TSHansen In reply to chetje [2016-01-17 06:01:46 +0000 UTC]

I think it is actually going to be a better year

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TSHansen In reply to RSeer [2015-08-15 06:28:42 +0000 UTC]

Youll be happy to know it is corrected.

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RSeer In reply to TSHansen [2015-08-15 17:10:03 +0000 UTC]

I am, thanks.  

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TSHansen In reply to AnnaKirsten [2015-07-27 23:50:44 +0000 UTC]

Im so sorry! Ill be praying for you. I have to deal with degenerative disks in my spine due to immunological problems, so I can image the kind of pain your in. Were both wounded birds so Ill take no offence. My phone number is posted in my profile if you wanna chat. It so frustrating when the spirit is willing and the flesh gives out on us..Auhhgg Im so sorry Anna.

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AnnaKirsten In reply to TSHansen [2015-07-28 19:24:00 +0000 UTC]

I'm sorry you're in pain also.  Thank you for understanding.  I'll make contact later when feeling more able

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TSHansen In reply to AnnaKirsten [2015-07-27 20:17:44 +0000 UTC]

Ya it may sounds egotistical But I don't add many watches. When I watch people its because im like WOW! I wanna figure out what there doing so that I can do thing equally as good one day or I feel it in my bones that have some greatness that's gonna squeegee out one day...You are one of them what ya do is decent and soon i feel your style is gonna reach another critical mass(your macro photography is above and beyond anything i have ever done). Also you do contribute to DA art community which I respect. The other rare watch's are people who are so outrageously good that I can talk art theory with and admire there hard work. I am still blown away by your openness, i liked the spiritual visions you shared. Reminds me not all my experiences with God is consider mental illness by everyone. I keep a lot of my visions to myself. Once in a rare while when i open up, people will say things like "They give medication for that sort of thing". I do think you would mock me. Still hope one of these days to catch on phone or Skype and hear about your experiences and walk with Jesus.

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AnnaKirsten In reply to TSHansen [2015-08-02 12:26:41 +0000 UTC]

I need to clear this out of my M/C now; typing with only r hand.

I think you and I have been on very different spiritual journeys, yours being a more colourful one, because I have not ventured off the path God reveals in the Bible, other than to sometimes fall into a back-slidden state when I've sometimes (through circumstance) questioned His very existence in the past.  But I am human!   I wouldn't say I am a visionary and I am sceptical of modern-day prophecy, always weighing what is said and waiting to see its fruit.  Too many people are gullible and then become disappointed/disillusioned.  I don't see my faith as a religion, but as a relationship with God my Father, Jesus Christ my Saviour, and led and guided be the Holy Spirit.  If I feel alone, it's not because He has left me, but because I'm the one who has walked in another direction (selfishness for example) for a while.

I have very mixed feelings about church - there is no perfect one on this earth, and I believe the Church - the true Body of Christ, the called out ones, - will only become perfect and truly glorify God once it has been raptured.  Meanwhile we need to be discerning and patient at the same time.  I think fellowship, particularly for prayer and worship, are essential, but we need to embrace one another (despite our imperfections) by recognising one another as New Creations in Christ, bearing with one another in His love. 

For study, I like the Amplified version of the Bible over and above all other translations, because this is as close as we can get to the original Hebrew and Greek languages, conveying the fullest possible depth of meaning of the original wording.  Commentaries have their use, but we have to bear in mind their bias towards denomination!  In Christ there is no such division! 

I LOVE to worship God in music (I play the flute and also keyboards) and to do this with a totally free/uninhibited and spontaneous group of people is the most wonderful of experiences for me.  Now I'm an older woman, this has been an ongoing struggle, as these days musicians are constantly giving preference to the younger generations - and electronic guitars & drums are preferred above concert instruments.  This grieves me greatly, because it is the way our fellowship has trended lately, whereas in the past I used to play at every event and was fully part of our music worship team.  To be able to play in an accepted environment again, though, would mean reverting back to denominational church where freedom in the things of the Spirit have, in recent years, become stifled.  We left that church over 2 yrs ago because it had drifted and "dried up" over the years after many unpleasant splits etc.  I think from 350+ strong (and standing room only) it has now dwindled down to 12-15 regular, all elderly, members, with a pastor who's heart is as a prison chaplain, and 'though charming as a person, has become subject to following a lectionary format, with little or no spontaneity.  So very sad!

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TSHansen In reply to AnnaKirsten [2015-08-02 21:07:52 +0000 UTC]

Amplified bible has been my favorite to. One of these days im gonna break down and buy a direct Galilean Aramaic translation of the bible, there s a few rares ones floating out there. I look forward to you mending of your hand. It is a shame that a Capella and good old fashion
analog acoustics do not prevail more. It does make me angry that every generation thinks there music is best and so the church is now dominated by pop music. What i can for sure decry because i know enough about biophysics to know the digital realm of sound has short changed us. Anyone who has put an old 1920 or 40 era phonograph next to even a high end 96khz digital recording will see that square wave step emulation of an analog sine wave with infinite resolution curve is well, like someone crapping in your ear. All those beautiful overtones,undertone, additive and subtractive early reflection GONE! Poof just like that. To me digital has replaced the honey richness of sound with some strange synthetic sweeteners. Who would bake a cake made out of aspartame for there loved ones? Dont get me wrong I love synthesizer. But I also know unlike my 250 year old lute..It wont get better sounding with age. There no feedback mechanism to concentrate life force energy. I envy you with the flute player. By the time i got around to seriously wanting to play one I was poor. I love the flute and want one bad of of these days, because I can hear! I Can hear the heart breath inside the pressure wave of the breath. One day my ears open. Im like my dear sweet god, is that the persons heart beat i hear in that breath tone coming out of that flute!! When i do get a flute, I am going to notate some birds songs, and play music to some healing plants, I hope that i can work with the holy spirit. I have played with my guitar out in the wild and have had some birds come and sing duets with me. God can cause some very strange and wonderfully impossible things to happen. At first i thought i was crazy but a few handful of musicians blushed and admitted this to had happened to them and that they to were fearful to express that experience.

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AnnaKirsten In reply to TSHansen [2015-08-03 11:08:21 +0000 UTC]

I totally know what you are describing re the difference between analogue and digital, and that's why digital is so harsh on the ears; people's hearing suffers terribly if they listen to too much of it at a loud level too.

Like you, I love some synth sounds - and as for the flute, I've had amazing prophesies made over me in relation to the sound vibrations from it bringing about healing!  That truly resonated with me and I knew that was God's calling.  There is a link on my profile page to some of my own music (MP3 format).  At one time there were 5 CD's in circulation, which went all over the UK and Ireland, and was widely used in Christian retreat centres.  Unfortunately the masters eventually became corrupted, so now I only have all the music stored and backed up in MP3 format.  I no longer have all the equipment I had back then to do the recordings, which is a bummer, as I feel there is still more I could produce.

How lovely to have the freedom to take and instrument to an open place and play to Nature!  I've often thought of doing so, but feel rather shy about it!

Have you any recordings of your own music?

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TSHansen In reply to AnnaKirsten [2015-08-04 21:18:09 +0000 UTC]

I have some on 4 track.. Music was a strange adventure for me. I had plenty of offers and bands, some people even mobbed me onto the stage more then once cause i was dumb enough in my earlier years to play now and then for the public..But it was never about people. I devoted my music privately to god. It was the only virgin territory in my life that i could offer as a sacrifice to god that had not been tainted by my dark soul. I guarded it jeliously. Then it took on strange adventures of the weird. God would have me go places..Tell me to wait there with my 12 string. Sometimes for hours..Then when a person would show up, the holy spirit would fill me..A song that i neither remember, nor did i have the skill to play it, would come out of no where. I am not even sure if I really was the one playing the guitar! It was pure holy spirit prophetic deal. I had no idea what was going on! He would have me sing in tongues, yet even though i didnt know what i was saying and I know the listeners had it translate it for them something extremely private. It had an awesome effect these people would break down right then and there.. I have no idea what god was up to. Other times god would just, grab your guitar, go here..Play something for me..So id worship him. Because I was punch drunk in love with Jesus. Some of the theory I could pass on. I would love to talk to you voice and tell you what he showed me in the garden of eden.
I can be bitter in this area at times, because this immunity illness attacks not just my spine and internal organs but anything that gets over used..SO my joints inflamed to the point where I cant play the lute,guitar, harp..Nothing..My voice is ok..Im still like why God! It was 100 percent for him. I don't know why music was taken from me. So im delegated to just do some overtone singing, and hope in the future to use some tuning forks to heal people. But my music deal is over.

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AnnaKirsten In reply to TSHansen [2015-08-05 11:25:37 +0000 UTC]

This sounds like a very familiar battle to me.  I know my calling from God is to play and to worship Him in music, and yet this is the area in which I also get hit the most.  I've had occasions when playing, when my heart has suddenly gone up to 160-200 beats per minute (SVT's) and continued like that for the next 48 hours.  Of course within minutes I am breathless and on the point of collapsing and just have to get home.  This condition is now so unstable I can't make any firm plans and know I can keep them.  (I have a complex heart condition that I was born with, including aortic stenosis.) On top of that, having recently procured the most beautiful-sounding flute I've ever owned, my left shoulder has become so painful I can't use that arm much, and certainly can't play at the moment because of the high level of pain the position causes!  Doc thinks it's degenerative changes, in other words, osteoarthritis.  I've also had flack from other worship-group members all through the years, when they didn't like the fact that the flute always brought in the compliments from people, but they were not included.  This was never something I encouraged and I found it embarrassing, but there was a lot of jealousy when we were all younger.  This got to the point where one couple, who were not team players, actually put all my equipment away without telling me, and made it impossible for me to play at an important function!!  They said I wasn't needed and the flute was just another noise on top of what they were doing!!  They wanted the lime-light in other words.

I used to notice time and again, how when I came in with a flute harmony to something everyone was singing, they would suddenly close their eyes, raise their hands and really join in fully in worship.  It was catalystic - and still is on occasion when I do get through a worship session.  But in this fellowship we joined 2 1/2 years ago, I relegated to play just once a month and at no other time.  This is not what I've been used to, and I've felt very grieved in my spirit during many a worship session that I've not been allowed to worship in the way God gifted me to do.

So.. Conclusion is, this is a spiritual battle we are in.  But He that is in us is greater than he that is in the world.  Personally I have to trust that when I can play, these will be the times that God uses the gift, and if this is all He requires at this time, then so be it.  I must be patient, both with the circumstances and with myself.  I sit under prophecy, and this is up to Him to arrange

There is also the fact of sacrificing the thing we love the most - that we will not worship Him without cost.  His gifts to us are irrevocable and sometimes we need to know He just loves us for who we are and not for the abilities He has given us.  That's very hard, but it's good discipline too.  He needs to know, too, that we love Him enough just not to use our gifts, but to simply adore Him for Who He is with all our hearts and without conditions attached, or else we fall into the sin of idolatry.  I look forward to the day I meet Jesus in heaven, and I feel sure I will have a special place in one of the heavenly orchestras - who knows, we may play alongside one another!!

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TSHansen In reply to AnnaKirsten [2015-08-06 05:45:02 +0000 UTC]

Id still like to talk to you voice sometime..I have some gifts to give you about music theory that are way to complicated to type. You can still play and direct the energy of the holy spirit. I pray you will have the courage for the lord to open your ears to hear the angels sing. Since the humans move you to only play once a month, but..Were two or more are gathered..The angels love to sing with us. That gives me some hope where ever i go..I hear them about 1/5th the time. I don't know if it will be permanently given to you, but i am sure it there for the asking. As for the war.. Satan, before the fall was Jesus chief announcer and leader of the whole universes angelic choir. Music is greater power then atomic bombs or flaming cherubim swords. There a reason honest musicians have a hard lot in life. 

I didn't marvel at my playing, I just like the way it opened my heart to god. Without it i feel shut off thus a little bitter. But i am learning to sing.. Just not a fan of my own voice.. 

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AnnaKirsten In reply to TSHansen [2015-08-06 19:52:14 +0000 UTC]

I'm sorry, I don't do skype or phone abroad - actually I hate being seen!   dA is a convenient place to keep one's physical persona somewhat hidden but to allow one's best to come through in the form of art and writing!!!

The music theory you refer to, is it beyond that which we learn as musicians?  Is it about things like harmonics?

I would be delighted to hear angels singing!  Most definitely!  I know one or two people who actually have had this experience locally too.

Yes, Lucifer was indeed the director of music and he wants to get it back under his control; I believe that's why people in the front line of worship are so badly attacked.  But we always say, Why should the devil have all the good music?  It originates with God Himself, and I believe it is an intrinsic part of the heavenly realm we will one day enter.  He is enthroned on the praises of His people too.  So we must praise Him in every way we can.

Yes, oh yes!  Music is so, so powerful!  I've seen people break down in tears and return to the Lord after really hard times in their lives when they have been in an atmosphere of gentle worship music, be it instrumental or choral or both.  It has the power to break down the barriers....

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TSHansen In reply to AnnaKirsten [2015-08-07 22:15:24 +0000 UTC]

Well that the price of admission for some complex reasons. I would even prefer that if we do talk, that your hubby will be on the phone while we talked. I am fully aware on how all data on the net is recorded. I was simply going to give you some power information which I do not transmits often. And certainly not though casual chit chat. You would need to pray about it, it might not be for you. If God doesn't give you a resounding "Yes" that it would be a bad idea. Your decision on this does not in any way change how we operate here on DA. These are a few personal visions that explain some mysteries on how the universe operates that only someone whom is christian, in full operation of the holy spirit who has been touched by god as musician can comprehend. And yes it goes beyond harmonics. 

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AnnaKirsten In reply to TSHansen [2015-08-08 09:48:16 +0000 UTC]

I'm so sorry if I am causing offence in any way.  I'd like to read of your visions some time, but I'd really just prefer we leave things as they are, and hope that's okay with you

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TSHansen In reply to AnnaKirsten [2015-08-11 21:54:07 +0000 UTC]

I spent three and half years on a biography to which I was blackballed to publish or discuss it anywhere of substance where it could be taken seriously. Basically it was about my studying of music theory,exorcism and biophysics
for 27 years and how the relates to the fundamental spiritual nature of
reality. But i hit a nerve with the powers that be in my journey. So I am not offended just a little depressed cause you seemed the kind of person I could trust with what God has shared with me. If you prayed about it and God said "NO" then it be a good idea to listen to that "NO". So i am sorry if I caused you any distress. We still have ton of art stuff we can do on DA so are friendship is profitable one.

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AnnaKirsten In reply to TSHansen [2015-08-12 17:11:11 +0000 UTC]

I'm sorry your efforts for publications seemed to be prevented; just maybe the subject was too wide or complicated for popular reading?  I suspect I would have huge difficulty understanding it to be honest, as there seems to be quite a mix of the spiritual and academia - which although I'm sure have their rightful place in the balance of things, somehow to me, feel odd. 

The theory of music I learned was boring to say the least, but necessary in its way and at that time in order to pass certain exams.  But I ditched it all once I had achieved my aim, and will admit to breaking a lot of the fundamental rules of it in composing my own music.  In fact I think a lot of the best music actually does just that!   Spiritually music goes way beyond theory (so far as I'm concerned).  As we know, it can be used for good and for evil.  It has intrinsic powers of its own, and can move the emotions in all kinds of ways depending on the Spirit or spirits behind it.  Some of (what used to be) my favourite music used to make me feel distinctly oppressed, then one day I found out it was actually dedicated to devil worship!  I had a smashing time, literally, with all those CD's - they ended up in the dustbin!

Then there's biophysics, a curious and I suspect, a great mix - almost like not just looking at what IS, but discovering the WHY or the HOW.  But this isn't a subject I would have the patience to try to understand - way beyond me these days!  Except I do believe we are able to change our environments by the way we are towards it, both physically and Spiritually.  The things we say (verbally) have power; but if God is saying them through us, they have authority to bring change.

Exorcism is a huge subject, and there are those who do this without God's authority - in other words, who are basically Satanists, who may not even realise that's what they are because of the deception they are under, and would carry out their acts of exorcism under the influence of evil.  To be doing it under God's authority requires discernment - a gift specifically given from Him for specific moments in time, and it would always need to be carried out in the Name of Jesus Christ in order to break the influence of the evil one - or else, a house divided against itself would simply fall.

I've read some of your dialogues with some other artists, and am uneasy.  I sense that you go beyond Christianity (as defined Biblically) and also delve in matters that just might be on the other side of the border..  Yoga? Chi? Listening to plants speak to you?  I'm uneasy with these things because their spiritual base is not rooted in the God I believe I know...

As you say, I need to listen to the discernment I personally have, and that is to stay within the bounds with which I'm at peace and experience Spiritual harmony.

Be blessed Thomas!  May He continually guide you and keep your paths straight...

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TSHansen In reply to Thelma1 [2014-10-21 01:30:05 +0000 UTC]

Thank you Thelma, im gonna try to make more soon, iv been gone a long time..I put the Uf code up with this new peice i posted today. Im pretty sure you could play this and get something of your own out of it..

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