Phantasmagoria

| Life & death | Seabird | Tibet | A song .... Ariane Lewis, Tin Shed Cafe, Thirroul, 10/03. A song can change your life, even if only for a short moment ..... One such song is Phantasmagoria in Two which I first heard one cold, dark and misty night, around the turn of the new millennium. It was introduced to me by a friend, Ariane Lewis. She is no longer with this world, having passed on at the age of 27, on 27 April 2007. I came to call her Ari or 'Rain . We had met by chance and prior to this night had communicated through email on all sorts of matters - politics, the local scene, earth and sky, Indigenous issues, and writing. The emails became lyrical, poetic, and full of emotion. A connection slowly developed as we both exchanged words and thoughts. We would meet up on occasion, but most of the contact was online or on phone. For some reason we did a lot of that - my marriage had fallen apart, and she was full of life, energy and activity. She had so mu...

Contents Australasian CD single , 1994. Exquisite Studio & live  About Mazzy Star Australia 2018 Films  References ------------------- 1. Exquisite.... On 10 September 2026 the writer encountered the riveting performance of the song Fade Into You by Hope Sandoval (b.1966) of the band Mazzy Star  during the Bridge School benefit concert held on Saturday, 1 October 1994 at the Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, California. The concerts were annual events organised by Neil Young for a school which supported disabled / handicapped children. This performance of the hit song has proven over the years to be the most emotional and moving on the many recorded on video, being cleaner and more impactful than other live performances, or the original studio recording from 1993. Mazzie Star, Fade into You - Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre , Alt Vault , 15 November 2020, YouTube, duration: 4.22 minutes. The reaction by the present writer upon hear...

Jesus Christ / God: Aboriginal | Alien  | Buddha to Christ | Chronology | Cosmic Consciousness | Eru | Existence | God vs. Science | Goldberry | Jesus in England | Jesus in India | Life of St Issa | Mary Magdalene | Meister Eckhart | Tom Bombadil | Reincarnation | Yahweh | Content Prelude Chronology Same but same References -------------- 1. Prelude God created the universe. Let's start from that point and not worry about what happened before, because it's hard enough to deal with the proposition that God was the beginning of everything. So let's just go with that. God created everything that's physical, non-physical, metaphysical, material and non-material. Planets, people, organic things, consciousness, love and hate, free will - all of those things that exist in the universe. And we are not just talking about planet Earth here, as it is just one small speck in the universe. However,...

Mr Tambourine & Tuning My Guitar at Woodstock, 15 August 1969 , YouTube, duration: 6.19 minutes. Contents Candles in the Wind Woodstock 1969 Wollongong 1976 Looking back References ------------------- When I think of Melanie, I think of her smile, and her joyfulness ...... and her incredible voice (MO 2026) 1. Candles in the rain One of the hit songs of the writer's youth was Melanie Safka's Candles in the Rain , released in April 1970. It arose out of the young 22 year old's 34 minute long standing-ovation performance before some 400,000 people at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival on the evening of Friday, 15 August 1969. Melanie was not on the bill, arrived at the festival alone, waited all day to go on, was given a life-saving pot of tea by Joan Baez, and went on late in the evening after Ravi Shankar, just as it was beginning to rain. She talks about leaving her body as she walked on stage to perform. The rest is history.... Mela...

Jesus Christ / God: Aboriginal | Alien | Chronology | Cosmic Consciousness | Eru | Existence | God vs. Science | Goldberry | Jesus in England | Jesus in India | Life of St Issa | Mary Magdalene | Meister Eckhart | Tom Bombadil | Reincarnation | Yahweh | Contents Five Miracles The Bible Gnostic texts Chronology of Mary Videos God as Divine Feminine Comments References ------------------ Apostola Apostolorum .... Apostle of the Apostles ( Hippolytus 3rd century AD) 1. Five Miracles & more Mary Magdalene was not the demon-riddled prostitute of Catholic Church theology as promoted by Pope Gregory I in 591 AD and promulgated through to 2016 when she was finally declared a saint. Mary was something else, and something very special, as revealed in the early Christian and Gnostic texts made public since the late 1700s and excluded from the Bible by the leadership of the church as hereti...