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Can you sense something strange?
Like We're living amidst a big change?
Not a change to a new form of rocketships
What's becoming more obvious
Is we need a change in consciousness
I'm talking change, as we remove splinters from our brains
As we identify the sources of our pains
As we remove these invisible chains
So my flows will not be about hoes
When have the globe's lacking food and clothes
Our culture's filled with information but never wisdom
Kids sitting glued to the television
Gettinglocked into a mental prison
T.V.! creating hella-victims
Inflicting Tunnel Vision and programming our decisions
Clicking OFF is the mission
So what if I don't conform
And form a swarm of brainstorms to break all the norms?
My life's been a roller-coaster ride through space and time
I wasn't facing time, but I let demons infiltrate my mind
Living life centered around wasting time
Until I woke up, said I wasting mine!
Metaphorical scoliosis, now I've got a straightened spine
But then I felt searing pain, the world's wounds have no covering
Oceans gasping for air, while civilization is smothering
Meanwhile Gaia is trying to do some mothering
Confused kids, we just pollute her with another thing
We live in a world of paradox,
Kenyan kids yearn for a pair of socks
While Americans anxiously stare at clocks!
Wasting our entire lives away
Until we open up our eyes and say
I'm taking off this blindfold,
Revealing my divine soul, and changing up my minds mold!
But We're up against the machine's invincible wrath
Tough to keep the torch lit on the invisible path
You may get lost in the darkness of despair
Seeing no way out of that devilish lair
But deep in your heart, there remains an ember
Synchronistic deja vu helps you remember
That a more beautiful world is possible
Even amongst monstrous obstacles
All it takes is a change in perceptual spectacles
To see that life is ineffably incredible
Unforgettably majestical
Cuz butterflies and caterpillars DNA is identical!
The Universe will help you unleash your potential,
A change in beliefs is all that's essential
The world is infinitely intricate
Just gotta find your niche amidst the symphony of instruments
And its the space in between that gives life to the dream
If you keep your eyes keen, then you'll see what I mean
Beyond pessimist optimist dichotomies
Are practical Transition Town philosophies
Towards a world with less PCB's and alotta trees, based on reciprocities
Converging revolutions, there are lots of these
Sprouting up like poppy seeds
At increasing velocities!
And once your Ego deflates, you become humbled and grounded
Realize the universe has us surrounded
Feeling interconnected your bound to be astounded!
But separation's been engrained in us
No culture's as insane as us
Thinking we're invincible, we've snorted too much angel dust
To break this vicious cycle, gotta live Spontaneous!
These are just pieces to a thesis
On top of exotic hypnagogic logic
And essentially the conclusion
Is that separation is an illusion
No species deemed exclusion
From deleterious pollution
So you may ask Who, What, Where, When, HOW?
But WE'RE THE ONES WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR,
THE TRANSITION IS NOW!
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2. |
Inflow
01:19
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HeartMind Combined
02:52
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With the heartmind combined, lovinlife is what you find
With the heartmind combined, lovinlife is what you find
If Heart and Mind work in Conjuction
It will Diminish the dysfunction
clearing up the traffic jam at the junction
Our brains are butting Heads
This Dualism is duelism
This Blues against the reds
All this Fighting is foolism
Stuck in separation, it’s bad for our Health
...The recipe to reestablish the commonwealth
Is to recognize what you do to others, you do unto yourSELF!
Unlock the door within, restore openness
Talk, explore, begin, restore hopefulness
Cuz Fear is on the chopping block
Layers of the onion you are peelin
Finally allowed to be feelin what your feelin
True purpose is what you’re revealin
New sides of yourself,u can change like a chameleon
The Multicolored internal flame
Burns away the self blame
Knowing the mission for which you came
Ain’t got no shame up in your game (x2)
And If the mind is a judge, gotta clear it like smudge
If the mind tries to be a judge, gotta clear it like smudge
Television tells you ugly duckling but ur a gorgeous goose
TV tries to sell you something, but the never tell the truth
I vote Less TV more books by Doctah Suess
Because after All,
the ones who mind don’t matter and the ones who matter don’t mind
With the heartmindcombined, lovinlife is what you find
With the heartmindcombined, lovinlife is what you find
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Ay Lay Ol'
02:34
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Transition Town Flowetry
03:11
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Do you have the drive?
To create a world that's vibrantly alive?
A place where all species can thrive?
Well this here is a gathering of the tribe...
Is the 9 to 5 shift grippin your soul?
Tired of drifting with the flow of the status quo?
Then paradigm shifting is the way to go
Come take a glimpse down the rabbit hole...
See we live within an invisible fence
Everyone's walking around tense
Conditioned by our own Pa-rents
To focus only on future events...
But then we miss what's right here
On this big blue beautiful sphere
Gaia's got a message for us to hear
Do you have headphones in your ear?
The message that Earth is giving me
Is that we must use our abilities within our own vicinities
Allow our creativities to abolish negativities
Nature's saying "Mimic me and rejoin the symphony"
And if we use Permaculture techniques,
We'll be having a fresh feast
Within the next couple weeks..
And you may think I sound outlandish
But I don't want our species to vanish
Already billions are famished
And ecosystems consistently damaged..
But if you take a step back like Hubble
Amidst all of the serious struggles
People are steppin out of their bubbles
Coming together and forming big huddles
Coming up with solutions to our troubles
So many brainstorms, it's creating puddles!
Theres a change coming, can you feel that we're near it?
A revolution of mind, body, and spirit..
A coalescence of our heads, hands, and hearts
With you and I is where the change starts...
So if you feel caged by an isolated feeling
Sacred plants may initiate the healing
Layers of separation you'll begin peeling..
Oh and did I mention?
If you use the power of intention
Then your life becomes your own invention..
And if you take the time
To reclaim your mind
You just might find
That all of life is intertwined
Like an Ayahuasca vine
Or the Kundalini in your spine..
And so I'm here to validate, motivate, and co-create
Because every day on Earth is a day to celebrate
When we all meditate we let blissfulness radiate
And demonstrate what can happen when we all COLLABORATE!
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As Above, So Below
02:06
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I send pure love and it flows like lava,
Shooting from my heart, shaped like a merkaba,
Anahata chakra, beatin like a tablah,
So much gratitude to Wakan tanka!!!!
As above so below Pass the love
Go with the flow
As below so above
Layers of lasagna love
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Now Is The Opportunity
05:31
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Now is the Opportunity :
I used to be a fellow
Who felt that life was hollow
Everything seemed shallow
With no path to follow
I was stuck by my mental constructs
That were dictating my conduct
I saw no other possibilities
I felt ill at ease
The monotony was killing me
My school system was competitive
All my classes were repetitive
Couldn't think for myself, had to listen to the executive
My spirit was dying, and school wouldn't let it live
So I decided- I'm gonna go on a quest
I intend to give it my best
And strap on my bullshit-proof vest
I'm gonna go on a search for truth
And then shout it off every roof
And share it with all of my fellow youth
So I began a downright investigation
To find the roots of this messed up nation
I looked everywhere in exploration
I talked to buddhists, nudists, and raw foodists
I thought they'd have answers, but none met my expectations
I sat in sweatlodges, garages, and sessions of meditation
Systems theory, shamanism, and solar demonstrations
And then finally in book that I read on vacation:
The root of all our problems is separation.
Charles Eisenstein helped me to gain some sanity
When I read his life's work- The Ascent of Humanity
He writes of humans going in a new direction
Uniting self and nature into reconnection
Now I don't claim to be a prophet
Nor do I want profit in my pockets
I just want to spread the word about these topics
Cuz life is soo much more than accumulating objects!
First, we need a new prescription of opticals,
Cuz infinite economic growth is pathological
Whereas permaculture is the logical path
See, humans are an extension of the Earth, which became self-aware
We're not the rulers of nature, its au contraire
We're just a strand in the web, like a tree or a bear
And once we move from Ego-centric, to eco-centric
Then the power of love will overcome like Hendrix
See our potential is excellent
But we've been trained and tamed like a circus elephant
And so we live half-lives like a decaying element
I call it "going through the motions" sickness
But the sickness can be cured with the quickness
If we tap into the mental witness
Observe our minds like a Litmus
Discarding old patterns to gain some mental fitness
So that we can recognize
That the world isn't mechanized
It's really just our western minds
And maybe what we perceive
Is mostly what we believe
And kids do hear Santa Claus on Christmas Eve
And I believe in the miracle land of zion
That is why I'm lyrically amplifyin'
And seeding gift culture like a spherical dandelion
As more people leave the cave in plato's allegory
We'll see that this big change is participatory
And we're the actors in this epic story
Look beauty is all around!
The sky starts an inch off the ground
When your found in the here and now
Without your mind making a sound
THAT- is what they call profound
And so the message emerging from my vocals
Is to try on a new pair of bifocals
And to actually say Hi to the locals
Because nothing supersedes the power of community
NOW is the opportunity
So plant some super seeds and empower unity!
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Yabba Yo
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Yabba Yo
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9. |
As The Earth Revolves
05:00
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As the Earth Revolves :
People hurry and scurry all around
It’s chaotic on the ground,
Grey and brown the only colors in this town,
The beaten path beckons, but I decide to diverge
My sweatshop made Nikes on the curb,
As the crises they converge…
I felt like Neo, thinking there’s got to be more than this,
Feeling so lost, but couldn’t find the orphanage
I went through a journey of metamorphosis,
Meeting multiple Morpheuses',
My worldview transformed with enormousness
I snapped out of the spell, it wasn’t treating me well.
Woke up from the snooze, and muted the six-o'clock news
Before the TV-tube turned my brain to ooze..
Amnesia of amnesia, so utterly confused
How do I find what I don’t know I’ve lost?
I know! I’ve gotta ask questions!!
I questioned every suggestion, and every section of every question
I questioned the word question- I questioned the quest-I-on
Eventually I questioned all of my premises
I found out my biggest nemesis
Was my own mental pessimists
Replaying relentless sentences
And self-sabotaging sentiments
Then I ate sacred mushrooms, Holy shit from a cow,
Catapulted into the ever evolving now,
Between nee how and ciao is now, the ineffable tao,
All I could say is wow!
Started cultivating mindfulness
To reach a state of timelessness
I stopped taking life for granted
Realized that the world IS enchanted.
What if everything is a miracle?
And I’m the one driving the steering wheel?
Co-creating my experience through the lyrical
As the universe expands and contracts like a spherical...
Cheerio, also known as a double Torus
Bursting from singularity into a self-organizing chorus
How could this realization not floor us!?
Every cell in your body was once a primordial forest!
Form playing with form, from auroras to stegosaurus
With infinite possibilities, how could they ever bore us?
And what if there is not an objective reality?
Just subjective reflections of the totality
The all pervasive pure potentiality
Impossibly indescribable through any modality
And its crucial that we communicate over Corpus Callosum
Simultaneously a drop and the whole entire ocean..
The all encompassing ocean of Brahman
Navigate new realms with help from a shaman
And the words I speak may sound uncommon
But I take Bob’s advice and keep on Jammin!
As we Flow and ebb, we’re all part of the web
As we come and go, we’re all part of the flow
Overstretching the globe, the web of life is seamless
Magical fabric, and Gaia is the seamstress
And as the Earth revolves
Consciousness evolves
Once we all get involved
All our problems will be solved
As the Earth revolves
Consciousness evolves
Once we all get involved
All our problems will be solved.
So let the boundaries....dissolve
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Coalesce and Combine
02:54
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Earth Our Body
06:01
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How do we save the Earth? Does it need saved? Are “we” separate from the Earth?
What is the boundary between the Ideal and the Real?
The boundary is....Do you got enough zeal?
Because its up to youuuuuu
To turn your declarations into exclamations!
Don’t let societies expectations put limitations on your aspirations
What will your Generation generate for future generations?
Let your imagination emanate super manifestations....
How can You Just Sit Back and eat a Dorito?
When Climate Change is Curbing Albedo?
Polluting our world, we seem to think we’re invincible
Paving and misbehaving, soon we will Sit before the principal
Mother Nature’s Office...Will She do the unthinkable?
How Can She not look at Humans with Revulsion
But Does our treatment of the planet Deserve expulsion?
We ClearCut Forests without even thinking
We Blow up mountains without even Blinking
But more of us are listening to A quiet Inkling
Our Hearts Yearn to -feel With Biosphere
Exploring ways to heal- we are Pioneers
we are Made of earth,- we are gaia’s Mirrors
Reconnecting to The Truth, No longer will we -hide our fears
Earth my body, Water my blood, air my breath and Fire my Spirit (x2)
Lacking Community, We Long to Belong
Take a Sigh of relief, you were right all along
Earth your body, Water your blood, air your breath and Fire your Spirit (x2)
Those are the ingredients, and your the finished recipe
So Cultivate your skills and activate your specialty
Tell Me How will you ....Assist the shift?
Tell Me How will you.... Dish out your gift? (x2)
Emphasize We Gotta empathize (x2)
If You look deep into your enemies Eyes
You’ll See a small Fry Lost in the Enterprise
Ceos have been programmed like C3peos
To Wear uncomfortable clothes and compete with perceived foes
No ones to blame, We’re all just playing a game
There’s no them, We are all the same
Why would I protest Perceived Enemies?
When I could Devote my energies
Towards Permaculture Remedies
Celebrating life with healing Melodies,...
Earth Our Body, water Our Blood, Air Our Breath, Fire our Spirit!
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Back Like A Boomerang
00:51
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13. |
7 Directions
08:00
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This is the message /of the sev-en directions
Sharing life less-ons mend-ing connections (x2)
Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
Hay Yappa Ho Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
The message is light, but its also serious
Guiding us through these trans-itional periods
Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
Hay Yappa Ho Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
I am like a flute made of hollow bamboo
Open up my mind the universe jams through
Do the teachings come to me one at a time?
Nope, they overlap and they are all in rhyme.
Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
Hay Yappa Ho Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
7 directions is what we’re embedded in
De-picted on the wheel of the medicine
Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
Hay Yappa Ho Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
Up, down, east, west, north, south and the one within
Let these rhymes remind so we never forget again.
Up, down, east, west, north, south and the one within
Let these rhymes remind so we never forget again.
Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
Hay Yappa Ho Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
Consumerism is unfulfilling, because our cups already full
Told that we’re broken, but we’re already whole
We gotta remember how to live from our indigenous soul
And see that life is a fun dance
Full of a bun dance
Time is forever, but we still have just one chance
The precious chance is smashed
Between the future and the past
THIS moment is a Gift, and its oh so pleasant
Open up to it and it becomes a present
This moment brings in the wisdom of the East
And the grateful heart sits at a continuous feast
But how can we be grateful amidst so much drama?
Everyone’s gone crazy from Osama to Obama
Sidewalks of stress and suffering from trauma
How can we be peaceful like the Dalai Lama?
And reconnect our hearts with Pachamama?
Mother Earth is NOT just a re-source
Fire wind water food- she is thee Source (x2)
What on Earth is happening?
Do our lives fit into a larger patterning?
Or are we just going in circles like Saturn’s ring?
Vicious cycles of the same routines
Hamster wheel lifestyles create deranged teens
Are we rocks stuck in the mainstream?
The main stream is really just a strange dream
Sleepwalking actors, we must hop off stage and change memes
But what’s a meme?
A meme is an idea or story that you believe in
Like the law of karma, where everyone get’s even
Or that we must control the babies who are teethin
Instead of letting them explore and learn how to reason
Our cultural story is to join the stampede
Playing follow the leader, but no ones in the lead
Bombarded with messages about what we need
Told to climb to the top, you gotta use greed
But the 7 directions tell us other-wise
We are interCOnnected, so there really are no “other guys”
We are perfect as we are, we don’t need to be another size
Finding compromise is the way this is summarized!
So connect with the tribe and let your visions synergize
As we rise with open eyes to aurora skies
This is the time that humanity unifies
And the 7 directions are honored and recognized
Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
Hay Yappa Ho Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
This is the message of the sev-en directions
Sharing life less-ons mend-ing connections
Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
Hay Yappa Ho Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
The message is light, but its also serious
Guiding us through these trans-itional periods
Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
Hay Yappa Ho Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
I am like a flute made of hollow bamboo
Open up my mind the universe jams through
Do the teachings come to me one at a time?
Nope, they overlap and they are all in rhyme.
Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
Hay Yappa Ho Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
7 directions is what we’re embedded in
De-picted on the wheel of the medicine
Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
Hay Yappa Ho Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
Up, down, east, west, north, south and the one within
Let these rhymes remind so we never forget again.
Up, down, east, west, north, south and the one within
Let these rhymes remind so we never forget again.
Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Hay Yappa Ho
Hay Yappa Ho Yappa Hay Yappa Ho (repeats)
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Outflow
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Phil Osophical Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
I am a Flowetry Artist and Life Coach from Peaceburgh, PA. I love sharing Spoken Word, leading Empowerment Workshops, laughing, philosophizing, and much more. I am grateful to connect with you and the entire web of life :)
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