{"id":1381,"date":"2014-02-20T16:56:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T16:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2014-02-20T17:04:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T17:04:19","slug":"and-now-for-something-completely-different-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=1381","title":{"rendered":"And Now for Something Completely Different\u2026 Yes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I extend my rarified percipience within the tumultuous puissance of humanity’s collective, I find a bit too much of the ‘giving up’ energy. The extended narrative of our imminent deliverance has recently broken many warriors down. Lately I’m being asked “How do we keep the faith through these ‘ugly’ moments?”<\/p>\n

Each of us holds different criteria for meeting the burden of proof. Proof of what? That this journey is real and worthwhile\u2026 and not just some random gyrations in a purposeless void.<\/p>\n

I made some critical choices so very long ago when I was just a silly confused teenager. I decided early on that the victory of the just and good was absolutely assured\u2026 if gems of creative complex beauty were disseminated in the wide world with understated regularity. I saw– or rather heard– the singing jewels everywhere!<\/p>\n

There were certain artists– like Yes– who celebrated our eventual victory already in the early seventies. Their work was so beyond the ability of the controllers to even understand, it went unchallenged.<\/p>\n

They were sowing the seeds for these moments we’re living right now\u2026 40 years later. These are the complex patterns of encouragement\u2026 affirmations of human vitality. Music engages the whole brain, the entire being. Allow it to assuage your doubts\u2026<\/p>\n

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\n(The Revealing Science of God – Dance of the Dawn)<\/p>\n

“Dawn of light lying between a silence and sold sources,
\nChased amid fusions of wonder, in moments hardly seen forgotten,
\nColoured in pastures of chance dancing leaves cast spells of challenge,
\nAmused but real in thought, we fled from the sea whole.
\nDawn of thought transferred through moments of days undersearching earth
\nRevealing corridors of time provoking memories, disjointed but with purpose,
\nCraving penetrations offer links with the self instructors sharp
\nAnd tender love as we took to the air, a picture of distance.
\nDawn of our power we amuse redescending as fast as misused
\nExpression, as only to teach love as to reveal passion chasing
\nLate into corners, and we danced from the ocean.
\nDawn of love sent within us colours of awakening among the many
\nWont to follow, only tunes of a different age, as the links span
\nOur endless caresses for the freedom of life everlasting.”<\/p>\n

I think the lads were onto something\u2026<\/p>\n

These excerpts are from the 1973 album Tales from Topographic Oceans which was utterly unique for its time, being a double album featuring only four songs– each of which took the entire side of a vinyl record. It was such a departure from the norm that the album ‘drove’ Rick Wakeman– the keyboardist– to abandon his mates at the conclusion of its worldwide tour. (He would later return in 1977– but more about that in a bit.)<\/p>\n

“What happened to this song we once knew so well
\nSigned promise for moments caught within the spell
\nI must have waited all my life for this
\nMoment moment<\/p>\n

The future poised with the splendour just begun
\nThe light we were as one
\nAnd crowded through the curtains of liquid into sun”<\/p>\n

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\n(The Remembering – High the Memory)<\/p>\n

The inspiration for the album reportedly comes from a lengthy footnote in the Autobiography of a Yogi<\/em>, describing four rather obscure scriptures.<\/p>\n

“Force the bit between the mouth of freedom didn’t we learn to fly
\nRemember to sail the skies
\nDistant suns
\nWill we reach
\nWinds allow
\nOther skylines
\nOther skylines to hold you”<\/p>\n

Here they just slip in the phrase “fail safe now” to let the world know that victory is already assured; we mustn’t sweat it. I took the message to heart at a very young age.<\/p>\n

“Relayer
\nAll the passion spent on one cross
\nRelayer
\nSail the futile wars they suffer
\nRelayer
\nWe advance we retrace our story, fail safe now”<\/p>\n

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\n(The Ancient Giants Under the Sun)<\/p>\n

The ancient giants under the sun\u2026<\/p>\n

“As one with knowledge and magic of the source
\nAttuned to the majesty of music
\nThey marched as one with Earth”<\/p>\n

This is just pure artistry, unparalleled in rock music from any era!<\/p>\n

“So the flowering creativity of life wove its
\nWeb face to face with the shallow
\nAnd their gods sought out and conquered; Ah Kin”<\/p>\n

And I too heard a million voices singing\u2026<\/p>\n

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\n(Nous Sommes du Soleil)<\/p>\n

“Change we must as surely as time does
\nChanges call the course
\nHeld inside we enter daybreaks
\nAsking for\u2026 asking for
\nThe source
\nThe source
\nThe source
\nSent as we sing our music’s total retain<\/p>\n

As we try and consider
\nWe receive all we venture to give”<\/p>\n

We are the sun\u2026 and we all love when we play\u2026<\/p>\n

And “clearer companions shall call to be near you”<\/p>\n

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\n(Awaken)<\/p>\n

This excerpt seems to complete in 1977 what was begun in 1973\u2026 the call to mass awakening\u2026<\/p>\n

“High Vibration go on
\nTo the sun, oh let my heart dreaming
\nPast a mortal as me
\nWhere can I be<\/p>\n

Wish the sun to stand still
\nReaching out to touch our own being
\nPast all mortal as we
\nHere we can be
\nWe can be here
\nBe here now
\nHere we can be\u2026<\/p>\n

AWAKEN GENTLE MASS TOUCH\u2026<\/p>\n

AWAKEN GENTLE MASS TOUCHING\u2026”<\/p>\n

May this serve to inspire and fortify your resolve!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I extend my rarified percipience within the tumultuous puissance of humanity’s collective, I find a bit too much of the ‘giving up’ energy. The extended narrative of our imminent deliverance has recently broken many warriors down. Lately I’m being (…)<\/p>\n

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