-"I have awaken to the "Nordic Spirit"-" my new and old friend screamed out load before he threw himself naked into the water that was reflecting the moon light that night about one year ago.
His eyes filled with electricity and the water calling him to make sense of all his intensity.
The sky filled with flashing unexplainable lights, displaying what in the moment could only be received as a supernatural experience. Little did I know that this new brother of mine would be my creative companion, the summer that followed this experience. Summer of 2012.
Iam sitting on a flight that is leaving to the United States at the end of a summer that can only be expressed as a divinely guided journey in music and self exploration.
We have shared something that can never be captured in words, that is beyond what the mind can grasp. Strangers that became brothers.
Before we decided to spend a whole summer together we had met 3 times.
Something in our dynamic, knew more about us then we knew about ourselves.
I have found a friend in someone I don't know, but yet we know each other very well.
It goes beyond logic. Our personalities have tried to catch up with our souls intense adventures.
Not much room has been given to the ordinary or mundane.
It been replaced by an exctacy of non ordinary experiences.
When I saw this new and old friend of mine, that my soul recognize but my persona yet have to get to know, jumping naked into the water howling to existence last year...I knew.
I knew that this man had awaken to something and that an adventure lied before him.
I also immidiatley knew that our time together would be an incredible gift and treasure for us both.
That moment we shared was a beginning of a great adventure, that we followed up the summer of 2012. An epic summer. It was hard to expect that our time together would initiate a creative music endevour that would come through us than rather from us.
Something in our togetherness felt moved by a greater force. I don't know how else to describe it.
The same force that gave away for a creative explosion last year is the same force that have allowed us to come together the summer of 2012 to follow up what really happen.
I dont know how a creative process looks like. I know that our process was a creative self exploration, a mystic adventure all in the name of music. It was amazing.
What is it that makes some relationship inspire a multidimensional experience, while some don't ?
Our connection have been everything else but ordinary.
If you have to be like a child to enter the kingdom of heaven, and if that place lies within you,...I think we both got a little bit of that juice and we are not religious.
I guess we just had a dynamic that opened us up to nature, our own and the one that was all around us.
Our connection invited, deep dialogue, inner inquiry, creativity and a lot of joy of being alive.
We built a camp together. We spent time with the elements. We enjoyed the beauty of nature.
We ate good food and I was blessed to see Johannes magic chef fingers preparing one amazing meal after the other. We asked questions about manhood, about our relationship to ourselves and our environment.
We playfully surrendered to the great mystery and allowed ourselves to be guided by intuition.
All this while playing and enjoying music.
We expressed our vulnerability, faced our fears... This summer were our rite of passage...
into what is yet to be discovered and seen.
This carefree blessed summer we stayed away from the cities.
The clutter, busyness and shatteness of citylife did not appeal to us.
Instead trees, mountains, water, wind, open fields captured and seduced our attention.
Mother earth became our mistress, and the open sky our teacher.
It was as if we unexpectedly were invited to an intimate communion with ourselves and nature.
We allowed ourselves to be still as the lake stared back at us under the moonlight.
We took time, instead of letting time take from us.
We celebrated life, the beauty of nature and music togheter with singing birds.
We invoked ourselves to believe, to have faith and to discover that everything is alive and that we are a strand in the web of life.
We asked our minds to be quiet so that we could listen.
Listening to the whisipering gentle voice of our hearts.
Nothing to become, claim, do, or seek to accomplish.
Just an open listening, a tender readiness to respond to lifes invitation.
I thank Johannes. I thank myself. I thank nature. I thank the great mystery.
I thank our women who were supporting us from afar.
I give gratitude to the oppertunity to experince a fantastic epic summer of 2012.
This is and will always be the legacy summer of 2012.
A summer were our hearts got to celebrate life, and be fulfilled with overwhelming gratitude and creativity.
Forever Graetful
Fredrik
