Meditating with thoughts from Siddhartha – Music from Michael Brant DeMaria…

Last night I decided that I would use Michael Brant DeMaria’s album The River as my yoga meditation music. As I was getting ready to meditate I began thinking about Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha, a book and an author that I loved when I was in college. Didn’t many of us in the 60s and 70s. So I went to Goodreads and read some quotes from the book. Here are a few that I love.. You can read more here It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.”  ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha “. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.”  ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha “And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.”  ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha “One must find the source within one’s own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking — a detour, an error.”  ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha “The river is everywhere.”  ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha While I couldn’t find any videos from The River – Here is “The Dream” from the album Siyotanka Have a nice…

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New Age – Healing Music from Michael Brant DeMaria – The Maiden of Stonehenge!

So the other day I was browsing through the Zone Music Reporter’s New Age Top 100 Radio Air Play chart and I spotted down at #87 an interesting looking album titled The Maiden of Stonehenge by Michael Brant DeMaria. Not knowing anything more about the album, than that it had both an interesting title and a cool cover (there I go again dating myself). I downloaded it on to the iPhone and gave it a listen. As soon as I heard the flute on the first track “Lost Village” I knew that I was going to like the album and I was very, very correct!! So then I started to research the album and Michael Brant DeMaria and what did I find. Another one of those people who REALLY have it all together!! (Unlike me who has little pieces scattered all over the place!) From his biography at his website: Dr. Michael Brant DeMaria is a psychologist with over 25 years of experience in helping guide others on their life journeys. He has published and presented numerous papers on the role creativity and spirituality play in the healing process nationally and internationally. Michael DeMaria is the author of Horns and Halos (1992), Ever Flowing On (2001) and the book of poetry,Moments (2008). His passion for philosophy and psychology started at a young age having graduated with degrees in both as he turned 20, while also achieving the outstanding student award the same year in the department of philosophy, art and religious studies. Dr. DeMaria then…

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