Zeitgeist The Addendum

Zeitgeist Addendum, attempts to locate the root causes of this pervasive social corruption, while offering a solution based on a modern, non-superstitous understanding of what we are and how we align with nature, to which we are a part. 

"The failure of our world to resolve the issues of war, poverty, and corruption, rests within a gross ignorance about what guides human behavior to begin with. It addresses the true source of the instability in our society, while offering the only fundamental, long-term solution. " - Peter Joseph

Part I
Continues on from Part III of the original film citing the specific process of fractional reserve banking as detailed in Modern Money Mechanics, released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In detailing the process of money creation, the film suggests society is manipulated into economic slavery through debt based monetary policies by requiring individuals to submit for employment in order to pay off their debt.

Part II
Iis a documentary-style interview with The New York Times best-selling author and activist John Perkins based on his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, in which he describes his role as a self-described economic hit man. In that capacity, he claims to have helped the CIA, as well as various corporate and political entities, to undermine or corrupt foreign regimes that put the interests of their populations before those of transnational corporations. Perkins denies the existence of a conspiracy, because he sees the U.S. as a corporatocracy, in which there is no need for a plot, as politicians like Dick Cheney (who first served as the head of a construction company Halliburton and afterwards became Vice President) are alleged of working under the same primary assumption as corporations: that maximisation of profits is first priority, regardless of any social or environmental cost.

Part III
Is a documentary-style interview with futurist Jacque Fresco. The film looks at Fresco's proposal of a "resource based economy", which he claims would create abundance, is environmentally friendly and sustainable. He goes on to discuss technology which he sees as the primary driver of human advancement and he blames politics as being unable to solve any problems, because of what he claims is lack of "technical capabilities". Fresco claims that his approach is not perfect, but that

"it's just much better than what we have. We can never achieve perfection".

Part IV

The film suggests that the primary reason for what it sees as society's social values ("warfare, corruption, oppressive laws, social stratification, irrelevant superstitions, environmental destruction, and a despotic, socially indifferent, profit oriented, ruling class") is a collective ignorance of "the emergent and symbiotic aspects of natural law." The film suggests several actions for "social change", which include: boycotting banks who are claimed to make up the Federal Reserve System such as JP Morgan Chase and Citibank turning off TV news, not joining a military, refusing energy from energy companies in favour of making homes self-sustainable with clean energy and rejecting the political structure.

The documentary focuses on the recognition that the majority of the social problems which plague the human species at this time are not the sole result of some institutional corruption, scarcity, a political policy, a flaw of "human nature" or other commonly held assumptions of causality.

Photon Belt

According to Barbara Hand Clow we are moving into a zone in space that is band of photon energy. Our star moves into that band for about 2000 years and this event happens about every 11000 years. The last time we were in was Atlantis. The 11000th year out of the photon belt she calls the Galactic Night.

Our star system is the 8th star in the Pleadian star group. Our star circles the star Alcyon, as do the other pleadian stars. Alcyon is in the photon belt all the time. Others are in and out for varying periods of time depending on their orbit. The experience we have on Earth at this time is extremely valuable for the range of experience moving between dimensions that happens as we move into and out of the photon belt.

Trillions of souls are trying to get into a body for this ride.

We are starting to move into the photon belt now and will be totally in the belt all the time by 2012. In the photon belt the walls between the different dimension becomes increasingly thin or non existent. One of the things that has to happen as we move into the photon belt is that we have to master the 4th dimension and integrate it into this planet.

The transition into and out of the photon belt is characterized by radical weather patterns, earth changes, and this will particularly be interesting as the 4th dimensional world begins to precipitate onto our own 3rd dimensional reality.

The elements of the 4th each of will attract individually, be able "see", and interact with depends entirely on our consciousness. We could attract a room full little devils with pitch forks or a room full of angels. The 4th dimension is polarized much like the 3rd dimension and beings on the 4th dimension level have there own agendas.

From assistance and blessing to outright interference with our development. Our state of consciousness IS the most important thing. Barbara emphasizes this throughout and stresses "Being here the most important thing.  Being here NOW". Timing for this event is not important as we are, from a consciousness perspective, we are already in it. Timing, will also, will shift to our perception.

Barbara talks about the dimensions in this way:

1st dimension- mineral kingdom- the consciousness of resonating the earth "mother" accessed through crystals

2nd- the plant kingdom- the consciousness of feeling the earth mother accessed through interaction and communication with plants: i.e. Findhorn

3rd- time and space- the consciousness of linear time mastery through "being here now" polarized pos and neg.

4th- the nonphysical kingdom of archetypes, guides, and nonphysical beings. Accessed through guides, archetypes, angels - also polarized into pos and neg

5th- the consciousness of cosmic cycles and patterns accessed though awareness of cosmic patterns

6th- the consciousness of "web weaving" or ceremonial precipitation of certain consciousness patterns. i.e. crop circles precipitating are glyphs and symbols meant to awaken certain patterns of consciousness in us. Sacred work at world power spots another.

7th-consciounsess of oneness- door way to other higher dimensions. The sacred work here is to find and be re-unified with our twin soul.

It is important to realize that there is no hierarchy of dimensions, one is not better or more important than another.

Once in the photon belt, we will have access to all these dimensions of consciousness.

People all over the world are grasping, reaching out for little pieces of knowledge, enlightenment, hope for the future of their children in a world of growing degradation, sitting in their chairs watching the evening news, and listening to The Prophets of Doom preach of physical horror and annihilation. It is like a great vortex, a great sucking spiral, ever downward, blackness, despair. You look upwards, can see the light at the top and grasp and claw your way to get out of that ever quickening pull of despair.

The truth sometimes is so simple that we look past it, ignore it and try to find a much more complicated answer, when all the time, it is there, staring you right in the face, your passport out of the vortex into the future.

It all starts with a little atom and the group of little electrons which orbit around it. English physicist Paul Adrain Maurice Dirac, said that for each type of particle, an anti-particle will exist. In 1932, Carl David Anderson discovered the anti-electron and called it a positron. In 1956, the anti-proton and anti-neutron were discovered.

When an anti-particle is formed, it comes into existence in a universe of ordinary particles, and it is only a matter of time... a fraction of a second... before it meets and collides with an electron. The charges cancel, the total mass of the pair is converted into energy in the form of Photons.

We will now move onto the Pleiades.... The Seven Sisters... an estimated 400 light-years from here. This group of stars is the basis of mythology in many countries...

Jose Comas Sola made a special study of the Pleiades and discovered that they form a system, of which our sun is a part and also several other suns; and all, apparently, have their own Planetary systems.

Freidrich Wilhelm Bessel showed that members of this group had a proper motion of 5.5 seconds-of-arc per century in the same direction. Isaac Asimov..."We can assume that all the stars in this cluster are the same chronological age."

Edmund Halley, studying the position of the stars, noted that at least three stars were not in the spots recorded by the Greeks. The difference was so great that it was unlikely that either the Greeks or Halley could have made a mistake. It seemed very clear to Halley that these stars moved within a system.

Paul Otto Hesse also made a special study of this system, of which our sun is a part, and discovered, at absolute right angles to the movements of the suns, a PHOTON BELT or MANASIC RING, a phenomena which scientists have not yet been able to reproduce with laboratory experiments.

It takes our sun 24,000 years to complete an orbit, (of this system) and it is divided into sections. The 10,000 years of darkness is the period as we know it now, daytime, nighttime; the 2,000-year period of all light; again, 10,000 years of darkness; and 2,000 years of light.

We are now poised to enter this Photon Belt between now and the end of this century. We have completed the full circle and are back at the beginning.

It is described in detail in the bible, by books on mythology, by Nostradamus, and by modern day scientists. If the Earth enters first into the Photon Belt, the sky will appear to be on fire, but be assured, this is cold light, so there will be no heat.

The interaction between the Solar Radiation and the Photon Belt will make the sky look as if it is full of falling stars. As the Earth enters this radiation belt, all molecules will become excited, all atoms will change, things will become luminescent...There will be constant LIGHT.

"There can be no darkness, not within the deepest cave, not within the human body. "

"All the stars will fall from the sky and the sky will be no more...."

There are three types of people in our cosmos:

corporeal, like us, solid, human atmospherean, also solid to a point, but the molecular structure is quite different ethereans, no mass at all

When we enter the Photon Belt, a normal healthy person is expected to feel a jolt similar to putting your finger in a live light socket, and the transformation will be complete -- you will have just changed from a corporeal person to an atmospherean person.

"and ye shall be changed to immortality without the separation of death in the twinkling of an eye".

Theologians have written at great depth on Bible characters, and assert that they have lived in this period of light.

The sky and atmosphere was different and apparently it never rained. Nostradamus, in his quatrain about the end of the world as we know it, in 1999:

"and it will rain no more, but in 40 years, all will be normal."

In aboriginal mythology it is said,

"Men were different to what they are now, we had a bridge to the stars."

In all their stories if they fell out with the Chief or Elder, they fled to the sky. So did the Greeks.

It appears that space travel is simple within the photon belt. The year 1962 was the year that we came within the influence of the Photon Belt. 1962 was a year of great UFO activity. Did we come within range of space travelers using the Photon Belt?

As we hurtle closer and closer, will more UFO's look us over before our rebirth into the years of LIGHT. It would seem that this is already happening. Erich Von Daniken, when visiting South America, discovered a tribe with an object given to them by Sky People thousands of years ago. [Chariots of the Gods - read more]

They were told to keep it clean and, "when it hums like thousands of swarms of bees, we will return."

A cosmic alarm clock alerting us to the coming of the light? It would seem some civilizations may live permanently with The Light. When our Planet leaves this period of light and returns to the 10,000 years of darkness, do THEY return to the LIGHT and wait our eventual re-entry.

It seems likely.

The Mayans departed hurriedly with the message also of their return, which scholars say is now imminent. Rock carvings around the world show drawings similar to the system of Alcione. Ball lightning [read more] ... a phenomena about which little is known, is it perhaps little pockets of the Photons?

Because the radiation of our sun will be modified by the Photon energy, is this why our scientists only pay small lip service to the development of solar energy?

Let us think about our planet coming out of the light and into the darkness. Aboriginal mythology [read more] says, "we were cast out into darkness and were much afraid, so the Gods gave us a Sun to warm us and a moon to see at night."

If the ice caps form within the light years, then the increased Solar radiation when leaving the belt must surely melt the ice... therefore we have floods.

If it does not rain within this period of light, it is understandable why Noah was so awed by the sight of that first rainbow. The Gilgamesh talks of a great flood, but it was apparently about 10,000 years before Noah's flood.

It's ironic that we created a beautiful story that a world can be changed by the effect of a single person....What stories have we written about Humanity as a whole, causing effect?

It is conceivable that many people will not survive the initial jolt if they are not prepared for it.

If the ice extends to latitude 40, that covers half the USA, and most of Europe and Asia. That is a lot of people without a home....this is just one simple possibilities among billions.

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Home

Another summer day
Has come and gone away
In Paris and Rome
But I wanna go home
Mmmmmmmm

May be surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
I just wanna go home
Oh, I miss you, you know

And I’ve been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you
Each one a line or two
“I’m fine baby, how are you?”
Well I would send them but I know that it’s just not enough
My words were cold and flat
And you deserve more than that

Another aeroplane
Another sunny place
I’m lucky, I know
But I wanna go home
Mmmm, I’ve got to go home

Let me go home
I’m just too far from where you are
I wanna come home

And I feel just like I’m living someone else’s life
It’s like I just stepped outside
When everything was going right
And I know just why you could not
Come along with me
'Cause this was not your dream
But you always believed in me

Another winter day has come
And gone away
In even Paris and Rome
And I wanna go home
Let me go home

And I’m surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
Oh, let me go home
Oh, I miss you, you know

Let me go home
I’ve had my run
Baby, I’m done
I gotta go home
Let me go home
It will all be all right
I’ll be home tonight
I’m coming back home

Waiting on Your Change of Heart

Here I am

Just like I said I would be

I'm your friend

Just like you think it should be

Did you think I would stand here and lie

As our moment was passing us by

Oh I am here

Waiting for your change of heart

It just takes a beat

To turn it around

Yes I'm waiting for you change of heart

At the edge of my seat

Please turn it around

Days go by

Leaving me with a hunger

I could fly

Back to when we were younger

When adventures like cars we would ride

And the years lied ahead still untried

While I stand here

Waiting for your change of heart...

Blind leading blind

Never hear the laughter

Search through time

Nothing reveals the answer

If it's truth that you're looking to find

It is nowhere outside of your mind

I bide my time

Waiting for you change of heart...

Zero Point Energy - Quantum Soul

Recent advances in our study of "empty space" have led to new discoveries indicating that a vacuum is not nothing.

According to quantum theory, a vacuum, consisting of the space between subatomic particles of matter or between large gravitating bodies such as the earth and the sun, is not empty, but consists of vast amounts of positive and negative fluctuating energy. Thus out of a vacuum can be derived a number of unusual phenomena, including matter, antimatter, energy, and even the soul and spirit.

How can energy and matter come from nothing? The answer turns out to be, well, nothing is something.

This answer has relevance fro the appearance of the soul:

The soul, too, comes into existence in the same way.

The concept that a vacuum is not empty seems to be a paradox. If it is not empty, then what fills it? Physicists define a vacuum in very pragmatic terms ... It is what you have left after you have removed every bit of matter and energy from an enclosed container. When all energy and matter have been extraacted, seemingly magically, there is still something left.

What is left is very intersssting because one mutst revert to quantum physics to deal with it. Physicists call it zero-point-energy. The vacuum fluctuations of zero-point energy/mass conversion are in the background static on a mistuned radio or on a television screen when a station goes off the air the nuclear fusion reactions occurring in the interiors of the sun.

Generally, when we say we are observing matter, we are actually observing whether or not something is changing its energy. We call that something that changes energy matter. However, based on some very unusual arguments regarding space and time, that energy and matter were actually the same thing.

People believed matter was "stuff". It consisted of something. As science progressed, the search was for the ultimate stuff of minutest corners of space and of the tiniest fractions of time. Matching observed on a scale of inches and seconds, was actually mostly empty space with tiny bits of something called probability clouds filling that space. These clouds are fundamental particles "tendencies to exist" to somehow pop out of nothing and become coherent matter.

Matter's ability to cohere provides the stability needed to form atoms and molecules.

We now know that if enough added energy is present, empty space itself is capable of spontaneoously giving birth to bits of matter and antimatter that will persist for long periods. But even if extra energy is absent, the vacuum will spontaneously create electron-positron (the antimatter form of an electron) pairs and then quickly bring them together, causing them to vanish. We suspect the vacuum produces matter from the zero-point radiation field, or in other words, matter is just another temporary states of the fluctuating fields call the zero-point energy.

Zero-point energy wouldn't have even been thought of if it hadn't been for quantum physics. According to classical physics, things have energy. They are able to absorb and emit this energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation. Accordingly, once a source of radiation is turned off, the radiation field, filling any space it happebns to be passing through, just disappears.

Of course, if there are any reflecting devices such as mirrors, in that space, the radiation can be trapped between the mirrors, and if the mirrors are shiny and cold enough,the reflection can continue unabated for a long time. But eventually all of the classical radiation will be absorbed.

Not so for a quantum-physical radiation field. If you extract all energy from a vacuum and suck out every bit of matter, and even cool the vacuum to absolute zero temperature, an enormous amount of energy, call the zero-point energy in reference to that point on the absolute temperature scale will remain in the vacuum.

Let me give you another example of zero-point-energy. If you take a pendulum and set it swinging, it will oscillate for what seems to be a very long time. But eventually, it will lose all forms of visible energy and the amplitude of that swing will decay until the pendulum comes to rest. At least that is what we think happens when we envision the pendulum in terms of classical physics. But in quantum physics, that never quite happens. When the pendulum reaches its quietest moment, it will still be jiggling randomly about it's resting position. And even though we cannot observe this motion, for example, when looking at a large pendulum and it'ssurrounding environment are supercooled to the absolute zero of temperature. 

Quantum jiggling is always present.

Quantum physics implies a basic fuzziness for all matter and energy. This blur appeara as slight fluctuations in the energies of positions of all atomic and subatomic matter. There is always a slight probability that any atom will change its energy unpredictably. When as atomic system reaches it's lowest energy, one would think that it would come to rest.

But this is not so.

Instead, the atom or system of atoms continues to jiggle around because of it's continual interaction with the zero-point-energy of nothing. This zero-point energy, although it may be impossible to measure directly, is also subject to the laws of quantum physics, and it, too, consists of random fluctuations. The amount of energy in those fluctuations is amazing. If one looks into a cube of space, slightly smaller than a die on a Las Vegas crap table (one cubic centimeter), one finds an energy equivalent of 10 grams of matter. That is a lot of mass/energy! Consider that the sun radiates aways only the equivalent of 5x10 grams, 5 millions tons of mass, every second, in order to provide you and me with light and heat.

That's a lot, but compared with 10 grams, it's is truly insignificant.

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From the book, The Spiritual Universe

My Little Boy Blue

You never knew yourself well enough
But she never knew you at all
And when she put you out on your own
It may have stolen your innocence
But not your soul

Tell me where is little boy blue
You'll find him standing always
One step ahead
Fast a little, shy a little, boy blue
Wise blood runs warms and deep
On the street
... Kids walking, just a kid walking, just a kid

You send a letter with photographs
And I'll tuck them under my dreams
And if we wake up old beyond our years
Not quite as brave as we seem
It's just the pain that never disappears

Tell me where is boy blue
You'll find him standing always one step ahead...

Dance a little, cry a little...boy blue
Wise blood runs warms and deep
On the street
... Kids walking, just a kid walking, just a kid

Where are you boy blue
Where are you...

dedicated to Rickey Horn May 18th 1963 - Nov. 11th 2001

Not So Strong

I can see
Youre slipping away from me
And youre so afraid
That Ill plead with you to stay
But Im gonna be strong
And let you go your way

Love is gone
Theres no sense in holding on
And your pity now
Would be more than I could bare
But Im gonna be strong
And pretend I dont care

Im gonna be strong
And stand as tall as I can
Im gonna be strong
And let you go along
And take it like a man

When you say its the end
Ill hand you a line
Ill smile and say
Dont you worry Im fine
But youll never know darling
After you kiss me goodbye
How Ill break down and cry.

dedicated to Derrick Dargavell Jun 21st 1961 - May 7th 2004

KLF aka "Timelords"

JAMs, one of KLF's alternate names, is short for "Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu." While it is not known for certain what the acronym KLF actually stands for, it has been suggested that it could be "Kallisti Liberation Front" (a reference to Discordianism, a modern chaos-based religion originally described by Malaclypse the Younger in Principia Discordia, but popularized by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson in the Illuminatus! books, written between 1969 and 1971 that reverences the Greek goddess Eris aka Discordia), which the KLF do acknowledge.

Kallisti (meaning "for the fairest" or "to the prettiest", a reference to the Golden Apple of Discord the hero Paris was to award one of three goddesses: Hera, Athena & Aphrodite, and was said to have been the origin of the Trojan War) was also the ancient name of Santorini (aka Thera) in the Aegean Sea of Greece. The island is the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions the planet has ever seen: the Minoan eruption (sometimes called the Thera eruption), which occurred some 3,500 years ago at the height of the Minoan civilization.

A popular theory holds that the Thera eruption is the source of the legend of Atlantis.

Beginning in 1987, Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) and Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) released hip hop-inspired and sample-heavy records asThe Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, and on one occasion (the British number one hit single "Doctorin' the Tardis") as The Timelords. The abbreviation of the band has long been a mystery; however in a interview in Wired 2010 Bill revealed it to stand for "Kentucky Liberation Front", meant as a satire of the United States as the band saw it at the time.

As The KLF, Drummond and Cauty pioneered the genres "stadium house"....releasing a series of international top-ten hits on their own KLF Communications record label, and became the biggest-selling singles act in the world for 1991.

From the outset, they adopted the philosophy espoused by esoteric novel series The Illuminatus! Trilogy, gaining notoriety for various anarchic situationist manifestations, including the defacement of billboard adverts, the posting of prominent cryptic advertisements in NME magazine and the mainstream press, and highly distinctive and unusual performances on Top of the Pops.

Re-reading Illuminatus! in late 1986, and influenced by hip-hop, Drummond felt inspired to react against what he perceived to be the stagnant soundscape of popular music. Recalling that moment in a later radio interview, Drummond said that the plan came to him in an instant: he would form a hip-hop band with former colleague Jimmy Cauty, and they would be called The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.(JAMs or JAMMs)

Early in 1987, Drummond and Cauty's collaborations began. They assumed alter egos—King Boy D and Rockman Rock respectively—and they adopted the name The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs), after the fictional conspiratorial group "The Justified Ancients of Mummu" from The Illuminatus! Trilogy. In those novels, the JAMs are what the Illuminati (a political organization which seeks to impose order and control upon society) call a group of Discordians who have infiltrated the Illuminati in order to feed them false information.

As The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Drummond and Cauty chose to interpret the principles of the fictional JAMs in the context of music production in the corporate music world. Shrouded in the mystique provided by their disguised identities and the cultish Illuminatus!, they mirrored the Discordians' gleeful political tactics of causing chaos and confusion by bringing a direct, humorous but nevertheless revolutionary approach to making records, often attracting attention in unconventional ways. The JAMs' primary instrument was the digital sampler with which they would plagiarise the history of popular music, cutting chunks from existing works and pasting them into new contexts, underpinned by rudimentary beatbox rhythms and overlayed with Drummond's raps, of social commentary, esoteric metaphors and mockery.

When We Walk Above The Clouds

There's a place where the sun breaks through
And the wind bites cold and hard
Stings my ears and
Tears my eyes
When the day starts to shout out loud

Stand tall
And glide
When you're all alone in the crowd
Don't fall
Don't hide
When you walk above the clouds
When you walk above the clouds

When the light is against your face
And your smile is soft and proud
That's when you tell me all your fears
and all your dreams
So sound

Stand tall
And glide
When you're all alone in the crowd
Don't fall
Don't hide
When you walk above the clouds
When you walk above the clouds

I try and tell you
to keep your head upright
Don't swing your sword and shield against the night
Don't block your blessings, boy
You don't have to fight
You don't have to fight

Stand tall
And glide
When you're all alone in the crowd
Don't fall
Don't hide
When you walk above the clouds

When you walk above the clouds

Why do I Grieve the Rise of the Phoenix?

Cold foreboding I had of it

Just the worst taste of the year

For the desecration, and such a profound desecration:

The wounds fresh and the minders sharp the very end of summer

And grief is bitter, vanquished, vasectomy

Smoldering in the unforgiving gape

There were times I rejoiced

The panic of the mighty, the desperate

And the heavenly virgins brandishing men's vulnerability

Then the oil men sobbing and frantic

And flying away, and wanting their fixes and crucifixes

And the hell's-fire blazing, and the lack of reason

And the city inquisitional and the skies unfriendly

And the coffee franchises filthy and charging high prices:

A crude time we had of it

At the end we preferred to trade in liberty

Freedom in snatches

With the evil screeching in our ears, saying:

That this was all Godly

Then at dusk we came upon a treacherous pit

Shadowed by a fractured skyline, reeking of burnt flesh;

With a bloody stream and a toxic smoke disguising the darkness

And four cardinal points on the sacred sky

And a shiny black hearse raced away in the madness

Then we came to a white house with spilled oil covering stained blood

Corrupt hands behind bolted doors divining for politics and profit

And mouths wording the empty promises

But there was secret information, and so we demurred judgment

And arrived at hell, a day late and dollar short

Finding the place; it was (you may say) predictable

All this was a short time ago, I regret,

And we will do it again, but it rises up

This rises up

This:

were we led all that way for

Oligarchy or Oil?

There was a Tragedy, certainly

We had trickery and truth. We have seen truth and treachery

But had thought they were different; this Treachery was

Hard and bitter agony for us

Like Truth, our truth

We patriotically ascend from the flames of our complacency, this Complacency

But no longer free here, in the new Justification

With a deluded people clutching their sentimentality

Why do I grieve the Rise of the Phoenix?

The following poem, based upon T.S. Eliot's The Journey of the Magi (who in turn, was said to have lifted and modified the first five lines from Lancelot Andrewes's Nativity Sermon of 1622) was written to accompany an image, Phoenix Rising -- a response to the second anniversary of September 11, 2001. The image, which resulted in hate mail and threats, is perhaps the most misunderstood work of my art career.

An Angel

I wish I had your pair of wings
Had them last night in my dreams
I was chaising buterflies
Till the sunrise broke my eyes

Tonight the sky has glued my eyes
Cause what they see's an angel hive
I've got to touch that magic star
And greet the angels in their hive

Sometimes I wish I were an angel
Sometimes I wish I were you
Sometimes I wish I were an angel
Sometimes I wish I were you

All the sweet honey from above
Pour it all over me sweet love
While you're flying around my head
Your honey kisses keep me fed

I wish I had your pair of wings
Just like last night in my dreams
I was lost in paradise
Wish I'd never opened my eyes

Sometimes I wish I were an angel
Sometimes I wish I were you
Sometimes I wish I were an angel
Sometimes I wish I were you

But there's danger in the air
Tryin' so hard to be unfair
Danger's in the air
Tryin' so hard to give us a scare
But were not afraid

Sometimes I wish I were an angel
Sometimes I wish I were you
Sometimes I wish I were an angel
Sometimes I wish I were you

Wish I were you
Oh I wish I were you

Don't be Scared to Fly Alone

When they push when they pull, tell me can you hold on
When they say you should change can you lift your head high and stay strong
Will you give up, give in, when your heart's crying out that it's wrong
Will you love you for you at the end of it all

Now, in life, there's gonna be times when you're feelin' low
And in your mind insecurity seems to take control
We start to look outside ourselves for acceptance and approval
We keep forgettin' that the one thing we should know is

Don't be scared to fly alone, find a path that is your own
Love will open every door it's in your hands, the world is yours
Don't hold back and always know, all the answers will unfold
What are you waiting for, spread your wings and soar

The boy who wonders is he good enough for them
He's tryin' to please 'em all but he just never seems to fit in
Then there's the girl who thinks she'll never ever be good enough for him
She's tryin' to change and that's a game she'll never win

In life there's gonna be times when you're feeling low
And in your mind insecurity seems to take control
We start to look outside ourselves for acceptance and approval
We keep forgettin' that the one thing we should know is

Don't be scared to fly alone, find a path that is your own
Love will open every door it's in your hands, the world is yours
Don't hold back and always know, all the answers they will unfold
What are you waiting for, spread your wings and soar

In the mirror is where she comes face to face with her fears
Her own reflection, now foreign to her after all these years
All of her life she has tried to be something besides herself
Now time has passed and she's ended up someone else with regret

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending
Gotta let ourselves be

Don't be scared to fly alone, find a path that is your own
Love will open every door it's in your hands, the world is yours
Don't hold back and always know, all the answers they will unfold
What are you waiting for, spread your wings and soar

Don't be scared to fly alone, find a path that is your own
Love will open every door it's in your hands, the world is yours
Don't hold back and always know, all the answers they will unfold
What are you waiting for, spread your wings and soar

Don't wait, no more
You can soar
Spread your wings and soar
Don't wait, no more
Spread your wings and soar

So What you waiting for?
...Don't wait...
...Whoa!...
...Don't wait, no more...
...Don't wait...
...Don't Wait...

Only in America

Only in America
We're slaves to be free
Only in America we kill the unborn
To make ends meet
Only in America
Sexuality is democracy
Only in America we stamp our god
"In God We Trust"

What is right or wrong
I don't know who to believe in
My soul sings a different song
In America
What is right or wrong
I don't know who to believe in
My soul sings a different song
In America, In America, In America

Church bell's ringing
Pass the plate around
The choir is singing
As their leader falls to the ground
Please mister prophet man
Tell me which way to go
I gave my last dollar
Can I still come to your show

What is right or wrong
I don't know who to believe in
My soul sings a different song
In America
What is right or wrong
I don't know who to believe in
My soul sings a different song
In America, In America, In America, In America

I am right and you are wrong
I am right and you are wrong
I am right and you are wrong
No one's right and no one's wrong
In America, In America, In America, In America

What is right or wrong
I don't know who to believe in
My soul sings a different song
In America, In America

What is right or wrong
I don't know who to believe in
My soul sings a different song
In America, In America,
What is right for you and me?
In America

What If He Lied?

can't find the rhyme in all my reason
Lost sense of time and all seasons
Feel I've been beaten down
By the words of men who have no grounds
Can't sleep beneath the trees of wisdom
When your ax has cut the roots that feed them
Forked tongues in bitter mouths
Can drive a man to bleed from inside out

What if you did?
What if you lied?
What if I avenge?
What if eye for an eye?

I've seen the wicked fruit of your vine
Destroy the man who lacks a strong mind
Human pride sings a vengeful song
Inspired by the times you've been walked on
My stage is shared by many millions
Who lift their hands up high because they feel this
We are one We are strong
The more you hold us down the more we press on

What if you did?
What if you lied?
What if I avenge?
What if eye for an eye?


I know I can't hold the hate inside my mind
'Cause what consumes your thoughts controls your life
So I'll just ask a question
A lonely simple question
I'll just ask one question
What if? What if?
What if? What if?
What If I?

What if? What if?
What if? What if?
What If I?

What if? What if?
What if? What if?
What If I?

What if? What if?
What if? What if?
What If I?

What if you did?
What if you lied?
What if I avenge?
What if eye for an eye?

What if your words could be judged like a crime?

What if? What if?
What if? What if?
What If I?

What if? What if?
What if? What if?
What If I?

What if? What if?
What if? What if?
What If I?

What if? What if?
What if? What if?
What If I?

One

Affirmative may be justified
Take from one give to another
The goal is to be unified
Take my hand be my brother
The payment silenced the masses
Sanctified by oppression
Unity took a backseat
Sliding further into regression

One, oh one,
The only way is one
I feel angry I feel helpless
Want to change the world
I feel violent I feel alone
Don't try and change my mind

Society blind by color
Why hold down one to raise another
Discrimination now on both sides
Seeds of hate blossom further
The world is heading for mutiny
When all we want is unity
We may rise and fall, but in the end
We meet our fate together

One, oh one,
The only way is one
One, oh one,
The only way is one
I feel angry I feel helpless
Want to change the world
I feel violent I feel alone
Don't try and change my mind

I feel angry I feel helpless
Want to change the world yeah
I feel violent I feel alone
Don't try and change my mind

I feel angry I feel helpless
Want to change the world yeah
I feel violent I feel alone
Don't try and change my mind

Who Is To Blame?

The dust has finally settled on the field of Human Clay
Just enough light has shown through
To tell the night from the day
We are incomplete and hollow
For our maker has gone away

Who is to blame?
We'll surely melt in the rain
Say I, Say I
Say I, Say I
Say I, Say I

The stillness is so lifeless with no spirit in your soul
Like children with no vision do exactly what they're told
Being led into the desert
For your strength will surely fade

Who is to blame?
We'll surely melt in the rain
Say I, Say I
Say I, Say I
Say I, Say I

Say I, Say I
Say I, Say I
Say I, Say I

Frantic, faction, focus
The world breathes
And out forms this misconception we call man
But I don't know him
No, I don't know him
Because he lies..They lie

Say I, yeah
Say I, yeah
Say I, yeah
Say I, Say I
Say I, Say I

Freedom Fighter

The mouths of envious
Always find another door
While at the gates of paradise they beat us down some more
But our mission's set in stone
'Cause the writing's on the wall
I'll scream it from the mountain tops pride comes before the fall

So many thoughts to share
All this energy to give
Unlike those who hide the truth I tell it like it is
If the truth will set you free
I feel sorry for your soul
Can't you hear the ringing 'cause for you the bell tolls

I'm just a freedom fighter
No remorse
Raging on in holy war
Soon there'll come a day
When you're face to face with
Face to face with me

Can't you hear us coming?
People marching all around
Can't you see we're coming?
Close your eyes it's over now
Can't you hear us coming?
The fight has only just begun
Can't you see we're coming?

I'm just a freedom fighter
No remorse
Raging on in holy war
Soon there'll come a day
When your face to face with me
Face to face with me

Signs

This is not about age
Time served on the earth doesn't mean you grow in the mind
This is not about God
Spiritual insinuations seem to shock our nation

Come with me I'm fading underneath the lights
Come with me
Come with me
Come with me now

This is not about race
It's a decision to stop the division in your life
This is not about sex
We all know sex sells and the whole world is buying

Come with me I'm fading underneath the lights
Come with me
Come with me
Come with me now

Can't you see the signs?
See the signs now

Can't you see them?
See the signs
You see them
All the signs we see them
Can't you see them?

I Know

You've got such a pretty smile
It's a shame the things you hide behind it
Let 'em go
Give it up for a while
Let 'em free and we will both go find it
I know there's nowhere you can hide it
I know the feeling of alone
I know that you do not feel invited
But, come back, come back in from the cold
Step away then from the edge
Your best friend in life is not your mirror
Back away, come
Back away, come
Back away, come
Back away, come
Back away, come
Back away...
I am here and I will be forever and ever and I ...
I know that there's nowhere you can hide it
I know the feeling of alone
Trust me and don't keep that on the inside
Soon you'll be locked out on your own
You're not alone
You're not alone
And don't say you've never been told
I'll be with you 'til we grow old
'Til I'm in the ground and I'm cold
I'm not sitting up here on some throne
I'll be with you 'til we grow up young
Like a dog you can always come home
Dig up a bone
Look around Down baby downtown
Don't throw me to the pound.

Pocketful of Sunshine

I got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine.

I got a love, and I know that it's all mine.

Do what you want, but you're never gonna break me.

Sticks and stones are never gonna shake me.

Take me away! A secret place!

A sweet escape! Take me away!

Take me away! To better days.

Take me away! A hiding place!

I got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine.

I got a love, and I know that it's all mine.

Do what you want, but you're never gonna break me.

Sticks and stones are never gonna shake me.

I got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine.

I got a love, and I know that it's all mine.

Wish that you could, but you ain't gonna own me.

Do anything you can to control me.

Take me away! A secret place!

A sweet escape! Take me away!

Take me away! To Better days!

Take me away! A hiding place!

There's a place that I go,

But nobody knows.

Where the rivers flow,

And I call it home.

And there's no more lies.

In the darkness, there's light.

And nobody cries.

There's only butterflies!

Take me away! A secret place!

A sweet escape! Take me away!

Take me away! To better days!

Take me away! A hiding place!

Take me away! A secret place!

A sweet escape! Take me away!

Take me away! To better days!

Take me away! A hiding place!

Take me away! A secret place!

To better days! Take me away!

Take me away! To better days!

Take me away! A hiding place!

The sun is on my side.

Take me for a ride.

I smile up to the sky.

I know I'll be all right.

The sun is on my side.

Take me for a ride.

I smile up to the sky.

I know I'll be all right.

I Got Dreams to Live

Does it ever feel like

No one is with you

No one sees it your way

Everyone's against you

But it's your life

Gotta keep the faith

Hold your vision

You will find your way, yeah

Ah, yeah, oh yeah

I may not fit the mold

May not do what I'm told

I will not be swayed

By the things that they might say

They may have had their doubts

No matter what I've found

I have held my ground

Look at me, I'm still around

So dream on, dream on, yeah

Don't ever let them steer you wrong

When life comes knocking

Gotta keep on rocking

Open that door and

Shout it to the world, singing

Hello, hello, ha

Here I am, here I go

Yeah, yeah

'Cause I got love to give

And I got dreams to live

So hello, hello

Hello, hello, oh ooh yeah

And if you don't fit in

Just know your differences

Are beautiful to see

Well, they're beautiful to me

There's no one quite like you

Be proud in all you do

You know you'll find a way

Be who you are, don't be ashamed now

Shine baby, shine, yeah

'Cause it's all in your mind

The life you crave

The love you make, said

It's all up to you and

You just gotta say

Hello, hello

Here I am, and here I go

Yeah, yeah

I got love to give

And I got dreams to live

So hello, hello

Hello, hello

So don't you ever let it pass you by

It's your life

Yeah, yeah, yeah

You gotta dream, you know you gotta try

It's your time to shine, oh yeah

Said, shout it to the world, sing

Hello, hello, woo

Here I am, here I go

Yeah, yeah

I got love to give

And I got dreams to live

So hello, hello

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Hello, hello, ooh yeah

Hello, hello, oh ooh, yeah

Hello, hello

Hello, hello, yeah

Hello, hello, I said yeah, yeah

Said it goes on and on, yeah yeah

Hello, hello

Hello, hello, ooh

Ooh yeah

Goodbye

See you later

Ciao

Muah

I'm Here to Stay

Well everybody got an opinion now don’t they

But it ain’t no thing to me

It really don’t make any difference now to me

If you don’t like what you see

I pay no mind to the negative kind

Cause that’s just no way to be

I don’t stop to please someone else’s needs

Gonna live my life for me

I’m gonna keep on I’m a do my own thing

we all got a song that we’re meant to sing

and no matter what people say or might think

I ain’t goin’ no place no I’m here to stay

Gonna keep on doing my thing

Cause whether they love or they hating on me

I’ll still be the same girl I used to be

Cause I ain’t going no place no I’m here to stay

I’ve never been the type to be shy

I know that some would say I’m too headstrong

But I’d rather be a woman who voices her mind

Whether you think I’m right or wrong

And I know some people wanna criticize

Makes em feel better about themselves

So say what you will time will reveal

In the end that I will be here still

I’m gonna keep on I’m a do my own thing

we all got a song that we’re meant to sing

and no matter what people say or might think

I ain’t goin’ no place no I’m here to stay

Gonna keep on doing my thing

Cause whether they love or they hating on me

I’ll still be the same girl I used to be

Cause I ain’t going no place no I’m here to stay

Gotta get up

Keep my head up

Gonna keep on turnin' it up

Never let up

If I keep steppin' it up

Imma prove that I ain't never gonna be stopped

Like it or not

No matter the pressures that face me

I believe they will see

I’ll never let anyone break me

All your doubt can do now is strengthen me

And life it ain’t always that easy

Gotta fight to see past the boundaries

Crossing the lines I will define every time that forever is mine

American Life

Do I have to change my name?

Will it get me far?

Should I lose some weight?

Am I gonna be a star?

I tried to be a boy,

I tried to be a girl

I tried to be a mess,

I tried to be the best

I guess I did it wrong,

That's why I wrote this song

This type of modern life - Is it for me?

This type of modern life - Is it for free?

So, I went into a bar looking for sympathy

A little company - I tried to find a friend

It's more easily said it's always been the same

This type of modern life -Is not for me?

This type of modern life -Is not for free?

American life

I live the american dream

You are the best thing I've seen,

You are not just a dream

I tried to stay ahead,

I tried to stay on top

I tried to play the part,

But somehow I forgot

Just what I did it for

And why I wanted more

This type of modern life - Is it for me?

This type of modern life - Is it for free?

Do I have to change my name?

Will it get me far?

Should I lose some weight?

Am I gonna be a star?

American life

I live the american dream

You are the best thing I've seen,

You are not just a dream

I tried to be a boy,

I tried to be a girl

I tried to be a mess,

I tried to be the best

I tried to find a friend,

I tried to stay ahead,

I tried to stay on top

I tried to play the part,

but some how I forgot

Just what I did it for,

and why I wanted more

This type of modern life,

is it for me?

Fuck it

Ah, fuck it

Ah, fuck it

Ah, fuck it

Ah, fuck it, uh-huh

Fuck it...

Do I have to change my name?

Will it get me far?

Should I lose some weight?

Am I gonna be a star?

I'm drinking a Soy latte

I get a double shot

It goes right through my body

And you know

I'm satisfied,

I drive my mini cooper

And I'm feeling super-dooper

Yo they tell I'm a trooper

And you know I'm satisfied

I do yoga and pilates

And the room is full of hotties

So I'm checking out the bodies

And you know I'm satisfied

I'm digging on the isotopes

This metaphysic's shit is dope

And if all this can give me hope

You know I'm satisfied

I got a lawyer and a manager

An agent and a chef

Three nannies, an assistant

And a driver and a jet

A trainer and a butler

And a bodyguard or five

A gardener and a stylist

Do you think I'm satisfied?

I'd like to express my extreme point of view

I'm not Christian and I'm not a Jew

I'm just living out the American dream

And I just realized that nothing Is what it seems

Do I have to change my name

Am I gonna be a star

Do I have to change my name

Am I gonna be a star?

Do I have to change my name

I Will Be

The world seems so cold

When I face so much all alone

A little scared to move on

And knowing how fast I have grown

And I wonder just where I fit in

Hold a vision of life in my head

Oh yes

I will be

Strong on my own

I will see through the rain

I will find my way

I will keep on

Traveling this road

Till I finally reach my dream

Till I'm living, and I'm breathing

My destiny, yeah yeah

I can't let go now

Even when darkness surrounds

But if I hold on, yeah

I will show the world

All the things that you never expected to see

From little old me, this pittsburgh girl

And I wonder just where my place is

Close my eyes and I remind myself this

Oh yeah yeah

I will be

Strong on my own

I will see through the rain

I will find my way

I will keep on

Traveling this road

Till I finally reach my dream

Till I'm living, and I'm breathing

My destiny, ohh

It comforts me

Ooh it keeps me

Alive each day of my life

Always guiding me

Providing me

With the hope I desperately need

Well I gotta believe

There's something out there meant for me

Oh I get on my knees

Praying I will receive

The courage to grow and the faith to know

That I will be

Strong on my own

I will see through the rain

I will find my way

I will keep on

Traveling this road

Till I finally reach my dream

Till I'm living, and I'm breathing

My destiny

RCVDLA

Walking around I hear the sounds of the earth seeking relief

I'm trying to find a reason to live

But the mindless clutter my path

Oh these thorns in my side

Oh these thorns in my side

I know I have something free

I have something so alive

I think they SHOOT cuz they want IT..

I feel forces all around me

Come on raise your head

Those who hide behind the shadows

Live with all that's dead

Look at me... look at me

At least look at me when you shoot a bullet through my head

Through my head

Through my head

Through my head

In my lifetime when I'm disgraced

By jealousy and lies

I laugh aloud 'cause my life

Has gotten inside someone else's mind

Look at me... look at me

At least look at me when you shoot a bullet through my head

Through my head

Through my head

Through my head

Hey all I want is what's real

Something I touch and can feel

I'll hold it close and never let it go

Said why... why do we live this life

With all this hate inside

I'll give it away 'cause I don't want it no more

Please help me find a place

Somewhere far away

Yes, I'll go and you'll never see me again

Rain on Your Parade

I wish you well

I hope you survive

I hope you live, oh baby, so I can watch you cry.

'Cause I know in time you'll see what you did to me

And you'll come running back.

I'm gonna rain on your parade

No, I won't take it again

And I'll keep raining, raining, raining over you.

I'm gonna rain on your parade.

No, I won't take it again.

And I'll keep raining, raining, raining over you.

I pity the fools who believe in you

'Cause I know someday now, they'll see your colours too.

And if you see a smile, besides my face, know I'm doing good now.

Since you've been erased.

'Cause I know in time you'll see what you did to me

And you'll come running back.

I'm gonna rain on your parade.

No, I won't take it again.

And I'll keep raining, raining, raining over you.

I'm gonna rain on your parade.

No, I won't take it again.

And I'll keep raining, raining, raining over you.

I'm gonna rain on your parade.

No, I won't take it again.

And I'll keep raining, raining, raining over you.

I'm gonna rain on your parade.

No, I won't take it again.

And I'll keep raining, raining, raining over you.

I'm gonna rain on your parade.

No, I won't take it again.

And I'll keep raining, raining, raining over you.