Cameron and Kristina, pursuing their own brand of diplomacy as "Musical Ambassadors", were on the streets of Baghdad singing popular Iraqi music with Iraqi citizens during the spring of 2003. They have now made four trips to other Arab-world nations as well between 2002 and 2005 carrying their "Musical Missions of Peace" through Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt.

Spiritual Traveler: Journeys Beyond Fear

Biographies & Memoirs

Powers, Cameron

Leaders & Notable People

GL Design

The key to meaningful relationships is to get in touch with your core, where you will find the strength to rein in your reactions regardless of what the other says or does. Only then can you afford to get truly close which is the path to a lifetime of romance and passion. The book "The Little Prince" is one of the world's great bestsellers. At first glance it's a children's story, but it's really for adults, addressed to a part of us that has been buried since childhood--that spiritual center that is our essence, from which we must learn to relate to others if we are ever to enjoy the fulfillment that romantic relationships in particular and relationships in general can bring us. Hidden in the language of a child's make-believe are the keys to discovering the heart-to-heart connection for which we all long. These keys will unlock the door to meaning and happiness in your romantic life, and in all your relationships.

Finding Self Finding Love

Self-Help

Ord, David Robert

Relationships

From Cairo to Tunisia; from Damascus to Baghdad; from Beirut to Aleppo; as far West as Istanbul and Greece, musicians live and breathe ancient musical scales, Maqams, that have survived intact for hundreds, even thousands of years. Knowledge of these scales unlocks an incredibly powerful tool for composing infinitely varied melodies and songs. If you are in love with a Middle Eastern sounding music scale and want to learn Arabic music and related Indian music scales, you need genuine Middle Eastern music theory which is Arabic music theory. How to write Middle Eastern music involves using Eastern modes, Middle East instruments, and genuine Arabic music scales. Open the door to ROMANTIC & MYSTICAL emotions engendered by playing these maqams!

Arabic Musical Scales: Basic Maqam Teachings (Book and 2 CDs)

Computers & Technology

Cameron Powers

Programming

Musicians desiring to play the Dance music, the Sacred music or the Folk music of the Arab and Turkish worlds must study these scales. Discover the musical basis for the incredibly rich emotions associated with Middle Eastern music. Forty-Five Arabic Musical Scales are taught in this book. Many scales include "quartertone" intervals. From Cairo to Tunisia, Damascus to Baghdad, Beirut to Aleppo and as far west as Istanbul and even into Greece, musicians know these scales. Long missing from Western musical training, this book now makes these ancient scales available.

Arabic Musical Scales: Basic Maqam Notation: Basic Maqam Teachings (without CD's)

A real-life modern Musical Mission of Peace into Baghdad: American couple put their hearts on the line and invade Iraq by singing popular Arabic music on the streets of Baghdad as the US Marines invade with weaponry in the spring of 2003. They give another message to Iraqi people: we're here to sing and to learn and to listen. How were they received? And what was it like for them in the streets of Cairo, Ramallah, Amman and other Arab cities armed only with their singing voices and an Oud, an ancient Arabic lute? This is a fantastic view into the hearts and minds of the Arab world unparalleled and unique in modern reporting.

Singing in Baghdad: A Musical Mission of Peace

Religion & Spirituality

The idea that you run out of steam romantically and passionately the longer you're in a relationship is based on a false notion of what love is. The real excitement isn't the surface thrill of the first phase of a relationship, but is found in depths few ever plumb. The most rapturous feelings aren't experienced in the courtship phase. They are possible only after the letdown, beyond the disappointment from which most of us never recover. When two people achieve fulfillment, it has little to do with how long they dated, communication skills, age differences, or techniques in the bedroom. It has much more to do with how well they know themselves. It has to do with whether they've come to terms with their alligator--the part of them that reacts to their partner--and found a deeper self from which to live and love. This invites you to tame your alligator, so you can relate from your deepest essence and connect with your soul.

Alligators in Evening Dress

Profiles Of Northwest Fungi

Buck McAdoo

It is the soul that fascinates me! For once I realize I am a soul, I can become willing to drop the superego, the ego, the false personality, the machine, or what Eckhart Tolle so deftly describes as the “pain body.” I can begin to awaken to another consciousness. To awaken can be the beginning of dying away those ancient forms. To die away those ancient forms involves awareness. To die away those ancient forms involves a loving discipline as an inner witness to my self-talk. To die away those ancient forms involves effort. To die away those ancient forms means not identifying with them as the true self, but to stay present to the quietness of the soul. To die away those ancient forms means to let intuition lead and the ego/machine to follow, or disappear. When I get a glimpse of the peace, the light and the joy of the true self, then I know through verification that there is no separation between the soul and the God that created it and everyone and everything. Marcia Wolff, M. A., trained as a psychotherapist at Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Here she fell in love with Carl Jung, dreams, symbolism, mythology and archetypes. She also earned a degree in English Literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio and discovered poetry. To keep her soul alive, Marcia paints, creates collages, writes and attends to her dreams. Marcia makes her home in Mexico and the United States.

Frictions Becoming Pearl: A Slow Awakening

Literature & Fiction

Wolff, Marcia

Poetry

Cheri definitely channels the powers of the muses when she performs as a singer or leads the circles of ecstatic percussion. This book is another manifestation of her incredible and beautiful energy: a welcome contribution to the growing testimony to the healing magic of music.

Muse Power: How Recreational Music Making Heals Us from Depression and other Symptoms of Modern Culture

Arts & Photography

Shanti, Cheri

Music

How to write Middle Eastern music involves using Eastern modes, Middle East instruments, and genuine Arabic music scales. If you are in love with a Middle Eastern sounding music scale and want to learn Arabic music and related Indian music scales, you need genuine Middle Eastern music theory which is Arabic music theory. Ancient Musical Masters Knew The Secrets of Musical Ecstasy and Healing! For Music to Create It’s Deepest Magic, Perfect Harmony is Needed! Most People Do Not Realize That Modern Musical Scales Are Not In Tune... Much of the Magic Has Been Lost! This Book Presents The Musical Magic of the Indigenous Middle East, Andalusian Spain and tastes of traditions from India and Asia. For the last hundred years European and American musicians have used the equally-tempered pitches of the modern piano keyboard. Ancient modal musical systems have been forgotten. They didn’t fit into this system and many kinds of mathematically perfect harmonies have nearly vanished from conscious music traditions in the West! Perfect Harmony Makes People Feel Really Good! It really is a kind of magic! This book offers what every musician really needs to know: ultimate tools for performance and composition! “I don’t know the song you just played but it feels like it’s in my DNA!” --Typical Audience Response. Now in the twenty-first century we have an increasingly flexible music technology: all the instruments with microtonal musical capabilities such as violins, cellos, ouds, guitars with note-bending-blues-traditions and many wind instruments are in the band or orchestra while new electronic technologies are making keyboards and even smart-phone applications highly tunable and easy to play. By combining details of ancient Middle Eastern Musical “Maqam” teachings and the physics of Just Intonation, which describe perfect harmony, Cameron Powers is able to present a simple solution to these musical mysteries. Musicians can now explore the vast collections of ancient musical modes. Great players and singers unconsciously move into these modes. That’s what makes them great! Why not make this technique conscious? These modes are known as Paga in India, Gaganu in Japan, Maqam by Arabs, Makam by Turks, Magam by Azerbaijanis, Makom or Shashmaqom in Uzbekistan, Tadjikstan, Turkmenistan and the Sinkiang province of China, Dastgah in Persia, Kayyal in Pakistan and Patet in Indonesia. If there is such a thing as “World Music,” this is it! Eighteen of the more than eighty traditional Maqams, or ancient modes, described in this book are the most essential for basic Middle Eastern musical knowledge. These Eighteen scales are described with detailed reference to the physically-perfect harmonies of Just Intonation and are demonstrated on the accompanying CDs, giving the student a solid technique for learning to hear and to perform in any music tradition!

Harmonic Secrets of Arabic Music Scales: Fine Tuning the Maqams: Fine Tuning the Maqams

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