Commissioned by the DoubleBeats duo, consisting of percussionists Ni Fan (China) and Lukas Böhm (Germany), Dragon Awakening is a musical meditation on the cosmic calling for China to play a leading role in the shaping of the 21st Century. The 21st Century promises to be the "Chinese century" in a similar way that the 20th Century was an "American" one. These cosmic callings are pregnant with hope and opportunity but also fraught with danger, depending on how the people who receive the calling answer it. Since my university years, I have been a student of the early 20th Century American mystic Edgar Cayce (he passed away in 1945), whose discourse on the destiny of nations during trance predicted the awakening of China and its transformation into an ethical and spiritual world leader. Cayce warned that such transformation was not imminent, but that it is part of a cosmic plan, perhaps after the Apocalyptic times which we are currently entering.