I wanted to share the inspiration behind this album as well as some fun facts about its creation.
The main theme of this Album is to simply be aware of the present moment and the sub-theme is to celebrate the body.
The body is here now occurring and so realize that the body is essentially an eternal door to the present moment. And so we need to honor the body by offering it vital foods, stretching and strengthening its systems, and alertly listening because the body is always communicating with us. It is just that we are so deep in our minds and our “stories” that we are not aware of what the body is sharing with us now. We are not directly aware of the body. We are not "feeling" the body. We only “think” that we have a relationship with our body and so really this is just another of the tangling relationships within our mind.
We do not have a direct experience of the body and herein is how dis-ease and lethargy are born. When we are only feeding our past through the judgments that we carry or we are focused on some possible future, our body is actually now being ignored. And so through this Album I hope to enlighten this avoidance of the body and also our propensity to become lost in our mental stories so as to reintroduce the present moment and the miraculous body that provides this experience. Because simply, without the body, no matter how creatively we imagine other wise, we could not experience this experience.
We can imagine having other mental bodies or dream about invisible bodies and yet when we stop and we become aware, we realize that we are here now in this body and that THIS is the gift. We can imagine all types of invisible trees in possible invisible dimensions but that is just imagination. Alternatley, when we reach out and hug a tree we do not have to think about what is happening and so we experience the tree directly, and this is enlightenment (so to speak). We hug the tree directly and that is a realization of the ONE that is now appearing as what we define as a "tree". And by the "ONE" I mean that when we hug a tree we do not need to think to directly experience the tree. We are aware. The mind will want to dictate and state all types of rules and definitions about trees, and yet we realize that these are only the mind. When we hug the tree there is no mind needed, just awareness. Now of course there are myriad sub-conscious processes that are ongoing, but we do not need to be conscious of these. And so by simply being aware of hugging the tree we are actually aware of so much more in the process and this is what "Be Here Now" is about..
We are aware of the one flowing experience no matter what senses we employ because our senses are not tapping into separate experiences like the mind envisions, no. Our senses are being aware of the ONE total experience that IS, no matter what the form manifested.
May this songs assist in awakening to the realization that now, this very moment is what is true. This is about being here now and being aware of what is happening now. This is about being aware of the love that is flowing through our senses - now. This may seem obvious and redundant concerning understanding our life experience, but in actuality there are so many who are living in their mind’s idea of the present moment and so they are not truly flowing AS the true river of direct experience.
This album is about Being, and not WASing or MAYbeing. So let these songs open and calm the mind so that the resonance of the body is realized and the present moment like a fragrant rose is now eternally experienced.
