Harlan Mark Vale

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Major Artistic Influences

During my musical formative years, I had many heroes, idols and influences. I would like to give thanks to the following for creating some of the most enriching music on the planet. Listed in no particular order:

Brian Eno
Bill Laswell
Bill Nelson
Peter Gabriel
Claude Debussy
Hildegard von Bingen
Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares
YES
BT
The Beatles
Happy The Man
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
National Health
Steve Hackett
John Cage
Herbie Hancock
Charles Ives
Miles Davis
King Crimson
Aaron Copeland
Oliver Messiaen
Igor Stravinsky
Erik Satie
Arnold Schoenberg
Anton Webern
Sun Ra
Tangerine Dream
Weather Report
The Who
Pink Floyd
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Les Paul
Todd Rundgren
Frank Zappa
Art Bears
Ozric Tentacles
Buckethead
Sarah McLachlan
Kronos String Quartet
John Alkins
Mark Isham
Vangelis
Patrick O'Hearn
Danny Elfman
Jerry Goldsmith
Ella A Robinson
The Chipmunks
Spike Jones
Russell Larson
Daryl Johanson
Dave Brubeck
Robert Moog
Chick Corea
Keith Jarret
Don Ellis
The Moody Blues
Ennio Morricone
Jeffrey Morgan
Dick Metcalf
Olivier Messiaen
Otto Luening
Gyorgy Ligeti
Vladimir Ussachevsky
Salvatore Martirano
Paul Beaver
Bernard Krause
Krzysztof Penderecki
Harry Partzh

There are probably more whose names I don't recall at the moment. But each and every one of these artists have helped me to form my musical identity. Thank you, one and all.

Harlan Mark Vale
My Spiritual Influences

This biography would not be complete if I did not include the people, books and entities that have contributed to my growth as a spiritual being. I am placing this tribute last, not because it is least important to me, but because it is the most important thing in my life.

The following, listed in no particular order, have enriched my soul and helped me become more of the person that I aspire to be:

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church of Walla Walla, Washington
Rev. Bertram Warren
Rev. David Alkins
Dante
Edgar Cayce
Isaac Asimov
Albert Einstein
Stephen Hawking
Joseph Campbell
OAHSPE
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Sun Ra
R. Buckminster Fuller
The Nag Hammadi Library
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Howard Caesar
JoDee Vale
The Essene Gospel of Peace, by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
Elizabeth MacDonald Burrows,
The Book of Enoch
The Kabbalah
Dark Night of the Soul
Mary Manin Morrisey
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Gary Zukav
The Buddha
Rudolph Steiner
Emanuel Swedenborg
Leslie Valentine,
Buddha Maitraya
Garchen Buddhist Institute
Dr. Eric Pearl & The Reconnection
The Keys of Enoch
“What the Bleep Do We Know?”
“The Secret”
Amit Goswami,
The Field, by Lynne McTaggart
Gopi Krishna
Bhagavad Gita,
The Pistis Sophia
The Church of Spiritual Living, Prescott, Arizona
Dr. Robert Henderson
Dr. Betty Henderson
“The Moses Code”
William Tiller
Bill Harris & Centerpointe Research
Neville Goddard
Sri Aurobindo
Ken Wilber
Ernest Holmes
Jesus the Christ
The Zero Point Field
Moses
Krishna
YHWH
The Holy Bible
Lao Tzu
Dr. Joe Vitale
YOU
I AM THAT I AM

I am humbly indebted to all of the above and to you. May we continue to enrich each other’s lives and bring peace to Mother Earth in our lifetimes.

Harlan Mark Vale