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fave it Gentle | Meditation
10 tracks | 40 minutes
Released Jul 2006
on John Astin
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:54 Only the Mystery lyrics BUY MP3 03:54 Only the Mystery lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:54 Only the Mystery
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:41 Nothing I Can Do lyrics BUY MP3 04:41 Nothing I Can Do lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:41 Nothing I Can Do
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:48 The Sun of Awareness lyrics BUY MP3 04:48 The Sun of Awareness lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:48 The Sun of Awareness
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:54 Fall in Love with Now lyrics BUY MP3 04:54 Fall in Love with Now lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:54 Fall in Love with Now
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:16 True Emptiness lyrics BUY MP3 04:16 True Emptiness lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:16 True Emptiness
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:39 Turn Around lyrics BUY MP3 03:39 Turn Around lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:39 Turn Around
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:34 Too Intimate for Words lyrics BUY MP3 03:34 Too Intimate for Words lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:34 Too Intimate for Words
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:45 No Escape lyrics BUY MP3 03:45 No Escape lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:45 No Escape
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:10 Love, Serve & Remember lyrics BUY MP3 03:10 Love, Serve & Remember lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:10 Love, Serve & Remember
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:45 What is Noticing? lyrics BUY MP3 03:45 What is Noticing? lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:45 What is Noticing?
Already Shining, originally recorded live at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in November of 2005, features 8 new compositions by John along with live renderings of two previously released songs, “Love, Serve, and Remember,” and “True Emptiness.”
Bio / Background
A note from the artist:
“Already Shining” points the listener back to the simple light of awareness that is taking in this moment right now. This is a light like no other, a light that is self-luminous, self-sustaining, and effortlessly present. It is the light of knowing that makes everything visible and yet itself can never be seen. There is no practice we can engage in that will keep the lamp of awareness lit, no technique we can employ to keep this light from going out, for there is no existence, no mind, or self apart from it. The self and awareness—they are one and the same thing. There is nothing that needs to be done to make awareness shine. It is already shining. This is your nature. It is what you have always been…
The Music of John Astin
John Astin's music takes me to a place where inspiration and creativity flow - to a place, in other words, that's divine.
↓ more ↓--Larry Dossey, MD
John creates a musical vehicle of awesome beauty and pure spiritual intention that delivers the listener straight to the heart. He is a gift in the truest sense of the word- one of those rare souls with the ability to
reconnect us to the Divine Source.
-- Joan Borysenko, PhD
John's evocative songs are like a beautiful garland of remembrance, a musical call to awaken to the Truth of who we are and express that Radiance in the world.
--Ken Wilber
John Astin began his musical life at the age of seven. For the next 12 years, he studied classical guitar, a period highlighted by the five summers he attended the Aspen Music Festival. In Aspen, he was the youngest of the guitarists invited to perform in the master classes of the great Italian maestro Oscar Ghiglia (a prote'ge' of Andres Segovia).
At the age of nineteen, John began his work as a singer/songwriter, and in 1982 released his first of eight recordings of original spiritual and contemplative music. His signature song, "Love, Serve, and Remember," has been recorded by a number of artists and is used (along with much of his other music) in workshops, spiritual retreats, and healing seminars around the world.
Along with his musical work, John holds a PhD in psychology. He is currently a research scientist at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco where he conducts cutting edge research in the field of mind-body medicine.
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