Being the hyperly compassionate bloke that I am, I am hereby proud to present my April Fool’s offering: The Ultimate Relaxation CD – “Rest In Peace”! That’s right boys and girls! From now on, You will never need another relaxation CD for your zoning-out/tripping-out exercises :)
This particular LP was borne from the ether by yours truly as an exercise in alternative reality deconstruction. It seems to me that in today’s rather watered-down social environment, everybody’s striving towards some inner peace and balanced harmony, which at certain doses is of course a fine goal, but an exceeded dosage of this state of mind leads in my experience to mental stagnation. We evolve as we struggle, at least that’s what I’ve learned from my life’s journey.
Being an intense person from birth, I’ve known very little of this infamous “relaxed” state of mind, which at times can be a tad overwhelming from foreign eyes’ foresight, but for me it is a wonderfully vivid blessing. I quite dislike simplicity as a rule of thumb, and relaxation in my eyes is mostly a one-dimensional experience. And not experiential however I turn it around. It lacks the experimental edge that sleep has, for instance. Thus, I never experience sleep as a relaxation-driven existential mode. It is ‘something else’, literally. The more people talk about how we, as species, supposedly understand what sleep is – the more I laugh out loud. Nobody understands the profoundly unfathomed meta-realities of what sleep is and what it is not. It is in my perception deeper and much more fathomless than any artificially induced (so-called without a justification in my eyes) psychedelic state of mind (or rather – The Psychedelically Clichéd).
Meditation too, in my wildest opinion, aside from being a pretty useful therapeutic tool for certain individuals and groups, is not the aid I’d happily suggest for the ever-curious artist and keen explorer of the world. The whole idea, in my perception, is to OPEN UP perception and expand the senses (while being in control of the experience in the purely non-psychedelic sense) – not to minimize these to minimum and freeze like a perplexed virgin lama who had dreamed an erotic dream of a Himalayan mermaid while struggling with high maintenance Samadhi.
I certainly do wish that this semi-improvised high-voltage voyage to the ultimately irreversible relaxation realm will be an unforgettable one for each and every one of you – individually and in the most mentally and emotionally intimate way possible.
On we move to an individual infinite space of multidimensional unconscious relaxation!