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“this fugitive experience of life in space and time”

One of my spiritual teachers was the late John G. Bennett (1897-1974). He was an Englishman who off and on lived and traveled in the Near & Middle East, and he was really impacted by experiences in Islamic countries in the early 1950’s. Here’s a note from his published journals, “I began to be occupied with… sacrifice and trouble for the sake of work. As these thoughts proceeded in me, there was suddenly added the phrase, ‘the effects of a cause must always re-enter the cause’. (from Gurdjieff’s All & Everything, p. 1135)… [and] I saw afresh the whole significance of this ‘world law’ and its application to sacrifice and trouble. Wherever the sacrifice issues from, thither it will return. If it comes from our silly egoism and desire to be seen and appreciated, these will be strengthened by it. But if it comes from a sincere feeling of need to serve the work, then the result will give life to our own individuality… If we wish to carry with us something that can become immortal, then our actions must issue from an act of will that is not confined to this fugitive experience of life in space and time.” – Volume 2, p. 173. The journals were published in two volumes as “Journeys in Islamic Countries” – https://www.amazon.com/Journeys-Islamic…/dp/1881408124

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other inspirations behind David Salminen’s July 10, 2016 concert – Portland, Oregon

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An ancient idea occurring across many cultures is the notion that being in harmony with oneself is related to being in harmony with the world at large. Whether or not the brain waves, of a relaxed human being, vibrate at the same frequency as the earth (said to be 8 cycles per second and known as the Schumann Resonance) – composers such as myself aspire to intuitively find a music that helps people get back into a harmonic balance… this has been noted by many people. Please join us if you can, for this free concert at the Portland Piano Company on July 10, 2016, 3 to 4:30 p.m. – There is a comprehensive announcement in the Portland Mercury: http://www.portlandmercury.com/events/18292535/earth-you-are-here
If you can’t make it to the concert, or just want to hear an example of David’s music, there’s a concert excerpt on YouTube from this past January, recorded by John-Henry Dale, using a special 360 degree camera (interactive) and a new kind of microphone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xBxrRAsgPE

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inspiring the July 10, 2016 concert in Portland, Oregon

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David Salminen’s concerts over the past few years start from an idea or a feeling generated by a Cosmic perspective about our place in the Universe, or our understanding of some aspect of the Universe. The July 10, 2016 “EARTH – YOU ARE HERE” concert comes more from a feeling than an idea – a feeling for our home planet, a place so rare – unique really, to the best of our certain knowledge – that we cannot overemphasize its importance to us, in terms of place and time.While I am not closed to the idea of life on other worlds – even on many planets throughout the Universe, what we know for sure at this point is that our home planet, Earth, is the place, in the whole of the Universe, that we know is hospitable to life forms such as us. In this sense, the oneness of life here on Earth, as well as our individual lives as we each experience life, is central – the very center – of the Universe.  “Each of us – whoever and wherever he may be – is then the center, and within him, whether he knows it or not, is that Mind at Large, the laws of which are the laws not only of all minds but of all space as well. For as I have already pointed out, we are the children of this beautiful planet that we have lately seen photographed from the moon. We were not delivered into it by some god. but have come forth from it.” page 274 of Joseph Campbell’s book “Myths to Live By”. http://www.portlandmercury.com/events/18292535/earth-you-are-here

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