The Portrait of Life

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Recently I met a painter named Ian Cryer, by show and proof he is one of the best painters out there, and certainly one of the most humble.  Well…I had the privilege of having him paint a portrait of me. At the time I had just come out of a deeply traumatic and life threatening experience (of which I shall share at a latter date), But this painting will always remind me first to appreciate life, as the breath of life itself is a gift, and also that if we keep our spirit close we can overcome any negative happening!.

below is his website, show him some love

http://www.iancryer.co.uk

Peace & Harmony Family

Vonj

www.vonjproductions.com

Mine your mind for a positive progression

A few thoughts just crossed my mind today but I shall try to keep this blog as short as I can and maybe elaborate on some points later..

Where are we headed Today as a people?

I pose this question because we can evidently see that mankind has always been in the search for “The New”, this is why we keep seeing significant changes within society, We can observe these changes through our Architecture, Fashion, Music, and Technology etc.. Now In this so-called 21st century the periods in between the changes are merging closer and closer together, this is because civilization now has the benefit of having a recorded back catalogue of past ideas, and now to the vantage point of business’s instead of having the need for inventing “the new” business’s can now simply go back into history and bring something old back and market it as something new.

We must come to recognize positive and negative change, and in this age of heavy consumerism it is clear that money dictates these recent periods of change, thus now the only new changes that exist have been within creating new cunning ways to deceive the people into spending more money, Thus now we are living in a “recycled age”, for example…how many films from the past are being remade today?, How much music from the past has been stolen and remixed for today?, how many cover acts exist?, How many sacred texts are being revised and pushed to us now?,  What has Stephen Hawking done with his life but represent old science theories?. We fall for this trickery everyday, and I would never protest if all this was in the name of improving what has already been done, instead we get dumbed down versions of the past, is there an agenda behind this? or is society past its time?

Ok, first, time is literally none existent to me, all we are doing with this theory of time  is counting revolution around the sun, Nothing changes in the world apart from people’s attitudes in reaction to their placed position in society, let us not be fooled to believe better technology means an evolution in intelligence, In the so called B.C. days people could see in High Definition just as we can today ha-ha..

(been meaning to keep this blog short)….So enclosing here are the facts…Money Is GOD and boy Ain’t it a DOG eat DOG world?!, Truth and originality is now being openly and purposely suppressed, keeping the masses from realizing their true potential, but nothing lasts forever, this corrupt system we live in is due to crash very soon, so now it is time to wake up, Inspiration lasts forever as it is not a thing so if we start to mine our minds and get in touch with our spirit then and only then can we come together to put the work in and witness a positive change in this world. I am trying to do my part.

Love & Unity To all

Vonj

www.vonjproductions.com

Where Does Music Come From?

What separates music from many other entities is that it can only exist through heart’s desire, there’s no other way true music can become existent but through a musicians “consciousness”, the way of receiving music can’t be altered or changed, why change a perfect way?, New music cannot be thought of, the mind simply moulds or arranges what your spirit brings up to surface. The way for music to be vacant first is to understand that no man can create music, one must come off of the ego mentality and come to know that music simply comes through the musician and not from, our power comes when we express it through our instrument with love. if music is from the heart then it will carry no impurity, this would mean that music can’t be misused to fulfil any self-threatening intention, as the heart will never contradict itself, Negative intention surely arises from the delusions of one’s thoughts for it is only in one’s “knowing” that springs truth.

I believe the answer to creating inspirational music is to find quietness within,  I don’t need to abuse my body to free my mind.

I have never induced any drugs apart from the odd headache tablet if that, never even smoked a cigarette, however it so happens that all my favourite musicians have used drugs at some point in their lives, and maybe were likely to have been under the influence of drugs while composing some of my favourite music. Scientists say most drugs stimulate a nerve that intern would suppress certain faculties of the brain while releasing others, which may cause one’s brain to open up more on their imagination which can sometimes be translated into notions of creativity. I have a thesis that some people have a deficiency in freeing creativity NATURALLY and even when they have a new idea they don’t have the confidence to act on it without taking a substance to somehow loosen them up (drugs/alcohol/marijuana/).To me this translates as an issue that is needed to be dealt with, the sad thing is in this case 9 times out of 10 its the musician that is put under so much pressure by the industry and so for a form of escapism they get into drugs, we must never ignore this and this is why those same favourite artists of mine have never lived a long and healthy life.

and by this we have fallen short out of reaching perfection? I can’t help but wonder that maybe if these great artists were helped to overcome their problems and lived healthier and longer lives and transcended above the destructive ways of the world then maybe they might have got to the state of perfection within what they do.

and so I let go of the world, this is how I choose to live my life. And I hope that one day someone will look back at the history books and read a different story about a musician, a story of a musician who had control of his body and intellect and dint need to lose touch with reality through man-made substances to provide him inspiration for his works.

Material substance should never have to interfere or be the far most intention to the creation of music, surely the purest music will not come when the mind is geared in the wrong place.

So I encourage other musicians to get in touch with their inner selves and find true music, one doesn’t need to search too hard to gain music, but the only way a musician can penetrate to inspire someone else is for him or her to create space within his or her mind.

Perhaps we should now ask “Where does your Spirit come from?….

Vonj

www.vonjproductions.com