Rafael (Rel) Rogers

Hello! My name is Rel... What's yours?

I'm a Mutt... of English, Irish, French, German, Italian and Cherokee descent.

I am also an electronic music composer and have been working with Autistic kids for the San Francisco Unified School District for the past 10 years.
I was the Founder and Executive Director for a non profit educational holistic healing network called ATEN.
It provided educational programs for people with HIV, AIDS and other life challenging illnesses from
1995 - 2000. If you would like to know more about ATEN Click Here

Before then, I worked various jobs, such as..... personal trainer, waiter, keyboard player in rock bands, gardener and took some psychology, music and art classes in college. When I was 7 years old, I discovered Liberace on TV and decided that I wanted to play the piano to make people happy the way he did.

Two years later, I started taking classical piano lessons and played in concerts and talent shows throughout my youth.
(Maybe being a Mutt is what's caused me to do such a variety of things that I've done in my life... so far :o)

After a very long sabatical from one of the things I love doing the most in my life...
composing and recording music.....
I'm finally starting to get back into it. (Thank you so much, my dear Muse... you know who you are :)

If you would like to hear some of my music : : : : : :Click Here : : : : : :

Please visit my site:

http://www.ryze.com/go/Rel

Comments

[Diva Carla]

Rel, it is great to see you here again! Can't wait to see you in person. I'll be there soon!

Carla

[Anne]

Hi Rel glad to see that you are a member of Ryze as well. You are clearly helping so many people. May you have the strength to continue.All success to you.
Anne

[Velma]

MMMMWWWWWAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

;-)

Velma

[Diva Carla]

I love you REL.

Diva Carla

[Mary K]

Oh, my...did I hear Christopher say gorgeous??!? (of course :) SO RIGHT!!!!

All that Talent...All that Soul... wrapped in a Gorgeous package...

Ah...Magnificent Rel!!!!

~~Mary K

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[Christopher Niem Henley]

My Darlin' Rel,
YOU are Magnificent because you are open to BEing YOU. . .and you never miss an opportunity to show others the way.

Love,
Christopher
PS and GORGEOUS! Did I mention GORGOEUS?

[Diva Carla]

Hi Rel,

I finally heard your music on the link...
It is beautiful!

Everyone, go hear Rel's music! Rel, a CD, just for friends please (it's easy, and so magnificent to hear more!)
Carla

[Velma Gallant]

Dear Rel,

From one mutt to another mutt, you are truly magnificent. For all the lives you touch, including mine.

Abundantly yours,

Velma

[Diva Carla]

Good morning Rel!

You are magnificent today and every day because you are compassion embodied! Your love heals all you beam upon. Beam on, bright one!

Love,
Carla

[Nejh]

Hello Rel

You are magnificent because you exist. You existed before you had a body, before you had a family and even before you had a mind. You existed before creation and you will exist after creation. You are magnificient because you chose to create and recreate multi-layered dreams and illusions that you, me, and all of us get to joyfully play with on this journey called life. Thank you for being a big-hearted one of a kind mutt of grand porportions.

Peace, Love and Joy
Nejh*********************************************

[Mary K Weinhagen]

Hi Rel... ;-)

Today, I'm celebrating YOU!!!

(You may be a "mutt", but you're a
Magnificent mutt!!!)

I'm honored to run into you today,
you really do complete the world!!!

love,

--Mary K

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...dancin' like nobody's watching...

[Hosain]

Greetings!

Rel, I have not heard you mix, but I appreciate your composing, especially when it is related to youngmen.

[Allen Smith]

Hello. Allen Smith here of Rainbow Didge Music.

I'd like to tell you how much I love you, admire you, miss you, feel your worthiness and all of that……..; but I can't. Not in the sense that the "you" I'm talking about here is your personality self or what I'd call the "little you." It's similar to "mini-me."
You see, I don't know your "mini-me" self. I've never met the part of you that has agreed to pretend to be infinitely limited or separate from the rest of "YOU."
I really have no personal attachment to the "little you" or even a clue as to whether I would even like you or resonate with you at all or agree with the things you do or choose. Until now, you have not even been in my personal "story" and did not matter to me in the least. Get it? No matter. (meaning, you did not "materialize" in my world.)
I love some of the characters in my world, I like some, I dislike some, I'm afraid of some and I feel many things for others in my world. But if they are in my world, they all "matter" to me. Until now. You did not.

There is however, a connection between us. You see I know the "complete you." I've met what I call the "Big You." A couple other labels I have for this total package of you is the "Mighty You" or, in personal grammar, "The Big Me." I'm into "Big-a-Me." Or Mighty Me. So there is THE BIG ME & the mini me.
From this "BIG" perspective, I know YOU because I know ME, that is, the me that is you. Which really, is all of it. So now that I'm done having fun with myself (you), I can get to our point.
I LOVE YOU WITHOUT LIMIT. I SEE YOU, I KNOW YOU. I YEARN FOR YOU, I REFLECT EVERYTHING I AM TO YOU & YOU TO ME. The EYE of me that is the total YOU gives you complete permission to take up space in any creative reality that we choose. But a reminder to the mini-me aspects of ourselves; - You are not Free from anything for there is nothing to be free from; or of. There is the ONE. The "ISness." You have no choice separate from the one. Not one nanosecond or Pico meter squared exists outside the ONE. Yet as the one, we have complete choice, complete free form, complete responsibility (ability to respond) over every aspect of the one. We are the center of our own universe. We exist in complete seeming paradox. Yet there is none. If any part of us thinks that our mini-selves are in charge, well, that will eventually be straightened out and put into proper perspective. But our mini selves in alignment with our "MIGHTY" selves is pure truth, pure awareness, nirvana, in the zone, elightenment, fathomless satisfaction, infinite orgasm, beyond plausible peace. And yet, in my own imaginations of the limitless limits, I find nothing more amazing than existing in what appears to be limited form in a limited world with limited rules. Ahhhhh, the mini-me of ME. Making our way back to the Big ME. Bending then breaking the rules, seeing each others limited perspectives then going beyond. The ecstatic nature of the internal/eternal lava lamp of self re-creation. Of play.

So again, My BIG self loves you as there is no other. YOU are truly marvelous. However, my mini-me sometimes wonders if I am worthy to play with all the other mini-me's in the sandbox. Some might not like me. What if I don't like them? Do I deserve to take up space in this game? Does society want me or you? Do we fit in? Will you love me? Do I love you? Can anything be trusted to be abiding from "within" the game perspective? My Big ME perspective says "trust in the abiding emaculate beloved creator of the game and enjoy the play." Yet we are so good in the pretending I see we still get lost in the parts. Big Me says "All is as ordered."
So welcome to my sandbox fellow mini-me. I still only know of you through colored pixels on a computer monitor. I play in imagination and draw from expectations, patterns & memories to piece together my picture of you. What a game! For truly, I already know you. From the Big perspective I have already seen your face. No kidding. In a lucid dream I once had in the game of time years ago, I asked spirit, "Who am I?" It answered in a wordless wry smile from one of my dream characters that quickly hid around a corner then peaked out suddenly as a different face. Then hid again. Then peaked again as another different face. It went faster & faster & faster into a cosmic blur of remembered faces. Pure soul satisfaction and infinite gratitude filled my being as I faded back into my prevailing resident game experience.
Inlakesh. I believe it means "I am another you or You are another me." Amazing. Just amazing. Peace. Allen (Clarion)

[Diva Carla]

For Rel, you are magnificent because you are seeking and finding!

You are seeking and finding yourself as a helper and healer. Holding a vision of the highest capability and the value of the lives and Beings of the children you serve--as they are!

I am so glad your spiral path has brought you back to music. Have you met Audrey and Allen also musicians and Mag Ambassadors today?

YOu are magnificent... more more more of Rel!

Diva Carla

[Mary K]

Greetings Rel...

You truly ARE magnificent -- What a wonderful,
eclectic mix of experiences. When I was in school
it was my plan to work with autistic children --
Ended up spending my days with a diverse group
of children but not autistic.

And your music...again, magnificent...
I'm a pianist in my soul...after five years
of lessons my instructor informed my parents
they were wasting their money...so I found a
different instructor and paid myself for another
seven!! What a nut! My fingers still don't
seem to acknowledge my soul's passion but today...
I find that just perfect and let my fingers play
their own 'music' in their own way...

I share that so you will know how much I
deeply appreciate those of you who share their
music with me!!! :-)

Delighted to discover you Rel,

--Mary K

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[Velma Gallant]

My Dearest Rel,

You are magnificent because you touch people in a way that only you can. You gift people with yourself both through your time and your music.

Hugs,

Velma