Story Behind The Song

(See The Story of Time 'Introduction' video)

Lyrics

GREAT GRANDMOTHER GALAXY TALKS CLOSE & NEAR
Great Grandmother Galaxy asks, children of the last generation of the last children of the Earth, when the original Tree and the original Turtle returned to the time of the dream, where do you think they went? Where is the time of the dream?

Great Grandmother Galaxy says, the time of the dream is close and near. If you are silent in the forest you will hear the voices of the time of the dream, close and near. Or if you sit with the waves beating on the ocean shore, you will hear voices from the time of the dream, close and near. And, of course, at night, when you go to sleep, the time of the dream is close and near.

Things in the time of the dream are forever and endless, shining and pure. Some of my great grandchildren call the time of the dream the spirit realm. This is because spirit is the messenger of the time of the dream. Spirit is like the wind, everywhere and in everything, always bringing messages from the time of the dream. Spirit is the voice of the wind in the trees. Spirit is always close and near.

Even in your sleep, when you are in the time of the dream, things happen that are forever and endless. These are the shapes and voices of all the different times of the Earth, the planets of your solar system, and of all of the stars that make up my dancing dress, the weaving of galactic time.

How you understand what you dream is how you take your place in the story. The story is 'the story of time'. All stories begin with a dream, and so does time.

RADIANT REALM OF THE SOURCE OF TIME song
To return to the time of the dream is to be able to return to the place where your story began. This is in the radiant realm of the original Hunab Ku. The Hunab Ku, the source of time, is also in your heart. The beating of your own heart is the source of your own time.

Radiant realm of the source of time
Listen to the beating of my heart
Radiant realm of my own time
Listen to the beating of my heart

What does my heart say to me?
I am always close and near
What does spirit say to me?
I am always close and near

Listen to the beating of my heart
Listen to the source of time
Never doubt, never fear
The source of time is close and near

Leaving the time of the dream is like waking up from a dream and being in your body again. When you leave the time of the dream you re-enter the time of the becoming. The Biosphere is ruled by the time of the becoming. Everything that is born in the Biosphere is governed by the law of the becoming...

Everything comes, everything goes
Become what you are and you will know
From dream to becoming, becoming to dream
Living and dying are not what they seem
The Biosphere constant is one single stream
One side is living and the other is dream

Time is the stream of coming and going. For Earth, the stream of coming and going is the biospheric mantle, the outer shore of time.

Spirit lays claim to the wind. As long as the wind blows, spirit can be heard in the Biosphere. But if you want to hear what spirit brings on the wind, you must be patient and listen. Patient like your Mother Earth, patient like your Grandfather Sun, patient like your Great Grandmother Galaxy, patient like Turtle and Tree. Listen to the murmurings of spirit...

O child of Earth close and near
Are the whispers in your ear
Spirit talking in all you hear
Spirit singing close and near

Great Grandmother Galaxy says, the body of Earthly time is called your body of becoming, and your body of the time of the dream is called the dream body.

Spirit is the messenger from the time of the dream. Spirit sees to it that even when you are in your body of becoming, the voices of the dream are close and near. If you can hear these voices, they will guard you in your spin through time.

With your body of becoming you can dream and become what you dream. But with your dream body, you can dream the endless. Listen to the dream bodies of Turtle and Tree; listen to their spirit songs, for they are close and near.

Child of the Earth I am your Magic Turtle
Child of the Earth I am your Spirit Tree
Close and near is the voice that will set you free
Close and near the voices sing
Close and near is your heart
Close and near the Spirit ring
Close and near the time of art
Ride your Magic Turtle
Know your Spirit Tree
O child of Earth, O child of time
In the close and near
You are always free