I woke up to a New World this morning, like I do ever morning. It’s wonderful when everything is always fresh and new. I think that is part of seeing with child eyes. If you get to the still point in your mind, where you are completely centered and then just live in the moment you can return to your child state. I know it goes against what society wants or believes, but I don’t care. If the grownups want to make life difficult to live in, and then be miserable living in it, they can. But that doesn’t mean I have to conform to their misery. In the Child State, you get to see the world you want to and when you do see it that way it is your world. Who’s to say that by seeing it the way you want it to be that it doesn’t become that way. A chance to decide which material things you really want, and someone who really loves you.
Your reality is based on the way you perceive it to be. What is real is what you believe it to be. You can chose to see an unfortunate incident as a disaster that you worry about, and let it control your reaction to it. Or you can view the event with child eyes and explore it like a new adventure therefore grab the positive, learn a lesson or just go with the flow and move on. The way you perceive things is how you deal with life. Maybe you can’t completely manifest your reality,but you can change the outcome. For example you have an unfulfilling job, so you aren’t happy and only make a mediocre effort, you do just enough to complete your assigned tasks. Then because of this you are fired. There are several ways to perceive this. You can do what society wants, panic and let the fear take hold of you. You can worry that you won’t be able to pay your bills, lose your home, maybe even your relationship, your very way of life this line of thinking may manifest those exact results. Let’s go with this scenario for a moment. If all that does occur you can live in despair and feel your life is ruined. On the other hand you could look at the positive and realize that you are free of a job you hated. All the material possessions that you got once you can get again. If the person you are with bails you can see that they didn’t love you, but what you had. Therefore you are lucky to be rid of these awful burdens and be free again to build a new life filled with a satisfying career, a chance to decide which material things you really want,and someone who really loves you. If you had seen it immediately as a blessing you could change the outcome, get renewed from it as positive event, and instead of letting it control you and ruin your life, take immediate action to move forward toward things that will bring you happiness.
Too many times we settle for the routine we are in and live in quite misery believing this is as good as it can be. When you learn to grab the positive in any situation you feel good about yourself and as a positive person you influence those around you to be the same. The fear was ruling you long before the event occurred. If your child eyes were open all along you would have seen what was going on and taken steps to change your situation before the incident ever occurred. You would have quit the job and started creating your new life sooner. That I the leap of faith to believe that what you feel is right is right for you. The faith defeats the fear and allows you to take positive actions first, instead of being put in the position of reacting to circumstances. Society has built this trap and works hard to maintain control of the individual and fear is their primary weapon.
JD Barlow
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Allow myself to Introduce Myself......James Danger
I live in a bubble. Currently I have been out of work for a over year (playing in the band in just that...playing) and by the grace of God alone I am surviving. All my life it has been like this. I don’t know exactly why but as long as I believe that ‘it will all work out’ it does. This is what gamblers call luck, religions call faith, and I call life. I have had the most wonderful time being alive. Don’t get me wrong it’s not all a walk in the park; I’m what is defined medically as bi-polar. Most people believe this condition to be a curse, I on the other hand love the roller coaster. When I’m down I swim for the bottom because I know the lower I go the higher I rebound. For the record I have a high IQ, not just a little but way out of bounds. I do understand that there is a fine line between genius and insanity.
Recently I was talking with my lawyer and I told him of my current delusional state. He reassured me that what some call delusional other record as visionary. That is of course is my bubble. I have many great friends, and I know to have good friends you have to be a good friend. I’m not so lucky with relationships as I will detail throughout this adventure. I do believe that life is just that... an adventure. The only thing certain is change. I have had several critics intimate that the format I have written this is not acceptable, I drift in and out of style and write primarily first person. Because this is my perspective I believe it to be the best way to relate these events and ideas. I may in later revisions decide to change this belief, but I feel that literature has changed forms many times during its evolution and if this is another change it may be for the better. In my opinion it is you the reader who decides, by accepting or rejecting new ideas. In fact I believe at times the “I” in this work will become the ‘you’ who is reading this and hopefully we will merge in cosmic conscience thought. Once again I reiterate I may have had a psychotic break and in my delusional state accept things to be real which are not, by the constraints of this universe,, possible. But I believe that if we get in tune the very substance of this work will become a conscious stream and it will be in fact your ideas presenting themselves for affirmation.
JD Barlow
Recently I was talking with my lawyer and I told him of my current delusional state. He reassured me that what some call delusional other record as visionary. That is of course is my bubble. I have many great friends, and I know to have good friends you have to be a good friend. I’m not so lucky with relationships as I will detail throughout this adventure. I do believe that life is just that... an adventure. The only thing certain is change. I have had several critics intimate that the format I have written this is not acceptable, I drift in and out of style and write primarily first person. Because this is my perspective I believe it to be the best way to relate these events and ideas. I may in later revisions decide to change this belief, but I feel that literature has changed forms many times during its evolution and if this is another change it may be for the better. In my opinion it is you the reader who decides, by accepting or rejecting new ideas. In fact I believe at times the “I” in this work will become the ‘you’ who is reading this and hopefully we will merge in cosmic conscience thought. Once again I reiterate I may have had a psychotic break and in my delusional state accept things to be real which are not, by the constraints of this universe,, possible. But I believe that if we get in tune the very substance of this work will become a conscious stream and it will be in fact your ideas presenting themselves for affirmation.
JD Barlow
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
Clear Channel Radio, Ringtones and more......
The sun rises on "Another Day In Paradise" for Prymal Rhythm and their fans. As the Prymal Rhythm machine continues to roll forward and gather speed we are seeing more and more doors opening for us and opportunites being presented for our success.
Clear Channel Radio, the biggest radio company in the United States, has picked up our music and is exposing it to over 10 MILLION PEOPLE PER MONTH on nearly 500 radio station web sites across the country! "High Life" is our first song picked up by Clear Channel. We have already had play on Denver radio 103.5 THE FOX. You can help by calling your local clear channel station and requesting Prymal Rhythm's "High Life" and by going to http://www.thefox.com/cc-common/artist_submission/player.html?art=170058 and playing the song to get it higher in the Clear Channel playlist. Just click on the link and it begins to play automatically. Click often....
We are also about to release ringtones from the first CD on the Verizon site. We will send out a newsletter as soon as they are posted. Make sure and join our email newsletter list with the link at the bottom of our Blog page. Dont miss out on any of the great events that Prymal Rhythm is bringing your way.
See you at a show real soon,
Prymal Rhythm
Clear Channel Radio, the biggest radio company in the United States, has picked up our music and is exposing it to over 10 MILLION PEOPLE PER MONTH on nearly 500 radio station web sites across the country! "High Life" is our first song picked up by Clear Channel. We have already had play on Denver radio 103.5 THE FOX. You can help by calling your local clear channel station and requesting Prymal Rhythm's "High Life" and by going to http://www.thefox.com/cc-common/artist_submission/player.html?art=170058 and playing the song to get it higher in the Clear Channel playlist. Just click on the link and it begins to play automatically. Click often....
We are also about to release ringtones from the first CD on the Verizon site. We will send out a newsletter as soon as they are posted. Make sure and join our email newsletter list with the link at the bottom of our Blog page. Dont miss out on any of the great events that Prymal Rhythm is bringing your way.
See you at a show real soon,
Prymal Rhythm
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