Dreamscape from the album Dreamscape

Sacred Space?

A few days ago, I was searching for something on YouTube.  For those of you that don’t know, I have a channel there with some videos for Mental Sauna music, some videos about my app and some of the short films I composed the music for.  Anyway, I am digging through videos and I stumble across a beautiful picture of a waterfall and the caption told me it was a video about the sound of the water accompanied with gentle music.  Since this is my field, I was curious and clicked on it.

The music, while not quite my style, was enjoyable, though not particularly relaxing to me but the waterfall was stunning and I was curious as to where this was.  Checking the description, I saw it was not listed so I thought that perhaps the answer may be in the comments.  I never got far enough to find out.

I couldn’t even tell you exactly how it happened but it went from a few polite comments supporting the video to a hateful political rant that went on and on with several people bashing each other about who even knows what.  There was name calling, arguing and opinions dramatically stated but, as usual, no one seemed to be listening to what anyone else was saying.  They were too busy shouting to get their point across.

Is there nothing sacred anymore?  Are there no forums safe from people’s hatred and having to show everyone how they know better than everyone else?  The whole point of posting a video such as the one I stumbled across was to be able to escape, reset and recharge.  How can anyone do that with all the noise in the world?

It isn’t a matter if whether we can do better than this or should do better than this.  We HAVE to start doing better than this.  This is something I address in my forthcoming novel The Universal Court.  Hopefully, we can start turning the tide and be able to find more sacred places where we can go to escape all the hatred and anger that is solving nothing at all.

My old blog used to get hit with all kinds of spam so I moved it here to BlogSpot and it has been much better.  However, be it here, my website, YouTube page, Soundcloud, etc., anytime I see something negative (not talking about constructive feedback but anger, hatred, etc.), I immediately delete it and block the user.  I will always do what I can to keep my world as peaceful as possible unless using it as an example, as I have done here.  Hopefully, together, we can all make a difference and drown out all the noise with joy, respect, consideration, peace and love.

What about you?  What is a sacred place that you go to, physical, internet, music, meditation or somewhere else?

Let’s make the world better!

For those that are interested, here is my YouTube page:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ScottHaskinMusic

Cheers,

Scott

What If We’ve Got It Wrong?

A few days ago, I had a thought.  I am not exactly certain where it came from but I let it carry out a bit and decided it was interesting enough to me to share and maybe someone else would find it interesting as well.  I remember a few years ago, reading one of Masaru Emoto’s books on water crystals, he told a story about a diseased lake.  A bunch of people got together and united to clear the lake of the disease and it worked.  They were all focused and concentrated on one thing, all together, and they solved a problem.

As that thought carried out, it made me think of all the people I see, friends included, that work hard to raise money to cure a disease or to prevent something like animal abuse.  Personally, I applaud anyone who fights for something to make the world better.  Whether I am able to participate or if it is something I believe in or like the way it is done, I support all of it on one level or another.  I’ve seen so many attempts to raise funds for research, prevention, and so on but what has it accomplished?  What has been cured?  Has abuse stopped?  No.

Maybe the problem is that everyone is so disconnected.  Everyone is fighting for their own causes, along with whatever group also supports that same fight, alone or separate or with smaller groups.  Maybe that only equals one or two people at that lake, with little power to make change.  Maybe it is like throwing a handful of water at a forest fire or like crushing an aspirin and only throwing a couple grains at a headache.  Not effective.  I’m not saying this absolutely is the answer but what we’re doing doesn’t seem to make much difference, does it?  At least not by the way people complain on social media and the fact funds are still being raised in mass quantity.

So what if we’ve got it all wrong?  What if we’re so busy doing what we know how to do that we’re missing what we could be doing?  Instead of attacking each of the individual problems, what if the answer were broader?  What if we focused on global health instead of breaking off into less powerful; groups attacking each individual issue?  What if we all gathered around the problem, held hands and could make an impact like that diseased lake?

Just like anything in life, when what you are doing isn’t working, you have to start looking for alternate solutions and giving things a try.

Like I said, I am not saying this is absolutely the answer but, what if…?

What do you think the solution is?

Cheers,

Scott