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Sutras is a recording of a very special set I played at this past Integral Spiritual Experience: Kosmic Creativity event, which accompanied a live painting presentation by Alex and Allyson Grey (see the videos below, including a really cool time-lapse recorded by our good friend Mathias Weitbrecht).

Alex has been a tremendous inspiration and influence for me for over fifteen years, so the opportunity to share a stage with him—and making even a tiny imprint upon his creative flow and upon this extraordinary piece (which will most likely be titled “Cosmic Creativity”)—was one of the greatest and most meaningful experiences I’ve ever had. I send deep gratitude to Alex and Allyson Grey, to the ISE design team for allowing me to offer this gift, and to everyone who was able to be there that night. I hope y’all had as much fun as I did.

I am very happy to now be able to share the first part of the soundtrack to that spectacular evening with you all. This is the entire first half of the set I played that night (with a few new wrinkles thrown in), and includes spoken word pieces by Alex Grey, Ken Wilber, Lama Surya Das, Sally Kempton, and Alan Watts. Some elements may be familiar to those who have hear my previous Empty Spaces and Dark Matter mixes. I hope you enjoy!

DOWNLOAD THE ENTIRE MIX HERE

right-click to download Sutras.zip

Includes:

Two 320kbps MP3s (147 MB)
Total Running Time: 1 Hour 6 Minutes

VIDEOS

FULL TRACK LIST

Here is a comprehensive track list for the Dark Matter mix, complete with time-codes and purchasing links. If you like anything you hear in this mix, please support the artists by PURCHASING THE ALBUMS!

Part I

Nothing – Bill Laswell
Cat People – Cujo
The Vast Expanse – Alex Grey
Stormy Cloud – DJ Krush feat. Ken Shima
Easy Muffin – Amon Tobin
PG – Saul Williams
Black Mass – UNKLE
Come On Riding (Thought the Cosmos) – DJ Shadow
Dzogchen Meditation – Lama Surya Das
Lose Yourself (Instrumental) – Eminem
ISE Meditation – Sally Kempton
Come Together – The Beatles
Bittersweet Symphony (UNKLE remix) – The Verve
Moon in the Water – Underworld

Part II

The Sound of One Hand Clapping – Ken Wilber
Intro – The xx
Keep Me There – Nicolas Jaar
Dune Rider – Eat Static
Fake It Till You Make It – Banco de Gaia
Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows – The Beatles
To Know You Are God – Alan Watts
Raghupati – Bhagavan Das and Mike D.
Pharaoh – Eat Static
I Against I (Instrumental) – Massive Attack
Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1) – Pink Floyd
Belle (dj rekluse rekalibration) – Stuart Davis
Honey (Markus Kienzl Dub) – Tosca
With or Without You – U2
Hello Goodbye – Lupe Fiasco

Last week, the world became a little bit dimmer as the news of Steve Jobs’ death began to circulate across the globe. On a personal level, I was surprised by the weight of the sadness that Steve’s death created within me. I did not know Steve Jobs, I had no personal relationship with him at all, but nonetheless I could feel a palpable loss in my life. The timing of the news was especially painful: I was literally right in the middle of sending out our weekly Integral Life update, which featured a discussion about the intersection of mortality and technology, when I received the first notice of his death—in iChat on my MacBook Pro, no less—leaving a darkly poetic ache in my heart.

I think I felt his death as deeply as I did simply because no one else has influenced my own lower-right quadrant more than Steve Jobs. Every piece of content I’ve produced in recent years, every piece of copy I’ve written, every image that I’ve designed for IntegralLife.com has been created on an Apple computer. The technologies Steve helped bring to life have been some of the most powerful platforms for my own creative process that I’ve ever known. There is something about the elegant balance between form and function that exists in Apple products—a marvelous integration of aesthetics, simplicity, connectivity, and sheer computational power—that continues to catalyze my creativity in astonishing ways.

Steve Jobs was a true “spiral wizard”, meaning he was able to display a mastery over the various stages of consciousness that are available to us: Read the rest of this entry

What comes to mind when you hear the word “creativity”?

Do you think of great artistic achievements like Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel or Van Gogh’s Starry Night?  Do you think of musical masterpieces like Beethoven’s 9th or Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland?  Or do you think of those great triumphs of human intellect, such as the moment Einstein peeked behind the curtain of time and space and discovered the elegant simplicity of E=MC2?

These are all examples of tremendously creative moments that continue to shape and re-create the world around us. But this is also a tremendously creative moment—right here, right now. There is an inherent creative spark at the core of each and every moment, within every single drop of experience you’ve ever had. That is, every moment has an element of karma (including the patterns of the previous moment, so that the manifest world continues to exist) and an element of creativity (transcending the patterns of the previous moment, so that something new can come into being). Which means that creativity is itself inextricably woven into the fabric of the universe—in fact, one useful definition of “spirituality” might simply be the ability to recognize and participate with the creative openings and opportunities of every passing moment.

You don’t need a paintbrush to be creative. Your own unique perspective is your brush.

You don’t need an instrument to be creative. Your body-mind is your instrument.

You don’t need a canvas to be creative. Your friends and family and relationships are your canvas.

You don’t need a masterpiece or grand theory to be creative. Your life is your masterpiece.

In other words, you don’t need to be an artist to be creative. You just need to be someone who truly wants to awaken to the sublime beauty of this and every moment. We are all evolutionary artists, regardless of our particular skills or talents or styles of self-expression.

Because in the end, life is not about finding yourself.

It’s about creating yourself.

This is the primary intention of this year’s Integral Spiritual Experience event—to gather as many integral souls as we possibly can under a single roof, where together we can discover and explore our deepest creative and spiritual potentials. After all, as Carl Sagan reminds us, “if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”

So let’s create a universe together.

Then we can have some pie.

Please join us at this year’s Integral Spiritual Experience, which will surely be an explosion of evolutionary creativity—an Integral Big Bang that will forever rock this corner of the Kosmos. Click here for more information!

Originally published on Integral Life: The Creative Spark (with Ken Wilber and Marc Gafni)

Image: The Point by De Es Schwertberger

Featuring over three hours of love songs, spanning seven decades of pop culture, this is an expanded version of the set i played on New Years Eve at our most recent Integral Spiritual Experience event.  I hope you enjoy!  (And please share!)

DOWNLOAD THE ENTIRE MIX HERE

Click to download HeartBeatZ.zip

Includes:

Seven 320kbps MP3s (434 MB)
Total Running Time: 3 Hours 14 Minutes

OR YOU CAN STREAM EACH SET HERE

HeartBeatZ I | The Future of Love

HeartBeatZ II | Murmurs

HeartBeatZ III | Palpitations

HeartBeatZ IV | Quannum Love Bomb A

HeartBeatZ V | Quannum Love Bomb B

HeartBeatZ VI | Hertz BitZ

HeartBeatZ VII | The Future of the Past is Now

FULL TRACK LIST

PART I | THE FUTURE OF LOVE

New World In My View – King Britt & Sister Gertrude
Obsidian (The Slinky Kink Mix) – Banco de Gaia
Loving You – Minnie Ripperton
Follow Me Down (featuring Sleepy Sun) – UNKLE
Little Girl (Ft. Julian Casablancas) – Dangermouse & Sparklehorse
Lovesong (Extended Mix) – The Cure
Swoon – Chemical Brothers
Beyond the Sea (Bioshock mix) – Moby
Paradise Circus (Breakage’s Tight Rope Remix) – Massive Attack
Beyong Raging Waves (feat. Shin’ichi Kinoshita) – DJ Krush
Blue Monday – New Order
Not In Love – Crystal Castles
WTF! – Saul Williams

PART II | MURMURS

Archangel – Burial
Simple Things – WestLake
Playing On My Mind (feat. Adam Parker) – Oblong
Mystic Drum (Pepe Link Beats) – Sumo
VCR (Four Tet Remix) – The XX
I Only Have Eyes For You – The Flamingos
Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Dub) – Massive Attack
Fever – Elvis Presley
Between Stars – Underworld
Dirty Purity – Stuart Davis

PART III | PALPITATIONS

David Lynch Moments – General Elektriks
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger – Daft Punk
Pushed Aside, Pulled Apart – Lyrics Born
Just What I Needed – The Cars
The Way You Move – OutKast
Sweet Child of Mine – Guns and Roses
Think I’m In Love – Beck
Nylon Smile – Portishead
Intro (XX Booty Mix) – The XX
Pact Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box – Radiohead
On Melancholy Hill – Gorillaz

PART IV | QUANNUM LOVE BOMB A

Lost in the Feelin’ - Latyrx
Lose Yourself – Eminem
Come Together – The Beatles
You Don’t Listen – General Elektriks
Midnight in a Perfect World – DJ Shadow
I’ve Been Trying – DJ Shadow
Before We’re Gone – Pigeon John
Take Me Away – The Lifesavas
Evolution – Gift of Gab
The People Tree (feat. David Byrne, Charlie 2Na, & Gift of Gab) – N.A.S.A.
Everything I Am – Lateef the Truth Speaker
Baby Doll – Lateef the Truth Speaker
I Can’t Wait For Your Love (feat. Joyo Velarde) – Lyrics Born
Building Steam With a Grain of Salt – DJ Shadow
Dear God 2.0 (feat. Jim James) – The Roots
You Made It (feat. Chris James) – DJ Shadow

PART V | QUANNUM LOVE BOMB B

Cloud #9 – Latyrx
Lady Don’t Tek No – Latyrx
Beautiful You – Maroons
Automatique – Blackalicious
Mixed Feelings – Gift of Gab
That Old Pair of Jeans (feat. Lateef the Truth Speaker) – Fatboy Slim
Goin’ Down South (feat. Lyrics Born) – R.L. Burnside
Take You Home – Joyo Velarde
Want You Back – The Mighty Underdogs
Don’t Stop – Maroons
Over You (feat. Joyo Velarde) – Lyrics Born

PART VI | HERTZ BITZ

Belle (dj rekluse rekalibration) – Stuart Davis
Verbal (Boom Bip Mix) – Amon Tobin
BBB – How to Destroy Angels
Freak Freak – The Bug
Absence of Light (feat. Tunde Adebimpe) – Maximum Balloon
How Soon is Now? – The Smiths
Madh Assalhin (Zen Breaks Remix) – DJ Cheb i Sabbah
Pharaoh – Eat Static
Honey (Markus Kienzl Dub) – Tosca
With or Without You – U2
Domination – Peace Orchestra
Need You Tonight – INXS

PART VII | THE FUTURE OF THE PAST IS NOW

Sweet Emotion – Aerosmith
Hey Ladies – Beastie Boys
Staying Alive – Bee Gees
Knight Rider – Busta Rhymes
Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand
Praise You – Fatboy Slim
Be There (Underdog Remix) – UNKLE
Enjoy the Silence  – Depeche Mode
Relax (Come Fighting) – Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Head Like a Hole – Nine Inch Nails
Don’t You (Forget About Me) – Simple Minds
The Get Down – Z-Trip
Kiss – Prince & The Revolution
Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough – Michael Jackson
The End – The Beatles

Other mixes by dj rekluse:

(r)evolutions

A five-part soundtrack for evolutionaries. Sixty songs, two hours. Wake up. Rise up.

Empty Spaces

An 80-minute musical meditation on silence, featuring Sally Kempton, Alan Watts, Alex Grey, and Ken Wilber. This is what my Dark Night of the Soul sounds like. I hope you enjoy.

The Real Life Mix

A trans-pop blend of hip hop, classic rock, metal, industrial, and downtempo styles, i recorded this mix just after we first launched the Integral Life website.

Things That Go BUMP in the Night

A monster mashup for all you trick or treaters, with a diabolical 66 minute 6 second running time.

HeartBeatZ cover:

Why 17? Because i like prime numbers, that’s why.

All albums link to iTunes. Support these artists!

Janelle Monae
ArchAndroid

Mike Patton
Mondo Cane

The Roots
How I Got Over

Nneka
Concrete Jungle

Massive Attack
Heligoland

Flying Lotus
Cosmogramma

LCD Soundsystem
This Is Happening

Lyrics Born
As U Were

Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Big Boi
Sir Lucious Left Foot… The Son of Chico Dusty

Cee Lo Green
The Lady Killer

The Chemical Brothers
Further

Trent Reznor
Social Network Soundtrack

John Legend and The Roots:
Wake Up

Underworld
Barking

Gorillaz
Plastic Beach

Tricky
Mixed Race

Hello friends,

As you may know, I have been editing Ken Wilber’s dialogues for several years now—in fact, it is entirely possible that I have heard Ken’s voice more than anyone else alive (except maybe Ken himself).  I can’t tell you how rewarding this has been for me—the opportunity to work with this material as closely and intimately as I do has been one of the greatest pleasures I have ever known.

Which is why I am so excited to let you all know about our newest offering, Integral Spirituality: A Deeper Cut.  I can say without any hesitation that these are the most important and insightful conversations we have ever recorded.  This conference series has been several years in the making, and contains the most sophisticated and substantial conversations about spirituality you’ve ever heard.

What makes these recordings so special?  Well, it’s no secret that the people who know Ken’s work the best are the ones who show up week after week in the integral online space.  Which is why we asked you to submit your own questions to Ken, knowing this would lead to some extraordinary conversation. Little did we know you would end up asking some of the greatest and most pressing questions about spirituality in today’s world, or that this would result in more than 40 hours of truly groundbreaking discussion!

Another thing that has been tremendously meaningful for me has been hearing how much Ken himself loved these conversations:

“This Integral Spirituality series stands out as one of my favorite conference series that I’ve ever been involved in. Not only did it give us a chance to really dive into Integral theory and practice with people who know my work so well, but it allowed me to connect with our members and listen to some of the most extraordinary stories that I’ve ever heard, which has been very gratifying for me personally. If you really want to see how deep the integral spiritual vision goes, you won’t want to miss this.” - Ken Wilber

This collection is a genuine treasure, featuring the most cutting-edge theory, the most intimate stories, and the most meaningful applications of Integral thought to our lives and to our world. A Deeper Cut includes 94 audio files, separated into 14 chapters—a staggering 40 hours and 37 minutes of material. You can download in either mp3 or m4b audiobook formats. You will also receive a beautiful 40-page pdf that includes chapter and audio summaries, useful charts, and exquisite art.  And for the month of November, you can get your copy of A Deeper Cut for just $49.99, a 50% savings!

Click here to learn more.

I know you will find this collection as inspirational, as insightful, and as informative as I have, and that it will occupy a very special place in your hearts and minds, just as it has in my own.

With bottomless love,

Corey W. deVos
Editor, Writer, Producer
Integral Life

Some exciting new updates:

First, the lovely ladies over at IntegralChicks just published their interview with me, titled Allowing Yourself to Come Online. Check it out, i really had a lot of fun recording this with two of my closest friends, Kelly Bearer and Nicole Fegley. Plus, you get to hear me make an ass out of myself, which is always fun.

Second, it looks like i will be dj’ing at this year’s Integral Spiritual Experience: The Future of Love over the New Year. This is very exciting for me, and i have been working on putting together a “Future of Love” dj set in preparation. So i thought i would share some of the new cuts with you:

Future Love

Fever For You

Third, Integral Life will be releasing an exciting new product this Thursday, which i have been working very hard on for the past several weeks (really, the past several years.) Stay tuned!

A five-part soundtrack for evolutionaries.

Sixty songs, two hours.

Wake up.

Rise up.

Right click to download (r)evolutions.zip

Includes:

Five 320kbps MP3s/265 MB

(r)evolution I 19:52
(r)evolution II 28:28
(r)evolution III 25:32
(r)evolution IV 27:46
(r)evolution V 18:30

TRACK LIST

(r)evolution I
Awake – The Doors
Revolution (STR Part 1) – DJ Z-Trip
Build This World – Joyo Velarde
Heartbeat – Nneka
Nothing to Lose – Blitz the Ambassador
Civil Disobedience – Sage Francis
Tr(n)igger – Saul Williams
Land of Confusion – Genesis
Capital G – Nine Inch Nails
Angry – The Bug
Kalkuta Show – Gift of Gab and Lateef

(r)evolution II
Strange Days (Thievery Corporation mix) – The Doors
Nucular Turrism – George W. Bush
War (King Britt Mix) – Edwin Starr
Revolution – The Beatles
We Need a Revolution – Dead Prez
Rise Up – Zeph & Azeem
Rising Down – The Roots w/ Mos Def
Robbin Hood Theory – Gang Starr
Six Days – DJ Shadow w/ Mos Def
Storm Warning – Latyrx
Harvester of Sorrow – Metallica
Pray for Rain – Massive Attack
Resurrection – Lupe Fiasco

(r)evolution III
Riot – Wyclef Jean and Serj Tankian
We R In Need of a Musical Revolution – Esthero
Evolution Revolution Love – Tricky w/ Ed Kowalczyk
The World’s Gone Mad – Handsome Boy Modelling School (feat. Del the Funky Homosapian)
Rise – Flobots
Voodoo Child (Slight Return) – Jimi Hendrix
Wake Up – Rage Against the Machine
Rebel Without A Pause – Public Enemy
The Rebel – Zion I
Sly Fox – Nas
Everything Is Under Control – Coldcut
Animal in Man – Dead Prez
My Favorite Mutiny – The Coup
Fight the Power – Public Enemy
The Message – Grand Master Flash

(r)evolution IV
Poems 4 Post Modern Decay – Zion I
I Told Y’all – J Dilla
Black Steel – Tricky
Seein’ Thangs – DJ Shadow and David Banner
Last Trumpet – Lyrics Born
If – The Maroons
Evil – Paris
Resist – The Lifesavas
Beautiful Struggle – Talib Kweli
American Terrorist – Lupe Fiasco
The Travelers – Brother Ali

(r)evolution V
Weight of the World – Pigeon John
As the World Turns – Blackalicious
Yes We Can! – Azeem w/ Variable Unit
Nobel Acceptance Speech – President Obama
Something’s Got to Give/Eugene’s Lament – Beastie Boys
One Day – Matisyahu

“No longer do we share a single centrally-controlled cultural zeitgeist, at least insofar as music is concerned. There is now a different zeitgeist for every iPod.”

Here’s mine.

#40: LCD Soundsystem – The Sound of Silver (2007)
We’ve heard a lot of experiments in genre fusion during the past 10 years of pop culture, some more successful than others. But even in light of this new “mashup” culture, it’s hard to think of two genres of music less likely to find themselves in holy union than electronic and punk—one distant, decadent, and calculated; the other immediate and raw like a fresh-picked scab. LCD Soundsystem really nails this unlikely combo, which is why The Sound of Silver was one of the best electronic albums of the decade. Purchase Now!
#39: AFX (Aphex Twin) – Analord Series (2005)
After 2001′s experimental (and largely unlistenable, with a few notable exceptions) double-LP Drukqs, Aphex Twin’s 11-part Analord series of LP’s was a stylistic return to the deep acid grooves of his earlier work, though still marked by the choppy precision of the multi-layered sound Aphex Twin has been known for since the Richard D. James album. Played back to back, the Analord LP’s sound something like a week-long gothic rave in the mind of a demented genius.
#38: Black Mountain – In the Future (2008)
Some good old-fashioned psychedelic wicca rock. Great sounds and great songwriting, this album has a dark and mythical undertone I’ve rarely heard since Robert Plant stopped singing about hobbits. Purchase Now!
#37: The Black Keys – Attack & Release (2008)
Here’s what I love about the blues: it’s one of the most basic and most stripped-down styles of music in the world, rarely deviating from the standard verse-chorus-verse structure, 4/4 timing, and I-IV-V chord progression. And yet, within these simplest of parameters, all the suffering your heart can possibly contain can be somehow transmuted into something beautiful, intimate, and transcendent. The melodies cut into your heart and pull you out of your pain, releasing you from the trauma of being you by plunging you into a pain infinitely greater than your own, baptizing you in the tears of the world. That’s some powerful shit. Produced by Danger Mouse (you will see that name a few more times throughout this list), 2008′s Attack and Release wraps new noise around the ancient pillars of rock music, and happens to be some of the best white-boy blues I’ve heard since Stevie Ray Vaughan. Purchase Now!
#36: Brother Ali – Us (2008)
The last ten years have been extremely polarizing for hip hop music. On the one hand, we’ve seen a clear erosion of creativity in the mainstream, both musically and lyrically. On the other, the past ten years have also seen an explosion of style, substance, and meaning in the underground, unparalleled since the “golden age” of pre-gangsta hip hop in the late 80′s/early 90′s. Brother Ali is on the front lines of this new era of conscious (dare we say, spiritual) hip hop, spitting verses that are as positive as they are provocative. Purchase Now!
#35: Sonic Youth – The Eternal (2009)
Long hailed as the Godfathers of Grunge, many people consider Sonic Youth to be dinosaurs since they have been around for as long as pretty much anyone can remember, having influenced almost as many bands over the past thirty years as Southern Comfort and Zig Zags. But if 2009′s The Eternal proved anything at all, it’s that these guys are definitely not dinosaurs. They are more like crocodiles—they may have been around since the Jurassic period, but have become so perfectly adapted their teeth are as sharp today as they ever have been. The Eternal is certainly a dinosaur of an album, with huge multi-layered guitars soaked in a sea of distortion, and is one of their most accessible albums in years. Purchase Now!
#26: Tosca – Suzuki (2000)
Smooth, sexy, syrupy electronic beats, Tosca’s 2000 release Suzuki is a downtempo masterpiece. Featuring lush soundscapes by Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber, Suzuki is as perfect for the dance floor as it is for dinner parties or late night work sessions. Purchase Now!
#33: J Dilla – Donuts (2006)
J Dilla (a.k.a. Jay Dee) was one of the most talented producers and beat makers hip hop has seen in a long time. Dilla’s unique style might be described as post-industrial street psychedelia dipped in musique concrete, and was critically lauded as a much-needed break from countless years of lazy hip hop productions. 2006′s Donuts was perhaps J Dilla’s greatest artistic triumph, an exquisite 40-minute journey through jagged hip hop esoteria, which made his untimely death just three days after the album’s release (after battling the incurable blood disease TTP, as well as lupus) all the more heartbreaking. Purchase Now!
#32: The xx- The xx (2009)
Often described as “make out music for cool kids,” the self-titled 2009 debut from British act The xx offers a slinky, sexy blend of rock and roll minimalism. Purchase Now!
#31: DJ Q-Bert – Wave Twisters (2001)
The art of turntablism hit a bit of an apex at the beginning of the 00′s, and DJ Q-bert’s Wave Twisters (along with the 2001 documentary Scratch) was certainly the cultural capstone. Acknowledged by pretty much everyone who matters as the world’s most talented scratch DJ, Wave Twisters was truly epic in that it was composed entirely out of hundreds of samples and arranged in a way that actually told a story (sort of like Star Wars, drenched in hip-hop references, taking place in a bizzare microscopic world). The album was then turned into a feature length animated film, which remains one of the coolest things i’ve ever watched. Purchase Now! (DVD)