09.15.06

Further Down the Path I find my Muse

Posted in Hero's Journey, Screenplay at 11:42 pm by Administrator

I have reached a turning point since my last posting.  I am now meditating on a daily basis.  I rise at dawn and begin my day with a grounding and centering meditation exercise.   My intention is to spend about 20 minutes each morning but these sessions tend to actually last 50 minutes to an hour.  I find this pretty amazing because I use to have trouble sitting still for five minutes.

I am using a basic chakra meditation, a modified version that I learned from Kathy Jones’ new book, “Priestess of Avalon, Priestess of the Goddess”.  The exercise starts with bringing your focus to the heart chakra and then traveling down through the lower chakras until you rich the root chakra.  At this point I feel myself sending roots down into the earth then connecting to the plant life on the planet.  I then bring my focus back to my root chakra traveling back up the body to heart chakra and then up through the upper chakras until I connect with the crown chakra.  I send my energy out my crown chakra to the edges of the Universe while at the same time remaining fully connected with the Earth.  In closing I find myself surrounded by a ball of energy and connected to the energy of the planet.  I bring this energy back to my heart chakra and end the exercise.

During these sessions I discovered that I do better feeling the exercise than trying to visualize the exercise.  What I also discovered is that I am starting to feel a strong connection to the plant life on the planet.  I had a realization that all of the plants are connected by their roots and that they communicate and share information between themselves. This is probably going to sound strange, but they are aware of us.  They are watching us and they want us to connect with them.  This is especially true for the trees. They want us both to work together.  They offer shelter to us with their outstretched branches and they ask that we tend to them since they are stationary.  They need our help, especially in the drought ridden areas of the country.

During my meditiations I also have been feeling a call to start working on the screenplay again.  I put it down when I completed the Second Act at page 90.  I felt that I had lost my Muse and was forcing the story forward.  So I have let it sit for almost two months.  But this time has not been unproductive. I have been doing research to recharge my creative batteries.  I read David Korten’s “The Great Turning” and am now reading James Lovelock’s “The Revenge of Gaia,” which is a truly frightening book.  

On a much lighter and more artistic note, I did literally find my Muse.  I stumbled onto a band out of England called Muse.  It was an act of serendipity.  I was playing around with the web site MySpace and found their web page http://www.myspace.com/muse .  So now I am going gaga over a bunch of Brits again.  It has been years, maybe a decade or longer since I went crazy over a rock album but check out these music videos by Muse:

Supermassive Black Hole
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xs1EM2_O3pU

Knights of Cydonia video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YygyHCRrKho

Knights of Cydonia live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myc9aEOxqJk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNJMOY4K7Ro

Is that cool or what?  They remind me of bands like Queen, Styx and Pink Floyd.  How can you not like a band that has lyrics like this?

Don’t be afraid
What your mind conceives
You should make a stand
Stand up for what you believe
And tonight
We can truly say
Together we’re invincible

That was from a song called Invincible from their Black Holes & Revelations CD.  You have got to check them out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hquAGsExAQ

Rock on,
Swan

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09.04.06

Want the Truth? Ask a Comic.

Posted in Musings... at 5:31 pm by Administrator

Since we can’t depend on the mainstream media to tell us the truth, who can we turn to find out what is really going on in the world?  Ask a comic, of course.  Check out this online video to hear what I am talking about.    

George Carlin - Who Really Controls America http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=935607276

Laugh and be educated,
Swan

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09.01.06

When the People Lead, the Leaders will Follow

Posted in Hero's Journey at 4:28 pm by Administrator

Last night I watched this online video of Salt Lake City Mayor Ross C. “Rocky” Anderson giving an address to a rally of 2500 people on August 30, 2006. <http://kutv.com/video/?id=18850@kutv.dayport.com>.  You can read the speech also here. 

Here are some of the things Mayor “Rocky” Anderson had to say:

 “A patriot is a person who loves his or her country.”

“Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism. A patriot does not tell people who are intensely concerned about their country to just sit down and be quiet; to refrain from speaking out in the name of politeness or for the sake of being a good host; to show slavish, blind obedience  and deference to a dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights-violating president.That is not a patriot.

Rather, that person is a sycophant. That person is a member of a frightening culture of obedience – a culture where falling in line with authority is more important than choosing what is right, even if it is not easy, safe, or popular. And, I suspect, that person is afraid – afraid we are right, afraid of the  truth (even to the point of denying it), afraid he or she has put in with an oppressive, inhumane, regime that does not respect the laws and traditions of our country, and that history will rank as the worst presidency our nation has ever hadto endure.”

This is inspirational stuff!  According to Wikipedia “Anderson has a strong American liberal agenda. Under his mayorship, the city has purchased wind power, increased recycling, and is converting its fleet of city vehicles to alternative fuels. Anderson has supported initial measures to make the city more bicycle-friendly and pedestrian-friendly while opposing “monster” home rebuilding projects” in the historic districts.

Anderson has stated he will not run for another term as Mayor.  Gee maybe would should run this guy for President.  If you think that is a good idea too contact the Mayor’s Office and let him know by sending him an email at mayor@slcgov.com . For more information check out the Mayor Anderson’s official bio and Rocky Anderson’s Wikipedia page.

Peace,
Swan

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