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For my children, family, friends and all who stop by to visit…
It was the mid 1970’s…
I first wrote Eagalic Music on type-written letter-size sheets torn in half and given to my friend Paul Reps to proof read. He had originally given me the title and suggested I begin. He told me that it was good but that I needed to put more personal stuff into it…I had left myself entirely out of the equation (except that I thought I had an answer for others and could impart it in the abstract in simple philosophic instructions – a rather huge assumption at the time) . I had titled it Eagalic Music – A Light Manual, and it was to be a guide to personal healing.
I assigned it to my growing number of boxes of writings and did not begin it again until the mid 80’s when a friend gave me my first computer. I was hooked from day one, stopped my paper journals and began writing in digital format.
By this time I was married, had become a father and maybe a little wiser, returned from India where I had received initiation in a dervish community and decided to continue the story but as an autobiography, not a lecture.
In my quest to find a way to survive and while attending a career counseling course, I stumbled on Angelfire and created the free website Baba Farid, which was the dervish name given to me in India. This website contains some links to my music and writings but is not comprehensive.
The autobiography Eagalic Music as it stands now was written up until my time in India in 1986 and at the urging of my friend and co-worker Danny Dang who gifted me with the website domain name and is helping me design it (read: tech wizard doing the lion’s share) , I am going to post some or all of what has been written to date and to continue the story from 1986 where it left off, but in installments still to be written.
My long-term plan is also to include photos, other writings including poems, stories and songs and monthly free downloadable samples of some of my recorded music.
With love and deep thanks to the friends who have helped me on my journey
Ted (Baba Farid) Katrensky
Vancouver, Canada May/2008
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