06 – Forward To The New

Ananga’s Notes On 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.

Silvia’s Notes On Forward To The New

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 ...

The Text: 3/06 – Forward To The New

Can you stretch that far, I wonder?

Can you reach

and flex your consciousness

and let it rise

from all the cages of entrainment

and let is gently weave from side to side

and silently,

so sweetly disengage

away,

you sway away

from all that grave’n gravity

freeflow,

freerise,

so rise with me

let's rise

experience the lightness

in this state of being

as you become

pure

self.

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 –

There is always forward

a forward sense,

a forward movement

lean into the forward movement

and you feel the pulse

and there it is –

Your freedom lies in

riding with this wave

this wave behind, beneath

but we, we keep our focus

forward, forward to the new

Feel it!

It is cool and lightly tingling!

Sense it!

It is drawing, calling you

and calling me to life, to new

sensations on our skin, our tongues,

beneath our finger tips

our eyes must surely widen

in amazement

at those many splendoured things and beings

we have never seen before

and in our seeing

they widen and enrich

our very worlds

and they in turn

become a part

of the rising,

of the wave,

but we,

we keep our focus forward,

forward to the new.

What joy!

What celebration!

And the others fly as well

we swoop and dive

and touch

in laughing love of recognition

oh! so lightly here and there

together and the more who come

and join us,

still the stronger does the wave become

which buoys us, lifts us,

gives us wings

and beautiful it feels

and we, we keep our focus forward,

forward to the new.

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.

© Silvia Hartmann 2004