{"id":2519,"date":"2015-05-21T12:49:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T16:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2015-05-22T03:18:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T07:18:16","slug":"oneness-dream-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"Oneness-Dream in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oneness-Dream is an all male acapella singing group who perform the songs of Sri Chinmoy; recently they visited the West coast of California to perform several concerts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/9b-outside-san-miguel.jpg\" alt=\"9b-outside-san-miguel\" width=\"600\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/9b-outside-san-miguel.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/9b-outside-san-miguel-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/9b-outside-san-miguel-500x345.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Several concerts took place in former Spanish missions which were established during the early years of California in the Eighteenth Century. Many missions have been since abandoned, but a peace still endures in these former places of worship. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The concerts included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pilgrimage of the Heart\u00e2\u20ac\u009d yoga studio, San Diego<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0Sri Chinmoy Centre, San Diego (practice concert)<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0Mission Church at San Juan Capistrano<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0Mission Church at San Buenaventura<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0Mission Church at La Purisma Conception Lomboc<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0Mission Church at San Miquel Archangel<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0Mission Church at San Carlos Borromeo Carmel<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0Mission Church at San Juan Bautista<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0Mission Church at Santa Cruz<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0By Sri Chinmoy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Statue at Narada\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s residence<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0Mission Church at San Francisco Solana, Sonoma<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0Outside concert by the Giant Redwoods of California.<\/li>\n<li>Mission Dolores in San Francisco<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2522\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/9a-mission-san-miguel.jpg\" alt=\"9a-mission-san-miguel\" width=\"600\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/9a-mission-san-miguel.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/9a-mission-san-miguel-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/9a-mission-san-miguel-500x318.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oneness-Dream at the Mission at San Miguel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The aim of the group is to offer the music and songs of Sri Chinmoy in its purest and simplest form. Sri Chinmoy composed over 20,000 songs during his lifetime &#8211; songs which express a variety of spiritual emotions and can be very conducive for meditation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Music is psychic enlightenment. Music is the supreme fulfilment of the aspiring human soul.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"small\">Sri Chinmoy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoylibrary.com\/sound-and-silence-2\"><em>Sound and Silence, Part 2<\/em><\/a>, Agni Press, 1982<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2525\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2525 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/20-tree-golden-gate.jpg\" alt=\"20-tree-golden-gate\" width=\"600\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/20-tree-golden-gate.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/20-tree-golden-gate-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/20-tree-golden-gate-433x500.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Group members visit Golden Gate Park where Sri Chinmoy began his long-distance running career in the late 1970s. Sri Chinmoy planted a tree close to where his first long-distance running event took place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2b-san-diego.jpg\" alt=\"2b-san-diego\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2b-san-diego.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2b-san-diego-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2b-san-diego-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>San Diego Sri Chinmoy Centre<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2529\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2529 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/14-narada-statue1.jpg\" alt=\"14-narada-statue\" width=\"400\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/14-narada-statue1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/14-narada-statue1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/14-narada-statue1-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Statue of Sri Chinmoy in Narada&#8217;s garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2526\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ananda-fuara18.jpg\" alt=\"ananda-fuara18\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ananda-fuara18.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ananda-fuara18-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ananda-fuara18-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ananda Fuara &#8211; A vegetarian restaurant run by members of San Francisco Sri Chinmoy Centre members.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The group received hospitality from the San Francisco and San Diego Sri Chinmoy Centres during their week long tour.<\/p>\n<p>To listen to Oneness-Dream, you can visit this recording from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiosrichinmoy.org\/8724\/oneness-dream-vaasa-festival-2012\/\">Radio Sri Chinmoy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oneness-Dream is an all male acapella singing group who perform the songs of Sri Chinmoy; recently they visited the West coast of California to perform several concerts. Several concerts took place in former Spanish missions which were established during the early years of California in the Eighteenth Century. Many missions have been since abandoned, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=2519\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oneness-Dream in California&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}