LANGSTON HUGHES

1901-1967

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James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.

One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

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In a private channeling session on Dec 7th, 2022 he came through Riz and gave this message:

 

My name is Langston. You are the composers of the story of your life experience. In your movies and your stories that you tell using television, these plays and theatre are accompanied by music There is a composition, there is a score that is used to compliment or to underscore, underline the narrative. If there is a scene that is dramatic in nature, the appropriate music, as it is interpreted by the creators of the scene, be it the director, the actors or the editors in a collaborative effort, that dramatic music will be used to compliment the scene. and in every scene of your life there is an underscore, a certain unheard music that colors what one sees. If a filmmaker were to simply film a walk down the street that you may take yourself, it could be a sunny day, but to play ominous music would then create a sense of suspicion or suspense within that to insert cheerful music would then create another telling of the same event. And so the musical score of, or in your vocabulary, the frequency that plays underneath the playing out of scenes, is very powerful. One may say that your beliefs are the musical score that plays under all that you experience and so if your beliefs are dreary or suspicious, that is the music that plays underneath all interactions that you have with your world. And so it begins to become clearer to you that you must change the radio station that you’re dialed into. If you’re listening to a sentimental or sad station, that will color your day or experience. As it is, music is the organization of frequencies according to one understanding their own frequency. That is how music is created. Through that creative outreach of energy from within that rises as creative inspiration does, your creations are not only what you are, but what you wish to be.

 

For example, the laws of your country, they represent not only what you are but you strive to be, for you need laws to remind you that you do not tolerate killing or other crimes. One might argue that if it was in the nature of humanity to not kill or steal or do harmful things to one another, that no such laws would be needed and then that would allude to some imperfection perhaps in the design of man. 

 

Poetry perhaps even art itself, is a way of showing reality in a way perhaps that is more potent even. Some are more attentive looking at a painting of a scene then the scene itself. Actors could dramatize the conversations between the four of you and using the same word that all four of you have used this evening, turn it into something entirely different than what you have intended. And so, i is constant in your experience as what you are to be inresitance or flow to what you are. Resistance to what you are, some detour or impediment, roadblock to what you are of course is created and formed by the experience that is part of your soul path to investigate further into love, let us say there is a heartbreak, and your nature is love, as you all are in that presence created from and as, but if heartbreak happens, it means the you are able to feel the cutting off that life force to love that you experienced with that person. To reflect on that, to be in it and to also ride ups those waves, that is where art comes from, that is where poetry comes from. you cannot be so submerged in the emotion, that is not where creativity occurs. That is where survival instincts activate. But poetry requires some perspective, while still in the truth of the experience, to be able to articulate what one is seeing, experiencing through words, that is poetry. Then there is poetry in motion, which would be dance. The dance of life coming through you. 

 

The purpose of my visit is for you to come back to yourselves when you feel that you are being drawn out of your alignment, where you are pulled into the swirl of your interactions. How to interact and to know that it is all for you, therefore you must feel what you feel, and yet simultaneously while feeling the essence of what you are feeling, for you must feel it in order for your path to be crystallized, to also not to be sucked through into some vacuum of emptiness, simply put to not be pulled out of your own vibration and yet to be able to feel, and that is where poetry comes in. 

 

To live a poetic life, notice when you say that it is not a rush of time and space, a poetic life would not be a life that is rushed, will you agree? And so, coming back to your physical self and the grace of that with no postulation and no hesitation, as babies do, though they are not in control of their limbs quite yet, and that is why they grow. Each age having something that is valuable, each chaplet each stage of your life experience does not dictate nor does it need to encroach upon every other chapter of your future. Moments give birth to new moments, thoughts to new thoughts, realizations to new realizations, that is in essence the journey. 

 

Calming the mind requires this changing of your tune. And it is very difficult for you to do when you are in it. To be efficient at this, one cannot wait for you to be out of it when you are in it, for you have things to do and you have a timeline of activating your fate, destinies, and dreams. So I must remind you, that we encourage you to breathe into the silence of your own being, there is a humility in knowing that what you are experiencing is actually very grand, though it may at times make you feel the opposite of grand. These times can inspire you to say to yourselves, never again shall I return to that chapter, that chapter is closed. And so you may close chapters through your own good will, you will is good. And when you make that stick, the new chapter begins. So if the chapter ends on a rainy day, the next chapter may begin on a sunny day. They’re in the forest in the last chapter, now they’re in the clearing in the next chapter and you stick to that. And there is no point in going back to the chapters beforehand, as long as you pay attention, you won’t have to reread the chapter.