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"On the Transmigration of Souls" Wordless. Music speaks. Angels sing to remind us (LadyLabyrinth/2021) September 11 John Adams - On the Transmigration of Souls (2002) [Audio + Score] https://youtu.be/oNTBzkpnKfk

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Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/19/2021 4:07:00 PM

Samuel Barber - Agnus Dei

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/19/2021 4:07:00 PM

https://youtu.be/AiuC_CaObbI

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/14/2021 7:02:00 PM

Closer

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/14/2021 7:04:00 PM

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Joe Dimino

Date: 9/14/2021 10:13:00 AM

I hear you. It is beyond painful -- which means, soul, spirit deep. To begin to understand, one must first comprehend freedom--"Free Will" it does not mean simple that we can make choices. Do you want Freedom? Or only the illusion of Freedom? Protected by a benevolent God. To have freedom means that we do it all to ourselves -- created our bodies and the earth we inhabit. God does not create evil, nor permit it. It is all us. All God does, did, was, is, gave, gives us the power of a God -- now, what will we do with it before we learn? Does it come easily? -- we can't even image the greatness being offered us, then realize the equal amount of commitment needed. There is no dropping out.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/14/2021 11:42:00 PM

yes, I shall probably go to Hell for positing this here in such a serious subject. https://flixtor.video/movie/blithe-spirit-8x9on/n3yy9rn

Joe Dimino
Date: 9/14/2021 9:24:00 PM

I think you would be a fun ghost, a prankster, full of lively spirit. Blessings my friend!

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/14/2021 8:36:00 PM

I have a soul. I am a soul in a human body. As I believe we all are. When we die it doesn't just fade to black and end. Nada. If I have seen ghosts, and I have, the essence of someone who once was, there is somewhere we all go. Whether that's parked in the Bardo, in Purgatory, Heaven, Hell, reincarnated, or haunt at will or not - the basic truth is I will die one day and my higher self, the 'true' essence of who I am and what is inside me will journey somewhere. Perhaps we are destined to journey to where we believe after death. If one believes in nothing, we are suspended in nothing. I believe in something, which is a 'soul'. What produced that soul and where it came from, I am only able to believe, a 'higher power', outside our realm of understanding or comprehension.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/14/2021 8:31:00 PM

It is more than likely at that point, my time of death, I will have the final answer and no doubt, I will be brought to task for my annoyingly frustrating personality and endless questions. Children must analyse and make their own minds up about the 'where to's and 'where from's' in life, what is that old saying, "You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink". I like the idea of attaining Christ consciousness, but I am far from anywhere near there yet. Maybe one day. I would however, make a rather excellent and frightening ghost...come back to haunt those trolls and a'holes who gave me curry in life. And if I met their souls on the transmigration, it would be a merry old time for all.

Joe Dimino
Date: 9/14/2021 7:29:00 PM

There are villains...but the world is a product of world consciousness, our inner reflection. There would be no Biden did not our combined spirits manifest such depravity. One cannot change the world from without...never happen. We are attached twins on the spirit level. Compelled to uplift one another, if there is to be a profound change in humanity. No simple answer. No quick solution, just recalling how difficult it is to change one's child's mind for the better. Condemn, imprison, annihilate, is only equilibrium.

Joe Dimino
Date: 9/14/2021 7:26:00 PM

There are some who have more answers than others -- not to say that I am one of them. Without going into the weeds, let's just say, light is good and dark is evil. Of course, we know, that is an over simplification. All knowledge of both are in God. All substance of both are in God. But He does not direct us ever to follow evil. Amphibians crawling out of the sea, and so on, is our dark consciousness becoming again aware. Notice I say, again aware. God programs nothing -- He is all programs, constantly redefining themselves into infinity. Eve, so on, again our own excuses. Evolution is true. Also God created is true. It does not have to be either or. With God, up down can be at the same time. In out can be at the same time. I'm not trying to be cute. If you saw me, you would know that is impossible:)

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/14/2021 6:18:00 PM

There are always villains...unless you live in Utopia. ;) Even Heaven casts out its fallen angels. Lillith the Garden of Eden, then poor old Eve....and ice-cream lovin' Biden (if there is a God, God Help America) and the rest of the world. Unless you believe purely in Darwinism, then something greater than evolution and amphibians crawling out of the oceans...created us and we are all programmed to believe one thing or another, it's the wildcards that throw a spanner in the works with their free-thinking. I'm not looking for a villain, I'm looking for the underlying truth of it all - basically what you are saying is that God is in all of us, which I have stated below, for weren't we made in the image of God? Begs to question, the image of Light and Dark.

Joe Dimino
Date: 9/14/2021 5:50:00 PM

The answer keeps staring you in face, my friend...and you don't see it. God programmed nothing. He does nothing...we do it. We are responsible. God did not clone us in His likeness, we are substance of God, he obliterated Himself into us. We cannot separate ourselves from God, nor can He from us. Stop looking for a villain or someone else or thing to blame...the solutions is ourselves. Forget about religions, the other intellectual-isms where we hide...shake yourself free from appearances. You are a gifted artist, and beautiful human being. You are brave and honest. That is a beginning.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/14/2021 3:35:00 PM

The theological paradox of “free will”. If God is omniscient then surely, if “I Am” is inside all of us, then we all should have the ability to be omniscient, which we are not. To know what is right and what is wrong (outside of love for one another and peace), murderous, unholy and unnatural. But religious stories in ‘Christianity’ advise us that God gave all of us the free will to choose; when we are bound by religious ideologies there is no “free will”, we are coerced into believing, accepting and being guided by what our religious leaders expect us to believe. Religions fight amongst themselves to declare whose God and whose “religious” way is the best and correct way to live.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/14/2021 3:35:00 PM

What we fail to comprehend (with the exception of those who have more open enquiring minds, that don’t subscribe to following in ‘blind faith’), is that there is something all powerful, residing in both Light and Dark and that is found within ourselves. If man is made in the image of God, then the question is, by giving us free will to choose, has ‘God’ programmed us in his own likeness (Light and Dark. Just and Vengeful). If ‘God’ is All Loving, and that God is in all of us, then why are we as a species, not more humane, All Loving? And why should we all be split and broken unmercifully by un-united religions and their differing beliefs and ideologies.

Ts Poetry

Date: 9/13/2021 11:31:00 AM

It is heartbreaking Modesty

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/13/2021 1:55:00 PM

That it is.

Frederic Parker

Date: 9/12/2021 8:40:00 AM

There is a disconnect between those who hear and grasp its depth and those who will never comprehend...stolen dreams indeed...when one dies, taken away is all they ever were and all they will ever be...thank you my friend for posting this

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/12/2021 4:04:00 PM

It is a sad fact that old men are understood to move 'units' on the war room tables of this world for more insidious reasons than 'religion' (its ideological beliefs), which are adroitly made use of as a smokescreen. Religion itself is a highly volatile and deadly weapon. Hidden evil, the human power behind it all, makes use of religion to control the global populace with an agenda, that is more real than religion. It is a sad fact that women and children are made use of in war, the world fails to commemorate mostly the women and the children in the middle east, raped, strapped with suicide vests and belts and pushed into war zones, not as bargaining tools, but as human shields or worse into other innocent crowds to 'make a point' of control and domination. One cannot even begin to imagine the fear these innocent children (and women) experience.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/12/2021 4:03:00 PM

Some years ago in the Middle East, we heard, read and 'watched' evil and were dumbfounded then forgetful...and it is still happening, mothers and fathers watch their children killed in front of them, in the most heinous of ways, for not denouncing religious beliefs (such as Christianity, or other non-Islamic) and children have watched and continue to watch their parents being slaughtered - there, and here (with the children of western infantry and foreign postings).

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/12/2021 4:02:00 PM

I hear now Isis extremists are beheading children in Mozambique. This is a war that will never be won by either side...for now the seeds of revenge, fear and hatred, through ‘religion’, have been adequately sown into the souls of a younger generation, the 'cubs of the Caliphate', there will be other children in the Western world who carry and will carry that same type of vengeance as well. No, this is a war that will never be won. I have no LUX VITAE this morning for this war, until it presents itself front and center to explain – why...and why the children?

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/12/2021 4:01:00 PM

If there is a God who is just and kind and all powerful, able to smote evil immediately, why does this occur at all? What part does God play in this? I’m sure if there is a God, he/she/it will present an answer – but at what cost to humanity. Is this meant to somehow bring us all together? It is not working at all. There are some of us, that believe good will conquer evil, that Light will always overcome dark, but at what cost? How many more innocents to the slaughter? I have no religion, I have no belief or faith in religion. I believe we must go 'within' to find our Light and therefore I do believe in the higher self or soul. Transmigration to where and to whom, can only be found within and before it is too late - but one questions for this to occur globally what will it take - and there you will have the religious fanatics arrive with their mixed answers. We are past the point of midnight with this war...and there appears to be no glass slipper.

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/12/2021 3:13:00 AM

Yes incredible pics. Listen to the words in the music. Words words words. Music, notes, words. Words lost, seen, felt and heard. The innocence of beautiful untouched children. Young souls, Old souls falling, jumping out of windows too soon...hands held, not held, strapped to seats, ripped out without parachutes and rip chords. Stolen dreams, burnt. Watching, we are watching, reading angels falling, calling out to loved ones, I Am. Notes lost. The music of their lives sometimes heard. We move on with our lives and sometimes we hear their ghost calls. We are caught somehow, dispelled by time, watching souls taken and fall, not reverent irreverent ,as falling debris, surreal. Imagining their calls; words dispelled on air while watchers watched on, watchers still watch on, and all were lost. Their hearts called.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/12/2021 3:45:00 AM

We are lost and unaccountable, in our world.What reason to condemn such innocence? Not this America, not my America.Not my friends, nor family.Not my World, not mine.Not my world.Lost and lack of reality. Is Truth, our Truth, accounted for? Religion is a false and deadly thing. Not for all the world in all the world, my money sung on dollar strings...oil ... the lies, play truth in the strings and chords, send in the remember stings. This is not just, American.

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/11/2021 3:24:00 PM

Lyrics/Words to Score, John Adams, "On the Transmigration of Souls". Ode to 9/11 victims, family and friends.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/11/2021 3:24:00 PM

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