MUSICS SPIRITUAL POWER 

THE ORIGINS OF ACCESSING "SPIRIT" #7

AFRICAN 
(especially Sub Saharan)

The San Kalahari Bushmen

The San are the "original" people as evidenced by genetic studies - we all have some San D.N.A. within us. 
Click on the link below to highlight then play. The video is several minutes long. Play enough or all to get a sense of this remarkable out of body, trance, spirit dance where the San obtain non local information to help them live, hunt and heal in an extreme austere environment. I believe its true to say that being purely hunter-gatherers they could not have survived over the eons without it in spite of their phenomenal "Hard Skills." They rely on complex chants and harmonies, clapping, rattles around the legs of the dancers, the fire and the Kalahari night.

VIEW: San Bushmen Out of Body Spirit Healing Trance Dance

Some of these primal sounds could also be called Bijah or seed sounds.
 “ The Bija mantras are one-syllable seed sounds that, when said aloud, activate the energy of the chakras in order to purify & balance the mind & body."

All Southern African tribal people would agree that;
 "We pray by singing and dancing"
and from my perspective as well, this was proven to be true. The drumming and dancing during my sangoma initiation was more powerful than yoga asanas and pranayama or my attempts at meditating, in getting me into the altered states required for initiation.
Click on the link to highlight this long video and go to 4 minutes.
VIEW: Tshisimane: The Source

The differences between the Bantu and Bushmen tribes of Southern Africa are that that the San travel out of body to access non local information in the spirit world. 
 Sangomas (Zulu equivalent of shaman), however, glean the same information by allowing their ego to step aside with dancing and drumming. A spirit guide then comes into the body and the sangoma becomes a channel for the spirit to transmit "quantum," non local (not localized in space and time) wisdom from the "Field." This is true possession (of a good sort) and somewhat more dramatic than trance channeling. 
The process is initiated by a Kundalini experience (witness the shaking) which the Zulu call Umbilini, the San call this feminine snake like energy, Num. The energy is universal - we all have it. The yogis describe a sophisticated version of its anatomy. For the Africans its highly individual and magical and they don't care much to describe what is happening. They just use it to help remote view, diagnose and heal.
Sound is critical for it facilitation.

ADRIAN POOLE

University College London

ABSTRACT: ... this article compares rhythms used in Pygmy and Bushmen music in an attempt to provide new perspectives on an old debate that these musical cultures may share a common heritage. ... The findings suggest that Pygmy and Bushmen timelines are interrelated and that most are organized according to the principles of ‘rhythmic oddity’ and maximal evenness. ... in particular the 3:2 pattern, form the structural basis of many Pygmy/Bushmen timelines as well as many other timelines featured in African and African-derived musics. .... Phylogenetic analysis of timelines provides no clear Pygmy/Bushmen ancestral timeline, although it is possible that foundational rhythms such as the 3:2 pattern may have featured in the music of a common ancestral group.

The Pygmy people of the rain forest are similar in many ways to the San Bushmen except their ecosystem demands different hunting and gathering techniques. This song from Baka Beyond adds modern instruments to their music but the drumming is the key undertone as it is with sangoma initiation. You cannot help but want to get up and dance.
Baka Beyond - Eeya Be ( Elephant Song ) ( 1993 ) - YouTube

 From Baka Beyond's first album, "Spirit of the Forest." In the early days of the band, Baka Beyond consisted of English musicians trying to re-create the sound recorded with the Baka people originally called Pygmies and integrate it into their music.

NATIVE AMERICAN

I am much less familiar with their methods but trancing, dancing and drumming is certainly a part of it. Here again a modern element is added to the chant.
Sacred Spirit.Yeha-Noha(Wishes Of Happiness And Prosperity)

YOGA AND EASTERN TRADITIONS

Bijas and Mantras
A different way to meditate and reach God,
Get a taste of the difference and see what fits you best.
Feel free to skip ahead. Take what you want and need and leave the rest. These are just examples to see what appeals. The contrast between the African and Eastern is profound and their intentions are different. The Eastern is more about enlightenment, the African more related to healing and survival. What is remarkable about the latter is the ease with which they attain the profound altered states they require to help each other.

                                                                           Adi Shakti - Bhakti Mantra Ajeet Kaur - Topic • 949K views                                                                                                    

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This is three hours long but you can get a taste of it.
Tibetan Monks Chanting | Singing Bowls - YouTube

The primal sounds or tones of the yoga chakras

PreviewPreview7:067 Minutes of All Chakras Seed Mantra Chants

PreviewPreview4:00Crystal 7 Bowl Chakra Set Notes CDEFGAB

The principle of crystal bowls is similar to that of the Tibetan bowls. This link below is a bit lengthy but interesting.

Acoustical SocieThe science of singing bowls - IKIGAIwww.ikigaiglobal.com › articles › the-science-of-singing-bowlst

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Meditations and healing of the chakras that need our attention can be profound with sound - whatever speaks to your own unique vibration and requirement. 

1st chakra; survival - flight or fight.

2nd; the chakra of regeneration of the species (sex,) elimination and digestion.

3rd chakra - our power chakra - the way we make our way in the world, (strongly attached to ego and monkey mind.)

MOVING ABOVE THE DIAPHRAGM TO THE HIGHER CHAKRAS

(Pranayama and the science of breath is useful to enhance the vibration.) Ujjayi breath has its own "ocean" like sound and can easily induce an alfa relaxation state.)

4th chakra - love, compassion, empathy - the most challenging one to open.

5th - the chakra of creative expression - becoming all of who you can be as a creative being.

6th chakra - our intuitive chakra of tuning in beyond the five senses. This is highly developed in indigenous medicine wo/men and hunter gatherers and facilitated by sound - drumming, chanting, singing, didgeridoo etc ...

7th chakra - our connection with the Great Spirit and the Field.

Find the music that speaks to your soul. The genres will often give you a sense of who you were in past lives. Chassidic and Celtic music to me resembles more the African and makes me want to move. These are the three genres I circled in and out of in past lives.

THE SPIRITUAL POWER OF MUSIC #6

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitation of the soul. It is one of the most magnificent, delightful presents God has given us. Martin Luther

I am not a musicologist or a music historian but I did come across some interesting information as to how things began to change with music around the 20th century.

 Schoenberg, Boulez and Cage had different ideas about tonality which have influenced where we are today. In fact they applauded no tonality at all.

Cage in the early 90's called it 

"purposeful purposeless" 

and encouraged having no organization so as to be emancipated from the tyranny of meaning and order. He has had a huge influence on world music today.

Vagn, Holmboe and John Adams rebelled against these "modern" ideas and stuck to tonal music, the music that connected them to Pythagoras and Saint Clement. They are a reflection of a musical recovery of our time but there is still much opposition as in Heavy Metal and in Rap and especially depending on the words that are used. Christian Rock also has arisen in opposition to this.

At the end of the day music is mathematical, and tonality for maximum beneficial effect on our being should conform to these laws and not 

"purposeful purposeless" 

Nevertheless formless chaos often seems to have replaced essence and is a reflection of the disturbance of what is going on inside of us and around our planet. 

The right musical vibration can help us return to our true Selves.

432 Hz is said to be rooted in musical history and has been linked without real proof to geometry, science, architecture, the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, mystical events and other phenomena. It is also said to shift consciousness, soothe and reduce anxiety, heighten perception, increase mental clarity and align one with the heartbeat of the universe.

Whatever the case it has been replaced by 440Hz, now the standard pitch around the world although this was also used in the 18th and 19th centuries. 

However, 432 is making a comeback especially in sound healing, therapeutic work and meditation. 

Others have also warned against imposing a single system based on it having a superior vibration. Its not the pitch of the note but one's intention for the music which will prevail. It's all a question of skill in releasing that intention.

Conspiracy theorists believe that Goebbels and the Nazis promoted 440 Hz as part of a plan to warp the consciousness of the masses. However, it was in use in Italy, Holland, England, France and Germany long before the Nazi regime. 

Although this theory has been discredited there is no doubt that the Nazis used music to torture their victims especially the Jews. Forced singing of German songs was accompanied by torture meted out in freezing weather. One labor battalion called the "Singing Horses" was harnessed to a heavily loaded wheel barrow which they had to pull as they sang at the top of their voices while straining or they were beaten. 

Inmates also had to sing while being asphyxiated and play the violin while being tortured. Others - knowing their fate - had to play instruments as new inmates entered the camps. Musicologist Ruth Hacohen has called it the 

"music libel against the Jews." 

The SS robbed the Jews and Jewish musicians of the only vital resource that they had for their survival.

... or the Gates of hell

The tritone, Diabolus in Musica has been called the Devil's interval but it was also used to good effect by Beethoven, Wagner and Tartini as well as other composers. However, it has become a predominant feature especially in Heavy Metal and other forms of modern music.

It is designed to create a chilling, unsettling, forboding atmosphere which would not conform to the listener's expectations. One hears the tritone or trill in spooky movie soundtracks and the sounds around Halloween. 

Samhain which has become Halloween in America is an ancient Celtic festival celebrated when the veil between the worlds was suppose to be at its thinnest allowing spirits to pass through. Harmful spirits were warded off and folks disguised themselves as harmful spirits for protection.

Many modern musical legends have flirted implicitly or explicitly with the fact that 

"The Devil has the best tunes"

including; 

Little Richard, Elvis, Snoop Dog, Jagger, Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page, Black Sabbath, Megadeth, California quartet Slayer, Black Metal and even the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bon Jovi, John Lennon and Lady Gaga. 

David Bowie did so as well and stated, 

"Rock has always been the Devil's music and I feel we are heralding even something even darker than ourselves." 

However Rock and especially Soft Rock can be anything but dark depending on the intention of the musicians and avoidance of the tritone for negative and sexually enhancing effects.

THE TRITONE

Tartini's most famous work - The Devil's Trill Sonata - is a solo violin sonata that is technically demanding  and difficult even by modern standards. According to a legend embroidered upon by Madame Blavatsky, Tartini was inspired to write the sonata by a dream in which the Devil appeared at the foot of his bed playing the violin. 
The sonata written somewhere between 1713 and the mid 1740s is a piece that still tests the limits of even accomplished violinists. 

The precise connection between the pitch of an instrument and the length of a string has been attributed to Pythagoras. He stated that the pitch was inversely proportional to the length of the string. He linked numerical ratios and the resulting tonality that happened to the harmony of the spheres and celestial sounds. Furthermore he described astronomy and music as twinned studies of 

sensual recognition, 

astronomy for the eyes, 

music for the ears 

all requiring numerical proportions. 

Words also have a lot of power when added to the music. Rap can be light or dark depending on its vocabulary. The visuals associated in live performance or in video also have a huge impact.

These days music is often accompanied by dramatic visuals for effect as when Jimi Hendrix smashed and burnt his guitar on stage.

It's not just the tone of the music but the words and visuals that send the message 

LOVE OR FEAR

good or bad, light or dark, healing or harmful.

This foreboding song below makes effective use of a rock sound to accentuate an important, though dark message. The visuals accentuate the effect.

Click on the links to highlight, then play

Of Monsters And Men - Dirty Paws (Official Lyric Video ...

Words matter !

I have no idea what the French means but this beautiful love song combines its tonality with the softness of the accent.

Le Roi Soleil - Mon Essentiel (Clip Officiel) - YouTube

Meditate on where this takes you

09_Like_an_Angel.mp3

MUSICS SPIRITUAL POWER #5

If you amplify the frequency of sound

the structure of matter can change. Playing the right frequency of sound or singing can cause a wine glass to move and even break apart.

Sound has the power to do many amazing things:
Levitate and rotate objects
Boil water
Create light and heat
Drill through stone and metal
Destroy cancer and pathogens
Heal

As well as the ...

We need to remember that these changes, also shown in the last blog, are three dimensional not linear.

We have talked previously about Emoto's work on frozen water and how the crystalline structure of water changes with the different emotions of love and fear. 

Love is contained in; gratitude, holy water, classical music and placing mother Theresa's near it, creating exquisite crystalline structures ...

Fear including Heavy Metal music does the opposite as below.

Click on the link below and view the spectacular changes one can witness in a drop of water subjected to different sound frequencies.
You can begin at one minute 30 seconds if you prefer, in this four minute video.

Greg Braden

https://youtu.be/ykO9aQFxYpE

 Low frequencies create simpler patterns than higher frequencies . Low frequencies are more commonly associated with fear as in the threat response and in the aggressive tone of the human voice. A growl is a threat response as is the sound of a Harley Davidson. Since our cells are 80% water, think of what thought, intention, emotion and feeling can do to our bodies. 
Such also is the power of sound and music be it dark or light.
These patterns are seen in the water droplet in this clip and also in other Cymatic experiments; octahedrons, tetrahedrons, hexagons, and the geometrical patterns seen in plants and animals - Sacred Geometry. 

Celtic Knot

The hexagon of the San Pedro cactus which contains mescaline

and connecting the "dots," the cross-section of Ayahuasca - the vision vine of the Amazon.

Even the grooves in Peyote, sacred to the Native Americans, resembles the six pointed star

The hexagon is the symbol of the heart chakra indicating that these plant entheogens have the capacity to open our hearts and give us deeper vision.

... and the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters ... Genesis

"A river arose out of Eden forming Four Rivers and Four Winds. They joined to form a singular spirit which animates all creation." 

The Zohar

These Four Winds, from the breath of the Divine, animated all creation in vibration, song, logos ... In Hebrew the word Ruach means spirit, wind, breath - vibration, sound.

When we live in a love vibration we are resonating with higher frequencies which raise our consciousness and affect our D.N.A. even lengthening our telomeres giving us greater health, longevity and more spiritual attainment. Fear does the opposite.

...when the mind is doubtful, when the mind drinks deep of doubt poison, the senses have no capacity to inject faith into the mind. Here also music comes to the rescue." Shri Chinmoy

"Music alone can take you to the highest." 

Swami Vivekenanda 

Or the lowest

Sound and vibration also create Coherence or the Maharishi effect that goes out far beyond us and can be light or dark,

Love or Fear 

as in group meditation or an audience listen to a symphony written by Beethoven 

versus a Heavy Metal concert.

 Jimi Hendrix's was one of the most skilled guitarists of all time and  also arguably the grandfather of Heavy Metal.
Click on the links to highlight then play.

Jimi Hendrix Playing Guitar With His Teeth - YouTube

Contrast this with Beethoven who hopefully will help you Self regulate the effects of Hendrix at a cellular level.

Both were brilliant channels - one for fear - the other for love.

PreviewPreview3:17Introducing Beethoven 9th Symphony

It doesn't take a genius to make you feel better.
09 Love is Blind.mp3

and so the ancestors say; 

be careful of what you taste and where you immerse

THE SPIRITUAL POWER OF MUSIC #4

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and charm and gaiety to life and to everything." Plato

Ginsburgh below also infers that the Creator sang the world, nature, D.N.A. and all into existence. The cosmic symphony is the Oran Mor, the Music of the Spheres and beyond...

Isaac Luria the great Kabbalist tell us that with the Big Bang - Kabbalah's equivalent, Tzimtzum or contraction - the Creator inserted His presence for the sake of creation. This caused   a "shattering of the vessels" containing holy sparks that became held in shards and need to be released in order to heal the world. Sacred music is another way of releasing these sparks.

The right kind of music enhances our parasympathetic nervous system creating a relaxation response with positive affects on our nervous system as well as spiritual and heart coherence. The opposite is true in the case of military and other songs or music such as heavy metal which can enhance our sympathetic flight or fight response.

Everything in the multiverse is vibration and electromagnetic energy, making music and sound fundamental to our reality.

CYMATICS

Ernst Chladni first showed how tiny particles arrange themselves in patterns when exposed to music on a receptive flat surface.

 Hans Jenny in the 60's expanded on this work. Experiments showed patterns in water as well.

Click on the short link to see how he did it.

PreviewPreview1:44Cymatics: Chladni Plate - Sound, Vibration and Sand

PreviewPreview9:24Cymatics - Bringing Matter To Life With Sound (Part 1 of 3)

This link on Jenny's work is eight minutes- skip the ads.

One can see in the clip a spiders web , a millipede and as shown below the patterns in a tortoise's shell or a leopard's skin - all a kind of sacred geometry.

These forms are repeatable and not random.

If you pass simples sine waves through a dish of water patterns appear and change if you change the sound frequency. 

The higher the frequency the more complex the pattern.

With sound we can do remarkable things; create heat, cure cancer, rotate, move and levitate objects and even drill holes in stone seen below.

PreviewPreview9:41How to "melt" stones sound, p.1.

For those interested check out this very repetitive link. You can get the gist at 3 minutes 29 seconds and beyond. It is remarkable!

Since we are all mostly empty space with circulating atomic particles rotating around a nucleus, maybe a precise kind of sound finds a way to insinuate itself into the empty space between rotating particles

.

Credo Mutwa the famous Zulu sangoma or sanusi (high prophet) once told me you could cure any disease with the right sound.

Too many links to endure a song as well - this time.

THE SPIRITUAL POWER OF MUSIC #3

The Chaldeans were apparently the first to suppose that all the heavenly bodies joined together to create music as they orbited space. The San Bushmen may have preceded them and the mystics that wrote the Zohar followed them.

Pythagoras was apparently the first of the Greek philosophers to postulate the
"Music of the Spheres."
He theorized that the sun, moon and planets emit their own "hum" as they orbit which reflect celestial sounds imperceptible to human ears. 
Plato agreed with him and also assumed there was a numerical component to them.

"There is geometry in the humming of strings.

There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Number is the within of all things."

Pythagoras 

 "Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts' were as chaste and as snowy as Pythagoras, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars."

John Milton

All energy and matter are vibratory and their atomic make up helps us understand how maybe the Creator sang the world into existence. Hence the Music of the Spheres generated by their orbiting makes sense.

If the sun, the moon and all these huge bodies are rotating it is possible that they do generate sound. It is also likely that since we are born with this subtle music from light years away in our ears we may no longer be able to hear it or even know it is there, unlike the Bushmen who are pure of heart like Pythagoras. 
They also benefited from having little noise pollution.

Pythagoras believed that not only the stars but all creatures and objects have energetic signatures which could be translated into numbers, fractions or geometric structures and that the Creator "geometrized" the universe in sound vibrations.
This would fit with the idea that music is the mathematics of God.
Many musicians are above all, also mathematicians.

The Zohar states that God animated the Still Beings, Growing , Wild and Talking Beings with "Four Winds" (Breath; Ruach in Hebrew, Prana in Yoga.) Each Being is animated with its own "Wind" or vibration.

"A river arose out of Eden forming Four Rivers and Four Winds. They joined to form a singular spirit which animates all creation."
 The Zohar
(The four sacred rivers are thought to be the Tigris, Euphrates, Nile and Ganges.)

Click to highlight and then play Oran Mor, (the sacred tune of the universe of the Celts.)
10 Oran Mor 1.mp3


Ever since the Greeks until fairly recently music has been considered sacred and an  attempt to mimmic the voice of the Divine.

Cicero spoke of music as enabling humans to return to the Divine regions, a place once lost to them.

The Greeks and others felt that sound should follow a certain "objective moral order." This is the reason classical music has such appeal.

The great classical composers followed this idea. Pre-modernistic music kept these principles up until the last century.

We will see in future blogs how much this has changed.