Valarie-Singing--Tom

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Great experience of a remembered song with a message, Tom, and you told it so

well! Thanks for sharing your experience!!

 

Love,

Claudia

 

etomireland <singaporenoodles wrote:

Hi All,

I had an unusually instructive one of these this Saturday. I was out

walking, exploring deserted roads I'd never been down before. About

half an hour in, I noticed within the random chatter of my mind a

bubbling dissatisfaction with the word " road " . Somehow, " street "

seemed to fit the cool of the early morning so much better. In fact,

not just that one word, a phrase - " on the street " . After a while of

this thought bobbing around in my head for no apparent reason, I

noticed that thumb locks might not be a bad idea, and started them.

Very soon after doing this, I realised there was music backing too...

the phrase was in fact a scrap of lyrics from a mostly forgotten,

decades-old U2 song. And the music started running through my head -

there were loads of mumbly bits in the lyrics as it's been such a

long time:

 

" ...on the street / and the people she meets you know / "

" .. . .. ? ... .. / .... ? . .my love for you / "

" .. ?. . . ..live?.. die? ../ ... to my self some day / "

" ..? ? ? / .............? ... / " (etc!)

 

I still wasn't concentrating all that much, until this caught my

attention:

 

" [the city's] a fire, a passionate flame / "

" that knows me by name / "

 

Oh! I felt some meaning in that. I still hadn't identified the

song, but my body had, I was getting currents. A totally mumbled

verse went by, but then I suddenly had to stop in my tracks in awe.

As the volume ramped way up internally, the slower, softer, drawn out

female voice of the chorus revealed all. As wave after wave of

urgent, surging electricity charged up my scalp and head, racing and

overlapping each other in blankets of scintillation, these words

accompanied them:

 

" S u r r e n d e r ...

 

S u r r e n d e r ...

 

S u r r e n d e r ...

 

S u r r e n d e r ... "

 

Tom

, " Sarita "

<sarita1969 wrote:

>

> Oh yes, I agree. I have always gotten chills and/or goosebumps

with

> certain pieces of music. A few months ago, I started having a huge

> amount of energy flow whenever I sing. It doesn't matter what I

sing

> either, it could be Mary Had a Little Lamb. I often feel a

> blossoming in my heart chakra and the tingles envelope my entire

neck

> and head. Love it!

>

> Sarita

>

> , " Melissa "

> <mm7810@> wrote:

> >

> > Interesting what you say about music Valarie - I had my first

> > samadhi experience while listening to Pink Floyd - lol. I also

> > dated a guy once who was in a band and was an atheist; he said

that

> > he felt music was the closest thing to being spiritual that he

> could

> > think of.

> >

> > Much Love,

> >

> > Melissa