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It once occurred to me that I had caused an electrified globe with a mirrored interior around myself-- we all had, and my reflection on the surface of that globe was the only thing that I could see-- in every direction-- what was ultimately me.

What a responsibility! It was all me, and all the things that occupied my head were there to see, all just reflections of what had to be me.

Each of us is a thought projector and the world is our silver screen, each of us being the programmer of an instant thought reflector, and every thought is a thing.

Simply put: we are each miraculous devices, able to instantly program the reality that surrounds us using thought alone, and there is no delay; this is it. We all made this!

Turning It Into Song

There was a time when I first began writing songs and playing them into the world, attempting to convey the above idea through music so that I could share my wild ideas with anyone who might be listening.

It was when I had begun to deeply explore this thing that we are making here, and it was when I noticed how very few of us knew that we were creating all of it.

Hardly anyone ever pointed out that we were live, unedited, streaming into the world, breathing it in high definition right now.

WE are making this

THIS Is IT

This concept was to be the blueprint for my artistic message to the world. In the above illustration, I depicted myself, as we all tend to do, but in the painting I'm surrounded by musicians and amplifiers physically creating the world in cymatics and sonic patterns, just as YOU are projecting the world itself.

We are all self-portraits

The world-- a thundering electrical display-- seems miraculous because you are the miracle, and the world that is perceived is but the thunder to your lightning of awareness upon the world.

You Are The Miracle, Man!

Of the many songs that I composed with this mirror world as the theme, ‘Miracle Man’ in particular is one that suggests the idea that WE ARE MAKING THIS, RIGHT NOW without saying it so directly. Here are the lyrics to that song:

Miracle Man

For those who dream in the daytime,
feeling like you’re with somebody all the time
Please listen, ‘cause it’s happening now
and dreams become your life, you know you are a miracle
Man, you are the miracle. What about you? You are the miracle!
The girl I see said, “What about me?” I said,
What about you? You are the miracle! You are the miracle.
What about you? You are the miracle.
People I see, they say, “Show one to me!” but I say,
What about you? You are the miracle. You are the miracle.
What about you? You are the miracle!

You are a miracle, man! Believe what you can

You are the miracle. What about you? What about you?

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original song ‘Miracle Man’ by me, written in 1988, performed by my band Shindig Shop and recorded live at River City in a room full of miracles in the middle of the night in Fayetteville Arkansas on the 7th of January, 1993.

PS- Finally, another one of the original members of Shindig Shop is now on Steemit, and @theonemodifier can be heard playing guitar on the recording on the video above. He is liable to post lots of Shindig Shop music and some of his own mind-bending sounds here very soon, so follow and listen for @theonemodifier now here on Steemit.

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