If All the World Were Right
Liner Notes

Sunday June 4th, 2017

The 3rd terrorist attack in recent days happened in London… People here and abroad are up in arms…marching and breaking things…even though they are quite well-fed, have warm places to sleep and drink Starbucks… Celebrities voice opinions as well as celebrity talking heads, often that perhaps lack sufficient background/consciousness/experience to merit broadcast time, all desirous of the moral high ground…the stock market is at record highs…the earth warms and cools… It seems the world is in disarray….or is it not?

Yet, as I walk in Nature…I see the Truth about Life and how the world actually works… It is not a “made up world” but a system of mutual reliance. A world of patterns with zero random events or happenings… In the quiet, there is a prompting…a peaceful and calming feeling beyond our primitive language (near-English in my case) of approximately 600,000 words developed over the last 5,000 years…but who’s counting! Could it be, perhaps, that all is functioning the way it is supposed to? That it is just “unfolding” as we progress with time? That there really is no loss, waste or death and that we are perhaps caught up in a rather convincing illusion, all designed for our personal and collective experiential benefit? To me, there is little doubt that all is a manifestation of greater Intelligence beyond our 5 senses… How could it not be so? Humility is difficult for humankind… Lack of it is the basis for most human conflict… People would rather die or even kill millions of others for the sake of being right… Such conflict has existed for 93% of our existence (perhaps our natural/predominate state?)…

Perhaps Schopenhauer had it right… “…the world is my idea…” If this statement has some truth, it might be a good practice to, at least periodically, reconsider our thinking, positions and beliefs… I find it freeing as I certainly am questioning my beliefs all the time as it is utterly silly not to… I certainly don’t have the same beliefs now as I had when I was 7…or even last year for that matter… Anyway, some thoughts to consider… 

I cannot say for sure, the Truth about anything… I simply perceive that “I am…” And that I struggle in what seems to be “dense matter…” However, it seems that in this resistance, I am slowly developing a sense of “surrender” and “release” – as it is a pattern that reoccurs in all things…characterized in an overall trust in Life/God/Nature… All is as it is… All will be as it will be…without any need to resist… Life is beyond intellect… We are not our thoughts…we are perhaps something more essential than that…

This concept album (like almost every record I make) is a journey of thoughts, ideas and above all, feelings…in the context of the commonalities of Life in the contemporary world…a world that functions (in the large, but not in detail) pretty much like all that came before us who gave us such advantages and comforts previously almost unimaginable…. We owe a great debt to our predecessors! And may we contribute another layer to the overall upward momentum of Life! I hope you like this record and that you embrace your journey! Inserting yourself into your own theatrical production starring the one and only, essential, one-of-a-kind YOU! In a story you write, filled with high-drama as well as peaceful interludes of contemplation and tenderness…

From a place of Love for all expressions of Life,

~ Andrew