Ralph Metzner
&
Andras Jones
September 6th, 2007
Radio8Ball expanded to two weekly broadcasts in 2007. In addition to Tuesdays nights on KAOS in Olympia, we started broadcasting once a week lunchtimes on Alternative Talk 1150AM in Seattle and enjoyed three good years and many of our finest sessions overlooking Lake Washington from their Bellevue studios.
Ralph Metzner was one of our first guests on the Seattle show. Ralph is world renowned scholar who has worked extensively with divination and yet this was the first time he ever experienced musical divination. As you will hear, he was dubious at the outset but before long we impressed him with our methods.
This Pop Oracle reading was conducted using a CD of songs Ralph Metzner recorded with his students.
Ralph listened back to this podcast just last month (August 2017) and had these thoughts to share:
“Divination” means accessing a source of insight or answers by non-rational or intuitive means. You look at the positions of the planets, or the spread of tarot cards, or the hexagrams of the I Ching with a question in mind – and the “reading” points you to an answer. And then, it’s still your mind that seeks to understand the reading, using intuition, imagination, inspiration. The song “We Come from the Sun” is a kind of affirmation divination in which each verse recognizes you in the midst of a mandala of cosmic forces: we come from the Sun, we’re born on the Earth, we grow with the trees, we move with the animals.. with each line followed by the refrain of “we live as the humans.” So that’s the divination answer – recognize yourself as a cosmic being, connected to all other human and animal and plant life.
