How Dark is the Moon and the Lunar world in your life and why would a record from 1973 still hold such incredible sway in the conscious mindset of millions of people all around the world today? There is a small and hallowed number of seminal and quintessential vinyl albums that define a generation, accurately express a cultural revolution and create a musical stairway to the stars....after all isn't that what we are all made of and isn't that where we, the human experiment stem from?
Dark Side of the Moon changed my life forever and heralded a spark of conscious understanding, awakening and awareness way back when I was at a cross roads in my personal life, relationship, career and my deeper and closer connection to god with a very small G. This episode of the Vinyl Crusade is a special one because it was produced a while ago but never really made the grade in my book and so it remained unpublished until now. Why is that you may ask? Well this album which opens with the breath of life itself and the madness of normalcy contained within it is something that the collective is learning to re-experience all over again. After some 4 months of rigid lockdown and restrictions to one's Civil human liberties our world in some instances is starting to breathe normally again. The content of this album and it's visionaries, the immutable Pink Floyd understood that back in the reflection of illusory time between 1970-1973. The music featured on today's program is not the work of Pink Floyd but a modern day incarnation aptly titled, Floyd9 featuring the eclectic talents of Pollyanna Bush from San Francisco on lead vocals and yours truly on guitars with a little help from some friends, Rikki Buckingham (UK), Maniswita Jaiswal (India). Greg Delapaix (US) and Rhys Henrickson (Australia). To consciously re-interpret this album in 2020 during the highest degree of planetary Retrogrades and to lift it's vibration to new heights of healing and immersive experiential value has been a long time coming while being a very real dream of mine. Today it's higher spiritual value, expression and liberated sense of itself comes full circle as Saturn goes direct, Jupiter goes direct and on Sunday Pluto will join them going direct to complete the Trine of new possibilities for our earth family.
Forty five years after its release, Dark Side remains a brilliant prog-rock masterpiece. It has spent nearly 1,000 weeks on the Billboard 200 (that’s just about half the number of weeks on the calendar since its release). It explores money, death, time and decay, and it’s helped three generations of teens reflect on the nature of their existence.
But we don’t care about any of that. We care about the cover because the cover helps us find the nature of spirituality.
It’s simple and mysterious: A prism splits a ray of white light into the colors of the rainbow. The space behind the prism is black. The picture has nothing to do with any song. How does a splitting ray of light connect to spirituality?
We can think of the rainbow as an array of spiritualities that point back to their source, god, the one ray of white light. But how can that be? How can there be more than one way of living in a relationship with the Divine?
We’re all different. No two people have the same mix of temperament, education, life experiences, hurts and concerns, cultural traditions -- the list goes on and on. god knows that and to reach us he provides variations on a relationship with him. We pick the one or ones that make the most sense to us. And in that communion lies the separation that no longer infects or affects our lives anymore. Are you truly primed and ready to receive the wisdom of Dark Side of the Moon from a completely new and fresh perspective today? Please tune in and feel the new vibration for yourself!
