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Archive for October, 2008

Fri
24
Oct '08

The Beatles Backbird Lyrics

Lyrics by Paul McCartney.  Comments by me. Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise. All of our lives, as spiritual people, we have been outsiders.  Or we have been asleep, or following other spirtual schools.  Now we [...]

Thu
23
Oct '08

The Beatles Across the Universe Lyrics

See part I: Loving The Beatles Part I   See part II: Loving The Beatles Part II   Eric talked about his interpretation of The Beatles’ song “Across the Universe” in Hawaii at the 2006 retreat.  Here is an exerpt:   The lyrics are John Lennon.  The comments are Eric Pepin.   Words are flowing out like [...]

Wed
22
Oct '08

Loving The Beatles Part II

Continued from Loving the Beatles Part I.  Why are song lyrics (and movies) sometimes important?  My teacher teaches and I believe that the collective consciousness of the Earth, also known as Gaia, seeks ways of reaching out to people and teaching them.  Teaching people ideas that increases their understand of the universe and how it works, so the [...]

Tue
21
Oct '08

Loving The Beatles Part I

I am too young to remember The Beatles.  I can barely remember the day John Lennon was shot.  I was not really exposed to their music growing up.  I do know a few of their commercially successful songs that have appeared in movies, etc. since then.  I recently watched a documentary “The U.S. vs. John [...]

Mon
13
Oct '08

Why Blog?

Because, as Milton Friedman (1912-2006) wrote in an 1928 essay, “Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change. When the crisis occurs the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.” (emphasis added) The New York Times was already re-evaluating Friedman’s legacy in April, 2008 with a short article titled “A [...]

Wed
8
Oct '08

Politics and History

We approach January 2009 and a new Presidential adminstration in the United States.  Soon it will be time to look back at the last eight years of government and evaluate it.  Here is a view from the movie “The U.S. vs. John Lennon” (2006): “Lennon was somebody who was a born enemy of those who govern [...]