www.ralphbuckley.com "So Long Ago" This is my own little mantra or chant...actually, for me the repetitiveness of this song is the healing part. Some songs just help me get through stuff. I was kinda in a trance singing this over and over when Marcie came home the other day. She set up the mics for me so we might try to record right then...I'm glad she did...it is very raw...but what would be the point of smoothing out the rough spots....this is not about aesthetics...its not what's on the surface that counts anymore. Perfection is like trying to mimic a machine...and a machine has no soul...(not yet anyways)....though I'd like to record this again with a band... ________________ We have all lost someone or something dear to us...some of us our more apt to a talk about it. I sing about it....but I cannot talk about it. It's just not something that I've ever been comfortable with.... all that counts is that I'm here now, and with whatever time I may have left...well I need to spend that time doing something other then appeasing my own selfishness....I've already wasted a lifetime doing that. We have all loved and lost, no one is immune to this....but death is not the horrible tragedy that we have been taught to fear...no it is a part of our spiritual journey back home... ...Mystics have always claimed to have had direct experience of the nature of ultimate reality, and seven centuries ago, Rumi, a Persian mystic, wrote the following enigmatic lines: I died a mineral and became a plant; I died a plant and rose an animal; I died an animal and I was a man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more I shall die as a man, to soar With blessed angels; even from angelhood I must pass on ... When I have sacrificed my angel soul, I shall become that which no mind conceived. Seven hundred years later we find the remarkable psychic Joan Grant reaffirming exactly those ideas, which she derived from her own paranormal experiences: "I acquired sufficient empirical experience to see the broad outlines of the progress of an individual during the initial four phases of his evolution. He starts with only enough ability to organize a single molecule. As his experience increases, and his consciousness begins to expand, he requires more complex forms through which to express that consciousness. When he can no longer be contained by the mineral phase of existence, he enters the plant kingdom, then graduates by a series of incarnations as various species of animal, to his first incarnation as a member of the human race." ________________ YouTube video clips used in "So long ago" yeknup www.youtube.com "Hug" www.youtube.com eaglesy www.youtube.com "3d digital album "dreaming angel" www.youtube.com cdewilde www.youtube.com "Multi-Dimensional Orbital Clock and Calendar" www.youtube.com Lassoto18 www.youtube.com "AoI - 3D Hourglass" www.youtube.com 06solareclipse www.youtube.com "Thunderstorm Time Lapse" www.youtube.com ______________________ www.ralphbuckley.com 2012 Consciousness Awakening (Cd available now) cdbaby.com