I was lucky enough to go see Conversations with Nick Cave at The Melbourne Town Hall, last night with some cherished friends. Fuck me, it was epic. As we sat there, waiting for the man to come on stage, the lights dimmed and his melodic voice spoke "Steve McQueen " that featured in "One more time with feeling". I cried, silent tears running down my cheeks as Julia touched my knee, in acknowledgement of the powerful spell of words that touch your soul. I know we weren't the only ones that felt it......in the blood, guts and motherfucking bones. Ya' all know I'm a huge fan of his music, have been for decades. Now they say you should never meet your hero's, because they are likely to disappoint. Fair point. No one is perfect. Expectations fall short.... Last night was so far from that, Humble, Realistic and Honest. Truthful, insightful and straight out legendary. The prophet. The mystical motherfucker Nick Cave I was acutely aware that at the Melbourne Town hall last night, there was a mass healing taking place on so many levels. It was everywhere, in the questions asked and the responses given.People stated it. Humble as ever, it was returned. It was like a flow of reciprocated awesomeness and connection. No bullshit. Pure No judgement Hilarious Sad Profound When he played his piano and sung , it continued. Clarity and confirmation on a existential level. It wasn't supposed to be a spiritual experience, but tell that to the people there. Or Maybe it's just me? Every-time I see Nick Cave and the BadSeeds, it's a spiritual experience for me personally. I come away healed through the words and music. Forever a fan of the spell, o deeply woven. "Because someone’s gotta sing the stars And someone’s gotta sing the rain And someone’s gotta sing the blood And someone’s gotta sing the pain" Steve McQueen ~ Nick Cave
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Truth: the seekers quest. Some find it in connection to religion/spirit. The divine. I guess it’s all about perception and what you believe to be the truth and all our truths are different. I haven’t found it spirituality at all. At the core, I understand it but I will never follow blindly, the concepts of religion or spirituality. Which leads into the existential crisis syndrome. Why are we here? What Have we come to achieve? What’s our journey? Why? I’ll always be searching, I know this. Some have said to me, When I find God, I’ll find peace. I’ve had that said to me on numerous occasions. May be that’s the search? To find the God within? Who knows? I know very early on in my quest, I had a dream where I was sitting in a pub and a very non –descript man sat next to me. He looked me straight in the eye and told me I have everything I need within. I didn’t need to search without. That dream, has stayed with me. I call it my God dream. Did I stop searching? Hell no. But what I did do was trust myself more. I stopped buying the guru books and going to workshops to improve myself “spiritually”. I’m not saying I know everything, because fuck me, I don’t. I’m not saying that there is anything wrong with workshops either. But for me, at that point in my life I was voracious and would go and learn anything I could. I would often walk away, feeling “undone”. I would go with a open heart and want to learn, only to walk away and be disappointed because I felt didn’t learn anything new. But like always, I did learn, it may not have been evident at the time. Just not in the way I expected. I learnt how to be accepted, I learnt the “rules”, I learnt the new age way. The biggest teaching for me was: I actually learnt how not to be. Fast forward: So my journey continues with feeling like a fish out of the ocean or like alien stranded on a distant planet. Why? Because I’ve been waiting for understanding. It’s not anyone’s’ job to understand me, I finally get it. Just like it’s not my job to understand them. It is what it is. (I have done previous posts on my journey through religion and the new age for my thoughts on it if you’re interested, check it out) I thought I needed acceptance from peers but, more than anything I wanted to be understood. That’s a huge mantle to carry, fucking depressing actually. We are all weird as fuck when you get down to the bones of it. When people asked me what I do in healings, I could never explain it on paper or in words and it killed me. I needed/wanted people to understand and feel comfortable with it. And I never could. So when I finally fitted the last piece of the puzzle, The weight lifted off me. I have been doing distance healings, and it has been fantastic. They are as freaky as fuck, just the way I like it. I’m in the in-between with no distractions. I can journey into your energy and clear shit. I still can’t explain it and I’m not going to. It’s just what I do and who I am. That's my Truth. Got a motherfucker in your energy? I’ll rip them out by their throat, then bless them. Need a balance? I’ll Zen as fuck you Haha That’s’ the best explanation I’ve ever come up with !!! So yeah, If ya want a healing I’m only doing distance by appointment. Nick Cave & Grinderman say it best with their lyrics to Get it on "I had to get up to get down to start all over again Head on down to the basement and shout Kick those white mice and black dogs out Kick those white mice and baboons out Kick those baboons and other motherfuckers out And get it on ,get it on, get it on On the day that you got born" Rock On Bec |
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