Man Bartlett
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Forever curious human. Artist (sound, drawing, digital, etc). First Light DJ on EVR every 3rd Friday 8a-10a ET. bio.site/man
Forever curious human. Artist (sound, drawing, digital, etc). First Light DJ on EVR every 3rd Friday 8a-10a ET. bio.site/man
![The Sky of Mind Dissolves in Light
The mind is like a cave of bats. Countless eyes are suspended in darkness, with sharp feet clinging to the convolutions of the brain, hiding from light. The billions of thoughts and images swarm out in the dark night sky of mind, lusting and hungry for their objects.
What can be done? No struggle in the sky can cause this numberless herd to vanish. But if attention itself is simply turned to the light, the inward crowd dissolves, and the cave and the sky dissolve in the night-rise, passing beyond the day into Brightness.
And what is that light by which the mind is vanquished, if only attention is surrendered there? It is the All-Pervading Current of Vibratory Life, in which the body, the brain, and the world are floating. And it is the Transcendental Consciousness, from which attention and then thought both rise, the way a bat follows sound into darkness with an open mouth to be fed.
Reprinted by permission from The Enlightenment of the Whole Body by Bubba [Da] Free John © 1978 Vision Mound Ceremony
This tape was inspired by and is dedicated to the American Spiritual Adept Master Da Free John. The titles "Green is Here", "Quandra" and "Too Wounded" were taken from the works of Master Da Free John.
All compositions by Ray Lynch • Performed by Ray Lynch (synthesizers, piano, guitar), Van Thanh Nguyen (Tibetan bells), Beverly O'Mahony (flute), Eric Leber (recorders), Adam Trombly (tambura), Julie Feldman (cello), Rick Concoff (violin). Ginny Leber, Sylvia Hayden and Antonina Wilcox (voices) • Recorded at Corasound Recording (San Rafael) • Engineered by Stephen Hart • Photograph by Cliff Baker • Insert design by Kim Prager](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ez6deun5c3hky5qribg726fr/bafkreib4f773zijcd3r7qcka423u2fujfbgbez7l77rsy2bo245xw34pua)
