MUSIC - IMAGINATION - THE SENSES # 9

Music is the 'mathematics' of the Divine.

“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

Einstein wanted to understand the mind of God.

He claimed that fantasy and imagination were more important

to him than his cognitive abilities.

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 the senses, especially with music, is one way to do this.

What cannot be imagined cannot be fulfilled.

Imagination, which can be a form of active meditation, can allow us to

leap into infinity, light and spaciousness rather than descend into

narrowness and darkness.

Negative and judgmental thoughts imprint on the subconscious and

will return to us and negatively impacting our progress.

No matter what we think we manifest with our conscious minds

what usually manifests is what resides in our subconscious. The subconscious is

like a recording device continually taking in all that we think,

what we say and what is said to us.

 The subconscious, the seat of emotion, can be changed with an active,

sensory imagination driven by music especially around sleep or if we are

in a meditative space when the conscious mind is on hold.

This is when the subconscious is the most permeable

and ego and monkey mind less tenacious.

THE PROCESS FOR ACTUALIZATION

 Around the Time of Sleep or in a Meditative State, 

with carefully selected music we can enter a Field" of infinite possibility. 

We can imagine anything and play in the Field of our imagination.

We can also hold imaginary conversations

with someone we love or a spirit guide (or angels, or Jesus or God.)

There is no time in the Field and Free Will is the cosmic law.

Because of free will we must ask to receive.

Our spirit helpers live in a non space-time reality.

Therefore we should not expect immediate results.

These are the steps using the right kind of music for you to go inward.

INTENTION

Put your Intention out into the Field.

Will and Passion are important !

ATTENTION

Attend to the details (this occurs in the imagination.)

We need to tell the powers residing

in the Field the context of our imagination. They will handle the details in line with

our and or the greater good of others.

This is why often the way things turn out may not match exactly what we had intended.

(The Field also has its dark side which ignores the divine law of free will.

The dark forces are happy to oblige those with selfish intentions harmful to others so that

we must be careful what we ask for and who we align with.)

Release completely from any Attachment to Outcome.

Attachment has a 'stickiness' which works negatively in the Field and with the subconscious.

This attention should preferably not be about "me" but the greater good.

If it is about oneself it should also be so that one can better assist the greater good.

This will have more gravitas with the light forces in the Field.

ACTION

We have to do our part as in,

"Trust in God but tie your camel." Sufi wisdom

AFFIRM, MAINTAIN, SUSTAIN. 

Everything beyond the veil is in the moment.

Free will is in the moment. Your guides live in the present moment.

They want to know that what you want now, you will continue to want later.

How committed are you? This is why will and passion are so important.

We can also turn our request into a mantra to affirm our

intention outside of this imaginative, meditative state.

FEEL IT

We need to try and feel it in our bodies.

Hence music or anything around sleep or in meditation which enhances

the senses will be more powerful.

The way to God is through the senses.

BELIEVE IT

Its easier to believe in the process if its not about oneself. You are surrendering to

something much bigger than oneself. Self-help proponents use the same process

but with an emphasis on the small s rather than the higher Self. As in ...

'Imagine yourself in your new Porsche driving down the road, sense the power,

feel the magic of changes gears etc. This also can work but if you

are reading this blog your proclivity may make it difficult for you to

truly believe in the material aspect of this request.

Those who truly believe in them selves (small s) and

supreme optimistic narcissists can be successful too. We see this in

those who are in various positions of power.

Their actions at best will be karmically neutral.

These are also often assisted by the dark side of the Field.

Belief is essential for it to work.

Too much attachment may imply that we do not trust or believe fully.

Attachment by working through the Law of Reversed Effort (Coue')

can also negatively impact our subconscious which is critical to the process.

Be courageous. Remember that aside from the subconscious, and our guides,

the Creator, Jesus want a personal relationship with us and can participate

but not instigate. Its up to us.

"The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf."

Shakti Gawain

 

THE SPIRITUAL POWER OF MUSIC # 8

"Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation.

The knower of the mystery of sound

knows the mystery of the universe." Hazrat Inayat Khan

We can use music and sound to meditate and even 'beyond' meditation to achieve

advanced altered states of consciousness.

It is essential that we find the music

that speaks to each of our own individual souls.

The genres we choose will often give us a sense of

who we were in past lives. Chassidic and Celtic music, to me, feel more like the

African genre that I love and make me want to move.

Sound is profound - the more so when embodied !

When I was initiated as a sangoma (Zulu equivalent of shaman)

in Swaziland around the time of the new millennium

I was told that I would have to dance

to the sound of the drum to allow the Ancestors to come through.

I already had a fairly advanced yoga asana and pranayama practice at the time which helped

but they alone never got me as far as the dancing and drumming, done at night

and in the early hours of the morning

(when the Veil between the Worlds is the most permeable.)

"The Kundalini in the form of latency is coiled like a serpent.

One who impels this Shakti (Feminine Power)

to move will attain liberation." Hatha Yoga Pradipika

"A human's spiritual consciousness is not awakened until his/her 

Kundalini is aroused." Sri Ramakrishna

Interest in Shamanism is huge at the moment but in indigenous Southern Africa, initiation

is dependent on whether the drumming and dancing allow the "Umbilini" to emerge

and take over. The yoga equivalent is the Kundalini which is the key to

Self-Realization. Sangomas on the other hand use Umbilini

so that they can channel the Ancestors in order to help others. The energy is similar.

The San Bushmen call it Num which with complex chants, harmonies,

clapping, rattles around the legs of the dancers, the fire

and the Kalahari night enables them to trance and travel out of body to the spirit world.

The Bantu and San medicine women and men of Southern Africa would replace 

the yogis' 'spiritual consciousness' through the Kundalini 

with all the facets that have to do with healing

viz.- diagnosis and the corrective measures required. 

Their indigenous process is initiated by a Kundalini-like experience (witnessed as shaking)

which the Zulu call Umbilini. The San Bushmen call it Num

and rather than shake they fall down, paralyzed in trance.

The energy is universal -

we all have it. The yogis also describe its sophisticated anatomy

in terms of the Chakras and Unity Consciousness or the Oneness Experience.

This occurs when the Knower, the Known and the Process of Knowing

fuse and become One Thing. It's not as mysterious as it sounds.

Maslow called it a Peak Experience .... when the dancer 'becomes' the dance.

Some of you may have had it but did not recognize it or invalidated it.

For instance; when viewing a sunset; the Knower - You, the Sunset - the Known

and Process of viewing it - fuse into One thing. You become the sunset.

For most of us this occurs rarely by grace and quickly disappears.

The Bantu peoples and Kalahari San Bushmen healers can control it

using sound and dancing for its facilitation.

The differences between the Bantu and San Bushmen tribes of Southern Africa are that

the San travel out of body into the spirit world (and fall motionless on the ground)

to access non-local information from the 'Field.' 

 Sangomas, however, glean the information

with dancing and drumming which allows the ego to step aside so that

they becomes a channel for the spirit to transmit non-local wisdom from the

the Ancestors.

In all instances the sound that catalyzes the process is basic, repetitive and simple.

Adrian Poole (University College London)

compared the rhythms used in Pygmy and Bushmen music.

He stated that the 3:2 pattern seems to form the structural basis for many

Pygmy/Bushmen mind-altering experiences and other

sub-Saharan Africans including the Bantu.

Native American

Across many  of their communities, the drum embodies the 

"heartbeat of Mother Earth".

 It is not merely a percussion instrument, but a sacred bridge used to 

connect with the Ancestors.

The heartbeat rhythm is also simple, repetitive, of low-frequency and is believed

to facilitate transition into altered states. It is also

 combined with chanting and dancing, as well as in sacred environments 

such as a sweat lodge.

The force of the Primal, manifest as love is the glory of God.

We need to be humble and return to our Primal origins for the truth about 

spiritual concepts now lost to us in the West.

 These original truths will never change.

(For those interested - this video, shot by myself around the time of the 

millennium, shows the San Bushmen out of body spirit 

trance dance. It's short.)

https://www.davidcumes.com/videos_5.html

This video below demonstrates some of spects the sangoma model​ 

especially note the shaking. (Also short.)

 All 4 sangoma video clips 2 2.mov

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THE SPIRITUAL POWER OF SOUND AND MUSIC #7

The Eternal O H M or A U M

continues on and on to this day and beyond.

Brahma; the Supreme Creator, embraces the element Ether,

which includes Sound.

Akasha's primary element is Ether, Space, Sound - the Primordial or the first element.

Without space - Akasha - Vibration and Sound cannot exist,

Nada - Vibration is the kinetic, creative force of the universe,

or the frequency that moves through the ether.

It is the underlying hum of the universe (? Pythagorus' Music of the Spheres

or the O'ran M'or of the Celts/Druids.)

Brahma is the ultimate Creator and is synonymous with sound.

O H M or A U M represents the Three Deities; Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva,

and the cyclical nature of the universe; Creator, Preserver, Destroyer.

and 'OHM' or 'AUM' - the sound of the universe.

The universe is fundamentally made of sound and vibration,

and is all encompassing according to Vedic and Yoga tradition.

It is the essence of the ultimate reality that unifies everything.

As you chant OHM ... A-U-M you are experiencing the all in everything.

Bijas, Kirtans and Mantras are a different way to meditate

and reach the Supreme Being.

The Ancestors tell us that we are like marionettes connected to the supernal worlds

and that every kind action we take, or positive chant/sound/song we express, or words

we speak, all have an effect 'above' and comes back to benefit us 'below.'

They liken it to creating pockets of angelic energy. The converse is true, in that we may

also create mini demons.

Hence what comes around (to above), also goes around (back to us below.)

It is also another way of looking at Karma. The Sounds and Words we make

or listen to are much more than they appear to be.

Each Chakra - the Energy system in Yoga - has its own Bija, Seed or Primal sound.

When said aloud they activate the energy of the chakras in order to purify

and balance body, mind and spirit.

1st chakra; survival - flight or fight. Bija sound - LAM

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

- VAM

3rd chakra - our power chakra - the way we make our way in the world,

(strongly attached to shadow, ego and monkey mind) - RAM

The sages teach that we are all continually being animated by

the breath of the Divine. (What is God; the breath withing the breath." Kabir)

We all can have a a tiny roll in sustaining the Creator's Breath/Spirit which is also,

Vibration, and the subtle 'Sound' that animates the totality.

Pranayama (the science of breath) can move energy from the lower to the higher chakras

and enhance our vibration.

Pranayama is one of the Eight Limbs of the Yoga path.

Ujjayi breath has its own "ocean" like sound and can easily induce a

parasympathetic, relaxed state - subordinating our sympathetic stress responses.

Alternative Nostril breathing can do the same.

(There are You Tube videos that make these easy to learn.)

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

- YAM

5th - the chakra of creative expression -

becoming all of who we can be as creative beings - HAM

6th chakra - AUM

- our intuitive chakra of tuning in beyond the five senses. This is highly developed

in indigenous medicine wo/men and facilitated by sound -

drumming, chanting, clapping, singing, didgeridoo etc ...

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

- OM

Tibetan Bowls are crafted from a multi-metal alloy and can 

produce complex, harmonic frequencies.

They can open up the chakras, especially the lower ones, and can induce meditative states.

Crystal bowls are made of crushes quartz and can be designed to tune

each respective chakra

especially the higher ones. They emit clear, singular and sustained tones.

In the next blog we will discuss how the right sound can move the feminine, Kundalini,

serpent power at the base of the spine - potential spiritual energy and vibration.

In indigenous cultures, this is not so much for enlightenment, as in yoga

but for trancing, gaining information as well as healing power from the Field

- in order to help and heal others.