{"id":121,"date":"2007-10-13T10:18:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T17:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomkenyon.com\/store\/citynotes\/"},"modified":"2007-10-13T10:18:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T17:18:21","slug":"citynotes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tomkenyon.com\/store\/citynotes\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Hymns <!--notes-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/music\/city-of-hymns.jpg\" title=\"City of Hymns\" alt=\"City of Hymns\" align=\"right\" \/><br \/>\nRecording this music has been an amazing spiritual journey for me, one which I  would like to briefly share.<\/p>\n<p>As a practicing Transpersonal Psychotherapist for over seventeen years, I have  worked extensively with individuals in the exploration of their spiritual beliefs  and how these beliefs helped or hindered their life-progress. In the course of  this work, I became very aware of what I call &#8220;subtle energy beings,&#8221; such as  saints, angels, deities of various spiritual traditions as well as personal guides,  beings who helped a person &#8220;from the other side.&#8221; These beings are rarely  experienced directly through our senses since they, unlike ourselves, are of a  more subtle nature, constituted more of energy and consciousness than matter.  Nevertheless, I have experienced these beings as quite real and often helpful to  those I worked with.<\/p>\n<p>Although I did not have a deep connection with Jeshua (Jesus), as I had left  the church in my early twenties, I nevertheless encountered him on numerous occasions when a client was Christian, and especially when he or she had  a strong emotional spiritual connection. I had to acknowledge, from my own  personal experience, that this being, Jeshua, was a truly benevolent master who  often performed some amazing miracles of transformation with my clients.  The idea of recording Christian devotional hymns in a &#8220;sound healing&#8221; treatment was first proposed to me by my friend and publisher, Virginia Essene. I  was intrigued with the idea, but had no idea of how to proceed since the hymns  were &#8220;set&#8221; in my mind and did not have the fluidity necessary from a sound  healing standpoint. I put the project idea aside as my professional and business  life was very busy.<\/p>\n<p>Then one day at the keyboard, I felt Jeshua&#8217;s very strong presence behind me.  I picked up one of the old frayed hymnals I had purchased and opened it to one  of the hymns in this recording. I asked Jeshua to guide me, and to help me see  past my own limited understanding of these traditional hymns. Suddenly I saw  the hymns in a new light. I was inspired and possessed by this vision. I recorded the hymns at a feverish pace, my eyes often filled with tears at the beauty and  wonder of devotion.<\/p>\n<p>May you be transported, as was I, through the power of these songs to a place  of healing and peace. And may the peace that passeth all understanding, be  with you always.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomkenyon.com\/store\/city-of-hymns\/\">Return to City of Hymns page <\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recording this music has been an amazing spiritual journey for me, one which I would like to briefly share. As a practicing Transpersonal Psychotherapist for over seventeen years, I have worked extensively with individuals in the exploration of their spiritual beliefs and how these beliefs helped or hindered their life-progress. In the course of this [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-121","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkenyon.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkenyon.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkenyon.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkenyon.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkenyon.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomkenyon.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkenyon.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}