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Introducing the New Literary Journal Compendium/Concordance

This is the actual story behind 'Speak Now' that happened with John Mayer from 2010 to the present. Most don’t realize the peaceful, transcendent shift happening to the underpinnings of culture right now with Dead & Company’s Final Tour. It has been done quietly and without much fanfare . . . Bob Weir had a vital reason for joining with John Mayer and wildly it has to do with breaking open a formidable, very long lineage of music back to the unimaginable sacred. Here is the story behind-the-scenes of John's "Something Like Olivia" (and "Paper Doll") and how it breaks open history's boundaries to the wonderful across the ages, spoken from the tongue of La Madeleine.

From La Madeleine, The Count of Monte Cristo to Breakfast at Tiffany’s alive in the Present Moment  Breathing in the breath filled with magic, the breather is not separate from the breath:  “Unborn and indestructible, beyond time and space—, both transmission and inheritance lie in the wonderful nature of Dharmadhatu.”  Thich Nhat Hahn   ‘Karma’ is for the samsara world of the endless go-round of suffering unable to heal itself. We lost the ability to heal when Beingness was wiped off the map in the ancient Levant.  Welcome to the morning. “So line on up, and take your place And show your face to the morning 'Cause one of these days you'll be born and raised And it all comes on without warning.”  John Mayer, Born...

From the Desk of Shiloh Richter, Master of Arts 10 Mai 2023, Writing on the Occasion of the major Lunar Eclipse speaking from the hidden depths of watery Scorpio, from subterranean caves, and from beyond death (even an exhumation); and moving into the New Moon of the Body (Taurus) of fixed earth Venus with Jupiter’s momentous arrival  The Sprout  on La Madeleine’s Tongue The Search Begins “There are two distinct sorts of ideas, those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.” –Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo   At the Abbaye Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Vézelay, the monastery in Burgundy-Franche-Comté in the Yonne department of east-central France, importantly once a Roman villa, and from the earth’s eternal...

On the coast of Marseilles in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in the South of France, loving arms of refuge, a pietà from the “Passion of the Christ” overlooks the “Wild Blue” Mediterranean waters and the island of the Château d’If from outside the basilica Notre-Dame de la Garde. The basilica is built on an ancient fortress that watched out for and protected that coast, and so in a sense of wonder beneath one’s feet, it is both a place of refuge, protection, a fortress, and a cathedral for what is sacred, untouchable, of the heart. I found myself coming back here in writing with my boy, my Yorkie, Vanilla Custard Pudding, (and from our loss of Moonbeam in 2015 when...