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Throughout human history, the god-image has appeared in various forms, though similarities in this image exist that transcend cultural and geographical boundaries. Viewed through a collective lens, we quickly see that in our human history divinity has gradually moved from the external to the internal. In the beginning of our development, all of nature was viewed to be “ensouled.” We lived in a profound relationship to the world around us – the trees of the forest were sacred, the buffalo, the ocean, the mountain, the wind, and the sky. As the awareness that we were not only in nature, but that we are nature progressed, so too did the location of the god-head migrate. Around 2500 years ago, we began to see a transformation from the external and objective god-image to a more internal and subjective experience of the divine. What was once a voice from the tree or the mountain top, could now be heard from within. Thus, our journey to meet with the divine is no longer only discovered within a sacred place of worship or a walk to the mountain top. It is no longer exclusively held or heard by one particular community; we need only to look within, and listen. Our awareness of the vox dei, the voice of god, and our capacity to hear it, is in large part based on our willingness to cultivate an attitude that is open and receptive. Sometimes we shut out the divine because we fear the pain that can come from the vulnerability of receiving. But the voice of god on the mountain, and the descent to the depths of the Underworld are two sides of the same experience. When we open ourselves and listen we begin to understand that the trauma we once feared is one of the great thresholds we all must pass, and that through this pathway, we come to know a deeper truth: what you seek outside of yourself is within you. Go within and not only hear, but listen.

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Feel it all
Separate in two
There’s nothing quite like a name
To contain difference between me and you
Something to run away from
Somewhere to run to
Caught between what you find and what you leave behind you

No one can know
So let it go
Settle Down – Listen to me – Settle Down

No better time than opposition
For discovering the truth
The game is set for competition
With no book of rules

No one will know
So let it go
These answers are hiding
Inspiring the finding
Though always unknown
So move in slow


I can’t hear what you don't say
Discover something new
For kindness there’s a price to pay
Settle down and listen too

I don’t mind waiting
I don’t mind at all
There’s nothing describing
What will always be hiding
Though still waiting after all

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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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