One of the ideas we talked about on the conference call yesterday was the power Hip Hop artists (and all artists) have to change the world, to make a difference.

Art gives us the power to create and see what can be... art gives form to imagination.

When I say art I am including more than the visual arts... poetry, music, etc.

Art gives us the power to express to ourselves and to others what we can't yet explain or understand logically.

A person could read a treatise on the mind and how so much of the limitations in our world are but the way we see the world... but you might not buy it, believe it, agree with it. That same person could watch a movie like The Matrix and suddenly "get it." Then that same person could go back and read the treatise and "see" so much more than they could the first time.

This is one of the powers of art.

Art gives us power to communicate our world view, our life, our thoughts and feelings to others in more of a wholistic sense. Using logical language it is as if we can impart but one new thought at a time, connecting it to the last thought logically. Yet art gives us the power to see more directly or suddenly those connections and the matrix they create... bypassing the logical proofs.

Logic is very important and a powerful tool, but if we want to evolve beyond our current understandings and our current problems, individually and as a society, it helps to be able to see beyond our current limitations... to jump to radical new perspectives, so we can bring new insights and understandings back to our reality and use them to make evolutionary leaps forward.

So many artists today are resigned to merely expressing feelings of resignation, defeatism, nihilism, etc. Worse, so many artists have began to glorify a world in which an individual doesn't have the power to make a difference. In the world of hip hop, for example, so much rap tends to be about the bling bling, the bitches and hoes, and the foolish macho violence. These are the ones who sell the platinum albums. Yet, these people have often led heroic lives, and risen to success in a world of authority and conformity. In this sense they are heroes. Children and adults often look up to them. They hold within their hands the power to change the world, to awaken people to their own greatness, to feed the Vision Revolution!

Reggae music was the music of revolution. It created a counter culture that fed the spirit of freedom, defiance and resistance. Rappers today in America and the world over have the same power. They can be the Bob Marley of their times.

There are spirited, heroic hip hop artists all over the world, yet they're not getting the big record contracts...
yet. The internet, blogging, vlogging (video blogging), and other technologies are giving more and more of these artists a voice, a mic if you will... The revolution is already underway, and hip hop artists are some of the great visionary leaders of the coming revolution towards true personal power and freedom.

(more later...)