#//Its separate from his own ancestral one; so people think he just truly loved and mourned BH

[queerpyracy]

“Definitions are important because whoever gets to define a problem gets to define its solution,” says Dara Cooper, activist, organizer, writer, and co-founder of the National Black Food and Justice Alliance (NBFJA). “Black communities are often beholden to white [power structures] and their definitions, so they’re also beholden to their solutions,” she adds.

Cooper is redefining problems in food systems across the country and looking at ways that communities of color can reclaim, redesign, and reimagine their own foodways.

In a recent report titled “Reframing Food Hubs: Food Hubs, Racial Equity, and Self-Determination in the South,” Cooper writes: “If we want a truly transformed system—a truly just system—we must commit to divesting from our current system, naming race, and ultimately destroying what we know as a system of white supremacy that does not benefit the majority of the population.”

The report is the result of four months that Cooper spent traveling across the South, interviewing farmers, food hub leaders, and community organizers to identify the most pressing solutions to transform food hubs—popular models for distributing local food more effectively—for greater racial equity.

“In my mind’s eye, the report is aimed at the practitioners of this work, people of color who never get to see themselves in the mainstream narrative, who felt invisible,” she says. But she also wants the larger food justice community to see the report, too, in hopes that it convinces people to see new solutions to old problems.

Earlier this year, Cooper was named a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award honoree for her work, which she describes as “rooted in resistance, self-determination, and, quite frankly, survival.” She sees herself as a conduit for organizations and communities that are working to find community-based solutions to problems.

Cooper started working in food justice 15 years ago, after noticing children on their way to school stopping at a gas station in Chicago for breakfast. “They were eating Cheetos with five-day old hamburger meat and plastic-looking cheese and that was what they had access to. That didn’t seem right to me,” she remembers. At the time she was working to help low-income residents in Chicago do tax preparation focusing on earned income tax credits. But after seeing the lack of food options many families faced, she decided to shift her focus to food justice.

Civil Eats recently spoke with Cooper about the NBJFA, what inspires her food justice work, and her hopes for the future.

What are some of the guiding principles of your work?

All the work I do is about liberation. I focus on food sovereignty, land rights, and land injustice in my role with NBJFA. I work with three other organizers and a larger network of food organizations focusing on food justice, youth leadership, elders in our communities, working towards creating self-determining food economies, and land justice. We mobilize to protect Black people from losing their land, and we work to promote indigenous sovereignty.

What does land injustice look like?

There are historical and contemporary laws that have separated Black people from land, and my work is about how we can reclaim the system and move to a more collective system. We look at using co-op grocery stores and land trusts to deepen our agency and our means to create and design food systems that give us full dignity and agency. Native peoples and Black communities have always had to think about community-based ways of protecting one another and we have to think cooperatively when facing the system. In a group you have more power.

You’ve talked about your work to end “food apartheid,” instead of using the better-known term “food deserts.” Can you explain your choice of language?

One of the things that I’m aware of is all of the ways that Black people experience violence in our country. [Lack of healthy] food is a deep-rooted form of violence. Junk food is concentrated in Black communities, and fast food industries are concentrated there, too. We have research saying kids need nutrition to develop proper brain functions, and when they don’t have access to food with nutrients, that’s violence. We see high heart disease in our communities, and that’s by design. We use the term “food apartheid” instead of “food deserts” because it’s violence that has created this system.

The musician Moby recently wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal about how the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) shouldn’t be allowed to pay for junk food. What are your thoughts on that?

I’ve been in arguments with people about this for many years. This conversation is so layered, and it’s absurd to point the finger at individual choice. When you do that, it can be classist, racist, and paternalistic. When you do that and you don’t mention legislation that makes junk food cheap, you don’t challenge the industries that profit off of this.

I went to South Africa and I saw “crisps,” or what we call chips, were really expensive, and a bag of spinach was really cheap. It made me think about our system in America and how it’s the opposite here. When I went to Jamaica, I saw fruit trees everywhere, and they belong to everyone; they’re in service of the island. Being out of the country has really allowed me to see our capitalist-driven food system and its consequences more clearly.

I’d say to Moby he needs to check himself, his research, and his privilege. We need to point the finger at our systems.

What are you seeing change as part of your work?

I have the great privilege of knowing people that are doing [food justice] work, and we bring these people together to design national strategy. We’ve been focusing on Black co-op work and [helping] Black communities be able to organize themselves.

Solutions [associated with the term “food deserts”] tend to focus only on [adding more] grocery stores, but that’s too narrow—we need to look at all of the different ways communities meet their retail needs like community gardens, dinner swaps, mobile markets, buying clubs… I’ve even experienced senior centers coming together to carpool to local farms and grocery stores. We want to have a more expansive definition of what that can look like.

We understand that ultimately if we want anything to change with our food system, we have to address the land question. We really want strong land reform advocacy that prioritizes creating ancestral connection to the land instead of ownership. Capitalism creates an extractive relationship with the land and makes it about what we can get instead of how we can sustain ourselves and the land at the same time.

I think about our work on a continuum. We have emergency situations where we have to help a farmer keep their land, and we have to think more collectively [over longer time frames] about how we make sure we’re not repeating the same exploitative system. How can we make sure future generations have the land as well?

There are many people thinking about how to create land trusts. We also want to see this in urban areas, since urban farmers are losing their land too. Black Dirt Farm Collective is doing amazing things in that space and urban farmers are organizing.

What does a completely reimagined food system look like to you? What do you dream of seeing in the future?

It’s a system that’s much more creative, not capitalism-centered, with more tax dollars redistributed so communities can benefit from land owned by communities. I also want to see communities organizing at a larger scale, training more farmers, and creating a culture of good food. All of the junk food advertising would shift to okra, collard greens, all of the beautiful things we enjoy when we’re connected to the land. I want to see a shift to thinking about the sustainability of the planet. I want to see the people who grow, pick, and package our foods be able to support their families.

I hope to see that we can really make the connections between [the many ways] capitalism is failing us. We need to center joy and fairness if we care about our children’s children. Quick judgments about SNAP recipients are deviations from conversations that actually create change. Our food system is a direct reflection of how we show love for one another, and there’s always an opportunity to show that you care about people.

[silent-of-spirit]

World of Warcraft rant below, in regards to datamined info about the Battle for Azeroth expansion. Spoilers abound, but much of this is subject to change, considering we are still in Alpha (Here’s hoping) @inner-muse because you Get Me (tm) on this particular subject.

(Warning this is like PURE salt. I KNOW things may change, I KNOW that Blizz is known for retconning lore. Just... allow me my salt. I am Tired (tm))

Salty rant brought to you by this.

So, Night Elves. The Night Elves have been a historically strong and prominent race in lore. Their empire spread over much of Azeroth in ancient times, and even since, Kalimdor has largely been under Night Elf influence. This is a people who created one of the strongest and most fearsome armies Azeroth has ever known, comprised entirely of women while their men lie sleeping beneath the earth in barrow dens.This is an army that gave Warchiefs pause, an army that could not be overtaken by the might of the Horde. This is why Night Elven territory has largely been left alone despite the heavy Horde presence spreading over Kalimdor.

This is a people who has beaten back the Legion not once, but twice with very little - if any - outside assistance. This is a people from which some of Warcraft’s most powerful lore characters come from. Azshara, Illidan, Malfurion, Tyrande, a race which Ysera gave her favor and which holds the favor of one of the most powerful Goddesses in Warcraft - Elune, AKA the mother of the Naaru?

And this is a race that has been consistently shit on since Cataclysm. This is a race whose leader loses more of her spine with each new expansion - a woman who, historically, was known for her strength and fearlessness, who was chosen to lead her people because of her ability to do so. She is a woman who doesn’t crumble beneath pressure or difficult decisions, a woman who will accept an alliance but will not bow before them. She is a woman who has always led her people in a way that strengthens them, and a woman who would not hesitate to cut any ties that would hinder their progression. Tyrande is proud and fierce while still serving her people and her goddess with little regard to herself.

Or, she used to be. Now Blizzard tosses us the watered-down priestess who quakes in the face of the encroaching Horde, who bends over backwards to meet the demands of a King who would not do the same for her people (I LOVE Varian, don’t get me wrong, but if you think he would show the same devotion to the Night Elves that Tyrande does to the Alliance, well... agree to disagree.) A woman who spent ten thousand years aching for her lover, but still leading a strong and proud people, who falls apart the moment he returns? That is not the Tyrande I know. That is not the Tyrande I accept. With each expansion she becomes more unrecognizable - a spineless, blithering creature that makes me wonder if Blizzard even remembers their own lore. And now? With the burning of Teldrassil? You expect me to believe that she would not fight with everything in her to protect the World Tree? To protect her people? Her home? She has a goddess on her side! One who quite literally speaks through her at times and will imbue her with power.

But Sarah, we don’t know yet that she doesn’t fight back. Okay, okay, I will give you that one - but with this caveat. I truly believe that if she fought the way her character would, then she would not have survived the burning of Teldrassil. Datamining has showed us that Tyrande is alive and well.

Back to the People. Cataclysm wasn’t the beginning of Blizzard showing the faltering might of the Night Elves, but it was the most prominent stepping stone to further lore and expansions that continue to stomp all over the Night Elves. Now, okay, okay, I know, the Cataclysm destroyed major Night Elf settlements and lands... but not their armies. The Sentinels were split between Teldrassil and Feralas (both locations which the Cataclysm itself did very little in the way of destruction), with very few of their numbers actually falling during the events that rent the world. (Remember, a singular army that actually stopped the Horde from taking Night Elf lands. No backup, just THEM.) So now all of a sudden the Horde are invading Ashenvale? And making like... a lot of headway? (I know the reasonings behind the invasion. The invasion itself makes sense, but not how FAR they got) So... the sentinels just... do nothing? And the Night Elves can’t take back Ashenvale? I’m sorry? Please direct me to the place where this makes sense cuz like... it doesn’t. (Not bringing Hyjal or Desolace or Darkshore into this because the Cataclysm had much more of an impact than the Horde did in those zones) And yeah, the Cataclysm dealt the Night Elves a serious blow. I’m not discounting that, but their armies are still intact.

An army of expertly trained warriors from a race that is known above all else for their fierce pride. They would not sit idle. Even while helping their devastated territories, they would have more than enough numbers to march to Ashenvale and drive the horde back out. MORE than enough. The Horde presence was barely a blip in the grand scheme, and yet Blizz tried to tell us that they could not be pushed back, and that the elves are struggling to find purchase in this newly rent world. Ajhegdfkjg. The Night Elves are probably the most ADAPTABLE people in Warcraft lore. They survived the Sundering, survived the Legion TWICE (four times if you count BC and Legion now), survived demons and the Nightmare and betrayal and power and corruption and a world that has done everything in its power to see them wiped clean of it. They survived it ALL and THRIVED (not to the extent they used to, granted, but compared to others?) They moved, they rebuilt, they replanted, they trained and grew and prospered in the wake of all THAT and now you tell me that the Cataclysm is too much for them to come back from? AHjjhdgfh.

Mists wasn’t as hard on the race as a whole, but it was really a turning point in regards to Tyrande and how much her character had declined in SUCH an out of character way. Sending her people to a new land while the Horde still pressed in on Night Elf territories and their Warchief cackled in glee in nearby Orgrimmar after the bombing of an Allied city on her continent? Are you serious? *deep breath* Always always always she would put her PEOPLE first, not the runaway whelp of an allied king when there was still so much at stake. (Again, LOVE Anduin and Varian) The Night Elves didn’t even get a chance to rebuild before she was sending them off to places unknown at the command of Varian Wrynn. *salt salt salt salt*

Draenor? Same shtick, but with weird space-time travel that the Night Elves should want NO part of. (Hello? Well of Eternity anyone? Weird magic leads to baddddd things. Night Elves were RAISED not to trust that shit or anything having to do with the Void, which, let’s be honest, most weird time-space magic is usually Void related in some form or fashion)

Legion? *deeper breath, distant screaming* This expansion was the worst thing that could happen to Night Elves as a whole, Tyrande included. Yes, yay, we get to journey back to their ancestral homeland but then BAM we are smacked in the face with a corrupted World Tree, corrupted ghosts of a once noble order, a desecrated Vault and corrupted Wardens, the return of Illidan the Betrayer and all his cronies who are literally Part Demon, remnants of their people who survived in a protective shield only to turn to a well of arcane power (HELLO WELL OF ETERNITY AGAIN), Azshara’s naga cronies, tortured ghosts of Aszuna, satyrs everywhere you look in Val’Sharah, Old God bullshit, MORE Legion, and a consistent theme in the expansion is whacking us in the face with how easily Night Elves can be corrupted, used, and tossed aside. Weak Night Elves are like... half of all the content in the expansion. And that’s what upsets me so much, is that they are being painted this way and shoved in our faces as THIS and they are NOT weak, NOT easily corrupted (at least not any more than the other races), NOT power-mad, (the list goes on) And like? They face all of this absolute pile of shit in their ANCESTRAL HOME and they don’t even give themselves time to GRIEVE before they are leaping in to drive the darkness back. Like what about that is weak? Nothing, but hey, let’s paint them that way anyways.

And Tyrande? I cried actual tears at how she was portrayed. Malfurion too, though less so. Where did her fire go? Where did her spine go? Where is that ferocity and tenacity and pride that made me fall in love with her in the first place? There is so little trace of it left in this expansion that it actually felt like a physical blow. Instead we see her as a whimpering girl (aside from her interactions with Thalyssra. That is the most in character I have felt her be in a long time.)

And now we have a coming expansion that threatens to diminish the Night Elves and their proud history even more (I love the overall, okay, but the Night Elf stuff and Teldrassil REALLY bothers me). Not to mention, Sylvanas’ datamined dialogue regarding Teldrassil and Kalimdor? It feels like forced and lazy writing - a lore-shattering shove just to be able to justify the whole “separate continents” thing without really delving into why it is necessary or acknowledging the Night Elves and their history and how UNLIKELY it would be for the Horde to even get far enough to manage to torch the World Tree.

Yes, I am a Night Elf fangirl, but I think I am justified in feeling the way I do. When I see people who main Horde even seeing this pattern and saying the Night Elves should get a break? That should say a lot. We have been consistently shafted for no real reason other than lazy writing, and I am just... Tired (tm)

End rant.

[tilltheendwilliwrite]

Balance on the Head of a Pin

Chapter Eight

Previous Chapter

Pairing: Loki Laufeyson x Reader  |  Word Count: 3334 Warnings: Fluff, swearing

The walk to her Gran’s saw them moving in companionable silence as Loki’s mind was filled with the vision of Lauren in her dress. Technically it was filled with images of him peeling her out of said dress, but he wasn’t one for splitting hairs. It had been so soft under his fingers, her skin warming it through and him in return. The idea of her bare beneath would stay with him for days until he could ascertain for himself just what clever confection of satin or silk Sadie would put her in to keep those pesky panty lines at bay.

It wasn’t until she led him down a narrow dirt road out of town that he snapped out of his musings. “Darling, just where does your Gran’s home reside?”

She smiled up at him and linked their fingers. “Down this way. She’s a bit eccentric, but she ain’t crazy like Daddy said. She’s… well, you’ll see.”

“She’s quite special to you.” Here again, she had nerves blooming, but where meeting her family had created nerves of fear, these were nerves of excitement. Clearly, his meeting her Gran was far more important to her than meeting her parents had been.

“Gran was my safe place, my savin’ grace. She gave me a place to come when home got to be too much.” Lauren slowed to a gait no quicker than a lazy amble. “Growin' up here was… difficult. Marabeth was the golden girl. Straight A student, Captain of the cheer squad, homecomin’ queen and all around darlin’. She was perfect as she was expected to be, and she held me to impossible standards. I wasn’t her and couldn’t compete.”

He squeezed her fingers, offering comfort and encouragement without words.

“Cissy was the baby. She was… beautiful right from the beginnin’. I can remember being no more than five or six and thinkin' I’d never seen a more beautiful baby. I was so proud she was my sister. I thought, “Here. Here is a sister who will love me like Marabeth couldn’t.” I should’a known Marabeth wouldn’t let that happen.” She sighed and looked away.

“What do you mean, Lauren?" How could one sibling stop the other from caring for the first? No one could have turned him against Thor. Yes they had their rivalries, and eventually, his jealousy had caused him to turn his back on his brother himself, but before that, he would have given his life for Thor.

“Marabeth was and still is very good at tellin’ people a grey truth. They’re not exactly a lie, but she can take a seemingly harmless comment and twist it to mean somethin' else entirely. It’s what makes her a good lawyer.” 

The pain seemed to ripple from her in waves.

“And she did this with you and Cissy?”

Lauren nodded. “I didn’t know until it was too late how Marabeth had been whisperin’ in Cissy’s ear, tellin' her things like how I hated her because she was the baby and had taken my position in the family, or how I thought she was hideous and ugly. None of it was true, but then Mama and Daddy heard Marabeth talkin’ and…” She shrugged.

He stopped dead center of the road. Anger and shock filled him. “They believed your sister? They believed Marabeth over you?” 

“Cissy was old enough by then to have been well and truly spoiled. You saw her. Mama and Daddy catered to her every whim, so when she backed Marabeth, there was no point in even botherin’ to deny it.”

Eyes downcast, she looked so defeated he hated her family all the more for it. “My love, I’m so very sorry,” he said, tugging her close and cupping her cheek.

“It is what it is. After, I did my best to conform, to live up to expectation, to be an Annandale, but I always seemed to come up short. Marabeth was the heir, expected to make her mark. Cissy was the baby, coddled and catered too. I was, still am, the one who disappoints. Whose only value is in her ability to make a good match and wed an appropriate husband.”

“Lauren, you have far more worth than that. Anyone who knows you, the real you, loves and adores you.” He hated her family with shocking intensity. The small tricks he’d played, the pranks pulled, the little curses he’d cast at lunch were not enough, would never be enough to punish them for the hell they'd put her through. “They may not be able to see your true value, darling, but I can. Those of us who are your chosen family can. You’re the cool head among us all, keeping not just Stark, but the rest of us in line as well. We would not be who we are today without you, Lauren.”

“Oh, I...” She blushed even as her eyes sparkled with tears. “I’m sure everyone would get on just fine without me.”

“No. No, we would not.” Drawing her in till she was firmly caught against him, Loki ran his hand over her sleek tail of hair, giving it a gentle tug to tilt her chin up. “You are integral to our success. While we all see the big picture, the large fight to come, it is often you who sees the small pieces, the little things of common sense we in our grand vision cannot. You may not see it, may not know it, but many times the casual things you say or the questions you ask of us keep us grounded. I have watched Steve seek your opinion on things simply because your humble nature keeps us humble. It is far too easy to see one’s self as a lofty being, living on a height far above the common people when those same common people elevate us to that status. We- they may be heroes, but they are still just people tasked with an extraordinary burden. Because you treat them as equals, they feel it and remain, as I said, grounded.”

Her eyes had long overflowed, her tears falling to drip from her chin. “Loki, I… I’m fairly certain that is now the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me. Thank you.” Pressing up on her toes, she kissed him softly.

“Hmm,” he hummed, enjoying her softness and tasting the salt of her tears. “If I leave you in tears, my heart, perhaps I am still not doing a good enough job.” Pulling back, he brushed the tears from her face. “If, in the next few days your family becomes exhausting, remember this. The family you are born into is not always the one which is best for you. My own biological parents left me to die. Had the Allfather not shown compassion, I would not be standing here today.”

Sneaking her arms out from between them, Lauren wrapped them around Loki’s neck and rested her head on his chest. “Not a thought I want to contemplate.”

He chuckled softly. “Nor I.” Closing his eyes, he rested his chin on the top of her head, content to stand in the dappled sunlight beneath the gently swaying trees in the middle of this out of the way dirt track. Never before had he been so happy to be so far from civilization and the halls of Asgard. Stroking his fingers over her back, he let the peace and quiet, the sound of the insects and singing birds wash over him, memorized each sound and scent so the memory of this moment would be one he could look back on with clarity.

“This is nice,” Lauren said quietly. “You’re like steppin’ into the big fridge in the kitchen.”

A small smirk curled her lips when he looked down at her upturned face. “If nothing else, I can keep you cool in the summer and warm in the winter, is that what you’re getting at?”

“I don’t know,” she snickered, playing with his hair. “I’ll have to keep you around till winter to find out.”

“Cheeky,” he chuckled, patting her bottom and making her squeal. “If you think I will allow you to escape me after the winter,” he leaned closer, his proximity to her lips darkening her eyes, “you are sorely mistaken, my Valkyrie.”

The hand at the back of his neck tightened. “Who says I will let you escape me?”

A rumble like a wolf filled his chest as Loki dove in, took her lips and her breath in a searing kiss. Her moan filled his mouth with sweetness, her body moulding to his until she seemed boneless, and his arms were the only thing keeping her upright. He wanted to sink in, wallow in her, take everything she was willing to give. Every touch, every kiss, every perfect, special moment with her made it harder for him to keep his control. To step back when all he wanted to do was step forward, sink in, and claim.

Breaking the kiss, he held her away by the waist, keeping her steady while putting distance between them. “You make me forget myself, my love.” Emeralds, dark and sparkling, full of mischievous light nearly made him groan.

“The God of Mischief? Forget himself? How… interestin’,” she crooned, her smile smug.

“You really are a sassy thing, aren’t you?” Shaking his head, he took her by the hand and tugged her along as she giggled uncontrollably.

By the time they reached the narrow bend in the road, he could see the two-story home which waited, much smaller than the one of Lauren’s parents. It was of an aged design, with peaked roofs, fancy woodwork, and wooden shutters. A faded yellow, the paint peeled in places. It was, in its slightly dilapidated state, far more appealing than the monstrosity of her ancestral home. It was surrounded by forest, encroaching but not aggressively so, but it was the extensive gardens laid out before him which surprised him enough to take his breath.

They were wild, a riot of blooms and buzzing bees. A seeming mishmash of types and sizes, so exceptionally blended it was effortless and stunning. Tube feeders, long and narrow, attracted tiny birds like gleaming jewels. Stones and benches invited one to walk or sit in contemplation. Water trickled in the brook he could hear but not see, while in a separate plot of land, a much more uniform garden was placed,  one clearly meant for edibles as it ran in neat rows.

The woman working within its fenced confines hummed happily in time with her scratching at the earth, a large straw hat upon her head. A white shirt beneath a floral dress, faded yellow like the house, was decorated with yellow bees and bright-faced sunflowers. She was such a contradiction to the refined, elegant - stuffy - style of Lauren’s other family it set him back on his heels.

Lauren smiled up at him, took the lead, and gave his hand a tug, encouraging him forward when, unbelievably, he found himself nervous to meet the woman who meant so much to her.

Closing in on the fenced garden, Lauren called out, “Gran?”

The elder woman spun around, and her wrinkled face split into a wide grin. “Lulu! C’mon, child and give your gran some sugar!” She shuffled a little, her body language belaying her arthritic frame as she made her way toward the open gate.

One of advanced years, Loki wondered why she did not have a boy or a girl to see to her work. On Asgard, the aged were held in high regard, honoured for their knowledge and experience as that experience was always millennium in the making. He hung back, waiting at the gate while Lauren picked her way across the rows of vegetables to hug her Gran.

“Just look at you sparkle, Lulu!” the elder woman laughed, her eyes a bright blue-green and still very full of life.

Lauren flushed as she was want to do upon receiving a compliment, something Loki now realized had been a rarity in her youth. He made a mental note to do so more often. While he didn’t expect her to become comfortable with them, he hoped she would, someday, not find them such a surprise.

“I missed you so much, Gran,” Lauren sighed, eyes and voice teary.

“Pish!” her Gran huffed. “With such a fine young man standin’ at my gate? You couldn’t have missed me all that much,” she teased.

Lauren glanced his way, and Loki followed her path out into the garden beside a row of high growing green stalks. Upon closer inspection, he realized the twisting vines were climbing netting. Coming to a stop at Lauren’s side, he held out his hand.

“Loki Laufeyson, my Gran, Ellie Annandale.”

Bringing her aged and weathered hand to his lips, Loki kissed her knuckles. “It is a pleasure to meet you, Lady Ellie.”

“Oh, Lulu!” She fanned herself lightly with her free hand, her gardening tool having hit the dirt with her first glimpse of Lauren. “He’s so fancy!” A giggle, high and girlish came from Ellie, and her cheeks flushed a similar shade of pink to Lauren’s. “Handsome manners on a handsome man. If I were a few years younger, I’d give you a run for him I would.”

Finding her enchanting, Loki chuckled, and held her fingers between both hands. “If Lauren were not my Astvínur, I would snatch you up and run off to Asgard.”

“Oh my…” she breathed, fanning her face a little faster. “Ain’t you just the tom cat’s kitten.”

“With such beautiful women as the two of you, it cannot be helped.” He kissed her knuckles a second time and grinned broadly at her.

Ellie nudged Lauren with her elbow. “I like him! He’s a keeper.”

Lauren, eyes bright and shining full of appreciation, cocked her head to the side and smiled at him. “I’m beginnin’ to think the same.”

Neither woman noticed the ripple of the chain around Lauren’s throat, but Loki did. The magic in it, his magic, called out to him as the first step in strengthening it was achieved. The sight of it set his heart racing and excitement flowing through his blood.

“Let’s get in outta the sun. We’ll have sweet tea and y’all can tell me what trouble you’ve been gettin’ into in New York. That and you can tell me how your Mama took it when you came home with Mr. Mischief.”

“You wound me, fair Ellie. I am a reformed mischief-maker,” he chuckled, halfway in love with her already. Clearly, this was where Lauren had learned her sass. Tucking Ellie’s hand in his elbow, Loki winked at Lauren. “Perhaps I can entice you into telling me tales of Lauren when she was younger?”

“Oh, I can do you one better,” Ellie giggled.

“Gran, no,” Lauren said, shaking her head.

Another wide grin crossed Ellie’s lips as she leaned conspiratorially toward him. “I have pictures!”

***

Hours later Bucky was still snickering about his call with Lauren, well able to imagine how much trouble Loki could cause for people he disliked. If the Trickster hadn’t pulled some kind of stunt, Bucky would have thought him sick.

While he understood the reason behind their sudden engagement, and possibly admired the balls on Loki to make such a forward announcement without knowing how Lauren would take it, he had to admit he was concerned. It was a rapid jump from admission of feelings to an engagement. He didn’t want to see Lauren hurt at some point in the future if this all fell through.

Continuing on into the gym, he found Steve working over a heavy bag and wandered closer, placing his metal hand against it for his friend to work it over a little harder.

“Buck,” Steve nodded.

“Talked to Lauren.”

“Yeah?” Steve glanced at him and arched a brow. “And? He’s behaving?”

Bucky shrugged. “More so than I expected what with Lauren’s family.”

Slowing to a stop, Steve began to unwrap his hands. “It’s that bad?”

“Her mother’s a piece of work,” he grumbled, having found Lauren in tears or on the verge of tears more times than he wished to remember. “Sisters ain’t much better.”

“And her father?”

“Mostly indifferent. I gotta tell ya, Steve, she grew up way the hell different than you or I did. That’s a whole nother world.”

“She’s so sweet. I don’t get it.” He shook his head.

“I don’t either, but not everyone’s moms were like ours.” The memories he had, the ones that had returned to him, were few but precious as were the ones of Steve’s mom.

“Anything I should know you don’t want to tell me?” Steve asked, eyeing him expectantly.

“Well,” Bucky hedged, rubbing the back of his neck.

“Spill it,” Steve demanded and crossed his arms.

It was his Cap pose, one most people found intimidating. Bucky simply smirked at him and crossed his arms in response. “I’ll tell you, but you ain’t allowed to flip out.”

“I do not flip out!”

“Yes, you do, punk.”

“Jerk!” Steve threw a half-hearted punch.

Bucky ducked and swept Steve’s legs out from under him. Looming over Steve flat on his back, he snickered softly. “Don’t start something you can’t finish, pal.”

Steve jerked his legs up and around and took Bucky’s out, sending him crashing to the ground beside him. Kicking up to his feet, a move Bucky mirrored, they slowly began to circle each other, moving away from the heavy bags and weights to give them room.

“Her fucker ex was there when they arrived. Guess things got a little heated between him and Loki during the introductions. Loki pulled his God of Mischief routine. Kind of freaked them all out,” Bucky chuckled, the vindictive side of him pretty pleased with that.

Rushing in, Steve landed a blow to Bucky’s ribs and took one to his thigh for his trouble. He grunted as he slid out of reach. “Please tell me he didn’t summon the helmet?” he sighed.

“Nah, just the staff. Still, it made an impression.”

A smirk curled Steve’s lips. “I bet. Admittedly, he’s good at intimidating people.”

“Most people.”

“Most people,” Steve agreed. “What’s the bad, Buck?”

“Ain’t bad so much as… surprising.” The plates in his arm shifted, drawing Steve’s focus as he threw a right hook.

Arm flashing up, Steve blocked it with a smile and chuckle, his face reading you’re a shit with the move. They traded blows for a few minutes, fists and feet in constant movement, causing them both to breathe heavily when they broke apart.

“Stop stalling. What the hell did he do?” Steve glared at Bucky sternly.

“Such a punk. That shit doesn’t work on me, and you know it.”

Quicker than most people could see, Steve elbowed him in the face, sending Bucky reeling.

“Fuck!” he bellowed when his lip split.

Snorting, Steve snickered, “That’s for being an ass.”

Bucky narrowed his eyes at Steve and swiped the blood from his mouth. “You’re so gonna get it.”

Another round of fast and furious blows saw Steve sporting a bloody nose when Bucky snuck beneath his guard.

“Damn it, Bucky! Just tell me!” Steve barked, pressing the heel of his hand against his face.

“They’re pretending to be engaged!”

“What?” Steve’s eyes had grown as big around as saucers, and Bucky burst out laughing.

“Take it easy, pal. They were trying to make her talk to that asshole. Loki suspects something’s going on there with Lauren’s mother. He didn’t know what, but he didn’t like it and took matters into his own hands to block them from forcing Lauren into something she doesn’t want.”

“Jeez, Buck,” Steve sighed.

“He has a thing for her.”

“Huh?” Head whipping up, Steve muttered, “Really?”

“And her for him.” Bucky grinned.

Steve’s mouth opened and closed twice before he chuckled, “Well… shit. Ain’t that something.”

Next Chapter

[brainsturmunddrang]

Paper-cuts to the tongue which can’t speak its mind.

I…

I hate when something I want to say to you starts with the word “I.”

Look. No, just listen:

I have really been feeling the impulse to run. Just take flight. Just walk out the door and go somewhere…else.

Only grab some essential supplies, shut off my phone, cancel everything and delete the calendars, and kinda drop off the edge of the map…and just not have to think about work or the people there… follow some rivers or two-lane highways. Stopping at greasy-spoon diners to be an anonymous smile over the rim of a coffee mug at the lunch counter. …or maybe hole up in an old fallout shelter or abandoned missile silo with a shitload of books and a typewriter…but I’d probably get cooped up and lonely in a bunker… On the road would be far better. Going constantly toward wherever isn’t here. Sending love letters and hand written stories and printed-out snapshots to you with no return address on the envelope. Wondering if you read them, figuring at some point you’d just walk them from the mailbox to the trash can and throw them away without ever opening them — out of the need to move on and stop letting me get to you. And that would be a poetry all of its own. It would be cathartic for both of us.

Or maybe you’d have moved houses by then and I’d have no way to know. All my mail would just stack up, undeliverable, one by one, getting so immediately forgotten that no one would even remember to throw them away. That’d be a fitting pile of debris for future paleoanthropologists to sift and piece together the lives of a hominid who got stuck in unopened parcels at the back of a 21st century mail room. I don’t really wanna piece it back together myself anyway, so could I just hand you my thoughts catharted bits of mental litter and have you to throw them out for me?

And then the left brain cries out to the rational mind, the prefrontal cortex sends rejection letters to my right brain, and I am reminded again of obligations and money.

But I still can’t shake off that instinct to take flight and take to the road. It’s a delicious feeling to just go and be gone, wind ripping past the ears, drowning out the deafening thoughts of an occupied mind… putting landscape between one’s self and the banality of a routine life half-lived, half-sold-off in biweekly pay periods. Growing pale and translucent under the sickly green flicker of fluorescent office lighting.

It’s not mankind’s natural state. A couple thousand years of city-building and a couple generations of industrialization won’t shed the millions of years of ancestral nomadic hunter-gatherers at his shoulder; pausing only to sit and reflect in front of campfires and watering holes. Always taking stock of the position of the sun and color of the sky. Catching his breath at sunset. Drifting into sleep under a ceiling of stars splashed across its middle by a visible Milky Way uncorrupted by the relentless incandescence of city lights.

…And then pulling up stakes again in the sunrise to chase the shortening shadows westward— toward the shrinking outline of his own foreshortened physical form cast out in front of him by the sun at his back— as time flows unflinchingly overhead, never stopping long enough to tick off a second, never separating one moment from the next.

The subsurface crawling itch I feel when sitting still probably differs a bit from thrill-seeking wanderlust…I don’t want thrill. I want the scenery to change and wipe my mind of the cobwebs that I keep walking into here.

Maybe this sentimental yearning is a just lot of early midlife crisis from an aging young man who had always wanted his progeny to be his thoughts or his written words living on in the minds of other people’s grandchildren….But a man who hasn’t found any unshakable truths nor written any observations he feels worthy of reproducing. And there’s really no way for us to have kids now. Only doubts and hypotheticals. Your scars precluded the conception; Your scars would preclude a healthy full term. Maybe parts were true. Sure. You were in pain. More of that to come. I wish we’d given the little unlikelihood-against-all-odds a fighting chance. I was suddenly unsure. I was in pain. More of that to come. Surely never would have made it. Only would have been more painful. It only would have hurt more, would’ve have felt that pain itself. Maybe it would have kicked. That would’ve been hell for you. So many fibroids and suture lines and your tender heart would have burst. Is that what I wanted? No, Sure, I said sure. I mean…I was sure.

I had no idea you would put it in my palm and I would count 15 fingers on one hand. 

I never made up my mind, but it sure was changed. Kept going back to work each day with a torn-down mind. Couldn’t talk to anyone. My tongue can’t swallow any more. It’s too dry to lick all these envelopes. I’ve just kept sealing them with blood. Doesn’t really hurt. Just kinda numb. I guess it’s the glue they use. 

I wish I had objected more when you asked if I was sure I was okay when you wanted that hysterectomy. It was sure painful. Everything was scar tissue. Sure. Sure. Of course, I mean… Sure. Anything to ease your pain. I’ll be there for you. At least it isn’t cancer. At least you haven’t died. At least you already had a son. At least he’s alive. At least one of your 3 children survived. At least the cancer was benign. At least we thought so. 

At least I finally quit drinking just to fall asleep. Now I stay up all night and sleepwalk through the paces. 400 days and counting. I guess it doesn’t get better, just smaller in the rear-view. 

It’s late again and I should go to bed to stare blankly at the ceiling, have no good thoughts, be unable to recall good dreams.

But I can’t divest myself of the feeling that the only truly happy people are the ones who are utterly unaware of what’s actually going on. —The ones incapable of comprehending the sheer insignificance and perhaps even meaninglessness of their existence in the vast expanse of everything around them. —The ones who can’t remember a current event about which they would care passionately if it only were reposted on Facebook within the past 2 weeks. —Those to whom all time preceding them and all the unknowable, indifferent future after them is too large and unwieldy a thought to wrap their heads around…So, bored, they click a like button in hopes someone will click theirs, and they keep popping out children and send them skidding into a future for which their consideration is re-abandoned every time a viral video begins to autoplay.

But I guess we’re probably all the same, fundamentally. Just different expressions of the same anxieties and suppressed urges. All avoiding one thought or another, trying to just make it through our days without hurting too much or coming to a violent end. …Trying to maybe find someone we can connect with and share the little shards of beauty and who won’t think we’re crazy if we give them a taste of our own little cooked-up flavor of anxious Weltschmerz.

Well, thanks for listening to mine.

I don’t think you’re crazy. Not at all.

I love you.

[bushlaboo]

DotN: Chapter 1

Note: Thanks so much for all kind words everyone! Seeing so many "I love Gargoyles" messages made my day. And since you asked, tagging: @almondblossomme​.

Awakening, Part I (AO3)

24 Months Ago

The man pulled the overgrown ivy from the figure mounted on the tallest parapet of the castle he’d traversed with an excited spring in his step. The massive figure rested in a protective crouch over its domain, exuding nobility. “Magnificent,” he murmured as he freed the statute from the winding vine attempting to consume it. The stone was rough, but warm from the sunshine underneath his fingers. The strong jaw and wide shoulders fit the image of a warrior and perfectly complimented the rough landscape in which it resided.   

The uninhabited countryside that surrounded the crumbling castle had a stark beauty that he could admire, but Tommy Merlyn much preferred the cluttered cityscape of his view back in Starling City. The spiraling towers of glass and metal which gleamed in the sunlight had always captivated him. As a young boy he wanted to one day own the tallest building in the city so that he could stand atop it and know that it was his; and know that everyone who looked upon it would see that he’d made his mark upon not just his city, but the world.

Taking a deep breath of the heather scented air, Tommy understood the appeal of the craggy, solitary vista that offered a mirror perfect reflection of the sky in the calm waters of the lake a few miles from the ancient stone monument in which he stood. Moving Wyvern Castle from the Highlands of Scotland to Starling City would be a massive and expensive undertaking, with only the promise of the fantastical.  Tommy had a reason to believe, a very persuasive one he’d seen with his own eyes, but it was still a gamble.

It was one thing to accept the impossible when confronted with the proof of it; it was another to accept without it. Helena was a reality, but magic and curses … they were still an unproven possibility. The temptation was too great and it was only money Tommy would be risking, with the reward of not only proof but allies unlike any other the world had to offer. Considering his company had earned billions of dollars spending a paltry few million on this venture seemed reasonable. Even if he only ended up with the most eccentric and expensive dwelling in Starling.

The quiet tread of expensive shoes reached his ears before his assistant’s profile appeared in his peripheral view. It was easy to confuse his number two as a captain of industry as the younger man tended to dress better than most of them. It was a very rare day when Cisco Ramon would be attired in anything other than a tailored suit – the high quality fabric usually ran dark – with a crisp white dress shirt, buttoned to the top with the only nod to him having something other than a straight-laced personality being the bright, colorful ties he wore. Today's selection was a nod to the land they were visiting, a brilliant golden tie with botanical drawing of a thistle running the length of it. While Tommy sometimes cringed at Cisco’s neckwear he always admired the precision needed to artfully knot them, he did not have the patience for that particular refinement. Invariably he wore his collar open, unless a tuxedo was necessary.

They shared dark locks, though Tommy preferred his trimmed fairly short while Cisco wore his shoulder length, though he habitually tied it back. He also had roughly four inches on his right-hand man. It was subtle tactic he’d picked up early in life, but he’d noted that people often deferred to the tallest person in the room if there were no other distinctions to separate them such as education or money. Unlike himself, Cisco claimed an Ivy League education - his degree embossed with Cornell’s seal, but there were very few who could rival Tommy in the area of money.

The moment Cisco had situated himself next to him Tommy instructed, “Start hiring crews, I want to begin as soon as possible.”

Dark eyes glanced at him with skepticism. “It may prove difficult to find the necessary manpower,” Cisco replied. His tone was respectful as he -- challenged wasn’t the right word, not that his assistant was incapable of such a feat. It had not happened often but Tommy appreciated that Cisco was too shrewd for a direct assault. His manner, more than his resume, had earned him the position by his side and one of his most important duties was to see the practicalities of any endeavor Tommy chose to undertake. The crossing of t’s and dotting of i’s were Cisco’s responsibilities. His commenting that, “The castle has a bad reputation and the locals consider it haunted,” was Cisco’s way of him informing him that there would be quite a few.

Undoubtedly all of them would be costly. With a grin, Tommy patted Cisco’s shoulder, “You know the answer to that, Cisco. Pay a man enough and he'll walk barefoot into Hell.”

After six and half weeks of around the clock work Wyvern Castle resided proudly on top of the tallest building in Starling City, Merlyn Global. Great care had been given to moving every last stone, repairing authentically the damage time and neglect had perpetrated upon the castle, and seeing to it that his new home had all of the latest technological advancements - some of which were only known to him and his research and development department.

Over a millennia after a grief mad mage cast his curse, Castle Wyvern had finally risen above the clouds.

The last of the gargoyles, the broad shouldered marvel he’d begun to uncover during his only visit to the castle’s ancestral home, had been secured in place just as a storm rolled in over the bay. Oppressive dark clouds crackled with electricity and Tommy could not help but sense magic in the air as what little of the sun he could make out began to dip behind the horizon. The slashing crevices of pink and orange stood out boldly against the amassing clouds. Rain started to ping against stone, but he did not move. Tommy stood transfixed as his charcoal suit dampened under the increasing mist. Lightning slashed across the sky as a loud crack reverberated through the air. For a moment he thought it was mere thunder but various degrees of fracture lines inundated the statute before him.  

His breath caught as the whole of the winged figure seemed to draw inward, as if inhaling, before it pushed outward with a fierce roar – stone chips flew everywhere and Tommy ducked his head to protect his eyes. The hunched gargoyle rose to its full height, its wings flapping experimentally, muscles stretching in a fluid fashion underneath the creature’s slate gray skin. He was pleased to have already learned something new about gargoyles, like humans, their skin tones were not all the same. Shaggy, ashy blonde hair hung over wide shoulders, the length of it stopping just above where its wings sprouted from his back. With his wings still poised open Tommy could not glimpse the gargoyles profile, but he suspected its jaw-line would be just as strong and chiseled looking as the rest of him.

Before he could speak Tommy heard the telltale splintering of stone - the other gargoyles awakening. The sounds pulled the behemoth from his perch, he leapt with no care, wings expanding to use the whipping wind to control his dead drop to the battlement below were the others had been placed. Seeing the creature’s powerful and precise movements excited Tommy even as he found himself amused by and pondering the chestnut loincloth secured around the creature’s waist with only a thick leather belt used to secure it. The clothing like gargoyle’s skin had been stone until only moments ago.

Oliver had never expected to break free of the endless sleep the Mage had cursed him to suffer; and honestly after losing so many of his clan, including his beloved Angel of the Night, he had no real wish to be free of his slumber. At least there he could dream of being reunited with those for which his heart ached.

He could not help the sense of melancholy that first assaulted him upon breaking free of his stone chrysalis. Oliver believed himself to be alone again, the sole survivor of the gargoyle race. It was a burden he had no desire to carry. That thought had barely flittered through his mind when a familiar and welcomed sound echoed from below him. The snapping of stone, the thin pieces of their encasement flying every which way, and the groans of emerging gargoyles rang in his ears. The others were with him.

Alive.

Joy suffused him, overwhelming any sense of his earlier sorrow, as he reveled in the notion of seeing members of his clan once again - in particularly his mentor and friend Diggle. As a warrior he would later berate himself for not taking in his surroundings, but in that moment all Oliver could think about was standing side-by-side with his brethren again. He bounded from his dais and into the cacophony of happy chatter as his brothers celebrated once again being with each other. He was welcomed excitedly into their number and as pleasant as it was to have his younger kin looking up at him in awe as they greeted him, it was Diggle clasping him in a welcoming embrace with his deep voice declaring, “Tis good to see you lad,” that truly settled Oliver, allowing him to believe the sight before his eyes. Though their numbers were small, his clan was together again.

It wasn’t all he wanted, but it was enough.

There was nothing Felicity Smoak liked more than solving a mystery, other than perhaps a well-designed piece of technology. Her academic prowess had earned her a full scholarship and she had fully intended to major in computer science with a specialty in cyber security, but an elective criminology class her freshman year had her altering her intended career path. She switched majors, though she had still left college with a minor in her original area of study, before tackling the police academy. If it hadn’t been for the yoga and kickboxing classes her roommate talked her into their second year, the physical aspect of being a police officer may have given her trouble; but Felicity approached everything with a quick mind and determined attitude. She mastered self-defense, tactical use and strategy, and excelled at the investigative element of the job; leading her to become the youngest detective in SCPD history.

She took pride in that and in her work. She believed in the motto ‘to protect and serve’ with every fiber of her being, which is why she had such problems with men like Tommy Merlyn who flirted with the law; believing somehow that they were above it. She had no doubt he’d done more than earn a few parking violations but his wealth and the variable fortress he’d built himself had always prevented anyone who investigated him from getting anything to stick.

Still, when the call came in of falling debris and potential shots fired at his building – the tallest in Starling, made even more conspicuous since he’d spent the past few weeks having an honest to God castle reconstructed on top of it – Felicity answered. Until she or another cop could prove otherwise Merlyn deserved the same protection that the innocent gawkers were in need of, even if they didn’t realize it, seeing how she’d nearly been crushed by a chunk of stone the size of a bolder. Even as she order people back, Felicity’s interest was captured by the claw marks, a few inches deep, she found embedded in the stone. What could have made them?

As expected she got the runaround, first from Merlyn’s aide and then from the billionaire himself, and multinational company or not, a private citizen repelling armed intruders in a corporate espionage bid felt a tad suspicious to Felicity. Bending the rules was easier for her in matters of public safety, after all urbanites shouldn’t have to worry about being pancaked when walking down the street where Merlyn Global was headquartered. At least that had seemed reasonable to her when she slinked off the elevator Mr. Ramon had escorted her to and started to sneak around the castle. She got a small eyeful of the disarray caused by the assault, but for the most part she was traversing dark passageways with just the high powered beam emitted by her phone’s flashlight function. Felicity was unsure if it was the earlier chaos or the ambiance that surrounded her but as she made her way up another flight of stairs she could have sworn she heard a growl.

Her heart rate spiked at the noise and she picked up her pace, moving towards the light at the top of the stairs. The archway led out to an open area of the castle, the storm that had rolled through earlier had left a cloudy sky but did not diminish the shimmering skyline. Though it was familiar sight, the city appeared almost otherworldly being viewed from within an ancient castle. Ducking into the corner on the other side of the doorway, Felicity exchanged her cell for her police issued Glock 22. She took a quick deep breath in and out to settle herself before jumping into a defensive stance in front of the doorway and ordering, “Police. Show yourself.”

There was another growl and bright, animal eyes flashed at about knee height in the darkness on the other side of the ingress. The thought, BIG DOG, had just begun to form in Felicity’s mind when the animal moved out of the inky black causing her to gasp. Felicity desperately wanted to reject what she was seeing. The animal, more like creature-beast, wasn’t like anything she’d ever seen before. It appeared hairless and its smooth skin was the color of a bluebell flower. As it edged closer to her with a snarl, Felicity eased back but its massive three toed paws – with claw-like ends – ate up more ground than her tentative steps back. She didn’t want to move too quickly in fear that it would pounce on her. The beast looked to be well over two hundred pounds of pure muscle and its toes weren't the only sharp thing about it. Teeth, the front two lower ones stuck out over its lip, and the spike-like protrusion from its spine looked like they could inflict a lot of damage. Web-like ears twitched when she shakily said, "Nice doggy?"

Another growl sounded from behind her. Though Felicity loathed taking her eyes off the danger in front of her she pivoted to see what other hazard had come up behind her and was met with a massive gray chest. She’d barely begun to drag her eyes upward when her gun was yanked from her hands and crushed within a four fingered fist. “You’re trespassing,” a deep, agitated voice rumbled.

Felicity managed to take in broad shoulders and wings as she stepped back into the cold wall of the castle. She didn’t have a chance to catalogue more before she shifted, trying to put more distance between herself and the wingless creature, and fell through one of the embrasures along the parapet. Felicity wasn’t certain if the scream she released was because of the unimaginable beasts she’d encountered or the fact that she was falling from a 110 story building. Of all the things to cross her mind in the moment, the fact that she was grateful that she never wore her glasses on duty was beyond ridiculous.

Felicity lost the sound of her own scream to the whoosh of air as it raced past her. The feeling of weightless falling was terrifyingly disconcerting - she could see her home reflected in the windows of the building as she plummeted towards certain death - it was a beautifully macabre final moment.

Except it wasn't.

Taloned hands reached out towards her and the monstrous face she had encountered mere seconds ago was etched with concern and determination. Long, muscular arms roped around her and pulled Felicity in close to a cool hard chest. Her arms chained around the creature's neck as its wings snapped out to their full span. She watched in fascination as the wings fluttered, navigating drafts of wind with ease and a long tail swished, offering counter balance as they soared safely to a ledge a good twenty stories from the ground.

Felicity couldn't help the side steps she took, putting some distance between her and the creature, once her feet were firmly underneath her again. It wasn't just her earlier fear, but the size of whatever was standing next to her, the space was necessary if she wanted to look it in the face without severe neck strain. At 5'5 Felicity was about average height for a female but she nevertheless had always felt short, now staring up at a tower of brute strength that all but walked out of the pages of mythology she felt downright tiny by comparison.

"What—who are you?" her voice shook with her the question as her heart continued its frantic beat. Whatever it was, it has saved her life instead of letting her fall to her death. For as strange as it looked, and as much as it and its dog-like companion frightened her, Felicity let that thought soothe the worst of her fears.

"I am a gargoyle," a masculine voice huffed. After landing it -- he Felicity corrected herself even as she marveled at him speaking to her -- had folded his wings around himself. They hung around his large frame like a protective cape, covering almost every inch of his bulky form. There was wariness in his eyes. Felicity remembered them flashing white up in the castle, but now the irises were a mesmerizing shade of blue. They were deep set in his face, causing his smooth high forehead to appear more prominent, the expanse of which ended with two sharp ridges on either side of his head; their subtle movement made her think of them as expressive eyebrows. "And my name is Oliver." Felicity was unable to do much more than gawk at the at the gargoyle; for as brilliant as her mother like to brag that she was, even she needed some time to accept the impossible.

Fear had quickly morphed into wonder on the face of human female he'd encountered sneaking around the castle, leaving Oliver uncertain of how to deal with her. Luminescent blue eyes continued to watch him, even as the others joined them. The skin around Oliver's neck still tingled from where Felicity -- he couldn't help but think the name suited the blonde -- had touched him while clinging to his back as he climbed up the side of the building and back into the castle.

Though he'd sworn not to trust another human again, at least not easily, Oliver found himself answering her questions and confiding the circumstances of their betrayal. He couldn't look at the petite, inquisitive woman and see a threat, though with the safety of his clan being of the utmost importance he knew he could not divulge their vulnerability to the dawn. As such Oliver tried to view his encroaching kin as a human might. He was the largest of his brothers in both height, width and wingspan though his mentor Diggle was nearly his equal in those regards, however, his strength had faded a bit with age. It was because of that and having been left blind in his left eye following a battle with the Archmage, that he was the only surviving member of the clan to carry a human weapon – a short sword. Diggle’s facial features were not overly distinct like Roy’s; the young red skinned gargoyle had a short pointed nose over a long beak-like mouth. Both he and Roy had wild manes of hair, the lad’s was a true shade of dark brown unlike Oliver’s own sandy locks, and it was paired with two horns that stuck up out of his forehead with a backwards bent two-thirds up their length. Diggle’s three small horns on each side of his forehead were far less severe, even though he had a receding hairline of short black hair laced with silver.

Diggle also dressed in more than just a loincloth unlike the rest of his kin. The elder gargoyle covered his chest with a dark brown tunic and wore golden trousers underneath his waistcloth. None of them had the same coloring: Barry was bluish green with the interior of wings more green than blue; Curtis was khaki colored and had the most distinctive wings - they were attached to his arms and had webbing laced throughout; and Diggle was brown with his underwing having a ruddy orange coloring.

There had been very few humans in his time that had looked at his kind and not seen them as monstrous with their features so sharp and different from humanity. Felicity, however, took in their differences with awe. She did not blanch at the three spikey protrusions in the center of Barry’s head which started at the top of his forehead and crested up over his skull, or at Curtis’s large round eyes which took up most of his face. Her open fascination with them reminded him of the boy, Ronnie. Was the gratitude he felt towards the lad influencing how he saw the woman in front of him?

Oliver wasn’t certain, but seeing Felicity’s small rounded ear as she tucked some hair behind it before answering Diggle’s, “What exactly does a detective do, lass?” he couldn’t help but notice how all his clan-mates save Barry had elfin-like pointed ears. His food obsessed brother had ears that looked like a small set of tri-tipped webbed wings, similar to a bat’s wing.

“Well, uh,” she replied with a soft laugh, “when somebody does something wrong, I find out who and arrest them.” Felicity emphasized the word arrest by cupping her right hand over her left wrist, making Oliver think of manacles.

“Who says what’s wrong?” he queried.

“We have a justice system,” Felicity answered. “Laws, penalties, assessments; but ultimately the people decide.”

“You mean the humans decide,” Oliver grumbled. What good were the laws she spoke of when humans could not be trusted? When their rules so often went against the gargoyle nature? Felicity started to protest his clear distaste but Oliver noted that sunrise was nearly upon them and cut her off with a harsh, “You need to leave.”

She pouted slightly, but brushed aside his stern manner and asked hopefully, “Will I see you again?” Oliver sighed, uncertain how to answer her. Felicity took that as an opening and pressed, “You need to learn more about the world as it is now. Let me show you Starling?” she offered. “I mean it’s only fair right? Since you saved my life.”

“If we are to live in this new world, understanding it would be useful,” Oliver conceded.

She beamed up at him; her enthusiasm was so dazzling that it seemed like what Oliver imagine sunlight to be. “Great! It’s my day off. Maybe we can meet this afternoon—”

“In the evening,” he countered. “After sunset.”

Felicity cast a quick look to the others, but his brothers did not give any response to his demand. “Okay,” she replied with a shrug her shoulders, “tonight.”

“We’ll meet on that rooftop,” Oliver instructed, pointing to the shorter building across the way.

Felicity did not argue with his requested meeting spot. “Until this evening then,” she said and headed towards the doorway he and Longbow had first encountered her. She paused before the opening and looked back at them all over her shoulder and offered them a wave.

End Note: I was thinking of an every two week posting schedule, but I'll be in Vegas for a conference then. Between prep for that, the actual travel (we're driving!), and chiseling away at future chapters I don't anticipate the next update to be until the last week in June sometime.

[keshetchai]

Hi @princessnijireiki THESE WERE MY THOUGHTS IN RESPONSE TO UR AMAZING THOUGHTS

  And I just sort of thought, if God is traditionally in all things, including us in terms of souls, etc., God cannot be separated from pain; God IS us & God IS healing & God is also suffering in and of itself… not that pain is divine or being in pain is a path TO God & understanding (though that is some OLD SCHOOL Christian meditative practices), but that God hurts, too.

 BUT that also reminds me of the explanation of Martin Buber's I-Thou philosophy. i’m putting this under a cut because it’s SUPER LONG but yeah. good stuff to think on imo.

Granted, I haven't read the book, I've only read summaries of his ideas, so I'll just briefly summarize what I understand. Buber proposes there are two types of 'relationships' the "I-It" and the "I-Thou." In the I-It relationship, it's sort of...between the self and another objective entity (so like self-object/objectified entity relationship). Like othering someone, or having an Other is an I-It relationship. But the I-Thou is a different kind of relationship: "By contrast, the word pair I-Thou describes the world of relations. This is the "I" that does not objectify any "It" but rather acknowledges a living relationship. I-Thou relationships are sustained in the spirit and mind of an "I" for however long the feeling or idea of relationship is the dominant mode of perception." So I-Thou is a relationship where a person relates to another entity as whole and complete (subject to subject relating as opposed to subject-object). 

Another website summarized: "In contrast to this the “I-It” relation is driven by categories of “same” and “different” and focuses on universal definition. An “I-It” relation experiences a detached thing, fixed in space and time, while an “I-Thou” relation participates in the dynamic, living process of an “other." Buber calls God the Eternal Thou - an I-Thou relationship being without barriers and in all people and all things. Or basically: "One who truly meets the world goes out also to God." 

 So yeah! It can be a suuuuuuuper Jewish idea to say that God IS us, in ALL things, without being divided or divisible, God just is in everything. God is the Eternal Thou. Buber (from what I understand) believes all I-Thou interactions ultimately brings us into the ultimate I-Thou relationship with God.

 > If we are to accept at face value that we are made in the image of God and act as stewards in a world which we not only interact with, but are not above— we’re still a PART of the world, ecosystem, etc.— God as sort of Itself AND this legion mass of the UNIVERSES, in each individual part & in whole, including us, then God is complicated & probably not always okay. 

 THERE'S ALSO LIKE the idea that not ONLY do we exist in God's image, and therefore we can "see" the image of God in all people - compelling us to (hopefully) treat other people with respect/dignity/compassion/etc -- but ALSO that we were given God's breath/spark/light to carry within us. There's like midrashic stories about God bringing light into each individual (since God is one and in everything), but also the fact that God "-formed man of dust from the ground, and He breathed into his nostrils the soul of life, and man became a living soul." So God's breath is given to the first human - the existence of God is also many, many things at once. Allll the time. 

 Plus like we (as humans) often try to ascribe morality to things that aren't necessarily going to have human morals anyways. Does the tsunami that murders millions of innocents really operate on a level of being good or evil? It's a force of nature. It doesn't respond in Good or Evil terms, it exists as a natural part of the universe. A volcano isn't good or evil, it just is, and it exists, and it has its own internal code of existence and purpose. God then, presents an interesting issue like -- God (at least in the Torah) outlines a code of ethics for humans and humanity. 

And it's when God proposes A.) going against God's own previous promise after the Flood and B.) suggests something against the principle of the Ethics God has been slowly giving to humanity -- THAT IS WHEN Abraham tells God something is wrong "Far be it from you!" Does God exist beyond human ethics UNTIL God created human ethics, which humans then expected God to also adhere to? (Hypothetically, If you assume God exists exactly as they appear in the Torah) Or did human ethics define the parameters of God's Ethics/Morality? Or is God just a force of nature which exists beyond our limits of morality -- but whose purpose is the creation of the world, the continued existence of the universe, and the formation of humanity and human ethics -- in the same way a volcano exists and is able to erupt or go dormant, but can also create magma and lava, can enrich soil, expand land masses, super heat the local land and make things like obsidian, etc. 

A LOT of the WHOLE IDEA of a covenant with God implies that with God's giving us commandments and moral laws....God must also uphold themselves/their end of the bargain which is....fascinating. IDK IDK God vs. Ethics vs. Humanity is FASCINATING and how it can even be approached is so wildly different for everyone's understanding of God and how God should or shouldn't "act."

 > And between that and then also different ideas on like— if that DOES matter, and why (in terms of a “design” or “fate” to everything, or bad things happening MUST serve a greater purpose, or even just “this will be tallied up to determine my afterlife” vs. the idea of divine judgement as sth possibly more complex or less “just” than that, or the afterlife as it’s commonly thought of as nonexistent), it indicates more of that same hierarchical view of theology & faith that non-Christian & non-diasporan/non-syncretic religions handle very differently? 

 YUP. It's like....well no, we don't NEED to suffer to achieve something better after death or to become "better" people. But in reverse we can become better people if we better the world, and the world is bettered when there is less suffering. (Aka Fuck off Mother Theresa).

Or like the idea that God or gods are static, vs. a force that evolves even with atrocities & pain… like there are New World exclusive orixas & loa in contrast with Yoruban sourceland practices, specifically created & responded to as a force in reaction to both fusion with/forced containment masquerading as Catholicism, and to the Middle Passage itself… or on a lighter note, how Hopi Sacred Clowns literally change to reflect the times, not in “spirit,” but in execution & appearance, in the same way as those comparison photos of people reading newspapers on a train and people on their smartphones. Which are admittedly examples from faith practices where “God” or a Godhead or spiritual holy entities are not necessarily or inherently all-good, all-powerful, and all-knowing by design; nor is that demonized. But New World vodou & santerx practices ARE often specifically linked with Catholicism, even when they seem at odds with each other. 

 BUT THAT ALSO HAPPENS IN TORAH!!!! Someone a little bit back made a post about decolonizing our Judaism and our relationships to Judaism and it's like....well, shit, yeah. Colonialism and Christianity go hand in hand in the modern world, and Judaism is often obscured by Colonialism's misuse and abuse of the "Old Testament." 

 ....But well, it's an indigenous religion of a tribal people who've always lived in/related to a specific land, used a specific language, and shared a base culture/customs with regional variations. (I love visiting the Ancient Israel/Canaan wing of the museum I work in for this reason it's so....awesome to see the objects that came out of this time period TBH). So you've got this religion which frankly really truly reflects the needs of its people and the existence of its people. It's why so much of Torah seems weird or outdated or what have you to people today! Like of COURSE we may not relate to the lives of a bunch of people living in Israel 3,000 years ago as a nomadic people. Of COURSE some of the laws seem bizarre - the first five books talk about the lives of people living outside of the very first cities, practicing a type of religion (monotheism) which really, didn't exist elsewhere.

 Judaism gave Israelites an ancestral God, but one that was shared amongst ALL the tribes. It was a God that existed before the nation (so not a national pantheon) and yet the tribes became the nation-kingdom of Ancient Israel, so the religion preceded the state. AND yet, ancient Jews could (and did) live in other states and maintained their ancestral religion. And despite the fact that so many of the holidays are tied to life in Eretz Yisrael, they were maintained in diaspora!!! (RELATED: It's Tu B'shevat next week i think, so happy Birthday to the Trees. It will be a time to plant trees in Israel. Or like, anywhere, you want, I guess.) Like we still celebrate the harvest season in Israel across the world - so parts of the religion are so directly tied to life in Israel, especially an agricultural life which has been on-going forEVER, and yet is has evolved so so so much to grow and expand and exist beyond that. 

The concepts of God grew and changed with Israel (both the people "Israel" and the land by the same name) just as much as religion itself did. And that's even seen in the growth/change/manifestations of God in the Torah - like God starts out in the garden and makes Adam and Chava (Eve) clothing before they leave the garden. God/Angels later visit Abraham as travelers to be met outside his tent. God wrestles Isaac. But then God shows up as a burning bush. God shows up as a voice. God becomes a pillar of WHIRLING FLAMES. God is a guiding pillar of light and then a huge cloud of shade for the wandering Israelites in the desert - which is very different from the God that, in Eden, made Adam and Chava clothing to wear. God evolves not only for the situation and context, but for human needs (light, shade, water, protection, as a friendly stranger, etc.) God was never static even in Torah, even in the Tanakh as a whole. I mean God literally for a long time becomes an entity which "rests" in the Ark amongst a nomadic people. It's a God box that goes with them in a literal, physical way. But then the Temple is built, and God's throne is there - but also God remains with the people still, simultaneously. 

It again, feels like God exists everywhere, but appears/materializes in ways that humans want and feel comfortable with and/or however they most need. Adam and Chava needed the God who would make them clothes before sending them out of Eden. When God needs to be a supernatural force of miracles and wonder - then God is a bush on fire speaking to Moses - THAT is a God that is not being anthropomorphic but instead otherworldly - a God that can and will bring about a massive change in the social order and make possible the "impossible" - liberation from slavery. Then again, the Israelites need something that will lead them through the desert - a pillar of light, a cloud for shade and resting that quite literally leads the way - a God that guides them but also is portable and goes with them places -- until they settle into a kingdom, where God can also "settle" on the Temple Mount. 

 But anyways yeah it's....definitely a God which can relate to humanity in many different contextual ways and isn't some huge authoritarian UNCHANGING being. God, for better or worse, also seems to be learning how to be God to humans (Justice requiring mercy, requiring empathy, and understanding, learning....patience, lmao...) as much as humans are defining what they need from God. And like, that, I feel is part of the issue of "well Jewish God is an indigenous concept/God figure to Israel (the people/land)" versus "Christian God, which layers on the lens of the 'Old Testament' vs 'New Testament' is a God that is explicitly, and (I would argue foundationally) a part of Western Colonialism." Christian God was utilized as an authoritarian figure in colonialism to create it, to perpetuate/sustain it, and to legitimize it. 

The Colonial Christian God exists with all these problems that really can't (in my mind) ever be fully or completely solved with a definitive answer. On the other hand, post-colonial, syncretic, and indigenous religions either create answers or ways to "mend" over them, or don't see it as a binary either/or issue. In Judaism, the way to "solve' the problem of All-perfect/all-good/all-knowing is usually "Let's keep asking these questions. It's okay to ask them, and we may have many possible answers. If God is not these things, then what do we demand of or expect from God?" BUT a religion which is being appropriated for Colonialism cannot really allow so much questioning to be asked or consideration of alternative routes or answers because then the Colonial power [here, the Church] loses its authority and control over the people it is subjugating.

 Like you said, "that structure is the “universal” norm which has survived & outlasted other “versions” of Christianity because those other interpretations were discouraged, removed from holy texts (the history of the Christian Bible & its translations through history is WILD), or persecuted (sometimes violently), on purpose." It NEEDED to remain as a structure in Christianity. Where Christianity survived and spread through this framework of a particular version of God, particular morals, "saving" or "damnation," etc -- Judaism survived (in many ways) on the exact opposite - to maintain itself it simultaneously became regimented/structured, and "set" in very specific rules, but ALSO it was fluid, adaptable, and changing. The legalistic mindset of Jewish law means that what is said to be "clear cut" in one place is actually debated over millennia, with rulings that can affect local communities differently, or with authorities being decentralized, and that questioning, debate, argument, AND tradition go hand in hand in a way that keeps it sustainable.

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#TGTfeature 004: Doctor Jeep [Trouble & Bass, Tumble Audio, ENCHUFADA: New York City, USA] Following last month’s Afrofunk excursion with Denver band ATOMGA, #TGTfeature 004 returns to low-end theory with the man to call if the bass isn’t ill enough: Doctor Jeep! This and forthcoming #TGTfeature articles will highlight dedicated musical talents by featuring their recent work as well as an in-depth interview. Undeterred by tempo and style, Doctor Jeep is well-regarded from techno to dubstep to dnb. Speaking via phone prior to his return to the Denver stage on March 2nd, the good doctor discusses the challenges of being a multi-genre specialist, his own crucial musical experiences, how he gets his bass so massive, and much more. Special note: Make sure to tune in late-night this Sunday evening Feb 26 at midnight MST for my next live “Pomegranate Sounds” radio show on KGNU Community Radio (Boulder/Denver). A Doctor Jeep feature will be on just after 1am (on Monday), with an exclusive chance to win tickets! A bit about Doctor Jeep: - a leading voice in the New York City bass scene, DOCTOR JEEP is known for rocking a range of bpms - has stacks of remixes under his own name as well as his DJ Bark Lee alias; his latest production release, the half-time dnb DISSOCIATE EP, came out mid-2016 on Aufect Recordings - HEADLINING this Thursday, March 2, at The Black Box with Snubluck and Kompra, presented by Sub.mission

TGT: You’re an artist who works within multiple styles and tempos, yet there’s always a clear focus on the low-end. How did you first get into bass music, and why has it become such an important part of your life? DJ: Basically, I went to a record store near my college when I was a freshman, and I bought a CD with an interesting looking cover, even though I had never heard of the artists or label. It ended up being Caspa and Rusko’s Fabriclive mix. That just opened my eyes to dubstep in general, and from there I just went through my usual process of how I found new music nowadays, which is just Googling every artist and/or label that was mentioned in the track list, and just kind of going in a wormhole from there… that was nine or ten years ago at this point. Weirdly enough, it took a while to get back into dubstep properly. Somehow after listening to that Fabriclive mix, I got really into Hessle Audio and Hemlock, and the kind of more techno-y stuff for the rest of my college experience. A few years later, I started going to a party in New York called Reconstrvct - basically its initial iteration was an all-UK dubstep party. They were bringing in these crazy lineups…like six or seven DJs from the UK and then one or two other residents. And it was just super insane because you would never see these producers in the US, ever, outside of that one party since it was fairly underground people for the most part. I think one of the defining moments that solidified my love for bass music was their two-year anniversary that had Kahn & Neek, their side project Gorgon Sound, Vivek, Youngsta, and Amit, all on the Tsunami Bass soundsystem which is probably one of, if not the best soundsystems in New York. I guess as for why that kind of music is important to me: it’s an escape from real life and the stuff I like makes me feel like I’m going back to my ancestral tribal roots. Sometimes when I’m in the dance, it gives me this feeling like we’re in the Stone Age dancing around a fire with like a shaman guiding us… it’s really cool to think about it in that way, knowing that people around me are also on the same wave length and it’s a meditative, trance-like experience. You’re feeling this energy in your chest and it’s so different than listening to music at a house party or in your headphones or something. Not to be too hippy-dippy about it, but bass is healing, and it allows you to mentally recharge and let go after a long week – I just love going to parties and dancing and, you know, getting into it… if I’m paying $15 to see some DJ, I’m gonna dance, I’m not just gonna stand there and cross my arms and nod my head! [laughs] Finding this community in New York was really important to me, because for all my life prior to that I felt like an outsider who just liked weird music. It’s really great to go out somewhere and spend a few hours with your friends every weekend doing what makes you the happiest.

TGT: So what challenges do you face as an artist whose work isn’t defined by a single genre? DJ: I make so many different kinds of music that I think it’s important to have certain distinctions as to what’s Jeep stuff versus other small side projects, because… I feel like if I’m making techno as Doctor Jeep, and I’m making drum ‘n’ bass as Doctor Jeep, people don’t really know how to book me, or where to book me, and that’s a huge issue. Because if I was, you know, [Berghain resident and legendary techno DJ] Marcel Dettmann or something, and I primarily played one or two fairly similar types of music, people would know what to expect when I came to play a party. At any gig, I have the ability to play rap or dancehall or UK garage or jungle or whatever, but some crowds know me for my older 130bpm productions, some crowds come for the newer drum ‘n’ bass side of me, and it’s like a divided crowd where I can’t appease everyone, and it’s definitely more difficult than if I was able to go into it with a clear game plan every time. It’s all situational. After I play a party once, I generally know the vibe. These days I’m super into a lot of electro and ’90s hardcore, but I know that’s not what fits the vibe at Sub.mission for example, so I’ll focus more on the dubstep and halftime side of things. I guess that is the benefit of playing a lot of different kinds of music, I can hone it in if I know what the crowd tends to like. At the end of the day if I’m getting paid to fly somewhere and play music for two hours, my job is to make the crowd happy, regardless if I just got a bunch of sick tracks from a totally different style the weekend beforehand [laughs]. That being said, I enjoy the challenge of figuring out what works on any given night. I think that there are some situations in which a change of vibe within the set is welcomed, and this kind of ties back to that Reconstrvct two-year anniversary. At some point in Youngsta’s set he went from a deeper dubstep section to a more hype halftime dnb part, and that was one of the first times I ever saw someone play a hybrid set like that and do it super well. And it made me think, damn, these two tempos are separated by 30bpm – which is a pretty big jump – but are stylistically quite similar in sound design and the sound palette, and people really fuck with both. I mean, it was just another one of those times where I was like ‘wow, you can really go all over the place, and still keep the crowd with you,’ so that was really inspiring for me, and definitely a very formative experience where I was like alright, that’s how you connect the dots from very different tempos. You find stuff that has similar textures or atmospheres or whatever, and you kind of go from those tracks. You’re not just slamming in a totally different track or doing a backspin and then just throwing in something from left field. That will kill a crowd, but you just gotta think of it kind of intellectually: where’s this set going? Basically, long story short, I think it’s tough as an artist who likes to make different kinds of stuff to get booked as much as if I only specialized in one genre. On the other hand though, I do think it’s important to experiment as much as possible and try new things. I mean, every time I’ve tried consciously to make a different style than I normally do, I learn a new production technique just by fucking around with the software or using a sample in a different way. I do think it’s important to experiment, but at the same time you have to have a consistent sound. I feel like over the years I’ve found the quote-unquote ‘Doctor Jeep sound,’ and it’s not necessarily a genre thing, but it’s more so just a general vibe or the samples I use or the way I use certain vocal samples or whatever… I’ll give a quick example: I really like weird, disembodied vocal chants or little cut-ups of a vocal that aren’t full words. There’s that, and I also really like running full vocal phrases through a vocoder and having them sound like a robot. Just things that kind of remind you of the human voice but aren’t exactly that, because it’s important I think to have a human element in the music too.

TGT: You’ve dropped some heavyweight remixes within the past few years, notably including a recent “Topper Top” rework (under your DJ Bark Lee alias), a mix of Benga & Coki’s “Night,” and a personal favorite of mine, “Back to Africa” by Tour De Force. What’s your approach when remixing to truly make tracks your own, and any tips for producers on how to get the bass banging properly? DJ: It’s funny you mention that [“Back To Africa”], because actually I think that’s the track that’s statistically done the poorest of any track I’ve ever uploaded, in terms of number of listens or comments, so it’s kind of heartwarming knowing at least one person liked it [laughs]. One thing that really bums me out is when an artist remixes something else and doesn’t use the main elements of the track. They might use like a tiny vocal before the drop, and then suddenly it shifts into a different song with no samples from the original… for me, it’s really important that if I’m doing a remix, it has to, at the very least, remind you of the track or even better, be obviously identifiable as being a flip on this song. I guess my approach to it all is to have the remix be different enough where I’m putting my stamp on it, but still paying tribute to the original artist. I’ve had remixes done for me (that ultimately never were released) where I’ve been like ‘uh.... [chuckles] so where’s the parts of my track – this isn’t really a remix, it’s just your track that has my name on it.’ It’s just so weird you know? Getting back to the second half of your question - I know people that have a million VSTs and 10 types of EQs, and I’m sitting here only using the Ableton plugins because my philosophy is just mastering what you’ve got. In terms of instruments, I only use the VST MASSIVE, that’s what I build my sounds out of primarily except for occasionally manipulating samples. It’s the first one I learned, and I feel very comfortable with it at this point, and for me to learn a totally different software instrument would just be frustrating. I just know how to get the sounds I want with MASSIVE, and I now associate the Jeep sound with the basses I make with it, so I just go with that for now. So my tip is: get good at one or two things and stick with it. Your creativity can lead you to make sounds that you didn’t think were possible with that specific instrument.

TGT: You’ve spoken before about the role tribal percussion plays in your production, while the just-released freebie “Adianta” brings in a similar vibe via a choice vocal. What’s your view on sampling? DJ: In general I think sampling is super important for music, especially if you look at any of the major developments in terms of the way dance music has evolved. I think back to one of my favorite genres – early ‘90s rave music – and they’re throwing so many different elements in the pot: breakbeats from old funk or hiphop records, synthesizers, vocals from sci-fi movies, or straight up just sampling other people’s tracks unashamedly [laughs]. That was the most exciting period of music for a short period of time because they had so many different influences and elements. Even nowadays, a lot of the stuff I like is just re-contextualized old music. With that track you mentioned, “Adianta,” - basically I heard this ‘70s bossa nova tune on a Brazilian compilation I got (my family is from there so I listened to that kind of music all the time growing up), and I really wanted to do a side project that was all remixes of Brazilian tracks. I had four tracks lined up for it, but three of them were just not as good as I really wanted, so I decided to give away the one decent track. The main sample is an eight-bar loop from the original, Trio Mocoto’s “Nao Adianta”. A funny thing happened, where basically I put this track out, and a promoter who booked me once shared my track with this someone she knows and she said ‘hey, check out this kid’s music, I think you might like it, you guys should connect for a coffee or something.’ In a very weird coincidence, it turned out that the guy she sent it to runs a label that the band I sampled was signed to. We actually ended up meeting up and talking shop about a potential new project, so I’ll probably create another alias in the next year or two that’s dedicated to that and that’s very focused on sampling Brazilian music and reinterpreting it in a modern context. I think my parents would be quite proud [laughs]. I mean, honestly, my take on that is don’t be dumb and sample something that’s on Sony or some major label that is gonna go after you. Don’t take an obvious, long sample from something really well known. The strategy is just do it in such a manner that it may pay homage to the original track but it’s not a total rip-off. I would be insane to take more than a few seconds of a Drake vocal and put it into a song and try and sell it – I think if you’re giving it away for free that’s one thing, if you’re trying to make money off it that’s where you’re going to come into some issues. TGT: Not necessarily connected, but which artists’ musical influence do you view as crucial to the Dr. Jeep sound? DJ: For me, it’s not so much specific artists as much as it is experiences. When I was in college I had a six-month long internship in London. And on the third day I was there, I went to Fabric, and it was a Hessle Audio night. This one moment I remember really specifically was Ben UFO (or Blawan, I can’t remember) playing Head High’s remix of Joy Orbison’s “Ellipsis”. It’s just a really cool, groovy tune – it’s a breakbeat techno track that’s not 4x4, it has an odd rhythmic pattern to it, and just very drum-oriented, but hearing that was just like ‘damn, this kind of shit sounds awesome in a proper club sound system.’ I think that really influenced the way I like to program drums these days. It’s all about rhythm. In the same night actually, Jackmaster did a set from 5-6am, and he played a Burial “Archangel” – and that was really bizarre because I never thought I’d hear that track in a club. It was just so crazy hearing such a raw powerful song in a nightclub full of people that are on all kinds of mind altering substances and seeing how much it really affected them. I think that was one of the moments where I was like ‘alright, I want my music to – even if it’s not this emotional – have this visceral impact’ … I don’t think my music is at that point yet, but that’s the kind of goal… if I can get one person to say ‘this is an insanely good track,’ then I think I’ve done my job. I heard Kode9 do a mix for FACT magazine, that’s pretty much all mid 90’s jungle, and that was definitely a point where I was like ‘I really enjoy this kind of music.’ You know, uptempo, breakbeat music. That mix got me going down the drum ‘n’ bass wormhole, which I now very much enjoy. You can tell he actually grew up in the era when that music was being made, and it’s really cool to see an artist’s influences, even if it’s not what they’re primarily known for nowadays.

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Data is the collection of memories and beliefs in your mind, your databank of your views of life. The thing is, some of your data is keeping you separate from The Divine. So, you need a way to clean it.

Well, how do you clean it???

Let me start with an age-old question: If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Answer: I don’t know.

What I do know, is that if it does make a sound, I would wish that it sounded as incredible as the music that I’m presenting here to you now.

There is a sample video on this page that you can listen to, but to truly experience its greatness and encounter the majestic excellence, you need to listen to it in its entirety.

The more you listen, the deeper your cleaning experience will be. Our data is constantly changing, and because of this we must continually clean in faith that we are doing our part as a connection to the “I”, to the ONE SOURCE.

There are millions of songs and endless albums in our collections but only some of them stand out. You know the ones I’m talking about. I’m guessing that something jumped into your mind right now.

Let me tell you why…

Because sound is energy.

It’s a frequency that sometimes resonates with us and other times doesn’t. What I’m sharing with you here right now is an energy that defies the laws of conscious reality.

You’re probably asking yourself, Mathew what does that mean?

What I mean is this music is not created by me necessarily, but channeled from a greater source, a higher power, the Divine.

Guidance comes to us in our lives continually. Often, we dismiss it and move on, but the Divine keeps sending the same message back with great patience again, again, and again.

As you read this maybe you’re excited for the possibilities awaiting you, or maybe you may have doubts.

The Divine has helped you find this music but can’t force you on to a better path. You are the captain of your own ship. You must take action.

Right now that action is to snap up this uplifting tool that’s staring you in the face. You need this!

It was meant for you.

Hi I’m Guitar Monk Mathew Dixon,

I have had the great fortune of learning ho’oponopono from great teachers like Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, Dr. Joe Vitale, and Mabel Katz.

For over a decade I have been creating music, books, certification programs, and meditations that have helped thousands understand and practice ho’oponopono.

Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len recommended to me long ago to begin to infuse my music and meditations with the ho’oponopono mantra recorded subliminally (below conscious awareness) with the music.

After seeing the results that people were experiencing from this technique Dr. Joe Vitale and I began creating a large collection of instrumental albums specifically designed for cleaning.

Now with the help of some musically gifted friends, I’ve composed for the first time music with not only the subliminal mantra (please forgive me, I’m sorry, thank you, I love you,) but also with lyrics written to target specific data, and clean it in a nonconfrontational way.

This music has a peaceful relaxing yet enthusiastic vibration you will feel resonating in your heart chakra.

Ho’oponopono Roots can be listened to anywhere, at home in private, in social settings, or at work, only you will be aware of its ability to pinpoint and clean data/memory.

The specific data that will be purified and cleaned to align you to the Zero Point:

Lack of Abundance

Anxiety

Mental Illness

Physical Illness

Broken relationships, family and friends

Financial hardship

Addiction

Employment challenges

Global threats

Soulmate dis-connection

Disharmony with business partners

Discord with Family members

Threats to pets’ well-being and behavior

Grief

Past life trauma

Ancestral trauma

Dear Guitar Monk, I just finished listening to your masterpiece, and my heart chakra is so open and glowing. I’m a yogini and yoga teacher, and this music was like doing a hundred sun salutations! Thank you. You have profoundly touched me! Namaste, Leah Byrd

Dear Mathew, thank you so much for the ever so beautiful Zero Limits recording. Ever so beautiful! I am deeply enjoying it.

Love from Berlin Gemany, Annie

Mathew, your song is incredible. Took a while to look you up and find your CD, Changes. I will order it after I send this to you. So glad I found you. You definitely found that place where magic lives.

God bless you and yours and God bless Texas!

Thank you, Mathew, for your music. Just wonderful!!! I met Dr. Hew Len in Paris last year and since then ho’oponopono is a part of my life. Unfortunately, Dr. Len doesn’t travel anymore. We miss him, but on the other hand he is present.

The peace of I

Tine Dawn

Hi, I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the music…being a lover of music I must say, this was quite unique! I felt deeply connected to the music…and I didn’t want it to end. Thank you so much for sharing your passion and heart.

Great success,

Miriam Madziga

Aloha Mathew, I just wanted to send a very special thank you for your beautiful masterpiece. I have been listening to it often because not only does it calm me, but it has a connection to some very special memories.

I have recently experienced a mild heart attack and listening to your song has done some remarkable changes in my comfort level.

Charlene Carlos

Thank you so much for the beautiful music.  It makes me smile and think, “I’m sorry, please forgive me, I love you, thank you!”

Elva

Hello Mathew — Your music is beautiful — very peaceful…restful. I enjoyed it very much while repeating the mantra over and over.

Thank you. I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.

Joyce Zborower

Hi I just want to say thank you for your beautiful and uplifting music, may you continue to give and receive much blessings and joy.

Ros Power

Hi Mathew, the music is very relaxing and soothing. I listen to it every day. Thank you very much.

Dilini

Hi Mathew, just wanted to let you know that I love your song Zero Limits! From the first time I listened to it I felt a definite vibrational shift. It’s become one of the tracks I play constantly now – I play it when starting my day, while writing in my journal, while working, and even when drifting off to sleep. I find that it helps me concentrate when that’s what I need yet helps me relax when that’s what I need. I have added it to my ‘vibration lifting’ playlist.  Thank you very much for this awesome gift!

Your friend,

Lisa

Hello Mathew

I really love this song,

When I was little my father put me to sleep with his singing and his Spanish guitar almost every night.

I just separated from my boyfriend of 4 years 5 days ago, and it has hit like crazy, but I have a pain in my heart. He hardly ever said Good Morning or even answered me, for almost all the time we were together. I had lots of arguments about it at the beginning, which later became more like educating a little boy, but it still hurts?

So, this is my way of healing it. Plase excuse the translation from Spanish. Thank you.

Blessing to you

Keep it up the great songs!!

Buenos Dias Senor.

Hi, wanted to take a minute to thank you for the Zero Limits music. I absolutely love it!  I put it on my ipod and play it over and over and over.

Thanks again, Terri

Thank you very much! I love the music a lot!!!

In LOVE and GRATITUDE,

Andrea

I am a widower living in an apartment building and find it necessary to have a “clean-up” lady come twice a week to straighten up my mess.

Generally, she finds me working away on my computer, and she asks if I can make it play some music.   She knows that the computer is hooked up to some really great Bose speakers, and that I have, on occasion, played some really nice selections. I generally say that I have some favorites lying around on a Flash Drive, but I don’t know where they are.

But the other day, I downloaded Mathew’s fantastic new track; which I’ve now listened to several dozen times — always with a soaring mood. Today, when the cleaning lady showed up, I quietly started it playing with no comment, and set it for “continuous play.”

My visitor whirled around.  “What’s that?” she asked. “I LOVE that sound!” Well, I knew I was going to have an extra clean apartment today, and I got it! After a very long clean-up time, my visitor had to leave, even though she obviously didn’t want to  — but it was only after I promised to save the gorgeous music for her next visit.

A final note to Mathew — I don’t know how many times, when driving South from Dallas to visit my family, I’ve driven by New Braunfels, with no idea of how much talent resides there.

Charlie Dunn

http://www.DunnCastle.com

UT Class of ’55

Mathew, thank you for the incredible gift of this song.  I have downloaded it to my MP3 player and listen to it as I work.  I feel relaxed and rejuvenated after listening.  I look forward to listening to your next project.

David Duane Wilson

Wimberley, TX

Hi, you did a great thing! Listening to your music gives the same sensations as cleaning with ho’ponopono. I even put it on my cell phone, so that the calls get “cleaned” as they arrive.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Roberto

THANK YOU, Mathew! I do love this music, Zero Limits! I keep it on my desktop and have it playing in the background as I work on the computer. It is so powerful and beautiful! I LOVE IT! Thank you for this lovely gift. I have shared it with my friends.

Louise

www.louisedewey.com

Thank you, Mathew, – I just love this music – I recorded it onto a CD to take with me to my caravan in the country and I have played it non-stop, it just makes me feel so serene.

Kate

Take a moment to watch this short cleaning video and hear samples of the ho’oponopono roots music.

All 12 songs are performed as a trio – vocals, two acoustic guitars, and light percussion.

Listen to how the guitars intertwine creating a harmonious resonance. The vocals paint pictures that should be interpreted by you, bringing forth specific data that lies within you… to clean.

Sit back and listen, and enjoy the moment…

The most important thing to me is that you experience this cleaning miracle. THE SECOND most important thing to me is that you are completely satisfied and have zero risk for trying this amazing new way of cleaning with ho’oponopono roots.

That’s why… I am offering you a 60-Day no questions asked money back guarantee!

Even though my digital distributor will charge me a penalty for every return I am so confident that you are going to love and experience the incredible results from this new one-of-a-kind music, that I am willing to risk being charged if you are not satisfied for any reason.

All I ask is that you approach this music with an open mind and heart, give it a real chance and find out how beneficial it is.

If for any reason you don’t find that this music resonates with your heart and your soul, I will gladly refund you.

That is my guarantee to you.

Corporations often start with a high price and lower it after the first initial customers purchase their product.

I pride myself on being a one-man shop. I do everything from creating this webpage to taking out the trash at the end of the day 🙂

Because of that I have a lot of freedoms, so I’m using the reverse approach.

I don’t think you should be punished with a high price because you’re the first to know about this program. Instead I’m going to reward you with a low introductory price for 30 days of only $11.95.

That is less than 1 dollar per cleaning track.

After 30 days I will start to raise the price to help cover expenses and overhead, so I urge you to act now!

The price will be going up and I WANT YOU… to be one of the first people to enjoy this new cleaning music.

It’s easy, and almost instantaneous.

Click on the order now button below, fill in your information and you will receive an email that will give you a link to the download page.

On this page you will find instructions for your download of all 12 tracks.

You will also find my personal email address on the download page. If you have any difficulty at all, simply email me directly and I will walk you through the download even if that means sending you a personal link to my Dropbox account.

Usually downloads are very simple, but we’ve all used the Internet and sometimes things don’t work as smoothly as we hope. I’m here to do everything possible to make sure that you will be listening to your new cleaning music instantly.

My good friend Dr. Joe Vitale wrote a song called “Everybody’s Goin Thru Somethin. “ This is absolutely true! We have no idea what each of us is experiencing at any given time, and every one of us is going through something.

That is why cleaning is so important. Give yourself the opportunity to heal and clean on the data that is confronting you.

The purpose of this cleaning is to dig deep into the “root”of your data and purify it back to a state of Zero.

Only you have the power to make this happen.

Only you can make the choice to listen.

Only you can make the difference for you…

Peace, love and music, Guitar Monk Mathew Dixon

PS- If you were to seek out ho’oponopono cleaning tools from a

Huna

Wizard

Fortuneteller

Guardian Angel

Ferry

Jedi

Wicken

Or Shaman

This cleaning tool imparts the wisdom a Master would pass to their student. Giving the student an advantage, and the ability to harness the power of an advanced data cleaning tool.

Now you have the opportunity to utilize this method in your own practice.

Click here.

ClickBank is the retailer of products on this site. CLICKBANK® is a registered trademark of Click Sales Inc., a Delaware corporation located at 1444 S. Entertainment Ave., Suite 410 Boise, ID 83709, USA and used by permission. ClickBank’s role as retailer does not constitute an endorsement, approval or review of these products or any claim, statement or opinion used in promotion of these products.

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Ho'oponopono Roots

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Ho'oponopono Roots

 Buy Now    

Data is the collection of memories and beliefs in your mind, your databank of your views of life. The thing is, some of your data is keeping you separate from The Divine. So, you need a way to clean it.

Well, how do you clean it???

Let me start with an age-old question: If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Answer: I don’t know.

What I do know, is that if it does make a sound, I would wish that it sounded as incredible as the music that I’m presenting here to you now.

There is a sample video on this page that you can listen to, but to truly experience its greatness and encounter the majestic excellence, you need to listen to it in its entirety.

The more you listen, the deeper your cleaning experience will be. Our data is constantly changing, and because of this we must continually clean in faith that we are doing our part as a connection to the “I”, to the ONE SOURCE.

There are millions of songs and endless albums in our collections but only some of them stand out. You know the ones I’m talking about. I’m guessing that something jumped into your mind right now.

Let me tell you why…

Because sound is energy.

It’s a frequency that sometimes resonates with us and other times doesn’t. What I’m sharing with you here right now is an energy that defies the laws of conscious reality.

You’re probably asking yourself, Mathew what does that mean?

What I mean is this music is not created by me necessarily, but channeled from a greater source, a higher power, the Divine.

Guidance comes to us in our lives continually. Often, we dismiss it and move on, but the Divine keeps sending the same message back with great patience again, again, and again.

As you read this maybe you’re excited for the possibilities awaiting you, or maybe you may have doubts.

The Divine has helped you find this music but can’t force you on to a better path. You are the captain of your own ship. You must take action.

Right now that action is to snap up this uplifting tool that’s staring you in the face. You need this!

It was meant for you.

Hi I’m Guitar Monk Mathew Dixon,

I have had the great fortune of learning ho’oponopono from great teachers like Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, Dr. Joe Vitale, and Mabel Katz.

For over a decade I have been creating music, books, certification programs, and meditations that have helped thousands understand and practice ho’oponopono.

Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len recommended to me long ago to begin to infuse my music and meditations with the ho’oponopono mantra recorded subliminally (below conscious awareness) with the music.

After seeing the results that people were experiencing from this technique Dr. Joe Vitale and I began creating a large collection of instrumental albums specifically designed for cleaning.

Now with the help of some musically gifted friends, I’ve composed for the first time music with not only the subliminal mantra (please forgive me, I’m sorry, thank you, I love you,) but also with lyrics written to target specific data, and clean it in a nonconfrontational way.

This music has a peaceful relaxing yet enthusiastic vibration you will feel resonating in your heart chakra.

Ho’oponopono Roots can be listened to anywhere, at home in private, in social settings, or at work, only you will be aware of its ability to pinpoint and clean data/memory.

The specific data that will be purified and cleaned to align you to the Zero Point:

Lack of Abundance

Anxiety

Mental Illness

Physical Illness

Broken relationships, family and friends

Financial hardship

Addiction

Employment challenges

Global threats

Soulmate dis-connection

Disharmony with business partners

Discord with Family members

Threats to pets’ well-being and behavior

Grief

Past life trauma

Ancestral trauma

Dear Guitar Monk, I just finished listening to your masterpiece, and my heart chakra is so open and glowing. I’m a yogini and yoga teacher, and this music was like doing a hundred sun salutations! Thank you. You have profoundly touched me! Namaste, Leah Byrd

Dear Mathew, thank you so much for the ever so beautiful Zero Limits recording. Ever so beautiful! I am deeply enjoying it.

Love from Berlin Gemany, Annie

Mathew, your song is incredible. Took a while to look you up and find your CD, Changes. I will order it after I send this to you. So glad I found you. You definitely found that place where magic lives.

God bless you and yours and God bless Texas!

Thank you, Mathew, for your music. Just wonderful!!! I met Dr. Hew Len in Paris last year and since then ho’oponopono is a part of my life. Unfortunately, Dr. Len doesn’t travel anymore. We miss him, but on the other hand he is present.

The peace of I

Tine Dawn

Hi, I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the music…being a lover of music I must say, this was quite unique! I felt deeply connected to the music…and I didn’t want it to end. Thank you so much for sharing your passion and heart.

Great success,

Miriam Madziga

Aloha Mathew, I just wanted to send a very special thank you for your beautiful masterpiece. I have been listening to it often because not only does it calm me, but it has a connection to some very special memories.

I have recently experienced a mild heart attack and listening to your song has done some remarkable changes in my comfort level.

Charlene Carlos

Thank you so much for the beautiful music.  It makes me smile and think, “I’m sorry, please forgive me, I love you, thank you!”

Elva

Hello Mathew — Your music is beautiful — very peaceful…restful. I enjoyed it very much while repeating the mantra over and over.

Thank you. I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.

Joyce Zborower

Hi I just want to say thank you for your beautiful and uplifting music, may you continue to give and receive much blessings and joy.

Ros Power

Hi Mathew, the music is very relaxing and soothing. I listen to it every day. Thank you very much.

Dilini

Hi Mathew, just wanted to let you know that I love your song Zero Limits! From the first time I listened to it I felt a definite vibrational shift. It’s become one of the tracks I play constantly now – I play it when starting my day, while writing in my journal, while working, and even when drifting off to sleep. I find that it helps me concentrate when that’s what I need yet helps me relax when that’s what I need. I have added it to my ‘vibration lifting’ playlist.  Thank you very much for this awesome gift!

Your friend,

Lisa

Hello Mathew

I really love this song,

When I was little my father put me to sleep with his singing and his Spanish guitar almost every night.

I just separated from my boyfriend of 4 years 5 days ago, and it has hit like crazy, but I have a pain in my heart. He hardly ever said Good Morning or even answered me, for almost all the time we were together. I had lots of arguments about it at the beginning, which later became more like educating a little boy, but it still hurts?

So, this is my way of healing it. Plase excuse the translation from Spanish. Thank you.

Blessing to you

Keep it up the great songs!!

Buenos Dias Senor.

Hi, wanted to take a minute to thank you for the Zero Limits music. I absolutely love it!  I put it on my ipod and play it over and over and over.

Thanks again, Terri

Thank you very much! I love the music a lot!!!

In LOVE and GRATITUDE,

Andrea

I am a widower living in an apartment building and find it necessary to have a “clean-up” lady come twice a week to straighten up my mess.

Generally, she finds me working away on my computer, and she asks if I can make it play some music.   She knows that the computer is hooked up to some really great Bose speakers, and that I have, on occasion, played some really nice selections. I generally say that I have some favorites lying around on a Flash Drive, but I don’t know where they are.

But the other day, I downloaded Mathew’s fantastic new track; which I’ve now listened to several dozen times — always with a soaring mood. Today, when the cleaning lady showed up, I quietly started it playing with no comment, and set it for “continuous play.”

My visitor whirled around.  “What’s that?” she asked. “I LOVE that sound!” Well, I knew I was going to have an extra clean apartment today, and I got it! After a very long clean-up time, my visitor had to leave, even though she obviously didn’t want to  — but it was only after I promised to save the gorgeous music for her next visit.

A final note to Mathew — I don’t know how many times, when driving South from Dallas to visit my family, I’ve driven by New Braunfels, with no idea of how much talent resides there.

Charlie Dunn

http://www.DunnCastle.com

UT Class of ’55

Mathew, thank you for the incredible gift of this song.  I have downloaded it to my MP3 player and listen to it as I work.  I feel relaxed and rejuvenated after listening.  I look forward to listening to your next project.

David Duane Wilson

Wimberley, TX

Hi, you did a great thing! Listening to your music gives the same sensations as cleaning with ho’ponopono. I even put it on my cell phone, so that the calls get “cleaned” as they arrive.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Roberto

THANK YOU, Mathew! I do love this music, Zero Limits! I keep it on my desktop and have it playing in the background as I work on the computer. It is so powerful and beautiful! I LOVE IT! Thank you for this lovely gift. I have shared it with my friends.

Louise

www.louisedewey.com

Thank you, Mathew, – I just love this music – I recorded it onto a CD to take with me to my caravan in the country and I have played it non-stop, it just makes me feel so serene.

Kate

Take a moment to watch this short cleaning video and hear samples of the ho’oponopono roots music.

All 12 songs are performed as a trio – vocals, two acoustic guitars, and light percussion.

Listen to how the guitars intertwine creating a harmonious resonance. The vocals paint pictures that should be interpreted by you, bringing forth specific data that lies within you… to clean.

Sit back and listen, and enjoy the moment��

The most important thing to me is that you experience this cleaning miracle. THE SECOND most important thing to me is that you are completely satisfied and have zero risk for trying this amazing new way of cleaning with ho’oponopono roots.

That’s why… I am offering you a 60-Day no questions asked money back guarantee!

Even though my digital distributor will charge me a penalty for every return I am so confident that you are going to love and experience the incredible results from this new one-of-a-kind music, that I am willing to risk being charged if you are not satisfied for any reason.

All I ask is that you approach this music with an open mind and heart, give it a real chance and find out how beneficial it is.

If for any reason you don’t find that this music resonates with your heart and your soul, I will gladly refund you.

That is my guarantee to you.

Corporations often start with a high price and lower it after the first initial customers purchase their product.

I pride myself on being a one-man shop. I do everything from creating this webpage to taking out the trash at the end of the day 🙂

Because of that I have a lot of freedoms, so I’m using the reverse approach.

I don’t think you should be punished with a high price because you’re the first to know about this program. Instead I’m going to reward you with a low introductory price for 30 days of only $11.95.

That is less than 1 dollar per cleaning track.

After 30 days I will start to raise the price to help cover expenses and overhead, so I urge you to act now!

The price will be going up and I WANT YOU… to be one of the first people to enjoy this new cleaning music.

It’s easy, and almost instantaneous.

Click on the order now button below, fill in your information and you will receive an email that will give you a link to the download page.

On this page you will find instructions for your download of all 12 tracks.

You will also find my personal email address on the download page. If you have any difficulty at all, simply email me directly and I will walk you through the download even if that means sending you a personal link to my Dropbox account.

Usually downloads are very simple, but we’ve all used the Internet and sometimes things don’t work as smoothly as we hope. I’m here to do everything possible to make sure that you will be listening to your new cleaning music instantly.

My good friend Dr. Joe Vitale wrote a song called “Everybody’s Goin Thru Somethin. “ This is absolutely true! We have no idea what each of us is experiencing at any given time, and every one of us is going through something.

That is why cleaning is so important. Give yourself the opportunity to heal and clean on the data that is confronting you.

The purpose of this cleaning is to dig deep into the “root”of your data and purify it back to a state of Zero.

Only you have the power to make this happen.

Only you can make the choice to listen.

Only you can make the difference for you…

Peace, love and music, Guitar Monk Mathew Dixon

PS- If you were to seek out ho’oponopono cleaning tools from a

Huna

Wizard

Fortuneteller

Guardian Angel

Ferry

Jedi

Wicken

Or Shaman

This cleaning tool imparts the wisdom a Master would pass to their student. Giving the student an advantage, and the ability to harness the power of an advanced data cleaning tool.

Now you have the opportunity to utilize this method in your own practice.

Click here.

ClickBank is the retailer of products on this site. CLICKBANK® is a registered trademark of Click Sales Inc., a Delaware corporation located at 1444 S. Entertainment Ave., Suite 410 Boise, ID 83709, USA and used by permission. ClickBank’s role as retailer does not constitute an endorsement, approval or review of these products or any claim, statement or opinion used in promotion of these products.

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Ho'oponopono Roots

New Post has been published on https://autotraffixpro.app/allenmendezsr/hooponopono-roots/

Ho'oponopono Roots

 Buy Now    

Data is the collection of memories and beliefs in your mind, your databank of your views of life. The thing is, some of your data is keeping you separate from The Divine. So, you need a way to clean it.

Well, how do you clean it???

Let me start with an age-old question: If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Answer: I don’t know.

What I do know, is that if it does make a sound, I would wish that it sounded as incredible as the music that I’m presenting here to you now.

There is a sample video on this page that you can listen to, but to truly experience its greatness and encounter the majestic excellence, you need to listen to it in its entirety.

The more you listen, the deeper your cleaning experience will be. Our data is constantly changing, and because of this we must continually clean in faith that we are doing our part as a connection to the “I”, to the ONE SOURCE.

There are millions of songs and endless albums in our collections but only some of them stand out. You know the ones I’m talking about. I’m guessing that something jumped into your mind right now.

Let me tell you why…

Because sound is energy.

It’s a frequency that sometimes resonates with us and other times doesn’t. What I’m sharing with you here right now is an energy that defies the laws of conscious reality.

You’re probably asking yourself, Mathew what does that mean?

What I mean is this music is not created by me necessarily, but channeled from a greater source, a higher power, the Divine.

Guidance comes to us in our lives continually. Often, we dismiss it and move on, but the Divine keeps sending the same message back with great patience again, again, and again.

As you read this maybe you’re excited for the possibilities awaiting you, or maybe you may have doubts.

The Divine has helped you find this music but can’t force you on to a better path. You are the captain of your own ship. You must take action.

Right now that action is to snap up this uplifting tool that’s staring you in the face. You need this!

It was meant for you.

Hi I’m Guitar Monk Mathew Dixon,

I have had the great fortune of learning ho’oponopono from great teachers like Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, Dr. Joe Vitale, and Mabel Katz.

For over a decade I have been creating music, books, certification programs, and meditations that have helped thousands understand and practice ho’oponopono.

Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len recommended to me long ago to begin to infuse my music and meditations with the ho’oponopono mantra recorded subliminally (below conscious awareness) with the music.

After seeing the results that people were experiencing from this technique Dr. Joe Vitale and I began creating a large collection of instrumental albums specifically designed for cleaning.

Now with the help of some musically gifted friends, I’ve composed for the first time music with not only the subliminal mantra (please forgive me, I’m sorry, thank you, I love you,) but also with lyrics written to target specific data, and clean it in a nonconfrontational way.

This music has a peaceful relaxing yet enthusiastic vibration you will feel resonating in your heart chakra.

Ho’oponopono Roots can be listened to anywhere, at home in private, in social settings, or at work, only you will be aware of its ability to pinpoint and clean data/memory.

The specific data that will be purified and cleaned to align you to the Zero Point:

Lack of Abundance

Anxiety

Mental Illness

Physical Illness

Broken relationships, family and friends

Financial hardship

Addiction

Employment challenges

Global threats

Soulmate dis-connection

Disharmony with business partners

Discord with Family members

Threats to pets’ well-being and behavior

Grief

Past life trauma

Ancestral trauma

Dear Guitar Monk, I just finished listening to your masterpiece, and my heart chakra is so open and glowing. I’m a yogini and yoga teacher, and this music was like doing a hundred sun salutations! Thank you. You have profoundly touched me! Namaste, Leah Byrd

Dear Mathew, thank you so much for the ever so beautiful Zero Limits recording. Ever so beautiful! I am deeply enjoying it.

Love from Berlin Gemany, Annie

Mathew, your song is incredible. Took a while to look you up and find your CD, Changes. I will order it after I send this to you. So glad I found you. You definitely found that place where magic lives.

God bless you and yours and God bless Texas!

Thank you, Mathew, for your music. Just wonderful!!! I met Dr. Hew Len in Paris last year and since then ho’oponopono is a part of my life. Unfortunately, Dr. Len doesn’t travel anymore. We miss him, but on the other hand he is present.

The peace of I

Tine Dawn

Hi, I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the music…being a lover of music I must say, this was quite unique! I felt deeply connected to the music…and I didn’t want it to end. Thank you so much for sharing your passion and heart.

Great success,

Miriam Madziga

Aloha Mathew, I just wanted to send a very special thank you for your beautiful masterpiece. I have been listening to it often because not only does it calm me, but it has a connection to some very special memories.

I have recently experienced a mild heart attack and listening to your song has done some remarkable changes in my comfort level.

Charlene Carlos

Thank you so much for the beautiful music.  It makes me smile and think, “I’m sorry, please forgive me, I love you, thank you!”

Elva

Hello Mathew — Your music is beautiful — very peaceful…restful. I enjoyed it very much while repeating the mantra over and over.

Thank you. I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.

Joyce Zborower

Hi I just want to say thank you for your beautiful and uplifting music, may you continue to give and receive much blessings and joy.

Ros Power

Hi Mathew, the music is very relaxing and soothing. I listen to it every day. Thank you very much.

Dilini

Hi Mathew, just wanted to let you know that I love your song Zero Limits! From the first time I listened to it I felt a definite vibrational shift. It’s become one of the tracks I play constantly now – I play it when starting my day, while writing in my journal, while working, and even when drifting off to sleep. I find that it helps me concentrate when that’s what I need yet helps me relax when that’s what I need. I have added it to my ‘vibration lifting’ playlist.  Thank you very much for this awesome gift!

Your friend,

Lisa

Hello Mathew

I really love this song,

When I was little my father put me to sleep with his singing and his Spanish guitar almost every night.

I just separated from my boyfriend of 4 years 5 days ago, and it has hit like crazy, but I have a pain in my heart. He hardly ever said Good Morning or even answered me, for almost all the time we were together. I had lots of arguments about it at the beginning, which later became more like educating a little boy, but it still hurts?

So, this is my way of healing it. Plase excuse the translation from Spanish. Thank you.

Blessing to you

Keep it up the great songs!!

Buenos Dias Senor.

Hi, wanted to take a minute to thank you for the Zero Limits music. I absolutely love it!  I put it on my ipod and play it over and over and over.

Thanks again, Terri

Thank you very much! I love the music a lot!!!

In LOVE and GRATITUDE,

Andrea

I am a widower living in an apartment building and find it necessary to have a “clean-up” lady come twice a week to straighten up my mess.

Generally, she finds me working away on my computer, and she asks if I can make it play some music.   She knows that the computer is hooked up to some really great Bose speakers, and that I have, on occasion, played some really nice selections. I generally say that I have some favorites lying around on a Flash Drive, but I don’t know where they are.

But the other day, I downloaded Mathew’s fantastic new track; which I’ve now listened to several dozen times — always with a soaring mood. Today, when the cleaning lady showed up, I quietly started it playing with no comment, and set it for “continuous play.”

My visitor whirled around.  “What’s that?” she asked. “I LOVE that sound!” Well, I knew I was going to have an extra clean apartment today, and I got it! After a very long clean-up time, my visitor had to leave, even though she obviously didn’t want to  — but it was only after I promised to save the gorgeous music for her next visit.

A final note to Mathew — I don’t know how many times, when driving South from Dallas to visit my family, I’ve driven by New Braunfels, with no idea of how much talent resides there.

Charlie Dunn

http://www.DunnCastle.com

UT Class of ’55

Mathew, thank you for the incredible gift of this song.  I have downloaded it to my MP3 player and listen to it as I work.  I feel relaxed and rejuvenated after listening.  I look forward to listening to your next project.

David Duane Wilson

Wimberley, TX

Hi, you did a great thing! Listening to your music gives the same sensations as cleaning with ho’ponopono. I even put it on my cell phone, so that the calls get “cleaned” as they arrive.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Roberto

THANK YOU, Mathew! I do love this music, Zero Limits! I keep it on my desktop and have it playing in the background as I work on the computer. It is so powerful and beautiful! I LOVE IT! Thank you for this lovely gift. I have shared it with my friends.

Louise

www.louisedewey.com

Thank you, Mathew, – I just love this music – I recorded it onto a CD to take with me to my caravan in the country and I have played it non-stop, it just makes me feel so serene.

Kate

Take a moment to watch this short cleaning video and hear samples of the ho’oponopono roots music.

All 12 songs are performed as a trio – vocals, two acoustic guitars, and light percussion.

Listen to how the guitars intertwine creating a harmonious resonance. The vocals paint pictures that should be interpreted by you, bringing forth specific data that lies within you… to clean.

Sit back and listen, and enjoy the moment…

The most important thing to me is that you experience this cleaning miracle. THE SECOND most important thing to me is that you are completely satisfied and have zero risk for trying this amazing new way of cleaning with ho’oponopono roots.

That’s why… I am offering you a 60-Day no questions asked money back guarantee!

Even though my digital distributor will charge me a penalty for every return I am so confident that you are going to love and experience the incredible results from this new one-of-a-kind music, that I am willing to risk being charged if you are not satisfied for any reason.

All I ask is that you approach this music with an open mind and heart, give it a real chance and find out how beneficial it is.

If for any reason you don’t find that this music resonates with your heart and your soul, I will gladly refund you.

That is my guarantee to you.

Corporations often start with a high price and lower it after the first initial customers purchase their product.

I pride myself on being a one-man shop. I do everything from creating this webpage to taking out the trash at the end of the day 🙂

Because of that I have a lot of freedoms, so I’m using the reverse approach.

I don’t think you should be punished with a high price because you’re the first to know about this program. Instead I’m going to reward you with a low introductory price for 30 days of only $11.95.

That is less than 1 dollar per cleaning track.

After 30 days I will start to raise the price to help cover expenses and overhead, so I urge you to act now!

The price will be going up and I WANT YOU… to be one of the first people to enjoy this new cleaning music.

It’s easy, and almost instantaneous.

Click on the order now button below, fill in your information and you will receive an email that will give you a link to the download page.

On this page you will find instructions for your download of all 12 tracks.

You will also find my personal email address on the download page. If you have any difficulty at all, simply email me directly and I will walk you through the download even if that means sending you a personal link to my Dropbox account.

Usually downloads are very simple, but we’ve all used the Internet and sometimes things don’t work as smoothly as we hope. I’m here to do everything possible to make sure that you will be listening to your new cleaning music instantly.

My good friend Dr. Joe Vitale wrote a song called “Everybody’s Goin Thru Somethin. “ This is absolutely true! We have no idea what each of us is experiencing at any given time, and every one of us is going through something.

That is why cleaning is so important. Give yourself the opportunity to heal and clean on the data that is confronting you.

The purpose of this cleaning is to dig deep into the “root”of your data and purify it back to a state of Zero.

Only you have the power to make this happen.

Only you can make the choice to listen.

Only you can make the difference for you…

Peace, love and music, Guitar Monk Mathew Dixon

PS- If you were to seek out ho’oponopono cleaning tools from a

Huna

Wizard

Fortuneteller

Guardian Angel

Ferry

Jedi

Wicken

Or Shaman

This cleaning tool imparts the wisdom a Master would pass to their student. Giving the student an advantage, and the ability to harness the power of an advanced data cleaning tool.

Now you have the opportunity to utilize this method in your own practice.

Click here.

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Ho'oponopono Roots

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Ho'oponopono Roots

 Buy Now    

Data is the collection of memories and beliefs in your mind, your databank of your views of life. The thing is, some of your data is keeping you separate from The Divine. So, you need a way to clean it.

Well, how do you clean it???

Let me start with an age-old question: If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Answer: I don’t know.

What I do know, is that if it does make a sound, I would wish that it sounded as incredible as the music that I’m presenting here to you now.

There is a sample video on this page that you can listen to, but to truly experience its greatness and encounter the majestic excellence, you need to listen to it in its entirety.

The more you listen, the deeper your cleaning experience will be. Our data is constantly changing, and because of this we must continually clean in faith that we are doing our part as a connection to the “I”, to the ONE SOURCE.

There are millions of songs and endless albums in our collections but only some of them stand out. You know the ones I’m talking about. I’m guessing that something jumped into your mind right now.

Let me tell you why…

Because sound is energy.

It’s a frequency that sometimes resonates with us and other times doesn’t. What I’m sharing with you here right now is an energy that defies the laws of conscious reality.

You’re probably asking yourself, Mathew what does that mean?

What I mean is this music is not created by me necessarily, but channeled from a greater source, a higher power, the Divine.

Guidance comes to us in our lives continually. Often, we dismiss it and move on, but the Divine keeps sending the same message back with great patience again, again, and again.

As you read this maybe you’re excited for the possibilities awaiting you, or maybe you may have doubts.

The Divine has helped you find this music but can’t force you on to a better path. You are the captain of your own ship. You must take action.

Right now that action is to snap up this uplifting tool that’s staring you in the face. You need this!

It was meant for you.

Hi I’m Guitar Monk Mathew Dixon,

I have had the great fortune of learning ho’oponopono from great teachers like Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, Dr. Joe Vitale, and Mabel Katz.

For over a decade I have been creating music, books, certification programs, and meditations that have helped thousands understand and practice ho’oponopono.

Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len recommended to me long ago to begin to infuse my music and meditations with the ho’oponopono mantra recorded subliminally (below conscious awareness) with the music.

After seeing the results that people were experiencing from this technique Dr. Joe Vitale and I began creating a large collection of instrumental albums specifically designed for cleaning.

Now with the help of some musically gifted friends, I’ve composed for the first time music with not only the subliminal mantra (please forgive me, I’m sorry, thank you, I love you,) but also with lyrics written to target specific data, and clean it in a nonconfrontational way.

This music has a peaceful relaxing yet enthusiastic vibration you will feel resonating in your heart chakra.

Ho’oponopono Roots can be listened to anywhere, at home in private, in social settings, or at work, only you will be aware of its ability to pinpoint and clean data/memory.

The specific data that will be purified and cleaned to align you to the Zero Point:

Lack of Abundance

Anxiety

Mental Illness

Physical Illness

Broken relationships, family and friends

Financial hardship

Addiction

Employment challenges

Global threats

Soulmate dis-connection

Disharmony with business partners

Discord with Family members

Threats to pets’ well-being and behavior

Grief

Past life trauma

Ancestral trauma

Dear Guitar Monk, I just finished listening to your masterpiece, and my heart chakra is so open and glowing. I’m a yogini and yoga teacher, and this music was like doing a hundred sun salutations! Thank you. You have profoundly touched me! Namaste, Leah Byrd

Dear Mathew, thank you so much for the ever so beautiful Zero Limits recording. Ever so beautiful! I am deeply enjoying it.

Love from Berlin Gemany, Annie

Mathew, your song is incredible. Took a while to look you up and find your CD, Changes. I will order it after I send this to you. So glad I found you. You definitely found that place where magic lives.

God bless you and yours and God bless Texas!

Thank you, Mathew, for your music. Just wonderful!!! I met Dr. Hew Len in Paris last year and since then ho’oponopono is a part of my life. Unfortunately, Dr. Len doesn’t travel anymore. We miss him, but on the other hand he is present.

The peace of I

Tine Dawn

Hi, I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the music…being a lover of music I must say, this was quite unique! I felt deeply connected to the music…and I didn’t want it to end. Thank you so much for sharing your passion and heart.

Great success,

Miriam Madziga

Aloha Mathew, I just wanted to send a very special thank you for your beautiful masterpiece. I have been listening to it often because not only does it calm me, but it has a connection to some very special memories.

I have recently experienced a mild heart attack and listening to your song has done some remarkable changes in my comfort level.

Charlene Carlos

Thank you so much for the beautiful music.  It makes me smile and think, “I’m sorry, please forgive me, I love you, thank you!”

Elva

Hello Mathew — Your music is beautiful — very peaceful…restful. I enjoyed it very much while repeating the mantra over and over.

Thank you. I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.

Joyce Zborower

Hi I just want to say thank you for your beautiful and uplifting music, may you continue to give and receive much blessings and joy.

Ros Power

Hi Mathew, the music is very relaxing and soothing. I listen to it every day. Thank you very much.

Dilini

Hi Mathew, just wanted to let you know that I love your song Zero Limits! From the first time I listened to it I felt a definite vibrational shift. It’s become one of the tracks I play constantly now – I play it when starting my day, while writing in my journal, while working, and even when drifting off to sleep. I find that it helps me concentrate when that’s what I need yet helps me relax when that’s what I need. I have added it to my ‘vibration lifting’ playlist.  Thank you very much for this awesome gift!

Your friend,

Lisa

Hello Mathew

I really love this song,

When I was little my father put me to sleep with his singing and his Spanish guitar almost every night.

I just separated from my boyfriend of 4 years 5 days ago, and it has hit like crazy, but I have a pain in my heart. He hardly ever said Good Morning or even answered me, for almost all the time we were together. I had lots of arguments about it at the beginning, which later became more like educating a little boy, but it still hurts?

So, this is my way of healing it. Plase excuse the translation from Spanish. Thank you.

Blessing to you

Keep it up the great songs!!

Buenos Dias Senor.

Hi, wanted to take a minute to thank you for the Zero Limits music. I absolutely love it!  I put it on my ipod and play it over and over and over.

Thanks again, Terri

Thank you very much! I love the music a lot!!!

In LOVE and GRATITUDE,

Andrea

I am a widower living in an apartment building and find it necessary to have a “clean-up” lady come twice a week to straighten up my mess.

Generally, she finds me working away on my computer, and she asks if I can make it play some music.   She knows that the computer is hooked up to some really great Bose speakers, and that I have, on occasion, played some really nice selections. I generally say that I have some favorites lying around on a Flash Drive, but I don’t know where they are.

But the other day, I downloaded Mathew’s fantastic new track; which I’ve now listened to several dozen times — always with a soaring mood. Today, when the cleaning lady showed up, I quietly started it playing with no comment, and set it for “continuous play.”

My visitor whirled around.  “What’s that?” she asked. “I LOVE that sound!” Well, I knew I was going to have an extra clean apartment today, and I got it! After a very long clean-up time, my visitor had to leave, even though she obviously didn’t want to  — but it was only after I promised to save the gorgeous music for her next visit.

A final note to Mathew — I don’t know how many times, when driving South from Dallas to visit my family, I’ve driven by New Braunfels, with no idea of how much talent resides there.

Charlie Dunn

http://www.DunnCastle.com

UT Class of ’55

Mathew, thank you for the incredible gift of this song.  I have downloaded it to my MP3 player and listen to it as I work.  I feel relaxed and rejuvenated after listening.  I look forward to listening to your next project.

David Duane Wilson

Wimberley, TX

Hi, you did a great thing! Listening to your music gives the same sensations as cleaning with ho’ponopono. I even put it on my cell phone, so that the calls get “cleaned” as they arrive.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Roberto

THANK YOU, Mathew! I do love this music, Zero Limits! I keep it on my desktop and have it playing in the background as I work on the computer. It is so powerful and beautiful! I LOVE IT! Thank you for this lovely gift. I have shared it with my friends.

Louise

www.louisedewey.com

Thank you, Mathew, – I just love this music – I recorded it onto a CD to take with me to my caravan in the country and I have played it non-stop, it just makes me feel so serene.

Kate

Take a moment to watch this short cleaning video and hear samples of the ho’oponopono roots music.

All 12 songs are performed as a trio – vocals, two acoustic guitars, and light percussion.

Listen to how the guitars intertwine creating a harmonious resonance. The vocals paint pictures that should be interpreted by you, bringing forth specific data that lies within you… to clean.

Sit back and listen, and enjoy the moment…

The most important thing to me is that you experience this cleaning miracle. THE SECOND most important thing to me is that you are completely satisfied and have zero risk for trying this amazing new way of cleaning with ho’oponopono roots.

That’s why… I am offering you a 60-Day no questions asked money back guarantee!

Even though my digital distributor will charge me a penalty for every return I am so confident that you are going to love and experience the incredible results from this new one-of-a-kind music, that I am willing to risk being charged if you are not satisfied for any reason.

All I ask is that you approach this music with an open mind and heart, give it a real chance and find out how beneficial it is.

If for any reason you don’t find that this music resonates with your heart and your soul, I will gladly refund you.

That is my guarantee to you.

Corporations often start with a high price and lower it after the first initial customers purchase their product.

I pride myself on being a one-man shop. I do everything from creating this webpage to taking out the trash at the end of the day 🙂

Because of that I have a lot of freedoms, so I’m using the reverse approach.

I don’t think you should be punished with a high price because you’re the first to know about this program. Instead I’m going to reward you with a low introductory price for 30 days of only $11.95.

That is less than 1 dollar per cleaning track.

After 30 days I will start to raise the price to help cover expenses and overhead, so I urge you to act now!

The price will be going up and I WANT YOU… to be one of the first people to enjoy this new cleaning music.

It’s easy, and almost instantaneous.

Click on the order now button below, fill in your information and you will receive an email that will give you a link to the download page.

On this page you will find instructions for your download of all 12 tracks.

You will also find my personal email address on the download page. If you have any difficulty at all, simply email me directly and I will walk you through the download even if that means sending you a personal link to my Dropbox account.

Usually downloads are very simple, but we’ve all used the Internet and sometimes things don’t work as smoothly as we hope. I’m here to do everything possible to make sure that you will be listening to your new cleaning music instantly.

My good friend Dr. Joe Vitale wrote a song called “Everybody’s Goin Thru Somethin. “ This is absolutely true! We have no idea what each of us is experiencing at any given time, and every one of us is going through something.

That is why cleaning is so important. Give yourself the opportunity to heal and clean on the data that is confronting you.

The purpose of this cleaning is to dig deep into the “root”of your data and purify it back to a state of Zero.

Only you have the power to make this happen.

Only you can make the choice to listen.

Only you can make the difference for you…

Peace, love and music, Guitar Monk Mathew Dixon

PS- If you were to seek out ho’oponopono cleaning tools from a

Huna

Wizard

Fortuneteller

Guardian Angel

Ferry

Jedi

Wicken

Or Shaman

This cleaning tool imparts the wisdom a Master would pass to their student. Giving the student an advantage, and the ability to harness the power of an advanced data cleaning tool.

Now you have the opportunity to utilize this method in your own practice.

Click here.

ClickBank is the retailer of products on this site. CLICKBANK® is a registered trademark of Click Sales Inc., a Delaware corporation located at 1444 S. Entertainment Ave., Suite 410 Boise, ID 83709, USA and used by permission. ClickBank’s role as retailer does not constitute an endorsement, approval or review of these products or any claim, statement or opinion used in promotion of these products.

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Ho'oponopono Roots

New Post has been published on https://autotraffixpro.app/allenmendezsr/hooponopono-roots/

Ho'oponopono Roots

 Buy Now    

Data is the collection of memories and beliefs in your mind, your databank of your views of life. The thing is, some of your data is keeping you separate from The Divine. So, you need a way to clean it.

Well, how do you clean it???

Let me start with an age-old question: If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Answer: I don’t know.

What I do know, is that if it does make a sound, I would wish that it sounded as incredible as the music that I’m presenting here to you now.

There is a sample video on this page that you can listen to, but to truly experience its greatness and encounter the majestic excellence, you need to listen to it in its entirety.

The more you listen, the deeper your cleaning experience will be. Our data is constantly changing, and because of this we must continually clean in faith that we are doing our part as a connection to the “I”, to the ONE SOURCE.

There are millions of songs and endless albums in our collections but only some of them stand out. You know the ones I’m talking about. I’m guessing that something jumped into your mind right now.

Let me tell you why…

Because sound is energy.

It’s a frequency that sometimes resonates with us and other times doesn’t. What I’m sharing with you here right now is an energy that defies the laws of conscious reality.

You’re probably asking yourself, Mathew what does that mean?

What I mean is this music is not created by me necessarily, but channeled from a greater source, a higher power, the Divine.

Guidance comes to us in our lives continually. Often, we dismiss it and move on, but the Divine keeps sending the same message back with great patience again, again, and again.

As you read this maybe you’re excited for the possibilities awaiting you, or maybe you may have doubts.

The Divine has helped you find this music but can’t force you on to a better path. You are the captain of your own ship. You must take action.

Right now that action is to snap up this uplifting tool that’s staring you in the face. You need this!

It was meant for you.

Hi I’m Guitar Monk Mathew Dixon,

I have had the great fortune of learning ho’oponopono from great teachers like Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, Dr. Joe Vitale, and Mabel Katz.

For over a decade I have been creating music, books, certification programs, and meditations that have helped thousands understand and practice ho’oponopono.

Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len recommended to me long ago to begin to infuse my music and meditations with the ho’oponopono mantra recorded subliminally (below conscious awareness) with the music.

After seeing the results that people were experiencing from this technique Dr. Joe Vitale and I began creating a large collection of instrumental albums specifically designed for cleaning.

Now with the help of some musically gifted friends, I’ve composed for the first time music with not only the subliminal mantra (please forgive me, I’m sorry, thank you, I love you,) but also with lyrics written to target specific data, and clean it in a nonconfrontational way.

This music has a peaceful relaxing yet enthusiastic vibration you will feel resonating in your heart chakra.

Ho’oponopono Roots can be listened to anywhere, at home in private, in social settings, or at work, only you will be aware of its ability to pinpoint and clean data/memory.

The specific data that will be purified and cleaned to align you to the Zero Point:

Lack of Abundance

Anxiety

Mental Illness

Physical Illness

Broken relationships, family and friends

Financial hardship

Addiction

Employment challenges

Global threats

Soulmate dis-connection

Disharmony with business partners

Discord with Family members

Threats to pets’ well-being and behavior

Grief

Past life trauma

Ancestral trauma

Dear Guitar Monk, I just finished listening to your masterpiece, and my heart chakra is so open and glowing. I’m a yogini and yoga teacher, and this music was like doing a hundred sun salutations! Thank you. You have profoundly touched me! Namaste, Leah Byrd

Dear Mathew, thank you so much for the ever so beautiful Zero Limits recording. Ever so beautiful! I am deeply enjoying it.

Love from Berlin Gemany, Annie

Mathew, your song is incredible. Took a while to look you up and find your CD, Changes. I will order it after I send this to you. So glad I found you. You definitely found that place where magic lives.

God bless you and yours and God bless Texas!

Thank you, Mathew, for your music. Just wonderful!!! I met Dr. Hew Len in Paris last year and since then ho’oponopono is a part of my life. Unfortunately, Dr. Len doesn’t travel anymore. We miss him, but on the other hand he is present.

The peace of I

Tine Dawn

Hi, I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the music…being a lover of music I must say, this was quite unique! I felt deeply connected to the music…and I didn’t want it to end. Thank you so much for sharing your passion and heart.

Great success,

Miriam Madziga

Aloha Mathew, I just wanted to send a very special thank you for your beautiful masterpiece. I have been listening to it often because not only does it calm me, but it has a connection to some very special memories.

I have recently experienced a mild heart attack and listening to your song has done some remarkable changes in my comfort level.

Charlene Carlos

Thank you so much for the beautiful music.  It makes me smile and think, “I’m sorry, please forgive me, I love you, thank you!”

Elva

Hello Mathew — Your music is beautiful — very peaceful…restful. I enjoyed it very much while repeating the mantra over and over.

Thank you. I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.

Joyce Zborower

Hi I just want to say thank you for your beautiful and uplifting music, may you continue to give and receive much blessings and joy.

Ros Power

Hi Mathew, the music is very relaxing and soothing. I listen to it every day. Thank you very much.

Dilini

Hi Mathew, just wanted to let you know that I love your song Zero Limits! From the first time I listened to it I felt a definite vibrational shift. It’s become one of the tracks I play constantly now – I play it when starting my day, while writing in my journal, while working, and even when drifting off to sleep. I find that it helps me concentrate when that’s what I need yet helps me relax when that’s what I need. I have added it to my ‘vibration lifting’ playlist.  Thank you very much for this awesome gift!

Your friend,

Lisa

Hello Mathew

I really love this song,

When I was little my father put me to sleep with his singing and his Spanish guitar almost every night.

I just separated from my boyfriend of 4 years 5 days ago, and it has hit like crazy, but I have a pain in my heart. He hardly ever said Good Morning or even answered me, for almost all the time we were together. I had lots of arguments about it at the beginning, which later became more like educating a little boy, but it still hurts?

So, this is my way of healing it. Plase excuse the translation from Spanish. Thank you.

Blessing to you

Keep it up the great songs!!

Buenos Dias Senor.

Hi, wanted to take a minute to thank you for the Zero Limits music. I absolutely love it!  I put it on my ipod and play it over and over and over.

Thanks again, Terri

Thank you very much! I love the music a lot!!!

In LOVE and GRATITUDE,

Andrea

I am a widower living in an apartment building and find it necessary to have a “clean-up” lady come twice a week to straighten up my mess.

Generally, she finds me working away on my computer, and she asks if I can make it play some music.   She knows that the computer is hooked up to some really great Bose speakers, and that I have, on occasion, played some really nice selections. I generally say that I have some favorites lying around on a Flash Drive, but I don’t know where they are.

But the other day, I downloaded Mathew’s fantastic new track; which I’ve now listened to several dozen times — always with a soaring mood. Today, when the cleaning lady showed up, I quietly started it playing with no comment, and set it for “continuous play.”

My visitor whirled around.  “What’s that?” she asked. “I LOVE that sound!” Well, I knew I was going to have an extra clean apartment today, and I got it! After a very long clean-up time, my visitor had to leave, even though she obviously didn’t want to  — but it was only after I promised to save the gorgeous music for her next visit.

A final note to Mathew — I don’t know how many times, when driving South from Dallas to visit my family, I’ve driven by New Braunfels, with no idea of how much talent resides there.

Charlie Dunn

http://www.DunnCastle.com

UT Class of ’55

Mathew, thank you for the incredible gift of this song.  I have downloaded it to my MP3 player and listen to it as I work.  I feel relaxed and rejuvenated after listening.  I look forward to listening to your next project.

David Duane Wilson

Wimberley, TX

Hi, you did a great thing! Listening to your music gives the same sensations as cleaning with ho’ponopono. I even put it on my cell phone, so that the calls get “cleaned” as they arrive.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Roberto

THANK YOU, Mathew! I do love this music, Zero Limits! I keep it on my desktop and have it playing in the background as I work on the computer. It is so powerful and beautiful! I LOVE IT! Thank you for this lovely gift. I have shared it with my friends.

Louise

www.louisedewey.com

Thank you, Mathew, – I just love this music – I recorded it onto a CD to take with me to my caravan in the country and I have played it non-stop, it just makes me feel so serene.

Kate

Take a moment to watch this short cleaning video and hear samples of the ho’oponopono roots music.

All 12 songs are performed as a trio – vocals, two acoustic guitars, and light percussion.

Listen to how the guitars intertwine creating a harmonious resonance. The vocals paint pictures that should be interpreted by you, bringing forth specific data that lies within you… to clean.

Sit back and listen, and enjoy the moment…

The most important thing to me is that you experience this cleaning miracle. THE SECOND most important thing to me is that you are completely satisfied and have zero risk for trying this amazing new way of cleaning with ho’oponopono roots.

That’s why… I am offering you a 60-Day no questions asked money back guarantee!

Even though my digital distributor will charge me a penalty for every return I am so confident that you are going to love and experience the incredible results from this new one-of-a-kind music, that I am willing to risk being charged if you are not satisfied for any reason.

All I ask is that you approach this music with an open mind and heart, give it a real chance and find out how beneficial it is.

If for any reason you don’t find that this music resonates with your heart and your soul, I will gladly refund you.

That is my guarantee to you.

Corporations often start with a high price and lower it after the first initial customers purchase their product.

I pride myself on being a one-man shop. I do everything from creating this webpage to taking out the trash at the end of the day 🙂

Because of that I have a lot of freedoms, so I’m using the reverse approach.

I don’t think you should be punished with a high price because you’re the first to know about this program. Instead I’m going to reward you with a low introductory price for 30 days of only $11.95.

That is less than 1 dollar per cleaning track.

After 30 days I will start to raise the price to help cover expenses and overhead, so I urge you to act now!

The price will be going up and I WANT YOU… to be one of the first people to enjoy this new cleaning music.

It’s easy, and almost instantaneous.

Click on the order now button below, fill in your information and you will receive an email that will give you a link to the download page.

On this page you will find instructions for your download of all 12 tracks.

You will also find my personal email address on the download page. If you have any difficulty at all, simply email me directly and I will walk you through the download even if that means sending you a personal link to my Dropbox account.

Usually downloads are very simple, but we’ve all used the Internet and sometimes things don’t work as smoothly as we hope. I’m here to do everything possible to make sure that you will be listening to your new cleaning music instantly.

My good friend Dr. Joe Vitale wrote a song called “Everybody’s Goin Thru Somethin. “ This is absolutely true! We have no idea what each of us is experiencing at any given time, and every one of us is going through something.

That is why cleaning is so important. Give yourself the opportunity to heal and clean on the data that is confronting you.

The purpose of this cleaning is to dig deep into the “root”of your data and purify it back to a state of Zero.

Only you have the power to make this happen.

Only you can make the choice to listen.

Only you can make the difference for you…

Peace, love and music, Guitar Monk Mathew Dixon

PS- If you were to seek out ho’oponopono cleaning tools from a

Huna

Wizard

Fortuneteller

Guardian Angel

Ferry

Jedi

Wicken

Or Shaman

This cleaning tool imparts the wisdom a Master would pass to their student. Giving the student an advantage, and the ability to harness the power of an advanced data cleaning tool.

Now you have the opportunity to utilize this method in your own practice.

Click here.

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Data is the collection of memories and beliefs in your mind, your databank of your views of life. The thing is, some of your data is keeping you separate from The Divine. So, you need a way to clean it.

Well, how do you clean it???

Let me start with an age-old question: If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Answer: I don’t know.

What I do know, is that if it does make a sound, I would wish that it sounded as incredible as the music that I’m presenting here to you now.

There is a sample video on this page that you can listen to, but to truly experience its greatness and encounter the majestic excellence, you need to listen to it in its entirety.

The more you listen, the deeper your cleaning experience will be. Our data is constantly changing, and because of this we must continually clean in faith that we are doing our part as a connection to the “I”, to the ONE SOURCE.

There are millions of songs and endless albums in our collections but only some of them stand out. You know the ones I’m talking about. I’m guessing that something jumped into your mind right now.

Let me tell you why…

Because sound is energy.

It’s a frequency that sometimes resonates with us and other times doesn’t. What I’m sharing with you here right now is an energy that defies the laws of conscious reality.

You’re probably asking yourself, Mathew what does that mean?

What I mean is this music is not created by me necessarily, but channeled from a greater source, a higher power, the Divine.

Guidance comes to us in our lives continually. Often, we dismiss it and move on, but the Divine keeps sending the same message back with great patience again, again, and again.

As you read this maybe you’re excited for the possibilities awaiting you, or maybe you may have doubts.

The Divine has helped you find this music but can’t force you on to a better path. You are the captain of your own ship. You must take action.

Right now that action is to snap up this uplifting tool that’s staring you in the face. You need this!

It was meant for you.

Hi I’m Guitar Monk Mathew Dixon,

I have had the great fortune of learning ho’oponopono from great teachers like Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, Dr. Joe Vitale, and Mabel Katz.

For over a decade I have been creating music, books, certification programs, and meditations that have helped thousands understand and practice ho’oponopono.

Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len recommended to me long ago to begin to infuse my music and meditations with the ho’oponopono mantra recorded subliminally (below conscious awareness) with the music.

After seeing the results that people were experiencing from this technique Dr. Joe Vitale and I began creating a large collection of instrumental albums specifically designed for cleaning.

Now with the help of some musically gifted friends, I’ve composed for the first time music with not only the subliminal mantra (please forgive me, I’m sorry, thank you, I love you,) but also with lyrics written to target specific data, and clean it in a nonconfrontational way.

This music has a peaceful relaxing yet enthusiastic vibration you will feel resonating in your heart chakra.

Ho’oponopono Roots can be listened to anywhere, at home in private, in social settings, or at work, only you will be aware of its ability to pinpoint and clean data/memory.

The specific data that will be purified and cleaned to align you to the Zero Point:

Lack of Abundance

Anxiety

Mental Illness

Physical Illness

Broken relationships, family and friends

Financial hardship

Addiction

Employment challenges

Global threats

Soulmate dis-connection

Disharmony with business partners

Discord with Family members

Threats to pets’ well-being and behavior

Grief

Past life trauma

Ancestral trauma

Dear Guitar Monk, I just finished listening to your masterpiece, and my heart chakra is so open and glowing. I’m a yogini and yoga teacher, and this music was like doing a hundred sun salutations! Thank you. You have profoundly touched me! Namaste, Leah Byrd

Dear Mathew, thank you so much for the ever so beautiful Zero Limits recording. Ever so beautiful! I am deeply enjoying it.

Love from Berlin Gemany, Annie

Mathew, your song is incredible. Took a while to look you up and find your CD, Changes. I will order it after I send this to you. So glad I found you. You definitely found that place where magic lives.

God bless you and yours and God bless Texas!

Thank you, Mathew, for your music. Just wonderful!!! I met Dr. Hew Len in Paris last year and since then ho’oponopono is a part of my life. Unfortunately, Dr. Len doesn’t travel anymore. We miss him, but on the other hand he is present.

The peace of I

Tine Dawn

Hi, I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the music…being a lover of music I must say, this was quite unique! I felt deeply connected to the music…and I didn’t want it to end. Thank you so much for sharing your passion and heart.

Great success,

Miriam Madziga

Aloha Mathew, I just wanted to send a very special thank you for your beautiful masterpiece. I have been listening to it often because not only does it calm me, but it has a connection to some very special memories.

I have recently experienced a mild heart attack and listening to your song has done some remarkable changes in my comfort level.

Charlene Carlos

Thank you so much for the beautiful music.  It makes me smile and think, “I’m sorry, please forgive me, I love you, thank you!”

Elva

Hello Mathew — Your music is beautiful — very peaceful…restful. I enjoyed it very much while repeating the mantra over and over.

Thank you. I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.

Joyce Zborower

Hi I just want to say thank you for your beautiful and uplifting music, may you continue to give and receive much blessings and joy.

Ros Power

Hi Mathew, the music is very relaxing and soothing. I listen to it every day. Thank you very much.

Dilini

Hi Mathew, just wanted to let you know that I love your song Zero Limits! From the first time I listened to it I felt a definite vibrational shift. It’s become one of the tracks I play constantly now – I play it when starting my day, while writing in my journal, while working, and even when drifting off to sleep. I find that it helps me concentrate when that’s what I need yet helps me relax when that’s what I need. I have added it to my ‘vibration lifting’ playlist.  Thank you very much for this awesome gift!

Your friend,

Lisa

Hello Mathew

I really love this song,

When I was little my father put me to sleep with his singing and his Spanish guitar almost every night.

I just separated from my boyfriend of 4 years 5 days ago, and it has hit like crazy, but I have a pain in my heart. He hardly ever said Good Morning or even answered me, for almost all the time we were together. I had lots of arguments about it at the beginning, which later became more like educating a little boy, but it still hurts?

So, this is my way of healing it. Plase excuse the translation from Spanish. Thank you.

Blessing to you

Keep it up the great songs!!

Buenos Dias Senor.

Hi, wanted to take a minute to thank you for the Zero Limits music. I absolutely love it!  I put it on my ipod and play it over and over and over.

Thanks again, Terri

Thank you very much! I love the music a lot!!!

In LOVE and GRATITUDE,

Andrea

I am a widower living in an apartment building and find it necessary to have a “clean-up” lady come twice a week to straighten up my mess.

Generally, she finds me working away on my computer, and she asks if I can make it play some music.   She knows that the computer is hooked up to some really great Bose speakers, and that I have, on occasion, played some really nice selections. I generally say that I have some favorites lying around on a Flash Drive, but I don’t know where they are.

But the other day, I downloaded Mathew’s fantastic new track; which I’ve now listened to several dozen times — always with a soaring mood. Today, when the cleaning lady showed up, I quietly started it playing with no comment, and set it for “continuous play.”

My visitor whirled around.  “What’s that?” she asked. “I LOVE that sound!” Well, I knew I was going to have an extra clean apartment today, and I got it! After a very long clean-up time, my visitor had to leave, even though she obviously didn’t want to  — but it was only after I promised to save the gorgeous music for her next visit.

A final note to Mathew — I don’t know how many times, when driving South from Dallas to visit my family, I’ve driven by New Braunfels, with no idea of how much talent resides there.

Charlie Dunn

http://www.DunnCastle.com

UT Class of ’55

Mathew, thank you for the incredible gift of this song.  I have downloaded it to my MP3 player and listen to it as I work.  I feel relaxed and rejuvenated after listening.  I look forward to listening to your next project.

David Duane Wilson

Wimberley, TX

Hi, you did a great thing! Listening to your music gives the same sensations as cleaning with ho’ponopono. I even put it on my cell phone, so that the calls get “cleaned” as they arrive.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Roberto

THANK YOU, Mathew! I do love this music, Zero Limits! I keep it on my desktop and have it playing in the background as I work on the computer. It is so powerful and beautiful! I LOVE IT! Thank you for this lovely gift. I have shared it with my friends.

Louise

www.louisedewey.com

Thank you, Mathew, – I just love this music – I recorded it onto a CD to take with me to my caravan in the country and I have played it non-stop, it just makes me feel so serene.

Kate

Take a moment to watch this short cleaning video and hear samples of the ho’oponopono roots music.

All 12 songs are performed as a trio – vocals, two acoustic guitars, and light percussion.

Listen to how the guitars intertwine creating a harmonious resonance. The vocals paint pictures that should be interpreted by you, bringing forth specific data that lies within you… to clean.

Sit back and listen, and enjoy the moment…

The most important thing to me is that you experience this cleaning miracle. THE SECOND most important thing to me is that you are completely satisfied and have zero risk for trying this amazing new way of cleaning with ho’oponopono roots.

That’s why… I am offering you a 60-Day no questions asked money back guarantee!

Even though my digital distributor will charge me a penalty for every return I am so confident that you are going to love and experience the incredible results from this new one-of-a-kind music, that I am willing to risk being charged if you are not satisfied for any reason.

All I ask is that you approach this music with an open mind and heart, give it a real chance and find out how beneficial it is.

If for any reason you don’t find that this music resonates with your heart and your soul, I will gladly refund you.

That is my guarantee to you.

Corporations often start with a high price and lower it after the first initial customers purchase their product.

I pride myself on being a one-man shop. I do everything from creating this webpage to taking out the trash at the end of the day 🙂

Because of that I have a lot of freedoms, so I’m using the reverse approach.

I don’t think you should be punished with a high price because you’re the first to know about this program. Instead I’m going to reward you with a low introductory price for 30 days of only $11.95.

That is less than 1 dollar per cleaning track.

After 30 days I will start to raise the price to help cover expenses and overhead, so I urge you to act now!

The price will be going up and I WANT YOU… to be one of the first people to enjoy this new cleaning music.

It’s easy, and almost instantaneous.

Click on the order now button below, fill in your information and you will receive an email that will give you a link to the download page.

On this page you will find instructions for your download of all 12 tracks.

You will also find my personal email address on the download page. If you have any difficulty at all, simply email me directly and I will walk you through the download even if that means sending you a personal link to my Dropbox account.

Usually downloads are very simple, but we’ve all used the Internet and sometimes things don’t work as smoothly as we hope. I’m here to do everything possible to make sure that you will be listening to your new cleaning music instantly.

My good friend Dr. Joe Vitale wrote a song called “Everybody’s Goin Thru Somethin. “ This is absolutely true! We have no idea what each of us is experiencing at any given time, and every one of us is going through something.

That is why cleaning is so important. Give yourself the opportunity to heal and clean on the data that is confronting you.

The purpose of this cleaning is to dig deep into the “root”of your data and purify it back to a state of Zero.

Only you have the power to make this happen.

Only you can make the choice to listen.

Only you can make the difference for you…

Peace, love and music, Guitar Monk Mathew Dixon

PS- If you were to seek out ho’oponopono cleaning tools from a

Huna

Wizard

Fortuneteller

Guardian Angel

Ferry

Jedi

Wicken

Or Shaman

This cleaning tool imparts the wisdom a Master would pass to their student. Giving the student an advantage, and the ability to harness the power of an advanced data cleaning tool.

Now you have the opportunity to utilize this method in your own practice.

Click here.

ClickBank is the retailer of products on this site. CLICKBANK® is a registered trademark of Click Sales Inc., a Delaware corporation located at 1444 S. Entertainment Ave., Suite 410 Boise, ID 83709, USA and used by permission. ClickBank’s role as retailer does not constitute an endorsement, approval or review of these products or any claim, statement or opinion used in promotion of these products.