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November 8, 2023November 8, 2023

What if you love people

What if you love people
But let go of organization
Found misrepresentation
In projections and actions
Beyond a polished surface
It becomes unacceptable
To divide the indivisible
As many hold on tight
To nurturing illusions
Until one realizes
That it is the divine
Spirit, light, and sound
Most of all the love of God
That carries everyone and all
Beyond what humans grasp
With mind and emotions
But all embrace at heart
Giving each life to start
Consciousness to unfold
The present moment now
Words speak silence listens
Genuinely real and honest
To live in peace and love.

“Happy cat’s meow” — head and heart

PentaMin / PentaEol (pentatonic minor) on C# — bass, lap slide guitar, double 8-string guitar — 4:26

What if you love people — inclusive or exclusive?

“The problem with religions of the world is that one who has gained insight into the nature of [spirit] soon learns that they are but social institutions. Their liberation involves, among other things, the realization that it is a myth and not a fact. It is a liberation from certain social injustices; but not a liberation from karma and the gaining of spiritual unfoldment which leads to God-realization.”

— The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Books One & Two, Paul Twitchell, pp. 243-244

How many colors can be in one rose? How much love?

What if you love people — Multi-colored rose – another miracle of nature — October 2023 — Grächwil, Switzerland

November 1, 2023November 1, 2023

Yes, it works

Yes, it works
The divine —
Completely open
No dogmatic ties
Religion or master
But plain straight
The divine itself
Linked directly
No in between
Just realization
Plain and simple
Start as experiment
When hatching out
Of all frameworks
Like an eggshell
Once cracked
It’s time to go
Come on out
And be free
Of restrictions
Dos and don’ts
Must and never
Especially only
It works indeed
Spiritual freedom
With the divine
Spirit and God.

“Reaching up to heaven” — yes, it works!

ReachUp — triple 8-string guitar and bass — June 2021 — 7:11 — as loop on a separate tab (or via right-click, if available)

“The Conference / Speech of the Birds” مقامات الطیور / منطق الطیر

Come on, you brave birds!

Let’s glide, let’s fly, let’s soar.

Love loves difficult things.

We’re on our way!

— “The Conference of the Birds”, Peter Sís / Farid Ud-Din Attar فریدالدین

Together again, on the merry-go-round of life

Yes, it works — Generations learn to walk into the light ever again — October 2023 — Lake Minnewashta, USA — photo by Laurie Sacchet

October 25, 2023October 25, 2023

Tonality of the month: CorMix

1) CorMix — extended, very calm sound sample — a.k.a. “Starlight before dawn” — 8-string guitar, tingsha cymbal pair, faint tanpura — October 2023 — 3:44 — as loop on a separate tab (or via right click, if available)

2) CorMix — rhythmic sound sample — 8-sting guitar — 3:02 — as loop on a separate tab (or via right click, if available)

3) CorMix — calm sound sample — 8-string guitar — 4:16 — as loop on a separate tab (or via right click, if available)

The tonality of the month for November 2023 is CorMix

CorMix is a Locor / Cor Reach heptatonality and Core tonality. As partially anchored Reach heptatonality of the subgroup Locor / Cor, it contains both the minor as well as major third, plus also the tritone. Further, it contains all four corners of the sound temple and is thus also a Core tonality. As reflected in its name, the upper tetrachord of CorMix is DorMixolydian.

Tonality of the month: CorMix — CorMix summary visualization of pitches, intervals, and harmonic axes

You may enjoy a sound sample or tonality loop as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation. This can help with upliftment, purification, and focusing. Or it could simply be used as soothing background sound for relaxation and regeneration. If you care to hum, chant, or sing along, you could use a spiritually charged syllable like Ōṃ / Aum ॐ, or HU, or another mantra syllable that suits you.

October 20, 2023October 28, 2023

Sept-Oct 2023 Tonalibus update

Playlists and Sounds

Individual tonality

Website issues

This Sept-Oct 2023 Tonalibus update highlights the conclusion of Playlist K and the creation of Playlist L and Sept-Oct 2023 sounds. Further, it touches on the development of Individual tonality. This new Fidibus offer in the making will be an aid to select personal tonalities to form one’s own compositions and eventually personal sound mantras. Finally, this update mentions some issues with the Tonalibus website.

Sept-Oct 2023 Tonalibus playlist and sounds update

Playlist K is now complete with 14 pieces covering 80½ minutes of summer 2023 recordings. Last additions were:
“Calmly breathe in, out, and in again” — Kumbhaka base
“कुम्भक Kumbhaka” — between in and out, out and in — for M-A

“कुम्भक Kumbhaka” — ReachBal (double harmonic/Gypsy major) on G# — fretted vichitra veena, lap slide guitar, conch, tanpura — 8:54

The new Playlist L and Sept-Oct 2023 sounds already contain:
“Ma Sa Papa” — hearts long for peace
“Among suns, moons, and stars” — a hopeful blues — (below)
“Das Mülirad isch broche, Simelibärg!” — go in peace — for KHT

“Among suns, moons, and stars” — MinBlue on G — 5-string guitar, lap slide guitar, gong, tanpura — 8:40

Individual tonality selection development update

To systematically select personal tonalities and eventually aid in forming one’s own personal sound mantras, Individual tonalities is forming in the Fidibus shop. The previous update announced Sound as mantra, Fundamental pitch, and Chromatic pitches. Now the first option under Individual tonalities, Harmonic base, is complete for all twelve chromatic pitches. And the format of the first of two steps of Individual tetratonality to select one of eight root or tetratonalities is in fine-tuning and accessible as draft only. Stay tuned for more to come.

Update on Tonalibus website issues

At times, the Tonalibus site, supposedly its multi-lingual plugin, consumes excessive CPU and memory from its hosting server. In late September, this caused CPU errors that impacted the site’s database and made it unavailable for a few days until the excellent tech-support of Cyon, the hosting provider, was able to remove the blockage. But issues remain with the translations plugin and still impact the response time of translated pages on the Tonalibus site. Thank you for your patience!

May you prosper and live in peace and freedom!

October 19, 2023September 16, 2024

Crazed into a spell

Crazed into a spell
Of one view only
To the exclusion
Of everyone else
Trampling others
With hardly regard
Putting down most
But one’s very own
Overbearing at best
Or, rather at worst
That is how come
Humanity may fail
If enough do insist
Without letting go
Of their own craze
Seeing one way
As the only one
Vilifying others
Feeds friction
Instead of love
As they all claim
Unity mandated
Shall fall apart
Sooner or later
And make room
For love’s bloom.

“Humpbacks breach the surface” — a dreamscape

TetraNa w/ Norcor inversion, Dorian, PentaMin / PentaEol — 8-string guitar and bass — 9:30 — April 2022 — composed as antidote to war (in the Ukraine, and now also in the Middle East)

From “I Heard The Owl Call My Name” by Margaret Craven

I think it is time you knew of Tagoona, the Eskimo. Last year one of our white men said to him, “We are glad you have been ordained as the first priest of your people. Now you can help us with their problem.” Tagoona asked, “What is a problem?” and the white man said, “Tagoona, if I held you by your heels from a third-story window, you would have a problem.” Tagoona considered this long and carefully. Then he said, “I do not think so. If you saved me, all would be well. If you dropped me, nothing would matter. It is you who would have the problem.” — p. 70