Symphony of Spirit
Transformation Through Sound, Thought, Performance
It is said that of all spiritual practices, hearing sacred sound vibration is the most essential.
Spiritual sound - either heard or read - can be very powerful and positively transformative.
Sacred sounds are vibrations that can reveal holy presence within and without, and spark internal revelation from the core of one's heart.
Sacred sound carries a vibrational resonance which can strike a chord in one's spiritual essence.
Like awakening in the dead of night to the sound of a charming flute being played far in the distance, the bliss of eternal spiritual reality can be consciously received and experienced, through sound vibration. Even if the source of that energetic transfer of sound is not seen with material vision, or causally determined/pinpointed, that sound carries a vibrational message. This is especially true with sound coming from spiritual Source (Godhead/Creator) to a spiritual outpost (into the hearts of a somewhat separated, conscious, spiritual beings like you and I, in this world) How does this work? Call it a type of spiritual connection or entanglement, similar to the idea of quantum entanglement - wherein two electrons once in proximity, instantly reflect any change in one, is seen in the other, no matter how far the distance have become between them.
How does that work? Holy texts reveal that the subtext of all matter, is spirit. Spiritual source, is conscious, and unlimited; it expands and contracts material manifestation by it's own laws. Spirit permeates everything as the invisible background, connecting, moving and holding the universe in it's various patterns.
We, as conscious individuals, are part and parcel of that spiritual energy. As such, if the Source/Godhead/Creator of both matter and spirit wants to resonate with any part of creation, it is instantly possible, due to the reality of one, single energy that connects the material and spiritual realms. Such potential always exists, but each individual must voluntarily choose to open that option of receiving and giving energy on the spiritual platform.
Sacred sound vibration chimes in one's heart and consciousness as a clarion call; to awaken and shake off all dream-like conceptions of self-as-matter, in order to embrace one's sovereign spiritual birthright. One's forgotten identity of pure spiritual consciousness, is a portion of the absolute truth; a fragmental portion of the divine source/Godhead, from which everything emanate. Each individual spirit, is like an individual photo of light coming from the sun - but with a purpose. We are meant not only to shine, but to exchange love with Godhead/Source/Creator, as a reason for being - to expand unconditional love.
Having forgotten one's eternal purpose and intimate connection to God/Source, one en-caged in a material body only sees things in terms of "I" and "mine", under the spell of temporary illusion. The materially conditioned soul is willing to fight and die for the pleasures and attachments to the body and it's particular sex, family, race, society, religion, country, and other self-designations - all of which pertain only to the present material body - which is bound to eventually die. The covered spirit is unaware that a future body is being arranged by the agency of material nature, determined by the good and bad actions and desires played out in one's present life. The laws of material nature are impartial but strict, as designed by Creator/Source. Those laws contain both justice and mercy, and are applied according to the free will choices of each person.
If one is open to receiving a divine restitution of a forgotten eternal reality - of love without limits, sacred sound can penetrate the core of any of use, who are now mostly covered by a false material ego with it's illusory attachments. Sacred sound helps to reveal there is a higher love, which can be naturally experienced, by transferring one's attachments from the material theater to the eternal symphony of spirit wherein everyone can play the part of their choice - and be an instrument and voice of love.
Material science informs that everything we experience is energy - composed and identified by a signature frequency and vibration. Spiritual science, in it's holy texts such as Bhagavad Gita agrees with this conclusion - but says that's only part of a bigger picture and cosmic truth.
The Gita describes not one, but two types of energy that eternally exist. One is material, which can be measured to certain degree. But measuring this energy is not easy, considering it's transformational stages of creation and destruction and creation again. What science knows for sure, just about this planet earth is very limited - what to speak of the greater cosmos.
The other ontological category of energy is defined as purely spiritual energy - non-material energy from a single energetic source/Godhead. This conscious, divine source, being an absolute truth from which all other relative and eternal truths emanate from.
Somewhat inconceivably, since matter and spirit are from the same unified source, matter has a hidden tinge of spirit embedded in it, due to a shared origin. The comparison is like heat and light, both coming from the sun. For those with spiritual vision, matter is in a way non-different from spirit, due to matter only coming into existence, due to a spiritual design and purpose.
It is because of this divine link, that unconscious matter can sometimes trigger a spiritual (conscious) response in one's non-material awareness - such as in the case of music.
Music might be tracked in terms of a materially measurable frequency and vibration, but the impact music may have on one's consciousness, cannot be always tied to those same metrics. One's consciousness, which in spiritual circles is considered to be a symptoms of one's spiritual existence (matter is not personally conscious) is something science is baffled by.
What and where personal consciousness actually is, and comes from, is a mystery. It is also a known reality, because all living beings experience it, on different levels. Every scientist has used personal consciousness for their own analysis and conclusions, not actually knowing what consciousness really is, and how it might be connected to the source of their existence and the existential reality they are trying to decode/understand.
Sacred texts, as a transmission from source, decribe a Source/Godhead/Creator, from which the material energy is created and controlled through all of its stages of manifestation and dissolution and re-manifestation. Because source/spirit is connected throughout and beyond time and space, transmissions can flow from source to anyone; as conscious spiritual beings, we are both receivers and transmitters. As one revives and remember one's spiritual essence and sovereignty, the influence of one's material conditioning becomes less, and the flow transmission from spirit becomes stronger.
This transmission can happen, almost inconceivably, because All-pervading, All-conscious spirit sits next to each soul in the region of the heart, as friend and guide - listening and speaking.
Awareness of this individually of both God and self, corresponds to one's eagerness to re-tune and respond to sacred sound being broadcast from within and without. The message is one, but the channels may differ; the message is love, and the scales may vary. Regardless each individual plays their own part in the symphony of spirit - but generally no one get a chair in the orchestra without discipline and practice. One has to be willing to study and apply proven methods. Like practicing scales on an instrument, over time and mastering fundamentals, one can effortlessly play the sheet music or improvise, or joyfully jam in harmony with others.
Universal source, present next to each soul within, can be known gradually, by one whose consciousness has transcended matter through knowledge, divine grace and mercy and realized by subjective experience.
Although the symptoms of invisible spirit are everywhere if looking through a spiritual paradigm, consciousness can develop a step further by understanding there is conscious, spiritual energy that permeates and connects all things - even which is considered as non-conscious material energy. It is those same material energies which science does it's best to measure and find an origin story for, but is confounded by. Saying a chunk of matter appeared from nowhere, and suddenly exploded into something extremely ordered and sophisticated...um, yeah, ok, maybe?
As extremely tiny beings in this vast, single universe we attempt to see and make sense of, (just one of many other universes possibly out there somewhere?) some things might well be inconceivable - considering one's limited bandwidth of conceptual expertise and practical understanding. But do we have to know "everything" to have a progressively joyous life experience? Or is it enough to know that in an ocean of possibilities and various truths, that actually reconnecting to the source of all truth and happiness - during one's own subjective evolution of conscious awareness - might just be even more than enough to consider one's spend time on earth, as a grand success? More than enough, meaning success in this life, and the next!
Hearing holy texts, names of the Supreme, reading - listening/dancing to music are especially powerful, when it comes to transformation of one's conscious state and outlook.
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything” – Plato
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent” – William Shakespear
Sacred texts and information passed down by realized sages and saints are sources of such transcendent sound, in the form of the written word as well as musical vibration/meditation.
In one sense, one's life is a meditation in progress. It is how one chooses to focus consciousness in each moment, which plays a creative role in manifesting one's future, present moments.
Sounds of all types and forms, can trigger immediate resonance in one's consciousness on emotional, intellectual and even transcendent levels.
Is it any wonder that heartfelt words and music have been variously used throughout time to woo a lover, move the masses in a patriotic march, or to supplicate the Supreme through meditative prayers, loving hymns and soulful musical offerings?
East, West, and Universal Oneness
The sun seen in America or Europe, is the same sun seen in India and China. The sun gives brilliant, pure light to all, although each viewer perceives light through their own conditioning.
When the light of pure knowledge enters the heart, false-ego filters dissolve allowing the heart and soul beat in unity.
Sound vibration embedded with holy resonance and information is a gift in this age, for rapid realization of one's loving relationship with God/Source/Universal consciousness.
The sun seen in America or Europe, is the same sun seen in India and China. The sun gives brilliant, pure light to all, although each viewer perceives light through their own conditioning.
When the light of pure knowledge enters the heart, false-ego filters dissolve allowing the heart and soul beat in unity.
Sound vibration embedded with holy resonance and information is a gift in this age, for rapid realization of one's loving relationship with God/Source/Universal consciousness.
Is Heaven 10 Zillion Light Years Away?
Sources indicate that heaven and more, can be accessed through the heart, where Source/God also resides within, side by side with each soul, as the witness, friend, and giver of blessings.
Sources indicate that heaven and more, can be accessed through the heart, where Source/God also resides within, side by side with each soul, as the witness, friend, and giver of blessings.
Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away
"Where is your God? my friends ask me.. "He lives inside of me..one day I opened my heart, and I could feel it, I could feel His spirit"
"Where is your God? my friends ask me.. "He lives inside of me..one day I opened my heart, and I could feel it, I could feel His spirit"
Transcendent Sound
Even without understanding the language of holy sound, it's power can still open the heart. If one deeply and peacefully listens, keeping mental conditioned filters at bay, one can feel an effect.
Even without understanding the language of holy sound, it's power can still open the heart. If one deeply and peacefully listens, keeping mental conditioned filters at bay, one can feel an effect.
Just as a radio correspondent can broadcast information from a distant venue, saints with purified hearts as receivers, can download then broadcast news of spiritual dimensions, having been deeply re-connected with the Source of all levels of reality, from within. One doesn't have to be a saint to experience this process, if one is willing to open the channels of one's heart.
In a world where checks and balances are needed, it is seen that a common thread is woven through all genuine scriptures, saints and guides - that loving service to a loving and reciprocating Source, is the essence of all religious, philosophical, and spiritual truth; that the eternal constitutional position of each conscious being, is to express and receive pure love.
THE WAY IS THROUGH LOVE EXCHANGED
It is through sacred sound which resonates positively in one's body, mind and heart, which gives confirmation of a consciously heard message of love, and the inspiration to lovingly reciprocate.
Sound can enter one's consciousness through the ear as a physical vibration, through the eyes as written word symbols "heard" in the mind, or from within the heart as an internal directive of revealed information.
Universal Source is always broadcasting signals through various mediums, including nature and those in the world around us. Usually one must be willfully ready and actively seeking such a sacred download. In other cases, Divine universal grace independently decides to descend.
In either case, a channel of divine communication is opened, which ends one's separation from Source and is the beginning of reconnecting on progressively deeper levels of love, truth and beauty.
In a world where checks and balances are needed, it is seen that a common thread is woven through all genuine scriptures, saints and guides - that loving service to a loving and reciprocating Source, is the essence of all religious, philosophical, and spiritual truth; that the eternal constitutional position of each conscious being, is to express and receive pure love.
THE WAY IS THROUGH LOVE EXCHANGED
It is through sacred sound which resonates positively in one's body, mind and heart, which gives confirmation of a consciously heard message of love, and the inspiration to lovingly reciprocate.
Sound can enter one's consciousness through the ear as a physical vibration, through the eyes as written word symbols "heard" in the mind, or from within the heart as an internal directive of revealed information.
Universal Source is always broadcasting signals through various mediums, including nature and those in the world around us. Usually one must be willfully ready and actively seeking such a sacred download. In other cases, Divine universal grace independently decides to descend.
In either case, a channel of divine communication is opened, which ends one's separation from Source and is the beginning of reconnecting on progressively deeper levels of love, truth and beauty.
"Love" by Kid Cudi
"Don't be down, c'mon young homie, you'll be okay; you'll find real love, in all of the stories the hero gets lonely,
now is the time to show what you're made of"
"Don't be down, c'mon young homie, you'll be okay; you'll find real love, in all of the stories the hero gets lonely,
now is the time to show what you're made of"
Again, one may wonder how to determine what is the "right" source of sound information while one is under attack daily by the constant babble of non-Source advertisements and pitches of all media types, which are vying for one's exclusive attention and brand loyalty.
What is "right" for each person, is a matter of personal discovery as one journeys through life; a journey where every one step taken consciously towards outreach to the Divine, Divinity takes ten steps towards the individual seeking loving reciprocation.
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What is "right" for each person, is a matter of personal discovery as one journeys through life; a journey where every one step taken consciously towards outreach to the Divine, Divinity takes ten steps towards the individual seeking loving reciprocation.
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The Soundtrack Of One's Personal Universe
Ode To Joy
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Our Common, Yet Uncommon Journey
In 1949 Joseph Campbell published "The Hero's Journey of 1000 Faces" as a result of researching cross-cultural narratives describing the epic journey of the heroic human spirit, and noted:
'A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.'
Our Common, Yet Uncommon Journey
In 1949 Joseph Campbell published "The Hero's Journey of 1000 Faces" as a result of researching cross-cultural narratives describing the epic journey of the heroic human spirit, and noted:
'A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.'
It is in this mood of sharing the boons of wisdom and guidance from those heroes who have traversed the journey from darkness to light, that we make this offering of love and service to the reader..
A Symphony of Spirit
A symphony orchestra embodies the concept of unity in diversity where individuals harmonize personal performances for the greater good. It serves as a model for a higher reality where as equal members of one spiritual tribe, we all have something of great value to offer - by playing our personal instrument devotedly and lovingly as an offering in our conscious universe and to, the Supreme Source / God / Maestro of universal energy and love.
A symphony orchestra embodies the concept of unity in diversity where individuals harmonize personal performances for the greater good. It serves as a model for a higher reality where as equal members of one spiritual tribe, we all have something of great value to offer - by playing our personal instrument devotedly and lovingly as an offering in our conscious universe and to, the Supreme Source / God / Maestro of universal energy and love.
SOS draws from modern wisdom, plus ancient sources of knowledge and clarity which are non-sectarian and uplifting. Whether Western or Eastern in origin, knowledge is knowledge and is self-harmonizing.
Five thousand years ago in India, the wisdom of holistic transcendence through sound vibration - written, spoken and musical - was preserved on palm leaves and passed down from teacher to pupil, from one generation to the next, with it's lineage still intact.
Over time, other cultures and traditions have also contributed greatly to the spiritual journey of earth's evolving passenger list - the framework is not as important as the end result of increasing one's love for the Supreme, which includes everything and everyone, as seen with spiritual vision.
500 years ago, while Europe was experiencing a cultural and artistic renaissance, India was in the midst of a revolutionary spiritual renaissance as well, the impact of which has slowly but surely been spreading throughout the rest of the world.
Emerging from that renaissance was a clearer revelation that all life is connected - and although all life is one in spiritual quality, each individual simultaneously and personally has an important part to play in the role of expressing and receiving divine love - a mission that defines us all.
A Mysterious and Scientific Wave of Love
Science has observed that light sometimes acts as a wave, and sometimes acts as a particle as it travels through space-time.
In a similar way, each soul as a particle/spark of the Supreme Spirit, simultaneously exists in a wave of oneness; non-dual energy. Flawlessly connected to God/Source yet simultaneously each fragmentary soul/light particle eternally exists individually, purposefully, for expanding love.
I hope you will enjoy this musically supported spiritual journey back home, back to Godhead, to the spiritual realm where every word is song, every step is a dance and where time is conspicuous by it's absence.
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Saints and sages of many traditions have revealed that by means of consciously evolved, pure-hearted spiritual vision, one will not only experience the presence of God with the heart as a loving friend and guide, but will also respectfully understand the divine essence in everything and everyone with humble grace and supremely satisfying vision of ultimate reality.
Not limiting revelation of spirit and God to only small audiences in the distant past, it can be asserted that Divinity is eternally on tour and can always be heard in the theater of the heart - the price of admission is one's eager desire or at least curiosity to hear the transcendent concert which is constantly playing within and without.