Friday, December 31, 2010

HAPPY NEW YOU!!! YES, "IT STARTS WITH YOU!"


Happy New YOU for a much greater New Year 2011, for a much greater New Decade 2011-2019, for a much greater New Humanity!
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.......Darwin may not have looked too closely into the Evolution of Human Consciousness because he must have found it much more exciting to look into the Evolution of animal or mammal or primate anatomy and physiology, an evolution that was relatively much easier to establish and even measure while there was no perceptible parallel evolution in the realm of consciousness, even among pre-humans or early humans of up to earlier this very century.
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.......But modern Canadian psycho-scientist Steven Pinker writes to assert the great importance of inter-generational consciousness evolution, and complains that too much edge is being given to hereditary factors of evolution in the ongoing "nature vs. nurture" academic discourse, and that among humans, language and other cultural developments may in fact account for more evolutionary progress. This dovetails with Drunvalo Melchizedeck's well-expressed amazement over the accelerating speed at which the human mind has developed, as aided by its information sharing tools such as computers and the internet.
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......And predictions are increasing all around that the big planetary pole-shift expected to come to the earth by 2012 will be coupled with a great shift in Human Consciousness. These things are not expected to come on the first split-second of January 1, 2012, but creep in a bit more slowly but surely in the years and months of run-up to that year.
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.......The New Decade has started about a dozen hours ago in our country, which is in one of the first time zones to greet midnight and sunrise every day. Will the greater New Humanity be soon following suit? "It starts with you," my zen master friend told me last week. If enough people simply open their heart-minds to the new paradigms of Synergy from Conscious Human Oneness, in shared divinity, and decide to live accordingly and successfully promote Love, Peace, Joy among enough other people on this planet, "if we get a critical mass for a 'New Humanity', we may not even be able to imagine, much less say clinically, just how much progress Human Consciousness Evolution may attain in just this coming New Year 2011!" As he said that, I couldn't help but think of the "Sing Out our Love, Peace, Joy in 2011" project. And my brother's new greeting for this day, "Happy New YOU!"
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. A greater New Humanity by this New Decade... it can come, starting with the New YOU and new me! Together, let's pull it off!

--Readdingz
Makati, Philippines
1-1-11

About Love, Peace, Joy, please check out
http://readdingz.blogspot.com/2010/12/call-for-creating-lyrics-for-love-peace.html
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! LET'S ALL SING OUT LOUD!

With protest folk songs, mainly from Peter, Paul M and Mary, virtually becoming the centerpiece of Sing Out in 1966, the folk songs mood changed a bit in the run-up towards the three-day Woodstock in the U.S. in 1969, also the year the 5th Dimension Singers happily sang to welcome the historic dawning of The Age of Aquarius click here. It was also in 1969 that the theme of peace was highlighted in John Lennon's Imagine click here and All We Are Saying is Give Peace a Chance click here. Over the decades, the peace theme was enriched by that of love and harmony, with I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing click here; We are the World click here; and also Paul MacCartney’s Ebony and Harmony click here, which he sang with Stevie Wonder .Without indulging in illusions of the work to be done being easy, the songs have strengthened our Human determination to make significant contributions to the Love-Peace-Joy consciousness and popular music of 2011 and succeeding years..

We have really come a long way from the Sing Out Folk Songs Festival in 1966 to the Sing Out our Love, Peace, Joy in 2011, just a span of five years short of half a century. And for the latter we encourage the world's many family and friendship groups to create, collect, share and sing songs together for the Love, Peace and Joy that most Humans openly desire and are getting about ready to materialize in earnest on our planet

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

A Call for Creating Lyrics on Love-Peace-Joy






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I just read again my brother Surf's Christmas Eve posting and got so inspired by his treatment of Love, Peace, Joy (LPJ) that i now share his entire piece here and also raise a call for all.

The call is for all to try apply their creativity and create their own lyrics for "A Song on LPJ" that we can share around and popularize for group singing everywhere within our "Sing Out!" festival in 2011. Maybe i am just overwhelmed by what some people might call "naive optimism," asking people to compose at least lyrics or a whole song without offering any grand monetary prize, as in a grand contest. But really i am confident that many talented people in many countries may find the spirit of Love, Peace, Joy strong and compelling enough to try to heed this call.

Ultimately, the prize for each shared attempt may just be the honor of contributing significantly to great efforts for promoting far and wide this very spirit in a new human consciousness emerging in these historic times of human evolution. And I can't help but admit that I actually half-expect to be very pleasantly surprised over a big harvest from this ambitious call by about this time next year!

(To read more information on the "Sing Out our Love, Peace, Joy" 2011, please click here: http://readdingz.blogspot.com/2010/12/sing-out-our-lpj-in-2011.html and also this link: http://readdingz.blogspot.com/2010/12/spirit-of-baguios-sing-out-1966-folk.html)

Here's that Christmas Eve posting again from Surf, to which a good number of his FB friends responded very positively:

Life Is a Season of Love, Peace, Joy

by Surf Reyes on Friday, December 24, 2010 at 11:41am

Some time ago, I wrote: We often hear people say, "May God be with you." Or, "May Peace be with you." The loving intent behind these phrases is indisputable. And intent is really everything. Intent is will, the most powerful force in the universe.

Still, the words are inaccurate...and inadvertently plant a disempowering virus that can insidiously corrupt the operating system of one who is unaware. Words have energy...and power. "May God be with you" and "May Peace be with you" subliminally send the hypnotic suggestion that God, Peace, is not yet with you! In Truth, who you really are, in a very real sense, is the "part" of God within your servant manifesting personality vessel. God is in you as your soul, you true Self. So are all...individuations of the divine One Being. Who you really are is a Spirit-Being of Love, Peace and Joy...as you have always been and always will be. Everyone is just in the journey of regaining awareness of the actual reality that God, whose nature is infinite Love, Peace, and Joy, is the innermost reality in one's own heart.

I then propose to remove the virus by saying instead, "God IS in you." This is the essence of "namasté": the divine in me greets the divine in you. There is direct acknowledgment and affirmation of the one Truth within all. Instead of, "May Peace be with you", one can say, "Peace IS with you", or more precisely, "You are Peace."

If this is too direct for the taste of others, I propose instead, "May we fully awaken to God within us." "May we fully awaken to being Peace." Like Love and Joy, Peace is not something to find and to have...but to consciously BE.

I remembered the above piece I wrote as, presently, in this special season of the year, we often hear people say, "May you have love. May you have peace. May you have joy." Again, indisputably, this is all coming from a loving intention...which, indisputably, is what is essential. A loving intention is the most powerful force in the universe.

Still, I wish to clarify that what people are really referring to, as what they wish others to HAVE...are the MANIFESTATIONS of Love, Peace, and Joy. It is essential that people become aware of the difference between the BEING of Love/Peace/Joy from Its manifestations...the Creator from its creation. One is indeed something to have...the other is not a matter of having but a matter of conscious BEING.

These manifestations that one can have are the natural consequence, the effortless result of...the conscious experience of BEING Love/Peace/Joy...of being a conscious Creator. The more one becomes aware of who one really is as a Being of Love/Peace/Joy within one's servant personality vessel, the more one is blessed with receiving the corresponding manifestations. The focus should then be on awakening to, or consciously experiencing, the Being of Love/Peace/Joy within oneself...which is who one really is.

Wisdom is knowing the difference between perception and reality. However it may appear to intellectual perception, in reality, everything that is made manifest in our lives is our own creation. Where there is fear, from the darkness of ignorance of who we really are...we unconsciously create all manner of fragmentation and conflict, pain and suffering. Only from awakening to who we really are as beings of love/peace/joy...can we be conscious Creators...constantly manifesting our creative and unifying nature in the world, as is the divine will.

May we all fully awaken to who we really are: Beings of Love, Peace, Joy...and consciously experience and manifest in our lives: unity, oneness, love, compassion, kindness, peace and joy!

In this special celebration, may you have lots of great gifts, yummy food, singing and laughter, and the constant warm embrace of the presence of loved ones! May you be filled with joyful appreciation and gratitude for the awesome miracle of life all around! Merry Christmas!

And for the birth of 2011...Happy New You! :-)




Sunday, December 26, 2010

Spirit of Baguio’s SING OUT! 1966: Folk Songs by PPM

Spirit of Baguio’s SING OUT! 1966: Protest Folk Songs by PPM

The “SING Out!” Folk Songs Festival staged by the Baguio International Club in May 1966 had more than half a dozen groups of varied nationalities singing songs from varied countries, and a good number of those groups interpreted numbers popularized by the phenomenal American trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, also known as the P.P.M.

To share with you just how the songs more or less sounded like, we now invite you to check out the click here links to youtube uploads after the song titles mentioned here, This would expectedly raise some nostalgic feelings for us in the show (I was part of it not really as a singer but as the volunteer curtain-raiser) and all the others who have liked the folk music protest songs of that period from that summer, on.

I no longer remember which of the songs were sung by the groups during the concert itself and which ones they were singing many times after that show, in a long train that followed, keeping to the Spirit of Sing Out! ’66. (I rely on memory as I write this whole thing.)

The two-member Beachfolks tandem of Sonny Joaquin and Dado Pascua did two folk song numbers that added to the international flavor, keeping to the nature of the organizers: Awi-mawe click here (African) and Tzena-Tzena click here (Hebrew), but they were also well-remembered for Scratch Me Back click here (English, Latin style); If I Had My Way click here; The First Time I ever I Saw Your Face. and Frisco Bay Blues click here (both American, PPM). They also led in popularizing among us the song Amen click here, with lyrics fully composed of the word “Amen” repeated five times per line, which became the Sing-Out! Promo song after we substituted the words "Sing" and "Out" for the two syllables of "Amen." We’re now thinking of doing that again with the full title of the current project, “Sing Out – Our Love – Peace and Joy – Sing Out! – Sing Out!” for every repetition of the word “Amen.”

The “Sangurvolks” trio of Mars Agana, Ray Comilang and Rey Paraan (who was replacing Gilbert Joven from the original Folksingers Three) had an almost-purely-PPM repertoire, with 500 Hundred Miles click here; For Lovin’ Me click here; Morning Train; and the Ballad of Spring Hill click here. The Reyes Family Singers (Buddy, Mila, Surf and Marie Reyes, four of the eight family members who had performed in a Dinner-Dance at Aristocrat-Cubao, in Quezon City the year before) also had PPM songs (Go, Tell it on the Mountain click here; Man Come into Egypt click here; Come Go With Me to that Land click here;) along with others (What’s That I Hear Now click here; and Rock My Soul click here).

The Triad of sisters Lennie and Lulu Abellera with Carol Brady sang Four Strong Winds click here; and Lily of the West. Soloist American Chris Francone sang Where Have All the Flowers Gone? click here; and Cruel War click here; and an American male duet (Mike Bentley and another guy) were memorable for their ultra-protest song Eve of Destruction click here.

Guest performers who came from Manila were the Paredes Singers, namely sisters Meiling and Lory, and their brother Jim who later figured in the popular Apo Hiking Society. They sang PPM’s Betty and Dupree click here and Freight Train click here, among their many songs. Other performers included the Mountain Maids of the Good Shepherd convent in Baguio with their Ilocano and Tagalog numbers; the Golden Axes who were Thai students from the city’s Brent school; and Steve Comilang, who was a hit with his song about “The Rooster,” aside from being the emcee of the show. Unofficial but effective cheerleders for performers and crew alike were Amerasian (Fil-Am) sisters Alice and Becky Cariño.

It was a year later, at another concert (Sing, Folks, Sing!), that the RFS adopted Because All Men Are Brothers click here (PPM/Pete Seeger) as its “anthem,” the finale piece for the full group of eight members (with teenaged Lito and Ding duet singing Fleetwoods and Lettermen selections and the grade-schoolers Tony, Jimmy and Rose as a trio with PPM songs, like Puff, the Magic Dragon click here and Autumn to May click here.).

With protest folk songs, mainly from PPM, virtually becoming the centerpiece of Sing Out in 1966, the folk songs mood changed a bit in the run-up towards the three-day Woodstock in the U.S. in 1969, also the year the 5th Dimension Singers happily sang to welcome the historic dawning of The Age of Aquarius click here. It was also in 1969 that the theme of peace was highlighted in John Lennon's Imagine click here and All We Are Saying is Give Peace a Chance click here. Over the decades, the peace theme was enriched by that of love and harmony, with I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing click here; We are the World click here; and also Paul MacCartney’s Ebony and Harmony click here, which he sang with Stevie Wonder .Without indulging in illusions of the work to be done being easy, the songs have strengthened our Human determination to make significant contributions to the Love-Peace-Joy consciousness and popular music of 2011 and succeeding years..

We have really come a long way from the Sing Out Folk Songs Festival in 1966 to the Sing Out our Love, Peace, Joy in 2011, just a span of five years short of half a century. And for the latter we encourage the world's many family and friendship groups to create, gather, share and sing songs together for the Love, Peace and Joy that most Humans openly desire and are getting about ready to materialize in earnest on our planet.

Humankind marches faster and firmer, against all difficulties, towards the state of “synergy from conscious oneness” well within the spiritual enlightenment age, the Age of Aquarius that was just dawning some 45 years ago.

(Please e-mail all comments, corrections, inquiries and suggestions, including contributed original song lyrics and melody to

singout.lovepeacejoy2011@yahoo.com

Please help us spread the word about this far and wide, by sending this message or its link to at least five to ten people anywhere in the Philippines and in the world and asking them to do the same.)

Thank you very much!

-- Ding Reyes, lead initiator, "SING OUT our LOVE. PEACE, JOY! 2011" Project


Friday, December 24, 2010

A Christmas-Love Song for You

A Christmas-Love Song for You

(This is a Christmas-love Lovesong, not a Valentine-love Lovesong. )

SONGS MAY BE classified under one of two kinds. The first is primarily mood-carrying and the second is primarily message-carrying. Pure music is wordless, and carries only melodies, harmonies of melodies, beat or rhythm, and sound textures, which are not very useful for message-carrying, except messages of moods, namely the moods of the composer or of the performer(s).

To carry messages beyond moods, song composers usually have to "borrow" creations from other fields of aesthetics, namely poems, which we call “lyrics,” from the field of literary writing.

Below are lines of lyrics from the refrain of a song promoting and propagating the message of Love, Peace, Joy, a very apt theme for this Christmas season and for the succeeding period of the “SING OUT our LOVE, PEACE, JOY!” project which starts on the very first minute of 2011, spreads worldwide, and may eventually refuse to end.

Here’s that stanza from the refrain, the words clearly carrying to all who hear a clear message of hope and joy…

Harmony and understanding,

Sympathy and trust abounding,

No more falsehoods or derisions,

Golden living dreams of vision,

Mystic crystal revelation,

And the mind’s true liberation…

Aquarius! Aquarius!

After reading, we now invite you to mouse-click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EegRh8Z4H-o, to enjoy the mood that the song’s cheerful melody, harmony and rhythm carry together. A loving, cheerful and joyful Christmas to all of us! (Click at the leftward arrow at the top left corner of the monitor screen to go back to this blogsite page where the lyrics of the entire song are at the very bottom.)

Further, we invite you to SING OUT with us, and to invite others to do the same. We are going to have a lot of happily Singing Out together to do in the coming happy New Year!

AQUARIUS (Fifth-Dimension Singers, 1969)

When the Moon

Is in the Seventh House

And Jupiter aligns with Mars,

Then peace will guide our planets,

And love will steer the stars!

This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius,

The Age of Aquarius... Aquarius!

Harmony and understanding,

Sympathy and trust abounding,

No more falsehoods or derisions,

Golden living dreams of vision,

Mystic crystal revelation,

And the mind’s true liberation…

Aquarius! Aquarius!




Thursday, December 23, 2010

Sing Out our LPJ!!! in 2011


SING OUT our LOVE, PEACE, JOY!!!
Commemorating 45th anniversary of the Sing Out! Folk Song Festival
organized and staged by the Baguio International Club in May 1966 in Baguio City,
and Celebrating the decades of advance in Human Consciousness as we come well into the Age of Aquarius, the Age of Conscious Human Oneness!

SING OUT our LOVE, PEACE, JOY!!!
Imagine each of us singing out our own love, peace, joy... Imagine all of us doing that, with happy voices together... That would be a Great Leap to Celebrate the Historic Shift of Humankind to the state of Synergy from Conscious Oneness (SYCONE, pronounced as "seek one"). The time for the Happy Leap draws near. Countdown for spiritual & musical preparation is on!

SING OUT our LOVE, PEACE, JOY!!!

The "SING OUT our LOVE, PEACE, JOY!" project will have many family and friendship groups gathering, sharing and singing happy songs on fraternal LOVE, real lasting PEACE, and deep JOY, in homes, schools, parks, offices, etc. in 2011. We started right before its dawning... Now, we are well within the Age of Aquarius!

SING OUT our LOVE, PEACE, JOY!!!

Help us spread the word to all hearts and lungs around us! Please pass this message on to at least five people, and ask them to do the same.
[An initiative of SanibLakas, in partnership with the Reyes Family Singers & Friends, commemorating the 45th anniversary of the Sing Out! folk songs concert of the Baguio International Club, in May 1966.]
--Sycone-Humanity ("seek one humanity")
member-organization, Pamayanang SanibLakas ng Pilipinas

Next on Readdingz: Spirit of Baguio’s SING OUT! 1966: Protest Folk Songs by Peter, Paul & Mary

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Cherish the beads, sow the seeds...of Light!

Cherish all the beads of Light.
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They can become seeds of Light...

.....for a brighter Humankind,
.....with happy voices together
.....singing out Love, Peace, Joy.








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If we care, we will dare
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to share those beads,
.....to sow them as seeds...
.....of Light!

--ding reyes
..of zambales
..dec. 23, 2010

please see also:

Friday, December 17, 2010

EFEOH... EFE-OH!!!

"EFEOH" means "Expats and Friends Enjoying the Oneness of Humanity." Many people will soon know it well, will be part of it, and will even choose eventually to pronounce it (and happily sing it) together as...
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"Efe-OH!!!"
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. In 2011, we will start having countless big and small (and even very small) "EFEOH Consciousness Circles for Handhakes and Hugs" that will ripple out and criscross to cover the world."
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. EFEOH! Its time has come within the current human evolutionary imperative: Conscious Oneness! The humanity of ALL... is one!
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. EFEOH! Let's ripple out this happy word about it!

SING OUT our LOVE, PEACE, JOY!
please see http://readdingz.blogspot.com/2010/12/sing-out-our-love-peace-joy.html

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

"christmas love" and "valentine love"







It's a great season to be conscious of "christmas love"
Unlike 'valentine love,' which many of us humans do tend to overfocus on, 'christmas love' is universally livable and available, with no stiff protocols on fidelity, and no dangers of falling into 'improprieties.'
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. We can all evolve further as humans and develop such unconditional love among us all, and attain the conscious oneness of humanity.
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.. Humans are inching ever closer to this. It's more the love in our LOVE, PEACE, JOY that we are going to start to SING OUT! about, with happy voices together, starting the first half of this coming year, in many homes and other warm sites all around, to celebrate the great shifts in human consciousness.
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SING OUT our LOVE, PEACE, JOY!
please see http://readdingz.blogspot.com/2010/12/sing-out-our-love-peace-joy.html

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

SING OUT our LOVE, PEACE, JOY!










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our LOVE, PEACE, JOY!

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each of us singing out our own love, peace, joy... Imagine all of us doing that, with happy voices together... That would be a Great Leap to Celebrate the Historic Shift of Humankind to the state of Synergy from Conscious Oneness (SYCONE, pronounced as "seek one"). The time for that Happy Leap draws near... the countdown for spiritual and musical preparation is on!
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. We started during its dawning... we are now well within the Age of Aquarius!
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. SING OUT our LOVE, PEACE, JOY!!!
. Help us spread the word to all hearts and lungs around us! Please pass this message on to at least five people, and ask them to do the same.

[An initiative of SanibLakas, in partnership with the Reyes Family Singers & Friends,
commemorating the 45th anniversary of the Sing Out! folk songs concert of the Baguio International Club, in May 1966.]

--Sycone-Humanity ("seek one humanity")
member-organization, Pamayanang SanibLakas ng Pilipinas