The Compass Rose is a mark on a map indicating the cardinal directions of north, south, east, and west. The recordings in this section are guides to finding the right way to ones True North.

MIND GAMES:    Introduction

Here are the key instructions, the inital induction into the Mind Games exercises. Know that you can return again and again to this tranquil place — stepping down the ancient stone staircase, finding the small boat at the edge of the dark water, drifting deeper and deeper until you arrive at the meadow and feel to be in total harmony with all things.

WELL BODY BOOK : Imaginary Healer 

Using this guided meditation you will create your imaginary healer. Find a comfortable place seated or reclining then close your eyes, take a deep breath, and hold the breath for a moment then exhale very slowly allowing your body to become more and more fully relaxed as each part of your body is named as we go through this exercise… 

The Immense Journey I by Loren Eiseley

Back in Seventies, I recorded many what I called “trip tapes” with quotes or passages from favorite books and poems with musical accompaniments. While recently re-visiting Mind Games, I was reminded of these tapes and was amazed to find deep in my storage an old cassette tape that still could play. After surmounting the formidable challenge of learning how to transfer the tape to my computer then convert it to MP3 format, I am thrilled to be able to present this passage from The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley where he reaches across space and time to tell us,  There are things down there still coming ashore.

MIND GAMES:   Music

Bach’s Harpsichord concerto in D Minor. BWV 1059 : 2nd movement will be the guide for an exploration of a full-body experience of music.

Once you have learned the Mind Games technique for full-body listening, for your listening pleasure here is the link to Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: II. Adagio.

The Immense Journey II by Loren Eiseley

In this recording circa 1970, I read a passage from Loren Eiseley’s The Immense Journey (1957) where he takes us down a stone staircase, back in time to float in primal waters. Enjoy this trip back to the waters of your birth and to the particular pattern of molecules that can be none other than you.

Mind Games : Body

While listening to this Mind Games : Body  you will gain an inner flexibility in your body, experiencing it as large and small, transforming it from dense to light in a Alice in Wonderland way.

Baptism: a Journey Through our Time

When this album, Baptism: a Journey Through our Time, poetry spoken and sung by Joan Baez with Walt Whitman, James Joyce, William Blake, among many others was first issued in 1968, it presented a unique listening experience, that I then enjoyed hundred of times. But, when my turn-table went away, then my cassette player went away, I had no way to listen. Now, thanks to YouTube, the album is once again available. 

Original Minds: with Elia Haworth

On KWMR.org, September 21, 2020, Richard Lang with Elia Haworth, host of Original Minds. There was lively banter aplenty along with discussion about Electric Works, scratch-off prints and the importance of the creative life.

Enjoy the pleasure of reading out loud and the pleasure of being read to via YouTube or as MP3.

 

Mind Games : Animal Spirit

While preparing the If I had Wings post I happened upon the recordings of Jason Stephenson, an Australian mediation and mindfulness teacher. His guided visualization for meeting ones animal spirit parallel the instructions in Mind Games. His melodious voice along with gentle background sounds and music make for a relaxing experience. He does it so well that I offer this in lieu of my voice reading the Mind Games instructions.

Mind Games : Plant Spirit Guide

Mind Games this week offers a meditation on finding one’s plant spirit guide. It can be listened to inside then once you have taken the instructions to heart, and now that the smoke has cleared, you can go anywhere, even outside in the yard to commune, to experience. Here it is on YouTube or as an MP3.

Mind Games : Back in Time

 

 

Mind Games : A deep look…

A Mind Games exercise. A deep look at the possibilities in being someone else and in experiencing someone else being you.