LETTING GO WITH A CONFESSION - ADDICTED TO FEAR MONGERING AND DEATH THROUGH VARIOUS MEDIUMS

This was written on May 24th, 2012 and I have been in the light now for long enough to post it :)

Sometimes I go through some incredible waves of semi-depressive states in which I will commence to sink myself even deeper by indulging in media that furthers ingrains fear and negative thoughts.  Today I am taking a strong hold to eradicate those things from my life, but, as with many things, I had to enjoy one last final ride.  Just like the night before I quit drinking, I got completely obliterated, and when I have my crazy "I am quitting sugar" phases I will eat a whole box of sweets.  I guess it is just the way I deal with things and today I am accepting that and moving on from the spiral of negativity that was recently activated by two sources, the Showtime TV show "Dexter" and the novel "A Fine Balance" by Rohinton Mistry First let me talk about Dexter.

"Dexter" is the biggest mind F@*@ of a show that I have seen in a long time. A quick description goes like this; the show is about a man whom from childhood needed to express his dark passenger through killing, so his father taught him to kill people that he must kill people that are killing other people for no reason.  Dexter has a code of conduct and morality and is charming and intelligent.   The show is completely addictive, adventurous, entertaining, smart, surprising, sexy, seductive and extremely dangerous to the sub conscious.  It is not a show that you come out feeling good. It is a show that, well I can imagine, is making people think in the ways of a serial killer.  MMMMM, such a novel topic at this time in humanity.  I can share from my own experience that this show lingers into my mind quite often when I was watching it.  I also remember having dreams of killing and actually enjoying it.  But I had to keep going with it, honestly, it was just soo good, but I needed the drug of Dexter out of my life, so I marothoned through it as quickly as possible and have now completely gotten it out of my life with no chance of return.  I pray that the damage is short lived as I continue to reverse the effects by streaming inspiring and uplifting content in on a daily basis.  I wanted to actually let go of the program around season 2, but, like many out there in the world, I was just hooked.  Let that be the last!!

"A Fine Balance" by Rohinton Mistry focuses on every single negative aspect of the Indian culture that you could possibly gather into the extremely long 600 pages.   His writing method has the ability to hook you into a brighter day, having hope for the evil, compassion for the lonely and love for all, but all this only too slam you down into his "so-called" realities of everything ends bad.  I wonder sometimes if art like this is actually doing anything for the world.  Maybe it sparks someone to make a change, do something better or live a better life, but how many people does it spark the preconceived and long time conditioned notion that everything is the world is F@#$$% UP!  Well, like I have said, I put it down, left it behind along with that deep seated part of my life that is constantly yearning to sink into depression. 

I just had a conversation with a friends son whom told me that every girl he comes into contact with becomes depressed!  WOW, what is happening out there in the world.  Come on, lets wake up into the light.  I have been on the ACTIVE side of the spiritual path for more then 5 years now, an may I say active because I have always had the knowledge but never taken wholesome action, and I am still yearning after the darkness.  Is it so deeply engrained!  

I NOW COMMIT TO THE UNIVERSE, TO THE MULTI-VERSE, TO HUMANITY, TO YOU AND MOST IMPORTANTLY TO ME THAT I WILL SPEND THE REST OF MY DAYS STEERING INTO THE LIGHT.  I AM USING DISCIPLINE IN MY ACTIONS THAT WILL SOON ERADICATE THE URGES TO GO INTO THE DARKNESS.  I AM LIGHT AND I SHINE BRIGHT.

The Story of "High"

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

It was in one of the weakest moments in my life that the melody of this "High" vibrational offering came through me.  Here is the album insert text…..

"3 years, 10,000 miles and 5,400 meters above the substance based life I lived in the not-so distant past, I found myself sluggishly pulling myself over the final pass on the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal.  It was in these moments that the melody of “High” came to me like a welcomed friend, there to aid in my completion of the circuit. The lyrics came as a reminder of all the blissful experiences of deep meditation that lifted me to great heights since I had given up drugs and alcohol on my 30^th birthday."

But there is much more then that to tell in this story.  This song lifted me up!  Brought me back to LIFE in many ways, musically and actually.  It was a gift. This song was a pivotal moment in my life.  

Musically, I knew it was a hit immediately.  It was the first real CATCHY melody that I had ever wrote and there was just something about it even before I wrote the lyrics.  So when the lyrics began to come, I found them reflecting the inner peace that comes from meditation and I was lifted to great heights, emotional, physically, spiritually, mentally and actually.  This song shed light on a LIFE PATH and on a deep knowing that NO MATTER WHAT, I always have the ability to go inside and feel blissful and alive.   

I began to share it and found it having a similar effect on those around me.  It was the highlight of concerts and gatherings and then when we went into the studio, which summed up went something like this …..

"Young and upcoming producer Joseph E-Shine came into the production of high shortly after finding his path in yoga and meditation.  Much to our surprise, the confident 21 year-old came into the studio and, with determination and focus, knocked out our first single in just under 8 hours. Much to his surprise, I nailed the lead vocals in 1 take, Twice. "

I knew this song, this message, this energy, this joy, this vibration was meant to be NOW!

So what to do for the video? OK, let's create a dance out of it we thought, lets get some flashmob action going.  Lets put as much fun and light behind this message as possible, because that is what the world NEEDS!  LIGHT!!!  There is so much heaviness around reflected in our daily lives.  This LIGHT, that we all have access to INSIDE is what I see to be the thread of of our lives, and if this video can trigger ANYONE to take that look, even for a moment …. well …. SUCCESS!!!  And I also believe that a SMILE is our greatest currency.

Why are we going for 1 Million here in such a short time?  Why?  Because!  Life is a game and I am here to PLAY it!  Yeah, this isn't a video of a talking cat or a stoned rainbow man, but it is one that will put a smile on your face, a bounce in your step and maybe, just maybe, make you look inside and sing ba-pa-dap-ba-dap yourself, bringing the seriousness of everyday life to that light inner joy that is accessible in every moment, INSIDE!  Let's bring that love to the forefront of the online video charade.

And speaking of INSIDE, This Love has been actualized in collaboration with many people, most importantly, the devotion, encouragement and steady stream of love and commitment from my dear partner Mai Segev.  She made the final decision on the production direction in the studio, produced the music video and has believed in "High" from the very first moment it touched her heart!

THANK YOU for sharing and for daring to look inside.

DOWNLOAD THE SONG HERE

Natural Persuasion

I just finished watching a highly sensitive and genuinely insight PBS special "The Persuaders" (Please Watch) on the persuasive mechanisms of the Marketing and Advertising Industry and how they are increasingly getting more and more hungry to connect to the consumer at an emotional level.  I think the ending statement sums up the bottom line of the whole message, "the secret of all persuasion is to induce the person to persuade themselves."  I immediately got stars in my eyes of how these manipulative process is now being used for good.  

On the first watch, I find myself despondent and thoroughly disgusted by the whole matter, but, in the same breath, equally intrigued.  I ask myself questions like, "How can we use these techniques to get the messages of inner peace and self-transformation to the masses?"  or "How can we find ways to persuade the consumer to buy into their own liberation and out of materialization?"  

I am quickly met by the past reality of the enormous budgets that are put into the constant battle for consumer attention.  The professional research that is done to insure that the consumer is reached on a multi-sensory level as well as the teams of people that stand behind these creative sub-cultures of illusion.  

But now the times have changed!!  And this is where we can bank on the enormous possibility of a massive shift in human consciousness by naturally being ourselves, which is by far the greatest advertising tool out there.  

With the extensive amount of ADS clogging our minds at every corner, nobody is standing out anymore.  And what is amazing is that, because nobody is standing out, they are having to go person to person to achieve their advertising success.  AHA!!!

This is where all of us transformative light seeking conscious revolutionaries come in.

Let me make one thing clear, we are a different kind of revolutionary.  We are not the ones that stand in the streets and spout our philosophies and beliefs.  No NO.  We are the ones that have committed to doing what it takes to break through dysfunctional belief systems, through patterns that do not serve us, through limiting beliefs into the life of our dreams, interconnected, respected and liberated from fear and doubt.  What an amazing time!

So back to my point, I believe in the changing tide of advertising, we can easily shift the illusion into one of transformation.  I believe we can persuade people to learn more about themselves naturally using the same techniques.  How will we get the budgets?  We are the budgets.  We are the persuasion.  It is in our day to day life and interactions is where the real advertising comes from.  We stand for a better world and that touches the hearts and souls of everyone we come into contact with.  

So the next question comes from the spiritual entrepreneurs, "How do I meet my Monetary Needs with this philosophy?"  "Don't I need to advertise something that will bring me profit?"  Good good question.   A simple answer comes.  Listen to your heart.  Create the products and life that is most reflective and authentic to your journey.  Share it with everyone you meet.  Price yourself HIGH, believe in whatever you do and you will be amazed, no matter what it is that you do, how much abundance will come in.  And, all in all, you didn't have to persuade anyone, you just were being YOURSELF and that just changed a consumer into a transformer.  mmmmmmm

Please comment, I would love your feedback and take on this matter!

Sunrise 365 - Day 33 - I AM ABUNDANT

Day 33 - I am Abundant

This morning while I walked under the first light of this spectacular sunrise, I enjoyed the expanded thoughts of Wayne Dyer. One of the main topics of the day had to do with the state of abundance. Could you ever imagine the SUN having a thought that "today I just won't shine ….." or "am I enough?" I think the answer is clear .... but .... why do we? We think that we are SO BIG that we can just dim out whenever we want even though the WORLD needs us just as much as it needs the SUN. I say we make a commitment to SHINE our LOVE LIGHT in every moment possible with acts of gratitude, compassion and inner peace…..WHO's IN? .... and ….. How will you SHINE today???

First Entry in New Journal - July 20th, 2009

First of all, I must thank the beloved Miss Mary Violet for this blessed offering of love that will scribe int the next many months. her beloved heart is a reflection of the purity and light in which all souls yearn to come back to....

this book, being larger in physical Weight and energetically more rich, is a symbol of the great step in which I will take ar this turning point in my life. At the ripe age of 33, I will Honor the intention and integrity in which I live through discipline, knowing that with this action, ultimate freedom will come into my everyday MIND. It is time to take another leap into the man I am and to stand as a symbol in the messages that I SING and Speak!!

With my intentions clear, my heart open, my commitments fullfilled, my body, my mind and spirit respected and my connections honored and nurtured, I can penetrate this human existance with as much light and love as one man could ever imagine. PEOPLE GET READY.....heheheheh :)

I AM WALKING THIS PATH FOR ALL LIFE FORMS IN ALL GALAXIES, as WE ALL ARE!!!!

Clarity+Discipline+Strength+Integrity=LOVE

Summing up the Israel Experience!!

Wow! Well, you know a lot was going on when you sit down to make a summary of your experiences and there is an endless stream of thoughts going through your mind. Israel brought so much to my life that I am completely dumbfounded just thinking about it. I would have never expected to receive and give, travel and experience so much in such a short period of time. From the Farthest North and beyond the Borders of Egypt, I completely immersed myself in every faucet the culture had to offer. The underlying greatness to it all was the FOOD. From Day One, I was blown away by every bite of food and I started with the best and ended with the best, Elli Segev's Sabich!!! 2nd - Elad's Mom's Shakshuka and 3rd - Abu Hassan Chummos. Intertwined in all of that was countless felafels, sushi - Yep! - and more and more Chummos. I actually even found myself in a chummos based depression in the middle of Tel Aviv.

Really, I dove in. I dove into the insanity of the Palastinian Struggle, the joy of the day to day shopkeepers, the non-stop array of festivities happening on every corner, The green of the north, the vast desert, the stillness of Sinai and the Dead Sea. I visited most of the Old Cities, played Brave New World in a CHURCH and all over Israel for that matter. I did a photo shoot that changed my whole perspective of models. I got one of the best Massages of my life from an incredible spirit leader. I played music in a New Frequency, 528, the Frequency of LOVE, along with that frequency, I had the blessed chance of pounding on Grandmother Drum while Hugging Jerusalem. I met people from all walks of life and loved and honored each and every one of them. I became a part of an incredible tribe of light beings bringing the blessings of High Vibrations to all of Israel and beyond. I shared with Walk About Love, not as much as I would have liked, but I did manage to get there. I loved and loved and loved. I indulged in sexual fantasies, rich foods and depressive thoughts. I lived with an alcoholic Chain Smoker for 2 weeks, driving me to that point. I saw the old patterns of control and separation come into my existence again, forcing me to take a few steps backward in order to align myself for the new paridigm of intention and integrity that I set on the hour of my birth. I played music with over 50 musicians, most of them joining me for the two major shows that I held in Tel Aviv. I collaborated with one of the best female singers I have known. I set strong intentions and stuck by them. I manifested a great being of love into my life. I celebrated my birthday in musical devotion. I developed relationships that will last a lifetime! I rode the trains as much as I could and the buses even more. On one of my last days, while having a Dream Circle in the Desert, I received an energy so strong, that assured me the power of this time and the awakening of human consciousness. Nothing can stop us now....THE TIME IS NOW!!! Lastly, well not really, but last for now, I smiled as much as humanly possible and I paved the road for the next leg of journey to the land to be even more fruitful then the first!!

This place is simply magic, full of magical people, mystics and creators, religious nuts, insanity and struggle, desert, forest and some of the most beautiful beaches I have ever seen. The physical beauty of the people will spark up an 100 year old libido! It is a land in which you can sink internally or rise, depending on your discipline. I feel the culture to be gentle and soft, with roots of war and struggle so deep that you feel it in the vibration of the land. But that struggle has brought freedom to daily life and most people in the country are there for the moment and the moment only. Yes Western materialism is coming in and dulling out the vibrational frequency of the middle class, but where in the world has it not, it just gives us light bringers more work!!! Yes, each and every person must go to the army against their own will, but they have learned to enjoy it.

I see this country transforming into the space of LOVE and being one of the great seers on that journey, at the forefront of this major shift. Being that the country is so small and the population is small as well, and, for the fact that there is so much attention on this country all over the world, I believe the shift can happen with a snap of a fingers and will be respected and honored all over the world when the walls drop and the hearts open. And, myself and all the people that I meandered with over the last 3 months will be sure of that happening!!!!

To all the people that I shared time and space with, that took me into their homes and hearts and respected and honored me as one of their own, My heart filled gratitude surrounds you at this moment. THANK YOU SO MUCH. Israel is HOME and dear to my heart and I cannot wait to return. Keep on spreading the light, great ones, I am with you wherever my physical body resides!!!

Now I am tucked back into the heart based existence of India, receiving the blessings of rain and love of the people getting ready to engage fully in spreading the music and message of Brave New World. Look forward to sharing more on this!!

With love and infinite Gratitude!!

Daniel

A Month Of Eye Opening

Since my last message after the Obama Win, life has taken me into a furious storm of blessings, life altering moments and spinning wheels of information about the state of our planet at this time.

Starting with a blessing, I have been in the comforts of a 1 bedroom palace located right on the Ganges River in Swarg Ashram, Rishikesh. The cozy, fully equipped apartment (that includes a kitchen) was a gift from a great friend of whom I ran into on my first day back Home in Rishikesh. So, to put it honestly, I have been living like a civilized human being for the last month or so. Cooking meals every night, having friends for dinner and gatherings, which was great for Thanksgiving, writing music (10 New Songs Now!!), practicing Yoga, Reading, Writing, and watching a handful of movies, which leads me to the spinning wheels of information.

About 6 months back I had received a copy of the movie, Zeitgeist (Click here to go to movie), but, being the person I am and the fact that I tend to focus on the positive things in life, I had put it aside for another day, and that day finally arrived. In the jaw-dropping two hour offering of facts and an alternate view to today's sculpted media, I found myself in a tail-spin of disbelief on one hand, and complete trust in the knowledge on the other. So, for the last week I have been diving into this film coupled by an even deeper look at the proposed facts in the online film, Ring of Power (Click here to go to movie).

So basically, you can say that I have been in the world of so-called Conspiracy Theory, and, for the first time in my life, I actually feel like I am seeing A truth. Ultimately, there is no absolute truth, but if these films can give someone a choice of what to believe rather then the force-fed nonsense of mainstream media, I believe we will have a better shot at living in a world of LOVE. Knowledge is power, and seeing possibilities of the realities of our world - controlling, war-mongering Elite, possibly, we can prepare ourselves for the worst and surround ourselves with the best. Ultimately, we have little control as it seems the economic state has gotten so far out of hand, but we do have the power to LOVE, the power to be happy under any circumstances, and the power to stand up as a human race and be ALIVE, free from material excess, debt and FEAR, those being the exact things that feed the "so-called" rich.

No you have to imagine my thoughts when the Mumbai Chaos all took place. For one, I was supposed to be there but my heart led me elsewhere. Two, where it all went down is where I usually live in Mumbai. And, three, I see the connection to this and the world plan. If they can get India living in Fear and Americans and British (The Two supposed targets) Afraid to leave their countries, then they can continue the domination by fear. I know this may seem a little far fetched but, it all seems very real to me when I realize that next year I will have an chip in my passport that lets the world know where I am AT ALL TIMES. If that is not scary, I do not know what is. But, I will continue a life of freedom and love, because that is the only way to overcome this madness. Be HAPPY NOW!!!!

I also would like anyone whom is reading this to give some extra love and strength to my great friend Shibani (whom I stay with in Mumbai). She lost two great friends in the shootings last week and knows a few others whom have been injured. Her strength and devotion to humanity is beyond our imagination, so please send your prayers and love her way and in the way of all the families that are continuing to feel the weight of this ridiculous happening!

So, as I let all of this information settle in and allow my heart to open even further to the light of the world, I send you all prayers of love and peace, wherever you are in the world. Love your surroundings, love your life and realize it's just a play, that will keep us Gay each and everyday.

On a side note, I was able to see 1000 Sitar players play at once, as well as receiving an opportunity from the divine to stand up for myself and demand my money back from a retailer whom ripped me off, and, I was able to Choke A Man Into Light - whom hit me with his car. I have been intertwined in the blessing teaching of the Vedanta and I have made some dear friends of which I will know for many lifetimes. Also In this time of introversion and creative channeling, I am met with various ideas for spreading goodness and human expansion. The Most important, I feel, is how we are in this world every day, not how we are going to be. Awareness sets us free and our smile sets those around us free. Smile through it all!!

ALL IS LOVE - LOVE IS ALL - these happenings are just tests!!! Stay Strong!!

With LOVE, GRATITUDE AND DEVOTION!

Choking Into Light

An interesting story comes from a recent experience in Delhi. I must share!!!!

Early on the afternoon of the 21st of November, I had finished my Sadahna and was headed for some juice down the road. In the mixed chaos of Delhi's most crowded tourist section, Parah Ganj, I found myself in complete and total bliss, dancing down the street as if the rays of ecstasy were pouring down on me. As weary, untrusting tourists, conniving touts, and shoppers crossed my path, I could not help but honor them as beings of love, lost in the make-up of the material world, or not!!???. The trash had become flowers, the dirt has become glitter and the nose-busting aroma of stench became the fragrance of wild flowers in bloom....all because...that is the way I wished to see it on this day. (OK, just a tiny bit of exaggeration) Basically, I was in a great mood!!!!

So, in my slow musical meandering I was met by a beeping horn that was not like most of the beeping horns in India, persistent, yet en-offensive. This horn was that of an frustrated coward, rushing on his way to some meeting. Noticing the menacing tone and being that the tone had now came up right behind me, I decided to take my empty plastic bottle and lightly tap the cars front bumper as to say, "COME ON BUDDY, RELAX..." The next thing I know that same front bumper has now practically taken out both of my legs at an unsafe speed for the busy district. Immediately, light washed over me and I took off running for the vehicle. Like a crazed madman in pursuit of an victim, I reached in the swiftly moving vehicle to grasp any possible part of the cowardice driver whom decided to use his car as a weapon. I managed to scare the crap out of his wife in the passenger seat and then moved around to the driver's seat and immediately, and respectively under Indian Standards, placed my RIGHT hand around the throat of the man that had just used his automobile as a Battering-Ram. While my hand grasped the neck of this fearful man, I noticed that I was surrounded in White Light and could not stop smiling at the man in the Drivers Seat. I confidently and forcefully spoke words along the lines of "Step Out Of The Car!!!" and "You Will Never Do That To Anyone Again!" As the fragile man shuttered in fear pleading his apologies over and over again, I watched the violent part of humanity trickle out of my being like an exorcist. I bowed and walked away.....

This whole scenario brings me to the words of John Lennon when he sais, "We all have the Christ within us and Hitler as well, we just have to work on nurturing the good side..."(click here for a great video) I know there was never a point during this brief interaction where I wished to physically harm this man. More and more nowadays I have cultivated the part of my nature which is more peaceful and compassionate to all beings, no matter what they intend to do to me. There was a greater force working in this moment. A force so full of light and authority that I feel as if I was a pawn of some master lesson that was learned in that moment. The situation diffused fast but the light never left. The anger of humanity spoke through me and I have no shame in saying that I reacted, because, I feel some people need to be spoken too in the only language that they understand. I am not a purveyor of violence by any means, but, I believe that these kinds of lessons will have a lasting impact on that man. I think he will think twice about using his car as a weapon in the future....especially on a crazy, long-haired Bearded White Man with Big Blue Eyes....then again...how easily we forget.

With all that said.....I DON"T KNOW!!!

LOVE and MORE LOVE!!!

hehehheeeeh!!!!!!!!