posted November 21, 2013 02:21 PM            

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LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS - FORGOTTEN MELODIES

Some of the most wondrous sounds of the harmony of the Universe are the sounds of silence, and one of these is . . . dolphin talk. These beautiful creatures of the sea have been around for perhaps sixty million years (or longer) -- enough Earth time to have accumulated a lot of wisdom. Dolphins make certain sounds, but it's their mental telepathy communication . . . the sound of their silence . . . that marine biologists of vision are trying so hard to decode. Dolphins can talk, but you have to converse with them in their own telepathic language.

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THE SOUND OF SILENCE - ST. PAUL SIMON & ART GARFUNKEL

Hello darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
‘Neath the halo of a streetlamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked Light I saw
10,000 people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
No one dare
Disturb the sound of silence

“Fools” said I, “You do not know
Silence like a cancer grow
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you”
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the Sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the Sign said “The words of the Prophets
Are written on subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence”

© 1964 Words and Music by Paul Simon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-JQ1q-13Ek

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History of the Rolling Thunder Writers

Check out BILROCK's Psychotronic World: FREE YOUR MIND, AND YOUR ASS WILL FOLLOW!

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LOve & LIght ,
HRH

Scorpio silence is golden; Pisces duck tape is silver.

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Got the Wings of Heaven on my Shoes. I'm a dancin man and I just can't lose. You know it's all right. Its ok. I'll live to see another day. We can try to understand the New York Times' effect on man. Whether you're a Brother or whether you're a Mother, you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

posted November 22, 2013 02:59 PM            

RUSH - SPIRIT OF RADIO - TIME MACHINE TOUR

Begin the day with a friendly voice
A companion unobtrusive
Plays that song that's so elusive
And the Magic Music makes your morning mood

Off on your way, hit the open road
There is magic at your fingers
For the Spirit ever lingers
Undemanding contact in your happy solitude

Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free

All this machinery making modern music
Can still be open-hearted
Not so coldly charted
It's really just a question of your honesty, yeah
Your honesty
One likes to believe in the freedom of music
But glittering prizes and endless compromises
Shatter the illusion of integrity

Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free

For the words of the Prophets were written on the studio wall
Concert hall
And echoes with the sounds of salesmen

posted November 24, 2013 03:06 AM            

I believe they had a point to make, there...

posted November 26, 2013 07:11 AM            

However, the Neil Peart lyric reads "Profits, " and not Prophets.

posted December 07, 2013 11:57 PM            

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Originally posted by Ellynlvx:
Certainly, I have made a study of the "Seeds of Inspiration" and have many times been Amazed at the Synchronicity of Sowing the Silent Seeds...

However, the Neil Peart lyric reads "Profits, " and not Prophets.

I pulled out the liner sleeve to triple check, St. Ephanie...

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I sincerely apologize if my 'graffiti' upset you in any way, Ellynlvx--I didn't mean any harm. And, actually, I made this thread for Mike. I was just my way of saying (using creative license), "Hi Moe, I really like your friend Bilrock's graffiti art. I especially like the cute little elf in the lysergic swap...he reminds me of the Great Gazoo from the Flinstone's cartoon."

But in defense of Peart's lyric...

Since Peart's a Virgo, I would imagine that, as a babe under Mercury's guidance, he cut his teeth on dictionaries and knows about homonyms...

****** LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS - DEJA VU ******

there is much I have learned
yet, much I still seek to fathom

in some SILENT depths I feel mysteriously drawn to probe
for lost Essenic PEARLS of truth
which first appear, then disappear
in swirls of deep, green water
wisps of love . . . hazes of fear
sometimes distorted . . . sometimes clear
and always the question
why ?
what is this insistent pull on my mind?
what is it urging me to find ?

is it simply a need to pursue, with Piscean persistence

the reason for humanity's continued existence ?
no, I fear it is something more . . . long lost on a forgotten shore
calling me on and on . . . to explore . . . the ancient laws of Karma

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EVER SINCE high school, like everyone else, I suppose, I've been somewhat intimidated by dictionaries, slightly in awe of the erudite folk who compile them. It takes courage to contradict Webster, nearly as much as it takes to contradict the Bible-although in the latter case, I must point out that the word "Bible" does contain the word "lie," thereby hiding a great mystery, one we'll try to partially penetrate in the first page of Chapter 7, when we ponder some of the secrets of the book of Genesis.

Recent editions of Webster's have finally sanctioned the inclusion of the word "Karma." That's good. It proves that Karma has joined the parade of "new words in common usage." You hear it spoken just about everywhere these days, yet few of those who use the word fully comprehend the concept behind it. Even when they believe they do, more often than not they're mistaken. Like Webster. Regretfully, I must tell you that the dictionary's definition of Karma is . . . well . . . wrong.

Karma: ". . .the force generated by a person's actions, held in Hinduism and Buddhism to perpetrate transmigration, and to determine his destiny in his next existence."

Most assuredly, that definition contains serious flaws to anyone other than a Buddhist or one of the Hindu faith, and after all, there are other philosophies than these which are founded on Karma, such as astrology, numerology, metaphysics-and in the beginning, before it was suppressed, and removed from the Holy Works, also Christianity.

Maybe it's Merriam, not Webster, who's guilty. The cover reads: New Merriam-Webster Dictionary. I have such warm, walking - through - red - and - gold - autumn - leaves - smelling - crisp - football - weather - and - the - smoke - of - bonfires schoolday memories associated with good old Webster, I'd prefer to blame Merriam.

So Mr. Merriam does not get an "A" for accuracy on his dictionary report card. Maybe a B plus, though, because I do rather like his opening phrase: "the force generated by a person's actions." Those words evoke a powerful image of how the whole thing works. Because the law of Karma is, indeed, a force-a force composed of electromagnetic energy-and it is most certainly generated by a person's actions. But that's only half true, and half is not whole.

As for the first flaw in Merriam's definition, if he felt obliged to present the misleading doctrine of transmigration in his dictionary (albeit correctly based on certain Hindu and Buddhist beliefs), he should be fair enough to give equal space to the other side of Karma and reincarnation, which is definitely antitransmigration. I promise him, if dictionary compilers are concerned with such matters, the logic of the truth of Karma shall prevail, and he will not be born again as an anteater or a water buffalo. As a matter of fact, one need not die at all, but that's a deep subject we'll share in a later chapter called Physical Immortality. The main thing to remember for the time being is that in no way will you be born again into the body of an insect or an animal, fish or fowl.

To begin with, you can choose to govern and ordain your personal destiny -to be the master of your own fate. Don't ever forget that, because it's as important to your happiness as the end of the nuclear arms race and the nuclear-waste-caused acid rain is to the survival of the planet.

Whether you consciously realize it yet or not, you've enrolled yourself by choice (on the level of your Higher Self) in a spiritual classroom. And the school of Karma (macrocosm to microcosm) is just like any Earth school in most respects. In Earth schools, when you graduate the fifth grade, you move on to the sixth grade (the next level)-and if you've reamed particularly well, you may even skip a grade or so. But should you fail the fifth grade, what happens ? You remain right there where you are until your teachers feel you've learned enough to be advanced to the next grade (or level). You don't get plunked back into the fourth or second grade or kindergarten, just because you failed your fifth grade exams. And that should end the confusion about transmigration. Likewise, you don't get plunked back into the body of a grasshopper or a kangaroo when you've failed a certain grade (level) of human existence. You remain in the same general type environment, life after life (incarnation after incarnation), until you're ready to pass your tests and advance into the next grade-or level of enlightenment-equipped with a body temple made of finer substance (cell regeneration), a more evolved mind and illuminated spirit with which to meet the challenges of the higher grades, all the way up to the spiritual "college courses." Eventually you receive your "Master's" degree.

****** LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS - LEXIGRAMS******

The word VERSE alone gives us SEE ("let those who have eyes" -- Third Eyes --see) . . . and, again, SEER. Yes, our poets, those who write verses channeled by their Spirits, are our true prophets. We need them now far more than we need our scientists. Those who write VERSES are our SEERS, who will gradually, with the help of the word druids, mold the English language back into its pure and primordial shape and form . . . and music. For what are verses without music to sing of them -- and what is music without its melodies emphasized by verse?

"In the beginning was the Word . . ." "And God spoke the word . . ." "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." (The latter quote delves into very deep waters, and can't be interpreted in this present work.) The word, the word, the word! In the beginning, there was a Word . . . a Sound . . . a chord of Music . . . capable of creating and manifesting matter out of the ethers The Word of Creation. The lost chord. Obviously, an awesomely powerful word --elf . . . (Extra Low Frequency sound --elf, remember?)

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to Heaven.
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a Word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to Heaven.

There's a Sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes Words have two meanings.

posted December 09, 2013 12:35 PM            

It is said that he was born at the auspicious hour of Twenty one Twelve. A.M.

Of course I could be reading too much into this whole time machine thing. (It was probably F.M.)

posted December 10, 2013 09:00 PM            

"What time were you born? Is that A.M. or F.M.?"

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Got the Wings of Heaven on my Shoes. I'm a dancin man and I just can't lose. You know it's all right. Its ok. I'll live to see another day. We can try to understand the New York Times' effect on man. Whether you're a Brother or whether you're a Mother, you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

posted December 10, 2013 10:32 PM            

For a proper funeral, we need some funeral music. My sister and I went to see Elton John in St. Paul, MN, not too long ago. Btw. it was an amazing show! Anyways, with all of Elton John's sparkles and sequins...and his magical chandelier!..my sister and I agreed that if the singing gig doesn't work out, he could easily get a job at Rapala making fishing lures.

So, I picked Funeral for a Friend by Elton John for our Funeral of the Flowers...

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Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" is the opening track on the double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John. The first part, "Funeral for a Friend", is an instrumental created by John while thinking of what kind of music he would like at his funeral. This first half segues into "Love Lies Bleeding".

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FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND/LOVE LIES BLEEDING - ELTON JOHN
(Elton John/St. Bernie Taupin)

The ROSES in the window-box
Have tilted to one side,
Everything about this House
Was born to grow and die.

It doesn’t seem a year ago
To this very day,
You said, "I’m sorry, honey,
If I don’t change the pace
I can’t face another day."

And LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING in my hand,
It kills me to think of you with another man;
I was playing rock-'n-roll and you were just a fan,
But my guitar couldn’t hold you,
So I split the band;
Love-Lies-Bleeding in my hands.

I wonder if those changes
Have left a scar on you,
Like all the burning hoops of fire
That you and I passed through?

You’re a bluebird on a telegraph line,
I hope you’re happy now;
Well, if the wind of change comes down your way, girl,
You’ll make it back somehow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30UuyFbCNXk

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LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING = AMARANTHUS CAUDATUS

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The ROSE and the AMARANTH is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 369 in the Perry Index. It stands in contrast to those plant fables like The Oak and the Reed and The Trees and the Bramble in which the protagonists arrogantly debate with each other. In this, however, the lowly amaranth praises the rose for its beauty and reputation and is answered, equally humbly, that a rose's life is brief while the amaranth (the name of which means literally 'the undying flower') is everlasting. In Classical times there were only Greek versions of the story and it spread into Western Europe comparatively late. One of the first to give a version in English was Brook Boothby in a poem that concludes:

Love is the rose-bud of an hour;
Friendship the everlasting flower.

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The Rose and the Amaranth

A Rose and an Amaranth blossomed side by side in a garden, and the
Amaranth said to her neighbor, "How I envy you your beauty and your
sweet scent! No wonder you are such a universal favorite." But the
Rose replied with a shade of sadness in her voice, "Ah, my dear
friend, I bloom but for a time: my petals soon wither and fall, and
then I die. But your flowers never fade, even if they are cut; for
they are everlasting."

"Greatness carries its own penalties."

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posted December 10, 2013 11:52 PM            

(Amaranth/Love-Lies-Bleeding that I grew in my garden.)

Flowery words from poets far greater than I...

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Immortal amaranth, a flower which once
In paradise, fast by the tree of life,
Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence
To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows,
And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life

~Milton, Paradise Lost (1667)

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LOVE LIES BLEEDING
By William Wodsworth

YOU call it, "Love lies bleeding,"--so you may,
Though the red Flower, not prostrate, only droops,
As we have seen it here from day to day,
From month to month, life passing not away:
A flower how rich in sadness! Even thus stoops,
(Sentient by Grecian sculpture's marvellous power)
Thus leans, with hanging brow and body bent
Earthward in uncomplaining languishment
The dying Gladiator. So, sad Flower!
('Tis Fancy guides me willing to be led,
Though by a slender thread,)
So drooped Adonis bathed in sanguine dew
Of his death-wound, when he from innocent air
The gentlest breath of resignation drew;
While Venus in a passion of despair
Rent, weeping over him, her golden hair
Spangled with drops of that celestial shower.
She suffered, as Immortals sometimes do;
But pangs more lasting far, 'that' Lover knew
Who first, weighed down by scorn, in some lone bower
Did press this semblance of unpitied smart
Into the service of his constant heart,
His own dejection, downcast Flower! could share
With thine, and gave the mournful name which thou wilt ever bear.

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Attaching a card...

Signing the card...

The meaning of the name ETIENNE is Crown. The French form of the name Stephen. The masculine of STEPHANIE.

SAINT STEPHEN - GRATEFUL DEAD

Saint Stephen with a Rose
In and out of the Garden he goes
Country gar-land in the wind and the rain (note 1)
Wherever he goes the people all complain

Stephen prosper in his time
Well he may, and he may decline
Did it matter, does it now?
Stephen would answer if he only knew how

Wishing well with a golden bell
Bucket hanging clear to hell
Hell half way twixt now and then
Stephen fill it up and lower down, and lower down again

Lady finger, dipped in Moonlight
Writing "What for?" across the morning sky
Sunlight splatters dawn with answers
Darkness shrugs and bids the day goodbye

Speeding arrow, sharp and narrow
What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned
Several seasons with their treasons
Wrap the babe in scarlet colours, call it your own

Did he doubt or did he try?
Answers a-plenty in the by and by
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills
One man gathers what another man spills

Saint Stephen will remain
All he's lost he shall regain
Seashore washed by the suds and the foam
Been here so long he's got to calling it home

Fortune comes a-crawling, Calliope woman
Spinning that curious sense of your own
Can you answer? Yes I can
But what would be the answer to the answer man?

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High green chilly winds and windy vines in loops
Around the twined shafts of lavender
They're crawling to the sun

Underfoot the ground is patched
With climbing arms of ivy wrapped
Around the manzanita stark and shiny in the breeze

Wonder who will water all the children of the garden
When they sigh about the barren lack
Of rain and droop so hungry 'neath the sky

William Tell has stretched his bow
Till it won't stretch no furthermore
And/or it will require a change that hasn't come before

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AtVtx6H738

Lyric notes: http://www.dead.net/song/saint-stephen

* The word manzanita is the Spanish diminutive of manzana (apple). A literal translation would be "little apple". Manzanita is an evergreen shrubs or small trees characterized by smooth, orange or red bark and stiff, twisting branches.

LOve & LIght,
St. Stephanie

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People say she’s crazy, she’s got diamonds on the soles of her Shoes. Well, that’s one way to lose these walking blues. Diamonds on the soles of her Shoes. She was physically forgotten, then she slipped into my pocket with my car keys. She said, “You’ve taken me for granted because I please you wearing these diamonds.” And I could say, Oo oo oo, as if everybody knows what I’m talking about, as if everybody here would know what I was talking about, talking about diamonds on the soles of her Shoes.

She makes the Sign of a Teaspoon. He makes the Sign of a Wave. The poor boy changes clothes and puts on aftershave to compensate for his ordinary Shoes.

posted December 11, 2013 10:59 PM            

The Rose and the Amaranth
The Rosary and the Choral Lamp

Then I started looking at this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OHa8pAXJBs

The King Must Die

Available on the album Elton John

Music: Elton John
Lyrics: Bernie Taupin
drums: Barry Morgan
bass guitar: Alan Weighll
lead guitar: Caleb Quaye
rhythm guitar: Alan Parker
percussion: Dennis Lopez
backing vocals: Madeline Bell, Leslie Duncan

No man's a jester playing Shakespeare
Round your throne room floor
While the juggler's act is danced upon
The crown that you once wore
And sooner or later
Everybody's kingdom must end
And I'm so afraid your courtiers
Cannot be called best friends
Caesar's had your troubles
Widows had to cry
While mercenaries in cloisters sing
And the king must die
Some men are better staying sailors
Take my word and go
But tell the ostler that his name was
The very first they chose
And if my hands are stained forever
And the altar should refuse me
Would you let me in, would you let me in, would you let me in
Should I cry sanctuary
No man's a jester playing Shakespeare
Round your throne room floor
While the juggler's act is danced upon
The crown that you once wore
The king is dead, the king is dead
The king is dead, the king is dead
Long live the king

I soon realized that this man had been well-schooled in the Classics.

Gosh, I just like the tape a whole lot when I was young...

posted December 12, 2013 09:15 PM            

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Saint Bernard?

No, guess not. Really liked this one, though...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTuKDK9U0qg

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This is my favourite off of that one.

It's Beautiful. I've heard that he NEVER performs it.

posted December 13, 2013 07:23 AM            

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Profits.

I believe they had a point to make, there...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBHmcORu4og

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Instead of listening to the Dolphin's Cry, I was thinking of Singing the Dolphin Through...

The Roaring Silence is an album released in 1976 by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

Track Listing
1. "Blinded by the Light" (Bruce Springsteen)
2. "Singing the Dolphin Through" (Mike Heron)
3. "Waiter, There's a Yawn in My Ear" (Manfred Mann)
4. "The Road to Babylon" (Mann, Thomas, Colin Pattenden)
5. "This Side of Paradise" (Mann, Thomas, Pattenden)
6. "Starbird" (Mann, Slade)
7. "Questions" (Mann, Slade)

Bonus Tracks (1998 re-issue)
8. "Spirits in the Night" (1977 version) (Springsteen)
9. "Blinded by the Light" (single edit) (Springsteen)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoUY1tSdfBM

posted December 15, 2013 01:37 PM            

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