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Thank You, Good Night
Songs About: SURRENDER
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Stripping Away
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In this week's podcast episode (#66, "Stripping Away"), musicians Carly Simon and Heather Maloney share interviews with RockOm. Carly talks about stripping down her hits for the new album Never Been Gone and singer-songwriter Heather Maloney shares about the stripping away process that occurs in meditation.CLICK HERE to visit our Podcast page to download this [...]
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What’s Rockin @ RockOm: 11/10
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As it turns out, Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter Carly Simon has a mystical side that is rarely made public. She shares with RockOm this week about using music to connect with others, as prayer and as a way to heal the world in Carly Simon Hears the Voice of God. Also in this interview you can [...]
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Meditation as Modulation
Modulation, in music, is the act or process of changing from one key or tonal center to another. According to Sufi Master Pir Vilayat Khanodulation, modulation is also great description of what happens during meditation and other forms of spiritual discipline. More thoughts on the subject, including an exercise for this week, after the jump...
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RockOm Round-up
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Through the Frame of Faith
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In this week's podcast episode (#66, "Through the Frame of Faith"), musicians Derek Webb and Josh Garrels share how their spiritual convictions inform how they write music. Other topics you will enjoy include how to understand the new face of the music industry, how music is impacted by the setting in which it is written, [...]
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Overlapping Circles
You probably remember Venn diagrams from high school (or perhaps you're still using them in your classes or business). While each circle signifies a unique set, overlapping sections represent any similarities. In the postmodern age many faith traditions and belief systems are starting to overlap in much the same way, often through the common ground of music. What does this mean for your own lif...
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What’s Rockin @ RockOm: 11/2
Most every Westerner has some relationship with the Christian church. He/She is usually either a part of it or alternately has some sort of aversion to it. We all understand that Christianity - maybe even moreso than other faith practices - carries with it a lot of cultural baggage here in the States. For this [...]
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Derek Webb: Art w/o Agenda
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Healing with Sound
Diáne Mandle has been practicing Himalayan/ Tibetan Bowl Sound Healing for nearly a decade and has since established a private practice integrating Polarity, Sound Healing and Coaching and in 2004 became California's first State Certified Tibetan Bowl Practitioner/Instructor. She answers a simple Q&A about "sound energy healing" - including how sound and vibration impact your physical, spiritual .
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New Podcast featuring UpBeat Drum Circles
Early today we posted an insightful interview with Christine Stevens of UpBeat Drum Circles. Now's your chance to hear the interview first-hand. Check out the newest episode of the RockOm Podcast to hear our conversation about how music bridges cultural and spiritual "differences."
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Building Bridges Through Music: Christine Stevens
Three melodic strings, a drumbeat and a passionate desire to connect with another can create a force that is larger than life. This immense, graceful force can be found in Christine Stevens and UpBeat Drum Circles as they travel the world, often venturing into hostile and war-torn territories to bridge cultural and spiritual barriers through music. Read our latest interview with Christine after...
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The music made me do it!
"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobodies worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss." [Nick Hornby, High Fidelity]What do you think? Does continued exposure to "songs about broke...
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