I was kicked back just going with the flow. I thought that I’d turn on my old radio.
I got a shock, it was such a blow.
I didn’t know that this planet had sunk so low.
They said, ooh wee baby want a flake romance.
First lets do this funky little dance
ooh wee baby won’t you give me a chance to do a stomp down funky kow vibratory dance!
Adam and Eve were sitting on a rock, must’ve been the first local hot spot.
Snake the fake put them in a trance doing a stomp down funky kow vibratory dance!
They say the truth will make you free. It worked better than bad breath for me.
I said sex ain’t evil I know it’s true, but why brag about something any dog can do!
A friend of mine came in and said I found the Lord, selling tickets to heaven out in the front yard.
I said be sure to buy you a round trip packet and please leave me that new tennis racket!
I’m the one some other cat said. I can heal the sick, I can raise the dead.
I was sent to this planet to make rivers run read and I feel led to take the politicians’ head!
One group came up with a hard lump to swallow. Sell your farm and your kids, it’s us you should follow!
give up the deed, we got all you need, and we’ll send you to heaven by the way of colorado!
Many will appear and blow your mind. Proclaiming to be sent straight from the divine,
but God’s great love is the only key!
And that’s how he said my sheep know me!
This is the end, so don’t be fooled my friends, we know that the kingdom is found within!
Beware of the man who will save your sins, as he hands you a contract and a papermate pen!
Welcome to the kingdom, welcome everyone. Welcome to the kingdom whether you are a banker, baker or bum!
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” My purpose for today is to see a world free from the judgements that I have made. To continually ‘Master Mind’ and intend the transformation of this planet through a quiet gathering of exceptional people who believe that kindness is the greatest wisdom and that compassion is always in fashion! To live like the children are watching, while learning what the children are teaching! And to know that nothing real can be threatened and nothing unreal exists, herein lies the peace of God! CIM”
From Pentecostal Minister at 5 years of age, to former National Director Of Marketing for the Black Wallstreet Journal. Los Angeles born Rev William D. Burton is in h9is own words, a late bloomer and a baby boomer.
This motivational speaker, empower-mentor, street poet, singer, songwriter, storyteller and entrepreneur who’ flagship training, The Science Of Being Rich-The Science Of Being Free’ has been featured on television and radio in major cities such as San Francisco & San Jose, ca. and Columbus,Ohio!
Rev. burton will be the first to tell you that he is empowered first by his Creator, and then his wife Sandra and his three grandchildren Sophia, Anders and Victoria! Happy Birthday Anders!
William Burton continues to facilitate breakthrough after breakthrough for his audiences whether they be at t
His powerful delivery and cutting edge personal growth information has caused him to share the stage
n onced introduced Rev. Burton to a capacity crowd at Stanford University! On his national talk show, Les stated that “William D. Burton is a genius!” The very first time that this information was presented was at a private gathering at the home of Les Brown! Rev. Burton went on to present his discoveries about the significance and function of the subconscious mind and much more!
he High School, college, or corporate level, switching back and forth between his Smoking Spoken Word and his insightful and sometimes humorous observations into the human predicament!
William has spoken or presented seminars and training at Ohio State University, Capital University, Cal/State at Hayward, Duke University, St. Augustine, College, North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill, where he was placed on the summer faculty for three years with the Governors Academy For Prevention Professionals!
WDB states that some debate over how much our God given brain-mind potential we actually use. Let me shed some light on the subject. As squirrel born in the spring can be seen gathering nuts to survive a winter which it has never experienced! Our Creator has surely given at least as much savvy as a squirrel. As was stated in that underground hit movie ‘What The Bleep Do We Know?’ We receive 400 billion bits of information per second. If you didn’t get a little bit dizzy, you didn’t get it! Please re-read the statement again? http://youtu.be/TWAuc9GIvFo We process only about 2000 bits of information per second! Lets put it like this, you have prayed and tell me that you are waiting on God! My take is that God is answering you and I at 400 billion bits of info per second. Are we missing 90% of what is going on around us? As Morpheus told Neo in the Matrix, “You’re living in a Dream World Neo!”
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When I speak at penal institutions twice per month, I sometimes lead with this provocative statement! I share with the inmates that Helen was born in the hole! She was born in her very own hole! As you know, in prison, the hole is solitary confinement where people are placed if they are violent or a threat to themselves!
I magine the teachers challenge to get this, sometimes, angry always frustrated child to realize that the pressure being pressed in the palm of her hand and the cool liquid being poured on her hand was related and that one was a way to identify the other!
How many times did the teacher have to do that experiment before Helen came to the realization of the lesson! WATER! It is my belief that our Higher Selves have similar difficulty with us when attempting to teach us a new lesson! Especially since it is a common conclusion that we use less than 2% of our brain mind potential day to day!
I then go on to say that we think life has given us a bad deal! I am grateful that I can use the term us instead of them due to the fact that I embezzled $48,500 from a major savings & Loan when I was about 21. When I was arrested by the Secret Service & the FBI, I owned several pieces of income property and 5 vehicles, one 427cu Corvette Stingray, two 1937 Chevrolet sedans in almost showroom condition, a pickup truck, the biggest Honda Motorcycle they had in that year and 3 bedroom home free and clear!
My, Missionary Julia Mae Burton, and an Episcopalian Priest named Dr. Dennis Bennett nursed me back to Spiritual Health! Since there is a sense of forgiveness fro ex-felons in Oregon, Washington and California, I soon became a consultant for the Criminal Justice, System, doing staff development workshops. conflict resolution and sensitivity training!
I digress! I am told in the awesome movie ‘What The Bleep Do We Know?’ that the indigenous inhabitants of North America could not see the clipper ships of Columbus because they had no data to draw from in their minds, they had no point of reference!
How many times have we discovered that what we thought we saw was not the truth? How many times have we questioned several witnesses at the scene of an accident and gotten several different versions of what happened! Many have concluded that each of us live in our very own world!
We must be regularly reminded that the power behind our eyes, Says Gary Zukav, in ‘The Seat Of The Soul’ is more powerful than the power confronting us, whatever it is! I’m reminded of a time when I was about 4 or 5 when my grandmother and I were about to run out of gas on a little dirt road in west Texas. The car was coughing, jerking and choking and seemed like it was about to stop! My grandmother pulled a bottle of ‘Blessed’ olive oil out of her purse and began to anoint the dashboard! She started praying to Jesus and asking for his help! I swear before God and man that that car gasped and choked and jerked for about 20 miles and died in the parking lot of a service station!
She did not allow what her eyes and ears were hearing to become her reality! She refused to be stranded with a little boy out on a dark road!
Like Helen Keller, Mother Harris Could Not Believe Her Eyes!
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In my seminars I like to share personal before and after stories! Before I learned to tap my brain mind potential naturally and supernaturally, I attempted to tap it through certain chemicals! The setting for this story is Beaverton, Oregon. This was many years before Beaverton became the home of one of my favorite personal growth companies Mindvalley.com. I’m thinking about 1977-79.
A friend by the named of Connie and I were spending a beautiful day being high on some fairly gentle but very entertaining LSD! While we were sitting around her apartment with the curtains closed, enjoying the sunshine inside of our own minds, it dawned upon us that there was a gorgeous day outside being wasted! We decided to throw open the curtains and go out into the sunshine of a very new day!
No sooner had we arrived on the sidewalk in front of Connies house, which was on a corner lot, I looked up into the sky and saw a fleet of space ships! They actually looked like the wings of a Boeing 747, but without the body of the plane! this was like flying, almost, boomerang type vehicles. Since I knew that I was hallucinating, I turned and asked Connie, do you see what I see?
Her reply was, if you see spaceships, I see what you see.
Before we could collect ourselves the neighbors came out. We then gave each other the look. You know that look that says, ‘ACT NORMAL!’ So of course we began to do what normal people do and started talking about the weather! Normal people seem to always talk about things which they do not believe that they can control! As we talked, the spaceships continued to buzz Beaverton Oregon, but there was no sound! Like the man said about Crocodile Dundee, “there was no sound, no sound at all!”
Minutes later, the neighbors two children came out. Their ages, and I am guessing, were between six and 8, a boy and a girl. It was hard to tell which one was the oldest, but in any case, they immediately began to run around the four of us in a tight circle laughing and giggling mommy and daddy look at the space ships, mommy and daddy look at the space ships!
Of course the parents laughed and said what great imaginations they have!
I’ve got to say that we lost all cool and could no longer contain ourselves. While we did not have the words to tell the neighbors that we had just taken some very nice acid and that their children were as naturally high as we were artificially, we simply turned and ran back inside the house, with no explanation whatsoever, which must have appeared very strange!
Later in therapy, and I’m not saying that Acid caused the need for therapy, I was informed that no two people who hallucinate at the same time after taking drugs, ever have the same hallucination! Having been a substance abuse counselor for more than 25 years, I have come to believe that that information was true! Our hallucinations are usually formed by our particular flavor of internal conversation and deep seated beliefs!
In my one of my future Blogs, I Will speak of UFO’s again, but this time I’ll be speaking of ‘Unidentified Forgiveness Opportunities which some of us believe can melt Karma like ice cream on a hot summers day!
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When jogging replaces your sex life
And you were grogged in the space of your next wife
While saving the space for your next wife
Who is saving your space for the next life
And then your love affair becomes the lesson
That you could have learned the last time around
Afraid you stare at Fred Astaire lessons
Because all of the good dancers are leaving town
He put the fake on, she put the brake on
Make no mistake Son, Who’s got the make on
Like a Mother of Atlantis, Hey now is she Boss
Like some Lady Preying Mantis don’t bow she’ll take your head off.
My topics apathy, Myopic Apathy!
Apathy Kathy, Why Are you so Unhappy
You used to be my lover, my Sister, my Rappy
You thought it would get back to your pappy!
Having been a starving artist for 40 years+, you almost get used to not getting any help!
The other day a fellow musician called me and informed me that he had found some help for me and had made a request on my behalf! I do not know whether that will happen or not, but after investigation, I discovered that Music Makers is a best kept secret, not only for aging Blues, folk Blues, genre blenders and genre bender artist but for those who are seeking authentic music!
I would love for all music lovers, young musicians and older musicians alike to please go to their website and educate yourself on what you did not know you did not know!
I would especially suggest that the young artist get some flavor and check out these musical roots! Getting the opportunity to open for John Lee Hooker & Muddy Waters and share the dressing room with them was some of the highlights of both my music career and my life!
I was sitting in a dressing room staring at Muddy and he asked me what was on my mind! I said Muddy, i don’t want to bother you, but I have so many questions! Muddy said shoot. I said, what do you do when you get hoarse? He said Oh. son I just sing right through it!
I told my wife Sandra that that answer was so Zen that it took me 10 years to figure it out!
At the first opportunity for opening for Mr. John Lee Hooker the audience was so kind that Mr. hooker told me that I could play long as I wanted to play in the second show!
There is no way for me to tell you what that meant to me! To be treated so kindly from such a real legend still warms my heart when I think of it!
I gotta say That Muddy, John Lee Hooker, and Jusuf Islam, aka Cat Stevens Bill Graham , the late San Francisco music mogul, and believe it or not, AXL Rose formerly of GNR gave me the kind of support which has kept me in the business for 40 years!
Please go to the Musicmaker.org website and support these wonderful people! When you see their line up, you will get a musical education of a lifetime!
If you are a music teacher or music educator, your students must witness & experience some of these artistic assets before they are no longer with us in the flesh!
I you are a musician of any age, or if you are a music lover, you owe it to the industry and to yourself to support this team of serious contributors to the planet earth!
Thank You MusicMaker.org Thank you Tim & Denise Duffy and friends! You have warmed my heart by simply existing!
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As a singer songwriter, I became very perturbed when I was told that my music had to be written at the 6th grade level in order to succeed or that art is not supposed to contain political content or have social commentary! I believe that art is suppose to be the truth as the artist sees it! Curtis Mayfield, Gil Scott Heron, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Peter, Paul and Mary, Marvin Gaye, Neil Young’s Southern Man, all had social, political or environmental content! Movies like ‘What The Bleep Do We Know? and my personal favorite, ‘The Matrix’ also fit loosely into this category in my mind!
With the possibility that yet another Bush, Jed could be running for president, it is with great pleasure that I re-submit “Trees For President!” written by yours truly in 1987 0r 88 at a time when there was no social media to speak of! In my own defense I’d like to say that as a person I never had any ill feelings about Mr. George Bush Sr. I simply thought that it might not be a good idea for America to place the former head of the CIA in the White House! I deduced that the job of CIA Director may cause one to have to do things which might cause ill feelings around the world and that the presidency might get a little tainted! But what does a San Francisco Street Poet, Bart Station Musician, and Outpatient Care Facilitator For HIV and Epidemiology at Highland Hospital in Oakland, or in the CAP Program for UC Medical Center know about global politics?
Well I had no idea that Osama Ben Laden existed, but I was sure that there was someone like him lurking around with bruised feelings toward the CIA! They call me the Nostradamus of The Blues! You decide if the title fits!
On Dec.22,2014 we entered into a New Age and slipped into a new Paradigm Shift!
A MESSAGE FROM THE CADILLAC RECORDS ESCAPE ARTIST, REV. WILLIAM D.BURTON DOB JAN 4TH,1944
Warning! This article must be read with your heart not with, your brain!
I would love to be the first to warn you, and maybe I am not, that the times, they are -a- changing! The one thing you and I must do to thrive in this new energy is to lead from our heart! Did you know that the heart was fully functional by the time your brain was 50% functional? Did you know that your heart has 40,000 or more neurotransmitters centered in its’ own mini-brain? Did you know that your heart communicated with your subconscious all of the time the brain was being developed? Your subconscious mind is one million times more powerful than your so-called conscious mind? Did you know that Affirmations along do not contact your subconscious mind and that no results can happen unless you affect the inner child which is 98% of who you unconsciously believe yourself to be! If you are a person who prays and are going to a level where you can communicate through your subconscious mind, your prayer, (And some teachers say that everything we say to ourselves in secret is an unconscious prayer!) You may be empowering the effectiveness or power of your prayer, intent, desire, imagined accomplishment by one million times! The subconscious does not believe what you tell it. Stay with me this is important! The Subconscious does not believe what you tell it, it believes what you feel about what you tell it! The Subconscious does not see, hear or feel your internal dialogue, it feels whatever you feel. This cause us to continuously create things and attract things to us in our lives! If we are unaware of our power we ask God, why is this happening to me! If we are aware that we are created in the image and likeness of God, then we wonder why we created or attracted what we are experiencing! “Lest Ye Become AS a Little Child Ye Shall Not Enter Into The Kingdom of Heaven! For The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Within You!
Again, You and I are One Million Times More Powerful Than We Were Last Year! Maybe this simple example will us all!
When a baby calf elephant at the circus is tethered to a large log it tries to move and cannot because it is not strong enough move the log! When you attend the circus 4 years later, that same elephant now weighs a ton or two and is tried to the same log which held it as a calf. It remembers that it could not move as a baby, believes that it cannot move now!
Now some will say to me that this is all poppy cock! But you are talking to a guy who walked out of a machine shop when he saw too many fingers missing because he wanted to be a guitar player singer-songwriter at about 30! A little over a year later, I performed at a private party for Cat Stevens aka Jusuf Islam at the London Bar & Grill in Portland, Oregon!
We now have the power. We are now the 100th monkey! We now have the power to experience the New Heaven and The New Earth!
I won’t tell you how to do it! I can’t tell you how to do it! I can just tell you how I am doing it! You are not suppose to do it like me! You are unique! There is only one of you in this universe! We won’t talk about alternate universes right now! I would love for you to rent “What The Bleep Do We Know!” Please do not miss the water experiment on youtube.com and remember that our bodies are mostly water!
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I was lying in the park with a friend of mine who’s name was Doris Barrett when she made a comment which startled me! She said, I hate your concerts! Of course I was concerned and I replied, trying not to appear hurt, I thought you liked my music? She replied, I love your music, but I hate your Blankity Blank concerts! I had to ask why! Doris’ reply was, because they look like ex-girlfriend re-unions.
I replied with a question! I said, if I was a mean guy and you were dating me and we split up, would you come to concerts and pay money at the door which you knew was going into my pocket? No was her instant answer! I then replied that I rest my case. We dated, they did me wrong, I forgave them, and we became friends! Doris reluctantly gave in to my premise!
Seconds later I said, hey, that is a great idea for a song While this was more than 25 years ago, it seems like yesterday! And minutes later Doris and I were collaborating and Doris wrote every other lines!
“It was an ex-girlfriend reunion and a goodly crowd was there,
That darn near filled Joe’s fool room at the corner of the square.
As songs and witty stories, flowed through an open door,
a vagabond crept slowly in and poised upon the floor and said
“Need your life flash before your eyes before you realize that you have compromised,
You took what you could get instead of what you wanted, and you were undaunted’
And at odds with society, and their deity monogamy , it seems that you’ve lost touch with what is real!
In a desperate search for reality, you have forfeited your fantasies
But forgotten dreams must find a away to live!
While running from reality, you ran out of time, ran into me
You better listen to the advice that I have to give!
From the back of the room, someone cried, “Don’t listen to that old bum!”
Somebody from the front row said “I’ll buy that bum a glass of rum!”
Although he was I stranger, I felt that we were one.
And when he said these words to me, I knew why he had come.
He said,”Need your life be trashed before your eyes, before you realize that you have compromised,
You took what you could get instead of what you wanted!
It was an ex-girlfriend reunion, next door to my next girlfriend reunion!
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