NEW CD Release! MANDALA: Meditations on the wholeness of being
From the Sanskrit word for "circle," The Esoterics' eighth CD is a collection of choral works inspired by the universal symbol of meditation and psychic centeredness. The MANDALA is common to many world religions, and it is this spiritual unity within diversity that is the over-arching theme of this disc. Hinduism is represented by the mysterious verses of the Bhagavad gita in Roger Nelson's Attaining immortality, and the shimmering Sanskrit of the Mundaka Upanishad in Diane Thome's All this. Mark Adamo's vigorous Supreme virtue and Stephen Paulus' tranquil Meditations of Li Po bring the balance of the Tao. Donald Skirvin's luminous Songs of enlightenment awaken our Buddhist minds along with John Muehleisen's resplendent setting of verses by the 12th-century Myoe Shonin, Watching the moon go down. To complete this disc, the iridescent self-styled Chinese stophes of Linda Waterfall's Guang [Light] joins Jâvdâni [Eternity], Eric Banks' homage to the afterlife by the Persian poet Rumi. Read more.
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