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Embrace
The journey we have reflected upon in this album is a paradox, but as the Zen saying goes, “if it is not a paradox, then it is not true.” The way down to Hell eventually leads us back up to the fullness of life, and it is by going inward that we authentically connect to the world around us. The chorus sings “holding it all,” because after we have emerged from the Underworld, we experience those beautiful moments in life where everything belongs, and we belong to everything. Ultimately, everything is connected. C. G. Jung wrote, “Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche.”

Theologian Rudolf Otto describes these conscious moments of divine connection as “numinous.” Otto continues, saying that numinous experiences consist of three elements: mysterium, tremendum, et fascinans – mysterious/wholly other, terrifying, and fascinating/awe-inspiring. Our minds are usually obsessed with identity and stability, past and future, but in these moments, we are aware and fully present. We are able to hold it all, and in turn, we are held. Our need to understand and to control is replaced by pure numinous presence. This is true joy and not merely fleeting happiness. This is the joy of understanding that the darkest days belong, and that they will pass, and that our most joyful days belong, and they too will pass, and somehow the mysterious fullness of life is able to hold it all.

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Days and nights move so quickly
They don’t even consult me
I want to know more about their view

I wonder what it’s like to be
In a cosmic routine
Though every day in new
The sun rises right on cue

And the moon is not far behind
As she patiently waits in line
Reflecting the light of another day
Held in a cosmic embrace
Holding it all
Holding it all

Just some old memories, of how life used to be
So much more simple then, the wonders of the beginning
The truth is I just couldn’t know
What goes on outside those doors
And I want to go back in – to escape the pain of living
And then I’ll know, how this should go

Standing upon the silent shore
Longing to hear a comforting voice
Speaking to me in familiar tones
The secret is under feet held within the stone

I can feel the cold and know the truth
No written word can possibly soothe
The warm voice from long ago is gone
A discovery to be made alone

And even though I’m waiting for the day
When time doesn't have to unfold this way
When the moon stops waiting in line for the sun
Holding, holding what I fear knowing

The secret that churns rock into sand
Eternity, is something I just can’t understand
This won’t stop the wishing that I always do
Hold me keep me from feeling lonely too

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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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