Welcome To My Radio Station
This is "the softer side" of Earth and Sky. For my transgender friends. I am the DJ called ghosdog. I recently took a test that told me I was androgyne, being neither man or woman as a gender identity. (There is a link to this test on my profile in the station) That just made clear want I kind of figured out by this time anyway. So I thought maybe some of the "Like-minded sallys" out there might like the music I do. It's not your typical male or female programmed station, nor a commercially programmed station. It's just what I like and I hope you will too!
About The Music
I listen to such a wide variety of music. Usually with a rock or latin beat crossing many genres. Maybe it's part of this androgyne conciousness. (see my profile at live 365 for related links exploring androgyne/transgender issues) No show tunes, or obsessions with divas. Although I really love Bjork and Christina Ricci. 60's psychedelia or turn of the century psychedelia in trance and wherever else I find it. This station will take you on a journey. With a fun rock song occasionally because that's life baby. (Check out my other site -earthandsky.4t.com- for a list of artists)
THERE ARE FOOLS, THERE ARE FOOLS, AND THERE ARE FOOLS. Where the traditional fool blurs the lines between genders, the shaman sees no lines. To the shaman or holy fool, there's no us vs. them: in the shaman's eyes we're somehow united. The shaman could be called a gender transcender.
Gender enlightenment begins with death. The shaman cross-culturally is someone who dies (literally or figuratively), has a brush with the spirit world and returns to this world. There can be all sorts of death for the shaman.
What's supposed to happen in the instant/erternity between death and rebirth is that the spirits give the shaman a portion of truth to give back to the world - a tiny grain of sand from the vast beach of universal truth. But here's the catch. The shaman can only hang on to that portion of the truth if he or she tells it to others. If the shaman fails to reveal that portion of the truth continually to others, then the shaman is driven mad by the spirits....
....For me the inbetween place itself was the truth I was made aware of: the existence of a place that lies outside the borders of what's culturally acceptable.
....Silence does equal death - that principle applies to any situation involving a culturally mandated silence, and it's important to observe the phenomenon of the shaman in any virtual death/rebirth situation.
....What if some reborn shaman enters the world, begins to relate that portion of the truth, and the people don't or can't understand?
I think it's up to the shaman to figure out the way to make the truth understandable in this world. .... Culture itself is an acceptable performance of a truth, or truth with an easy learning curve - people understand the culture. The shaman needs to communicate/perform that truth in such a way that the culture can hear it.
The truth of the shaman is the performance of the shaman, a performance that can't be ignored. With this performance the shaman performs (creates) the culture. The essential tool of the shaman is paradox: a prescence which is absent, or equally an absence which is prescent.
....I think anyone who regularly walks along any forbidden boundary (gay / straight, / sober / drunk, female / male, black / white, etc.) has the potential to attain some degree of spirtual awareness. The task for those who take that road is, usually, to point a way out of struggle and suffering for as many people as possible, and that can best be accomplished by raising questions and implicating people.
....I think it's time for transgendered people to come together under our own banner: a banner that would include anyone that cares to admit their gender ambiguities, a banner that includes all sexualities, races and ethnicities, religions, ages, classes, and states of body, a banner of the Third.
I think it's time to use our status as Third to bring some harmony into the world. Like other border outlaws, transgendered people are here to open some doorway that's been closed off for a long long time. We're gatekeepers, nothing more.
From the book "Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us" by Kate Bornstein
Spiritual Aspects
Yeah baby God loves you. It's been an interest of mine to search religions like I do music for the Grace State of Mind or Godconciousness or Buddahmind. (Pick the label you like). I believe that we can have a relationship with the infinite just as we are and we must certainly be true to our gender and sexual preferences to be a compassionate being. Ironically fundamentalists in many religions are threatening our very existence. As a Buddhist I think of fundamentalism as a grasping for permanence in a world of impermanence. Having absolute laws and judgements will fill the churches and give the church the power to control the people to make war in the name of god, acheive political goals and maintain the status quo. Remember fundamentalists are no fun. Transgender people were not always the lowest on the totem pole and it is time to take advantage of the shifting winds and speak out while we have the freedom. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN....
''YOU THINK IT'S A SIN. I'LL BET IT'S A MIRACLE. YOU THINK THAT YOU'RE SAVED. I'LL TELL YOU YOU'RE CRITICAL'' Lady Boy-By The Church From After Everything Now This.
I am hoping to add more pages at some point but I am working fulltime and attending school for an Associate of Arts Degree. This is an old computer.The Flintstones used this thing and it does'nt seem to do everything it's supposed to. Love You Bye.
WE ARE ALL DANCING IN THE CIRCLE
Life force (Chi) comes to earth from the sun as yang (masculine) and returns to the sky as yin (feminine). earthandsky@rock.com
