Aomusic http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress AOMUSIC - AO! The Light of Day! Worldbeat - Music for a new Eon! Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:31:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 AOMUSIC has a Kickstarter page! http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=1080 http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=1080#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:29:03 +0000 Arcturian Gate http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=1080 Continue reading →

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]]> We are now live on Kickstarter to help fund the new AOMUSIC album! We are scheduled to record children this year in Nepal, Ireland, Germany and Haiti, which will need to take place on location. Please visit our Kickstarter link, and pass it around!

We have until May 18th to achieve our funding goal!

Our Commitment and Gratitude,

Richard, Jay and Miriam of AOMUSIC

CLICK HERE FOR THE AOMUSIC KICKSTARTER PAGE

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]]> http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1080 0 Maya Christobel Partners with Arcturian Gate and AO Foundation International! http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=1075 http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=1075#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:17:15 +0000 Arcturian Gate http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=1075 Continue reading →

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]]> We are proud to announce that author Maya Christobel has partnered with Arcturian Gate and AO Foundation International, and as a board member, she brings new depth to our initiatives.

Maya is an accomplished author and screenplay writer, as well as a great visionary, which makes her presence with us truly meaningful. She and Richard will be increasing the scope of what this foundation can accomplish for orphaned children and sustainable initiatives throughout the world, and we will keep you up to date each step of the way. It’s an exciting year!

To learn more about Maya, CLICK HERE!

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]]> http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1075 0 …and Love Rages On! by AOMUSIC voted “Best World Album” of 2011 by Zone Music Reporter http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=1068 http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=1068#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:16:19 +0000 Arcturian Gate http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=1068 Continue reading →

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]]> Our heartfelt thanks to radio and internet broadcasters around the globe for voting AOMUSIC’s “…and Love Rages On!” BEST WORLD ALBUM of 2011 by Zone Music Reporter!

Our Commitment and Gratitude Always,

Richard, Miriam and Jay

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]]> http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1068 0 John Olsen Interview with Richard Gannaway and Miriam Stockley http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=1045 http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=1045#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:30:41 +0000 Arcturian Gate http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=1045 Continue reading →

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]]> Feb 2012 interview with Richard Gannaway and Miriam Stockley of AOMUSIC

by

John Olsen

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]]> http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1045 0 THE TRUE CIRCUMFERENCE OF LOVE – an excerpt from “…and Love Rages On!” by Richard Gannaway http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=1039 http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=1039#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:46:20 +0000 Arcturian Gate http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=1039 Continue reading →

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]]> We can start to fathom our roll in nature by embracing the greater scope of its most enigmatic principle, Love. We’ll explore this essence outside the illusion of duality consciousness, which is the hallmark of human adventure through the immensely beautiful, but illusionary projection of time and space. Love doesn’t begin inside this illusion where we feel the sensations of what we think Love is. It is the immeasurable force behind every expression within the whole of Life at any conceivable frequency. Using our best imagination to zoom back on creation, we still don’t see the circumference of Love, which has no definition, only motion. It is forever blooming outward and inward, constructing, creating, evolving and breathing through every medium. It is the deepest and most pervasive abstraction behind all that is taking place in this moment. Love is simply the only true nature of anything. This inclusive scope of Love may not be what some believe is possible or initially feel very comfortable with, given the context in which Love is usually perceived. It might require one to become outrageous in their thinking, and that would be a good start; because Love is not at all logical, any more than Life, beauty or eternity. Each of these principles implies the other in an honest engagement with nature. Let’s continue exploring nature through its most unpredictable and primary cause, which as Rumi reminds us, needs no cause.

Both light and shadow
 are the dance of Love.
Love has no cause;
Rumi

Love as a force in nature, is reflected in a design—a template for harmonic resonance that oscillates on endless octaves of frequency. As a great overriding force inside the circumference of Life itself, it remains directly unexplainable—yet by noticing a harmonic pattern behind the components of beauty, and how it connects every realm of nature, what is implied becomes obvious. Nature’s template for design, which is deeply fascinating and easier to comprehend, bears all the evidence of its presence. Every tenant of beauty suggests something we cannot begin to define. Sound, color, shape, movement, orientation, fragrance, freshness, etc lure us in to a realm more rich and vital; romancing us in captive wonder and ecstasy. Imagine this window of sensory transcendence, widened to include almost everything we perceive around us; revealing a synchronicity and weave behind all time-space phenomena. This is where illumination blooms in humanity—through a realization that nothing in its own motion isn’t beautiful within the symphony.
Zooming into a single expression of Life, on any event horizon, in any timeline of existence, and you witness Love—always in motion, becoming and expanding. The movement of Love is what is important to understand; because it can never be defined in a snapshot, anymore than a single day in one’s life could tell their whole story, or a single measure of a song could render the complete message. Attempting to corral the whole principle of Love into a fragrant aesthetic that fits neatly into our comfort zones, completely reduces the unfathomable dynamic of its true scope. Imagine that Love requires a complete range of expression as its landscape for movement in this adventure through time and space. Imagine that, in this framework, it cannot be identified or captured, only enabled, which allows every circumstance and experience to be embraced exactly as it is—a continuum of change. Joy, sorrow, pleasure and pain are only the emotional register of its force, but Love itself is an actual design, permeating every spec of existence. It is the eternal promise of growth and new Life.
The true nature of Love is not a warranty for bliss and comfort. It is designed for evolution and its motion doesn’t rest. It is easily the most insistent, intoxicating and inconvenient force in creation. When owned or boxed in, Love reaches out like a scorpion to sting our most hidden vulnerabilities until all pain and fear is spent. Resist love or hold it away and the whole organism begins to fade like a fallen leaf, disconnected from its source. As will become apparent on these pages in the literal sense, Love, like the Golden Mean, is a naturally occurring constant in all that exists; because it is the life in the motion of everything imaginable. The golden ratios, which are universal constructs for how beauty displays before us, apprehends our senses, and bridges one dimension to the another, are direct physical reflections of Love; which needs only to be surrendered to.
Increasing numbers of children actually seem to arrive here with direct memory of our true context, eager to remind us that Love has always been here in abundance and we needn’t keep fearing it has, or could ever, escape us—which is quite impossible. Life in any presentation is a motion of Love, raging forward. Like every other force in the natural world, human nature is a dynamic process, where every spike of rebellion is absorbed into a rich harmonic chord of evolution, steadily, patiently and consciously—a true pageant of light. As fear recedes we naturally express unconditional Love, because it is the most naked display of our existence. Unlike fear, Love is not a reaction to something, but the original ground state of our being. It is something we don’t need to manufacture or reach for, just unveil.

“Love does not have to be generated, for it is all that remains when there is no fear..”
Gregg Braden ‘Awakening to Zero Point’

The time-space universe is defined by our own depth of perception, and is a mere reflection of something vast, beyond human comprehension. In this dimension, what we think we perceive around us is actually an illusion of opacity—a projection. How does one defy those limits and actually step into a reality, based on principles of light? We must enter the rabbit hole, the still point, the present—which has no dimensional boundary. We do this by surrendering all resistance to an ever-present force that naturally occurs. As stated, the scope of Love is immeasurable and all-inclusive. It moves, displays and manifests as a non-dualistic principle. Nothing we can perceive or feel is outside of its motion, unimaginable as that seems. Love’s design is in the shape of growth and evolution—an eternal principle of Life in bloom, with an infinite range of expression. Love is not something that fits easily under our security blankets, where growth and evolution rarely occur. Love is the motion and the mean of constructive force behind the only miracle that has ever or will ever occur—Life. It is creation itself.
“Easy for you to say”, says the ragged figure, staring quietly from a filthy doorway, trying not to move until the sun rises high enough to thaw his bones. He wouldn’t be as gloriously authentic if he was polite. It can often seem inappropriate, unrealistic or inconsiderate to mention Love as a primary force in creation with so much homelessness, corruption and atrocity in our populations. The point here is to expand perspective on Love to include every dynamic in the wholeness of Life, which is energy (light) at its core, and consciousness, which is simply Life, aware of itself.

This an excerpt taken from the book “…and Love Rages on!”, by Richard Layton Gannaway, published by Arcturian Gate.

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]]> http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1039 0 A Spirit of Hope and Joy for 2012 – These images speak a thousand words http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=1032 http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=1032#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:49:10 +0000 Arcturian Gate http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=1032 Continue reading →

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]]> http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=1032 0 Donate Any Amount and Receive a Free MP3! http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?page_id=989 http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?page_id=989#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:39:23 +0000 Arcturian Gate http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?page_id=989 Continue reading →

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]]> AO Foundation International and AOMUSIC will send you a free MP3 of our latest single (see video) for donating ANY AMOUNT to any of these three wonderful causes! Just write and say, “I donated!”. Never underestimate the power of MUSIC!

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]]> http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?feed=rss2&page_id=989 0 AOFI and AOMUSIC Proudly Endorse These two Brilliant Causes! http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=986 http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=986#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:13:23 +0000 Arcturian Gate http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=986 Continue reading →

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]]> AO Foundation International and AOMUSIC are proud to align with the vision and efforts of these two brilliant organizations. They each demonstrate to the world how to BE THE CHANGE in beautifully original and innovative ways. Please take a moment to peruse their sites and consider donating to their effectiveness. Thank you, Bless you!

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]]> http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=986 0 AOMUSIC and AO Foundation International have Good News! http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?page_id=979 http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?page_id=979#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:58:41 +0000 Arcturian Gate http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?page_id=979 Continue reading →

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AOMUSIC is on the Grammy ballot for the second time in three years. The list of nominees will be announced in early Dec.

An AOMUSIC Grammy nomination will help feed, clothe, shelter and educate children around the globe through AO Foundation International.

HELP US HOLD THE VISION! …BE THE CHANGE!

Our Gratitude and Commitment Always-

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]]> http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?feed=rss2&page_id=979 0 AOMUSIC ON THE BALLOT! http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=942 http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=942#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:53:40 +0000 Arcturian Gate http://www.aomusic.com/ao/blog/wordpress/?p=942 Continue reading →

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]]> We are on the Grammy ballot for the second time in three years. The list of nominees will be announced in early Dec.

An AOMUSIC Grammy nomination will help feed, clothe, shelter and educate children around the globe through AO Foundation International.

HELP US HOLD THE VISION! …BE THE CHANGE!

Our Gratitude and Commitment Always-

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