flowing through

opening ever-new vistas through listening and conversation 

I received an email from composer Hildegard Westerkamp, about ego, and set Hildi’s words to  sound. 

• The time seems right for you to let everyone’s words flow through you - as if through a medium or force - back to all of us in ever new shapes. 
• This creates shifts in everyone’s perception, ideas, attitudes, feelings and approaches towards the world the way it is now.  
• I have always felt that this was precisely what I was doing with environmental sounds. 
• I recorded them (like voices that speak). 
• I listened to them and then let them flow through me (speak through my compositions, like your and everyone’s words speak through your conscient podcast) back to everyone. 
• Our own inner shift simply enables for more shifting to happen. It’s not us (our ego) that is effective here in allowing the flow of transformation to happen. 
• The ego is more like a blood clot blocking true shifting in the larger scheme/flow of things - i.e. it wants to be exclusive, can’t include the perceptions and shifting of others. 
• It’s a deeper engagement - love, passion or whatever one might call it - that not only allows, but desires for energies to flow through - reach - the nooks and crannies of human perception. Like a river. 
• We are like the water particles that collaborate for the river to find its way through the landscapes as they present themselves. 
• Opening ever-new vistas.

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Hey conscient listeners, 

I’ve been producing the conscient podcast as a learning and unlearning journey since May 2020 on un-ceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory (Ottawa). 

It’s my way to give back.

In parallel with the production of the conscient podcast and its francophone counterpart, balado conscient, I publish a Substack newsletter called ‘a calm presence' see https://acalmpresence.substack.com. 

Your feedback is always welcome at [email protected] and/or on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, Threads or BlueSky.

I am grateful and accountable to the earth and the human labour that provided me with the privilege of producing this podcast, including the toxic materials and extractive processes behind the computers, recorders, transportation systems and infrastructure that made this production possible. 

Claude Schryer

Latest update on March 26, 2025