Magicians and Musicians

Doing the work I do, I have often felt like a preacher without a church, like a shaman without a headdress, like a magician with tricks designed not to astound, but reveal the magic we collectively share. I feel each Orff workshop, whether I title it The Humanitarian Musician as I have today’s class in Bangkok or something less lofty like Play, Sing & Dance, is both an act of healing and resistance to the evil afoot. So when someone posted this piece on Facebook, I felt wholly seen and known and affirmed and encouraged. 

 

To the shamans, magicians, priests, priestesses, and all who move energy:

 

We are not here by accident. What you are feeling—the exhaustion, the frustration, the witnessing of a world out of balance—is part of a larger correction. The matrix we live in is real. It thrives on fear, disconnection, and silence. But we were never meant to comply. Our work is to stabilize reality.

 

2026 will expose what cannot survive lies. Systems built on extraction, greed, and control will falter. Leaders without spirit will be unmasked. Truth will rise. And here is where we come in.

 

Not as saviors, not as gurus—but as stabilizers. As keepers of balance. As those who know how to move energy with integrity. .We dismantle the matrix by:

• Refusing to feed it with fear or silence

• Practicing magic that restores life, ancestry, and community

• Supporting each other without diluting our traditions

 

No one path holds the full truth. No practitioner is truly alone. In 2026, those who work with integrity will be amplified. Their words will land. Their work will spread. Their presence will calm rooms. Those who manipulate or harm will quietly lose influence. This is not punishment. It is physics.

 

Remember: you are not late. You are not crazy. You are not powerless.

You were trained for this moment. Do your work. Protect life. Tell the truth. Build what lasts. Bless what is real. Recognize other practitioners as allies, nodes in the same living network.

 

The matrix cannot survive coherence—and we are becoming coherent again.

 

So much resonance in these words. Indeed, my work is to move energy. To stabilize reality. To restore balance. To create community. To reveal the magic of music within us and lead it forth out into the open air. To break silence with truthful speech and heartful song. To build what lasts and bless what is real. 

 

This indeed is the work I was born for, trained for and committed to for 50 years without faltering. My little piece of the puzzle that helps complete all the pieces so many others are contributing, step-by-step bringing into focus the beautiful image of the lives we all are meant to lead. 

 

The death-dealers grab all the attention of the headlines, but we who are working quietly behind the scenes will bring them down and hold them to account. We don’t know when or how, but the work proceeds quietly and makes its impact, even if we can’t see it yet. Here’s to music and magic, today with 40 beautiful souls in Thailand, tomorrow with whoever shows up. Immeasurable thanks to Akaya Windwood for posting that piece and to the person who wrote it.