Friday, October 5, 2012

Life, Art and Reason


Here's a look at the cover for my recent album "Life, Art and Reason" (as of two weeks ago). Art by boodie. I happened upon this picture (on Facebook) and contacted boodie who kindly agreed to my making use of her art for this project.


A few weeks ago I made a few home-recordings of 14 song; some new songs, some older ones. Listen here: "Life, Art and Reason". If you click 'Play all' the first 14 songs will stream in sequence. It wasn't my intention make an album. I but wished to record a few song for reference (as I'm working on the songs), yet these 14 takes turned out quite well, I'd say, and the song order happened in a flow (the final 7 songs are recorded in one session, and I kept the song order). This is all demo stuff but if I get the few musicians together, whom I work with at times, I might someday be able to provide more orchestrated takes of the songs.

Most of these songs have been inspired by a certain lady and also by my adopting a 'Bright' stance to life, which means having a naturalistic worldview. The Brights movement's three major aims are:


A.Promote the civic understanding and acknowledgment of the naturalistic worldview, which is free of supernatural and mystical elements.

B.Gain public recognition that persons who hold such a worldview can bring principled actions to bear on matters of civic importance.

C.Educate society toward accepting the full and equitable civic participation of all such individuals.


Saturday, February 11, 2012

Yoga and The Natural World - New Edition

Updated: 31 July 2012, 15:30 +01:00 GMT.

Yoga and The Natural World (AAAP36N).
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Dear reader, above is a new link to the pdf on the philosophy of yoga referred to in many of my posts below (thus, in those posts, please disregard older links to various versions of this my main document on the yoga). Perhaps some other links in earlier posts will also malfunction (as time goes by I look forward to having updated them all).

At present I am reediting this manuscript, "Yoga and The Natural World", which collects pieces I've written on the yoga and on our understanding of nature. I have tried to organize those texts into some semblance of stringency of development of context which is: paradigm, metaphor, and wholity of yoga (well, the yogic method is my particular stance, and yet I hold a naturalistic worldview and have therefore added a few thoughts on Science, and some other odds an' ends). I keep updating the main document now and then and everytime I open it up I find there is something in need of correction, or something to add (or delete), but, somehow, seemingly, it's all nearing completion.

So, here again, is the latest link straight to the new version:

Yoga and The Natural World (AAAP36M).
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This link will open a pdf (16 MB) in your browser (at least it does so in my IE, in my Chrome it don't, with Chrome I have to download it first. Hm?). For some other writings of mine have a look in my 'Books' folder at my Windows Live SkyDrive (you'll find download links there for all the books I am working on).
 
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