music

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If anyone is interesed in avant-garde music, here is an interview

with a heavy Buddhist and Indian slant with composer Philip Glass:

 

http://iamvalley.com/story_display/story_display.html?id=591

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>> Music Is now at one of its most important

phases with musicians learning to induce

ecstatic, healing and calming states

- just as has always happened but

is now being integrated into a new dynamic.

I wonder if you are familiar with the use of overtones in

sound. <<

Thank you, Lobster. : ) Yes...yes... ecstatic, healing, calming,

visioning, connecting... music has ever been woven into the threads

of my being/life living/

experiencing. I am familiar with overtones. I was very fortunate,

about ten years ago, to take a wonderful class at a university in

Maryland. There were only five of us in the class, which was held in

the instructor's home. The class was entitled "Music and Healing."

Our class experiences were nonhierarchical, with Carolina serving as

guide and facilitator. Some of what I experienced in the class is

beyond description... each of us, as a long-term assignment, took a

specific ritual from a specific tradition and studied it. Our "final"

was to go away on retreat, to a lovely place in the woods by a

babbling brook and, having in some way encapsulated what we received

from our work, share a ritual activity, experientially with the

group. This was one of the most powerful experiences I have ever had.

(The tradition I studied was the Navajo Blessingway, partly because it

incorporated visual, with sandpainting and other symbolic elements,

along with the musical/sound vibraiton oriented component.)

The other day, I was drumming for my hubby. I was "instructed" to pick

up the drum and do this. My spirit guides came to visit, even though I

was clear when I began I was assisting his process and it was not my

intent to engage in visionary work. Still, they come when they want

to. Though they came separately, first one, then the other, they both

told me to begin working with the drum. (This drum was a birthday

present some years ago, yet, until this day when "instructed" to pick

it up, I have never played it at all. Now I understand why...the drum

was waiting; I was waiting. Anyhow, when Spirit speaks, I pay

attention.) I was told the purposes for working with the drum were

communication and healing. What was also very powerful and

interesting to me, as this was going on...and my awareness of "me"

sitting there in the body drumming for Doug, and the awareness of

"me" being with my spirit guide(s) in another place, interacting with

them, and the awareness of "me" being part of the instrument as the

drum vibrations resonated throughout my entire body. Okay, now I will

admit, perhaps I this is not the right list on which to talk about

this kind of thing, because after all, I don't exist and so none of

this other stuff does either. Aside from that, I regard these

contacts as gifts given without any merit on my part. A number of

years ago, my guru, appeared to me, along with my guides and power

animals. They were all sitting at the apex of a pyramid-like

structure, smiling, almost not containing laughter, and kicking their

feet back and forth. She said, "I am all of these." Hologhai, hum,

babble, bobble ~ Linda