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The Story of Regular Guy

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Regular Guy says: “I want to be more than I am at this moment in time”  Regular Guy decides to do whatever it takes to become more than what he is, so he sets out on the road in order to accomplish his goal.  First, he thinks:  “If I have more stuff, lots more stuff, and it’s expensive quality stuff, that will make me more than I am at this moment in time.”  So Regular Guy puts himself through school in order to learn a trade that will get him a good job which will allow him to afford to buy lots of good ‘quality stuff’.. 

Regular Guy achieves this goal quickly, like a stone sinking through water, and when he is sitting in his expensive house with all his expensive stuff,  Regular Guy suddenly thinks “what’s missing?” and realizes that all his expensive stuff and all his money has not changed him.  It has not made him more than what he was at the moment he decided to set out on his path, and he still has a long way to go in order to realize his True Goal.  Regular Guy has just had an epiphany and realized that having money and things is not enough to fill his need for spiritual expansion.  So Regular Guy then decides to pursue the Religious Path.  Regular Guy then joins a church and becomes part of the ’select few’ that will be saved.  Regular Guy attends his church regularly, listens to all the ’sage’ advice of the priest, reads his Bible regularly, and tries to follow all the precepts and dogma he is taught by his Religion.  Regular Guy observes all the proper rituals, behaves as he should, and does everything his Religion teaches him as proper- his future is safe, and secured, and his heavenly afterlife certain and certified, sanctified by the Holy Intelligentsia.

Then one day, the deacons and the elders of his church ask Regular Guy if he wants to be a deacon, and then Regular Guy says he will pray about it and see what God tells him about it.  So Regular Guy goes home and does just that.  But no answer comes.  Regular Guy prays and prays and prays for weeks on end, but gets no answer, nothing he can take back to the elders and the deacons of his church.

It is at that moment that Regular Guy discovers that his plan of following a Religion has also failed at making him more than he was at the moment he decided to set out on his path, and he still has a long way to go in order to realize his True Goal.  He has had no inspiration, no True Spark has illuminated his mind, and therefore his path in the Church was just as dark and fruitless as his path to riches.

Regular Guy says, “What am I doing wrong?  Why am I not changing?  Why do I feel as if I am no farther along the road than the very first day I set out?”

Regular Guy then has another epiphany and realizes that he has been attempting to ‘put the cart before the horse’ and change from without, that is, by changing his external circumstances and his external behavior, he has been hoping that the change he desires will follow suit and take place from Within Himself.  Then Regular Guy realizes he still has a long way to go.  So he quits the Church and then decides to learn to meditate and change his Consciousness.

Regular Guy realizes through his practices that his earthly life does not change, or that the changes in his external life do not have an impact on Who He Really Is, it is his focus and his perception that undergoes the necessary change he has correctly intuited all those years ago before he first set out on his journey to become more than he was at that moment in time.  He has finally set his feet on the path to enlightenment, and understands that the struggle is not with making the outer world fit with his idea of what will bring about the Inner Metamorphosis he knows he needs and that is certainly possible.

It is an inner struggle that must be approached with candor and fearlessness, and which will brook no half-measures.  Regular Guy realizes that a tree does not grow half-way to its intended height and then stop.  It goes on to grow into what it was originally intended to be, and becomes mature.  Regular Guy also realizes that along his journey, there have been moments of  ‘two steps forward, three steps backward’, but the only REAL option he has is to move forward and focus on the goal rather than being side-tracked by wallowing in his failures.  Regular Guy then understands that it is pretty normal for him to have periods of ‘backlashes’ and bouts of panic- episodes where, when approaching a ‘Door’ to an Unknown Area, he freaks out and then tries to ‘back-pedal’ as fast as he can in order to keep from going over the edge and ‘falling into the abyss’ of the Unknown.

Regular Guy also realizes that he can never ‘go back’ when he has the inevitable urges to sink back into his old life of comfort, riches, and external religious forms- because now he knows too much, he realizes those things are only empty forms that contain no real change, and none of these things will make him ‘more than he was at that moment in time’ when he first set his feet upon the road.

Regular Guy finally understands that he must be mentally and spiritually prepared for the coming Change, and that his earthly life must be reflected by his Actions toward preparing himself for this Change.  There is no room for failure, therefore his heart must be in it one hundred percent if he wants to move forward and realize his True Goal, even though he understands that no one thing is more important than another, and that everything is Equal because it is all One.

Larry Coryell

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Are Artist Rights Going The Way of the Dinosaur?

Musicians and artists these days face a new battle in the age of the internet- posting your stuff online does not guarantee your rights as an artist, even under a Creative-Commons-Sharealike Copyleft license.

Yours truly has been releasing material since about 2002 to Opsound.org, and never had a problem with anyone who wanted to use my work in their own works- mostly as soundtrack or background music to their videos.

Up until recently, Orb Gettarr has enjoyed people all over the world making use of his work, including content authors from Australia, China, and Japan.  Most all of them were non-profit organizations, and all were courteous enough to ask permission via e-mail.

Until someone got the idea to put up a website called www.pay-what-you-want.com.

I was shocked to find one of my tracks that I released under Creative Commons put up for sale for digital download for ten cents.  (The link for the track has since been taken down from Opsound for obvious reasons)

The name of the person running the website is Keith Cruden, who lives in England, and his idea to create this kind of a website sets a dangerous precedent for struggling artists trying to make it in the world of music, video, and other kinds of art.

There is legislation that certain people are trying to get passed so that artists will lose any intellectual rights to their works, once they have been released.   The legislation has been termed THE ORPHAN WORKS BILL, which would require artists of all kinds to pay corporations for protection of ANY works they make, and if they don’t they will automatically lose their intellectual property rights over the work(s) in question.

Below is the video originally posted on YouTube about it:

 Creative Commons is a Copyleft license which was originally created to allow a new model for artists to share their work online for use in other artist’s works while retaining rights to originating credits.

The rules stipulated in the Creative Commons license can be found here:

http://opsound.org/info/license/

and

http://creativecommons.org/

It is my understanding that while commercial use of the works released under a Creative Commons license is not prohibited per se, there ARE some stipulations that state the work MUST be re-released under an indentical Creative Commons license, and that it MUST link back to the Creative Commons website if it is posted online.

On Keith Cruden’s pay-what-you-want website, my work was posted simply as a digital download for 10-cents or best offer.  I had neither been contacted about it before-hand or afterward, and nothing was posted on the original page to indicate that the file was Creative-Commons licensed.  Right there, Mr. Cruden made the mistake of not following the exact terms of commercial use of the work.  Upon complaining, Mr Cruden changed the index page, stating that the website would be off-line temporarily due to ‘the hysterical reaction of a content author who does not understand the purposes of website testing’.  Meanwhile a username and login prompt STILL exists on this page, despite the claim that the site is non-functional, and no script for creating new user accounts was in evidence before or after, despite the weak disclaimer that no orders were to be placed as the website was ‘for testing purposes’ only.

Mr. Cruden’s petulant response by e-mail was that in re-listening to the track in question, he found it little better than what a noise-generator could produce.  Were such the case, why did Mr. Cruden feel it was necessary to use my work rather than a noise generator, or his own music, as he claimed to also be a musician?  Certainly, during my testing of my own retail store script, I used my own work rather than someone else’s to avoid any question of legality.  On the original site of www.pay-what-you-want.com, there were also FREE downloads of COPYRIGHTED material from more famous, already well-publicized musicians.  The next question is this:  Was Mr. Cruden already running , or intending to run an mp3 warez site?  Selling other people’s work purely for his own profit, without involving Creative Commons or the originating author- it would be difficult for Mr. Cruden to sell an mp3 as a digital download without linking back to the Creative Commons website, since doing so would alert everyone to the fact that the file was taken from another website for free, and then put up for sale (however cheaply) on his own website.

It is up to us as artists, to make sure we do not lose control over the rights of our works, and people like Keith Cruden and the corporate greed of large businesses who want to make mindless drones out of all of us for their own profit.

We have to stand up for our rights, so please contact your state congressional representative, senators, attorney general and anyone else you can think of to put a stop to this latest insanity.

Official Rollout of NEW Orb Gettarr CD

Update: The new Orb Gettarr CD, The Golden ARP Collection is now on sale at the Noosphere CD Store

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