Goddess Alchemy Project's Lilla D'Mone (L) & "Dakini Star" (R) singing at the JT Music Festival surrounded by the
“Dancing Orb Ancestor-Spirits.” Also, Ganga Giri w/Medicine Drum creating Didge/Trance rhythms for Orbs & Humans to dance to...(Photos by Sun-Downer)
Metaphysical Musical Meditations
by Sunny Sun-Downer (as featured in the May 28, 2009 [g.c.] issue of the Desert Valley Star, www.desertvalleystar.com)
Avant-garde & eclectic live music, in and of itself, has been exploding in the low and high deserts in a big way the past few years. Before that, I would look with dismay in the local entertainment sections for some form of cultural entertainment that was “Not-The-Rat-Pack” generation’s music (no offense to you Dinah-Deano-Frankie-Sammy-lovers). I’m just saying that it was slim-pickings for this Baby Boomer’s tastes. Of course the Coachella/Stagecoach festival phenomenon started up, but that was only once a year. Luckily the local casinos started expanding their musical horizons to everyone’s liking, but if they hadn’t, we also had those innovative folks at “Team Joshua Tree Music Festival.” Created by Chris and Barnett English & friends seven years ago, the JT Music Fest and its companion October “Rootsicana Festival” (www.joshuatreemusicfestival.com) are one-of-a-kind events that are slowly gaining in world-wide notoriety. The format of the musical line-up over the years at first may cause someone to comment that they’ve never heard of most of these acts before. But that doesn’t remain the case for long, because the whole idea all along has been to give exposure to lesser-known, but up-and-coming quality acts, and then the next thing you know you’re seeing their names pop up at festivals across the nation.
Let me segue now back to the release in 1972 of one of the first “New Age” films, aptly titled “Rainbow Bridge,” which features the trend-setting Jimi Hendrix playing his last free concert in Maui, Hawaii. The film is about actress Pat Hartley's "spiritual awakening" via a visit to the 'Rainbow Bridge' planetary meditation cult on Maui, where, as part of the movie’s “plot,” Hendrix visits to play a concert during a 'Rainbow Bridge' mass meditation/color/sound "experiment." (You can see parts of the concert on Youtube.com now- enjoyable in spite of the intense winds on Maui’s Haleakala volcanic crater, on that July 30, 1970.) I became friends back then with the movie’s director, Chuck Wein, who, not only directed, but acted in the movie as well. Known as “Wizard,” his moment in the movie’s spotlight was in the interview scene with Jimi & Pat in the “cult’s” basement, which gave the Hendrix fans back then a ‘behind-the-mask’ glimpse of the rock star. The reason I mention Mr. Wein here, is because one of the many awesome (to me) things that he told me back then was that he and his fellow “Light-Workers” traveled “out-of-body” to the souls of Warner Brothers Movie executives (while they slept) to convince them to fund this “new age culture” film, & that it worked. Another thing he told me was that Jimi had a planned meeting with a psychic woman (not Charlotte Blob, the one featured in the film who announced that “E.T.s” [Extra-Terrestials] had contacted the “Powers-That-Be” on this planet to freely share the technologies of non-polluting free energy with the world, but the oil & electric companies squashed the plan). This other psychic woman was going to share with Jimi what colors his music produced metaphysically and what powerful revitalizing & balancing effects it had on the spinal “chakras” (Sanskrit for “spiritual-energy centers”). That is actually the reason that Chuck and friends chose the English title of the Sanskrit “Antah-karana,” or “ Rainbow Bridge ,” which is the “bridge between the lower & higher self.” Unfortunately, Jimi left his body within a couple of months (and yet ANOTHER amazing thing Chuck told me that you can check out for yourself, is that Jimi predicted his own murder in the song “Belly Button Window,” which was written 200 days before he “choked” to death, with the words “I’m looking out my belly button window, and all I see is frowns- Guess you people don’t want me around…”).
NOW let me return you to a more recent time, say approximately a year ago at the aforementioned Joshua Tree Music Festival, where I had the cosmically-tantric pleasure of experiencing a group of young women out of the Bay Area who call themselves the "Goddess Alchemy Project." With songs like “Song of the Serpent,” “Kundalini Manifest” & “Transcendant Realms,” they musically energize the Kundalini (Sankrit for the “Serpent Power” that activates the chakras as it rises) with their spiritually-based poetry sung over very dance-able hip-hop beats. Two of these alchemically-musical goddessi: “Dakini Star” and Lilla D'Mone returned to the festival this year and joined the group Medicine Drum to share their spiritually-empowering grooves once again. Tying this in with the previous Hendrix-Music-Color rap, is the recent discovery of the phenomena of “Orbs.” Upon your internet search on that word, you’ll find that there are now even conferences dedicated to these “ancestor-spirit-globes” of light energy that appear in more & more photos these days. Submitted for your perusal: a plethora of Orbs surround the G.A.P.-rappers during their set with Medicine Drum at the JTMFest! (If you ask them, they will come!) To see more Orbs, even some captured during Buddhist Meditations, come by the HAALOS Emporium, 12078 Palm Dr. DHS 92240 (760) 673-7580 email: conchustimes@yahoo.com
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