Today's DailyOM Offerings...
July 20, 2012
You Are All I See
Active Child
2011
You need not believe in the afterlife to hear heaven opening its gates in the opening minutes of You Are All I See, the debut album by multi-instrumentalist Patrick Grossi, aka Active Child. Harp glissandi crisscross and settle into flickering constellations; a billowing cloud of synth tones floats by; and then Grossi’s multi-tracked falsetto voice rings through like a choir of angels, singing “If you think you’re ready / I will lead you now / To a field where it’s buried / Somewhere underground.” That line suggests the sense of discovery that is Active Child’s stock-in-trade. You Are All I See sounds like a brave new musical world, where windswept electronica, sensual R&B, and the music of the spheres coexist in a harmonious continuum. There is simply nothing quite like it.
Grossi was a choirboy when he was younger, and without a doubt there are traces of Renaissance church choral music in his pure-tone falsetto. Many of these songs have a feel of holiness-the buzzing analog synths of “See Thru Eyes” might as well be aural manifestations of the shimmering patterns of light that flow through the church’s stained glass windows. Countering the sanctified air is Active Child’s fascination with earthy hip-hop beats. Grossi and producer Ariel Rechtshaid ground “Playing House” in a sinister beat, and the guest verse from Tom Krell of How to Dress Well (sample lyric: “I’m tired of being just Mr. Anybody / So baby come with me, let’s just make a body”) is anything but pious.
The production on You Are All I See does more than just provide a backing for Grossi’s crystalline voice and harp playing. It explores new worlds out of analog synths and sequencers, excavating subterranean cave systems (the eerie “Way Too Fast”) and channeling electrical currents into humongous coral reefs of sound (the climactic instrumental “Ivy”). There is no separating Grossi from his surroundings though. The album couches a staggering voice in a mesmeric production, and each side stokes the other to creative peaks, over and over again. This record is creative enough to become your world for its duration. You Are All I See, indeed.
July 20, 2012
Discover Opposing Viewpoints
Sagittarius Daily Horoscope
You might be more tolerant of others’ points of view, which may make you more receptive to understanding both sides of an issue today. Your ability to see that there is something beyond your own beliefs could serve as a catalyst for transformation, since you could find that by letting go of your views, you become open to a new and surprising world. Perhaps today you can try learning about something that is completely different and new for you, withholding judgment and simply accepting this new thing as it is. Reading or listening to someone who has opposing views may be one way you can gain different insights into an issue or ideology. By becoming aware of the variety of ideas that exist, you might realize that your own views can be limiting unless you make a point to become more amenable to learning new things.
Opening ourselves up to new ideas helps us develop a more holistic worldview. Unless we learn about opposing viewpoints or ideas that may seem uncomfortable to us, we will remain mired in our state of unawareness. Seeing that there are different sides to an issue, or that there are numerous belief systems that exist in the world, allows us to question the ideas that we have been brought up with, and we strengthen our ability to understand our lives as a result. By being critical about things without judging them today, you will experience the transformative effects of discovering new ideas and break down the barriers you place around yourself .
July 20, 2012
Changing Roles
As We Ebb and Flow through Life
by Madisyn Taylor
We all change throughout life trying new and different things, but the core of who we really are remains the same.
As we bob and weave with the ebb and flow of life our roles change, but our true self remains constant. As spiritual beings having a human experience, we go through many aspects of humanity in one lifetime. Living in the material world of opposites, labels, and classifications, we often identify ourselves by the roles we play, forgetting that these aspects shift and change throughout our lives. But when we anchor ourselves in the truth of our being, that core of spirit within us, we can choose to embrace the new roles as they come, knowing that they give us fresh perspective on life and a greater understanding of the lives of others.
As children, we anticipated role changes eagerly in our rush to grow up. Though fairy tales led us to believe that “happily ever after” was a final destination, the truth is that life is a series of destinations, mere stops on a long journey filled with differing terrain. We may need to move through a feeling of resistance as we shift from spouse to parent, leader to subordinate, caregiver to receiver, or even local to newcomer. It can be helpful to bid a fond farewell to the role that we are leaving before we welcome the new. This is the purpose of ceremonies in cultures throughout the world and across time. We can choose from any in existence or create our own to help us celebrate our life shifts and embrace our new adventures.
Like actors on the stage of the world, our different roles are just costumes that we inhabit and then shed. Each role we play gives us another perspective through which to understand ourselves and the nature of the universe. When we take a moment to see that each change can be an adventure, a celebration, and a chance to play a new part, we may even be able to recapture the joyful anticipation of our youth as we transition from one role to the next.
July 20, 2012
Free CD with order, Return to Love Workshop & 4 more gifts!
Gift of the Week
FREE CD WITH EVERY ORDER OF $25 OR MORE! - While supplies last, we are including a FREE CD with every order of $25 or more in the DailyOM Gift Shop. The CD is Suzanne Ciani's LIVE! which is Suzanne's first live album ever that showcases this amazingly talented musician's talent as a composer and performer like none in the past. In her hands and the hands of a group of exuberant and talented jazz musicians, her music came alive in a new and wonderful way. We also highly recommend the following studio albums by Suzanne Ciani:
Suzanne Ciani - Turning CD
Suzanne Ciani - Silver Ship CD
Suzanne Ciani - The Velocity of Love CD
Marianne Williamson: A Return to Love Workshop [9-CD set] - In summer of 2011, Marianne Williamson held a popular weekend workshop in Los Angeles on "A Return to Love" - a weekend about miracles, shifts in thinking from fear to love deeply impact how we live and feel. In this transcribed excerpt from the workshop, Williamson talks about how she came across A Course in Miracles, and the essence of what it's all about. The Course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim however at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all encompassing can have no opp! osite. This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way: Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
Marianne Williamson: A Return to Love Workshop [9-CD set]
Pet Calm Spray - Flower essences by Earth Wind and Flowers are lovingly prepared in a co-creative partnership with nature. These subtle but powerful sprays work to re balance your pets' energy field and provide emotional support. Spray over you pet and allow the mist to settle 4 mists up to 4 times per day. Feel free to mist yourself!
Pet Calm Spray
Yoga of Light [DVD] - In this elegant and enlightening presentation, award winning author, educator and performing artist Sharron Rose introduces the feminine - based Yoga of Light, an ancient science and spiritual practice of physical and spiritual revitalization. Rooted in her extensive research and first-hand experience in women’s mysteries and the mystic arts of Tantra and Alchemy, Ms. Rose introduces a system of yogic training based upon the unique dynamics of the female energy field. This consists of meditations for relaxation and stress reduction, visualizations for cleansing, restoring and protecting the physical body and luminous energy field that surrounds it, mudras (sacred gestures) designed to! depict the flow of subtle energy through the luminous field, and exercises to enhance visionary capacity and align women with the most powerful and profound feminine role model - the Great Goddess.
Yoga of Light [DVD]
The Healing Journey [CD] - Tami Briggs is a "certified harp practitioner," meaning she uses the healing magic of the harp's vibrations to heal and help the sick. Among her other services, she brings her harp into hospitals to play by patient's bedsides where the soothing vibrations of her instrument reach into human nervous systems to calm and soothe and heal. Small wonder that the harp is the instrument of choice for the angels. All the songs on The Healing Journey are designed and played with this healing energy in mind. The tunes are slow and dreamy, lulling and gently hypnotic. Briggs has a golden touch, and her mastery of intonation bespeaks of a deep, selfless gift, which she's read! y to share with all who would care to hear.
The Healing Journey [CD]
The Code: 10 Intentions for a Better World [book] - The Code boldly presents readers with a true, workable solution for the challenges facing our world today. Based on a new Code of Conduct that anyone can relate to, it is full of real life stories uniquely designed first, to help readers become self-empowered and more proficient at manifesting so that they are no longer at the mercy of people and forces outside themselves, and second, to provide a simple tried-and-true format for coming together in community to create peace, freedom, and the high quality living environment that everyone longs for and deserves.
The Code: 10 Intentions for a Better World [book]
For more information visit DailyOM Gift Shop
You Are All I See
Active Child
2011
You need not believe in the afterlife to hear heaven opening its gates in the opening minutes of You Are All I See, the debut album by multi-instrumentalist Patrick Grossi, aka Active Child. Harp glissandi crisscross and settle into flickering constellations; a billowing cloud of synth tones floats by; and then Grossi’s multi-tracked falsetto voice rings through like a choir of angels, singing “If you think you’re ready / I will lead you now / To a field where it’s buried / Somewhere underground.” That line suggests the sense of discovery that is Active Child’s stock-in-trade. You Are All I See sounds like a brave new musical world, where windswept electronica, sensual R&B, and the music of the spheres coexist in a harmonious continuum. There is simply nothing quite like it.
Grossi was a choirboy when he was younger, and without a doubt there are traces of Renaissance church choral music in his pure-tone falsetto. Many of these songs have a feel of holiness-the buzzing analog synths of “See Thru Eyes” might as well be aural manifestations of the shimmering patterns of light that flow through the church’s stained glass windows. Countering the sanctified air is Active Child’s fascination with earthy hip-hop beats. Grossi and producer Ariel Rechtshaid ground “Playing House” in a sinister beat, and the guest verse from Tom Krell of How to Dress Well (sample lyric: “I’m tired of being just Mr. Anybody / So baby come with me, let’s just make a body”) is anything but pious.
The production on You Are All I See does more than just provide a backing for Grossi’s crystalline voice and harp playing. It explores new worlds out of analog synths and sequencers, excavating subterranean cave systems (the eerie “Way Too Fast”) and channeling electrical currents into humongous coral reefs of sound (the climactic instrumental “Ivy”). There is no separating Grossi from his surroundings though. The album couches a staggering voice in a mesmeric production, and each side stokes the other to creative peaks, over and over again. This record is creative enough to become your world for its duration. You Are All I See, indeed.
July 20, 2012
Discover Opposing Viewpoints
Sagittarius Daily Horoscope
You might be more tolerant of others’ points of view, which may make you more receptive to understanding both sides of an issue today. Your ability to see that there is something beyond your own beliefs could serve as a catalyst for transformation, since you could find that by letting go of your views, you become open to a new and surprising world. Perhaps today you can try learning about something that is completely different and new for you, withholding judgment and simply accepting this new thing as it is. Reading or listening to someone who has opposing views may be one way you can gain different insights into an issue or ideology. By becoming aware of the variety of ideas that exist, you might realize that your own views can be limiting unless you make a point to become more amenable to learning new things.
Opening ourselves up to new ideas helps us develop a more holistic worldview. Unless we learn about opposing viewpoints or ideas that may seem uncomfortable to us, we will remain mired in our state of unawareness. Seeing that there are different sides to an issue, or that there are numerous belief systems that exist in the world, allows us to question the ideas that we have been brought up with, and we strengthen our ability to understand our lives as a result. By being critical about things without judging them today, you will experience the transformative effects of discovering new ideas and break down the barriers you place around yourself .
July 20, 2012
Changing Roles
As We Ebb and Flow through Life
by Madisyn Taylor
We all change throughout life trying new and different things, but the core of who we really are remains the same.
As we bob and weave with the ebb and flow of life our roles change, but our true self remains constant. As spiritual beings having a human experience, we go through many aspects of humanity in one lifetime. Living in the material world of opposites, labels, and classifications, we often identify ourselves by the roles we play, forgetting that these aspects shift and change throughout our lives. But when we anchor ourselves in the truth of our being, that core of spirit within us, we can choose to embrace the new roles as they come, knowing that they give us fresh perspective on life and a greater understanding of the lives of others.
As children, we anticipated role changes eagerly in our rush to grow up. Though fairy tales led us to believe that “happily ever after” was a final destination, the truth is that life is a series of destinations, mere stops on a long journey filled with differing terrain. We may need to move through a feeling of resistance as we shift from spouse to parent, leader to subordinate, caregiver to receiver, or even local to newcomer. It can be helpful to bid a fond farewell to the role that we are leaving before we welcome the new. This is the purpose of ceremonies in cultures throughout the world and across time. We can choose from any in existence or create our own to help us celebrate our life shifts and embrace our new adventures.
Like actors on the stage of the world, our different roles are just costumes that we inhabit and then shed. Each role we play gives us another perspective through which to understand ourselves and the nature of the universe. When we take a moment to see that each change can be an adventure, a celebration, and a chance to play a new part, we may even be able to recapture the joyful anticipation of our youth as we transition from one role to the next.
July 20, 2012
Free CD with order, Return to Love Workshop & 4 more gifts!
Gift of the Week
FREE CD WITH EVERY ORDER OF $25 OR MORE! - While supplies last, we are including a FREE CD with every order of $25 or more in the DailyOM Gift Shop. The CD is Suzanne Ciani's LIVE! which is Suzanne's first live album ever that showcases this amazingly talented musician's talent as a composer and performer like none in the past. In her hands and the hands of a group of exuberant and talented jazz musicians, her music came alive in a new and wonderful way. We also highly recommend the following studio albums by Suzanne Ciani:
Suzanne Ciani - Turning CD
Suzanne Ciani - Silver Ship CD
Suzanne Ciani - The Velocity of Love CD
Marianne Williamson: A Return to Love Workshop [9-CD set] - In summer of 2011, Marianne Williamson held a popular weekend workshop in Los Angeles on "A Return to Love" - a weekend about miracles, shifts in thinking from fear to love deeply impact how we live and feel. In this transcribed excerpt from the workshop, Williamson talks about how she came across A Course in Miracles, and the essence of what it's all about. The Course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim however at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all encompassing can have no opp! osite. This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way: Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
Marianne Williamson: A Return to Love Workshop [9-CD set]
Pet Calm Spray - Flower essences by Earth Wind and Flowers are lovingly prepared in a co-creative partnership with nature. These subtle but powerful sprays work to re balance your pets' energy field and provide emotional support. Spray over you pet and allow the mist to settle 4 mists up to 4 times per day. Feel free to mist yourself!
Pet Calm Spray
Yoga of Light [DVD] - In this elegant and enlightening presentation, award winning author, educator and performing artist Sharron Rose introduces the feminine - based Yoga of Light, an ancient science and spiritual practice of physical and spiritual revitalization. Rooted in her extensive research and first-hand experience in women’s mysteries and the mystic arts of Tantra and Alchemy, Ms. Rose introduces a system of yogic training based upon the unique dynamics of the female energy field. This consists of meditations for relaxation and stress reduction, visualizations for cleansing, restoring and protecting the physical body and luminous energy field that surrounds it, mudras (sacred gestures) designed to! depict the flow of subtle energy through the luminous field, and exercises to enhance visionary capacity and align women with the most powerful and profound feminine role model - the Great Goddess.
Yoga of Light [DVD]
The Healing Journey [CD] - Tami Briggs is a "certified harp practitioner," meaning she uses the healing magic of the harp's vibrations to heal and help the sick. Among her other services, she brings her harp into hospitals to play by patient's bedsides where the soothing vibrations of her instrument reach into human nervous systems to calm and soothe and heal. Small wonder that the harp is the instrument of choice for the angels. All the songs on The Healing Journey are designed and played with this healing energy in mind. The tunes are slow and dreamy, lulling and gently hypnotic. Briggs has a golden touch, and her mastery of intonation bespeaks of a deep, selfless gift, which she's read! y to share with all who would care to hear.
The Healing Journey [CD]
The Code: 10 Intentions for a Better World [book] - The Code boldly presents readers with a true, workable solution for the challenges facing our world today. Based on a new Code of Conduct that anyone can relate to, it is full of real life stories uniquely designed first, to help readers become self-empowered and more proficient at manifesting so that they are no longer at the mercy of people and forces outside themselves, and second, to provide a simple tried-and-true format for coming together in community to create peace, freedom, and the high quality living environment that everyone longs for and deserves.
The Code: 10 Intentions for a Better World [book]
For more information visit DailyOM Gift Shop