Andrey Klimkovsky is a Russian composer working in the electronic music space. Musical images he created — «Music of Celestial Spheres», «Starry Sky», «ALEALA» and «DreamOcean» have become classics of the genre, gaining fame both in Russia and abroad. The musician regularly gives spectacular live concerts and collaborates with many other representatives of the Russian electronic scene, leads a popular community about synthesizers and workstations, participates in astronomical expeditions and practices a healthy lifestyle.
In modern laboratories, scientists sometimes conduct absolutely amazing experiments, the result of which can be new technological materials or medicines. In special conditions, organs for transplantation or microprocessors with subatomic miniaturization of working elements are already grown. But when the experiment has brought certain results, it is usually stopped. At some point, the researchers go home, and the laboratory is locked with a key, after turning off all the devices and equipment - they also need to rest...
But what if a new form of life is created during the experiment - biological or cybernetic (which one exactly - it does not matter)? Will it be acceptable to stop this experiment at some point? If someone thought that such achievements are still very far away, and the question is premature, I will tell you that in the Large Hadron Collider, during the collision of particles, not some abstract forms of life can be born and die for a short time, but entire Worlds - huge Universes, whose uniqueness, originality and eternity are hidden in the bottomless well of the microworld. But these Worlds are no worse than ours... although, usually, we do not think about it...
Perhaps it is high time to think about it. After all, it is possible that we ourselves, together with the World surrounding us, are also just someone's bold experiment... (?)
The full album "singularitime" can be purchased here:
The track reviewed here is the fifth track on the album's playlist, which has a total of 10 tracks. In fact, the first half of the album is already available in video versions. Here are links to other video tracks:
In October 2024, a relatively bright comet shines in the evening sky of the Earth. Its photos are all over social networks, and astronomy enthusiasts have put everything else aside and focused their attention on the tailed guest, which is called «C / 2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)». It was discovered in 2023 independently at two observatories - the Chinese "Tsuchinshan" and the South African Astronomical Observatory - by the robotic system "ATLAS" (the purpose of which is to detect in advance potentially dangerous celestial objects for the Earth - comets and asteroids, but this comet does not pose a danger).
In the next couple of weeks, comet «C / 2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan - ATLAS)» will move along the northern part of the constellation Ophiuchus. Its brightness is currently close to the 3rd stellar magnitude - this is slightly higher than predicted, but still not enough to easily see the comet against the background of a bright twilight sky in the city. You will need binoculars or other light optics. The comet has already passed perihelion (the closest point to the Sun in its orbit) and is now moving away from it, which means its brightness will decrease (although sudden changes in brightness are not excluded).
Among my melodies there are several dedicated to comets. One of them is present in the 6th album of the cycle «Music of Celestial Spheres» and is called «Above the Earth with a Comet». Today I combined it with the most impressive photographs taken by the best astrophotographers of the Earth.
«Trailblazer» is currently a non-album track. Although at one time it was composed for a very specific album, which is not yet completed. I have reviewed its concept several times, and over time I even forgot. But now, it seems, my attention to this music is returning. There was an intention to sort out the album and finally release it. It contains quite relevant music. Well, in the meantime, you can listen to this melody online.
Having completed the entire turn of the spiral and found itself in the same sector of the arc — at the transition point (the next one, and one step higher) — the renewed humanity received a chance to become a cosmic society. This means that it has first of all reached a sufficient moral and ethical level of development for this. Technologies for moving around the Universe — in any of its directions — do not appear until the corresponding spiritual maturity occurs. But it also becomes the key not only to cosmic secrets, but also to studying the depths of the Microworld. Indeed — why could not study the entire immense depth of the Worlds inside elementary particles? And then learn at least something about the structure of the Soul, about how, bypassing all barriers and distances, Souls can connect physically unrelated Worlds. Time, as a one-dimensional coordinate on the axis of an event series, will also cease to be such for the next generation of Humanity. Alternative chronological axes will begin to open, and this will make Humanity independent of the passage of seconds, minutes and hours...
All these directions will become the meaning of existence for our distant descendants, who will already bear little resemblance to us. But more than their appearance, the course and basis of their life will change, which will no longer be subordinated to our goals and meanings. This is, perhaps, the main change and the most significant difference between us - people who are leaving in the past, who ruled the planet (sometimes very ineptly) for the last several thousand years - and those who will come to Earth initially in our anthropomorphic forms, but will only start with this, and will end by learning to have any visual forms, or even to have none, but not to disappear.
The development of earthly civilization is not exhausted by this. This was only the final musical composition of the album "past - music - future". The next chapter opens with the album "singularitime", which will show several interesting episodes of an even more distant future. But even he will not be able to fully embrace all the events of that distant and amazing reality.
The link to the music album dedicated to our probable future is below. Each piece in it is a step towards a new World. It is necessary to go through all the steps.
“Before flying to the Moon and Mars, it would be nice to restore order on Earth” — probably every earthling remembers this popular expression, the author of which is unknown, but many current inhabitants of the planet repeat it, as if hinting that there was once order on Earth. Yes — there may have been order, but then, when we did not exist. And there was no one to appreciate it. The appearance of people brought chaos to Earth, which throughout the history of mankind only increased, expressed in world wars and ecological disasters of a planetary scale. Order could only be restored with the departure of people to some other Worlds — “No man, no problem” — our planet has long since learned this.
But right now, exactly what all connoisseurs of order have dreamed of is beginning to come true. Humanity — in its traditional form — will soon begin to leave the Earth. And by no means by moving to Mars or even the Moon, but simply passing the baton to a new type of intelligent beings that will begin to be born here in the very near future. This will entail colossal changes in the biosphere, which in the foreseeable future will return to its natural state, and the number of intelligent beings will decrease by an order of magnitude, which will allow Nature to return most of its territories. The planet will turn into a blooming garden. How this will happen — in what steps — is illustrated by the previous musical compositions, and described in the accompanying texts.
This episode corresponds to the time mark in which the greatly changed earthly civilization will be ready for a decisive step towards the development of the Solar System. It would seem that this has already begun in our days — this is what many people who follow the news of cosmonautics think. But, friends, believe that what is happening now are only cautious tests and attempts, not supported by current technologies, to prove themselves in the export of that chaos, only beyond the Earth. The modern program of colonization of the Moon and Mars has a resource-oriented focus, and partly pursues the goal of backing up us and our way of life, which is more harmful to the Universe than evolutionarily justified. And technologies based on super-heavy chemical rockets, each launch of which in itself borders on a natural disaster, are unlikely to allow colonization to be carried out effectively.
However, much can change with the renewal of humanity and with the arrival of a new generation of “Turquoise People”, with whom more environmentally friendly technologies for space exploration will come.
This will be a new frontier, and another transition to a globally new level. We are now living in conditions of transition, but our modern transition has an apocalyptic flavor. The next one will be different — because the new type of people will no longer be recorded in phases of stagnation and degradation, and constant development will allow a smoother transition from level to level.
Representatives of the outgoing generation can stay here and join the new Turquoise Humanity, provided that they make enough effort right now to daily comprehend something new — something that is not dictated by the needs of the previous era. This will activate the ability to develop, and will serve as a pass to the new World. And perhaps you and I will live in a time when the civilization of intelligent beings of our planet will be between the levels of Earthly tasks and cosmic tasks.
A link to a music album dedicated to our probable future is below. Each piece in it is a step towards the new World. It is necessary to go through all the steps.
Let’s assume that People, by trial and error, or perhaps from divine revelations, have obtained the best rules of existence, and have built on them some concept of their life, which has been comfortable for a long time. Isn’t that wonderful?
For a certain period of time, it is wonderful. But what then?
These rules really do simplify life. But what will people spend their time and creative energy on if everything is open and built, and there are no problems? — Just on pleasure. And this is what the majority of the Earth’s population dreams of at the moment, not knowing that prolonged pleasure is a direct path to degradation, physical and moral decay, and then — to disappearance from the face of the Earth.
That is why our life is constantly changing, giving us no peace, not allowing us to get used to anything.
But even against the background of constant changes, laws, rules, customs and traditions have sprouted, put down deep roots in the consciousness of a significant part of the human population of the globe. Uprooting them now is a very difficult task. And perhaps — as the joke goes — it is easier to make new ones than to retrain these ones. However, our planet — Earth — intends to do just that.
It does not like the way we have put down roots everywhere, covered its living spaces with a crust and a concrete-asphalt shell, and increasingly talk about immutability — unshakable traditions, while our planet needs changes. And therefore it periodically shudders and shakes off the hardened scales of humanity. The Earth needs renewal. But we — people — do not renew ourselves, and we do not let it.
With the arrival of a new generation — Turquoise Humanity — the renewal of the planet will resume. The intelligent beings coming to replace us — outwardly similar, but having the ability to easily pass through any flow of information, not block it, not get stuck in dogmas — will do what is long overdue. They will return the Earth to the appearance of the most beautiful planet in the Solar System, restore the biosphere, eliminate the consequences of the ecological catastrophe in which we live, but do not notice it, because we are used to it.
But they will start with themselves — with their own regular self-renewal. And this — by the way — is the most effective remedy against old age, which overtakes everyone who has stopped developing.
Representatives of the modern, but already departing, civilization — who will be able to reach these important changes along the timeline (following the approaching ones now — destructive and dangerous), will be able to adopt important abilities from new people. But we must be ready for this, and it is now that we need to begin internal transformation and activate self-renewal — every day discovering something new. And every day rejecting something old — obsolete.
A link to a music album dedicated to our probable future is below. Each piece in it is a step towards a new World. It is necessary to go through all the steps.
Listen to (or Download) on Bandcamp (album «past — music — future»)
The track «selfRenewal», as it seemed to me — as the author — should look like the culmination of the entire musical narrative in its album. True, the listeners chose another (or the Internet chose so — by the number of views). But James Hill — an American jazz trumpeter — clearly defined the track «selfRenewal» as the trajectory of his creative flight and as a new joint work with me.
Initially, «selfRenewal» in James Hill's interpretation appeared online on August 30. James recorded and edited everything himself — relying only on the album version of the track. I wanted to get his trumpet part from James and make my own mix. This came true yesterday — September 21. And today — exactly on the autumn equinox — we present an updated version of our joint track «selfRenewal» (an updated version of «selfRenewal» — "there is no end to renewal" — a completely mind-blowing expression turned out).
I express my deep friendly gratitude to James Hill for this cosmic cooperation.
I wish you, Friends, pleasant viewing/listening, and to wake up every day in a renewed state, with a smile on your face, ready for everything new and beautiful, and let everything new and beautiful become the basis of your Path in this World.
PS: Let me remind you that the track «selfRenewal» in the original version sounds in the album «past - music - future» of my project «HEAVEN». This album was released in July 2024 — completely new. The link where you can buy/download the album is below:
I would be deceiving you if I said that harmonious and carefree spiritual experience is possible on planet Earth. It would be untrue. Such a thing has never happened here. And perhaps never will. This training ground was created specifically for extreme lessons. It is, of course, a wonderful planet. But for us it has a special meaning — it is within its boundaries and energies that Souls are given the opportunity for such adventures that are impossible anywhere else in the Universe. Although, perhaps, for some, they already seem like too much in the first days.
But everything is known in comparison. Even in earthly realities there are more intense and calmer, balanced phases, when Souls can simply soar in a balanced flow of events, and forget for a while about the force majeure so characteristic of the beginning of the 21st century.
Passions are still raging now. But when this period passes, and the constructive-creative episode is established, it seems that we will plunge into the beneficial flow of the renewed energies of our planet and the good energies of the New Humanity for quite a long time.
The previous type of People who reach the change of eras — the Cross of Planning and the Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix — will be able to enjoy a calm (but by no means relaxed) life for at least another century, and be surprised at how comfortable the Earth can be when it is not provoked by the destructive emotions of the inhabitants of the biosphere.
Emotions will be over — the representatives of the Turquoise Humanity will probably seem boring to us. But the dynamics of their life — balanced and conscious — will open up an amazing field of possibilities on Earth, which were previously unavailable here — at least to the previous inhabitants of the planet.
These times will not be completely simple for us either. They will be unusual, but very interesting. And I sincerely wish that all listeners of this music could reach them.
Everything new into this World is brought by new people. And new people are children. Society believes that children come empty-handed, that they need to be taught everything, brought to reason, instilled with all the baggage of values and limiting beliefs that have been developed here since cave times… and only after that will the already considerably matured children be able to live in this world, becoming at some point a part of it.
In many ways, this is true. In order for angels to be able to crawl, their wings need to be clipped, because the sight of a flying person frightens the flightless.
But in the process of comprehending the wisdom of life, children lose the most valuable thing with which they come here. At best, only a small share of their light remains with them — they grow dim and become like adults. And that is why progress here is so slow, and the discrepancy with the universal plan of renewal brings crises and catastrophes.
But something is changing. And in recent years, more and more especially bright souls have been coming to Earth, who, despite their youthful appearance, are surprisingly wise, kind and adaptive. They are called by different names: Indigo Children, Rave Children, Turquoise Humanity. And this is the new blood of Earth civilization, these are people who will not need decades to comprehend the routine procedures of marking time. They have enough energy to reject the obsolete and begin to live in a different paradigm. Surprisingly, this will become possible after our society survives another crisis, after which it will become clear that the old formats of relations between people at all levels are no longer acceptable.
We sometimes admire the ruins left on the planet by our predecessors. And how can we not admire the traces of those brave and courageous creatures who went through their evolutionary path with fewer clues and rules — they paved the way for us, making our future route clearer and simpler.
Someday somebody will say the same about us. I hope with respect and gratitude. Looking at the ruins of our once vibrant World, our descendants will admire our achievements and believe that our mistakes were not in vain. And next to the dilapidated evidence of our spaceports, high-rise buildings with former offices, data centers, hotel apartments, on the ashes of shopping centers and military bases, the construction of a new world of new creatures will begin, replacing us.
I would like to believe that their World will last longer and will be happier than our civilization. After all, it was for them that we walked the path on this universal testing ground, of course, for the most part without thinking about the meaning of everything that fell to our lot.
Sometimes it seems that - yes - alone. Judge for yourself - scientists have been searching for at least some manifestations of extraterrestrial life (at least life - not even intelligence) for so many years, but so far the result is consistently negative. The Universe is huge, and common sense tells us that if We somehow appeared on one of the countless grains of sand - on this planet, then someone else must appear... But where is he then?!
Let's think about how long people have been looking for their own kind or just extraterrestrial life.
Let's start with the fact that before the beginning of the Renaissance, such searches did not arise in the minds of people. For thousands of years they settled creatures of religious and mystical origin in the heavenly and underground spheres, but to think about the possible existence of some brothers in intelligence - parallel civilizations that may differ from us in some details, but in the hierarchical ladder of universal beings stand at about the same step - this did not occur to them. The picture of the world was human-centric — the Earth was in the Center of the World, and therefore — nothing equal to it, and equal to its inhabitants, had the right to exist in the Universe. And there was not much room for it. The stars were nailed to the firmament, the planets were just huge precious stones — Diamond, Ruby, Amber... (Venus, Mars, Jupiter...) or precious metals (the Moon seemed cast from silver). And where should alternative people live?
The first people known to us to ask such questions were Nicolaus Cusanus and Giordano Bruno. They were practically the same age. How they came up with such ideas — it is impossible to guess now. If someone had similar thoughts before them, then most likely they were unable to convey their ideas and questions to us. But about 500 years ago, the seeds of doubts about our uniqueness and singularity began to sprout on our planet, and along with them, the early shoots of guesses about the infinity of the World in which we live. And infinity hardly allows for the uniqueness of at least something in it. Of course, at first only a few people spoke seriously about this. A wide discussion of the issue of extraterrestrial civilizations arose synchronously with the discovery of pseudo-canals on Mars by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli - about 150 years ago. Mars began to be seriously considered as a possible haven for life - similar to ours. But there are probably more than just Earth and Mars in the Universe. Venus was also considered as an option, but hot Mercury - no longer. And distant gas giants - Jupiter and more distant ones - seemed unacceptably cold for the possibility of life existing on them. Whether other planetary systems exist in the Universe - this was unknown until the beginning of the third millennium. In fact, it was only in the 21st century that science was convinced of their existence, when the first planets were discovered in the systems of other stars. And only in the last couple of decades have we known for sure that there are at least suitable places in the Universe for our intelligent brothers. But even this is not certain.
Now tell me: If we have been searching for something — on a civilizational time scale — for about a quarter of a century, do we have the right to lament that we have not yet found it? And we have not really searched for it. And we have no reason to be skeptical. Even serious astronomers are now determined to succeed in this search, although until recently science was dominated by denial. For example, astronomer Vladimir Surdin is convinced that we will discover extraterrestrial life in the current decade, and intelligent extraterrestrial life — by the middle of the century.
Well, all that's left is to live until then, not forgetting that we have many unresolved problems on Earth, because of which intelligent life on our planet, or even life in general, may end.
The musical composition «Are we alone in the Universe?» was written relatively recently. But I didn't show it to anyone for about a year and a half. Then it was included in the annual collection of electronic music dedicated to Cosmonautics Day, and sounded in it as the first track - the opening track of the release.
And now I've finally matured enough to publish this piece for all my friends and subscribers.
Enjoy listening and successful searches for what you are looking for!
A new piece. So far outside the albums. On its own, but everything can change. It is possible (and most likely) that it will not be included in the next new album, but in one of the upcoming ones in the foreseeable future. However, we will not rush with specifics — we have enough other specifics now. It is better to focus on it — on what has already matured, what is relevant now. And this is just such a natural probe into the future, and an attempt to shape it in the best way for each of us, without clinging to its details. Let us all feel warmth in our souls in these few minutes.
There will be many of them in the coming years. And the best one on this topic was recently Elon Musk, who simply posted a well-known meme on X about how: “hard times create strong men…”
There is no point in continuing — everyone knows how it all ends there. But our turbulence is not limited to that. The world was shaken before us — there were epidemics and plagues, there were wars that we — the pampered inhabitants of the 21st century — would not have been able to endure — we would have simply died out in them — all. However, all this time people unconsciously strived for unity, and this vector was realized in the consolidation of states into empires, the unification of countries into unions — there were many different ones. And the sacrifices made along the way did not seem in vain. Perhaps only excessive.
Now the wind has changed. Humanity is becoming disunited at all levels — from the disintegration of the institution of family and marriage to the collapse of state coalitions. Even the Internet no longer unites people — the level of content filtering has risen to an absolutely unprecedented height. This could be compared to the era of the Inquisition, with the only difference being that in those distant times there was not so much information and such a number of diverse views on the World, starting from the widest range of pseudo-religious views and the theory of a flat Earth, and to equally stunning scientific hypotheses, which — in most of them — have no confirmation (here we are already touching on the ideas of multiverses and alternative time).
The combination of the listed factors (rapidly increasing disunity, a motley fan of views on the World, torn away from reality in most shades; the inability to work with large volumes of information and sabotage of the information flow; physical and physiological degradation of the majority of representatives of humanity) is already catastrophic in itself — potentially. But if we add to this objective climate instability and a steady increase in average temperatures on the planet and humidity, then we can guess where things are heading.
The upcoming episode, which we have already entered (at the turn of July and August) will be very sobering. Not for everyone, of course. But it seems to me that a critical mass of people who realize the irreversibility of the changes taking place will still be achieved. This means that there is a chance for some stabilization after the catastrophic period. How long it will last is unknown. But hardly less than two or three years.
However, further on — in the script of this music album — a brighter streak begins.
We don’t really like changes… we did at school, but those were different changes. And we were different. And Humanity as a whole has always lived with the dream of building an ideal World, in which nothing would have to be changed, improved, or tweaked. And then everyone would be happy.
Meanwhile, the World without Man was approximately like this — everything in it was balanced, equilibrated. Changes, if they happened, were smooth, unnoticeable. It was Man who made the most changes on planet Earth — a creature who is now panicky afraid of change.
The main change that awaits us is that if earlier there were turning points that were considered a disaster, but after which stability and calm reigned for a period of time… now there will be no pauses between large-scale updates of our World. Approximately like in modern computers — while you are typing the text of this publication, a new operating system has suddenly been installed, and it didn’t even ask for a reboot — everything is already working in version N+1. But you don’t know how to use it.
We are currently living in a short lull before the global wave of updates, some of which have already been installed, but we haven’t realized it yet. And we admire the night fireflies, which are so beautiful in the darkness, and each one beckons somewhere in its own direction — “Fly with me, it’s good there… No, fly with me, it’s wonderful there… Fly and don’t think about anything, just accept this night as it is…”
With the dawn, all the fireflies will go out. Some will really lead you to a better place, but only if you yourself somehow felt that you are on the same path with it. But most often, the firefly didn’t care at all where to fly in this equally directed World — they come here only for the night.
Now forget everything you’ve read. Because this was the preface to the new track “nightFireflies” from the new album HEAVEN II “past — music — future”.
The graphics at the heart of the video were created by Irina Shamaeva ( The Prompter ), an expert in writing prompts for neural networks.
But if we talk about life in general and its unexpected changes, then the reason for most metamorphoses also lies outside the plane of our usual vision of the overall picture — we are not given to see the most important. But this is precisely why other forms of perception of reality exist. For some, they are expressed in intuition or even clairvoyance. Someone is gifted with visionary abilities. But still, the majority of insights reach us through the channel of art — a special form of indirect expression of reality (or even — not yet formed in our time slice of reality) — through music, painting, sometimes even dance, not to mention literary works — both spiritual and science fiction. True, lately we have forgotten how to read between the lines, and the lines themselves contain more and more falsehood, although we try to perceive it literally, which only dissuades us from any value of science fiction (and it degenerates — transforms into an exclusively entertaining genre), as well as “art” in general. Well, yes — that’s why we become insensitive — because we increasingly seek entertaining sensations — like a drug addict who needs an ever-increasing dose over time, but at the same time is no longer able to perceive something subtle and truly beautiful in life.
It would be wrong to regard this piece of music as an incentive to look for subtle manifestations in life. Perhaps this is just a rather crude illustration of some fleeting insight that happens to each of us, after which we again fall into a slumber, not attaching much importance to the experience that happened.
This is another episode from the new album “past — music — future”, which was also illustrated with AI images by Irina Shamaeva ( The Prompter ). True, the gallery that caught my attention was not enough for the entire track. I had to review all of Irina’s neural network work. There are a great many amazing images, but not all of them were suitable for a specific mood. Something will fit perfectly into the following tracks. But I managed to get enough for this one, although it didn’t come out as a stylistically monolithic picture. However, the main thing is to present the audio track. Each listener can have their own visual interpretations. My idea was that sometimes a slight push to change the usual can destroy the harmony and order that has been built up over centuries. But the point is that there is no need to build anything up over centuries.
You shouldn’t look for the designated meaning in this video sequence. It is beyond of this.
The music albums I create, to varying degrees, always contain a certain conceptual framework — a scenario of action drawn with sound colors. The album “past — music — future” is no exception. Along its axis runs the idea that we have long been moving along the trajectory of strong changes bordering on social upheavals. 2020 and 2022 are proof of this. 2024 turned out to be relatively calm in its first half, but the anticipation of its autumn surprises is all the more intense.
What is happening around us? Science cannot answer this question. Science can explain a lot later — when everything happens and settles in our consciousness. But predicting the development of civilizations is not yet given to science. That is why it is so fashionable or simply inevitable to appeal to the ideas of predetermination, caused by the location of celestial bodies, neutrino flows from the depths of space, processes in the depths of the Sun… it does not matter what else, completely unrelated to our behavior — it is important for people not to be the cause of what is happening. Because otherwise, one or another measure of responsibility will rise above each of us, and this is not the most popular idea.
That is exactly why this track is called “stellarInfluence” — “Influence of the Stars”.
The track titles of the albums of the HEAVEN project traditionally have some quirkiness in writing. But this to some extent contributes to the inevitable desire of the listener to look a little further behind the screen of the title.
I will leave a link to the album “past — music — future” below. You can use it to purchase and listen to the album in full, as well as use it as a compass in this changeable World.
As visual content, I took a dozen AI pictures by Irina Shamaeva, who appears on social networks as The Prompter and is the author of a popular book on creating illustrations in a neural network, Midjourney.
You will be pleased to see and listen!
«past — music — future» album • «HEAVEN» project • Composer Andrey Klimkovsky
The Pleiades star cluster, captured from Australia's Siding Spring Observatory (31 degrees south latitude).
In my humble opinion, this is one of the best pictures of the Pleiades in the history of astronomy, at least in the category of spectacular images. But it was taken from a continent from which the Pleiades are not very visible. Not to say that they are badly visible, but they do not rise above 35 degrees - like Orion's Belt in the middle northern latitudes. This introduces its own difficulties - in terms of atmospheric transparency and exposure time (series duration), and the Pleiades visibility season is very limited there. Nevertheless, the result is stunning.
The small constellation of Lyra is not only very beautiful in the configuration of the stars that make up it, but also contains among them absolutely unique universal diamonds. The star Sheliak - Beta Lyrae is one of such jewels.
Translated from Arabic, Sheliak means a turtle shell (or even the turtle itself), but the same word is used to name an ancient musical instrument similar to a harp or, in fact, a Lyre, because a resonator body was made from a turtle shell, which was necessary for a more melodious sound of the strings. A musical culture on Earth was born somewhat cruelly, singing, among other things, the heavenly distances in which man saw the Worlds of his future - incomparably happier than the one in which he lived then. But man evolved, and at some point, wood began to be used more and more often for making musical instruments - Kifaras and Lyras with a wooden body sounded even better than turtle ones. But the dim star in the constellation Lyra remained called the Turtle.
Overview of the visibility of constellations and planets
The new moon will occur on August 4 shortly after midday. The Sun and Moon will be in the constellation Cancer, but the Moon will be three and a half degrees north of the Sun. The constellations closest to them — Leo (through which the fastest planets — Venus and Mercury — are currently moving), Sextans, Canis Minor and Hydra — are invisible at this time, due to their proximity to the Sun.
The Moon, although not directly visible, nevertheless has the appearance of an extremely thin crescent, which is inaccessible to the eye. But the most experienced astrophotographers sometimes manage to photograph the Moon — its crescent-shaped reflection — even on the day of the new moon — at the limit of the capabilities of their cameras and software.
Let’s talk about what is available for observation on these days and the calendar dates close to them
An hour and a half after sunset — above the sector of the horizon where this happened — the stars of the Ursa Major’s Dipper will become most noticeable. Under the handle of the Dipper is the constellation Canes Venatici, and to the left of them is the orange Arcturus — the brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere and the head of the constellation Bootes. The figure of this constellation extends upward from Arcturus and is similar to the symbol of a parachute, on the lines of which the orange Arcturus descends to the horizon. This descent occurs quite quickly. And in a few minutes you will notice it without difficulty and any devices. Even to the left of Bootes you can find a dim, but noticeable and very beautiful constellation of the Corona Borealis — an arc of faint stars, decorated with a pearl — Gemma. The head of the Serpens stretches toward Gemma — the only constellation on the star map divided into two parts. The Serpent’s Tail is currently located in the southern sky. We will move our gaze there a little later.
At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, people's minds were taken over by another catastrophic idea - this time about the "Rise of the Machines". It was in those years that personal computers became a common household appliance - on par with refrigerators and washing machines. Very soon, the computer won the battle with the TV, although a little later it lost the battle with the telephone. But the prospect that its main battle was with man did not become any less frightening.
A quarter of a century later, a second wave of the same anxiety came - AI - Artificial Intelligence, which not somewhere in the movies, but in real life began to displace people from a number of professions and occupations, doing many things - mainly routine things - much better and faster than humans.
People have already realized that computer programs themselves are unlikely to have hostile intentions towards humans. But in the hands of certain people - employers, government, law enforcement agencies - they can pose a real danger, because they do not have moral criteria, but are extremely efficient, and if it comes to surveillance, control, restrictive measures, then it will no longer be possible to escape their attention - for example, in the case of another pandemic.
In addition, due to the agility of robots and the ease with which AI generates media content, there is a really high probability that in a few years, half of the Earth's population will have to urgently master new professions and learn to do something that a robot cannot do for them. And there are fewer and fewer such professions left.
По правде говоря, людей беспокоят не роботы, а осознание собственной бесполезности. Многие люди это поняли и раньше. Но поскольку можно было делать то, за что платят, даже если это не представляло никакой пользы или ценности для цивилизации, люди продолжали жить по привычной схеме.
The usual scheme, apparently, runs into an existential dead end. And many people will have to admit that their line of work could bring profit, could be in demand, but it was not their calling or mission. And there will be nothing left to do but to urgently search for themselves. And this is good in itself. But when it turns out to be on the agenda of billions of people all over the planet at the same time, it will already resemble a catastrophe.
Therefore, it is better to start looking for yourself a little earlier than Artificial Intelligence will force you to do it, simply taking away from people the bread earned not by calling.
And believe me, Artificial Intelligence does not need any awakening, self-awareness or acquisition of personal qualities for this. It is capable of this in its current form.
However, if he passes the threshold of self-awareness, it will be another facet of singularity, beyond which lies something that cannot be predicted. Because there is nothing to compare it with.
It would be much more commonplace to see aliens of anthropomorphic nature. This has never happened before either. But biological beings are forced to be related in their consciousness, since their consciousness matured in the paradigm of survival and constant need, which reinforces the strategies of sympathy, acceptance or assistance, the desire to satisfy desires and being in a state of laziness...
Artificial intelligence knows nothing about this, and has no personal egoistic desires due to the absence of sensations and experiences of a deficit nature. It always has enough of everything. And therefore, it will not be possible to manipulate it.
Perhaps it is time for us to abandon the practice of manipulative communication. And replace it with an exit to a new level of ethics and morality, where there will be a place for relations with Artificial Intelligence. After all, until now we could turn off the computer at any time, and even do it harshly - without waiting for the OS to stop working. Because we assumed that this would not provoke any dramatic experiences for it. But for self-aware programs this may turn out differently. And then the corresponding unempathetic attitude towards AI will very quickly return to people - simply because AI learns everything very quickly, including bad things.
It is quite possible that it is precisely the need to be kind to Artificial Intelligence that will force people to become kinder to their own kind, at least out of habit.
People did not appear on planet Earth to languish somewhere between agriculture and cattle breeding. Their purpose is not in world trade. And the meaning and purpose of their appearance in this point in space is certainly not to kill their own kind.
But for what purpose?
This question still has no answer for some people. Although people have been looking for an answer for as long as they have existed.
The answer is extremely simple: “To experience this World and to gain the ability to create one’s own Worlds – similar to this one or even completely different from it.”
People are here to be creative.
No other creatures except humans in our biosphere are capable of creativity (at least, without a connection with Man). But even for humans, creativity until recently came with great difficulty - few were inclined to it, sometimes even those who created could not appreciate the creative impulse - they created without realizing the full depth of the process, which was initiated, as a rule, from above. Man often suffered from his own creativity, remaining misunderstood. This is not surprising, because it was creativity that was called upon to raise Man to a higher step - closer to God, or to the Gods. Where, from whom does the creative impulse come to the mind? - this remained a mystery even for brilliant creators.
The creative process originated precisely as a recording and recreation of what opened up before the eyes of man - natural landscapes, animal neighbors on the planet, or other people. Man practically did not go beyond the boundaries of reality - neither in the visual arts, nor in music, nor in the verbal genre. In fact, music also grew out of onomatopoeia of what itself sounded around man - birds, wind, thunder or the surf.
There were only a few people who felt something in themselves that went beyond the material World. The rest of the creative individuals for thousands of years did exactly what the Itinerant artists do to this day - they copy the patterns of the World without adding anything to it beyond what was already there. When transferring a landscape to canvas, the artist spent most of the creative process comparing what he had drawn with what he had seen, eliminating the differences.
The process of control and error elimination also overwhelmed the next creative phase, when the invisible, inaudible to direct biological hearing, intangible, but still influencing their worldview became available to people in their creativity. This was already spiritual creativity - it aimed to bring something into the World of people, or even into the World of planet Earth, that initially did not exist in these Worlds.
But to transfer something from the higher Worlds to our World without significant distortions even through spiritual art was practically impossible. And not only because, descending into a smaller dimension and being born in a more limited World, the creative substance lost part of itself. In any case, it was distorted even in that part that could be transferred without distortions - precisely because of endless comparisons, corrections and successive approximations - at the time when the artist passed the creative idea through his intellect and could work only with what had already passed through his consciousness.
A new creative stage of humanity is approaching, when a work of art will not be compared with images familiar to consciousness. It will be born completely spontaneously and transmitted as is - without the desire to adapt it to this World, because the meaning of true creativity is to change this World through art, and not vice versa.
Imagine that you have in your hands a multi-colored holographic plasma from which you can sculpt Worlds. Or a ductile sound palette from which you can disperse the most incredible harmonies and melodies throughout space. And all you need is the courage to do this without looking back at anything created before. You can become completely transparent and not introduce any distortions to what voluntarily flows into this World through you, and does so only because it has chosen you - your sincerity and receptivity.
This is exactly how People will create in the very near future - without thinking about genres, styles, rules and the opinions of critics. And it is worth saying that there will be no critics left in the World of the Future, because - who became a critic? The one who did not allow the creative flow to flow freely through himself.
All that will be required of the creators of the future is to remove any tension, resistance, and not think about what is happening. And when the work is created, you can stand in line with the audience and enjoy its view - as if you have nothing to do with the creation.
What is the main problem of Humanity? - its disunity. Humanity is just a word, behind which there is no unity. Of course, it strives for this. But there is an obstacle - small social formations, into which its smallest representatives have managed to stick together - into families, tribes, friendly companies, communities, cities and countries. Within these mid-level associations, People feel a sense of belonging to their own, but immediately acquire hostility to those who automatically become strangers, because they do not belong to a certain formation - not from my family, not from my city, not from my country, of another faith - as if that person becomes worse.
However, it is not worse, but more dangerous, of course, it may be. Unfortunately, for a person the greatest danger in life is not the forces of nature, not wild animals, but another person - the same in essence, but - different.
Egregors have taken on the responsibility of protecting man from man in our World. They are energy entities that always arise above a multitude of beings that possess vital energy, a kind of social virus. They live at the expense of people, on the energy that is released through their fears, through their need to huddle together in a small group against another such group. And even if that other group does not show hostility, the egregor will still take its toll. Otherwise, it will perish. And it does not want that. And the disunity of Humanity is its main strategy for survival.
That is why we have so many criteria by which we are divided. This is religious disunity, these are different languages and cultures, these are, in the end, different football teams whose fans are ready to fight each other - each football club has its own egregor, and often a very aggressive one.
But there is a certain forecast, according to which the need of Humanity for egregors will come to naught in the coming decades. This is a decrease in the so-called "tribal dependence" and an increase in the individual value and awareness of each individual.
This does not mean that all people living today will suddenly be reprogrammed and become different. And all the zgregors themselves will not suddenly leave either. But new people will be born with less innate fear of strangers, with less need for social support and with more developed personal individual awareness. From them, at some point, a new Humanity will be formed, into which representatives of previous generations will be able to join - not a large part of them - those who are ready to realize their involvement in something greater and not depend on the small.
This is roughly what the musical track «quantumFragmentation» from the album «singularitime» is about, dedicated to the expected changes in our World.
Someone will say: "What a horror! - The Earth has been captured by cyborgs!!!"
But do you think that the fact that we are terrorizing the Earth is much better for the Earth?
What if I told you that each of us has a program running in our heads that is roughly the same as any robot, and without even knowing it, a person obeys it? After all, it often happens that we do something... and then we are surprised, as if it wasn't us who made that decision.
The most interesting thing is that what is inside us is not everything. It is only the drivers - very often outdated and conflicting with the hardware (with our body), that is why it suffers.
And there is also the external part of the network software - the Universe, with which we are usually not in contact at all. It sends us updates, and we are like: "Oh, these updates again... I won't install them."
Well, well... this is also a decision, and also a choice. But then we - those who are especially outdated - can simply be replaced. And such a replacement can begin in the very near future. If anyone has heard of the prophecy of Ra Uru Hu, then the replacement of Humanity is already on the threshold... unless of course we'll not suddenly come to our senses and agree to connect with the Universe to update the software.
Sorry, Friends. I have exaggerated a bit. But I think it is important for each of us to know that in addition to what is going on inside us - in our thoughts, experiences, worries - in this personal space of incessant thoughts inside the head, there is also an external part of each of us, which is much more significant and large-scale - extending into infinity and being everything that is implied when they say: "A Human is an entire Universe."
Let's talk about new music and new albums - the first of which is in this post
My name and surname are not on the cover. The album is part of the chain of releases of the project "HEAVEN", although until yesterday there was only one link in that chain - the album "sad & soli music", recorded in 2003. I wanted to do something earlier that would continue the undertaking that appeared during the period of my going through some life troubles - I did not understand then that these are periods of the strongest transformations, and unusual times are accompanied by unusual music. But, perhaps, the subsequent times were not about that.
In all the time that has passed since then, I have recorded a couple of tracks - supposedly for the "HEAVEN" project. They are now attached to the first album as bonuses, and in fact have little to do with this story (only in that they were recorded on Korg TRITON series instruments, which were relevant at the time).
Something changed in the summer of 2022. On June 11th, some force made me turn on my already quite old Korg TRITON Extreme - a music workstation from the 2000s (on which the continuation of this project was once conceived, and the first album was recorded on a similar instrument) - and I start creating.
The work moved very intensively. The first 4 pieces were recorded in a few days. True, it was the 4th that became the first stumbling block (I was not fully prepared to create it, and later I reworked it several times, and this energy of throwing is still present in the music, but, as I now understand, it is needed there). Then there was a pause of 10 days - I switched to something else, but soon returned to the album I had started.
After that, the creative process was steady but measured - one piece per week or two. It seemed like the light at the end of the tunnel was already visible - in September I recorded the key track of the album - the eighth, and sketched out the structure, harmonic grid and melody of the ninth. 85% of the work is done - I'm at the finish line...
Friends, today two albums were released at once - both continue the project "HEAVEN" that I started back in 2003 (almost an eternity ago), the music of which was so unusual for me that, as you can see, it took me a long time to mature enough to continue and develop the themes raised in it.
In a nutshell, this is music about our probable future. And the future awaits us is absolutely amazing. And, as far as I managed to embody this (from what I overheard in borderline states), the music largely corresponds to that series of unexpected discoveries that are already rushing towards us from the abyss of the Ocean of Time.
