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I believe, with all of my being, that I was put on the planet to love, nurture, and support music and those who play it. Please let me do this in peace, I come by it honestly. To me, music is the Holy Grail of all healing tools. In the words of Ravi Shankar, "Our [Vedic] tradition teaches us that Sound is God. That is, Musical Sound and the Musical Experience are steps to the realization to the Self. We veiw Music as a kind of Spiritual Disipline that raises one's being to Divine Peacefulness and Bliss. We are taught that one of the fundemental goals a Hindu works toward in his lifetime is a knowledge of the true meaning of the Universe, its Unchanging, Eternal Essence, and this is realized first by a complete knowledge of One's Self and One's own nature. The highest aim of our Music is to reveal the Essence of the Universe it reflects, and the Ragas are among the means by which this Essence can be apprehended. Thus through Music one can reach God."~~~~~~~~~

Some thoughts from a dear spirit on unconditional LOVE...

"In the space of divine love...we become one, we can dance with the beauty of who we truly are. We see each other's souls, we experience totality of ourselves, and it is reflected in one another. When love is shared, showed and expressed in an unconditional manner, with no walls, total freedom and complete honesty, we fly to the skies of our inner heaven, we experience what it is to BE in ecstasy, and land in a place we where there is nothing but comfort and peace.

There is nothing to hide from; nothing to block or protect ourselves from, there is only safety and acceptance. We see all of one another, both light and dark, and we embrace all that is within us, seeing it only as a face of love. Looking into someone's eyes from this space we surpass all fears, all doubts and all insecurities...and what we see is pure perfection of a beautiful soul. The energy of who we are inside flows into that someone and allows them to see themselves in that same light, we act as a mirror for them.

We become beautiful gifts to each other, realizing that we are all ONE in this level of love. We become lovers of life, of happiness, of peace, accepting and completing ourselves on every level we have, being satisfied with what is no matter what it may look like, for what is, IS love. Judgments fall away as we realize the perfection of every single act that transpires in life. When we fly on the wings of freedom, structure builds no walls, hearts are not caged, passion is not doused, love cannot be stifled with the human illusions of boundaries, rules and control. True freedom spawns true love, and one cannot be present without the other.

In this place of freedom and love we can soar to the heights of our greatest capabilities, we can find the tremendous possibilities inside ourselves, and express them with true power. The focus of our minds on this one thing; divine love, creates more and more as we attract others into our lives who are ready to feel this inside themselves. They become extensions of our love energy, as they awaken into who they are, and love is glorified more and more every moment.

We began to see that there is no I, you, and them...but in love, we are ONE. The medium of pure love flows through each of us, it is who we really are, it is what we are made of, and the illusion of separation between human beings is no more than simply the levels of how much we are awakened to this fact...once complete in love, there is no distance, no riffs, no hate and no judgments.

We begin to realize that there is no "out there" and "in here", but we are all universes, we contain the elements of galaxies nestled in the eternity of our souls. We contain everything we ever need to be who we always wanted to be...and so much more. We become creators of creation as we accept the creative force of pure love. Our minds awaken to the divine truth of our beings, that we are in fact...infinite love.

This love surpasses every human emotion that arises, and when love is applied to each emotion felt, it is transmuted into light, no matter how dark we may view it as. In this place we actually become points of light, shining from the beauty of love, glowing in truth, basking in peace and living from our true selves. In the space of divine love...we need nothing more or less...we are perfection."

Josiah Barlow ~ 10/16/06