Ep. 5: US Cellular Center Opening for Sarah McLachlan – Cure My Mind/Memory - What Are You Willing to Throw Your Life Away On?

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
What are you willing to throw your life away on? With
Andrew Reed and the Liberation.It's a serious question, one
worth pondering. Am I living thelife I want, an intelligent
life, or something else? How canI have a better experience of
life?
These are some of the questionsexplored in this series of

(00:34):
messages without the brag andthe advertisement. Getting
beyond even human institutionsand society into the wilderness,
nature, the reality of how lifeactually operates on this
planet. These messages rangefrom intimate recordings from
the awakened forest to concerts,national conferences, and

(00:56):
broadcasts on a wide array ofphilosophical topics.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes. This is a song podcast, anyway, as, again,
musicality. Music has alwaysbeen very important to me. And
this song is, or at least the Aside of this podcast, is Cure My
Mind. And I was playing at theUS Cellular Center.

(01:27):
I was opening for SarahMcLaughlin. And by the way,
she's a great, you know, personand all that. So there's six or
7,000 people there riding highafter the success of the song If
All the World Were Right and thealbum. And, of course, this was
the second single off it.Anyway, it was a great night.

(01:47):
Of course, she's a great artist.My dressing room was next to
her, and I I said to her, Whywhere are my flowers? Anyway,
but Hear My Mind, a significantsong, at least in my life,
because it came as a result ofmy biggest loss, and I've had so

(02:09):
many. And after my son drownedright after he graduated from
high school, I remember I didn'trealize that a human being could
suffer so much pain. I just, itwas unimaginable pain.
I laid for days in a darkbasement and I lost track of

(02:34):
what day it was, let alone thetime. I even forgot my identity.
I was so lost. I was utterlybroken. And but like I say,
there's always good things thatemerge from the ashes, from the
manures, from the tough hits inyour life.

(02:58):
I had this vision, and one ofthe things that actually, after
14 counselors that were supposedexperts in death, you know,
trying to make it anintellectual process, which it's
not, I mean if death was anintellectual thing that you
could just go to counseling andtherapy and get over it, then I

(03:21):
could have said, Well, thank GodRoman drowned. I mean, I don't
have to pay for college. It'snot quite like that. And this is
I'll be sharing more about someof the things I learned that
really help out, but one of themis something called IADC, and
I'm not going to go into whatthis, but basically it's related
to EMDR, that is eye movementdesensitization and

(03:44):
reprocessing. Anyway, so it'slinked to that.
So in my eyes, going back andforth, which helps with the
integration, I think, of bothhemispheres of the brain or
whatever. That's just abiological explanation, which I
think is far more than that. Infact, you could say it opens up
a portal of sorts. But anyway,it induces a vision like state,

(04:08):
and in one of those visions,that's where I I saw music as a
living thing. I was playingguitar and that's one of the
best things I do.
A lot of people think it's myideas or maybe the songs in the
universal or virgin world, Hey,Andrew's Great Songwriter,
whatever. I think guitar playingis one of the greatest things I

(04:28):
do. It's just it getsovershadowed by the other
things. So I saw that, and inthe audience is nature. Rocks,
trees.
It was fairly arid, I remember,in the vision. And the rocks
were smiling. The trees, nature,was smiling. They were pleased,

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happy, with the music that wascoming out of my instrument. And
that vision shaped my thinkingabout things or the material
world.
I believe all is alive, and tothis day, I can't look at
anything and not give it somerespect as a vibrational,

(05:14):
pulsating thing. And yes, youtreat physical objects with a
sense of reverence. And so whenI say, you know, I have love for
all expressions of life, yes,the plastic bottle, I'm not
gonna demonize. I'm not gonnademonize the plant or the rock.
Anything.
It takes very low consciousness,in fact, to criticize things. So

(05:39):
the vision, and we all havevisions, you know, even our
visions of the night. Some ofthe most valuable things that we
have that we throw away likegarbage when actually it's
telling you the truth aboutyourself. Or some communication
may be taking place at thattime. So through a catastrophic

(05:59):
loss, through it getting myattention, through me seeking
relief, I find there's tools outthere, I find there's new ways
of looking at the world, Iexperience a vision.
And again, this explains so muchabout me at this point. And
because, again, I was a brokenman. I don't even know how you

(06:23):
get more broken than this. So inthis song, again, Cure My Mind,
I wrote this at this timebecause my mind was broken. Not
only my body.
My body had been broken before.I mean, my mind was shot. And
this reference to broken columnsin it, it's a Roman reference of

(06:47):
a life cut short, unfinishedbusiness, which is so much about
what this podcast is about. Youknow, what are you willing to
throw your life away on? Andmaking some type of
determination.
And so you see this unfinishedbusiness, the unwritten book,
the unfinished song, Dying Withthe Music Still in You, the
Broken Column. None of us wantthat to happen, and obviously,

(07:13):
young people cut down young orin their youth. It just seems so
tragic. So anyway, here is CureMy Mind.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Listen, I'm just so happy to be here. It's a great
night. We have a great artist,Sarah. Come on. She's an angel.
I've witnessed her and a greatcause. And I'll just be real

(08:14):
with you. I'm used to playingfor an audience of trees. I take
most of my cues in life fromfrom the outside and and and all
that. But somehow, for somestrange reason, the sovereign of
the universe has me heretonight.
So with that said, this firstsong I'm gonna do is off If All

(08:40):
the World Were Right, andsometimes we can go through some
tough patches or dense matter inlife and and sometimes, I sing
some tough hits. This one cameout of probably my toughest hit.
And it's probably the strangestsong of the top 40 right now on
the billboard. So here we go,and it's called Cure My Mind.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Okay, the B side of this music podcast is the song
Memory. And this is really aboutthe love of my life, and just a
divine person. And so what arewe to each other now? We're

(13:12):
memories. And on some level thisgoes to the mind and the power
of the mind, as well as music.
And that the thoughts we hold,images of people, are very
powerful. In fact, are morepowerful than spoken words, and

(13:36):
sometimes even ideas. And so theimage this connotates a feeling,
and I think you combine an imagewith music, which touches the
soul on a completely differentlevel, and, you know, it's
powerful, impactful in ourlives. And this song, I I know a

(13:58):
lot of people like it. It is aromantic.
Why? Because I'm a romantic. Imean I throw myself away on
relationship stuff. So that'sit. And it was recorded in such
a special way and I was justtotally obsessed with this.

(14:22):
So here it is, the song Memory.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Thank you for listening. If you need anything
further, just go to MBI.life.

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