This episode was originally broadcast June 26, 2017 In the lead up to our last meditation of the month with Lorrie Kazan, we explore the ways higher guidance has impacted our lives, from the passed-down teachings of our mentors and guides who steered us to the signs and synchronicies along the way… About our Pre-Sessions: Every week, for 15 minutes or so before we began our group meditation broadcast, we opened the mics so that our members tuning in for the session could listen in while we talked about what was going on for us personally and spiritually, and what trends we were noticing. It was a fun way to get everyone settled and prepared for the journey to come, as well as a way to connect with us energetically. To listen to the One Mind Live meditation that followed, go to www.onemindlive.com/the-listening-room/
Blue Lotus (After Tomita) by Stephen Fearnley
There is one very big influence on my electronic musical compositions for One Mind Live: Isao Tomita. In the 1970’s I was knocked out by his breakthrough LP called Snowflakes are Falling : “Virtuoso Electronic Performances of Debussy’s Tone Paintings”. Tomita said that his big influence was western classical music: “I thought I was listening to music from outer space,” but for this wide-eared Anglo Celtic kid of 15, when I heard his Debussy arrangements I was transported back to a childhood filled to the brim with Japanese aesthetics (loads of art books at home) and of course Japanese cartoons. Lots of Japanese cartoons. (It is only now, as I read about Tomita’s death in 2016 that he composed the theme for Kimba the White Lion!) So Tomita was always there in my life and as far as I was concerned he was from outer space. His work opened up a life-long love affair with electronic music especially Tangerine Dream, Eno and Stockhausen. Somehow, such is the mash-up of my mind, all these confluences have produced Blue Lotus, which sounds nothing like Debussy, but could be, with your eyes closed, a Japanese garden in the snow glimmering with layered referencesBlue Lotus (After Tomita) by Stephen Fearnley
The Elixir by Stephen Fearnley
“The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It’s usually a cycle, a coming and a returning.” Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces According to Joseph Campbell the elixir is a treasure to benefit yourself and others but you have to travel to the “un-ordinary” world to get it. The Elixir could be an idea, a skill, a wisdom, a new realisation, a message from the future or a message from the past, from other timelines or from some past life or ancestor.….anything really that wells up from your centre into the light of your awareness. This elixir has always been there with you and for you. And there is always more than one elixir. Maybe you have known about it since you were little. Maybe its only now being revealed because you are ready to receive it. The elixir could also present itself as a symbol or colourThe Elixir by Stephen Fearnley
Forest Walk – by Stephen Fearnley
It’s been 18 years since I left Sydney to live on a mountain, set up a studio with my partner and raise a baby girl. We had no idea how we were going to make it all financially work-out, splitting away from the city to a rural area with low employment but somehow everything always just fell into place. At the time some of our friends said don’t sell your house and leave Sydney , you will never be able to get back into the market ! Of course on the inside Celeste and I said Yay ! Who’d ever want to return ? For us it was a no-brainer. Trade-in a small old semi-house for a mountain top vista ? About half of my place is covered with original rain forest. Its rare and untouched. Normally one associates rain forest with hot climates but this is cool and temperate, full of tree ferns and lichen and chocolate coloured wallabies and wombats. Wisely this rainforest, to protect itself, creates boundaries of harsh prickly plants and stinging nettles to stop intruders. We have also ensured with a lot of fencing that cows and other heavy hooves cant get in – encouragingForest Walk – by Stephen Fearnley