Etheric Cords

ABOUT ETHERIC CORDS
The chakras often have “etheric cords” protruding from them. These cords, which look like surgical tubing, extend to chakras in other people with whom we’ve had relationships.

Etheric cords most commonly extend to our siblings, followed by (in descending order of what is most commonly found) our father, mother, ex-spouse, ex-lovers, current spouse or lover, our house, children, and close friends.

Fear within our relationships forms these cords. The fear may be characterized as co-dependency, attachments, fear of abandonment, or unforgiveness. Etheric cords act like hoses, with energy directed back and forth between both people. Therein lies the problem with having them.

If the person to whom you are attached is having a life challenge, that person will siphon energy from you. He or she will draw upon your energy supply through the etheric cord. You will then feel drained, without knowing why.

Very often, the people you have had sexual relationships with are attached to your sacral chakra. The people with whom you’ve experienced conflict are attached to your solar plexus. Those who you grieve over are attached to your heart chakra. Those with whom you’ve had painful relationships, or relationships where you carried all the weight, are attached to your shoulders. This is, in my experience, the root cause of shoulder and neck pain.

A female client complained of having multiple life challenges in her finances, health, and love life. I immediately saw that she had many large etheric cords extending from her back and shoulders. I discerned that the cords were attached to her deceased father, with whom she’d had a contentious relationship. I asked her to be willing to forgive her father, as we cut the cords. Simultaneously, I asked her father to be willing to forgive himself, since he was remorseful about his past relationship with his daughter. When both were completely willing to forgive, the cords parted. My client reported immediate improvements in all areas of her life following our session.

When we are attached to our home or geographical locations, etheric cords extend from the bottom of our feet, into the ground. I recently worked with a client who said she wanted to move. However, she complained that her house wasn’t selling. I saw she had many etheric cords extending from the bottom of her feet, into the house’s foundation. I explained that her attachment to the home was preventing its sale. With her permission, we cut the cords. Two days later, her house sold at the full asking price.

Cutting cords doesn’t mean, “I don’t love you or care about you anymore.” Cord cutting doesn’t necessarily lead to break-ups or abandoned relationships. It simply means that you are releasing the dysfunctional parts of your relationships. Remember, fear is the opposite of love, and etheric cords (and all attachments) are created from fear.

Some people worry they may cut cords to their own soul fragments. That is, the parts of themselves that splintered off during traumatic episodes. This is unlikely to occur; however, you can avoid it entirely by holding the intention of only cutting the cords which block you from feeling full joy and energy. Your soul fragment cords will remain uncut by holding this intention.

Or, you can call back your soul fragments and reintegrate yourself by visualizing a shower of white light encircling your body. Mentally ask all pieces of yourself be completely reunited with your true self. You may see little “you’s” bounding toward you, like little beings on rubber bands bungie jumping in your direction. These little soul fragments will be completely healed of all residuals of fear or trauma as they re-enter you through the white light shower.

CUTTING ETHERIC CORDS
The fastest and simplest way to cut etheric cords is to mentally call Archangel Michael to come to your side, and clear away all cords that are draining you. If you are unfamiliar with Archangel Michael, he is an angel who acts as a “manager” of other angels. His primary role is to clear away all dark energy. You can ask Archangel Michael to come to your side anytime. You can even ask him to live with you permanently. He has the ability (as does everyone, in truth) to be with everyone simultaneously.

You will notice an immediate increase in energy and peacefulness when you ask Michael to cut your cords. The next time you feel lethargic, skip the mocha latte and call upon the angels instead. They will return you to your natural state of peaceful energy right away.

Affirm that all of your Karma concerning communication is now balanced in all directions of time, all is well.

WHAT ARE ETHERIC CORDS?
Etheric cords are energetic connections that can form between two people. Negative cords are formed out of fear-based emotions such as loneliness, excessive anger, depression, co-dependency, abuse, addiction, unforgiveness, revenge, and other negative emotions. Cords can also develop after break-ups, divorces, job changes, and other life changing events. Healers, caregivers, massage therapists, and nurturing people can develop cords that drain them, causing chronic fatigue syndrome and healer’s burnout, as the people whom they help unknowingly attach etheric cords to them. The removal of these cords is essential to their health and well-being.

After removing negative etheric cords, you will feel lighter, freer, and more at peace. Cutting negative cords between you and someone else does not mean, “I don’t love you or care about you anymore,” and having these cords in the first place does not mean that you are abnormal, guilty, or to blame. Cord cutting does not lead to break-ups or abandoned relationships. It is simply a release of the dysfunctional aspects of those relationships. Cords of love are beneficial and can never be severed. These cords can never be broken and are not effected by the cord cutting process.

When we have fear-based attachments to a person or an object, we form spiritual leashes to keep the person or object from leaving or changing. These leashes look like surgical tubing and they grow larger as a function of the length and intensity of the relationship. So, the largest cords are to parents, siblings, and other longtime, intense relationships.

The cords are hollow tubes, and energy runs back and forth between the attached persons. These are fear-based cords, which are always unhealthy and based upon dysfunction. They have nothing to do with the love or the healthy part of the relationship. Cutting cords isn’t abandoning or divorcing a person; it’s releasing the unhealthy part of the relationship.

Let’s say that you have a cord attached to friend or relative who’s feeling depressed or needy. That person will begin draining energy from you, like siphoning fuel at a gas station. You’ll feel tired without knowing why. No amount of caffeine, exercise or sleep will be able to revive your energy if the source is etheric-cord draining.

People who are professional helpers, such as teachers, counselors, and healers, often have a lot of cords attached to their students and patients. So it’s important to cut cords after every session of helping someone, or whenever you feel physical pain or lethargy without any apparent reason. Cords can grow back if the relationship resumes with fear mingled in it.

CORD CUTTING WITH ARCHANGEL MICHAEL 
Michael carries a sword that cuts all attachments to negativity. Simply think the thought, `Archangel Michael, I call upon you now. Please cut the cords of fear that are draining my energy and vitality.’ Sit quietly while he cuts your cords. He’ll send healing energy through the severed cords to both you and the other person.

CUTTING CORDS TO MATERIAL OBJECTS
A telltale sign that you’re etherically corded to a material object is when it won’t sell at any price. Many people with whom I’ve worked have cords to their homes and automobiles, because a part of them doesn’t want to sell the item. Consequently, no amount of advertising or price slashing works.

Cords to objects generally grow from the bottom of the person’s feet and are attached to the part of the item where one is most attached. If you truly want to sell an item, ask Archangel Michael to cut the cords from the bottom of your feet, and be assured that something better will replace the item. Know that the next person who owns it will benefit from your generous “releasement.”

Heather Leigh Murray - Pot Baby

I never knew guitar and voice could get so good and weird. This girl is awesome. This material is really upsetting. I feel like I'm trapped in a world that is constantly molding and shifting in fluid, obscure ways when I listen to it.

Heather Leigh Murray - Pot Baby

Axolotl - Prophetic Ass

Axolotl - Prophetic Ass

Chocolate Monk never releases anything that doesn't make you scratch your head or feel discombobulated.

Jessica Rylan - Lush Life

Jessica Rylan - Lush Life

Jessica Rylan is a sound artist and electronic musician who lives and performs in the Boston area, where she grew up. The main focus of her work to date has been the design and construction modular synthesizers which use analog electronic circuits to create a diversity of sounds. She uses her synthesizers in installations at galleries and also in her high-energy, live musical performances.

She performs extensively throughout New England and has also undertaken several national tours which have taken her from Boston all the way to Seattle and San Francisco. She has also performed live on the radio and was featured in a PBS documentary in March, 2003.

She has created sound installations for such places as the LIST Gallery for Visual Arts at MIT, the Boston Center for Contemporary Art, Bard College, the Berwick Research Institute and the Massachusetts College of Art.

She has an MFA in electronic music from Bard College, Avondale-on-Hudson, New York and has received grants from the Penny McCall Foundation and the LEF Foundation.

Can't is Jessica Rylan, a Boston-based instrument inventor, electronics hobbyist and vocalist who makes some of the most unarmoured and awkwardly intimate noise music ever knowingly purchased by power-electronics fans.

Sonically, Rylan shares a similar hand-carved space to the early work of Voice Crack members Andy Guhl and Norbert Moslang, taking their whole concept of "cracked everyday electronics" to very personal ends, with synthesizers that sound almost as if they were home-baked lending an evocative layer of dissonance to her otherwise unaccompanied folk songs and nursery rhymes. Rylan uses this kind of base melodic material in a way that's as ambiguous and disconcerting as Jandek's trilogy of a capella recordings, working little-girl showtunes and desperate, whispered reveries into alternately distressing and endearing forms.

It'd be far too easy to simply describe what Rylan does in terms of "feminising" noise, regardless of just how necessary that may be. Rather, Rylan uses noise as a way of clearing enough space and prociding enough high-colume cover to fully let her guard down. The result is a revelatory marriage of avant garde form and intuitive, almost diarist-style, folk documentation.

- David Keenan, The Wire


Check out some of her Flower Electronics creations and more.

15 Deadliest US Corporations

15 of the Deadliest Corporations

These corporations, if they were individual human beings, would be locked up for life. Instead, they continue raking in the big bucks. Human rights abuses, murder, war, eco disasters, and animal exploitation keep these evil companies raking in the green. Prepare to be disgusted.

1. Chevron : (then Texaco) discharged 18 billion gallons of toxic water into the rain forests of Ecuador without any remediation, destroying the livelihoods of local farmers and sickening indigenous populations. Chevron was responsible for the death of several Nigerians who protested the company’s polluting, exploiting presence in the Nigerian Delta. Chevron paid the local militia,known for its human rights abuses, to squash the protests, and even supplied them with choppers and boats. The military opened fire on the protesters, then burned their villages to the ground.  
2. DeBeers : was knowingly funding violent guerrilla movements in Angola, Sierra Nevada, and the Congo with its diamond purchases. In Botswana, DeBeers has been blamed for the “clearing” of land to be mined for diamonds — including the forcible removal of indigenous peoples who had lived there for thousands of years.The government allegedly cut off the tribe’s water supplies, threatened, tortured and even hanged resisters.
3. Tyson : Even if you don’t care about the horrendous animal abusethat has been documented in Tyson’s factory farms, you have to flinch at Tyson’s appalling environmental abuses and workers’ rights violation- Tyson has allowed e coli tainted beef to enter the food supply. A recent study showed that Tyson’s chickens were the most salmonella-and-campylobactor filled poultry of all the major suppliers and has even been accused of human trafficking to supply themselves with cheap labor.  
4. Smith & Wesson : In a study of the top ten guns involved in crimein the U.S., the first was the Smith & Wesson .38 Special.
5. Phillip Morris : is the largest manufacturer of cigarettes in the U.S.
6. Haliburton : is a huge “oilfield services” company, profited big time from the U.S.’s invasion of Iraq when Cheney called in his boys to quell burning oil wells — and to “help” the Iraq oil ministrypump and distribute oil. Haliburton has also been implicated in countless oil spills, including the BP disaster of 2010. 
7. Coca Cola : corporation has wrought devastation in India, where its factories use up to one million liters of water per day, leaving tens of thousands of nearby residents dry during the drought months. Then the factories dispose of the wastewater improperly,contaminating whatever water is left.  A lawsuit in 2001 accused Coca Cola of hiring paramilitaries in Columbia which suppressed unionization in the cola plant there through intimidation, torture and murder.
8. Pfizer : the largest pharmaceutical corporation in the U.S., pleaded guilty in 2009 to the largest health care fraud in U.S. history.Pfizer decided to use Nigerian children as guinea pigs. In 1996, Pfizer traveled to Kano, Nigeria to try out an experimental antibiotic on third-world diseases such as measles, cholera, and bacterial meningitis. They gave trovafloxacin to approximately 200 children. Dozens of them died in the experiment, while many others developed mental and physical deformities. According to the EPA, Pfizer can also proudly claim to be among the top ten companies in America causing the most air pollution.
9. ExxonMobil : is perhaps best known for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill which resulted in 11 million gallons of oil contaminating Prince William Sound. But they have also been responsible for a huge oil spill in Brooklyn and for aiding in the decline of Russia’s critically endangered grey whale because of drilling in its habitat. The Political Economy Research Institute ranks ExxonMobil sixth among corporations emitting airborne pollutants in the United States.
10. Caterpillar : supplies the Israeli army with bulldozers which are used to demolish Palestinian homes — sometimes with the people still inside. In 2003 a Caterpillar bulldozer ran over and killed Rachel Corrie, an American protesting in Gaza who stood in front of the tractor to prevent the destruction of a Palestinian home.
11. Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Baily : “The Cruelest Show on Earth” is famous for its abuse of wild animals.
12. Monsanto : Monsanto’s list of evils includes creating the“terminator” seed which creates plants which never fruit or flower so that farmers must purchase them anew yearly, lobbying to have “hormone-free” labels removed from the labels of milk and infant milk replacer (through bovine growth hormone is believed to be a cancer-accelerator) as well as a wide range of environmental and human health violations associated with use of Monsanto’s poisons — most notably “Agent Orange.”
13. Nestle : crimes against man and nature include massive deforestation in Borneo — the habitat of the critically endangered orangutan — to grow palm oil, and buying milk from farms illegally-seized by a despot in Zimbabwe. Nestle attractedworldwide boycott efforts for urging mothers in third-world countries to use their infant milk replacer instead of breastfeeding, without warning them of the possible negative effects. Supposedly, Nestle hired women to dress as nurses to hand out free infant formula, which was frequently mixed with contaminated water, or the children starved when the formula ran out and their mothers could not afford more and their breast milk had already dried up from disuse.
14. British Petroleum : Who can forget 2010’s oil rig explosion in the Gulf Coast which killed 11 workers and thousands of birds, sea turtles, dolphins and other animals, effectively destroying the fishing and tourism industry in the region? This was not BP’s first crime against nature. In fact, between January 1997 and March 1998, BP was responsible for a whopping 104 oil spills.
15. Dyncorp : is best known for its brutality in impoverished countries,for trafficking in child sex slaves, for slaughtering civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, and for training rebels in Haiti. This privatized military company is often hired by the U.S. government to protect American interests overseas — and so the government can claim no responsibility for Dyncorp’s actions. 

http://brainz.org/15-deadliest-us-corporations/

2004 JML in my sweet Underoath shirt

Last night I discovered a box of tapes from my childhood full of 4-track masters of music I had recorded. This is all 10-15 years ago. There are so many sweet riffs I recorded that I can use for my band New Years considering a lot of this stuff is pre-A Perfect Kiss demo material that didn't make it's way into the band. Lots of field recordings to load into the Inappropriate King Live library as well! If i find any full songs that are decent enough to post, I will. I am not sure how they will be titled, maybe just under my full name. I'd love to share some of these tracks. A lot of them are super amateur sounding, but there is an innocent and unique quality about them that I'm excited to make public.

Interview/New Release

I try to keep from posting a ton of label and artist news here since I have other blogs for that, but this is exciting because it is a lengthy interview from a Portuguese zine/label. Check it out!

Out now: Planemo #3, with Pregnant Spore


> Interview with Pregnant Spore, following the release of Listen To The Universe (CM009 / CM009L).
> Illustrations by Eduardo Pécurto.
> Price: Free to anyone who buys any item from the catalog, until CM010 / CM010L comes out; otherwise, the price is €1.50 + shipping.


For more details on the release, including the complete online version, please visit http://cerebro-morto.x10hosting.com/2012/01/10/out-now-planemo-3-with-pregnant-spore/.


For ordering / wholesales details, please visit http://cerebro-morto.x10hosting.com/ordering-information/.

Lucky Bone vs. Custodian at The Borg Ward (1/8/12) from Bullart. on Vimeo.

Ghost Volcano - Raw Stars

Haunted screeches and harsh electronic collisions conjured on this debut release from 3-piece weirdo noise collective Ghost Volcano. Tracks 1 and 2 are from a recording session that took place in Mayo, MD in November 2011. The first track includes a guest appearance by Tyler Grimsley on bass. The last track, Raw Stars, is an all-acoustic track recorded last year in Baltimore, MD. -Deep White Sound

Ghost Volcano - Raw Stars

Bending Into ˈdēizəmb

Layered heavy drones & mono 8-bit data-bending recorded onto tape.

bending into ˈdēizəmb by pregnant spore

Ghost Volcano - Raw Stars

Out now on Deep White Sound!

Haunted screeches and harsh electronic collisions conjured on this debut release from 3-piece weirdo noise collective Ghost Volcano. Tracks 1 and 2 are from a recording session that took place in Mayo, MD in November 2011. The first track includes a guest appearance by Tyler Grimsley on bass. The last track, Raw Stars, is an all-acoustic track recorded last year in Baltimore, MD.

http://www.deepwhitesound.com/releases/x/?p=530

Aaron Dilloway - The Modern Jester

From his new record that is out now on Hanson.

Aaron Dilloway - Shatter All Organized Activities (Eat The Rich)

Sixes - STHENOEχTASIS

Sixes - STHENOEχTASIS

This one has been sitting on my shelf for some time. I am almost positive Dan Smith (Neon Blossom label, Red Electric Rainbow, Dead Pilots, Neon Marshmallow festival, etc.) gave it to me when I was in Chicago on tour. Really good harsh noise. Nothing more to say. It's not boring at all, yet it's constant and always moving frantically. It's not the cut-up style, but there are just interesting textures. Something so much harsh just doesn't have.

Brobdingnagian Live Set

Brobdingnagian is an experimental doom/black metal/harsh noise collective manned by Andy Krupinski who lives in Austin, TX (also of the infamous shoegaze/black metal band Crooked Necks with Shane of Hostage Pageant). I had the pleasure of playing in Brobdingnagian last night near DC as well as some other local friends Eric Trude (Stress Orphan) and Matt Boettke (Sex Complex, Scant, Borborites). I did electronics and vocals. Matt was on a kick drum-less drumset. Andy does electronics and vocals. Eric was on electronics. There was also a bass played by someone I don't know. There was also a sixth person. I'm not sure what he was doing. I don't know, I was really fucking out of it.

Download the 11 minute audio file here: http://www.mediafire.com/?j86h75olrpqlswd

Cincinnatus C & Panther Modern

I recorded both of these sets last night at Amma House.

New OK Putrid Music Video

Gert-Jan Prins

This guy has made his way into my top 5 favorite noise artists of all time. I just cannot get enough of searching out all of his works include the large amount of collaborations he's done. He's a 50 year old Dutch dude into free improvisation. He started out doing free jazz drums but now does stuff with a lot of home-made or altered electronics and visuals. He does a lot with manipulating white and pink noise and also uses FM radio transmitters. It's truly hypnotic. Sometimes his material gets pretty mangled and mutilated with careful use of feedback and oscillators.

I really like something he said in an article in The Wire years ago. "A solo performance is about getting them to go in the direction you want, in accordance with how you feel and what sounds good in the room with the PA, then bringing that energy to the public and cleaning the club walls with the sound system. Some people seemed even to like the PrinsLive CD (released on GROB) for that reason;
they listen to it loud and start cleaning their house."

And the same article described him as "a more abrasive Keith Rowe with radio shards roughened up, spurting, spluttering and stammering."

Here are two albums of his I haven't posted yet.

Gert-Jan Prins - Cavity

Gert-Jan Prins - Prins Live

Authorless, Carl Kruger, Powercloud, Change To Blind + Inanimati

Here are some sweet live recordings of a show that took place not too long ago in NC. My buddy Carl Kruger sent me these files and gave me permission to share them.

Authorless, Carl Kruger, Powercloud, Change To Blind + Inanimati Live @ Squidco Records, December 5th, 2011

Religious Knives - In Your Head

Just popped this one in the tape deck. I was going to rip it but I found there was a rip already online. Enjoy these bleak weirdos.

Religious Knives - In Your Head