What About Jon Anderson's Voice and His Lyrics?

Let me be perfectly clear. I was NOT throwing stones as Jon. I happen to like his vocal style and his way with words which even if they weren't created with a specific meaning in mind have a magical quality that one can read a multitude of interpretations into.

For the record my favorite record of all of his records be it with Yes, Vangelis, Animation, or Solo remains this one - 

This, with absolute spades

Change We Must remains one of my favourite albums, a wonderful piece of work.

Hi,

I am not sure that we can comprehend a lot about this universe ... that is so much bigger than even our imaginations can come up with ... after all we are just inside a little tiny ball in the middle of nowhere ... just look up at the sky, specially on a clear night.

My main concern is that our "human" outlook is way more important to our minds than it needs to be, and all it does is cause more and more separation and wars in the end about which deity gets a picture in your hallway that you barely notice when you walk by to go to bed!

There is a lot, in the old books ... and as an example, a friend of mine and I have been writing a series of poems called "BARDO" ... and it really has no direct references to the old book, but somewhere in the middle of 50 pages of poetry, I came up with the idea that there are no dragons at each "portal" ... and that is a fabricated image in our minds, because we FREAK OUT each time we come across something we don't know ... and my poems, all of a sudden had a "darkness" completely removed ... no longer was there a fear or a desire to hide or not go through that "next door" ... which is so difficult for all of us.

Our cultures (specially western culture) is not based on history ... it is based on the stuff that various churches have instituted over the past couple of thousands of years, and a lot of that "scripture" is being contested, only for "modern scholars" to continue telling us children stories about Leda screwing a swan, or a Witch out of her mind killing her children and her ex's new wife ... while possible I suppose, the likelihood is that a mother won't do that ... specially one with the "gift" of sorcery who would better understand the nature of her powers and arts better.

Jon's voice is fine and he is honest and clear with it ... the only sad thing is that he has not been able to continue the spiritual journey that he had started with, and I know why, and have discussed it directly, but am not interested in sharing it ... it is, a personal journey and if you don't get it, why are you throwing stones at Jon?