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SingPeace! Earth Pilgrimage for Peace & Global Harmony was inspired by  a singing dream that focused two essential elements in my life: music, specifically, singing, and the quest for inner and outer peace. The image of a pilgrimage came up, but one that would take place in a gypsy wagon, a "peace train."



I went online to find a course in my region: "How to Build a Gypsy Wagon." Calling up one of the Founders of Port Townsend School of Woodworking, Jim Tolpin, I told him of my…

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I am releasing a new CD on Sunday, December 19 called Rob Tobias and The Northwest Express. It includes songs written over the last 4 years and recorded mostly over the last year.  The Eugene Register Guard published a nice article on the CD today and I thought I'd share with you.  Here is the link.  http://www.registerguard.com/web/entertainment/   Peace, Rob

From the forthcoming book, Change Your Body, Change the World" by Frank Forencich





Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees us from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies lest they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in… Continue