Tomorrow I’ll be on the radio as guest interview on Living Art, with Robert Pruitt, over KPFT FM 90.1 (PACIFICA RADIO) in Houston, TX. Robert purchased a copy of our book, Sun Ra: Collected Works Vol. 1 — Immeasurable Equation (ISBN 0-9700209-7-X, PHAELOS BOOKS $24.95), enjoyed it and emailed with with an invitation to be on his show. In fact,…
Read MoreYear: 2006
Transdermal Magnesium Town Hall Video Update
Is this thing on? Each day I’m learning something new, and I’m willing to do something different, especially if it can help me enhance my life, and you may enhance yours. I’d like to take this opportunity to step from behind the keyboard, and the camera, and before you, to say a few words about the Transdermal Magnesium Town Hall…
Read MoreMy First Marion Meadows Video
Marion Meadows is a smooth jazz performer of some reknown, and today, I can also call him a friend. Over the past year, we have gotten to know each other on a personal, as well as professional level. He’s good people, and a great saxophonist. I have had the great fortune for Marion to open his world to me and…
Read MoreMagnesium: Medical Miracle from the Sea
NOTE: I am pleased to present our first guest essay. This new work was written by Mark Sircus, Ac., OMD, author of Transdermal Magnesium Therapy. The secrets of the sea are miracles waiting to be discovered by medical science. The world of tomorrow will see a different kind of medicine that uses one of the many possible forms that sea…
Read MoreThoughts on Health, Healing, Spirituality and Being
Illness and the Appearance of Death, Natural Health and the Reality of Eternal and Internal Spirit Although it has occurred since the beginning of time, evidence is mounting which suggests that disease, particularly chronic illnes, is not natural to us. Instead, increased levels of toxicity and a long-term trend of nutritional deficiency, have contributed to our physical diseases. Evidence is…
Read MoreThoughts on Sun Ra in Downbeat (12/2006 ed.)
In my exuberance in sharing my recent experiences in Chicago with the wonderful people behind the Sun Ra exhibit (Hyde Park Art Center), I almost forgot to mention that the December issue of Downbeat magazine hit the street with a cover story about, guess who? Sun Ra, of course. Specifically, it is an excellent article written by John Corbett, about…
Read MoreThoughts on Race and Humanity, Part IV
NOTE: I wrote this essay in 2004, when the newly passed Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, now referred to as Proposal 2, was first scheduled to appear on the ballot. I traveled to Michigan that year from Sacramento and produced a video documentary that we titled, An Act of Courage with Barbara Grutter. But that’s another story, or set of stories.
Read MoreThoughts on Race and Humanity, Part III
When Under-Achievement Is Just Too Much Another Alarm Call? Or A Call to Action? News reports citing new and further examples of sub-par performance by Americans of African descent as compared to members of other ethnic groups, have become commonplace. Here are some examples. An alarming percentage of African American children are consistently scoring on a scale that is lower—by…
Read MoreThoughts on War and Peace, Pt. II
All Sides as God’s Side, All Lands as God’s Lands NOVEMBER 27, 2006 — Since 9/11/2001, overt displays of patriotism have been the rage. Rage was “in.”The lust for a war we thought we could can “win” has the airwaves. Everywhere you went the American flags caught your eye; on flagpoles, draped on buildings large and small. That was then,…
Read MoreBeyond the ‘War Option’: Seeing a Better Opportunity
I originally wrote this essay August 18, 2002, seven months before we invaded Iraq. Let’s see how the ideas now work with benefit of hindsight. Bush’s Dilemma in “Gunning Down” Saddam Our dear president is “champing at the bit” to unilaterally send US forces into Iraq and overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime. My simple question is, “Why?” Haven’t we gone…
Read MoreSeeing Nature's Miracles as Normal
Preparations continue for our next transdermal magnesium seminar, which we are billing as a town hall event. In fact, there will be two (with more in the planning stage). The next one will be on Thursday, December 7 at the Sedona Creative Life Center, obviously in Sedona, Arizona. On Friday, December 8, we’ll do it again at the Southwest Institute…
Read MoreThe Future: ‘End Times’ and Beyond
NOTE: This is another essay from the vault. I originally wrote it in 1997, and updated it in 2002, when I lived in San Diego. The thoughts are still fresh, and timely. Please enjoy. What Would ‘FM’ Say Today? By Adam Abraham SAN DIEGO — I happen to be an ardent listener of that popular communications genre known as “talk…
Read MoreGeorge Benson Headline's KYOT's 12th Smooth Jazz Sampler Release
By Special Invitation PHOENIX — A phone call yesterday from my friend, saxophonist, Marion Meadows, led to a fun evening at the posh Barcelona restaurant in Scottsdale. Radio station KYOT (95.5 FM) released Smooth Jazz Sampler Volume 12 with a gala event attended by more than 500 people. Jazz guitar legend George Benson, who contributed a track on the new…
Read MoreBeliefs, Truth, God/Love, and You
‘Coming Home’ to Now It’s almost amusing to observe how we make whatever we believe at a given point in our lives the absolute truth, and then try to apply said belief to everyone, that is, with the possible exception of our self. Then, in one dramatic and profound “A ha!” moment, we see the light, and everything that existed,…
Read MoreThoughts on Race and Humanity, Part II
After a friend of mine read my previously posted essay, “Why Race Matters… NOT!” we had the following email exchange. His statements, presented in their entirety, are indented: Re. your response: You make a very convincing argument in describing the possibility for a group of people who grace the shores of America only to “face all the racist oppression that…
Read MoreThoughts on Race and Humanity, Part I
Note: I wrote this essay in 1998, under circumstances outlined below. After posting my comments recently on the passage of Proposal 2 in Michigan, it was/is time to share more on this subject. In fact, I had an interesting email dialogue on this same topic with a friend that was sparked after he read the essay below. He wondered whether…
Read MoreTransdermal Magnesium 'Town Hall' Seminar Coming Up
Two upcoming Transdermal Magnesium Seminars are in the works. On Thursday, December 7, we’ll be at the Sedona Creative Life Center, in beautiful Sedona, Arizona. Friday, December 8, we’ll return to the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, in Tempe, Arizona. Program times for both events are 6:30-8:30pm. We are adopting a Town Hall format this time, where the public is…
Read MoreProposal 2’s Passage: Leveling the Playing Field in Michigan
While the recent election commanded most of the national headlines, a ballot measure passed in Michigan that warrants comment. It was Proposal 2, formerly called the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative. With little variation, it has been billed as a measure “to end affirmative,” and as such, has been adamantly opposed by certain groups who believe passing the measure would send…
Read MoreI Am God Being ‘Me’: Musings from the Realm of the Not Known
(I have a collection of rarely seen or read essays, going back in a few cases, over 20 years, that will eventually find their way into a book or two, and onto this blogspace. After reading and enjoying several of Neal Donald Walsh’s books in the Conversations With God series, I wrote this one in Sept, 2005.)
Read MoreA Getaway That Didn't Happen
CHANDLER, AZ — As much as I enjoyed our trip to Chicago, it’s great to be home. Shortly after the Southwest Airlines flight lifted off from the runway, we left the cool, damp, gray November day in Chicago, and quickly climbed above the clouds, and into an ocean of sunshine. And until it slipped below the horizon yesterday evening, it…
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