Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Lion's Gate Portal, Music, and the 7th Dimension

Here on the night of Lion’s Gate Portal, I hear our Internet buddy with the great tarot mention, today is about the harvest of communication with the Seventh Dimension.
I arose, relieved, myself a long-time theory: perhaps, on the way to the Nine Dimensions I envisioned in California, I speculated the Seventh Dimension is where we perceive as Music originates.
We have a wonderful character, Tappandalli, since 2001, who is a sentient plant being, capable of taking the form of any plant it can imagine, is from there, and plants grow from a resonance beyond. Perhaps he was from the 6th dimension, and it really doesn’t matter too much, because Tap was my mental construct, and that was the emissary to be depicted in 2-D, 3-D, and Animation. The spreading out of imaginative space, the comfort with a soul star sure in knowledge; this is what multi-dimensional storytelling has always meant to me, and I imagined that which required Perspective and Context, layers to appreciate and question. So storytelling, string theory-inspirations, and quantum audacity. That’s how we make Integr8d Soul.
Music allows songs to be creatively re-imagined and arranged, yet become recognizable to the Self with the gentlest of markers. Sometimes, the tap of a foot, the rap of a hand, or even a whistle. But in the event of human life, there is the older perception of rhythms underlying life and society/ Imagine those are more real than the people themselves. When I would overcome my anxiety at the thought of what I estimated I didn’t know or didn’t have, I would let music be, not a reason for shame, but a skill built with Joy. You begin either with strumming strings, or humming, or a sturdy phrase, which itself often changes by the time it reaches the page
What amazes me is, some tunes apply to the situation, but never make it back to attention. When I am sure of what is said, however, I stay with it, and accept that some weeks later, words and music may change. The end to which songs serve us is consistent, yet shifting over time, in new perceptions.
“Urin Nitro” and “new Angela Dawn” are two great sets of lyrics, inhabiting our A/Pop and folk rock spheres. In one, we use Korean to embody our formation in which our spirits, rise. “new Angela Dawn” starts as its own mediation upon what an ideal day would be like, for us. The verses differ, because there’s really not just one of those days: it might be a performance, it might be a visit home. I continue the vision in “Life’s About,” a song about journeying the world, and other versions of our off-days, together. To make songs about how, with our shared excitement with the audience, we collect the power to have a life where ease and freedom are options, time choices are committed and engaged and relished.
The passage of our desires through the Lion Gate Portal was certain, before we were aware to perceive a door frame. My impatience with the process dissolved when I became sure I would make it through, the intention was not a bridge to nowhere, but, INTO nowhere. The unknown is simply compelling.

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