Awareness Diminishes Fear

By Wes Annac, Culture of Awareness Are you afraid to take the next step in your work, your relationship or another area of life? Many people who are ready for this next step tend to hesitate, and they stay on the same level they’ve always been at as a result. We can avoid this by …

2016: The Year of Transformation

By Wes Annac, Culture of Awareness I don’t know what 2016 means for all of you, but for me, it signals the start of the conscious community’s real work. Our social and spiritual work each year lays the foundation for what we’ll achieve in the years to come, and since we’ve been able to do …

Musical Wisdom: 5 Inspiring Lyrics from Conscious Reggae Songs

By Wes Annac, Culture of Awareness Following my post, 5 Things We Can Appreciate About Rastafari, I’d like to share five snippets of inspiring lyrics from conscious reggae artists and groups. While the purpose of reggae for most Rasta musicians is to express their faith, the topics discussed in reggae music aren’t limited to spirituality …

Music Can Show the Way

By Wes Annac, Culture of Awareness If you read my articles often, you probably know that I think music is one of the most spiritual things we can enjoy. I have reggae music to thank for this opinion, and I’ve always been impressed by how Rastas and other spiritual musicians impart their perspectives and philosophies …

Music: The Language of Spirit – Part 5

By Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness I don’t know about any of you, but for me, music doesn’t get really good until I play continuously. It’s a great way to uplift the spirit no matter how much we play, but to get the most out of it, it seems like we have to stay …

Music: The Language of Spirit – Part 4

By Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness The great thing about music is that we can practice it in whatever way works for us. We don’t have to conform to anything strict or rigid, and no matter how we prefer to play, we can embrace it and use it to elevate our consciousness, inspiring ourselves …

Music: The Language of Spirit – Part 2

Credit: Onedurango.com By Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness There’s a lot more to be said about the spiritual benefits of music than we covered in part one, and we’ll continue our discussion here. Like I said before, I think music’s spiritual value is mostly unappreciated in our society, and most of the mainstream music …

Music: The Language of Spirit

Bob Marley, chanting down Babylon from heaven. Photo origin unknown. “If we can feel that “It is not our voice, “Not our fingers, “But some reality deep inside our heart “Which is expressing itself, “Then we will know that it is “The soul’s music.” – Sri Chinmoy By Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness Have …

Yes, Music is a Form of Meditation

Credit: Mariomorataya.tumblr.com By Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness I’ve been saying for a while that I think music is one of the most spiritual things we can do, and I’ll always stand by that opinion. I have people like the Marley family to thank for this profound realization, and through their music, they’ve helped …

Music: A New Way to Channel

Credit: Izquotes.com Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness I’ve written before about the necessity to transcend the ego and empty the mind if we want to find a higher state of consciousness or do anything creatively pure, and I continue to learn about the importance of becoming conduits for our greater spirituality and …