Music Gods are Real

In The Music Gods are Real: Volume 1, The Road to the Show, I take my readers along for the ride as I continue on my spiritual path, this time with music as my guide. This book also chronicles the music road to the show for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Phish, Widespread Panic, the Grateful Dead, Mumford & Sons, the Black Crowes, the Counting Crows, Scarecrow Collection, Patti Rothberg, the Primitive Radio Gods, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, the Kitchen Dwellers, Iya Terra and of course Twiddle. As you might have guessed, I use "the road to the show" as a metaphor for life. "The Show" is symbolic for achieving goals, whatever they may be. The road is not flat or straight. There will be ups-and-downs along the way. But, whether you are a minor league baseball player, a musician, a financial advisor or whatever else you might aspire to be in life, you will learn from every accomplishment and setback and keep moving forward on your own road to the show. May the Music Gods always be with you!

In this book, The Music Gods are Real: Volume 2, The Religion of Music, I continued along my spiritual path with music as my guide. The Music Gods orchestrated my vision quest to the Crow Tribe Reservation in Billings, Montana, mapped out my Road to Tumble Down in Burlington, Vermont, led me to the Road to Oak Ridge in Branson, Missouri, and finally, sent me to St. Louis, Missouri, after I heard the Calling of the Crows. In this edition, I also explored the religiosity of music and featured some of the most followed world religions of today such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Rastafarianism, and Judaism. This book also reintroduced four lesser, known world religions from the past that are destined to make a comeback, Shamanism, Druidism, Hermeticism, and Gnosticism. We are all musicians in a global orchestra. Everyone has a role and an instrument to play. As world religions and their followers increasingly find more common ground with each other, such as their love for music, humanity's orchestra will increasingly create harmonious music together.

I travel on a short trip of just a few months further down the road on my spiritual path. The Music Gods guide me to a Post Malone concert with my kids at Sprint Center in downtown Kansas City and a Mihali performance opening for Chadwick Stokes and The Pintos in the Duck Room at Blueberry Hill on the Delmar Loop in St. Louis. Then the Music Gods send me west, past the sunflower fields of Leavenworth County, Kansas, to an Iya Terra show at the Granada Theater before calling me back home to attend the funeral of the mother of a dear friend. On the day of the funeral, with the help of the Football Gods, the Kansas City Chiefs won their first Super Bowl championship in 50 years.