MUSICS SPIRITUAL POWER
THE ORIGINS OF ACCESSING "SPIRIT" #7
AFRICAN
(especially Sub Saharan)
(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.
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.
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.
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.
“ 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.
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)
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.
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.
Mix - gayatri mantra - Deva Premal 432hz YouTube •
This is three hours long but you can get a taste of it.
Tibetan Monks Chanting | Singing Bowls - YouTube
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
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.
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