Archive for January, 2008
Ocean Psalms
Ocean Psalms:
An Interactive CD-Rom integrating texts, music, and visual art – a new production from the authors of Worship in Women’s Hands!
Ocean Psalms is an interactive CD-Rom presenting meditations, music, prayers, songs, photography, psalms, and art, all focused on the sea. In multimedia form, Ocean Psalms invites people into the both ancient and ever-new world of “ocean depths†as a way of deepening the life of the spirit. At a point in time when the environmental assault on the world ocean has become life-threatening, Ocean Psalms witnesses to the primal bond between ecological and religious commitments. This witness focuses on highlighting possibilities of contemplative engagement with the “depths of the sea.â€
As an interactive CD-Rom, Ocean Psalms crisscrosses the use of ocean imagery in biblical allusions, ancient hymns, and mystical texts with the particulars of contemporary lives, where the sea is present in a number of quite different ways. These include the sea as a symbol of pleasure (as in meditative music and images of peaceful shores), of threat (witness the 2004 Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina), and of profound environmental concern (over rising sea-levels and intensifying storm activity, coastal erosion and habitat destruction, industrial and municipal waste pollution, over-fishing, etc.). Taking contemporary realities into account, Ocean Psalms at heart seeks to foster contemplative engagement with the ocean as a site of encounter with Ultimate Reality, in the hope of awakening both reverence and compassion for our threatened oceanic ecosystem. For more information, samples and ordering, go to www.oceanpsalms.com.Â