depend upon how much you have developed spiritually. Love is more than simply a physical sensation - it's a mystical force as well. What may be happening here is that "soul mates" are supposed to "develop" each other through exchanging the love energy, allowing them to move forward to the next destined branch, which may be leading to a higher level of awareness and experience.

More on this later.....

2004-01-23T08:27:00.000-08:00

Expansion; Ignition Continues; Rock The Meditation

We've expanded the Vanilla World View site server space by 100% so larger music files will fit; in fact, for this reason I'm finally able to make "Rock The Meditation: Come Back To The Aura" available for the first time. Sometime soon I'll post another song, "Maybe It's Magic".

When listening to "Come Back To The Aura", you may notice that the lyrics include three Greek letters. There's a mystical reason behind this; I'll reveal more details when the appropriate moment presents itself.....

Ignition still continues apace, and hopefully before too long I can announce that we're entering the "full revolution" phase. But there's till a lot of noise to make first....

Within 72 hours the Vanilla World View Site will be accessible via the www.sassure.com domain name....when accessibility is the objective, getting a domain is the corrective.