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HOW TO USE THIS RESOURCE

This website has a lot of information in it and is a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in training or working with rhythm but more specifically for those wanting to practice and work with the methodology of Universal Rhythm Consciousness (URC). It is not assumed this material can be understood deeply by reading it. One of the main principles in this field is Praxis; the theory of experiential learning. It is always better to experience something first and understand it later rather than the other way around. Therefore, one should progress with the information only as far and as fast as is meaningful.  The information is ready to be assimilated once reading it is effortless and triggers an inner process. This is not to say one should not attempt to read it as there is benefit there, we invite you to do so with curiosity and in small digestible amounts. It is hoped that over years, and on return visits, the information will become more and more relevant as one's experience deepens.

This website does not have a product to sell - It is a field of study, it is a life practice! Just like any art form, working with the methodology itself can take up to 20 years to gain maturity as a practitioner/ musician. But getting to a single destination is not the point, regardless of where you are in your process.  Whether or not you are just entering the field as a curious participant, or you are a committed practitioner in mastering the art of leading, the starting point is always the same -"the edge of chaos" which means honouring your edge of what is possible and what is not possible. When we honour this edge of learning we are honouring the very principle of manifestation and therefore, whatever stage you are at, your process will be meaningful.

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"The truly creative changes and the big shifts occur right at the edge of chaos,” 

Dr. Robert Bilder, a psychiatry and psychology professor at UCLA’s Semel Institute

A PATHWAY BACK TO ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE AND COMMUNITY

"African rhythm ensembles are complex social systems... African people will routinely judge the character of a person by the way they interact in the rhythmic dialogue...the point is to participate in the appropriate way...music helps to provide an appropriate framework through which people may relate to each other" 

John Miller Chernoff - African Rhythm and African Sensibility

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Universal rhythm consciousness is a forgotten power that informed our ancestors about social dynamics within community and connected them to the extra sensory world of trance (meta states).  The memory of this power exists in our cells as a primal intelligence. That wisdom that has been handed down along ancestral lines has been cut off by past religious organisations who banned “drums and shamanic ritual” labeling these ceremonies as primitive. The truth is that these tools were always part of the mystical roots of these organisations and the attempt to cleanse and modernise religion only served to sever the modern world's connection from ancestral wisdom. This has left society dependent on consciousness altering substances as the only way to transcend inner limitation, open up and connect! The methodology used for activating URC is pathway back into contact with the power of meta states, but without the need to subscribe to dogma, spiritual “entities or gods”. Rhythm, ritual and generative trance (as a substitute for substances that alter consciousness) all have a crucial place in modern society.  In-fact without these elements true bonding and community is likely not even possible because human connection evolved around this very specific type of rhythmic field that we have identified as Universal Rhythm Consciousness. As the saying goes “a village without rhythm is a dead village” and It could also be said that we as a society have lost the power of rhythm to find it back on a deeper level. Our hope is for this website to serve as a resource for people wishing to reconnect to this wisdom.

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