Drag City Yahowa presents :Children Of The Sixth Root Race (US,1973,re.2008)***°°
Songs from The Source
One of bands related with the cult figure Yahowa/Father Yod was ‘Spirit of ’76’. This band was the most song and rock-orientated band, andvery much had an entity of its own, living on the sidelines of their spiritual leader. Djin Aquarian, rhythm guitarist and songwriter of this band wrote the songs from this recently lost-and-found recording, mostly in the year before he joined the Source. Although it is still called “songs from the source” to some degree it also includes the life and consciousness from before joining the the Source and includes its own quest and coming to it, and while being performed by members of the Yahowa tribe, it still has, without its too direct presence of Yahowa as its leader an independent sound, where to a small degree the visions inhabit the earthly-life sounds/styles, but still with its own directing psychedelic inflections of the more Father Yod/Yahowa 13-related recognisable sound of its own. Besides the inclusion of the personal message and energy, including the teachings gathered around the road to identification, it to some degree also has the hidden message to its previous members that perhaps the band has its own energy after all to maintain its own strength and evolution, now when new attention is given to the group and things after whole personal evolutions are questioned once more. So, for all the remaining members today, when hearing this previous event, I am sure this still could give a new meaning to their existence, after having lost their Father (Yod/Yahowa) so long ago now. When seeing this personal and communal evolution partially in reverse from a point where they might feel lost now, the revealing of this ability within any personal development, like with that of Djin’s own experiences, which were shared and brought to a higher level of expression with The Source, can be another inspiration once more, a proof of how each of them can lead themselves. On the other hand, some of the thoughts involved hearing a few of these prophecies sound more like paranoia today than seriously directing wisdom.* But for this release it is so that, luckily, each expression involved, whatever they were, found a really strong channelling of experimenting energy, a very direct experiencing inspiration in music.
-I once saw a Christian documentary warning about false prophets and the danger of being led by one, as if their own Bible or any of its fortune-tellers ever was able to do so. They said that Edgar Casey, known as being the prophet in his sleep, who, besides claimed he just saw or channelled information from ‘the Source’, supposedly did a few unfulfilled prophecies because he had claimed that in 1969 Atlantis would rise again. But if you consider what was most important in around 1969, one should realize that it was a different and very experimenting conscious, explorative time, all over the world. Djinn refers in the rather humoristic song “we are the dinosaurs” about how they are reincarnated from different previous forms (and now just use the old tricks again) to the incarnated from Atlantis. Imaginations or not, it is this sort of ‘Atlantis’ which often get the reference as a period where people of that time experimented freely, not just with power, but also with their whole mind.-
The group’s name “Children of the sixth root race” usually refers to an evolutionary state in the totality of human’s evolution (so is not referring to the 5 genetic races). After having read “The Source” and listened to some included lectures from Yahowa on the additional CD, it is more clear to me it also refers to the God-state of man to which humanity evolves, a state where the animalistic nature no longer interferes with inevitable desires and fears, but where the mind feels the connections that it should make stronger, just like an adept, a condition which also a group’s consciousness like a musical group in a creative project sometimes is able to achieve because all forces to make it so are able to develop this, so that different purposes are able to reveal and express and even better construct itself during the process.
-Besides, during the last couple of years there has been a lot of discussion and prophecy-like imaginations and theories, based upon Cayey, Blavatski and other peoples references to the new race we’re evolving to, something which also got the ‘Indigo children’ association involved, a term which is now adapted into psychology and which in that field refers to kids of the new society who act totally differently on this rapidly changing world, which in reality, considering their health problems and limited learning capacities, often means suffering from learning and adapting disorders into bigger connections more than an occasion of finding new inner gifts or talents.- **
Also for this band, their own existence was just an experiment, with energy and thought. The previous band name, ‘Spirit of ‘76’, came into existence in 1973, (besides it might with this re-release in mind refer, if this imaginative association is not forced too far,- to the message it could bring as an independent energy to the group, after Yahowa’s coming death in 1975)-. It first of all had been a reference to the birth of America, an ode to the liberal spirit that was consciously brought into the occasion, amendments and symbols. When Apocalyptic vision occurred at first (there was a general paranoia about it during these days), the idealisms of teachings also became a gathering of new members and solutions that would show the difference.
This particular album never was meant as a recording for an LP, but was just a rehearsal before a concert at the Whiskey A Go Go in LA, although it sounds pretty much like a cohesive album of over 50 minutes with a great and logical evolution in it. (It was found only just two years ago by accident). The greatness in it is partially the building up and transforming of energy in it, bringing us from rather let’s say more R&B driven rock tracks (male or female vocals), with bluesy organ, over slightly West Coast vocals to heavy female vocal pop-rock songs with a great female driven backing vocal group, which turns the energy from let’s say the earlier 50s R&B origins, in styles over gospel-rock to the wilder spiritual psychedelic rock spheres with s(w)inging “YaHo’s’” near the end. This evolution includes some occasional jazzrock/Canterbury strengths (at first on “Godmen”), an occasional funky riff (“Do Me”), over great improvisations, and occasional freakouts, a calmer but equally great message song with just percussion and backing vocals (“the great woe”), where thoroughly the Father/Yahowa-theme comes, participating in it, changing with it it's energy to something different, more hypnotically transcending, without losing the feeling for structural inspiration. Especially “Catastrophy” with its apocalyptic visions, has great dramatic arrangements. It is heavier and is convincing as belonging to the Yahowa(13) related Source(s), even when it is originally recorded without Yahowa leading (who checked and produced the recordings, changing only bits, like perhaps the small Indian chant on the last track). It is from that lastly mentioned track on that the energy changed completely, which pretty much works as a trip which continues into the last tracks. “Go with the flow” shows a great psychedelic rock part which include also flute, and on the last track I hear sax added to the rocking and jamming energy. Much more than any Yahowa record especially these highlights showed rather Canterbury-alike moments with incredible progressive shifts. A great discovery!
* There has been yogi-alike attempts to bring the peoples mind more directly to their capability to consciously stimulate its creative evolution. Once when someone is not distracted with his mind by all the failures of body / mind / emotions / cycles people tend to make, but simply tries to learn to act more purely with them, the 'dream state' of the body is no longer as much busy restoring what is destructively maintained, but now is more open to other suggestions, like for destinies which are more like progressions to the whole human being and beyond (all the contexts). At that stage the mind / emotions / destinies unfold themselves more directly in confrontation, and inspirations become much more purified intuition, and come spontaneously and honestly. Thoroughly it can give a higher and different energy level of awareness knowing and acting for what step to take next, dealing with the necessity of circumstances.
Channelling however works on those things that still need to be adapted and accomplished later, not realizing yet how this could make the starting structure of imagination stronger if fully understood. At their stage of inspiration it still is an open structure, which should have a vague destiny because lots still need to be fulfilled. When not vague but with strong images it reveals that the mind is in its last phase of imagination, and tends to cope with its failure and lack of imagination to manifest the needed change.
Every process, no matter how positive, tends to have three phases, starting with discovery, leading to knowledge and understanding, ending in destruction, restriction or failure. Once knowledge has become an easy practical tool, the need for change and transformation will be even more a necessity. If that does not happen quickly enough everything shall works against all free creativity with it.
Whenever a Channelling occurs on that phase it looks into the destiny of a continuation of facts without any transformation process or a change of perspective. Almost every group who started to use open creative imagination began to see visions of world destruction. It never means if this will happen or not, but it indicates it is time for the fundamental source to change its centre, especially when dates are given that such a necessity is a reality.
When Yahowa saw 1975 as a year of destruction, he turned it into his own brought into scene chosen death time, while the world around him and his charismatic centring being renewed itself at that stage.
Apocalyptic visions always occur where there’s need for drastic change of using its core of imagination and perspective, and when it really deals with the world’s reality also there it is the case. If such change of centre does not happen once in a while, opposites will grow more rapidly and aggressively against each other because new possibilities can’t be opening up otherwise.
Any creative mind and life needs change, also from the position of its leading mind or centre of consciousness. In politics, the mistakes from right wing will be solved by left wing and so on. Either weak characters then first take over lead that reveal the worst shadowy heritage of the previous leadership, or new strong characters or ideas will renew, with new injection, from their own source of inspiration. Repetition of the same things could eventually mean or work just like the opposite energy if a new injection can’t be given. No idealisms are ever ideal and universal, while inspirations themselves can either inspire further or with plain restriction only restrict.
** After investigating a lot more from Yahowa, including his writings, I became convinced he not only found a transformed compensation of psychology for his own personality, he also made it into a form in which he could develop an honest spiritual mastership.
There are some analogies you can find, in psychology, as well as in the learning and teaching processes, to Jesus of 2000 years ago, but in a different area and time perspective, which were the perfect times for experimenting and opening new doors : the late 60s and early seventies....
However, if we would look for a fitting Master with the Times of Today again, He will need to deal with a lot more aspects : with the decomposing of the complexity of nature's species, related with the losing a grip on the general resource of people's energy, with the process of a changing magnetism on earth reflecting the difficulties of memory and body balance, with the poisonous addictions to sugar and television, with the replacement of the lower's Self instincts by Mechanical repetitions and ignorance of the participants, an energy stimulated by a governed process, imagined by certain leaders of Power who are constantly constructing and placing certain restrictions and limitations from that order, behind the scenes ; He has to deal with the fact that we today can hardly escape the noise of air waves that surrounds us, with the increasing number of people causing lack of space in general and lack of sources for anyone in general, with the increasing numbers of political abuse of people just trying to escape all this. And what about the increasing number of certain Groups who tend to take Power over the world at any costs. How do you think you are able to create new ideas to renew our daily living... because certain practical change will have to happen sooner or later.
This is no longer the late 60s, early 70s ! Several opened up doors are already closed now. Media, journalism and educational process and every conscious health process are already taken over by something more mediocre and mechanical. So what do YOU still think to do ? If someone still feels destined to make a different sort of participation, there's only one way to the Master, which is finding a way to purify thoughts, actions and emotions, so that the energy flows more directly, like one says, towards a higher Self and back, to reflect whatever you can do, how the needs of the moment hang well together through its natural evolutions. The amount of brilliance and lightness of your own actions, feelings and thoughts are in fact only yours. It's up to You...
Secondly.. With whom do you think you're dealing with to be able offer something ? People no longer suffer from a chaotic Society, and by the lack of dealing with psychological-logical personal evolutions of persons by their parents (60s), so that they could use some kind of parental substitute, but now are suffering from a closer closed up personal situation which has caused their own ignorant indifference to be able to grasp wider perspectives beyond their own daily consuming relationships and satisfying forms of survival : cause they are not even capable of using their emotional, physical and mental abilities well in affection with a wider ranged natural processes beyond their own bodily processes and direct social confrontations ; there is no energy left to see or to be able to remember historical references in any evolutionary process. Their left over energy is used for escapism instead, and is consumed by the mechanical processes of the fashionable. What in God's sake do YOU think you are able to contribute there as a Mind ? There can’t be any significance to that...
Yahowha 13 : Magnificance In The Memory (US,1970s,pub.2009)***°'
