Sanford Baran, John Gray, Chris Jorgensen

Morning Has Broken

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"So, what does it mean to live in a collective Creator-Being consciousness?"

by Sanford Baran, Chris Jorgensen and John Gray
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Sanford Baran: I’d like to provide some context around the last piece of pre-service music, Goin’ Home, beautifully performed by the South London boys’ choral ensemble Libera. The famous melody comes from the second movement of Antonin Dvorak’s New World Symphony. William Arms Fisher, one of Dvorak’s students at the National Conservatory, wrote the lyrics in 1922, nearly three decades after the symphony premiered at Carnegie Hall. https://toneoflife.org/recordings/Libera-Going-Home.mp4

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Bill Isaacs

The Living Symbol

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"There is a great transition underway, and it's quite obvious that this transition needs leadership."

by Bill Isaacs
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The earth is filled with mysterious symbols. A symbol is a representation of something more than itself, and symbols are easily misunderstood. Human consciousness is anchored in a materialistic and literal worldview. The imperial victory of scientific materialism has conditioned us to revere the surface appearances, and to look for materialist explanations of everything. We hold a strong conviction that what we see is what is, but we often miss the meaning. We even miss what is actually there. Studies of “inattentional blindness” show how readily we fail to see what is plainly in front of us. What is seen remains misperceived and mysterious.

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