Dr. Lee Pulos - Fifteen Minute Stress Break (1988)

 Yep, I'm alive, hello! It's me! 

I've been archiving and collecting music of all sorts (And actively posting my finds on the Mei Clover Youtube Channel) Though it's been a long time since I'd found something pertaining to this blog. Somehow though,  I managed to find something from Great American Audio Corp I'd never seen - at a local thrift store! I am shocked I've never come across any of their other tapes here, since I don't live too far away from New Rochelle, NY, where GAA used to be based.

The tape I'm sharing today is 1988's Fifteen Minute Stress Break. It features Dr. Lee Pulos, who appeared on many guided meditation tapes during the 1980s. It's your standard guided meditation, set to sounds of the ocean. However, what really makes this tape stand out is the B-side. It's a fake radio show featuring a gruff-voiced man called Dr. Stanislov Murray, who has his own (fake) radio show called Murray Talk. It's basically a poorly done commercial for other Great American Audio releases disguised as a poorly done satire of radio call-in shows where people ask inane questions to the overly cocky host. I've never heard anything like this before on any other GAA releases, and it totally baffles me that this weirdness would be on the B-side of a relaxation tape. At the end of the A-side, a narrator announces "Now for something completely different. Please turn this cassette over to side 2". 

I'm putting the tape in one audio file so you can get nice and relaxed and then immediately listen to the oddness that is Murray Talk.

Enjoy.

Fifteen Minute Stress Break

Dick Sutphen and Upper Astral - Ascent Of The Eagle (1988)

Hello, friends! Happy belated New Year. We still exist, and for further proof, besides the fact that I'm writing this, is a newly unearthed tape from 1988. Another joind release between Dick Sutphen and Upper Astral, which of course was made up of David Naegele, David Storrs (and later, Robert Slap). This tape features the Robert Slap incarnation, with Ascention To The All That Is playing in the background while Dick talks.




Ascent Of The Eagle (1988)

Dick Sutphen - Stress Control (1990)

Another guided meditation and brain programming tape from Dick Sutphen with background music. I have not listened to this in a while, so I do not remember if the background music is something familiar to me or not.

Advertised by Sutphen as "The most powerful brain/mind programming tape in the world."

Stress Control

Dick Sutphen and Upper Astral - The Lighthouse (1984)

Sorry for the lack of updates, I have been very busy with college work.

I'm back with another guided meditation tape by Dick Sutphen with backing music by Upper Astral. The music in the background is from their 1983 release Entrance To The Secret Lagoon, which you can download here.

Info about "The Lighthouse":
"This tape is based on Psychosynthesis, a technique used by many psychiatrists to generate positive change. The symbol creates a new line of force in your psyche and can change inner attitudes and outer behavior. Produced with soothing New Age music. Instructions: Lie down and sit comfortably, close your eyes and breathe deeply for 3 minutes. Tun on tape. Dick will direct you through a complete body relaxation, then ask you to vividly fantasize the situation he is describing. Make it real. Perceive anything. You'll be counted up at the end of the tape. For maximum self-change results, use the tape several times a week. Also, during the day, quickly fantasize the symbol on your own when you have an opportunity."

The Lighthouse

Dick Sutphen & Upper Astral - Mansion of Beauty (1988)

Here's another great Effort from Upper Astral and Dick Sutphen with guided meditation.
The Upper Astral tracks that he speaks over are from the Nightwinds tape which you can find on this blog.
Mansion Of Beauty


 

Dick Sutphen - 3 Altered-State Experiments (2000)

Altered-State hypnosis/meditation tape by Dick Sutphen, features music from David Naegele's Journey out of the body on track 1, Upper Astral's Crystal Cave: Return To Atlantis on track 2, and unknown music on track 3. Truth be told I haven't tried using these for meditation or anything yet but I plan to.


Dick Sutphen- 3 Altered-State Experiments

Dick Sutphen - Awakened Dreaming (1986)

Body relaxation tape by Dick Sutphen from 1986, has music in the background but I am not sure who the artist is. The music does not sound like any of the Valley of The Sun artists I know of.  Enjoy.

Dick Sutphen - Awakened Dreaming

Dick Sutphen - Vision Inducing (1977)

An early meditation tape from Dick Sutphen with a metronome in the background. One of the earliest tapes that has been put up on this site.

No cover art found


Dick Sutphen - Vision inducing

Dick Sutphen and Upper Astral - Soulmates (1985)

This tape has one of the same instrumentals from the "Finding your soulmate" tape I uploaded a while back, and this tape also has a meditation/soulmate finding program by Dick Sutphen on it- This includes some music by Upper Astral not heard on the other Soulmate tape.


Dick Sutphen and Upper Astral - soulmates

Dick Sutphen & Upper Astral- Emergence Into The Light (1984)

Today, I have another guided meditation tape, accompanied with music from Upper astral, music which I believe are tracks from "Finding Your Soul Mate" and "Journey To The Edge Of The Universe".

Speaking of Finding Your Soul Mate, David Storrs informed me that the "Finding Your Soulmate" tape I have up here is actually one in a series of tapes, which means there is more out there!


Emergence Into The Light

Dick Sutphen & Upper Astral- The Alchemist (1988)

Guided meditation tape, same program is on both sides with different music. Unfortunately, the music is kind of hard to hear.

The Alchemist