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Descend
The descent to the Underworld is a mythic motif that emerges throughout recorded history. When unshackled from the literal interpretation, this dynamic alludes to the descent that each of us takes throughout various stages of our lives, when we submit to the inevitability of our suffering. As Dante Alighieri approaches the threshold to the Underworld, he reads the inscription, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here (Canto III).” Led by his guide Virgil he descends through the layers of Hell to meet Dis, or Lucifer. Dis is Dante’s allegorical insight into the dis-membering, dis-orienting, and dis-ordering figure that we must all face as we descend into our suffering and are transformed by it. Hell is the crucible of our transformation; it forces us to consciously release our grip on the predictable and the familiar so that we can dis-cover a more integrated and whole version of ourselves. It leads us outside of the normative modes of consciousness from which we so often operate, and when we expand a sense of ourselves, we also expand the world in which we live. These are the moments when we move from the familiar into the unknown mysteries that live beyond our awareness. William Blake calls those who live here The Eternals, but throughout time humans have referred to them as gods.

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Holding it all in, wondering,
If he might be going crazy
He’s leaving you to know
More about the Underworld
And all the Hell that’s been created

Nothing means nothing
Though he searches in the dark
A hundred thousand mothwings
And each night he’ll burn one off.

With a heart that’s true
And though he might be crazy
As the stars depart from vie
Abandoning hope
The misanthrope falls now

Can’t fight the feeling it’s unmanageable
It takes him over leaves him out of control
Falling through to get down to the dark

Abandon all hope
Can’t fight the feeling it’s unmanageable
It takes you over, leaves you out of control
Wandering through interludes of the dark
Can’t fight the feeling it’s unmanageable
It takes me over, leaves me out of control
Can’t fight this anymore

Can’t fight the feeling that I’m out of control
It’s taken over it’s unmanageable
I’ll follow you down into the dark

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from Empyreum, released September 20, 2020

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Spirit and the Trickster Houston, Texas

When a singer/songwriter and a classical pianist meet in the field of Jungian psychology, the result is a genre-bending collaboration dedicated to the exploration of archetypal themes, alchemical process, order and chaos, dreams and consciousness, and the confusing beauty of paradox. ... more

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