Guided Tours Through Bardoland!

What I’m doing now is something a little different from just composing, recording and playing music as a DJ on zoom. I’m actually sort of putting together a guided tour. Continue reading →

Once again, I’ve squandered the entire evening with a search for interesting and useful stuff, which I did manage to scrape together. Continue reading →

LYRICS: All Phenomena is Illusion

Verse 1
All phenomena is illusion
All phenomena is illusion
All phenomena is illusion
All phenomena is illusion
All phenomena is illusion
All phenomena is illusion
Oh, yes it is Continue reading →

In The Clear Light

[Intro]
In the clear light
It’s outta sight
It’s very bright
Oooh oooh ee oooh Continue reading →

There are songs that entertain you.
There are songs that move you.
And then there are songs that do something to you—quietly, without asking permission.

“Whisper Through the Veil” sits in that third category. Continue reading →

Trip Tapes: The Lost Art of Guided Listening

There’s a difference between playing music and using music.

Most people today are surrounded by playlists. Endless songs, shuffled, skipped, sampled, half-heard. Music has become background, wallpaper, filler something to talk over. Continue reading →

Music as a Method for Entering Altered States

There is a simple principle underlying all work with consciousness: the state you are in is not fixed. It is patterned.

What most people call “normal waking consciousness” is just a stable arrangement of rhythms—breathing rhythms, neural rhythms, emotional tones, habitual thought-loops. It feels permanent only because it is familiar and constantly reinforced.

Music interacts directly with these patterns. Continue reading →

Shifting Out of Phase:

Using Music to Change Your Frequency

There’s a simple idea at the root of all this: everything is vibration.

Not metaphorically. Not poetically. Literally. Continue reading →

Music as Invocation in a Fragmented World

We’re living in a time where attention is constantly being pulled apart. People come and go, conversations start and stop, focus drifts, returns, and drifts again. It’s not a stable environment—it’s fluid, discontinuous, and very present-time.

In that kind of space, traditional teaching methods don’t hold up very well. Linear structure breaks. People miss the beginning, lose the thread, try to catch up, and often give up.

But there’s another approach. Continue reading →

You have silver coins? What are they worth?

Actually, the first question is, “What is a coin?” Most folks have only a dim idea. A metal coin is typically made from metals of varying relative value. They are stamped to show that the weight is fair, the purity of the metal is correct, and the values are determined by the coins’ production in copper, silver and gold, copper being least valuable, gold, the most. Continue reading →