Tennessee, the Bible Belt...God’s Country...so welcoming is it’s landscape...the very air beckons me to relax into it’s cool night...early signs of fall...lingering smells of summer...I am immersed in the Tennessee air; drinking it in through every pore of my body...I can smell the coolness as it drops down with the night and envelopes me in it’s arms...my very being is filled with the essence of ‘cool honeysuckle’...no part of me is empty of this wonderful scent...my eyes cannot see it, but I know that it is really there...I have become one with it by way of breath...

Tennessee, open sky, mountain ranges, towering green trees...the melodies that through these entities harmonize my experience into being...the sounds of the birds and the breeze...the feel of the wind blowing through me...oh this wondrous sky that holds the sun and moves the clouds and makes room for the starry night and hazy full moon...and now the crickets speak...as the air moves me along the path home...I share this earth with myriad beings...all of whom speak an ancient language that I hear with my being...listen;  can you hear it?  With every inch of you and every sense you have?  I am under a sensuous spell...

Tennessee, home, where I grapple with my place upon this earth, dancing free of all that would limit me, in this area of earth, Tennesse, that I call my home...in tune with it’s particular animals and more-than-human landscape...so filled with joy and so grateful not to have missed...this...Tennessee Dance...

Starlight Dancing...with Tennessee...

This longing that is deep within...

Catching, within my breath...

It is what makes my heart ache...

This mystery of depth...

It also makes my Spirit sing...

I praise this gift of song...

Often it displaces me...

And then it brings me home...

It opens up my senses...

It finds my feelings raw...

It envelopes me with sadness...

Then embodies me in Awe...

The loneliest of lonely’s....

Joy’s secret ever-pure...

It’s beauty sometimes tragic...

Yet this wonder will endure...

Gold is just not possible...

Without the fiery flame...

The wildness of our being...

Is here for life to tame...

We are but diamonds in the rough...

A rose, not yet, full bloom...

Everywhere reflection...

Fingers pointing to the moon...

Underneath all that we seem...

Is everything we are...

The love that birthed this Universe...

The dust of every star...

Oh gentleness and kindness...

Find your home in me...

For it is love and only love...

That sets pure being free...

Starlight Dancing...

There’s nothing more to tell you...

There’s nothing more to say...

The ancients knew the secret...

And with words tried to convey...

Listen with loves' spirit...

Let kindness be your guide...

Let your ways be gentle...

From love refuse to hide...

Your nature is pure joy...

Ever-flowing, ever-free...

Love can never fail...

As long as love’s allowed to be...

Seems I’ve gone full circle...

Now my dance has opened up...

There is no inside, outside...

Just an overflowing cup...

Seeing with the eyes of heart...

Listening with it’s ears...

The only thing that never fails...

Is love that conquers fear...

Live the love inside of you...

Dance this joy of being...

The love that knows no limits...

Is the love that’s ever-freeing...

Starlight Dancing...

I feel the need to give a little history on this song...I think it was about 7 or 8 years ago, here in Nashville, a woman tried to kill herself and her seven year young son.  Her son died, and she lived to stand trial.  She stated that God had told her to do this.  Her husband, incarcerated at the time, spoke to reporters upon his release, saying that she was a 'loving' mother, and he couldn't believe what had happened.  Mix that with everything I was experiencing at the time...and this song was born...

Kingdom of Heaven...

A loving Mother,

Just killed her son...

The Father said he couldn’t believe what she had done...

He was only seven...

Guess he’s in heaven...

Maybe he’s the lucky one...

Some have to die so others can live...

It’s not about what you’ve got but what you give...

This life is full of insanities...

It seems like only pain, can bring us to our knees...

But Jesus said...

The Kingdom of Heaven is inside you and all around you...

Not in mansions or buildings made of wood and stone...

Split a piece of wood and you will find me...

Lift a stone and I’ll be there...

So many children,

Are trying to fit in...

It’s no longer just about the color of their skin...

They’re either to fat, or they’re to thin...

They talk to much or not enough,

And they’re living in sin...

But Jesus said...

The Kingdom of Heaven is inside you and all around you...

Not in mansions or buildings made of wood and stone...

Split a piece of wood and you will find me...

Lift a stone and I’ll be there...

There’s a pill for everything...

Or a plastic surgeon’s knife...

They’ll slice and dice you till you look just right...

We’re living longer, but to what end...

If you have money you can buy your own fair-weathered friend...

But Jesus said...

The Kingdom of Heaven is inside you and all around you...

Not in mansions or buildings made of wood and stone...

Split a piece of wood and you will find me...

Lift a stone and I’ll be there...

Wherever your heart is,

There is your treasure...

You may love worldly things but they wont bring lasting pleasure...

It’s only love and such, that last eternally...

You have to open your heart before your eyes can see...

But Jesus said...

The Kingdom of Heaven is inside you and all around you...

Not in mansions or buildings made of wood and stone...

Split a piece of wood and you will find me...

Lift a stone and I’ll be there...

tlcoriginals...

Like the ripples of the water,

Moving endlessly it seems...

Not really going anywhere,

Except maybe down stream...

Ripples dance upon the surface,

Dancing the lake alive...

Where one ends and another begins,

There is magic that makes it all jive...

Captured in the sensuous,

Is this presence I am of...

I’m dancing now on water,

Immersed in a lake of love...

Within all form, there’s magic!

The mystical to be born!

Sometimes it seems to hibernate...

Deciding which way to be worn...

Just as last nights’ moon

Scattered it’s dust upon nights’ lake...

The magic’s always changing

Which adventure it will take...

The mystical winks and twinkles

In and out of Being’s real...

Dancing in it’s energies

It’s gnosis free to steal...

Wisdom is knowing loves’ lake

Dances infinite mystery...

That magically shines it’s mystical light,

Dancing limits, joyfully free...

Starlight Dancing...in...Fall Creek Falls...

A little boy that mommy handsomely dressed in shirt and tie,

Made to sit real still in Church, not allowed to question why...

He wants to please; grow big and strong, just like his Daddy is...

Each night he prays, on bended knees, Gods’ victory is his...

Was the feminine burned up, in witch fires of yesterday?

The paradox of orthodox, when only men could pray...

Women then were carriers of all original sin...

Pray tell me when they’ll live it down, reborn to innocence again...

Men brought up on their Mothers’ breasts, yet bounced on Papas’ knee,

Learned of peace in Sunday School, while wars spread on T.V...

Fear caught on like wildfire; rumored freedoms to be lost...

Many then were rushed to war...blind to all the cost...

Mothers prayed at home and cried, burying men old and young...

Men made rules to die by, while the feminine lost wisdoms tongue...

Who should we blame?  Men that destroy, or the women for losing their voice?

Through all the wars, throughout all time, who is it has a choice?

Who shall hang on the cross this time, to be reborn again?

Marry your male and female...connect your out with-in...

Guilty, innocent; conditioned beliefs; two sides of the infinite same...

True freedom is in knowing feminine/masculine beyond the name...

Starlight Dancing...fully engaged with Gaia friends...

Awareness is an open space unlimited by time...

It can take you anywhere...in or out of mind...

Perception is so magical, can change just like the wind...

Can carry us away on wings then circle home again...

This open space it has such heart...it beats of energy...

As love falls deeply into knowing...setting perception free...

Laughter is spontaneous...how magical it’s view...

Love is lived in Joy of Being, not trapped by a you...

Dance this dance in beauty...fully human as you are...

Divinity began it’s dance the dust of every star...

Now we dance together on this Earth so wonder-filled...

Dancing oh so sensuous this magic of the real...

Heart and mind now married...knowing love infinitely...

This Journey Human-Being now embodies living free...

Wearing a mature heart as Awareness lives and breathes...

See complete the forest inside each and every tree...

Freezing none as absolute but freeing all to be...

Just exactly what they are...dancing divinity...

Starlight Dancing...

When the day dawns and the Morning Star, rises in your heart...

Adding to faith it’s goodness that will never again part...

With goodness comes a knowing that allows for self-control...

It births within you perseverance and godliness of soul...

It is through charitable kindness that true love is ultimately born...

This wearing of the Spirit...with it’s fruit it will adorn...

Joy is the strength of love...peace, loves’ security...

Long-suffering is loves’ patience...gentle conduct of you and me...

Goodness is love’s character...love’s confidence is faith...

Meekness, it’s humility...loves’ victory, temperate grace...

Though I speak with tongues of men or angels, but I really have not love...

My sound is one of religious noise...such dogma all made up...

Though I have the gift of prophecy...and understand all mystery...

And all knowledge is within me...and faith to remove all mountains that I see...

I am nothing without the love of charity...

Though I bestow my goods to feed the poor...give all away till I have nothing more...

Even my body to be burned...if I have not love...what have I earned?

Love is patient, love is kind, love is gentle, but love’s not blind...

Love never seeks only it’s own...it is responsible when full-grown...

It never rejoices in ignorance...only in truth does it dance...

It beareth, believeth and hopeth all things...endures forever, such joy it brings...

Morning Star rise in my heart...light and love to never part...

Walking in the Spirit of God...wearing Christ, Sophia’s love...

A beautiful story told endless ways...opening knowledge through time in space...

Starlight Dancing...with the scriptures...and other gaian muses...

I’m filled with such emotion...

Such passion deep within...

It’s bubbling to the surface...

And I can’t keep it in...

My spirit’s filled with joy...

Such energy to dance...

I long to share it with the world...

Let’s waken to love’s trance...

To taste of love’s eternity...

In all it’s timelessness...

To dance love’s dance of joy...

Joy’s being to romance...

To sip life’s endless presence...

In this wondrous space...

Dancing passion into tune...

And knowing love’s true face...

Love so gentle, love so kind...

It breaks your heart to be...

Wide open now with joy...

Love is dancing free...

Starlight Dancing...with my muse...

Born in chaos, this radical love...

That followers try to wear...

Such conflict deep within their souls...

That tension will rip and tear...

It has marched many off to war...

To kill in love’s mighty name...

The evil behind the innocent...

Who is really to blame?

The death of all religion,

Birthed a bastard demon child...

One that love will outlive...

Mustard seed grow wild...

Tis not a love we’re use to...

But one born from within...

To blossom in it’s kingdom...

Created infinitely again...

Whose to say what might become...

Of a truth misunderstood?

So many levels now to open...

Like climbing trees in the woods...

A fresh interpretation...

A new insight to gleam...

New meaning can be given...

To what being human means...

A truth and revelation...

What mystery to explore...

Diving deeply into humanity...

Coming up in-love...re-born...

Starlight Dancing...with my muses...

We run away from suffering...

We close our eyes to pain...

Dismissing those less fortunate...

We label them insane...

We pray our prayers and chant our chants...

Yet still we turn our heads...

We close our hearts off knowingly...

While life is left for dead...

We live in circles that we choose...

Forgetting all the rest...

Preoccupied by Maya...

For which we claim we’re blessed...

We think we’re so enlightened...

Look, we’re dancing in our light...

We continually ignore the darkness

Persistently painting our own dark night...

We must embrace all that we fear...

To overcome it all...

Become that radical love within...

Hearing humanities call...

The paradox that makes no sense...

To reason’s rational mind...

Not knowing what your hands are doing...

To birth true love in Time...

Earth is Heaven’s Kingdom...

A sacred, sensuous Space...

This radical love will have it’s way...

And take it’s royal place...

Humanity's inheritance...

This Knowing of radical love...

Blooming radically within your heart...

New Creature you are of...

Starlight Dancing...

We’ve yet to see truth’s beauty beneath the ugliness it wears...

The bright bold reds that shed blood; the cross humanity bears...

The child within that’s smothered by the monster it becomes...

It’s all so civilized no ones aware of what’s been done...

We’re all left in confusion when we stop to wonder why...

Our hearts know empty intimately...and our tears forget to cry...

We live our lives by rules so dead they stink of guts and bowel...

Yet like inside the wolves, within us, is an ancient longing howl...

We will soon pay attention...as our world continues to rot...

We will remember to recognize all that loves’ heart forgot...

When we were children dancing barefoot in the pouring rain...

We soon forgot that freedom and we learned to hate and blame...

The message of our innocence must continually be reborn...

All that Maya built will crumble to the sound of awakenings’ horn...

While putting down our playthings...we must create anew...

Birthed by this radical love within, new creatures pure and true...

We might just have to lose our minds to really find our way...

Live outside societies box in realities clear blue day...

Take out your sword of truth...prick your side and let blood flow...

Climb up on the cross and crucify all things that hold...

Paradise is waiting to be birthed for all to share...

The spirit of love is ready, for you to always wear...

Starlight Dancing...

The sky it broke my heart today because it was so blue...

It’s light danced off the clouds letting it’s magic shine right through...

A mountain range of angry floated outstretched endlessly...

It brought a rain that washed me clean as freedom through me breathed...

The majesty and brilliance of the light filled me with awe...

I felt it’s power within me, transcending all I saw...

The sky it broke my heart today because it was so blue...

It’s light danced off the clouds letting it’s magic shine right through...

A little bit of blue played peek-a-boo with me today...

I was floating in it’s blue like clouds along my way...

Time had no distinction as it suspended me in air...

What a magic journey Maya dances me to wear...

The sky it broke my heart today because it was so blue...

It’s light danced off the clouds letting it’s magic shine right through...

Starlight Dancing...

Oh to see you smile...and hear your laughter...

You must rest awhile...but we’ll play after...

Can I hold your hand...and sit here by you...

I’ll color you a picture...or sing you a song...

I would love to tell you a story...

About a little child that was so brave...

There was a little light that shined in their eyes...

The gift of all their love is what they gave...

So can I now give you my heart completely...

Let me hold you in my arms...

I will stay and watch while you get stronger...

You’ll be feeling better...it won’t be long...

I must tell you little one that you’re my hero...

And the light that shines is in your eyes...

You have given me the gift of your love...

These are tears of joy that my eyes cry...

Oh to see you smile...and hear your laughter...

You must rest awhile...but we’ll play after...

Can I hold your hand...and sit here by you...

I’ll color you a picture...or sing you a song...

You’ll be better soon...it won’t be long...

You’ll be all well soon...it won’t be long...

Starlight Dancing...with my muse...thnx J...

Don’t tell me that I cannot ask, and question all that is...

Or that I must accept the facts that history always gives...

You tell me that I have free will, but then I’m robbed of choice...

Conditioned through the back door, has stolen freedoms’ voice...

Taught to be a follower, programed to just comply...

I realize my whole life was created from this lie...

Along the way and giving up accepting what was give...

Inquiry was looked down on...you must accept what is...

Fall in line, do what you’re told, don’t beat on your own drum...

Sing the way I tell you to, I’ll tell you where you’re from...

This story or another, you really must believe...

You’re not allowed to question...it’s harder now to breathe...

Concept after concept underneath all that you know...

Just how they’ve affected you is hard to see or show...

Deeply now embedded causing you to thus react...

You’ve become a puppet, puppet, that is just a fact...

How do we stop reacting...in these unhealthy ways...

Causing such unhappiness, frustration fills our days...

We need a fresh new way of knowing, we need to see anew...

Take apart our programing...arrive at what is true...

It’s time to really ask ourselves, what is it we can do...

To walk through fear that holds us back, responsible and true...

Stop always looking to everyone else to figure out it all...

Step up and do all that we can answering humanity’s call...

Don’t tell me that I cannot ask, and question all that is...

Or that I must accept the facts that history always gives...

You tell me that I have free will, but then I’m robbed of choice...

Conditioned through the back door, has stolen freedom’s voice...

Starlight Dancing...with Knowledge of Freedom...

I have been reading Tarthang Tulku's book Knowledge Of Freedom:  Time To Change, and thinking a lot about patterns of behavior. Something that keeps coming up for me is complacency...

I have made so many positive changes in my life in the past three and a half years, that I really cannot and am not complaining...I love my life...I am so filled with gratitude and joy that I see no reason for changing anything, and yet, I see so much room for possibilities and for my own potential to continue to blossom...

I have always been a seeker of truth through inquiry, and much of my life has been spent pursuing that journey within that most of us seek to avoid...I too tried to avoid it by every way imaginable, yet for some unknown reason, here I am, finding my way into beauty, truth, wonder, and a life more magical and good than I ever could have dreamed...

This is the thing about TSK and inquiry, it never ends...the adventure continues, and so, I can feel and see myself entering a whole new phase of my life at an entirely different level of understanding...

I am so excited about life and where it might take me...where it can take me...I continue to be responsible for my own maturity and happiness...when I am honest with me, there is an energy that is released...I have had those thoughts in the past that my life was over...this is all there was so I best be content with it...and while I am very content with my life, that does not mean that I should not be excited about other possibilities for myself and those I love...

I look forward to participating in the upcoming TSK class...I know that this vision will continue to help me in understanding my own patterns of behavior at even deeper levels, and TSK will also continue to manifest positive results in my relationships with others...

It is only in understanding one’s self that one is able to be of any real service to others...while I have come a very long way in understanding myself...I am realizing the infinite journey that stretches before me...it is an honor to fully engage in this thing called life...it is pure joy to dance this dance of being...human...and it is awesomely magical to continue to open into full bloom with this TSK vision...

Starlight Dancing...

For those of you that are interested in my TSK journey, here are a few links that express it's birth...

Time, Space, And Knowledge...

TSK Poetry...

Sharing with Bruce...

Dancing with Davidu...

For those that are interested in participating in the class...

Davidu's Blog...

Each morning I awaken to the wonder of my world...

A treasure-house unlocked and waiting for me to explore...

An endless celebration human being now alive...

Breathtaking joy and beauty in each moment to arrive...

Blessed with this human consciousness its myriad gifts to give...

Such wondrous possibilities our bodies have to live...

To hear the birds and see the light...our senses drinking in...

To dance in Being every moment nature feels akin...

To recall Joy in all you are...an integrated whole...

Mind, body, and senses creating magical new ways to know...

The magic of a rainbow seen in everything that is...

Remembering how to rebirth now each moment new in bliss...

Each morning I awaken to a world that’s wonder-filled...

Adventures and endless treasures...opening to heal...

Starlight Dancing...Knowledge of Freedom...

My winter it was cold and slow...

I hid inside myself...

My heart was frozen like the snow..

Mind’s ice it would not melt...

I slept a lot, there was a need...

To withdraw from the world...

This was the winter of my life...

An oyster with no pearl...

My Spring began to melt the mountains...

So overcome by floods...

I thought that I was going to drown...

Before new life would come...

To much rain was given...

A balance was not found...

And so I spilled all over...

I could not find my ground...

My summer was a hot one...

It burned me to my soul...

The fires caught on and they destroyed...

As they burned out of control...

I almost lost my will to live...

I almost died that day...

I still don’t know how I survived...

My Summers’ fiery blaze...

Now Fall has fallen on me...

The cool breeze in the air...

The smell of honey suckles...

A glimpse of heavens’ stairs...

The beauty of life dying...

The breath of all reborn...

The Autumn of awakening...

Births a bran new morn...

Starlight Dancing...

Unkindness is a poison...

It rolls off the untamed tongue...

It springs from a heart that’s not full grown...

In the charity of love...

We put bits in our horses mouths...

And lead them where we will...

And yet we can’t seem to control...

Impulses that we feel...

Reactions that can bring such harm...

Our influence lost for good...

Later we’re led to regret...

With woulda, shoulda, could...

All for the sake of arrogance...

Where intellects can shine...

Who will make the smartest point...

Who will be left behind...

Who will feel invisible...

Who will be ignored...

Who will be cut to the bone...

With a single word...

How do we master kindness...

With word games that we play...

Forgive us for our ignorance...

And birth us in lights day...

It’s not just gnosis that is needed...

To take untruths apart...

Speak with the tongue of kindness...

Knowing needs wisdoms’ true heart...

Starlight Dancing...

When she was just a little girl, sitting on Daddy’s knee...

Her future already decided, by a feminine gene...

Dominated by male figures...including gods and lords...

Even betrayed by language...the masculine of the word...

Her life was already figured out...and not much now has changed...

The timeless ancient unspoken commandments...

That still drive her insane...

Conditioned, she must bite her tongue...

Not ladylike to speak...

In all fairness, men too, are puppets...

Of the very truth they seek...

They gather in high places...

They talk of gods and lords...

The little woman is in the kitchen...

Obeying the unspoken word...

Women’s rights?  Be for real...

Not much has really changed...

A pacifier is in place...

New illusions same old game...

Until the feminine is reclaimed...

In all humanity...

The world will continue to go insane...

And never know it’s free...

So tell me now of reason...

Does it have a heart?

Will gods always be in control...

From goddesses set apart?

Will man ever really honor...

The feminine he still ignores...

Will the masculine continue...

To treat Sophia as a whore?

Rip out the very foundations...

Where untruths survive corrupt...

Marry the masculine and feminine...

Humanity please wake up...

Starlight Dancing...

Tell me how, I can save you...

Tell me how, to make it right...

How do I, expose the darkness...

Lead you out, into the light...

I am just a lowly pilgrim...

It took years for me to see...

Painful journey; I kept seeking...

Honest with, what’s within me...

Was at war with many demons...

They were all my very own...

Had get to know them deeply...

They became my stepping stones...

How many years, and nothing’s changing...

The message is the same as then...

Why aren’t more of us listening...

Love is on the cross again...

Listen now, there is a savior...

The same one that there’s always been...

Humanity must save it’s own self...

From dying on the cross again...

Humanity it knows no gender...

It’s wisdom’s always birthed in love...

The heart that beats within awareness...

Connects below...with above...

Listen now, I cannot save you...

No one’s coming, to make it right...

You’re what you need...expose the darkness...

Lead your love...into the light...

Starlight Dancing...

Inside the depths of you and me...there is endless love...

Let’s tap into what’s given free, this gift that We are of...

This light that shines within us all...

Like moonbeams in mid air...

It never really disappears...

The magic’s always there...

Energy as precious form...

Was this all meant to be?

A maker of the magic...

Was this all destiny?

What I know is that it was not meant for little ones...

To suffer in this day and time...to be left all alone...

America the Beautiful...home of the Brave and Free...

There shouldn’t be a single soul...left out of our WE...

We can change...We can love...Health Care is a way...

Humanity move forward...Yes We Can Today...

tlcoriginals/starlight dancing...

Drop to your knees and kiss the feet

Of the women that have washed your clothes...

They’ve born our seed and fed our need

Ignoring their private woes...

They’ve worn such smiles and carried love

Until their back bled red...

They’ve worn their sin to long now...

Their voices have gone dead...

Rising with indignation; anger boiling ancient within...

The Goddess of God will not be silenced...

Resurrect humanity’s feminine...

The time for blame is past us...

Time for action born anew...

The rebirth of our knowing...

Comes from deep within loves womb...

So natural that we nurture...

Reclaim our mammalian traits...

Oh Masculine reclaim your beloved...

Your destiny and your fate...

The marriage bed awaits us...

The union of our being...

Embody all of what you are...

Mind + Heart = Freeing...

Starlight Dancing...

Breathtaking aching beauty...

Opening breathing raw...

Connecting to time alive...

In this space of awe...

Birthing creativity...

Watching magic catch it’s light...

Yet only for a moment...

Then transforms it in mid flight...

Being dances freely...

While appearance plays in space...

Threads of mystery to weave...

While love changes it’s face...

Starlight Dancing...with ZenBen...

What is it deep within us that is longing to be fed?

What is it that’s so hungry that it’s need is never met?

It eats of every kind of food but never satisfied...

Rides one desire into the next incompletely gratified...

Always changing form and yet remaining as it is...

Always playing hide and seek on the other side of bliss...

For a moment it wears it’s delight in a chocolate covered cherry...

Only to crave a spinach salad with walnuts and cranberry...

It wrestles hard with all it wants and justifies it’s reason...

It wears it’s styles appearing now to change with every season...

This energy within and out creating alive and new...

Has difficulty birthing itself through a me and you...

This mystery seems to have contractions, when pushing itself out...

Into new ways of knowing, opening up what it’s about...

Holding on to relevance while something new is born...

Is the very friction that keeps us spinning amidst our feeling torn...

Why do we judge it oh so harshly?  What do we really fear?

That one day we will wake up and no longer have a here?

Or maybe it’s more personal, maybe it’s a who...

Realizing lack of choice and say in everything we do...

Just when we think we’ve got it...untangled and figured out...

It dives a little deeper...and takes a different route...

This complex being that we are has an infinite amount of ‘I’s’

Just as many questions, and twice as many whys...

Looking at the layers then transcending what is known...

Frees into a knowledge that never had a self to own...

In this space and time myriad form is it’s own grace...

Knowing love never changes anything but the images of it’s face...

Starlight Dancing...