Archive for May, 2009

Of Energy, Music, and Traveling.

Posted in Annunaki, Art, Essay, Spirituality, Traveling, syncronicity with tags , , , , , , , on May 29, 2009 by skyscraped

I started thinking about why I love to travel. It’s not easy to pick up and go somewhere new and adapt and learn the customs and still try and maintain your own way of life while simultaneously opening your head to other interpretations of conscious reality. But there is something that happens when you get to feel the energy of a specific place. It sticks with you longer than any photograph or souvenir, if you’re sensitive to it.

I first read about Rosslyn Chapel in 1999, when I was sixteen, in The Highlander, a magazine for people with Scottish ancestry. The article didn’t do much more than point out the pre-Columbus corn and cactus symbolism alongside Greenmen and the enigmatic Apprentice’s Pillar. It was a relatively shallow article. At that time, my mind had already decided that Christianity was pretty much a stolen pagan sun worshiping cult, but I just felt there was something weird at Rosslyn, and knew I had to go there. When I went to Scotland in 2004, I snuck away to Rosslyn and descended into the “secret” ritual chamber below…you know, the one where they keep Jesus’s blood or something (thank you Dan Brown. Right, cause the Holy Grail is treasure, a cup, or even an heir. Yes, Jesus had heirs, but the question you should be asking is whose heir was Jesus?)

Rosslyn Chapel

This was my experience:

As I walked down the 13 steps into the chamber, I felt myself become extremely lightheaded, as tho I’d just knocked about five shots of good Scotch back. I leaned up against the wall to steady myself. The pit felt like death, the crypt where the body is kept, resting next to the Knight Templar carved out of stone. On the wall there were several carvings that made my head spin further; they were not the modern works of graffiti artists, but carved into the wet concrete when the St. Claires built the chapel to begin with. Not surprisingly, we see another Orion/Sirius connection:
Rosslyn Orion

Another Sirius/Orion reference…Wonder why? Take a look at the theories on the Scottish pyramids for example:

On a wall of Rosslyn Chapel’s underground crypt, the oldest and holiest structure in the building, is what’s been called a “working Masonic drawing.” It is shaped more like an obelisk than a pyramid, and yet it sang a siren song to me. The central line of the drawing passes through three pyramids—as viewed from above.

From my experience, it all comes down to energy. Being a musician, I tend to make metaphors to music because it is the easiest association for me. Music is energy, and in a sense, placing sacred sites along a path of energy is like creating a fretboard for a song you want to hear over and over and over again. Awesome if the song is bringing joy and enlightenment to all who hear it, but not so much if the song says “You are under control by us, submit and do not question.”

Mozart created Masonic music that stirred the unseen in his listeners.

What if the Masonic “G” is a key in which these songs are played? What if we tune our ears to B flat, the hum of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, instead? What does that do to our heads? What does this do to our minds, our bodies? I know from experience that stone structures strategically located can make you feel completely…out of your skull. To what ends?

In conclusion, my love of traveling has to do with tracking this vibrational energy that has been tapped so loudly by so many occult societies throughout time. The more I see, the more I feel that the truths I’ve unearthed over the years are stranger than I ever thought. Also, thank you to The Atlantean Conspiracy for this insightful article on the ley line connection.

Fall Down and Breathe

Posted in Spirituality, Traveling, delphi, lyrics, music, poetry, song with tags , , , , , , , on May 28, 2009 by skyscraped

You say, “Go and talk to the sky
It never questions you in the slightest,
but down hear all you’ll find
are the people you’ve disappointed.”
So I went up to the roof
where there wasn’t a moon
or any other light to guide me
Just a black expanse so starving,
and it told me:

Fall down and breathe
Fall down and see what you are meant to see
Fall down the ground is a ceiling you have never touched before
Fall down and breathe

It takes a lot of nerve to stop lying to yourself
while the lies people the world and the truth stays locked on a shelf
In some dusty hall underground, I’d rather rot in hell
than miss another piece of knowledge or
forget those distant bells

And every time I am away I find a peace inside, I know it’s just a ride
This tiny life I call mine
I know my part is just a cog in the Great Wheel of Time
I know that somewhere there is someone
who gets these lines

Fall down and breathe
Fall down and see what you are meant to see
Fall down, the ground is a ceiling you never touched before
Fall down and breathe

So I climbed into bed, alone again with the moment
No god but God around me, the mystery of nothing
And the notes just out of reach played a cosmic sonnet
I’ve heard this song since I was born, but I have never sung it

Fall down and breathe
Fall down and see what you are meant to see
fall down, the ground is a ceiling you never touched before
Fall down and breathe

Fall down and breathe

for the Tribe

Posted in Spirituality, delphi, lyrics, poetry, song with tags , , , , on May 28, 2009 by skyscraped

I’ve seen the sky over the Saint Lawrence open up
and change into the one from my dreams
I’ve seen Heaven open in a lover’s heart that I have never touched
and never had to bleed
I know that this road I’m on is the only one that will really let me see
and I’ll allow it to take me completely
I’ll allow it to take me completely

Yeah, Shangri La’s in a backyard garden
a desert woman taught that to me
And Mecca isn’t in the sand
it is under the waves hidden by the Red Sea
I will always have a loving heart
for the sojourner who tears the world a part
I will always have a space inside
for the seeker who searches and who
never finds

For the love of Truth she moves,
she hides behind enemy lines
waiting for her turn to spread the light
She gathers in the darkest nights and the saddest hearts
and makes them beautiful for all the world to find
I have met so much Tribe in my one lifetime
that I can’t shut my eyes
when I see those familiar signs

Yeah, Shangri La’s in a backyard garden
a desert woman taught that to me
And Mecca isn’t in the sand
it is under the waves hidden by the Red Sea
I will always have a loving heart
for the sojourner who tears the world a part
I will always have a space inside
for the seeker who searches and who
never finds

I’ve seen the coastline fade into sky
as we got high on top of Arthur’s Seat
And I’ve seen a lot of this world but I still forget
the way the Veil swirls when
a brother, sister, lover, I meet
It works in a backwards way, and I don’t really care
it’s not in the face, but in the blood that pumps
through our veins.

Yeah, Shangri La’s in a backyard garden
a desert woman taught that to me
And Mecca isn’t in the sand
it is under the waves hidden by the Red Sea
I will always have a loving heart
for the sojourner who tears the world a part
I will always have a space inside
for the seeker who searches and who
never finds

Beautiful Paradoxes

Posted in delphi, lyrics, music with tags , , , , on May 21, 2009 by skyscraped

Inspired by aforementioned post…

Beautiful paradoxes
are all that I see
I live in wooden boxes
Don’t see no trees

And music is the way I pray
I don’t get on my knees

My hand is solid space creating harmony
My fingers are vibrations breaking on the strings

But my anger has a name a face
and a view of the sea

My pride resides in my Versailles
That I have named Humility

And I have walked among the graves the grain of the wheat field
the ley lines patterned like a crop circle meaning revealed
Not by logic but by the time I find another key
I’ll be reborn again into the fractal skin
of memory

If I had known myself ten years ago
I would have still asked to see
The fallen angel, the perfect love,
the snake upon the tree

Where there are roads
there’s fewer stones
but the stones
make us believe

That we can rise again, and die again
and still have more to see

The Suspension of Belief

Posted in syncronicity, ufo with tags , , , , on May 21, 2009 by skyscraped

Love Neil Kramer’s The Cleaver:

Paradox ain’t for everyone. For those unable to imbibe such a heady brew, those who are simply not equipped for galactic emanations, we see that they are safely excluded from any fried circuitry by virtue of their inability to find a place for crop circles on their scientific nuts and bolts game board. They just don’t fit. So this quandary is resolved by using the squares and the pieces that do fit. Therefore, in such circumstances, the circles are required to be man-made. And so that is what they are. They are man-made.

For the aspiring but equally dualistic investigator, armed with an appetite for discovery, a bag of technology and a penchant for the mysterious, all that can really be discerned is the labyrinthine corridors of their own binary delusion. One chase after another. Never finding the answer. Indulging in the escapist adventure. Scraps and clues. This is not the way forward. The kōan repeatedly hints at the external world being no more than a fictional movie from the projection room of the mind. So the manifestation of the circles is not to be scrutinized on the movie screen, but in the place from which the movie originates.

Personal beliefs, narratives and reflections must be suspended to embrace the circles. The thinking, walking storybook of the chattering human cannot enter. Clean, still, open consciousness. Only with such integral awareness can the fluid individual penetrate the old morphic fields of linear routine. Then, something new is brought into being. Field uplink occurs. The upgrade downloads and installs. The local reflection of consciousness evolves and expands. Connection. Gnosis.

Updates, Homecomings, and a Manifesto.

Posted in Comics, News, delphi, lyrics, music with tags , , , , , , , , on May 15, 2009 by skyscraped

An Update! The censorship and poor Internet connection of this country has bound me to silence for the past few months. Check out some of the new songs. I’m returning in July, and will be working on the new album for the rest of the summer. It should be out by mid-Fall of 2009, maybe after Ramadan, maybe after Samhain, or maybe after the “We Give Thanks for the Land We Stole, Yay America!” Day in November. Either way, it is coming.

I’ve finished the outline and story for the graphic novel I’m working on with Matthew Warlick, my partner in crime and life and love. Check out our blog, Stolen Skies.net, which once I’m out of the censored zone will be updated MUCH more regularly, especially regarding new finds with the Rock Wall.

And, finally, a note: this year has been pretty much the biggest head-fucking, mind-blowing, and paradigm-awakening trip I’ve ever had. I’ve found radical, kindred souls 7,000 miles away in one of America’s most fascist allies, Saudi Arabia, the last of the true monarchies; despite it’s abuse and perversion of the teachings in this country, I’ve learned about and integrated Islam into my amalgamation of spiritual guides, especially Sufism; and most importantly, I’ve completely and hopelessly given my soul over to Love, in all its varied forms, pains, and ecstasies. So with that, I give you this manifesto. Hopefully it will ring as heartfelt, as it was when I wrote it. Namaste, and Salam alekum.

Manifesto

I desire to see through all things. I pray with the will of the Universe that I may see beyond death, beyond life, beyond good, beyond evil, and that I may understand my Shadow to know that I have nothing left to fear. The reason I write so many “dark” things into my music and my world is because I’m constantly testing them, learning about them, and in doing so, not invoking them as much as I am inspecting them. When I do this I begin to see that it’s all just energy; it’s all a thin veil that is not meant to be chain mail, it’s not meant to be titanium. It’s supposed to be gossamer. There is very little that is all light, that is all darkness.

And in my heart I truly desire to know the depths and heights of Love; this is the mystical teaching of all ages. That Love is death, Love is life, Love is being ripped apart at the seams and then put back together again because it’s the only thing that can be done. When you are truly vulnerable, truly in submission to both Love and the Will of the Universe, the Divine Will that runs through all things, you will be cast deep unto the rocks and ripped apart as a raft would be dashed by a hurricane. You are not the hurricane. You can never be the hurricane. You can be a sail, and catch the wind. You can be a dolphin, and ride the waves. But you cannot be the Force behind all things.

You must work from this place, the heart. That which leads you off course is that which says that Fears are real, that that which you fear is physically manifest and can actually do harm to you. Yes, it can do actual harm to you; you can go crazy, you can channel energies beyond your control and you can bring into existence something much more terrifying than your mother’s Ouija board can. But it is not you. You are not it. You are not the Darkness, and it cannot actually take you physically or mentally.

This is not what I believe, but what has been revealed to me through silence. Through asking. Through coincidence, metaphor, and manifestation. I have come to this place through the work of others who have sought the same path; and though sometimes I have found their work wanting, I know that this is only because they are not on the exact same path I am on. I am on a path unique to all else in existence, as everything in existence is unique unto itself. But we are bonded eternally by the force that unites us beneath our concept of our path, our individuality; we are united by that thing we call God, the Universe, and ultimately, Love. In Love I go and in Love I create, and in Love I shall leave my trace on this world, even as in Love I give my mortal body to the wind.

Tune In

Posted in delphi, lyrics, poetry, song with tags , , , , , , , on May 15, 2009 by skyscraped

New song, out Fall 2009
Copyright 2009 Cheryl Anderson

I could write a song about love being lost
beneath the paranoid illusions of my thoughts
give me a pen, tell me how much time I got
to be the next number One girl

I could give a fuck about your top hit charts
you raped the revolution, sold it back as spare parts
I’m gonna hit you hard with everything that I got
and if you don’t wanna hear then turn it off

Turn in
your national pin
Tune out
your television
Drop out
of your indoctrination
This is the time of the Revelation
Tune in
your intuition
Turn on
your Divine Intervention
Drop out
of a dying system
and follow your soul to the Revolution

I could tell ya what I know about their plans
hatched all the way back trying to recreate Eden
united in peace with no individual freedom
but the Truth is harder to believe than fiction

So I’ll spin you a tale from my imagination:
13 families rule it all and we feed ‘em
arcane rituals on the battlefield to satiate ‘em
and one day they decided we should go and pray to ‘em

and Religion was born from a man turned God
off-earth bred to make us fear what they are
encoded in the scriptures on the pyramid walls
encased in the stones of the Masonic halls

I read
The Book of the Dead
I’ve seen
Their symbols in my dreams
I feel
This is more than what it seems
and if we don’t pay attention
they’ll rewrite

History
is a spoken-word piece
the Truth
didn’t make it in the story
Underneath
your King James version
Reality is much more insane and amazing

So if I seem aloof to your Inquisition
it’s because this Veil is getting thin
I opened a journal I wrote when I was a kid
and the words that flowed out, I knew it then

So listen up
to your pineal gland
Not your cock or your preacher or your dumbass friends
If you’re interested in Enlightenment then come in
cause your heart is the only thing you should put faith in

If you’ve been caught laughing through this pain
and if you see what could become of this place
then stand the fuck up and show your face
Don’t matter your class, creed or your race

Turn in
your national pin
Tune out
your television
Drop out
of your indoctrination
This is the time of the Revelation
Tune in
your intuition
Turn on
your Divine Intervention
Drop out
of a dying system
and follow your soul to the Revolution

Long Countdown

Posted in delphi, lyrics, music, poetry with tags , , , , , on May 15, 2009 by skyscraped

New song, out sometime in Fall 2009
copyright 2009 Cheryl Anderson

Well we carve our hearts into the concrete stars
and the railroad tracks beyond the penitentiary bars
of the city we talk about leaving far
behind like our bad habits blowin’ on a clothes line
I used to fall in love with everyone
but I only trust those who don’t ever run
away from the truth and away from my mind
If I’m moving fast you better be by my side
when the gloaming lights of the sun enter night
when Mercury descends and the books can’t write
this world from the wrongs and all of my songs
start screaming from the calendars, this is the Long…

Countdown honey…
Count down honey
The Long Countdown honey, better move on…

You point to a light moving up in the sky
They can’t tell me that this is all in my mind
There’s too much laughter from the man behind
the mask so you better start swingin’ from a strong vine
Or they’ll lower you to a source of food
fuel for the Beast under which their world moves
so if you write your fiction, tell the Truth
cause those who say they know it are lying to you

And the dogs of war are crying for more
Don’t let them get close to the door
you don’t have to fight, just don’t ignore
all the signs all around, crashing through the storm

Countdown honey…
Count down honey
The Long Countdown honey, better move on…

So what if you’ve got a violent side?
All of us got it in us to be the bad guy
Just kiss me again and hold me tight
and all that has been done wrong will come round right…

Countdown honey…
Count down honey
The Long Countdown honey, better move on…