I grew up in a house filled with Classical music, and Jazz. Here's a little music video I made for the Ding Dong Show, that combines these two loves.
Jazz, Classical Music, 60s Acid Rock, Blues, and New Age
I really do enjoy all forms of music, and I would never listen to just one kind all of the time.
Stan Getz & John Coltrane are my favorite Jazz musicians, but I also love the Big Band sound, Latin Jazz, and anything straight ahead;)
Of Classical Music composers, it seems that I have always loved the Russians best.
As a Hippie from San Francisco, I got to know Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, the Grateful Dead, and Carlos Santana. I will always love these people.
Movies
As a lifelong film buff with around 4000 movies in my collection, this list could easily become impossibly long. My collection contains what I consider to be the best movies made since we began making movies. So I have many Silents, old Black & White films, and great movies up to current times.
Now should I list ALL of my favorite movies (besides Forbidden Planet, Casablanca, Spartacus, Elmer Gantry, A Night at the Opera, Seven Chances, The Wizard of Oz, Singing in the Rain, A Connecticutt Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Roshoman, The Man Who Would Be King, & LOTR), or do you get the idea? hehehe
I've mentioned elsewhere that I love Science Fiction & Fantasy. In the early 1990s I began videotaping my favorite programs, editing out the commercials, and then began creating my permanent collection. At the moment the collection is approaching some 800 six hour videotapes, and contains practically every episode of practically every Science Fiction/Fantasy show that has ever aired.
It's something that I usually work on while I'm also busy in the online world. I love to multi-task, and figure that if you are going to be fanatical about something, it's good if it is harmless. hehehe
Books
I like all kinds of books, but have always held a special love for Science Fiction & Fantasy. Some of my favorite authors are Anne McCaffrey, CJ Cherryh, Isaac Asimov, Robert A Heinlein, Philip Jose Famer, Roger Zelazny, HG Wells, Jules Verne, Alan Dean Foster, Andre Norton, Fred Saberhagen, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Timothy Zahn, Poul Anderson, Orson Scott Card, L Frank Baum, JRR Tolkien, & JK Rowling.
Heroes
I think it is more important to find the Hero within yourself, than to look up to another person. In all of the history of the world, there has only been one Hero, and he has 1000 Faces. Some people I do hold in great regard are Lao Tse, King Wen & Prince Chi, Quan Yin, Lord Khrisna, Lord Buddha, Avolokitesvara, Green Tara, Lady Isis, & her son Horus, Thoth the Atlantean, Freyr, Jesus the Christ, Manly P Hall, & Ghandi.
When you find the Hero within yourself, you will be able to see the Hero within other people. Let us all be brave, and face the world with Courage!
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I began studying Eastern Mysticism, and practicing Western White Magick when I was 16 in 1967. Since I lived in Santa Clara at the time, it was easy for me to get up to San Francisco, and so I was there for the Summer of Love. I began studying the I Ching in 1969, discovering the practical side of Taoist Philosophy. In 1970 I went to college in Boston, where I met Karmu, the Holy One. He was a Healer, and a Rootman, and he taught me Massage, and how to love people, which is perhaps the most important thing anybody can know. In 1973 I began studying the Hwa Yu Tai Chi Kung Fu under GrandMaster John Chung Li, a practice that seems to have made me stronger & more agile as the years go by. After a lifetime of study and practice, I am putting up my accumulated knowledge and experience on my website, the Dragon's Den. You'll also find other things of interest there... such as my Moving Mandalas. Enjoy!
I would like you to meet the Divine within yourself.
I would like you to get to know the Earth. It is a sentient being. We get to live here, only because She allows it. If we continue to exploit and destroy the resources of this planet, she just might change her mind about us being here...
Do you really want that?
Listen to the whisperings of the Trees. Pay attention to the Song of Life arising from the All.
The True Gospel will never be found within the pages of any book, but it can readily be seen within the Hearts of all who love the Divine.
We are not saved by seeking God. Let go, and let yourself be found by All that loves you!
You deserve nothing less.
Be the Blessing that all most desire in their inmost Hearts.
Calcutta sounds like a fable in a song, but in reality, it is where John, my colleague and successor, was murdered. He was on the job for only three days when he got his throat slashed. As an undercover investigator targeting the illegal wildlife trade, especially in tiger parts, his real name was unknown, even to me, nor mine to him. We were just John and James to each other. All I know is that he was Chinese American, while his predecessor James - real name Anthony Marr - is Chinese Canadian, and how sincere he was in helping to save the Bengal tiger from being poached out of existence, while its habitat continues to dwindle due to human pressure...
Every
spiritual tradition has stressed that this human life is unique and has
a potential that ordinarily we don’t even begin to imagine. If we miss
the opportunity this life offers us for transforming ourselves, they
say, it may well be an extremely long time before we have another.
Imagine a blind turtle roaming the ...
depths of an ocean the size of the universe. Up above floats a wooden
ring, tossed to and fro on the waves. Every hundred years, the turtle
comes, once, to the surface. To be born a human being is said by
Buddhists to be more difficult than for that turtle to surface
accidentally with its head poking through the wooden ring.
And
even among those who have a human birth, it is said, those who have the
great good fortune to make a connection with the teachings are rare,
and those who really take them to heart and embody them in their actions even rarer—as rare, in fact, “as stars in broad daylight.” -Sogyal Rinpoche-
~ Swanee
is flying through your beautiful starry skies, coming by
your way to
say "Hello and Hi!" ~
~ Let's go
floating through the air, feeling the magic in the night.
~ ~ I'll
play you a special song, and we can dance in the Light.
~
~ Let's go have some fun in dream time,
we can take a crystal carriage ride!
~
~ In the forever land of Home where all is
peaceful and bright, Love is always alive. Love makes the Light
~
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In The Tao’ Te Ching it is said,
I have just three things to teach:
Simplicity, patience, and compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thought You return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
You accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
You reconcile all beings in the world.
We carry with us the habits of a lifetime. We are not asked to
Unravel them all in one instant, but to care for and understand just one moment at a
Time; attuning ourselves to just this moment we begin to understand what leads
To distress, complexity, and conflict, and what leads to calmness, balance and freedom. Patience is the foundation of discovering simplicity. Patience is a gesture of profound
Kindness. Patience teaches us to seek an inner refuge of simplicity, balance, and sensitivity in even the most turbulent moments.
♥ Sending L♥ve ♥ ~Unity have a message Stay true to your path Believe in your celestial soul Believe in your dreams Believe in your power of thought Spread love Respect All
...fight the dark...with light... with the easiest weapon of choice our heart, our joy, our pool of magic. ~Unity~ who btw...(posts stuff on my blog all the time..)
;) so I wish you a fantastic Wednesday to come, an important day to *think positive* mucho L♥ve & Respect ~Ann
Amidst the ocean depths, far below the light, A lone whale glides by in her watery flight. A cry so lonely, a wailing of despair, Something precious lost in the great somewhere.
Serene, yet watchful, moving always in fear Of death's stillness, she searches ever near. Pulling sunlight upward with care, She caresses the surface and mists the salty air.
Nothing! Not a movement, except a hulking mass, A predator's scent, a watchful, sweeping pass. Dangerously taunting, the sight draws her near As battered nets pull in Death and despair.
Her baby! Her angel! Death had claimed its song, While a quiet stillness seemed to linger on. Across the endless ocean, far below the sky, A mournful mother sang a haunting lullaby.
Letting go of God would be suicide. By knowing His love I am made whole and fufilled. Nobody loves me I am alone and I always have been. But see I am never alone because I am always in the presence of God. My Peace Amen!
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