THE SPIRITUAL POWER OF MUSIC

IMAGINATION AND THE SENSES # 8

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The sounds in nature may be the closest thing we can experience to the music of the spheres; the soft fascinations of the wind rustling in the trees and a babbling brook and more...

This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all. On a still night, when the campfire is low and the Pleiades have climbed over rimrocks, sit quietly and listen, and think hard of everything you have seen and tried to understand. Then you may hear it - a vast pulsing harmony - its score inscribed on a thousand hills, its notes the lives and deaths of plants and animals, its rhythms spanning the seconds and the centuries.

Aldo Leopold

"The soul's essence should lodge comfortably in the body."

The Ancestors

From the sound of my sighing has my essence cleaved onto my flesh." 

Psalm 102:5

When we are spiritually in balance, harmony and have equanimity the soul and the body are at one. When the opposite occurs, and we behave in a karmically unsound manner, the soul may gradually separate from the body leading to soul sickness or even soul loss. 

The wrong kind of music can also be disturbing to the soul which is pure.

The Ancestors

In these troubling times imagination can take us wherever we want to be. Children are gifted in being able to do this so we should also practice their "beginner's mind" with the power of our imagination. The Ancestors stress that imagination assisted by any sensory method can help us enter into this realm. Nature enables as does music.

“I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” 

Albert Einstein

The Ancestors

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." 
Buckminster Fuller

Imagination propelled by sensation, especially with music, is one way to do this.

Change can be a manifestation of a memory or a nuance from recent or past experiences which leads to something passionate and provocative. Imagination, which is an active meditation, can facilitate this.

 We have a choice, leap into infinity, light and spaciousness or descend into narrowness and darkness.

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts." Marcus Aurelius

 Our thoughts are being recorded by our subconscious all the time and no matter what we think we think with our conscious minds, our lives will unfold according to what is in our subconscious.
And how we speak;
"What we speak becomes the house we live in." Hafiz
Negative and judgmental thoughts imprint on the subconscious and will return to us and negatively impacting our progress. Wish people well and good returns to you. It also helps to pay forward.

"We are born to bless not to punish. We should always see good things in others. We are not in a position to criticize anyone..." Maharishi

 The subconscious is the seat of emotion which can be changed with an active, sensory imagination driven by music especially around sleep. This is when the subconscious is the most permeable, the ego and mind are less tenacious and the conscious is on hold.

The Ancestors

There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitudes conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge." Swami Paramananda

 Around the Time of Sleep 
 or in a Meditative State, 
with carefully selected music,
enter "The Field."
This is a place of infinite possibility. 
Imagine anything 
that you wish for, or where you would like to be or who you would aspire to become. Even hold imaginary conversations with someone you love or a spirit guide (or angels, or Jesus or God.)

Put you intention into the Field.
 Release completely from any attachment you have for an outcome. 
Attachment works negatively in the Field and with the subconscious. Intention should preferably not be about "me" but the greater good. Try and get oneself out of the way.
Allow the 
 Field
to handle the details. 
Because of free will some detail is essential 
Our guides need to hear the
 Context of your Intention
(not necessarily the exact content.)
Affirm, maintain, sustain. 
Everything beyond the veil is in the moment. Free will is the cosmic law. Free will is in the moment. Your guides live in the moment. They may know you want it now but will you continue to want it later?
Will and Passion are important !
They help you "feel."
"The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf." Shakti Gawain
Belief or Faith 
(which is the more difficult) 
is essential for it to work.

The Ancestors

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13_Imagination.mp3

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