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Arjuna Thoughts: Episode 8 - Transcendental Meditation

Very related with my last post about Words and the way we could communicate. Arjuna is on a phone call and she sudenly transport herself in mind to Tokyo's room (tokyo is her bf). Usually this is what we called Transcendental meditation or consiousness, which is when a person leaves his body and presence itself in another location on a similar way we perceive memories.

Here is when Juna feels closest to Tokyo on the series but beyond that point is interesting acknowledging the option of a higher level of communication. It might sound corny but I have experience some type of connection, untangible connection with my gf also. Things that have no logical explenation except coinsidense.

Today my mom ask me a similar question around this topics. She ask me about the definition of metaphysics. I basically told her is something like untangible laws like magnetism, positive and negative energy and things that we can't perceive fully. I dumb it down relating it to as a weird science and something that we have very radical answers and very inacurate in itself and is usually tied to beliefs, religion and or esoterism. I have to recognize that I dont completely agree with that but I guess I felt something apropriate to mention at the moment.

Episode 8 part 2

Mo\' Jazz

So I will be the first one to admit that I don't know shit about Jazz. But it seems that at least I have good taste. The only artist I have come to recognize is really the only one I need to recognize acording to some Jazz experts.

His name is John Coltrane, which is really one of the single best artists of the new Jazz movement. With other artists then comming to my mind like Miles Davis and the eternal Duke Ellington, this is pretty much all my knowledge from Jazz.

This is one of the reasons I like last.fm, hopefully I could become more knowledable of all this great music that keeps being produced and which artist or song title can't really remember. The only thing I can trust is that when those notes start playing I will be able to know good stuff.

Arjuna Thoughts: Episode 8: Food

This is one of my most important episodes of the series actually this is the one that moved me really. I guess because as opposed to be about interpersonal relationship is really about world needs. About health, food, and birth process. Things that we can't deny and that usually serves as checkpoints that we need a difference.

If the most powerful nations reorganize the way we eat by reducing the levels of meat consumption we could erradicate world hunger.

What is important is that we need to know how much food is being wasted from the G8 everyday and how much could that feed. However this vision is simplistic, the issue goes beyond that into actual phisical distribution.

As transportation of goods becomes more efficient in the north hemisphere, is really distribution models what the sound lack on. Brazil has an enormous wealth on resources while Africa also has a strong resources the terrestial distribution is very very underdevelop.

So to pick up a flight from NY to London is way cheaper than fly from Rio to Ghana. This makes the price of whatever you want to take extremely expensive even if the resources are wasted in the first country.

Episode 8

Arjuna Thoughts: Episode 7 - Words

Recently I discover how YouTube start to become an interest way of watching anime that have been so strong and thought provoking. I recently found the series Arjuna which is one of the most though provoking anime series I have ever seen. The best thing is that I can show it to people and people can actually embrace that same experience at least to a higher level.

This episode is so powerful, the way that we communicate through words but at the same time we communicate in other ways like through art, numbers, and even communicate wtih other beings like earth itself.

Usually they say God talks through you through your enviroment, have access to your thoughts and how humans only use 10% of their brain and are so limited in regard to their through potential.

They mention that many people get trapped in the words, and words become what is holding us back.

Usually blind people have stronger sensorial sense because they have been limited by their sight, so if we were limited on our words would we develop other more higher levels to speak to god/earth/enviroment/people?

Episode 7

I confess... I am a liar

I have been thinking about our realness and fakeness when it comes to music. I often listen to an album and pick my favorites, but then MTV or whatever starts telling me which one I should like.

When the opposite happen, I am just looking for the hit dismissing the whole album.

This scenario is terribly destructive to the artist. Simply because the label choose a hit song, we will follow the trend ignoring our actual music preference.

Now I am talking about the microspace of an album, not generalizing to liking a trend or a singer. But an example right here...

Recently I have been listening to RJD2 which is a great group. However when I first listen to them I liked that song, but then I research on them and I have found which one is the good one, and ever since I have been conditionated to listen to that one and is soon becoming a favorite.

However is this just proving that I have no faith on my individual taste? Of course this is contradictory with my earlier post about trusting my musical taste.

Mo\' Jazz

So I will be the first one to admit that I don't know shit about Jazz. But it seems that at least I have good taste. The only artist I have come to recognize is really the only one I need to recognize acording to some Jazz experts.

His name is John Coltrane, which is really one of the single best artists of the new Jazz movement. With other artists then comming to my mind like Miles Davis and the eternal Duke Ellington, this is pretty much all my knowledge from Jazz.

This is one of the reasons I like last.fm, hopefully I could become more knowledable of all this great music that keeps being produced and which artist or song title can't really remember. The only thing I can trust is that when those notes start playing I will be able to know good stuff.

Why I love YouTube

Through out the 90's I b-came really close to hip hop and pick up one of the greatest group ever The Wu-Tang Clan and it was no dissapointment.

I remember my first albums I got pick ed up was some singles like [track]Incarcerated Scarfaces[/track] - [track]Ice Cream[/track] from the OB4CL.

I didn´t knew the wu, nor raekwon nor ghost but I just put it on and could meet the grittiness I came to love for years after.

That was more than 12 years ago and I still love to hear that hypnotic beat and Meth yelling on his unique voice for this rap niggaz all up in your guts.

I love the sound, I got BET and I pick up some of the videos. I was impressed with [track]Cold World[/track] from GZA - Genius. However one thing I never came to see is the live presentations, this is where Youtube has recapture all that footage like the concert was live stream or like the video was just released.

I have had the chance to watch the video of that Incarcerated Scarfaces from the rooftop of the building and the live presentations such as this one.

Listening to Brazilian Jazz Bossa Nova

I have been looking to discover new music lately, and have been going to the more old school exotic Brazilian Jazz. So far I got some artists like Astrud Gilberto with The Girl From Ipanema which seems to have been interprate before by other cats such as Antônio Carlos Jobim.

Being so focus on american music sometimes people ignore the world out there. There is a lot of hip hop going on on other countries, famous groups such as Paraziti, DJ Tomekk, Diaz and Zabio.

However when it comes to music, I think that this language barriers no longer matter since the music alone usually can be appreciate whenever is Alicia Keys or a girl from Fiji island.

So far we seem to just be looking for the manifestation of the real world on the internet as opposed to looking for the internet to change our real world. When people get this, a true revolution might start.

Sayin\' Something

So I have start looking on other people's journal and unfortuantely most of my favorite artists are just mentioned in a huge list.

Not that there is anything wrong, just that is usually not the way I usually will talk about an artist.

So one of my favorite artists right now is Immortal Technique, who is a group that is pretty raw which I like to compare with Jedi Mind Tricks.

I personally was impressed with the overal vision of this group. They pretty much explain in details most of the issues not just from an american point of view but an international one. Very few americans know or understand the ramifications of the US actions world wide. Also the sentiment of a foreign power regulating their economy, freedom and technology.

Is also interesting having the american point of view which remind me of how Romans label the rest of the world barbarians. Same way that british label the natives in India, NZ and North America.

The american people might not have a racial difference but a nationality difference. Is funny how to see the usual american ignorance when it comes to geography and the clasic discussion about calling USA America where the rest of the continent calls america to the continent and US to the US.

Immortal Technique brings this sentiment and other even more dark about the so called anti-american sentiment, and also uncovers the acts done on the US's best interest. This group is by far more than just music.

It also remind me of a more underground Wu-Tang Clan and more to the point, RZA where he went on the racial vein and communicate the same sentiment but against the black race. [track]The Night the earth cry[/track] is a good example of the oppression exposed to lyrics that have make hip hop produce so much inspiration.

This why I love hip hop and I love listening to the nice flow but they can flow all they want but is nothing when they lack any actual message.