{"id":2558,"date":"2017-08-18T10:06:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2017-08-21T15:41:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T23:41:48","slug":"turn-the-world-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2558","title":{"rendered":"Turn the World Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Belafonte co-wrote a song and performed it on the televised Muppet Show in the late 1980s: \u201cTurn the World Around.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YaZNMs8eWTo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You can see it on YouTube<\/a>.)<br \/>\n\u201cWe come from the mountain,\u201d the song goes. \u201cLiving on the mountain;<br \/>\nGo back to the mountain, turn the world around!\u201d Then the song repeats for fire instead of mountain, and again for water instead of fire. It finishes with<br \/>\nDo you know who I am? Do I know who you are?<br \/>\nSee we one another clearly: Do we know who we are?<br \/>\nOh, oh! So is life!<br \/>\nWater make the river, river washes mountain;<br \/>\nFire makes the sunlight, turn the world around!<br \/>\nHeart is of the river, body is the mountain;<br \/>\nSpirit is the sunlight, turn the world around!<br \/>\nWe are of the spirit, truly of the spirit;<br \/>\nOnly can the spirit turn the world around! (Repeat)<br \/>\n(An infectious rhythm of ten beats, too.)<\/p>\n<p>This song recently struck me with new meaning! It expresses the simplicity of the growing emergence of consciousness, with an edge also of mystery. I suspect this sentiment is more true of the shamans for peoples whose sense of time is more timeless, cyclic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Belafonte co-wrote a song and performed it on the televised Muppet Show in the late 1980s: \u201cTurn the World Around.\u201d (You can see it on YouTube.) \u201cWe come from the mountain,\u201d the song goes. \u201cLiving on the mountain; Go back to the mountain, turn the world around!\u201d Then the song repeats for fire instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-spirituality-and-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}