Our Dimensions Ebook
Our Dimensions Ebook
2000 – 2005
by Silvia Hartmann
& Ananga Sivyer
Published by
DragonRising Publishing
18 Marlow Avenue
Eastbourne, East Sussex
United Kingdom
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Our Dimensions – The Scripts Of HypnoDreams
Our Dimensions
The Complete HypnoDreams Trilogy Scripts Collection
Published By DragonRising, 18 Marlow Avenue, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN22 8SJ, United Kingdom.
www.DragonRising.com
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Our Dimensions
Table Of Content
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Welcome To Our Dimensions:
It is November 2004, and I have just received the master for the last in our HypnoDreams
trilogy, Freedom.
This and the completion of this accompanying book marks the end of a four year oddyssey of
discovery for Ananga, myself and all those involved in the creation, testing and use of the
HypnoDreams.
When we began with the project, we had no idea what these things might be, or even what they
might be for.
To be completely honest, we still don’t know to this day quite what we are dealing with here,
but one thing we do know.
HypnoDreams and using HypnoDreams in our general lives has significantly changed the way
we use and perceive our energy systems.
Even though I wrote and spoke these evocations, and even though Ananga Sivyer spent so many
hours creating the amazing sonic tapestries, when we experience the Dreams themselves as the
receivers, as the journeymen, we respond just the same as any other who might hear them, take
these journeys.
The HypnoDreams are a challenge, there is no doubt about that.
They ask us to rise, to expand, to think differently and to become aware that we can feel
differently. They call to our creativity and our personal intelligence, and sometimes they even
touch at the barriers of where we thought we could not go further, did not want to go further.
And yet we do – because we are.
So let us begin with the very first step on the journey that leads us “Forward To The New” –
HypnoDreams 1, The Wisdom Of The Water.
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HYPNODREAMS 1 – THE WISDOM OF THE WATER
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Introduction To Wisdom Of The Water
by Silvia Hartmann
People who only know me as a Energy Therapies Researcher, or highly logical NLP trainer
usually entirely underestimate just what an important role creativity plays in all my work.
Over the years, creative endeavours have given me the answers to logical, every day problems
that no-one else seemed to be able to solve, time
and time again, and by the time I started to write
the first true HypnoDreams, I had learned to trust
my creativity.
What we are really talking about when I use that
word is to touch a form of flow of information
that exists on a level stepped off and higher than
usual thought; once that movement into that space
has occurred, rich experiences and images begin
to flow at high speed and in incredible clarity.
These “personal movies” show me things,
unusual things; they teach me things in a very
different way than one might learn in “normal”
linear communication.
They were experiences with a beginning or entry point, a middle where things would be
happening, and an exit point or resolution; and there was something immensely satisfying in
taking part in these experiences.
As an author, it seemed natural to try and write them down as they occurred in real time – and
that is how all HypnoDreams come into being.
The channelling of this information flow and the challenge of making words of rhythm and
matching energy progression which would preserve the essential energy movements from the
live experience was something which both fascinated and delighted me; and the first set of
HypnoDreams ever written were not created for any audience, but simply for myself.
I wanted to re-experience them again, I really wanted to “be on the receiving end”, simply let go
and flow with the experience myself, and so, after I had written 8 scripts, or rather, channelled 8
experiences, I took the unusual step to book time in a professional studio and record them.
The gentlemen in the studio who were specialising in Country & Western music with a Christian
flavour were completely astonished and confused by me and my scripts, but the tracks were
recorded and now I had a CD for my own personal use.
It was quite some time later that I met Ananga Sivyer, got to know her beyond a professional
relationship and found out that she was a composer with her own recording studio, something
that had been her deep passion since she was very young.
I wondered whether she might be so kind as to put a little music behind my spoken words and
she was happy to comply – but I really don’t think either of us suspected what would happen
next.
Even though we are from such immensely divergent cultural backgrounds, we found a real
matching resonance. Ananga could feel the energy movements, could sense what I was trying to
do and she could not just support the flow of the tracks, but add to them, bring richness and
depth to the experience of the journeys.
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The first track Ananga worked on and the first completed HypnoDream ever was “Ice River”.
To this day, this is one of my very favourite journeys on every level as I love the mystical
realms of crystal beauty, the essence of a place of intense and age old magic.
It was probably when friends and family started to hear this track and loved it just as much as
we did that the idea of public distribution first arose. We talked about this for some time and the
decision was not made until we had both absolutely affirmed that we would not look over our
shoulders in any way at possible sales in the creation and production of this album, but
absolutely let our heart and soul lead the way.
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1/01 - Oceans Of Energy
Oceans of Energy was recorded with live flute played in direct response to Silvia’s words.
I later added some backing pads but I wanted to keep this simple and let the Oceans poem speak
clearly for itself as the opening dedication for this album.
In 2000, I was asked to write a course about "Energy Healing For Animals".
Now I have inordinate respect for animals and their honesty, as well as many, many years
experience with how complex the interaction between animals, people and their environments is
and how profoundly this affects animal health.
So this was a very big project for me, encompassing not just the principles of energy healing per
se or teaching someone to "become an energy healer" in the first place, but also the environment
- geopathic energy, field distorters, energetic potions and prescriptions and much much beyond.
To be honest, it was SUCH a big project, I was consciously overwhelmed and did not know
where to start.
To center myself, I cleared my mind completely and absolutely, took a deep breath and wrote
what one might call a poem, but I'd call more of a form of description of a huge energetic entity.
A few lines but they sum up for me all the principles of working and living with the concept of
"Energy".
This is the Oceans Of Energy prayer and to this day, my dedication to *all* energy work.
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The Text: 1/01 - Oceans Of Energy
Oceans of energy
and they lie at your fingertips,
for you to navigate and learn
to know the ancient arts
of balance, deep release
and once again restore
the Even Flow,
the perfect state of being.
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1/02 - Dive To Diamond
To a beginner in energy work, this track may not make much conscious sense but the truth is
that the more you do this, the more profoundly expanding an experience it becomes.
Just by itself, this truly extraordinary event really does stretch the boundaries of self and makes
one so much more finely attuned to "those other dimensions" out there in the most relaxing and
pleasing calm.
Ananga's soundscapes are truly something, creating the lift and support both to make the rising
away from our ordinary states of being easy, safe and joyful.
This is one of my personal favourites of all the hypnodream tracks and get such a lot out of it, a
different experience each time and it is true, I sometimes can't wait to hear those words ... float
now, if you will ... :-)
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The Text: 1/02 - Dive To Diamond
And somewhere
sometime
there is the
diamond dimension
you cannot conceive
it yet nor can
you see that far
ahead and in
the horizontal
but
you
can
know
it
is
a-
waiting you
as it always has
and as you
have always known.
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the magic way
to make your
starburst entrance
to ...
There may be so
much understanding
of the struggles
of the past
and of frustration
yes, of pain.
Of understandings
felt and tasted
yet they were
never understood
and they would leave
you broken, tired
and in despair
because you knew
that it is here
and it is waiting
and you should be
one of those
who would dive
to diamond
one of those
who can traverse
the darkness
to the stars
one of those
who can arrive here
and today
the day has come
the time has come
the time is here
the time is now
for you to fall
and give yourself
to all there is
and let yourself
release the pictures
let yourself
release the sounds
and step across
the threshold of yourself
into the evermore
into the all there is
into the all embracing
waiting here,
dissolve yourself
give it up
step from
the cages of illusion
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the boundaries of false
the night of labels
and the times of old.
Now play.
And dance.
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Production wise this was a bit of an epic – at the time of recording it was the most tracks I had
worked with and took several times longer to mix than it did to record! I certainly learned a
thing or two in the recording of the Wisdom of the Water.
Again, the music pretty much happened on its own, the bird samples where added in conscious
awareness and the odd musical marker for certain parts of the script, the sounds and instruments
were carefully chosen but, aside from that, there are things in this track that I will probably
never know how they came to be there!
I am delighted by the entrance of Pia’s vocal on this track as Silvia speaks “of the calling and
the lifting…” it was recorded pretty much live and in one take. When we played it back to listen
to it for the first time I put a massive amount of reverb on Pia’s voice for a rough idea of how
her voice might sound when the project was mixed, knowing that it would be too much and
could be adjusted later.
However when we heard it played back we both said “ooh I like the sound of that!” and so it
was left as it was.
This track is the most well known and most well loved of the HD1 album and rightfully so.
Immediately accessible by everyone at all, it is a light and beautiful story of transformation and
experience as we become the water and move through all the stages of its life with volition and
with joy.
Linked to the concept of "innocent energy" from EmoTrance, this track is often played at
EmoTrance workshops to brighten up, rejuvenate, cleanse and re-sparkle our energy systems,
make our minds more tranquil and our bodies feel more flowing with the energy of soft moisture
and movement.
I remember one particular occasion where I had a very difficult workshop on my hands, with
lots of cynics and some people even who were only there because their spouses had made them
come. By lunchtime, I was ready to just walk out and say, "Well sod you then, if you don't want
to do energy work, why are you here?!"
So after lunch break was over, I sat them all down and played the Wisdom of The Water.
What that did was just incredible.
The atmosphere was totally changed. It was as though the people themselves were different,
their attitude had changed completely and this workshop went on to be a truly wonderful
experience for all concerned in the end - thanks to the calming and clearing power of "The
Wisdom Of The Water".
There is so much going on during this one journey, I could write for hours about the various
metaphors in it and what they do and never get to the bottom of it, but there is one aspect that
always amazed me once I had noticed it myself (after repeated personal use, that is!).
This is the learning about *change*. The water changes state and being as it FLOWS so
smoothly from one incarnation to the other - but this isn't kicking and dragging change, being
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terrified of losing this or that but it is always forward flowing with total delight into the next
state of being, always new, always exciting, always wonderful.
That to me is the most profound of the very many things we can learn from The Wisdom Of The
Water - to flow with life through all our cycles and spirals, a new wonder each time and new
each time no matter how often it has been experienced before.
This is the essence of Even Flow and delight in being alive.
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The Text: 1/03 - The Wisdom Of The Water
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so slowly filtering down through dark brown soil,
through firm red clay,
and moving swiftly through the yellow sand,
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Jade blue rushing, dark green lifting
and the energy builds up and up and it
becomes ever more eternal, ever more infinite
as we grow and we are all the oceans of the world,
all the depths so deep so dark
and all the brilliant blue lagoons,
white crashing reef dancers
and all the crushing blows on stony shores
and the waves as high as mountains
enfolding countless beings in our midst
providing for them all,
so all expansive all at one
all things remembered, all embraced
all things eternal here and now.
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because we are,
because we are.
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1/04 - StarFall
Starfall was the last track I recorded for HypnoDreams 1, by that time I was feeling very
comfortable and content with my recording experiences and I felt that I had gained sufficient
experience and confidence over the previous weeks and months to do something a bit “out of the
box”.
Starfall is really a product of my passion for sampling and playing around with sounds, it’s an
odd blend of swirling synthesisers, live instruments and hours of experimenting with effects.
The reason for this induction is that often people who seek personal development are at a basic
level dissatisfied with who they are.
Not only are they dissatisfied with who they are, but often even more dissatisfied with who
they've been in the past.
This dissatisfaction may arise as the result of shame or guilt, or anger about things that they did
or things that were done to them; either which way, there isn't a lot of internal unconditional
love, even if the person (now) endeavours to heal and reconcile all that they were with all their
heart.
In the past, it has occurred to me that traumatised individuals (and in a way, a person who has
many bad memories from various clearly defined and separate stages of their lives may
considered to be a collection of very different if related traumatised individuals) can't just sit
down and heal on the spot, as it were.
I hold the belief that between the beginning of any recovery and the traumatised state there lies a
time of sanctuary, of rest, of peace, if you will. A time out state that gives the individual a
chance to get their breath back, so to speak. This sanctuary state was, in my opinion, a feature of
the olden approaches, created in the office for the client by the psychiatrist or by a priest, a
space where nothing was expected, no change demanded, and no judgements made.
In a strange way, each time someone engages in an activity such as doing affirmations, praying,
tapping or tabbing, a self help book or cassette, he or she states that they're not good enough the
way they are. In theory the client knows of course that they are more than just their problems,
but in practice any kind of "unwanted" behaviour, be it an addiction, relationship problems,
"unfounded" fears and phobias, depressions and whatever kinds of problems exist, "defines" the
current personality and is often perceived to be one and the same as the individual.
Many people's neurologies resemble a country at war. Conscious and unconscious desires and
drives are in continuous conflict, desire and resistance to change can express itself in a variety of
ways, from an inability to live happily as a general state of mind, to neuro-somatic problems of
all kinds.
So this journey doesn't ask for change, for co-operation, or anything of this nature. It does not
use the sanctuary state as the starting point for more changes towards a "better, more effectively
integrated" person; it is the peace and total stillness that in and of itself is the healing.
I personally have felt in the past that I was so exhausted, I would have to rest for a thousand
years before I could slowly find the strength to start over.
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In the timeless spaces of energy and mind, we have the option to do exactly that - rest for as
long as we need to rest to begin our restoration.
This simple resting space is in many ways more valuable than any other form of approach I can
imagine and certainly, it was exactly what I needed at certain times in my life to be ready and
prepared for future change.
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The Text: 1/04 - StarFall
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falling with them,
becoming one with every one,
and settling in deeper
and deeper stillness and silence
and you can rest,
all is well,
all is here
and all is peace and stillness
and there's nothing else,
just the universe gently turning
and the stars gently turning
and the snow falling quietly as you find …
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It is now.
It is here.
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1/05 - Ice River
Ice River was the first HypnoDream ever to be recorded with music. It was December 2001
when Silvia called me up and told me that she had made a recording of her speaking some of her
HypnoDream scripts and was uploading an MP3 of Ice River as a winter Solstice gift to the
recipients of the SFI newsletter.
She asked me if there was any possibility that Pia could record some music to go with it but,
though open to the idea, Pia was not going to be in a recording studio until three months later.
I had not done much with music myself for some time, apart from playing my flute for a few
projects here and there when asked. But when I downloaded the Ice River MP3 and listened to it
something about it really grabbed my attention and I thought “I’ll have a go and see if I can do
something with this myself…”
At that time, I had only very basic home recording facilities available to me and listening to Ice
River on my headphones as I write this now, almost two years later, and having just completed
the recording of Heart Healing on studio equipment carefully chosen and purchased specifically
for the recording of the latest and future HypnoDreams projects, I am amazed by the sound of
Ice River.
It is something I look back on as a project born of a blend of inspiration and determination. It
was the sound engineer’s equivalent of towing a caravan with a motorbike! Yet still it stands
proud and holds it’s own among the growing family of HypnoDreams. I will always have a
special regard and affection for Ice River, yes, partly because it was the first born, but also
because of its unique feel and sounds.
At the time of recording the music I was greatly inspired by the Thomas Newman score for the
film American Beauty, the theme running through the track of echoed chime notes is a bow of
my head in the direction of Mr Newman. That then would be my conscious planning and
musicianship for the track – as for where the rest of the sounds and music came from – I have no
idea! It just happened – truly it did.
Once the outline of the track was finished I took it to Pia to for her professional opinion, she
gave it a big thumbs up and so I mastered a CD and sent it off to Silvia… HypnoDreams 1 had
begun :-)
Equipment used – let it be recorded here for history! A SoundBlaster PC sound card, old and
shoddy midi keyboard, Edirol VSC sound module, Cakewalk Home Studio software, various
soundfonts laboriously collected and auditioned specifically for the task.
How do we get to travel beyond our own limitations and out and beyond the old barriers and
cages of self?
The ice river is a very ancient and also, a very well known way to do just that.
It exists in many different permutations across the widest range of cultures; and it is a truly
magical occurrence.
Just as magical are the winter lands.
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There is no accident in the fact that Superman's "Fortress of Solitude" can be found at the North
Pole, the palace of the Ice Queen and Father Christmas's multi-coloured magical workshop
"where all the toys in the world are made".
This is deep magic, very old, very powerful.
On this journey we do nothing but to scout these lands "beyond" and become more familiar with
them, re-claim them as our own and begin to make a first connection to the magic which resides
here and which truly, "cannot be found in any other place, in any other way".
Many people spend a lifetime "looking for their magic" and this journey will show an aspect of
this magic which is perfectly ours, perfectly our own and perfectly reachable - if we make the
effort and seek it out with volition, get to know it and when the time is right, re-awaken it from
its frozen sleep.
On a personal note, it was Ice River directly which taught me how to use my "night eyes" - to
see the patterns of the energy world with a set of other senses than the physical eyes. What it
might do for each individual of course, I cannot know - but I do know that I would like each
person to at least travel there once and just make that first contact, so their own "north poles" are
once again, a part of their world in awareness at least.
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The Text: 1/05 - Ice River
We would stand
in warming furs, well covered
snug within
and we would see ahead
a river white and wide
straight river, out into
the far perspective where
the banks have merged
before the low horizon
meets the single point
in distance.
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seem to fly towards
the point of far perspective
where the land must
meet the sky and all is
one, and silent white,
pulse travelling
pulse carrying
pulse flying
as the point expands
and seems a light
that seems to grow
in brightness and
you know
the doorway
lies before you
as you keep your eyes
towards the gate of far perspective
as you approach
and it grows more defined
and clearer
in your vision
soft white
and pulsing with a beat
that is the same
that pulses in your body
that brings you closer
closer with each beating
of your heart
It grows
the doorway grows
and now it fills your vision
here it is,
here you are
here you have arrived
at the gate of far perspective
and another pulse or two or three
bring you into the white
and white is right and all there is
and for a moment there is
nothing but the movement
on continuing and phasing
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Slowly and without the slightest effort
you begin to glide the Winter River
and you see all along
the banks on either side
fantastic landscapes, crisp and white
the sky so radiant blue above
and all is winter still
and winter reverend.
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and Northern Lights play
in the sky
beneath your closing arc
that there is magic here
that there is much
you never thought to seek
that you might think
of coming here again
to seek and find
to learn and love
to stand before
the vastness and the beauty
and you might find
the kind of treasure here
that simply cant be known
in any other way
in any other place.
Glide by
Beneath the banding lights
of dancing jade and purple,
celestial blue and green
in hues you’ve never known
you glide on by to find
the gate of far perspective
for your journey here
was one of recognition
and of admiration
and of re-connection
to a something
that you might have thought
you had forgotten
and yet that lives
and sleeps and breathes
forever in a beauty
that cannot be found
in any other place.
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physicality
as your awareness of the here-and-now
comes back in gentle waves,
in gentle waves of feelings and sensations
here and now
and bright aware
retaining and remembering.
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1/06 - Treasures & Riches
The original track for Treasures and Riches was not included on the first release of
HypnoDreams 1 – it was lost due to a hard drive failing just as it was due to be backed up.
The version you hear on the new release was recorded using Absynth a soft synthesiser – that is,
one with no hardware or physical structure at all – the sounds and keyboard appear on the screen
as a “virtual instrument”.
Absynth was recently used in recording the soundtrack of The Matrix Reloaded.
Usually, I have an idea of what a journey is about or what it is for - but in this case, I simply
don't.
I have NO idea what this is about or what it is supposed to do for our energy systems, our bodies
and our lives.
All I know is that I find this evocation or story absolutely fascinating and have listened to it
more than probably any of the others (perhaps apart from Ocean Wood) and I just love it.
Is it something about people holding on to their pains and old emotions in the mistaken belief
that they are valuable?
Perhaps they are valuable indeed but can be traded for something even more valuable still?
Why did I write this? What does it mean?
Sincerely, I cannot tell you.
I just wrote it and there it was and here it is!
Perhaps someone else can explain it to me some day, or perhaps one day I will find out with the
wisdom of hindsight - and when I do, I promise I'll tell you too!
In the meantime, here is a trip to a VERY different part of the universe and quite a way outside
of our own solar system, called strangely ...
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The Text: 1/06 - Treasurers & Riches
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beneath their purple robes and asks no more than
we would follow to their home
and garden by the saffron shores
by the blue, blue lake
where dreams grow flowers and sounds
like silken grasses weave
beneath the silent winds of sun
and little fancies firefly.
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1/07 - Darling
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The Text: 1/07 - Darling
My love,
my only one.
Please listen to me
tonight.
I am only asking
for a few moments
of your time
to spend with me
and in my voice
and there is no need
for you
to stop and think
as what might be
my purposes
as what I might
desire, what might
be my gain.
This is from me
for you.
You know,
I sometimes think
you really do not understand
quite who you are
or what you are,
or what you are to me.
You know,
I sometimes wonder
how it is that you so fail
to see your own endeavour,
strength of purpose
and tenacity of will
and how you count
your failures and your
blemishes just like a
miser counts his golden coins
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and brings them out
in darkest night
to brush them to a brightwhite shine
and sits with them
in greedy silence
and with beating heart.
I sometimes wonder
how you use your pain
in such inventive ways
to keep your mind
of other such imaginary pains
just like a desperate man
might cut his arms
so that he doesn’t need
to feel the deeper, darker pain
beyond.
I put it to you
you well know deep inside
and you’re afraid
to let it out for if you did
oh my, what would become
of all these comfortable
neat illusions and the walking sticks
you use to slow your progress to
a tottering stumble?
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that must eclipse in silence?
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It happened to you,
all of it, and there is no
denying it.
You’re here
today, with me, and there
is no denying it.
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beyond again, again and yet again.
All is as it is.
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Heart Healing
HypnoDreams II
by
Silvia Hartmann
& Ananga Sivyer
My name is Silvia Hartmann and on behalf of the Heart Healing team, I welcome you most
whole heartedly :-) to our new dreams of healing, of wellness, of rest and soothing, of renewal,
and of celebration.
I am an energy healer who also happens to be a poet, a story teller and a hypnotist; Ananga is
also an energy healer, who happens to be a musician and a producer.
Both of us spend years searching for a hypnosis or meditation CD or cassette that would give us
a true sense of healing and belonging, and we have in common that we never quite found what
we were looking for.
When Ananga saw one of my “healing dreams”, she suggested that we should get together and
combine my words and her music to create a different kind of energy healing experience
altogether – and we did.
I hope you enjoy as you find out more about the technical details, the background and what we
were trying to do in creating this album and on a personal note, I sincerely hope you enjoy the
evocations and their energies.
So – be very welcome to Heart Healing, HypnoDreams II and welcome to the journey,
Silvia
Silvia Hartmann
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The Original Concept Of HypnoDreams
I love hypnosis and I also love hypnotic journeys; what I don’t particularly like however is
being told what I should do or think or experience and it is true, I never liked the heavy handed
“embedded commands” in most hypnosis nor “constructed” metaphors, so obviously designed
to “teach me something”.
So, about three years ago, I began writing a different kind of hypnotic journey, which I called
HypnoDreams because they were very dreamlike in quality, and the joy lay in the journey itself,
rather than in any sneaky attacks on the unconscious mind to produce perceived benefits one
might derive from being told repeatedly to “stop smoking” or “get fit” or to “get rich” or
whatever.
The concept of the journey for its own sake set me free to write about other things; and in the
first HypnoDreams album, The Wisdom Of The Water, I made complete use of this.
There are things you can do in dreams you cannot do in your ordinary life.
You can fly amongst the stars.
You can sleep for a thousand years.
You can spread yourself like light and touch the fabric of the universe itself.
You can become a drop of water, you can be a cloud and you can go into places where humans
simply cannot go when they are awake – how wonderful is that?!
It is amazing, and simply in the act of experiencing this, and without any further heavy handed
ado, there are benefits. Many benefits, as it turned out in the years that followed.
More fun, more awareness of the beauty of the universe. More creativity. Softer thoughts. More
ease of relaxation. New ideas and new experiences, the tantalising hints and the promise of
whole new states of being.
The HypnoDreams were very nourishing, very gently healing neurological events – but more
than that, they also soothed the body and of course, worked at a most subtle level of energy
alignments.
It is very possible that HypnoDreams itself opened my mind’s eyes enough so I could see the
patterns of reality that then became the EmoTrance TM system of energy healing – once we had
EmoTrance and understood its lessons, we also began to understand just what the HypnoDreams
were and what they could do for you.
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See, the fact is that if we don’t have access to these most powerful of all energy processing
centers and systems which belong to each one of use simply by right of birth (!!), it really does
feel as though you are incomplete somehow, as though there’s something wrong with you or
that you are missing out on something important - and moreover, it is PERFECTLY CORRECT
TO BE FEELING LIKE THAT! You’re not at all insane or suffer from “low self esteem” –
there was really something wrong all along and you were right to think that there was!
When we feel too small, too insignificant, weak and powerless – well yeah!
That’s exactly what it feels like when you try to run your entire life here WITHOUT the full
support of the two MAIN power centers of your totality! That is like making a car move forward
– but without using either engine or gear box, a lot of very hard work with most dubious results,
no matter how hard you try or how much you apply yourself.
When we feel lonely and homesick and we don’t know what that is all about – it’s about our
very own hearts and souls!
When we get the sense that “we” can’t do it by “ourselves” and that we need help, the fact that
we are afraid to be on our own – that’s all exactly right and completely correct!
When life just doesn’t make any sense at all, we don’t understand ourselves or anything any
more, that’s because we don’t have access to the higher processing systems of the soul and thus,
of course we can only fail to make sense of the vast complexities of life, the universe and
everything!
When we look in the mirror and we are dissatisfied with what we see and think, but I should be
MORE than that – once again, we are RIGHT! You ARE more than that if only you knew, you
are a being that has an immortal soul which shines like a star but we are not seeing THAT in the
mirror but only a flat, imperfect physicality which can NEVER satisfy us as being truely all we
are – of course!
When we look up to the stars and wait for an angel come down, or an external God or prophet to
help us out of our confusion and misery, and absolutely nothing happens yet again – that’s
because you are looking in all the wrong places for all the right things which are, furthermore,
rightfully YOURS!
And when we go looking for another person to make it all alright, to be our soul mate, what we
are looking for is our very own soul.
Make NO mistake – the “soul” is a real energy system.
It is really and practically, a part of everyone’s energy body.
It is incredibly powerful, and most probably, entirely immortal.
With that at your back, you can face absolutely everything life could ever throw at you and
including death with strength, power and even with good humour and JOY – this is my
supposition, and the purpose of this album is to make the connections in our respective energy
systems which connect us to our heart center and our soul come to life, bring them on line, and
have the first beginning flows of information, strength and pure soul energy mesh lightly and
gently with our existing constructs.
No healing crisis, only rising strength and renewal in all ways – for the body, for the mind, for
the energy systems as a TOTALITY as all these components begin to work together once more,
a little bit at first, and come in to harmony with each other, as they were always designed to be
by the Creator itself who made us just the way we are.
All and every word, sound, track and even silence on this album goes to this alone – to help each
listener come forward, and from within and because they WANT TO, make contact again with
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these power centers that belong to all human beings by rights, and which have been ignored in
consciousness for far too long.
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This is done absolutely out of respect to the conscious mind AND your existing construct, which
are in all truth a rightful part of YOUR totality and must be treated with exactly the same
deference and homage we would pay to the physicality, the energy systems, and our own heart
and soul. Of course, it is also essential to retain your conscious will and indeed, your
consciousness because it is when you decide to move forward and into the flow, that is when
congruency comes into being. Will must align with desire and all of our totality to truly achieve
what can be achieved, it’s true.
As these tracks are in effect, structurally designed to be “a totality party” where all parts of you
meet and are similarly, present in a sanctuary space created by the energies of my words and
Ananga’s wonderful soundscapes, of course your body is invited too!
The light Sanctuary trance state allows you to be aware of your physiological sensations – and
that is of course of the very essence to discover the impact the evocations have on your energy
body.
As your conscious mind is present also, it is able to respond and initiate the EmoTrance
processes of softening and flowing, breathing deeply into the disturbance and having the will to
Even Flow which is so essential and so powerful at this meeting place of all the parts of
ourselves.
You retain control of your body too so you can move your hands or move your body in direct
response to the energies you feel through your body; here, once again, YOU assist and initiate
quite consciously the healing Even Flow of these energies through your systems and your
totality.
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Of course, you can just simply lie back and enjoy the journeys; but it is true that these
evocations become immensely more powerful if you use the EmoTrance process at any point
where you have an emotional, intellectual or physiological reaction to what is happening as a
result of the energies evoked..
You will find that the same sounds or words will call up the same responses; to really get the
full benefit of these evocations you need to FLOW with them, have them flow THROUGH
YOU all the way, entirely easy and entirely delightful in all ways.
It is important to remember that the Even Flow process is structurally not complete until the
energy runs freely and clearly, and in doing so energises you, uplifts you, makes you tingle with
joy and power, with excitement and clear charge of renewal.
This is the outcome and end result of using these evocations in conjunction with EmoTrance.
Don’t worry if it doesn’t happen overnight and with every one of the 8 tracks; take it easy and
also, see in the “Operating Instructions” how to choose the right track at the right time, so you
personally get to do things in such a way that it always feels good to you and is exactly right for
you.
When you have achieved a state of flow with these evocations, then statements such as, “I am no
angel” produce instead of a resonance sadness a thrill of delight as you respond with, “Yes,
you’re right, I’m not an angel, I am so much MORE – I AM A HUMAN BEING!” – and it is
right HERE that the true power of these evocations comes into being as your whole body tingles
with energy and lightness, with power.
This is the purpose and YOUR aim for using these evocations – to have them flow and re-charge
you, show you whole new states of YOUR being which are your proof and testimony that you
have changed your mind, and your body, and your energy system indeed.
This is TRUE healing, TRUE learning and TRUE human growth at YOUR own pace.
Accept NO substitutes!
Operating Instructions
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I would also strongly dissuade you from using these whilst walking anywhere near ravines or
traffic; they induce a light trance but it is a trance, nonetheless, and the neurological and
energetic events which take place in your mind and body as you listen will prevent you from
reacting with full waking awareness in an emergency as your conscious mind is turned inward
as a part of the “totality party” in the Sanctuary state.
Please Use Stereo Headphones For Personal Use!
Ananga will note in the music section that these recordings are designed to be listened to with
good quality stereo headphones.
Although they are beautiful to listen to out aloud on a sound system and for group work, this is
indeed the only choice, the best and most personal effects will be had by listening with
headphones. This is because then, all the fine and superb details of sound and vibration and the
very many levels and layers of events which are fine energetic occurrences become apparent and
allow your totality systems to react even on the most subtle levels.
Personal Preferences
When you first hear all the tracks, you will have an immediate response as to which one draws
you most strongly to experience again and which ones you would rather leave for another day.
Please allow yourself to Flow With YOUR Preferences ENTIRELY.
Each person who works with these “energy remedies” finds their own order and sequence;
responds entirely in their own way to the sounds and the words, in short – has their own unique
personal experiences.
It is important that you should honour those.
The order and sequence on the CD is very much “suggested progression” only and because there
had to be an order and sequence.
What seems to happen generally is that sometimes, you just feel a yearning or a wanting to
listen to a particular track at a particular time; sometimes people do the same track over and over
again for a long period and until they have achieved what they needed to achieve and they feel
free to move on to another track.
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extraordinary, but this is not like “doing a journey again”. In the contrary, it is a whole new
journey each time you take it, and especially if some time has passed in the interim.
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that piece is way, way too sad to produce anything other than misery and more heartache, and
with my words on top, endless confusion rather than healing!
• Don’t change them materially. If there is something else you’d rather hear or say, then
please write your own complete story or journey and use this instead. Each HypnoDream is a
cohesive energetic entity that will become materially changed if you substitute words or phrases,
or insert “post hypnotic suggestions” which is NOT, and I repeat NOT what these are all about.
Please Note: If you have the CD/s, at least once have a go at actually speaking these words
yourself.
• It is a very different experience to be the one who speaks these words, rather than
the one who listens and it is very well worth doing for the change of perspective and
the sensations this produces.
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Heart Healing Production Journal
by Ananga Sivyer
Acclaimed film score composer Hans Zimmer (Gladiator, Oceans 11, Black Hawk Down) once
said of Dead Can Dance vocalist Lisa Gerrard “When she’s in the studio you should keep set to
record because anything wonderful can happen”. That statement is something I’ve reflected on
repeatedly during the recording of Heart Healing and I firmly believe it to be true of both Silvia
and Pia; they are two very different people with very different voices yet, in common, they share
the rare fact that they are each able to deliver unique, flexible and daring vocal magic.
I am very much aware of, and grateful for, my incredible good fortune in being able to work
with them both. There have been many occasions when during the recording of Heart Healing
when I have stood in the studio, headphones on, monitoring levels as they speak or sing, and felt
completely delighted by them both.
I feel as though my task primarily on this project has been to carefully capture, place and
preserve their voices in the various components of Heart Healing in such a way that they can
shine through and be left free and clear to convey their charm to our listeners.
Silvia and Pia, thank you, it’s been an immensely pleasurable working with you both.
From day two of the recording of the project we agreed that the theme of this album was the
child and that we would dedicate it to our own children.
Heart Healing is for: Steve and Alex, Silvia’s amazing sons and my little girl, Rati.
When we decided to make “HypnoDreams 2” I was immediately enthused. I had not seen or
heard the scripts. I knew nothing of what was to come. The canvas was blank.
Yet Silvia and I both had a feeling of great anticipation about this project and spoke excitedly
about how we couldn’t wait to see what emerged. From this you might take it that there was no
big planning, mind mapping, or structuring as is so often the case in other areas of our work –
and you would be right. From the moment of its first mention, HypnoDreams 2 (for in that stage
it didn’t yet have its name) was about flow.
We set a date to record the vocals and in the days leading up to the first recording I set about
clearing my desk of other work and turning my full attention to the project ahead and began
collecting sounds and samples as a painter might buy paints in preparation for beginning the
actual painting.
The day of recording the scripts was something else – my first hearing of them – I had no idea
what sounds or music would go with them, I was merely being introduced for the first time and
getting to know them. We recorded the entire set of eight HypnoDreams in one day. And there
they were waiting for me when I woke up the next morning. I sat down with my copy of the
script and glanced over the titles ready to make a start and see which one waved to me from the
page. It was Resonance Connection – interesting I thought to start putting an album together
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with the 5th track on the running order. Yet in the end that’s how the whole project came
together – picking each track as it appealed to me at the time and trusting that somehow they
would work together in their pre-arranged order and sequence when I was done.
That way, I felt, I could give each and every track my all, my full attention at each step of the
recording process. This proved to be a very fluid way of working – and I remained 100%
committed and enthusiastic throughout the entire project. That project, for me, represented 6
weeks of total absorption – I’m noting it here so that I can remember that there was a time in my
life when I “worked” flat out for six weeks with an intense pleasure and conviction.
Heart Healing was mixed and mastered with headphone use in mind. It fine for listening on a
regular stereo system (so long as it’s not the one in your car!) but, for a complete listening
experience I recommend headphones.
The music has been recorded in such a way that it supports and holds the state generated by
Silvia’s voice and words and the tracks have been carefully structured to send different sounds
in different directions at certain point in the scripts.
Some tracks have a crossover panning effect while Silvia’s voice is held central – this provides a
musical hemispheric integration (simply put life/right brain balancing) in a similar way to using
Cross Crawl in Kinesiology.
I hope you might find this background to be of interest.
With all best wishes
Ananga
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2/01 – Heart Healing
One day, I received an email from a person in acute distress. They had a terrible life, full of
abuse and neglect, and the repercussions across a lifetime from all of that, compounded and
fractured again and yet again, over and over, with no way out.
I saw it and frankly, did not know quite how to respond. In the end, I wrote a poem as the
answer – and it was exactly the Heart Healing poem, just as you can hear it on the CD.
But when it was written, I liked it so much that I first send it to some friends; when the second
album recording date came up, I took it along and recorded it as well – and the little poem
became the flagship dedication for the new album, as well as a most powerful healing technique
in its own right which truly centers people into their true selves in a moment of storm or
desolation.
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The Text: Track 01 - Heart Healing
Whisper softly,
I will do
what I can
for you,
my little love.
Fear not.
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2/02 – Receiving The Colours
Possibly my second favourite track at the time of writing, I’m very happy with this, Pia
described it when checking over the master as sounding like a film score – oh the acclaim!
Seriously though, I had to EmoTrance that, it’s my dream to do film scores some day. I’m not
good with melodies, verses, choruses and bridges – not at all.
Soundscapes are what I love to do, so that comment pleased me greatly.
Of course, it should be said, that the film score feel to the track was assisted greatly by Pia
manifesting a full choir for a few bars. Listen carefully to that – it’s all her voice! Track after
track of it, all built together into one chorus, and I wasn’t allowed to look as some facial
manoeuvres have to be used to do that apparently!
Hans Zimmer hasn’t heard her yet so he’s sticking with Lisa Gerrard, but I know he would be
thrilled with what she can do. There are few vocalists who sound that good and are that flexible.
Shhh – don’t tell him – I can’t yet offer the kind of fortune he can – remember, there will be
HypnoDreams III and without Pia just wouldn’t be the same now would it?
There is some more magic on this particular track. The soundscape is based on a sequence of
chords derived from a magical number-letter-chord equivalency and it is known as “Lucian’s
Song”.
This evocation was originally part of a set of seven hypnotic journeys entitled “Web Magic” – a
device for webmasters on the Internet to connect fully with this new technology and to gain an
intuitive rapport with the World Wide Web, their visitors, the spirit of the web and what they
themselves would have to do in order to be able to meet these energetic structures from their end
without reservation.
As I was writing the sequences of events, it became clear that there was a need for addressing
the basic problems of “receiving” – anything at all!
This receiving pertains to money as well as information, to love as well as support, to
admiration as well as to material things, to new learnings as well as to well deserved rewards.
Of course, these problems exist in people because of their limiting self constructs and we all
know this, but knowing this does not alleviate the problems at all and if someone cannot allow
themselves to receive, you can imagine how very hard life must be, and by needs, remain for
such a person.
What happens in this poem is that we side-step the problems of the self construct and shift into a
different state of being, become aware of the reality of all the many and varied energies around
us, and then become able to be aware that these energies SEEK to interact with us and all that is
stopping them are our own old prejudices and outdated thoughts and modes of being.
These many energies bring with themselves knowledge, and renewal, and really basically
exactly what we need to start a revival of our true selves from the inside out. From this changed
state of being, when the act of receiving is experienced in this new and different way – and it is
an active act, an act of volition, and absolutely not one of just being “an empty vessel” into
which all sorts is poured at random! – we learn very important lessons that translate across in the
days to come.
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I don’t think there is a single one of us who does NOT need to re-learn the lessons of true
receiving, from a position of choice, of strength and of intent; not as a pauper would but as an
equal who is simply accepting their dues and their rights at last – and I really do have the notion
that inordinate treasures and riches lie forgotten and entirely unclaimed in dusty vaults that have
our names on it, yours, mine and everyones, whilst we live an entirely uneccessary life of
poverty and struggle.
The colours are just a beginning and of course, a metaphor for all and everything that would
bring colour to our lives and brighten them too, re-paint our realities to vibrancy and help us
come to life.
When I heard the completed track for the first time, I had a very intense personal experience
with it which one could say has changed my life. Of course, I can’t know what any of these
evocations will do for you, but should you have something like that, then really all I can say is –
wow.
Bring on the sunglasses ‘cause the future’s so bright!
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Track 02 - Receiving The Colours
as you
phase shift
into
their state of being,
as you
phase shift
into
the realm where they would
speak to you
and be entirely real,
and here and now,
familiar to you,
familiar of old.
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now for you to know
and see
and recognise
Gently,
lovingly,
the colours reach towards you,
one by one,
each one is calling you
with their sweet sound,
a voice that is their own,
a chorus and a harmony
that you have longed for
for so long,
it hurts to think
for just how long it's been
since last you knew them,
touched them,
have them be with you
and listened
and you sang with them
as one.
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in their desperation
and in your rejection.
But today,
there will be no rejection left.
and today,
you give a clear command
that rings out
with the force of fanfare
Willing to receive.
as once it was,
and as it should
and as it will
remain forever.
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their beauty and their absolute
conviction
and drink their clarity
for all the time you need
although in truth,
you're always here,
and now the colours
are with you again,
as is their song,
as you remain anew
as once it was,
and as it should,
and as it will
remain forever.
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2/03 – Celebration
I started out with Celebration for some odd reason by making the wind sound loop that you here
in the background. Then I sampled my flute and some percussion and made that into another
loop running over the top. And finally put the other instruments around them.
This track touched me when I first heard it (yeah OK they all did – I’ll be specific) it was the
notion that I, me, was personally invited to this amazing event.
It was they way Silvia said “and don’t you know you are invited, and that your absence has been
noted long, and with much regret?”
I also made a “special radio mix” of this track for public air play which is included in the
electronic download library. It is shorter and faster so no-one who hears it crashes their car!
Instruments used: flute, synths, loop player and drum sampler
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every plant you see becomes an affirmation to that fact of life – and that is exactly as it should
be.
I personally have a strong desire to get up and start to dance when the drums come in on this
track – and as the first rule is: Follow Your Body! I usually do. I also sometimes listen to
Celebration after getting up in the morning and it really cheers me up and gives me energy for
the day; recently I just have to think about it and that’s quite enough to get me going.
This is fun and a precursor of a “Wide Awake And Dancing!” album I am planning to produce
for the very purposes of getting to dance in physicality and with energy as one of my very next
projects.
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The Text – Track 03 – Celebration
Bright lights,
coloured lights.
A sense of dancing
and of long awaited joy
is building up and up
and when it is
released at once
by one or many
then the celebration
has arrived.
So many people
are full of envy
at the beasts who live
and never question,
never know.
Your invitation
to a celebration
that has been happening beyond
the threshold of awareness
since long before
you joined in birth
and don't you know,
you are invited
and you absence
has been noted long,
with much regret?
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2/04 – Ocean Wood
This was the only script I was remotely familiar with in advance of us beginning HypnoDreams
II. Silvia described it to me over the phone one day and I was immediately attracted to it and
very comforted by the theme without even hearing the full script.
This one was really fun to try and mix because it sent me through the floor every time! I would
sit there with headphones on ready to check the levels and bring the various sounds in and out
and before I knew it I would be sitting up straight and rubbing my eyes hearing the beginning of
the next track.
I love this track – I found just the sounds I wanted for the beginning and it all fell into place
from there very smoothly – recording it was pure pleasure. Just as I’d completed the recording
of Ocean Wood I was invited to stay with an old friend in Devon for a few days so I packed my
laptop studio in the car and set off.
As soon as we arrived in Devon we headed for the coast, it was a sunny day and the sea was my
favourite colour - a perfect blend of blue and green.
While we were there I lay back on the sand with my feet just inches from the water and ran
through Ocean Wood in my head. After a few minutes I had a feeling that I should sit up and
look at the sea and as I did I saw a big shiny black seal swim past. I have not seen that before
and I was completely thrilled by it. Somehow it felt like a good omen and so I thought to record
it here.
Instruments used: sampler and synths
This is, without a doubt, the most personal track on the album for me and my absolute favourite.
Ah, what can I say about this?
I can tell you where it came from.
When my life was very difficult, in full on urge of transition but with no aim or outcome in
sight, full of stress and fear, I dreamed the beach hut at the shores of the Universal Ocean and I
met my guardian there.
He was just there and didn’t speak to me and all I did was to go to the bed and sleep, listening to
the ocean sounds, and I do believe it kept my sanity and this simple thing helped me so
profoundly, I have absolutely not the words to describe it.
In the nights that followed, I would go there deliberately to sleep and rest, without a dream or
rememberance of what happened; at first I thought it was a launch point to something more
important but in the end I understood it was the act of sleeping under the vigil of my guardian
and in the presence of the ocean itself which was the reason, the point, and represented the
healing.
Many months later I let my mind drift with the thought of what would be on the second
HypnoDreams album and I found myself writing about this place – it was so wonderful to me, I
wanted to share it.
Writing it became a very powerful experience in itself and I think you can hear this in my voice
also as I tell the story, and I was absolutely stunned to find myself writing at the end that “I
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would be the guardian”. It was a most extraordinary shift in perception and as a state of being; it
also taught me something about the true meaning of service.
To be honest, I could not believe that whatever it was in me that makes me write the words as it
does would think me able to perform this – I would call it a holy duty, an ancient ceremony,
something very profound indeed. To accept this and move into it made this act of service into
the act of accepting myself as far, far more than I had thought I could ever be or ever become
was a truly extraordinary experience in all ways.
And so in Ocean Wood, for me personally, service had become a kind of incredible honour and
reward, a total turnaround from the usual construct understanding of service as some form of
evil slavery.
It is true that there is absolutely nothing I would rather do, nowhere I would rather be; and my
own guide had tried to have me understand that when I slept in the bed and would often thank
them for their stalward service and their patience, and ask if they did not have anything better to
do or if there was something they expected from me in return or as a reward.
But this is my experience as the guardian, and if or how you will experience something like this
for yourself as a direct result of allowing yourself to take the Ocean Wood healing experience to
heart, of course I cannot say or know.
On a far simpler level, being able to give all you need to give to the patient, ancient ocean, quite
unconditionally and as a matter of fact, without fear or hindrance, without record or
repercussion, is a wonderful thing indeed and outperforms any human father confessor a million
times over.
This is absolutely a kind of absolution – a washing away of your construct’s fears of sins and of
the past; a powerful and necessary in-between step that allows us to let go of some things that
cannot be let go of anywhere else but MUST let go off in order to lighten us, release us, and
have us be ready to rise to the new.
There are levels and levels to this particular experience that I can sense but cannot explain in
linear words or even in conscious thought – this whole idea of the true self being still and the
universe rushing around it because it wishes to be of service is in and of itself quite breath
taking, and there is a lot more to Ocean Wood than that.
Either way, it is a wonderful experience and I truly hope you enjoy it as much as we do, and get
as much out of it as we have – and even if it is only to be able to go to sleep, at last.
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The Text – Track 04 – Ocean Wood
Now here
the worlds and worlds beyond
align themselves for you alone
a star you are, a precious jewel and a gift
the center that deserves attention
and the more attention you are given
the more beautiful and precious you
reveal yourself to be –
accept the homage of the universe as
it shifts for you whilst you are
still
in your perfection, resting and in comfort
and at ease.
<Where am I?>
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of the universal ocean.
Look!
Come.
Look.
We enter and we se
a single bed of ocean wood,
entirely simple and it has
no need for carvings, fitments
which in truth would break the flow.
A most inviting blanked and the sea green pillows soft and fresh –
oh yes, sit down, and feel the invitation in your marrow – it is right
lie down and be at ease,
snuggle up.
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those things you need to understand
in turn of ebb and flow,
rushing and receding
you breathe so freely
and you give the ocean
all you need to give –
oh but it is
enormous
and it will with gladness take
your messages,
your questions old and new
and all you
simply cannot tell another
or yourself at that –
you can entrust your oldest burdens
and the secrets that you
thought could never be revealed
those things you had to hide within
your deepest realms and all
those things which weighed you down
and pressed the breath from your lungs,
the joy from your heart
and the bright star of hope from your eyes –
give what you will to the ocean this night
to be cleansed, to be tumbled and shaped
to smooth round rocks, to pebbles and to sand.
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Now, close your eyes completely
Dream.
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2/05 – Resonance Connection
This was the first track I recorded. The day after we'd recorded the scripts I got up early and sat
down in my studio and looked down the track list to pick a track at random and it was
Resonance Connection that appealed to me.
I spent some time sampling the percussive sounds and chimes and soon found just what I
wanted for the synthesised pad sounds, I then started to play live in direct response to Silvia’s
voice and words. Lastly I added some live atmospheric sounds and chimes. By that evening the
track was finished and I was feeling very happy about the way things were shaping up and very
eager to hear what else was to come...
Instruments used: bells, chimes & sampler keyboard
Is it good and proper to give the game away and tell the conscious mind what this is all about?
Won’t it hinder the process or perhaps allow the conscious mind to shut it down?
Well, I’m going to show some faith in the innate intelligence of the conscious mind, give it
some due respect and say that I believe if the conscious mind is engaged fairly, it will act fairly
in return.
What do we have here?
A direct instruction to pay attention to the resonance connection to the sun, whether it is visible
or not, because its emanations are so intensely powerful, of course we can still feel them even if
the sun is on the other side of Planet Earth during the night.
How could we not?!
And before I start going into the deeper meanings, I’d like to make the point that this top level
“connection to the sun” is absolutely a part of this and extremely valuable in its own right.
We really do have energy feelers that we’re not using as we should or could just yet, and what
easier target to practice with than the sun itself, that incredible energy generator that gives us all
life in the most practical and directly non-metaphorical sense possible?
A great many years ago, ancient mariners used to navigate by the stars but without instruments;
scientists have long scratched their heads how this could be possible, but of course, if you read
the heavens themselves, who needs a map?
But then, there’s the other level, the other layer.
In this layer, the sun is the metaphor for our own soul.
Now you probably know from my other writings that I do not consider a soul to be some
mystical, religious fairy tale but indeed, as an existing energy system that is natural to all and
every human but is not used properly because it is disconnected via the thought-mind.
This energy system is the equivalent in power and force as the sun is to the solar system; it is the
alpha and omega of the energy system and to connect with your soul is the most powerful and
best thing any human could ever do for themselves. Indeed, it is my assumption that when you
do, you attain enlightenment, there and then.
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Although the conscious mind itself cannot make this “resonance connection” it can indeed
instruct the systems we all have to be in a standing flow exchange with our own soul to seek the
connection and to make it strong, make it firm, and have it remain even when all else may
appear to go dark all around us.
Even those who do not “believe” in a soul cannot argue in the merits of connecting with the sun;
the parts of us who need and want to connect to the soul, on the other hand, will basically jump
on this ambiguous instruction and interpret it to be allowed to go ahead and make the connection
anyway.
So now, we are ready for the next step of our journey – with a new friend behind us, no matter
what; the beginning of a new relationship strand through which strength and a whole new kind
of power of self will flow to us, regardless of external circumstances – and which will speak to
us through the heart and then the mind so we can finally align all parts of us in the harmony of
the totality.
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The Text – Track 05 – Resonance Connection
Slowly,
excruciatingly,
the sun moves toward the horizon.
Careful!
Keep watching.
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2/06 – Morning Light
When I heard Morning Light for the first time it was as we recorded it. And there I was pulled
two ways, technician and listener both. I felt greatly inspired and excited by this particular
HypnoDream and had a sense from very early on that it would be a real highlight of the album.
I recorded it with Pia, waiting until she returned from her tour of America to come and add some
magical vocals for us – I had an idea of what I wanted for this and knew she was just the girl for
the job. So I left this track alone entirely and played her the recording of the script only. She
immediately declared it to be very similar to the words of a devotional Indian song by the 19th
century revered scholar and poet Srila Bhativinoda Thakura and so we went and found the
Sanskrit verses of the song and began to recorded them around Silvia’s voice.
Initially we selected a key for Pia to sing in so that I could add the musical accompaniments
later. But when the vocal recordings were completed and I came to add the background music
some time later they were in a different key! In truth they were not quite in any key – Pia had
slipped into her amazing in-between key that she usually sings in when unaccompanied. That
was fine by me – she had sung the most amazing harmonies and I felt that the best thing for the
opening stages of this track was that there should be no music at all – just Silvia speaking and
Pia singing.
Later I added an introductory section with flutes and a conch shell being blown as is traditional
in heralding the morning hours in temples around the world.
The Sanskrit devotional song Pia is singing is called Udilo Aruna and comes from a collection
of songs titled Gitavali it is prescribed as a song to be sung at dawn ☺
It tells the story of crowds of devotees awakening with the sun as it rises in the East and running
through the countryside, towns and villages playing mrdungas (hand drums as used on the track)
with cymbals chiming in time, dancing and wearing jingling footballs.
Chanting the names Mukhunda and Madhava they would announce “With every rising and
setting of the sun a day passes and is lost!” “Wake up and remember the Lord of your heart!”
Credits for other backing vocals go to my nephews Kavi (aged 9) and Radha (6) who are singing
the call and response chorus.
They words they are singing are “jiv jago” which translates as “Wake up, sleeping souls!”
Instruments used: traditional conch shell, djembe (African hand drum), mrdunga (clay Indian
drum that is mentioned in the original Sanskrit poetry), storyteller (Native American flute).
I’m not sure if I was delighted or appalled when I heard that in essence, I had once again
managed to write something that someone else had written a few hundred years ago – quantum
plagiarism at work, yet again!
Yet it is an amazing thing that there is a Sanscrit song which more or less does the same story I
describe in Morning Light and I assure all future historians most profoundly that not only do I
not speak Sanscrit, but that I have absolutely no connection with any Indian heritage poetry or
music of any kind, religious or otherwise!
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The fact is that Morning light is as close to unconsciously channelling as I ever get; I don’t even
remember writing it but woke up when it was completed, and I still don’t remember it as one of
mine – it is new each time I hear this.
I was really surprised at the near Shakespearean phrasing I’m using there –
Don’t mourn
the passing of the night,
eternal it was, and it will be
again and nightwind gently leaves
the stage, not in retreat
but in respectful deference
bowing low, arms spread awide
as from the hills,
the distant hills
dawns own sweet lady stirs and beckons,
sleepy still she is
her touch is light and intermittent
and you smell forests on her breath
the silent mists she swirls
they dance for her and reach up high
and raised by her, they smile and greet
the sky above now softly shading
into more than misty grey.
It really is amazing what comes out when you just let go and trust yourself to tell it, best you
can!
But Morning Light had even more surprises for me, personally.
When I was in the studio, delivering the scripts, I was doing very well; good diction and good
concentration, recording one after the other; all was going very smoothly.
Until I hit the following lines in Morning Light:
New day
born for the first time
never did it rise before
and never will it be again.
I just burst out into tears and couldn’t read the lines; tried it once, twice, three times, each time
with a long break of walking around and composing myself (or trying to!) in between.
In the end, I gave up and had to do some energy therapy on myself; it was then it came to my
awareness of how I had – well, let’s come right out and say it, WASTED all these precious
dawns, all these precious days, entirely neglectful and unheedful of their worth and value – all
these days which now will never rise again.
I don’t know how old you are but it is my guess, the older you are, the harder this would hit you,
but this thinking is truly only an old construct regret – but yes, at the time these “old construct
regrets” are quite powerful and overwhelming as I demonstrated to the sound crew on the day
most readily!
What I think Morning Light is about is to familiarise ourselves with the coming dawn of the
totality, our own rebirth into our true selves; true selves which KNOW that these days will never
come again and they won’t waste them, but live each one with volition and with celebration.
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I think Morning Light is a re-assurance of how the old will transition into the new and that this
transition need not be feared or kept at bay; that all our fears of what it might be or how
regretful we will be of what we were (and hence, best not ever find out, yeah!) will simply
dissolve when the sun rises, and that indeed, we will dance in the morning light, the dawn of our
real life, entirely joyous and without the slightest trace of regret, the slightest taint of resentment
or repercussion.
The Text – Track 06 – Morning Light
Not long now,
not long to go
the sky that just
a moment so it seems
was empty, radiant black
is filling, silent grey
and you can hear the birds
quite clearly as they
begin
to celebrate
the dawning of the day,
new day
born for the first time
never did it rise before
and never will it be again
this day to come and
listen, you can her
the morning birds proclaim its name
as is and was
their right and duty.
Don’t mourn
the passing of the night,
eternal it was, and it will be
again and nightwind gently leaves
the stage, not in retreat
but in respectful deference
bowing low, arms spread awide as from the hills,
the distant hills
dawns own sweet lady stirs and beckons,
sleepy still she is
her touch is light and intermittent
and you smell forests on her breath
the silent mists she swirls
they dance for her and reach up high
and raised by her, they smile and greet
the sky above now softly shading
into more than misty grey.
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of excitement and a charge that builds
from all around, within us all
who have assembled here
for this momentous moment
to be here so we can say
Yes, I was there that day.
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2/07 – Precious
Precious, just like Morning Light, is a bridge from the now into the new.
From the miserable, forsaken construct that prides itself on all the wrong things, that stares in
the mirror and sees not itself but just a travesty of their own true beauty, up and out into the
fields of stars – a true dweller of the web of life itself.
This entire album is a preparation for human actualisation; designed to help us poor constructs
be steady, be centered, and direct our attention to things that are important, to make connections
which will help us in our transition amidst the cross-winds and tempestuous waves; to give us a
guide rope and a beacon, a lighthouse by which to orient ourselves as we prepare to re-enter our
own true totality states.
I’m not a prophet but a construct that is trying to fight free of the old entrainments and I know
what it’s like when you sometimes have it, your resonance connection and you know exactly
what you are doing, and why, and you are joyous and peaceful both.
But then, shit happens and we fall back into our old memories and thoughts, our old
entrainments and all seems lost again, or even as though it had never been.
I know this because I’m living it, and all my friends are too so you need to know, you’re not
alone in this.
It is only to be expected after all those many years of living this way and then, the powerfields
of the ages pressing down on us for good measure!
But there are, indeed, things we can do to speed up the process and do our best from our end
here, still as constructs, but willing and able to go with the flow towards the new states of being.
One of these things is to literally detach ourselves from our old saving graces and rescue
anchors and instead, focus our intention on something else – our own soul and the web of life,
the field of stars.
Precious is about what is truly precious.
Each one of us is, first of all, and each one of us who “makes it” to human actualisation will
make it easier for all the rest of us to do so likewise – its just one of those things.
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Each one of us who even strives towards it and decides to be brave and release their attachments
to their old moments of glory, their old safety anchors and re-direct their attention to the truly
precious things of life will help us all.
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The Text – Track 07 – Precious
Or so I used think
when I stared in the mirror
and saw these faces
they were never mine.
I sought to recognise
something –
some familiarity,
some sense of belonging
just something I could
use to string along a first
and finely shining silver threat
the first that would become
the first decision
when you place it where you will
and thus set the direction
of unfoldment
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your field, becoming as the night,
clear and simply endless,
tuning out the this and that ...
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the first and finest silver strand
and have it be the first connection
that you made
as you connect it easily
as is your right and duty both
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2/8 – The Child
Last and, buy no means list, on the running order and in my notes.
If you listen carefully you can hear some Silvia backing vocals on this track ☺
Flute again with supporting synths – the giggle at the beginning is courtesy of my little daughter
– she 5 and still very ticklish so I grabbed the microphone in one hand and her in the other to
capture her laugh for the opening bars.
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The Text – Track 08 – The Child
A great celebration
ensued in return
but it was a silent
celebration that sang
not with noise or
the banging of the drums
for there are times
and a different
kind of music
is required.
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just what they needed,
what they dreamed of
what they wanted,
and they stood in holiness
and deepest awe
becoming whole
the gift of gifts,
at last.
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HYPNODREAMS III - FREEDOM
HypnoDreams Volume 3
Freedom
by
Silvia Hartmann
& Ananga Sivyer
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The Concept of Freedom
Many people think of “healing” as a mere cessation of symptoms, an activity that leads in the
end to a state of peace.
It is understandable when one is in confusion, chaos and pain to make such a mistake, but in fact
peace is not a healing aim, nor does it have much to do with living.
Living is about acting, receiving and responding to our environments – it is about doing things,
experiencing things, and making our mark on the world.
And the prerequisite for all of this is freedom – freedom of thought, freedom of expression,
freedom of movement.
We have a right to be here, and more than that, we have a birthright to more than just peace.
There is a world beyond the zero point – and to taste the other side of peace is not just
inordinately healing and motivating, it is what being alive is all about.
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3/01 – The Wind Of Change
I had a wonderful time recording the music for this track and have had some great personal
experiences with it since. One day I was walking down the lane where I live with the Wind of
Change playing on my headphones, when all of a sudden the wind really blew up, there were
leaves swirling everywhere and the weather and the sounds went together perfectly, it was great
and I found myself breathing it all in and walking through it with a big smile on my face.
Actually the Wind of Change always makes me smile, there’s a line in it that says: “Smile and
close your eyes, and let your head fall back…” and I always do!
Now for my experience with recording the music.
I decided to follow Silvia’s words as closely as I could in quite a literal sense for this track.
Usually, I’m less literal and will mark certain phrases with sounds and live instrumentation as I
feel inclined, but the Wind of Change felt very much like the making of a painting from Silvia’s
words and my music together.
The first thing I did for this track was find a recording of a real storm, one with some real
howling winds and movement, which would build and then fade as Silvia began to speak, to
mark the passing and changing of weather, seasons, life.
I picked up my flute and set a track to record and decided to record whatever I came up with,
live and on the spot, with no prior thought of key or melody. I was quite surprised when I
realised I was playing the flute melody from Heart healing, if you had asked me to play that it
would have taken me a moment to recall it and remember the notes – but there it was just
happening, so I went with it.
When I listened back I very much liked the idea of the heart healing flute coming out of a storm,
for me it tied the last HypnoDreams album to this, it hinted of healing within storms and
encouraged the feeling that we could pick up where we left off and move forward to the new :-)
I used a wide range of live instruments and percussion for this track, along with some sweeping
synthesised sounds from the Atmosphere Dream Synth module, a favourite of mine.
Our emotions, our experiences, our lives are like the weather.
We get dramatic thunder storms, beautiful calm sunsets; bright blue summer skies and freezing
mists; drenching downpours and sultry hot nights.
It is in the change itself that life manifests itself; you know what happens to places where it
never rains, or always rains – neither is a good thing. Change is what makes it all work, what is
required to give the balance and the even flow of life.
The Wind of Change is a celebration of change, of things to come and an invitation to step into
that everlasting flow of change from one thing to another, from one moment to the next, and
find nourishment and sustenance in all and any unfoldment of life.
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The Text: 3/01 – Wind of Change
Long before
the first light flutterings
the lightest touch
the first and smallest movement
is perceived,
there is a sense of listening -
it is coming.
No.
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to the wind of change.
What treasures!
Oh what riches will be ours
when we can rise
and meet the wind of change
wide open and accepting,
dressed in clothes of billowing white –
like fisher's nets,
like webs we spread ourselves
we spread our wings
to let the wind of change pass through us,
tell us of the splendours
it has brought and share its riches,
share its wealth with us who
waited for this moment to arrive –
we knew that it would come
and never truly did abandon
our sense that we were right to think
that it would come in our direction.
And of course,
of course we knew that it would come ...
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as whispering now turns to rushing
and delight is rising, lifting you
and you are riding on a wave of life and love,
a wild reality of beauty
as you never thought you could conceive –
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3/02 – Freedom
What can I say! Freedom I just love, and I use it often, sometimes when I’m flagging and a bit
tired, sometimes when I get up and am ready to set a positive and lively frame for my day. And
sometimes just for the sheer joy of dancing round my kitchen to Pia’s incredible vocals and my
mad drumming.
Recording the music for Freedom was pure fun and pleasure, it took a few days to get it right
and that meant I got to hear Silvia’s vocal magic probably a hundred times, how did I feel at the
end of that – just listen to the last few minutes of this track and you’ll have a pretty accurate
idea!
Silvia had some very neat ideas for this track such as having me whisper “freedom” in English
and German and swirl and pan it around the track as if the words are being carried on the wind.
When Pia came to the studio to record the vocals we had a fantastic time, she was asked to
really go for it and “cry freedom” and she did! After one particularly heartfelt and enlivened
take we both burst out laughing, later when I went to make the final mix of this track I found
Pia’s laughter had been recorded as she was still right by the microphone – so I left it there :-)
For Freedom I used live hand drums such as the Turkish doumbek drum, traditionally used in
belly dancing, Indian bamboo and western classical flutes, live bass guitar, electric guitar
phrases played in an ethnic chromatic style, and various other percussive instruments.
A long time ago, I was thinking of writing a trance dance CD for people to exercise with.
But when I looked more closely at people’s energy bodies, I saw with great sadness that they
weren’t ready to dance yet.
Dancing is something you do when you’re healthy, when you’re joyous, then it comes naturally.
As long as you’re still burdened with all sorts, in pain from all sorts, and tired and depressed,
dancing cannot be anything else than yet another chore, something you “should be doing”, like
losing weight or getting fit, only you don’t have the energy and you don’t have the heart for it.
What good can THAT do?
No good at all.
So, first of all, let’s take off those shoes!
In Freedom, we go and get a bath for the energy system, a very special release and relief from
old entrainments and reversals that hold us back, and we regain the freedom of our movements.
When we’re ready, THEN we have a beach party, and we can celebrate our newfound freedom
with joy and our friends who have found their joy of freedom too.
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The Text: 3/02 – Freedom
Afresh as new
and every light and tingling contact,
welcome laughs the lively water
and your feet flex forward eagerly
from every greeting to the next,
the buoyant fine refreshing water
helping now to clear away
all those weary remnants
which once did reside inside your skin
your very flesh and bone,
and then beyond and there as well
the matrix clears with wonder
and there's a hunger building
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and your calves are now embraced,
it is as though
an armour first is washed away
and then you really feel the loving touch
of the soft vibrant sparkling water,
oh, how alive it is!
Alive it is and
ah, it wants to come and play with you!
and in return you move on forward, swiftly deeper,
yearning now for this release
and inviting it to come to you
and lovingly embrace your knees and thighs
and from inside your legs
there is that pressure too now - YES!
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all about you, strokes your hair,
each part of you
in perfect jubilation and in joy -
and give
acceptance.
gratitude.
delight.
So much compassion
and such joy
that on this day,
you did reclaim your self
and took it on your self
to free your body,
free it now at last -
22. 07. 03
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3/03 – Creativity
Over the years, I have had much experience of creativity and with creative people.
You could say that creativity is a bit of a speciality of mine, and definitely the very wellspring of
all my work, and the delight of my life.
I believe that creativity is an act of freedom, an expression of freedom and existence when we
have arrived at a place where we know we have a right to be here.
It is then that we get to look around, open those “other eyes” and see for ourselves just how
wonderful creation is.
When we do that as a part of that creative order, we can’t help but sing and dance in celebration.
Words and images and movements and songs MUST pour from us that honour the creative
order, it can’t be any other way.
And that to me has always been TRUE creativity. Not coming up with something that wasn’t
there before, but telling the story of one single individual’s experiences with the creative order
in one’s own words, in one’s own voice, in one’s own way.
That is the extraordinary newness and radical contribution that only one individual can ever
make, and that is GUARANTEED to be new, fresh, bright and immensely “creative”.
And all that is such heavy duty stuff, it sounds and feels so heavy, and the creative order isn’t
like that at all. It is beautiful, delightful and so light, singing and dancing in every way, it is full
of joy and laughter. For this reason I appended “Sweet Lights” to this induction on creativity, to
swoop us up and out about into the realms where thoughts become songs, or paintings, or
perhaps even new existences that resonate their creator.
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The Text: 3/03 – Creativity (incl. Sweet Lights)
Creativity -
What does that word mean?
Cre-a-ti-vi-ty ...
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as to what it is
you wish to have become
and waver rainbow gentle
until it well descends
in harmony
all through the levels
and in doing so
becomes a little realer
with each passing thought,
each passing heartbeat
of a living heart.
Understand something.
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that it is already there,
that is already
created.
Genesis.
(Sweet Lights)
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and I sighed it into soft acceptance
of my touch and it was glad
that I was there.
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3/04 – Timelines
Timelines really did just fall into place, I found exactly the sounds I wanted for it and had a
spontaneous idea at the end to record a few phrases on my keyboard for the closing bars which
Silvia and I both really liked.
However, there was one strangeness that occurred with timelines and that was that one of the
crystalline sounds that I used got messed with during the encoding of the test track I sent to
Silvia as an mp3. I was not aware of this until the next day – the studio master sounded fine to
me so I made the mp3 and sent it and thought no more of it. The next morning I decided to listen
to it as I was getting set up for the day’s recording and was horrified to hear that there was
something going on that sounded like a Darlek being dragged across a rough surface going on
that was definitely not there in the studio mix! I called Silvia immediately and will never forget
the relief in her voice, nor how we laughed afterwards – she thought I’d lost the plot and that
HypnoDreams from that day forth were doomed!
I have heard much talk over the years of time”lines”, linear “paths in life”, and often found the
limitations of such ideas about an individual’s collected experiences and actions across time and
space and all the many dimensions through which we travel, as we must.
One night, during a Project Sanctuary meditation, I had an experience of colour and real beauty,
and I got a different idea of what timelines may be and how they work.
This evocation/meditation is the result of that; I find it very soothing, personally, and very
freeing, too.
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The Text: 3/04 – TimeLines
I am entranced
by its great beauty
radiant colours
flowing movement
but in truth,
my heart lies elsewhere -
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3/05 – Our Dimensions
Possibly the most challenging thing I’ve ever worked on to date. I really did not know where to
begin with Our Dimensions, but once I got the mood of it I decided to make the music very
trance inducing. I know that I succeeded because when Pia came to record some vocals for us
she turned from the microphone and asked “Is this slowing down?”. I assured her it wasn’t but
she had to ask again five minutes later.
Our Dimensions is one of my deep relaxation and enticing journey favourites, to take flight in
my imagination and rest and restore after hours in front of my computer.
Our Dimensions is mainly keyboards based using some real percussive samples with effects
applied to make them move and whoosh a little.
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The Text: 3/05 – Our Dimensions
So what
can we say this morning,
that can't be said before,
that has not
been said before,
that wants to sing and dance
like magic should,
for dancing is its very nature
that is why you cannot win
if you confine it into symbols
heavy with metal,
heavy with age.
Whenever I stand
at the edge of time and space,
and look
at the beautiful waves that lie beyond,
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I wonder.
Blue is eternity,
and more than that,
of course.
It beckons us all
at every step,
at every moment
and the distant wide horizons
are imbued
with such beautiful
and incandescent graduations
that to simply turn and fall
with grace
and without gravity
would be a deeply held release at last -
here lies exactly what I wanted all along,
to know the depth and breadth of my endeavour,
and if I wanted to explore
the meanings of the colours
and of ultraviolet, it would
come to me quite naturally, of course -
what else
could
it be?
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You cry,
your tears are rivers seeking elder deserts
where the skeletons of giant fish proclaim
this was once an ocean
and needs to be again
to raise the seeds
asleep beneath the dust and sand
to life once more,
deep underwater flowers,
gardens,
creatures like you well remember
but you never knew
and kingdoms, singing kingdoms
life abounds and fills the void –
Oh my saviour,
and yes you are,
so cry
for your life,
for mine and theirs
and all of old and new together,
feel and cry and laugh
for as the sounds rise from your throat
and spiral from your perfect mouth,
your shell smooth lips are shaping spheres
and folding fountains bright,
and angels come
for they are borne this way,
and swoop and flutter
into our dimensions.
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3/06 – Forward To The New
Forward to the New has become a catch phrase around here. There is such an enticement to be
found in this track to really just let it all go and step forward, open and inviting to the new.
This was another track that had a profound effect on me due to the repeated listening while
working with it.
I used the Atmosphere Dream Synthesiser here with some percussive sounds that I used with
effects and panning to support the mood of levity and forward momentum.
At this point, we were going on for five years of HypnoDreams. A full trilogy, three albums
nearly completed.
It was such a wondrous journey, and we learned so much.
To say, ok, that’s last one, ever, was a very brave thing to do, and a very difficult thing to do.
To be honest, Ananga and I could have gone on to make HypnoDreams forever.
Happily, and gladly.
But there comes a time when you have to turn around and look forward to the new.
There comes a time when you ask yourself, is there something else? Something new? And will I
ever get there if I continue to do the same old things in the same old way?
There comes a time when the desire for the new, the unknown, becomes ever more burning,
delicious, and no matter how good and satisfying the old may have been, it is the dream of what
lies beyond that gives one the purpose and the power to let go and move forward.
The truth of the universe is that all is movement, and all is a never ending forward moving
caravan – constant evolution from one thing to next, always change, always.
This is the first principle of nature and all else is an illusion.
We should not fear this, but instead, embrace it wholeheartedly and instead of dragging up
against the old fears and old memories, actively move into our rightful time and order and just
go forward, because at the end of the day we can do no else.
Dance into the future, don’t be dragged there kicking and screaming.
Thank you, HypnoDreams. It was a fantastic trip.
But now, we go ...
Forward to the new ...
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The Text: 3/06 – Forward To The New
Look forward
no,
look forward
it is action,
active stepping out again and yet again
always forward,
shake away
the tethers of the crystalline
constrictions
brush them off like cobwebs
and we just simply keep our eyes
affixed upon the new and bright
although we cannot quite
perceive just how
and surely,
we have no idea
just how it is to be –
Feel it!
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It is cool and lightly tingling!
Sense it!
What joy!
What celebration!
There is no past,
there's only us
and all the universe
has there to give,
the splendour and the diamond dimensions
flow through us,
make us new and newer still,
we are the history itself,
we are the tapestry of life
we are the dream
and we are here and now
so ultra-real,
so wide awake
so full of glow
and so
we keep our focus ever forward,
forward to the new.
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Addendum: Life After HypnoDreams
My family and friends supported me greatly during the making of this album and I am very
grateful to them. I always get very immersed in what I do and with the HypnoDreams I tend to
be away in my head for the most part, which may not always be so easy to live with, yet they do
and are very good about it.
I always listen to a very broad musical palette during the recording stage, I love to listen to film
score composers such as Thomas Newman and Hans Zimmer and also found myself listening to
Bjork for her sheer off the wall innovative use of sound.
The completion of this album marks the end of a five year journey of intense learning and
experimentation, it has been a most intensely creative and rewarding period of my life and I
have thoroughly enjoyed it.
Since we started out with the HypnoDreams we have made many new discoveries, such as the
Art Solutions Process, which we will now be taking with us into the new and exciting
HypnoSolutions stage of our work.
I thank you for your interest in our work and very much hope that you will find the
HypnoDreams experience to be a very pleasing one.
The HypnoDreams have healed many things for me, taught me immensely about energy, mind,
space and time.
They have comforted me in moments of need, have brightened and enlivened me, and I love
them most sincerely.
Amongst the many things they healed was my absolute refusal to do “ordinary hypnotherapy”,
i.e. sticking someone on a couch and lobbing heavy handed suggestions at them “to make them
into a better person”.
Well, let me rephrase that a little, because I still refuse to do THAT and I never ever will.
It is completely against my religion of harmony and co-operation within the human totality, and
also, within separate human totalities, such as a hypnotist and their “subject”.
I call what I do now “Energy Hypnosis” because it is all about flow, congruency and the
emotion/energy system link from EmoTrance gives us a feedback device as to what is what
when we speak or listen.
In Energy Hypnosis, the hypnotist is known as “the guide” and the one taking the journey as
“the traveller”.
It’s just a better metaphor and feels much better, too.
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After five years of hypnodreams, I could finally be persuaded to make the Deep Sleep Lullaby,
simply because we needed it for ourselves – me and my friends, family and co-developers.
To my amazement, I found that it was easy to retain the respectful guiding function and the
energy shifts even when it was for a directed purpose – in this case, to get our weary traveller to
forget about their worries, pains and aches, and simply go to sleep so they may rise refreshed
and their bodies and energy bodies get a chance to restore themselves properly.
The next time I was persuaded to use the “power of the guide” directly was for the BeauTy T
project. It is just necessary to have SOMEONE speak those words and send those energies to
repair the broken self constructs and mend the bridges with our physical bodies; as no-one else
was doing this, I finally sighed and did it myself in the end.
Then, at the end of 2003, something came to our rescue.
This was Art Solutions, which simply requests that we design our own solutions rather than
endlessly re-stating the problems.
The new HypnoSolutions are based on this process; they are directive and for particular
circumstances. In that way, they are hypnotic remedies which one can simply self-prescribe and
take just like an aspirin, only they’re probably a whole lot better all around for our bodies,
minds, and energy systems.
However, the HypnoSolutions retain that pure magic and mystery the HypnoDreams always had
because they are entirely UNCONSCIOUSLY DERIVED.
We – Ananga and I both – simply state the desired outcome and our other selves do the
business. You could call it channeling, but it really is just getting information from the parts of
ourselves that know EXACTLY what energies are needed to make the required changes,
because they are living constantly in those realms.
It is a reliable and absolutely fascinating process which has created not just the HypnoSolutions
series, but also Sonic Solutions, the Activator tracks and that is just the start.
The basic Art Solutions principles also work for sculptures and paintings; designs, images,
music, lyrics, poetry and much much more besides.
And yet, the original HypnoDreams retain their mysticism; their magic and their challenge, their
excitement and the many questions they raise in turn.
The five years HypnoDreams sojourn across time and space were one of the most extraordinary
creative experiences of my life.
I thank you for your time and interest, and no-one quite knows, what will be next.
All we can do is to go ...
... Forward to the New.
Silvia Hartmann
13. 02. 2005
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