'NowTime'
The Art Of Becoming The Moment.
I create Drum and Sound Journeys that present a gateway into altered states, hidden realms and ancestral memory. I also writing and produce my own music and video content.
My drum and sound journeys bring together nature soundscapes, tribal rhythms, live vocals and instrumentals combined with electroscapes, and what can only be described as some kind of psycho-spiritual rock performed on various international stringed instruments.
My music releases are a new aspect of 'NowTime'. I haven't released any music for many years, and even then it wasn't largely promoted. Official releases coming very soon!
What Happens In A 'NowTime' Sound & Drum Journey
For 30 years I've utilising sound, rhythm and music to aid with my own ‘spiritual evolution’, I've witnessing first hand the incredible transformations that can occur when we're open to the power of sound and the present moment.
Though I have been in many bands etc, since 2022 I've been moving more and more in the direction of using what I've learned and developed to aid others. My journey has taught me that true positive growth happens when we (as best we can) align our mind, body, and spirit with the source of life. The still formless timelessness found at the primordial heart of existence is the essence of being, and simultaneously the source of our greatest power.
Accessing the now more fully is an on going journey of inner expansion, each step making healing from a chaotic world a much smoother and rewarding process.
A voyage of spiritual transmutation.
Firstly its important to pint out that writing or speaking about what its like to truly experience the present moment in its primordial state is a paradox. But while a description of it and how to reach it can be necessary to be aware of it, true NowTime is beyond words and description. Its about feeling and connecting with the wider expanse of existence and being aware that we ourselves are it and the inherent joy that experiencing it can bring. I'm not suggesting we live beyond words and thought 24/7. The experience of the primordial now is a place we can go to recharge and remember who and what we are at our core, bringing back vital energy and perspectives that can positively transform our individual lives and the world around us.
Whether your curious about how sound, rhythm and music can transport us into altered states that can enrich our consciousness and hence our quality of life, or your more experienced in this area, my aim is to aid as many people as possible in discovering and/or maintaining the perspective that we ourselves are the consciousness and infinite expanse that is the eternal now. Not just to think and say it, but to actually experience that we are already it, and always have been.
My experience has shown me that the present moment is consciousness itself, the origin of knowledge and wisdom, the essence of living, the source of life, and simultaneous gateway, divine destination and experience of a grand spiralling creation. In aiding people to access this perspective, (EVEN FOR JUST A MOMENT 😉) it also aids me in maintaining my own connection, focus and conscious expansion. We're all in this strange and wild experience together!
My internet content and live events are created to guide us into conscious states that align with the primordial foundations of our day to day lives. Places familiar yet unknown, alien, yet feel like home ✨
This is still a fairly new project, and more content will arrive as syncronicity deems.
For more information, music and videos, see the other pages on this site via the listings to the left, or on mobile, by tapping on the drop down menu in the top corner of this page.
You can sign up for email updates at nowtime.zone@proton.me
and follow me on my youtube and social media channels
https://www.youtube.com/@NowTime.Zone22
https://www.instagram.com/nowtimezone/
https://www.facebook.com/people/NowTime/61561106713018/
Event links at the bottom of the page.
Here's an image of my business card
As well as contact details etc, it describes how we can access NowTime without the extras of sound, rhythm and music to amplify the beneficial effects.
'Every Breath, Like The Waves Of The Sea, Wash Away Thought, Waken Abstract Me'
When we focus on our breath and imagine each breath as an ocean wave washing against the shore, we can use the relaxing sound and vision of a wave to wash away thoughts that cross our mind.
Each wave/breath can wash away unnecessary thoughts that cross our awareness for the 2 or 3 seconds it takes to breath in or out. Once we find a rhythm doing this, the mind stops constantly identify objects etc as it usually does. Doing this puts us into an altered state of consciousness beyond our usual analytical state, and into a state more conducive to regeneration, relaxation and peace.
Though we're familiar with the kind of things we experience in the world like grass, trees, buildings, people and objects, with a little practise using this technique to interrupt the minds often constant thinking, we can find ourself experiencing life in a more first hand way, like when we were a child before the age when we learned to automatically identify everything we see. Our surroundings really are more like notions that blend into one when the mind is still.
After some time the mind can become quiet without the need for this technique. Though of course the human world will invariably try to pull us back into an analytical state of mind at every turn!
Identifying things and knowing how they behave in relation to each other doesn't mean we know what they truly are, like we're encouraged to believe. But it can make things seem very normal and mundane and hence totally take the Magik out of life. This is often the route cause of illnesses such as depression.
'We see what we believe rather than what we see.' (Alan Watts )
'Magik' = Real Magik