The Role of Music in the search for spiritual path
Today's spiritual seekers daily bread is meditation, which is not only able to resolve the internal chaos, or strengthen the physical and mental health, but also broadens the knowledge, perception, cognition and fantasy boundaries. One of the best assistants is music.
Yes, in general, the music, the enigmatic origin of space-time, which is probably obtained from the ancient explosion (big boom). The resulting multi-billion years of the most sonorous sounds convey to us who have received the Talent of Genesis, the universe’s susceptibility donation.
As an absolute fan of music, I have listened to a wide range of genres for many decades. I’ve been meditating regularly for eight years now, and I realized that not only "spiritual music" and sounds are capable of being companions to meditation, also music which wasn’t made for this purpose, but their creator’s inspiration makes them perfectly capable of the experience of immersion.
During my meditation I regularly choose alternates between the "classical meditation music" - OM, Tibetan gongs, Sri Chinmoy and Pandit Ravi Shankar's music - and the 'secular', I hear different messages while listening to them even if I’ve heard it a thousand times. They do not have to be "relaxing", the important thing is that none of the notes get lost in it for us while listening. It is obvious that music has infinite variation of possibilities, since we are all from other material and spirit and everyone feels different music appeals to them.
What music is this? Just a few examples from my own experience: a few from Jimi Hendrix (especially 3rd Stone From The Sun, 1983), Neil Young's soundtrack from, Dead People (human existence, life and death conflict between echoes) Pink Floyd's long-winded composition (Interstellar Overdrive, Saucerful of Secrets, Echoes, Set the Controls to The Heart Of the Sun, Atom Heart Mother), or the Grateful Dead Dark Star, which, even in the contemporary rock press wrote that " it sounds in humans, as long as they feel it."
But, just as important are the 20th century classics, Bartok (for me, especially music’s percussion and stringed instruments, the Miraculous Mandarin and the piano concertos), Stravinsky (especially the Firebird), Erik Satie (the Gnossiennes and Gymnopedies). From modern jazz Miles Davis, for the outside viewer it is often unbearably chaotic, but one universal harmonious flow is John Coltrane, Mahavishnu John McLaughlin (of Mahavishnu Orchestra, both individually and Shaktival) east-west cross winding roads, or modestly sensitive saxophonist Jan Garbarek-races. From contemporary repetitive music an essential is Philip Glass (especially Koyaanisqatsi), or from rock within the same trend, several pieces from King Crimson, especially the Larks Tongues in Aspics and Starless. They bring me peace of mind not only internally, but also stimulate my creative mood. My thoughts are often taken to the surface about myself and about the world, which is surprising even to me.
