Jon Hopkins with Ram Dass, East Forest - Sit Around The Fire (Official Video) 

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I meditate to this every night before bed. It is teaching me to love myself after many years of poor mental health. From now I choose love, not fear in making choices. Your music helps me heal my suffering and for that I will be forever grateful.

Jon… I wish you to know I recently played “Sit Around The Fire” with the graphic video projected on a huge panoramic screen at the funeral for my dearest friend who passed away from pancreatic cancer.. he was a musician of great talent…the screen was above his casket with surround speakers at each corner of the church…. Everyone, and I mean everyone was brought instantly to tears… when it was over all you could hear was weeping and sobbing… then applause and jubilation… it was BEAUTIFUL … thank you Jon, thank you! ❤

You don't find this type of music, IT finds you. This is a masterpiece.

8 mins and 24 seconds later, I feel like a graduated from Jon Hopkins University.

this meditation has brought me back .. grounded me with love and openness. Compassion and gratitude. I’m 35 weeks pregnant and i listen to this with my baby. Her middle name is Ember.

The healing power of this even in the absence of psychedelics is profound

🙏 ✨ "Don't worship the gate, go to the inner temple"

“Everything in you that you don’t need, you can let go of.” A few words that taught me how to live.

My wife and I just got married this summer. We had a big psychedelic gathering of friends and family over the course of two days in the middle of nowhere. The theme we chose for our wedding as well as the quote that is engraved in our wedding rings became "quiet the mind, open the heart". It's been resonating with us ever since this album came out and it will stay with us forever. Thank you Jon Hopkins for this. For making this healing tool, for honoring Ram Dass, and for helping people understand the healing powers of psychedelics

I havent cried like this while sober in a longgggg time

The part about the fire inside us being just ashes kills me every time... I hope I can make that little ember in my ashes become a flame once again. I wont give up.

If yo are reading this, never give up on yourself. You have such beauty within. You are worthy of love, and most worthy of receiving love, especially from yourself. I wish you great blessings and abundance, but mostly I wish you peace and the knowing that you belong in this world.

When I was leaving the armed forces after serving 4 tours, two in war. I was a broken scared angry man. I would try and hide away. I had this scruffy old laptop and used it to stream RU-vid. I found this mad scientist of sensational music and sound. I've lost myself in these wonderful symphonies of emotion and energy. They have helped me heal. Over the years I've enjoyed them so much. But this is by far the most beautiful peice of harmony I've ever heard ❤ thank you Jon Hopkins 😊

I've watched this at least a dozen times already. It's one of the most beautiful pieces of art I've ever seen. Thank you for making this.

Hi there random person, we may not know each other, but I wish you all the best in life. Whatever it is that you are trying to achieve in life, I hope you get it, I hope you become the best version of yourself and I hope you find happiness. Good luck fellow human being. 🙏❤️

I have not stopped listening to this song after I discovered it.

I’ve been moved to tears and cannot stop playing it. Thank you Spirit for the gift of music and the grace of teachers. I’m in awe with gratitude

That first piano note... it brings me to tears every time. I don't understand it, I can't name another piece of music that has this effect on me.

I love seeing my friends faces in front of me at a campfire, staring quietly at the fire, when you sudennly make eye contact with them and both know the feeling. Sitting around the fire with my loved ones will have a whole new meaning from now on.

This is a major contribution to our collective transformation into a loving and more conscious species. I'm sure Ram Dass would have loved this 🙏

I use the fire metaphor with patients in psychiatry who have lost all hope and are suicidal. Not everyone gets it, but sometimes it helps. And its a beautiful thing to see someone get up the next morning and find the courage to start looking for that ember again.

Did anyone else start sobbing when the piano came in?

thank you jon hopkins, ram dass, east forest, thank you mushroom medicine, plant medicine, heart medicine!, thank you for this beauty which helps lighten back the ember ✨

This has given me hope. The hope that I can rebuild the fire within me.

I just can’t even put words of the meaningfulness of this. Two of my heroes and it’s nice to see they think alike.

I’m obsessed with this - A real beaut

i feel like every tensity in my body kinda just melted... cried a bit, because it felt so good to let go for 8 minutes. damn. Thank you, Jon. Pre-ordering, now.

Maharaji you are everywhere.Recently visted "kaichi Dham" in Uttarakhand.Inside the temple i was't able to control my tears.Maharaji not only inspired Indians but also a plenty of westerners.Ram Dass and Krishna dass is perfect example.

I breakdown into tears sometimes while listening to this

I'm in love with all the positive comments. Every time i stray from love, this brings me back to the path. It's taken 38 years to begin to understand who i am. Ram Das and Alan Watts have recently come into my life because of this meditation by Jon. I hope you all find your inner peace.

This is beautiful thank you. "Beyond all polarities, I am."

This is something the world desperately needs to hear right now. Thank you Jon for bringing that light and inspiration

I can truly write that psychedelics and especially mushrooms changed a lot in me. It was like first step in huge transformation of myself. The beggining of the process to understand a lot of aspects connetced to "spiriuatlity". I believe that this album could be small step to help other people understand what psychodelics really are. Now due to their illegal status many thinks its like heroine or other hard drugs and its hard to accept... I hope that one day we will be able to use psychodelics legally and many people will benefits from using them. Can't wait for the album!

Back in 1976 I found the book Be Here Now, left by someone in a youth hostel in Scotland - by the lake Loch Ossian. Read it there and was deeply touched - and ever since that Ram Dass teachings has been a part of my life, together with various forms of traditional Buddhism. Used to order cassette tapes from Hanuman Foundation in CA... Thank you for this beautiful inspiring presentation 🙏❤️

This is one of the meditations we listen to in one of my A.A. meetings I go to on Zoom. Based in Ireland. 🙏🏽

In seventh grade, I was chosen to be a part of a group of kids to take the SATs through Johns Hopkins University. I forget my score-- that's not the point. The point is that in less than nine minutes, I've learned more in listening to this masterpiece than I did in all the months of preparation I did those two decades ago. Thank you, Baba Ram Dass, Jon & eastforest. This is a salve on my soul.

I would pay money for the uncompressed version of this video. There's a lot of lovely little intricacies in the animation. Kudos to Tom Readdy and Lucy Dawkins and anyone else on the team who animated this. Bravo!

I had just left my father who in reality we have had a rocky life relationship. He was very sick and even though we hadn’t talked in years I was compelled to go help him. We spent the day together laughing and actually had to take him to the hospital. He is fine and on the way home in the pouring rain this gem finds me! A voice whispered in my ear, let it go! Forgive him! Life is so much easier when you choose to surrender and accept that we are all doing the best we can! Love often, forgive often! ❤

I recently discovered this on a mushroom trip, and it healed me. Truly life changing. Thank you Jon

I wish I could hug Ram Dass and thank him in person. Jon too. You guys are part of the reason I'm still here. You helped me discover mindfulness again, and are helping me rediscover it again now. I have a long way to go, but I don't feel so lost anymore. Thank you, universe.

This was beautiful it brought some emotions to the surface that needed to be there.

This piece of art brings me to tears every time. It makes me realise that things are so simple. The only demons on this planet are in our hearts. We need to share pieces like this one and stop hate and violence around the world. Humanity is beautiful. Take care of yourselves everyone.

This art is absolutely beautiful.

You don't need need loneliness.. because you couldn't possibly be alone You don't need greed because you already have it all You don't need doubt because you already know

I repeated it 5 times and still can't stop crying i feel him feel me feel him

Recently had a horrendous stint in hospital, surrounded by mayhem, sleep deprived, considerably ill....and this had me accepting everything for what it was/is/will be. I'm a grown man who blubbered to himself for the first time in decades....the release was a gift. I don't expect Jon Hopkins to read or respond to messages on RU-vid but want the world to know how grateful I am for his music, and guiding me through my own darkness. Be the fan to someone else's embers.

Taking a moment to appreciate the artistic visuals, the music and the sweet voice of Ram Das.

One of the most beautiful piece of Art of the Heart that I EVER heard.. I cannot fathom how fucking gorgeous this is. This is what I live for. Beloved Baba Dass... You really had a Sufi Heart.. Tears from your words over and over again. May all Beings be free of suffering. Om

.. "we're all just walking each other home" ... 🌞 🙏 🌝

This has been helping me so much, as a reminder that I'm human, as a reminder to look deeper within and always love. Always be present, through the bitter times, through the blissful times. There's always some sort of light, no matter how dark things appear to be. If we blow on that ember, we can always rise ❤ thank you Jon Hopkins, thank you Ram Dass ❤

Well, I'll never stop having this in my life.

Thank you for this... This unlocked something deep within my spirit... Catharsis... Like tight binding being removed from around my whole chest and I can breathe differently...

Whoa. Perfect union. Thanks Jon. The world needs this desperately

I cry nearly every time I hear this. Ram Das’s voice ihits my heart and when those piano chords come In, if I’m not already bawling, those get me. It’s cathartic and true. Thank you guys for making this!

Bowing down to the beloved master@Ram Dass,and to great musicians@East Forest,John Hopkins . . Lots of love from India 🇮🇳

This is one of the most beautiful things i have seen in a whilee 😍

That's a piece of ART.

Simply beautiful, Deeply healing and calming

I am one of those people who'd almost never cry, and would only do so when I was around that one specific close friend, who I knew would have my back at any given moment. Yesterday, I went to work (as a newpaper delivery guy) after having skipped work for the third time this month, either because I've been slacking off because of smoking weed, or because I felt horrible due to my own inner demons, which only made me smoke even more weed. Every time I skipped, I didn't contact the company out of sheer shame and misery, which obviously is terrible. I'm surprised they still have me hired. When I had thrown the last pile of last weeks newspapers in the trash, gotten a few weird looks from pedestrians, and got this week's papers on my scooter, I went on Spotify to see if something could help wind me down, and *this* song came up. I shrugged in discouragement and anguish and pressed play. At this very moment, I was on the brink of breakdown. I figured I'd take an extra break to regain my senses, the song was playing in, and then boom. *He* just started talking to me. Me, and my inner demons. He didn't try to distract me with something else, he just sat there and recognized my hardships, and guided me slowly, softly towards improving my current mental state. He succeeded. The rest of the day were only to get better. ------ Today, I was hanging out with that one close friend who I knew would have my back at any given moment. Another friend who have a boyfriend who had done something terrible and traumatizing, and had vented to me on Discord, on the brink of terrible stress and anguish, and I just remembered this song. I talked about yesterday and how this song helped me through it, and I linked it to her. One sentence she wrote after she heard it stood out to me: "The melodies are calming my nerves and converting the annoying feeling into almost like field of wheat" I'm glad I could help calm her down, as it had calmed me down in my time of need yesterday. I put the song on to show my close friend, and when I heard *his* voice again, I instantly started tearing up, and started crying, hugging tightly to my close friend. I am one of those people who'd almost never cry, but this song, could make me do just that. ------ Thank you so much, Jon Hopkins, Ram Dess, and East Forest. I hope this long anecdote can help describe how much it helped me, and possibly others in their time of need. - Paw Nielsen Lind/ThePal

This piece warm genius has saved my life since it came into my life a little over a year ago. I would not have made it out of the darkness without it. Thank you.

That was incredible. The music, meditation and, voice and animation all just blended into one moment of nowness. Totally chilled me out. Thank you Jon.

Ram Dass seems to me one of the rare bullshit free "love gurus" of the 20th/21st century. Hopkins also sonically and compositionally distinguishes himself in his music. Peace from all corners.

I keep coming here every now and then.... Thank you Jon, you are brilliant, splendid... I dont have enough words....

All we're going to do for eternity is sit around the fire 🙏🏻 Thank you forever for this music, visuals, words

Wow, this felt like a big hug that I didn't know I needed

I will never be thankful enough for all that your art and your music has helped me Jon. This words mean a lot to me right now. I'm struggling with painful situation right now. But this bring me peace, let's me remember I'm here and now. And that I'm the only one who can decide I let more pain in or more love in my life. Thank you.

Love Ram Dass book called "Be here now" this music sounds like a Jon Brion score I love it peace thanks for sharing.

This is perfection. On every dimension, artistic, musical, spiritual. I've a feeling I will be coming back a lot. Can't wait for the album.

better than any meditation video I listen to on YT.

beautiful original masterpiece, it will live for ever in our minds

I randomly found this album today and put it on for a nap. When i woke up this song had just started, i just laid there listening to it. Its just so friggin beautiful and made so much sense in its simplistic magnitude.

This made me cry the first time. Does anyone know where to find the full audio clip of this specific Ram Dass meditation?

My cat died two days ago. She was my friend and spirit guide. This song helped me tune into my heart as I let her go. Thank you for this comfort.

I love most Jon Hopkins music, in particular the last two albums so I approached this Song with some trepidation. I am blown away. It's stunning and more than music

Thank you Jon. This came completely to my day, from the heart of the all that is. Thank you Ram Dass.

It’s time to RISE from our ashes into FIRE 🔥 you got this , unique beautiful soul!

You are a genius Jon Hopkins. Thank you for a life changing trip and experience I will never ever forget

Can’t thank Ram Dass enough for how he has changed my life, thank you Baba Ram Dass, Jai Gurudev, Ram Ram Ram 🙌🙏

Our facilitator played this during a ketamine assisted breathwork session and it hit me to the core. We are all just sitting around the fire for eternity.

Well this has absolutely floored me. Wonderful piece of work ❤️

Since I first heard this on KEXP's Pacific Notions show last week, it has become rather central to my sense of well-being. An extraordinary contribution.

Yes, yes, yes!!! That you Jon, you always bring us the stuff we need in our lives.

I cry every time I listen to this. Love this so much.

I just never can get enough of this this song means the world to me helps me make sense of the cauos in my life and helps put me on track thank you for posting this song and also i thank the authors

2017 Envision Festival, teahouse. Found the book Be Here Now on the ground and it looked somehow antique and mysterious. Then I read a couple of pages and afterwards went directly to the sunset ceremony from the beach. And I felt at peace and in that peace, love was everything. When listening this, I relived that feeling. Thank you for transporting me into the jungle of infinite love💖

Exquisite..and couldn't have reached me at a more poignant time in my life.The Time is Now

My guy Wish I could have experienced him while he was in his body, but it doesn’t seem to matter much because I can feel him deeply now This is so beautiful and hits in all the right places ✌️😌

Loved the inner journey. Music themed these inward journey's are magic and you are a master musician with all kinds of vibration at your fingertips. Looking forward to more of this.

I really enjoyed the conceptualization of sitting around the fire of our universe. It makes me smile!

I have been a huge fan of Jon Hopkins’ music ever since I discovered his music about a decade ago. Such an underrated talent, I wish more people get to experience the beauty he creates. Thank you Jon 🙏

Really struggling mentally and saw that. I know I'll be listening to it for a while to help me feel better. Thank you ❤️

Peace and love are within. Thank you for this reminder.

Un amigo al que conocí bailando a Jon en un festival, hoy lucha por su vida en un hospital... Para él y para su pareja les envío este precioso mensaje de amor. 💫

Thank You ❤This is so profoundly beautiful in its Light and Love and Truth. I so love it 🧡.

Such a powerful meditation. Love and LIGHT to YOU 🧡💛💚💙🤍❤

Absolutely beautiful experience! Thank you so much! ❤️❤️❤️

Utterly moving. I listen to it every day. Helps me keep going and gives me hope

Cant even begin to say how grateful I am for this. Thank you

Thank you💖 We're all worthy, Life is precious.