Program Notes

Mark Torgeson and Dina Baker - Apparitions & Unconditional Love 

The foundation of these two songs were composed and released by Mark as piano pieces. They are part of an upcoming album by Mark and Dina. The addition of Dina's voice - her surreal interpretation - places a different spin on the music and transports the listener to yet another multidimensional experience far beyond the original conception.  

Unconditional Love

This is the nature of reality. And what better purveyor of this on our plane of existence than Nature? This video highlights the beauty of nature in all of its forms, all the while acknowledging human nature is a part of this cosmic scheme…

Apparitions

The idea of ghosts has come to the forefront of awareness of late, as the energies coming from the planet and the cosmos ramp up and make it exceedingly difficult for everyone to sleep, hold center and put a lid on all the demons that are usually manageable.

Apparitions are a kind of ghost. Or demon.

But what are these ghosts or apparitions? They are the spectres of consciousness arising from the deep subconscious, those tales real or imagined we have lived but somehow have been able to forget or subdue. Yet they are part of us, like a child or pup who is not getting attention.

And so now we are called forth to attend to these shadows, vague imaginings, the wistful longings and the smothered hatreds, wrongs against us - all the lovelies and horrors of our mind.

We all have them. It is obviously impossible to be human and invulnerable to pain and the yearning to be free of it. So we create religion to make sense of it; or art to express it; or substance to mask it. But it is always there, the ghosting, endless stories - the unexplored apparitions of our longing.

Therese Braford - Angelic Chords of Love and Healing
"When I pick up an Angel Harp and begin to play, the energy that flows through is Angelic!  I hear Angels singing through the harps as they guide the beautiful chords that are heard and felt.  

"When working with the Angel Harps, I become a conduit for the healing energy of the etheric realm to flow through, connect and be received by those listening.  When working with the harps as they lay directly on the receiver, healing tones and energy are felt in the physical body, as well as being received by the emotional and spiritual bodies, all allowing for release in areas that may be holding tension and/or trauma.

“The “Spring” tuning of the Shanti chime brings in feelings of joy and playfulness, allowing the receiver to relax and open to the healing energies being integrated.”

Gethen Christine - Crystal Trilogy: The Liberation of All Children 

…is a three-part sound transmission for the healing of humanity and Gaia, inviting every fragment of self to return home to Love. Through Meet Me Where Love Flows, Reverent Reckoning, and Scattered Across the Sands of Time, the listener is guided from remembrance, through compassionate clearing, into sacred retrieval of wholeness. 

Angel Harp and voice become a bridge across timelines and dimensions, dissolving inherited sorrow, restoring innocence, and awakening the truth that we are all Children of Earth and Stars. What remains is a field of unity where no being is left behind. 

I. Meet me Where Love Flows: Beyond Space & Understanding

• Surrender to the frequency of Love through the Heart, 3rd eye, palms of hands, soles of feet as awareness adjoins in Oneness.   

II. Reverent Reckoning: Cleansing of What Has Been

• As we compassionately honor the long held imprints and inherited patterns, we transmute the timelines in reverence and new pathways of understanding emerge.

III. Scattered across the Sands of Time: Calling Back the Whole Self

• Intentionally call back every piece of ourselves across all timelines and dimensions, returning to wholeness and oneness in Love.

When I listen to these songs they speak to me in far away places. Someone who is labeled “non-neurodivergent” these places feel far off. Someone who is in the spectrum of “neurodivergence” those places seem very close, directly connects with the etheric realms through the cord connecting our Soul Body into our Physical Body – our Earth Body.

Dropping into stillness and centering. 

In professional collaboration with recording artist Jake McCune, edited and mastered by Mark Torgeson. 

Melissa Terese - Uwane 

…is a song of blessing and protection or an Icaro. 
This song was channeled as a clearing for the Root Chakra.

The Japanese term "Uwane" (上根) means the visible surface roots that come out of the base of a bonsai tree and spread at the top of the pot. They are also active in an area near the face of soil. 
上 means "up, above, top."

1 Going up - Moving from a lower place to a higher place.
2 High position - Having a high position, value, age, etc.
3 Before - In terms of time, order, or flow of things.
4 Offer - To give or present something.
5 Ascend - To go to the center.
6 Landlady - A woman who is the wife of a person or the mistress of a house.
根 means "root, basis, foundation."

1 Root - The root of a plant or tree.
2 Foundation - The basis or source of something.
3 Motivation - The power to keep doing something for a long time.

Producer/ Songwriter: Melissa Terese McLaughlin: voice, drum, rattle
Producer/  Mixing & Sound; video editing: Mark Torgeson

Dina Baker, Mark Torgeson, Therese Braford - Lotus Rising

Based on the sacred geometry of the Lotus of Life (found in the tuning of the Lotus Harp) with support with the drone fundamental (didgeridoo) and angelic vocals.

Ronda Cheatham - Therapeutic Bowls, Tibetan Singing Bowls

Ronda employs and array of bowls: Therapeutic, Tibetan, Zen, and aluminum to create a soundscape infused with her own transformative touch matured by many years in the Healing Arts. Close your eyes and allow the pure tones of these ancient and present day instruments take you to transformative realms.

Iris McCray - Sound Bath

"Healing isn’t always soft, gentle or pretty. It can come as a storm, as a hasty race through the jungle, not knowing how long that race will take, forever it feels once seemingly trapped in it.

"Despair, indignation, even rage need to be allowed to find expression so they can clear the stored trauma within the field, oneself and our lineages – before the waters can calm again and the inner horizon reveals itself through peace and kindness.

“Sound and vibration' never lie, they do not camouflage, simply express what is in the moment. What we clear for ourselves we clear for others through the law of resonance,  as nothing exists on its own.”

“We cannot change anything unless we first accept it” – Carl Jung. 

“To perceive without evaluation is the highest form of intelligence.”  J. Krishnamurti

Karen Kimsey - Free Spirit

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Video: Mark Torgeson, Carol Fitzpatrick, Gethen Christine

Video editing: Mark Torgeson