Peter Mayer "Holy Now" (with lyrics in captions)

Peter Mayer's sacred science song, with captioned lyrics. Organizations may play this video publicly by downloading the mp4 and donating at: http://thegreatstory.org/order-mayer.html (Note: This video, by Connie Barlow, is authorized by Peter Mayer for public use on a donations basis.)

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• evolution
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[shaktinah]

This is a lovely song and a lovely video. My only critique is that while Mayer sings that everything is holy now, with the exception of one scene with a child's face, the video shows us only pristine nature scenes with no trace of humans or even animals in them. If we truly believe that everything is holy, wouldn't that include humanity? If we can only view earth as holy when there is no trace of humanity, what does that say for our place in this world?

[ghostsofevolution]

@shaktinah -- great comment! Peter Mayer himself has mentioned that to me, as I am the videographer and most of the photographs (except for 1) are entirely ones I have taken myself. I would say, however, that evolutionary psychology makes us rivetted to human and animal faces, and my primary aim was to choose photographs that would not get in the way of the primary focus being on the audio and the text of lyrics. Evolution has preferenced the visual in us, so we must honor the audio.

[GroBmensch]

After coming out of my coma, I had so much difficulty explaining to people my vision / experience while in that state. Thank you Peter for putting both words and music to that experience. Thank you Connie for meeting beauty with beauty. Don't know which came first, tears or smiles, but both were a blessing today. Namaste.

[Maylennium]

What a true and fresh perspective! Everyone needs to hear this anointed song.

[jimeneztech50]

I love this song. It's close to my heart. As a UU I am now seeing the world differently.

[rasqual78]

Awesome song. Weird to see it paired with this strange web site, though.

[Lavooe]

Absolutely beautiful!! I l loved it!!

[Shockwave474]

One thing I've realized about this video is that it doesn't show anything scary or dangerous. If everything really and truly is holy, it seems to me that the scary and dangerous things would be just as miraculous as anything that's peaceful.

[Shockwave474]

@ghostsofevolution Also of course if you're gonna mention evolution, humanity has only played a very small part in the grand scheme of the evolutionary process, so in a way it makes sense that humanity would play a small part in the video.

[Shockwave474]

I saw this video once during a very interesting presentation at my UU church. It's SO COOL TO FIND IT ON YOUTUBE! I wanna learn the song now, so I'll be coming back here several times.

[droops62]

agreed...very nice work

[jksmith6747]

Oops! Hit the "Dislike" key by mistake.

Heard this song at services yesterday and was deeply moved at how well it puts my own growth into words.

Love it!

[Lisette227]

I just had my "AHA" moment for today... thank you!