((( MY GOALS )))

((( INNER-SILENCE )))

The only way I know of to verify that the universe is self-aware is to develop the ability to stop one's internal dialogue AT WILL. Once you can stop your internal description of the world and hold that silence long enough you stand a chance of experiencing the self-awareness of the Universe.

So, YOU have to make the effort to silence your preconceptions of what is or is not logical, or reasonable, or real. You must stop the world of your ingrained prejudices and biases that give your ego its sense of reality. Either make the sincere effort and PROVE to the universe that you really want to know whether or not the universe is self-aware or you will never know empirically.

THERE ARE NO FREE RIDES WITH THE SPIRIT!

If you expect the universe to give you some great revelation without making any effort beside arrogant demands it is most probably not going to happen. Unless you get the sign of atheist Christopher Hitchens which is...DEATH!!!

((( STARCASTER )))

Okay, I'll openly admit that when I saw

the Fender STARCASTER guitar at the music store

I fell in love with the fact that it looked

just like my Fender Stratocaster

when I first bought it

In actually, I never really intended to play it

I bought the guitar just to look at

Considering how inexpensive it was

I wasn't expecting much when I played it

Surprisingly, it sounded pretty good

for a VERY CHEAP copy made by the Fender company

Now that I've become Jimi Hendrix borderline obsessed

I've FINALLY decided to break it in and

this sweet little guitar is sounding better and better!

I'm convinced that electrons and atoms are self-aware

I'm waking up this sweet little baby with Jimi Hendrix riffs

and it's responding like a champ almost ready for the big match!

Man, are my fingers ever burning from all this Hendrix jamming!!

Also, I've been working on my own personal super-fact playing

based more on Brazillian Jazz rather than blues and rock

It's cool to fuse the different styles

My fingers burn just typing this post!

My Zoom effects pedal is proving itself quite a useful tool

in shaping the sound of the Starcaster

Out of curiosity I did some searching

It seems they do not make these Fender Starcaster Stratocasters anymore!!

I guess they felt they were too good for the price and were curtailing the sales

of their expensive Fender Stratocasters

some going for over $4,000.00!!!!


There was just one black one left in stock at Amazon

going for $144.00 WITH SHIPPING!!!!!


I'll probably hate myself in the morning, but...

I just couldn't pass it up

considering they are obviously not made anymore



UPDATE:

Since I discovered the California Classic

I've decided to cancel the order of the black Starcaster

CALIFORNIA CLASSIC



I just looked into the concept of changing the guitar pickups

to higher quality ones


Guess what?


At best, it will cost me more than the bloody guitar!!!

At worst...I'm not buying any new pickups!!


Suddenly, the 'at worst' option

doesn't seem so bad at all!






Then again...check this out

TWILIGHT FENDER CUSTOM SHOP FAT 50'S WITH PICKGUARD


The question is:

Would I be willing to make an extra $194.98 investment

to make the Starcaster sound like a Multi-Thousand-Dollar

Fender Stratocaster guitar?


Hmmmmm...decisions, decisions...


I mean, my biggest gripe with changing the pickups

was having to do extensive pickup replacement work


To just change the pickguard and solder a couple of wires


Well, that doesn't sound bad at all!!


Hmmm...is it worth it making a cheap guitar

sound like a multi-thousand-dollar guitar


Ya know...I THINK IT IS!!!!!


THERE ARE MANY COMMENTS LIKE THIS AT MUSICIAN'S FRIEND:

Comments about Fender Fat '50s Strat Pickup Set:

The fat 50's are THE Holy grail. Once you put a set on one of your strats you'll be eagerly waiting for the next sale so you can buy more. I have 8 Strats, ranging from 60's through 2012 and these pickups smoke them all. All! The guitar with these on them has become the one I compare all of my other Strats to and I always go back to the Fat 50's. 

The bottom end is nice and fat but articulates well with no mud; the high end is stratty but is not brittle or thin like so many so-called "vintage" pups. They are responsive and nice and poppy like a good Strat should be. I am extremely fussy about my tone and have gone through a lot of pickups. These quench my thirst. 

Blues, rock, country, the tone is aways spot on for what you need. David Gilmour has got nothing on these pups. Buy them. You will look back on it as one of the best decisions you ever made. You won't want to put the guitar down.

BOTTOM LINE Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/fender-fat-50s-strat-pickup-set

MY COMMENT:

Many say these particular pickups sound BETTER than the stock pickups on the multi-thousand-dollar Fender Stratocaster Guitars!! I'll be able to tell anyone who asks: Ah, it's just a cheap guitar. The only reason is sounds so good is that I'm a fantastic guitar player! Ha!

The main thing I don't like about the Starcaster are the machine head tuners. They are not precise enough for my liking so:

FENDER SCHALLER LOCKING TUNERS

Oh, no! I can sense money once again being spent. Woe is me!!!!

Let me tell you, I had to get somewhat drunk to order all this stuff,

and more, for both guitars!!!

Ya know, Mother Nature deserves

the best I can afford, in my performances!!!

Yup, I ordered them drunk

Might as well pay for them drunk as well, right?

Okay, if I'm going to make the investment in new tuners

in order to keep the guitars better in tune

then I might as well do the job right and buy these:





FENDER LSR ROLLER NUT




MIGHTY MITE ROLLER STRING TREES RETAINERS


So, I did!

((( SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC )))

It's very far away

It takes about a half and a day to get there

If we travel by my uh, dragon-fly

No it's not in Spain

But all the same you know, it's a groovy name

And the wind's just right.

Hey !

Hang on my darling

Hang on if you wanna go

Here it's a really groovy place

It's uh, just a little bit of uh, said uh, Spanish Castle Magic.

The clouds are really low

And they overflow with cotton candy

And battle grounds red and brown

But it's all in your mind

Don't think your time on bad things

Just float your little mind around

Look out ! Ow !

Hang on my darling, yeah

Hang on if you wanna go

Get on top, really let me groove baby with uh
Just a little bit of Spanish Castle Magic. Yeah baby,

here's some

Yeah, ok babe, ok

It's still all in your mind babe

Oww !

Yeah !

Ah !

Hang on my darling, hey

Hang on, hang on if you wanna go

And it's happening, oh no, damn hey ! That's right baby, listen

A little bit of Spanish Castle Magic

Hey !

Little bit of Spanish Castle Magic

Hey hey !

I can't uh, sing this song, no

Yeah, ok baby

Get on baby

Yeah

It's all in your mind baby

Little bit of daydream here and there

Oh !

Yeah !

Ooh ! yeah !

Ow !

Ev'rything's gonna be alright!

((( MAY THIS BE LOVE )))

Waterfall

Nothing can harm me at all

My worries seem so very small

With my waterfall

I can see

My rainbow calling me

Through the misty breeze

Of my waterfall

Some people say

Daydreaming's for all the

Lazy minded fools

With nothin' else to do

So let them laugh, laugh at me

So just as long as I have you

To see me through

I've got nothing to lose

Long as I have you

Waterfall

Don't ever change your ways

Fall with me for a million days

Oh, my waterfall

((( CONSCIOUSNESS IS ONE )))

THE NATURE OF TRUE WEALTH

It has been said that the total number of consciousnesses in the Universe is...one. I believe that to be true. One consciousness expressed in forms that APPEAR separate. The sense of separateness is an illusion, but a very relentlessly compelling one indeed! Many are here on a vacation from having things easy in celestial realms. The particular lives we have chosen are in direct contrast to the existences we had before we decided to come to this realm for a short lifetime. The overall goal is to renew our sense of wonder so that when we return to where we were our appreciation will be renewed.

Pleasure is not the reason why many have come here! If it was pleasure we wanted we would have stayed where we were. No, for many, the whole point of a life like this is THE PAIN!!! It's the pain for which many have come into this realm and the pleasures we may experience are like short rest periods between whatever sufferings we chose to endure as we initially set up and fully approved these lives.

It takes tremendous determination to unlock the Secrets of the Universe. Most will have nothing to do with such an endeavor. They are perfectly content in their particular miseries and have no desire to have that misery interrupted with the truth. I respect such decisions and I know that no matter what is revealed to such people they will never accept it. At best they will laugh it all off as nonsense. That's as it should be...FOR THEM

As for myself, I've decided that I want to enjoy the rest of my life as much as I possibly can before Mother Nature FINALLY shows how much She appreciates all those SCIENTIFIC nuclear tests and the various pollutions desecrating this planet THANKS TO SCIENCE!!!

Yes, humanity will soon have a tremendous price to pay as Mother Nature gives humanity the proverbial 'bill' for the desecration of the Sacred Being known to humanity as planet Earth. My overall goal is to do my best to temporarily musically pacify an enraged Mother Nature while I do my best to live a life I am proud of for that is the nature of TRUE WEALTH!!!

There are those who are tricked into thinking that true wealth is measured in dollars, cents and in gold and silver. Fact of the matter is EVERYTHING with a beginning and end is an illusion. The only true wealth anyone has is the wealth they take with them when the end this illusional life and face the oncoming time of eternity. True wealth is the product of as clear a conscience as possible and the certainty of a life well lived. If one can honestly say they left this world even a little bit better than when they came into it they will most probably be able to look forward to eternal rewards, if such rewards will be made available

The basic way you judge others will be the same standards you will eventually use to judge yourself as you review your life. If, after reviewing your life, you honestly decide that you do not deserve to be rewarded even if rewards are offered you will not be able to enjoy them.

HELL IS FOR THOSE 

WHO ARE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN 

THEY DESERVE NO REWARDS 

AFTER THEY DIE

Your money is an illusion! Supposedly, those in power are aiming towards micro-chipping the population, doing away with all other currency and putting all your money on the microchip; which I gather will be like some sort of micro-electronic flash drive. How the hell can they possibly do that? The only way is through typed and transmitted numbers. How much bloody gold can you fit in a microchip? I gather the exact same amount as can fit in a credit card. If all it takes is writing numbers then all those in power have to do is keep adding zeros to their own bank accounts and they can make themselves as rich as they bloody want!!!!

NO! The only thing that is truly real is the part of you that has no beginning or end. That is the part of you still existing after you die. All the rest you will leave behind and your consciousness will eventually determine whether or not you deserve to be rewarded or punished!

GOD WILL NOT JUDGE YOU

IF ANY JUDGMENT IS TO BE MADE

((( YOU ))) WILL JUDGE YOURSELF!!

And all your former money, whether a dollar or trillions will be worth nothing to you, except as reason for misery, if you judge yourself unworthy of eternal rewards because of how you obtained that money and how you lived your life. A wasted and squandered life is a terrible crime...against oneself!

Blessed indeed are those 

who leave this world 

with as clear a conscience as possible

for that is the nature of True Wealth

((( THE WIND CRIES MARY )))

All the people are in their houses
and most sounds have gone to bed
You can hear happiness in the ocean
My footsteps left in sand

And the wind whispers Mary

The wind continually sweeping

Away the broken pieces of yesterdays life

Somewhere a queen is weeping

Somewhere a king has no wife

And the wind, it cries Mary

(my lead break)

Will the wind ever remember

The names it has blown in the past

And with his it's sound, it's age, and it's wisdom

It whispers no, this won't be the last

And the wind cries Mary

*Oh yes! I'm learning this song and changed the lyrics!

((( LIFE IS GOD'S DREAM )))

*I filmed this in my backyard 

and created the above video yesterday

The soundtrack is an original meditation piece recording I call:

DIMENSIONAL PORTAL

We exist within God's dream fantasy

However, because the rules of this realm are so consistent and stringent

we do not realize that our lives are the dream of God

It is not until one passes the tests and is given the ability

to bend one's personal reality  for fun and pleasure

that it becomes obvious

LIFE IS GOD'S DREAM!!!

((( SINCE I'VE BEEN LOVING YOU )))

Great lesson!!

I'm doing a study of exceptional lead guitar breaks

and this will help me tremendously in my playing it!

I intend to do an instrumental version with all lead breaks

using a Karaoke version of the song I already have

However, I do want to master the core leads breaks

of Jimmy Page before I expand on them

with my own special touch

((( PHENOMENOLOGY )))

1. What is Phenomenology?

Phenomenology is commonly understood in either of two ways: as a disciplinary field in philosophy, or as a movement in the history of philosophy.

The discipline of phenomenology may be defined initially as the study of structures of experience, or consciousness. Literally, phenomenology is the study of “phenomena”: appearances of things, or things as they appear in our experience, or the ways we experience things, thus the meanings things have in our experience. Phenomenology studies conscious experience as experienced from the subjective or first person point of view. This field of philosophy is then to be distinguished from, and related to, the other main fields of philosophy: ontology (the study of being or what is), epistemology (the study of knowledge), logic (the study of valid reasoning), ethics (the study of right and wrong action), etc.

The historical movement of phenomenology is the philosophical tradition launched in the first half of the 20th century by Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, et al. In that movement, the discipline of phenomenology was prized as the proper foundation of all philosophy — as opposed, say, to ethics or metaphysics or epistemology. The methods and characterization of the discipline were widely debated by Husserl and his successors, and these debates continue to the present day. (The definition of phenomenology offered above will thus be debatable, for example, by Heideggerians, but it remains the starting point in characterizing the discipline.)

In recent philosophy of mind, the term “phenomenology” is often restricted to the characterization of sensory qualities of seeing, hearing, etc.: what it is like to have sensations of various kinds. However, our experience is normally much richer in content than mere sensation. Accordingly, in the phenomenological tradition, phenomenology is given a much wider range, addressing the meaning things have in our experience, notably, the significance of objects, events, tools, the flow of time, the self, and others, as these things arise and are experienced in our “life-world”.

Phenomenology as a discipline has been central to the tradition of continental European philosophy throughout the 20th century, while philosophy of mind has evolved in the Austro-Anglo-American tradition of analytic philosophy that developed throughout the 20th century. Yet the fundamental character of our mental activity is pursued in overlapping ways within these two traditions. Accordingly, the perspective on phenomenology drawn in this article will accommodate both traditions. The main concern here will be to characterize the discipline of phenomenology, in a contemporary purview, while also highlighting the historical tradition that brought the discipline into its own.

Basically, phenomenology studies the structure of various types of experience ranging from perception, thought, memory, imagination, emotion, desire, and volition to bodily awareness, embodied action, and social activity, including linguistic activity. The structure of these forms of experience typically involves what Husserl called “intentionality”, that is, the directedness of experience toward things in the world, the property of consciousness that it is a consciousness of or about something. According to classical Husserlian phenomenology, our experience is directed toward — represents or “intends” — things only through particular concepts, thoughts, ideas, images, etc. These make up the meaning or content of a given experience, and are distinct from the things they present or mean.

The basic intentional structure of consciousness, we find in reflection or analysis, involves further forms of experience. Thus, phenomenology develops a complex account of temporal awareness (within the stream of consciousness), spatial awareness (notably in perception), attention (distinguishing focal and marginal or “horizonal” awareness), awareness of one's own experience (self-consciousness, in one sense), self-awareness (awareness-of-oneself), the self in different roles (as thinking, acting, etc.), embodied action (including kinesthetic awareness of one's movement), purpose or intention in action (more or less explicit), awareness of other persons (in empathy, intersubjectivity, collectivity), linguistic activity (involving meaning, communication, understanding others), social interaction (including collective action), and everyday activity in our surrounding life-world (in a particular culture).

Furthermore, in a different dimension, we find various grounds or enabling conditions — conditions of the possibility — of intentionality, including embodiment, bodily skills, cultural context, language and other social practices, social background, and contextual aspects of intentional activities. Thus, phenomenology leads from conscious experience into conditions that help to give experience its intentionality. Traditional phenomenology has focused on subjective, practical, and social conditions of experience. Recent philosophy of mind, however, has focused especially on the neural substrate of experience, on how conscious experience and mental representation or intentionality are grounded in brain activity. It remains a difficult question how much of these grounds of experience fall within the province of phenomenology as a discipline. Cultural conditions thus seem closer to our experience and to our familiar self-understanding than do the electrochemical workings of our brain, much less our dependence on quantum-mechanical states of physical systems to which we may belong. The cautious thing to say is that phenomenology leads in some ways into at least some background conditions of our experience."

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/

((( VOCAL CORDS IN ACTION )))

Being a singer I find these videos

EXTREMELY FASCINATING!!!

It's amazing to see what is actually going on

with my vocal cords!

((( TRAVELER ON A PATH WITH HEART )))

Move yourself, you always live your life

Never thinking of the future

Prove yourself, you are the move you make

Take your chances win or loser

See yourself, you are the steps you take

You and you and that's the only way

Shake, shake yourself

You are every move you make

So the story goes

Traveler on a path with heart

Traveler on a path with heart

(Much better than a)

Owner of a broken heart

Owner of a path with heart

Say, you don't want to chance it

You've been hassled before

Watch it now, eagle in the sky

How he dancin' one and only

You, lose yourself , no not for pity's sake

There's no real reason to be lonely

Be yourself, give your free will a chance

You've got to work to succeed

Traveler on a path with heart

Traveler on a path with heart

(Much better than a)

Owner of a broken heart

Owner of a path with heart

(Owner of a lonely heart)

After my own decision, they confused me so

(Owner of a lonely heart)

My love said never question your will at all

In the end you've got to go, look before you leap

(Owner of a lonely heart)

And don't you hesitate at all, no no

Traveler on a path with heart

Traveler on a path with heart

(Much better than a)

Owner of a broken heart

Owner of a path with heart

Traveler on a path with heart

Traveler on a path with heart

(Much better than a)

Owner of a broken heart

Owner of a path with heart

(Owner of a lonely heart)

Sooner or later each conclusion

Will decide the lonely heart

(Owner of a lonely heart)

It will excite it will delight

It will give a better start

(Owner of a lonely heart)

Don't deceive your free will at all

Don't deceive your free will at all

(Owner of a lonely heart)

Don't deceive your free will at all

Just receive it, just receive it

*New Karaoke Song Re-Worked Lyrics by me

((( RECONNECTIVE HEALING )))

I've learned that the healing energy is alive

The best one can do is silence one's internal dialogue

and, essentially, get out of the way of the energy

You direct it even as people build canals to redirect water

To be a proper 'canal' for the healing energy of the Universe

Requires one put aside one's life up until that point

This is a time of inner-silence and positive peace

((( I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW )))

I can see clearly now the rain is gone

I can see all obstacles in my way

Gone are the dark clouds that had me down

It's gonna be a bright bright bright bright sun shiny day

It's gonna be a bright bright bright bright sun shiny day

Oh yes I can make it now the pain is gone

All of the bad feelings have disappeared

Here is that rainbow I've been praying for

It's gonna be a bright bright bright bright sun shiny day

Look all around there's nothing but blue skies

Look straight ahead there's nothing but blue skies

I can see clearly now the rain is gone

I can see all obstacles in my way

Here is that rainbow I've been praying for

It's gonna be a bright bright bright bright sun shiny day

It's gonna be a bright bright bright bright sun shiny day

Bri-ri-ri-ri-right

Bright bright bright bright sun shiny day

Oh yeah

It's gonna be a bright bright bright bright sun shiny day

It's gonna be a bright bright bright bright sun shiny day

It's gonna be a bright bright bright bright sun shiny day

*New Karaoke Song

((( EL DAJJAL )))

It is said that even as God has an "only begotten son"

so too was Satan given the ability to have HIS OWN only begotten son

EL DAJJAL: THE ANTI-CHRIST

I sometimes wonder what the son of Satan would do

when he goes through his 'rebellious' years

What else could he do besides....good?

How else could he possibly rebel against his evil dad Satan?

Why should El Dajjal have to fulfill the doctrine

of some purported "holy" book anyways?

Is El Dajjal doomed to always be someone else's bitch

or can he possibly become strong enough

TO BE HIS OWN MAN

AND DO WHAT (((HE))) WANTS TO DO!!!

What if El Dajjal decides he wants to be an artist

more extraordinary than any artist ever known!

Would it be possible El Dajjal could become so strong

that he could choose his own path

rather than being doomed to be the bitch of someone else?

Makes one wonder