Recapitulation of Past Messages: March 2024 - February 2025
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Well well well... Jeff again here. It feels like yesterday, but it has been one year already since Kekal moved its monthly newsletter platform to Substack. The first post here was in March 2024. So far, most of the subscribers to Kekal Updates + Messages (2,900+) were imported from the old mailing-list and added to the recent ones entered from Bandcamp and kekal.org. But I’ve also noticed that subscribers from Substack app are growing too although it’s still a very small number. Thank you for staying with Kekal. Please keep yourself subscribed and don’t forget to check out earlier posts.
I don’t hangout on Substack and don’t have the app myself. Seeing from my computer’s web browser, its “notes” section ironically has become pretty much like a typical social-media platform with toxic narcissists (ab)using it to display their “bullying spirit”, although it seems like there’s no sign of fake AI bot accounts ruining your days (just yet), unlike the other “zombie-apocalypse” social platforms like X and Facebook. So in that case, I don’t post notes often here. I use this platform mainly for writing messages and sharing music + updates of the band.
This time, I’m not writing a new message, but instead I’m doing the recap of some of the past messages considered as important by using Substack’s article thumbnails, the feature I really love. When first using Substack, I did not expect myself to write in-depth articles with messages regarding the realities of our world, but ended up doing so in a natural way, with each of the new articles having gained more views even beyond the scope of the band’s listeners (even though many listeners of Kekal love to read as well, I know that). Only page views and email open rates can be measured, so I’m not sure about the numbers of actual readers. But let’s assume 60% of unique viewers would actually read those articles, that would still be fine. The first intention was just to replace the old Kekal e-newsletter hosted by TinyLetter (which was killed by its owner MailChimp in February 2024). Within a year, Kekal Updates + Messages on Substack has grown beyond typical band newsletter in terms of the contents, all thanks to you faithful readers and subscribers! These articles have become almost like individual chapters in a book.
In that first article posted here, I wrote about my own decision to re-tune all my instruments to 432 Hz reference pitch (base note A4) from the 440 Hz “standard tuning” I had always used, despite the potential technical challenges I might need to face. The article explains in detail why, as well as the background story. I also shared a bit about discovering the music of Japanese singer-songwriter Hako Yamasaki on YouTube, just as I was looking for music to deal with my own grief due to the sudden passing of my mother. Please read if you haven’t yet (click the thumbnail below).
If you have already read that article or wanted to skip it for now, here I put a song from Hako Yamasaki called “Sasurai” (さすらい), from her 1975 debut album “Tobimasu”. She was still 18 years young when this album was released, and she began her music career in 1974, the same year I was born.
Reflecting about many of the albums that were released back in the 1970s and 1980s, which I tend to dig and appreciate the most, I cannot help but to also write another subsequent article regarding the ongoing degradation of human creativity and artistic expression, intentionally done by the world’s corporate hegemony backed by most of the world’s governments. Especially in recent years with all their AI agenda in which right now as you can clearly see, AI has been implemented broadly in the music industry as well, and compromised “artists” (who see music as merely a commodity) already use it in writing and even performing the music for them, making the music to be less human, less soulful, and less sacred and divine than it used to. Below is the article written in May 2024 where I explained how AI music has begun encroaching humanity’s most sacred gift: creativity.
The article above has an embedded YouTube video of the song “K432 - Born Anew”, which is a simple acoustic guitar re-interpretation of Kekal’s 2022 song “Born Anew”. It is a self-made music video, re-posted below. If you’re familiar with Kekal, everything we do is always do-it-yourself. K432 is Kekal’s sub-unit dedicated to simple acoustic guitar music. There are 2 reasons for me doing that acoustic music project: one as a platform which I can make myself comfortable with the 432 Hz tuning (mostly in terms of my vocals which I’m already used to sing in tune with 440 Hz), and the other one as a direct response to the growing artificiality in today’s music. I did not use any vocal pitch correction in that recording, so I had to orient myself in singing to this 432 Hz tuning, a slightly lower pitch.
In the next article recap, I highlighted the importance of being authentic. As a creative artist myself, I feel that the whole AI-implementation thing will definitely serve as a wake-up call for us humans, that this pathway is speedily heading to its own self-destruction. Spotify is now full of fake artists releasing AI-created and performed songs, and many others also use fake bot “listeners” to boost their fake popularity there. Fake artists and compromised “posers” are everywhere, and many of them are more popular than the authentic ones because they are backed by major players in the corrupt entertainment industry. This is the reason why much of the music released in the mainstream market, even before AI, sound lifeless/soulless and without substance. In the past, many did it by hiring “ghost-writers”, but now AI has become their best ghost in the machine friend.
But at the same time, I observe more and more people, even the younger generation (born in the 1990s - 2000s) are choosing to be more organic and authentic in terms of expressing themselves whether through music or any other forms of art. That creates another pathway for the human collective. The frequency vibration of energy within any authentic expression is much higher than the fake/inauthentic one. Their music can literally heal and transform others. If you consider yourself as an artist, musician, or creative person, it’s recommended to read the article below.
The choice to either embody authenticity in our human collective psyche or else fall into the pit of falsehoods, ushers to the inevitable separation and the split in the collective human consciousness. We are co-creating our own reality (because our reality is merely a perceptual illusion), and there is a separation happening in real-time based on what and how we put into creating our reality, leading to the final split within our collective consciousness. This has already been prophesied since many thousands of years ago. Then I went to write more esoteric content in the subsequent articles to share some deeper knowledge or insights. It is regarding the two types of matrices, each lays geometric foundation or template for our perceptual reality. Now is the moment where we have to choose our own destiny, where to go from here. We’re running out of time. Please read the article below if you haven’t yet. There are thumbnail links to other related articles posted there as well.
Organic/Divine Matrix vs Inorganic/False-matrix 👇
The final article I wanted to re-share here is regarding the antichrist and how AI plays a central role in it as part of the antichrist system or “the beast system”. This article below contains a very important and even critical message for humanity. A dangerous, blasphemous, satanic and anti-divine agenda we’ve known as transhumanism: merging human mind and its entire nervous system with AI, officially unveiled by the term bio-digital convergence. So far, this article has become the most-read article published on Kekal Updates + Messages, even social media tried to suppress it. It might be seen as controversial to some of the readers, but I can no longer hold back in sharing what I have received. I’m always reminded of the prophetic quote “My people perish for lack of knowledge”. Ready or not, we are now choosing either to ascend or perish/self-destruct, and cannot remain ignorant and foolish, because the deadline is looming.
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