Post by WalksInSpirit on Mar 30, 2006 16:50:28 GMT -5
Thursday Afternoon Chat: 03-30-06
Music As The Bridge Series: Lesson One: "Music As The Bridge"
(02:28:11) (WalksInSpirit) Maruawe Everybody! Sorry I'm running late!
(02:30:40) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Today, we are starting a series I am very excited about. It’s called “Music As The Bridge.”
(02:31:05) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It’s based on the “music” Readings given by Edgar Cayce, compiled into a book by the same name – “Music As The Bridge” by Shirley Rabb Winston.
(02:31:50) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The examples given in the following material will show us just what a powerful force music truly is, and how we can use it as the bridge.
(02:32:14) (Host-WalksInSpirit) As Cayce said in Reading 3659-1: “Music alone may span that space between the finite and the infinite.”
(02:33:17) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Let’s begin our journey across the bridge…
(02:33:34) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Lesson One: “Music As The Bridge”
(02:33:35) (Leon) ok Walks
(02:33:58) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It would seem that there was never a time when music did not exist, and when the fundamental urges and feelings of man were not expressed through it. But even without man’s participation, music fills the earth.
(02:34:29) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Think for a moment, of the music of the waves upon the shore, of the morning as it breaks with the music of nature, of the night as it falls with the hum of the insects, of all the kingdoms as they unite in their song of appreciation to an all-creative influence that gives nature consciousness or awareness of its being itself.
(02:34:41) (Host-WalksInSpirit) And harmonize that in thine own appreciation, as to bring music akin to the song of the spheres.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 2581-2
(02:35:27) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It is indicated in many of the Cayce Readings that the way to mental, physical, and spiritual harmony is found in the vibrations of music.
(02:35:45) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Tones and sounds will be the channel through which the coordinating of forces for the body may make for the first of the perfect reactions…” – Edgar Cayce Reading 758-38
(02:36:26) (Host-WalksInSpirit) There are specific suggestions given to show how music may be applied in a practical way to our complex lives.
(02:36:50) (Host-WalksInSpirit) For many years there has been the application of music therapy in mental illness, but never to a physical, non-psychosomatic illness. The Cayce Readings say that this, too, would yield to musical influence. One reading indicated that music lessons would revitalize the atomic structure of the body.
(02:37:25) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Do give the entity, then, a background of not too formal a nature, but the musical education, that there may be the better vibrations in the keeping of the anatomical structures in the body for its health's sake.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 5263-1
(02:37:58) (Host-WalksInSpirit) We often tend to believe that music-making is for the talented and that others are eternally consigned to seats in the audience. The Readings tell us a different story:
(02:38:19) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Do learn music. It is part of the beauty of the spirit… In the harmony of sound, the harmony of color, even the harmony of motion itself, its beauty is all akin to that expression of the soul-self in the harmony of the mind, if used properly in relationship to body.
(02:38:30) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Not that music is to be made the greater portion of thy life, but let much of thy life be controlled by the same harmony that is in the best music, yea and the worst also; for it, too, has its place.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 3659-1
(02:39:25) (Host-WalksInSpirit) One of the books which Cayce recommended as an accurate source of information about the function of the unconscious mind on the psychic level is “The Law Of Psychic Phenomena” by Thomas Jay Hudson:
(02:39:53) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Music belongs to the realm of the subjective; it is a passion of the human soul, and it may be safely affirmed that all really good music is the direct product of the subjective mind. It is true that there is much so-called music to be heard which is the product of the objective intelligence.
(02:40:27) (Host-WalksInSpirit) But no one can fail to recognize it’s origin, from it’s hard, mechanical, soulless character and quality. It bears the same relation to the product of the subjective mind that mere rhyme does to the poetry of a Milton. Music is at once the legitimate offspring of the subjective mind and one of the most potent means of inducing the subjective condition.
(02:45:03) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It is a well-known practice of so-called “spiritual mediums” to have music at their séances for the ostensible purpose of securing the “harmonious conditions” necessary to insure a successful performance. Their theory is that music harmonizes the audiences, and that by a reflex action, the medium is favorably affected.
(02:45:37) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It is probable that such would be the effect to a limited extent, but the greatest effect is direct and positive upon the medium.
(02:46:00) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The East Indian fakirs invariably invoke the aid of music to enable them to enter the subjective state when they are about to give an exhibition of occult power. In fact, the power of music over the subjective mind is practically unlimited.
(02:46:45) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It speaks the universal language of the soul, and is comprehended alike by prince and by peasant. It is the most powerful auxiliary of love, of religion, and of war. It nerves the soldier to deeds of heroism, and soothes his dying moments. It inspires alike the devotee of pleasure and the worshipper of God.
(02:47:14) (Host-WalksInSpirit) But whilst it interprets every human emotion and embodies the inward feelings of which all other arts can but exhibit the outward effect, it’s laws are as fixed and immutable as the laws of mathematics.”
(02:47:42) (Host-WalksInSpirit) One application of this immutable law is the use of music as a bridge between the states of consciousness:
(02:47:59) (karen) would this e te same as chanting or toning as to raise the blocks in pyramid building.
(02:48:26) (Host-WalksInSpirit) I think so, Karen.
(02:48:49) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “As has been indicated, music becomes to the entity a means of expression that bridges much of that which may bring beauty and harmony into the experience of the entity; and it is then one of the channels in which and through which the entity may bring to self much of the beauty and harmony that has been lost by the turmoils of the minds of men about the entity.
(02:49:05) (Host-WalksInSpirit) For they take hold upon the ways of the world, and He hath given that the WORLD cannot know - it is not ready; only those who listen to that voice within where He hath promised to meet those who know the beauties of the more abundant life.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 412-9
(02:49:44) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It eases the change and makes it possible to direct, by conscious will, the desired attitude. A good example is the lullaby which is a musical bridge between the waking state and the sleeping state. It is the focal point of the mind on a repetitive sound, which, by preconditioning, means sleep.
(02:50:14) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Chopin’s works were the depicting of only here and there the nocturne or the sleepy feeling, this can be to the entity turned into the rhythm of life itself.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 949-13
(02:51:09) (Host-WalksInSpirit) There is a direct application to the home situation. The anxiety of chores may block the easy flow of energy and music may be used as a bridge to change the tensions of anxiety into creative energy.
(02:51:39) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “For in the home is the music of what? As indicated, it is an emblem of the heavenly home. And as these are made into the harmonious experiences that may come in the associations, they may bring indeed the music of the spheres in the activities as one with another, and those that must be contacted in the highest of man's achievement in the earth - the HOME!” – Edgar Cayce Reading 480-20
(02:52:20) (Host-WalksInSpirit) This reading surely places the homemaker at the head of the of those who contribute to the glory of God on earth. There is music which not only may contribute to the harmony of the home, but to the activity and maintenance. The housework flies to a fast moving, full symphony playing the “William Tell Overture.”
(02:52:27) (karen) oooooommmmmmmmmm *********
(02:52:59) (Host-WalksInSpirit) This can produce the stimulation to accomplish twice as much housework as if we work under our own “steam.” Music can also aid our attitude about the job we must do, and the very attitude we hold while working contributes to the overall vibrations of our homes.
(02:53:22) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “…each home, each hall, each edifice, has - and there is felt the vibration of such a place. Some are in harmony, some are at disharmony. Music is harmony or disharmony. As this is brought in thought by or through music, such may be attuned - and thus used as the channel, the means of approach to that necessary for individual conditions.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 2881-3
(02:53:27) (diane) i listen to reggae when i do housework. lol
(02:53:33) (Host-WalksInSpirit) LOL Diane
(02:53:50) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Well, Cayce said all music has it's value!
(02:54:00) (Host-WalksInSpirit) I agree with him!
(02:54:09) (diane) it make me feel fine!
(02:54:23) (Host-WalksInSpirit) LOL
(02:54:34) (Host-WalksInSpirit) One of the more interesting occasions in which to work out an applied musical routine was a teachers’ course for Head Start in Greensboro, North Carolina. Following the same schedule each day with special tunes at specified times the children became conditioned to a change of activities. The confusion accompanying changes was almost completely eliminated.
(02:55:11) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The reason Head Start, or any other pre-school training, is to give the child the opportunity to become aware of his identity and to set up success situations in relation to personal endeavor, as well as in competition. A child must learn to work and play with others, but even more important is the “built in” pattern of success which relates only to himself.
(02:55:34) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Within a musically oriented day, there are many opportunities for the children to be exposed to success situations.
(02:55:53) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It is not necessary for the teacher to be a musician. She need not play or read music. The only necessary element is a willingness to sing. To a child, his teacher is the diva of all times, so no teacher need be shy about the quality or range of her voice.
(02:56:05) (diane) yes, musical cues for transitional activities work wonders
(02:56:48) (diane) it's strange , but the room could be in chaos, and it i'd just sit there and sing
(02:56:52) (Host-WalksInSpirit) I had no idea the influence music has on kids till I read this, and I thought back to how peaceful I was at music lessons. :-)
(02:57:05) (diane) they'd all calm down and wander over to listen. lol
(02:57:11) (Host-WalksInSpirit) LOL
(02:57:43) (diane) try it in the car with little ones on a long trip!
(02:58:02) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The rest of my childhood may have stunk, but that one hour a week was Heaven!
(02:58:14) (karen) and how about animals Wis , they also are drawn to soothing music
(02:58:32) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Yep, they sure are, Karen. Buster loves it!
(02:58:52) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Do attempt to bring greater harmonies into the experience through the practice and through the application of self in making music. Even though it may be only on a comb or on glasses or on bells, on a harp, violin or a piano, MAKE MUSIC!” - Edgar Cayce Reading 5201-1
(02:59:02) (diane) karen...were you the chatter who ordered the special "pipes"? musical ones?
(02:59:27) (karen) no diane
(02:59:32) (diane) ok
(02:59:42) (Host-WalksInSpirit) A “good morning” song gives the teacher and the children a chance to greet each other in an orderly and happy way. The teacher should use what she knows and make up the rest – literally “play it by ear.” This is an important factor among Head Starters and it gives the child his first opportunity of the day to relate to his own identity. It may be chanted as his coat is being hung up and as he takes his place in the circle of chairs.
(03:00:00) (diane) yep
(03:00:14) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Each activity of the day may be introduced with a song. The teacher can make up her own words to popular tunes or television commercials which all of the children know. If she will start humming the tune for the next activity before she tells the children to get ready for the change, they will soon sing it with her and start the desired activity without direction.
(03:00:42) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Music is a must as a bridge between very active play and quiet table work.
(03:01:24) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Surrounding the body there should be those things that pertain to music, rhythm, harmony, peace, undisturbed reaction, or those things that appeal to the imaginative forces of the body - without too great a disturbance in the fire elements of emotion - will make for much more calm and normal reactions.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 758-37
(03:01:57) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Energy built up in the play yard may be brought down by degrees frustrating either the teacher or the children. One method of effecting a transition is to allow the children to march around their chairs to a tune which gradually decreases tempo. The reverse can develop a more controlled recess period.
(03:02:09) (Host-WalksInSpirit) When the children are brought up to an active state in an orderly manner in which they are exercising control, the transition to the play yard is less frantic.
(03:02:10) (karen) would the rythmn of poetry also be considered as musical
(03:02:49) (Host-WalksInSpirit) I would think so, Karen. I always say... a song is just a letter or a poem set to music.
(03:03:12) (Host-WalksInSpirit) If you can write a letter or a poem, you can write a song.
(03:03:40) (Host-WalksInSpirit) There is a most relevant application of music to industry. It is important that music used in factories be timed to the movement of the machinery. A bridge is needed in order to harmonize the pulse between worker and machinery, for every object which moves in repetition has its own rhythm.
(03:04:11) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The introduction of a different tempo causes discord in the pulsation. There are also muscular rhythms to repeated action which should be taken into account.
(03:04:55) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “As has been so oft demonstrated and indicated, EVERY activity must be TIMED; which is the harmony or the rhythm of music itself - whether in the preparation for a shooting of a set, or a portion of a scene, or the timing necessary for the stroke of the oar or the stroke of golf or tennis or baseball, or the step necessary in the cycling of the body for expressions to others, in conversation or in writing of any nature.
(03:05:11) (Host-WalksInSpirit) And the material expression becomes, "It is timely."” – Edgar Cayce Reading 949-13
(03:05:38) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “…see the rhythm in the activities of every nature; whether in viewing the scrubwoman or the artist in giving expression - see the timing of same necessary to make the activity VALUABLE and of a SPIRITUAL nature in its essence!” – Edgar Cayce Reading 949-13
(03:06:06) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It may seem as if we are dealing with two rhythmic patterns, mechanized and kinesthetic. But actually, the movement of the machinery dictates the muscular process. The smoothness of the movement is directly related to the efficiency and speed of production.
(03:06:31) (Host-WalksInSpirit) A flowing melody above a compatible rhythmic pattern should be selected. A variation in the speed of the machinery, and of course the accompanying music, assists in keeping workers alert.
(03:06:46) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Then to enable all to see in their labors, by the very overflow of the abilities of the entity in setting same to music, becomes a helpful influence - and the ability to make all force of a spiritual nature for that of mental and spiritual development.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 949-13
(03:07:06) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Every employee in a mechanized plant is affected by the rhythm of the machinery. When it is within hearing distance this is easily understood, but the more subtle vibrations are still picked up by the human mechanism at a distance and still reach the nerves, causing tensions and perhaps tempers. A change in speed will break these patterns.
(03:08:22) (Host-WalksInSpirit) This is true. I used to work in a furniture factory, and I'd get "in rhythm" with the saw, sander, and lathe.
(03:09:22) (Host-WalksInSpirit) In offices where there are no repetitious rhythmic patterns set by machinery, background music may make for harmonious working conditions. Obviously, the nature of the work in the office dictates both use and selection since the music should not compete for the attention of the listeners.
(03:09:35) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Every activity of human experience may be set to music… and keeping that of the SPIRIT of the activity rather than the DRUDGERY…” – Edgar Cayce Reading 949-13
(03:10:02) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “See music in the activity of every group, every figure the representation of a phase of human experience, human endeavor - whether it be in the material activities of life from the viewpoint of the laborer, the scrubwoman, or the executive in high places - that may be set to music in such ways and manners as to give and lend encouragement and bring hope and faith in the BETTERMENT of such relationships, such activities in the lives and experiences of individuals.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 949-13
(03:10:45) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Chants used in relation to meditation illustrate the same law of the bridge applied to ones self.
(03:11:12) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Do learn music. It is part of the beauty of the spirit. For remember, music alone may span that space between the finite and the infinite. In the harmony of sound, the harmony of color, even the harmony of motion itself, its beauty is all akin to that expression of the soul-self in the harmony of the mind, if used properly in relationship to body.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 3659-1
(03:11:19) (Qrious) so you could do the humpty dumpty chant.. and do a self healing? lol
(03:11:54) (Host-WalksInSpirit) If that's what cranks your tractor, Qrious!
(03:12:03) (karen) a bridge as sorts from source to source
(03:12:19) (Qrious) does it says how to use the body properly with harmony Blu?
(03:12:38) (Host-WalksInSpirit) I already know that. ;-) LOL
(03:12:58) (Qrious) lol.. thats funny.. crank your tractor.. gotta remember that one.
(03:13:01) (Host-WalksInSpirit) A bridge from the finite to the infinite. :-)
(03:13:16) (diane) i prefer automatic ignition. lol
(03:13:54) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Not that music is to be made the greater portion of thy life, but let much of thy life be controlled by the same harmony that is in the best music, yea and the worst also; for it, too, has its place.
(03:14:06) (Host-WalksInSpirit) But cling to that which may be experienced by listening and watching a mother sing the lullaby of Brahms, and it will mean much throughout thy life. Catch something of the note that is indicated in the love and in the emotion of the body as it may sing the song of songs, or the pure true notes of 'the songs my mother sang to me.'” – Edgar Cayce Reading 3659-1
(03:14:39) (Qrious) the worst music.. has a place.. well.. maybe as an irritant..
(03:14:44) (Host-WalksInSpirit) We use chants to make a transition from the attention centered on the finite to the infinite or from this world to “My Kingdom” within, as the Master Jesus expressed it. The vowel sounds in chants help us to differentiate the outer world results, which we perceive with the five senses, from the inner world of our own being, which is the true causal world.
(03:15:30) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The Edgar Cayce Readings repeat over and over that “mind is ever the builder.” Spirit is the cause, mind is the builder, and the physical is that which is built, or the result.
(03:16:06) (Qrious) Hawaiian kahunas speak chants in a melodious way to tune in.. at least thats what I learned.
(03:16:12) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “In music the entity finds MUCH solace, MUCH that bridges those distances - whether of the mental or of the spiritual forces. In same the attunement of self may be brought the nearest to the applications of the innate FORCES of self, and to the ENTITY the strains of same [music] - whether in that of the deep vibrations, of those that raise up and up - or those of the higher chords that bind - carry for the entity the ATTUNEMENT of self in the sphere or element, or PHASE of experience the entity seeks apace.
(03:16:50) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Well were THIS developed to a more acuteness IN this PRESENT experience, for the acumen of experience to the entity is gained MUCH more in a manner that may become concrete ensamples of the attunement of a soul with the heavenly, or the happy, choir.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 115-1
(03:17:08) (Qrious) so higher chords bind.. then the lower must loosen.. would you say so ron.. I really am guessing.
(03:17:09) (Host-WalksInSpirit) My People too, Qrious. :-)
(03:17:30) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Some very important conclusions may be drawn from the readings on music, which, if applied, can restore harmony, balance, and creativity to the soul, mind, and body.
(03:17:32) (ron) try a laxative
(03:17:50) (Qrious) ouch. ron.. lol
(03:18:04) (Host-WalksInSpirit) This concludes Lesson One: "Music As The Bridge"
(03:18:07) (ron) having a little fun with words :)
(03:18:24) (karen) i would think that the higher chords would be freedom
(03:18:36) (diane) Great topic and presentation, WIS! ty
(03:18:43) (Host-WalksInSpirit) I'll be posting a breakdown of each chakra and it's corresponding musical key also.
(03:18:47) (Leon) Thank you Walks
(03:19:14) (karen) wonderful and awe -inspiring material Wis
(03:19:19) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Thanks!
(03:19:20) (diane) Put me in the mood to go and do a little Karaoke. lol
(03:19:29) (Qrious) been to alot of Pow Wows.. and alot of deep drumming with melodious singing with higher pitches .. was riveting.
(03:19:43) (Host-WalksInSpirit) This will be a six-week series on "Music As the Bridge"
(03:20:02) (Qrious) do a yoddle song diane.. that oughta get ya tuned.. lol
(03:20:02) (karen) kooooolllll Wis
(03:20:35) (Qrious) I noticed each tribe had a different drum pace and song.. lots of them.
(03:21:06) (diane) J gave me a Bose radio once and if we have company, there's one station that provides the neatest background music. The whole mood of the place changes
(03:21:13) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Yep. I can tell just about what tribe is drumming just by their drum and songs.
(03:21:32) (Qrious) wow.. thats a good memory.. Walks.
(03:22:10) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Southern Plains - My People - have fast and thundering beats. Like the horses of a war party.
(03:22:26) (diane) A yoddle song, Q? .lol
(03:22:40) (Qrious) its a vocal sound diane.. lol
(03:22:41) (Host-WalksInSpirit) While the Southeastern Peoples have slower, lighter beats.
(03:23:06) (diane) you mean "yodel", like a Swiss miss?
(03:23:21) (Qrious) yep.. my dislectic spellin' .. lol
(03:23:47) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Those Bose radios are awesome, Diane
(03:23:48) (Qrious) the islanders all have different beats.. the Tahitians are the fastest..
(03:24:01) (diane) I sing "Boots" and Dock of a Bay. lol
(03:24:25) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The Bose company engineered the sound systems on the Space Shuttles for NASA
(02:30:40) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Today, we are starting a series I am very excited about. It’s called “Music As The Bridge.”
(02:31:05) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It’s based on the “music” Readings given by Edgar Cayce, compiled into a book by the same name – “Music As The Bridge” by Shirley Rabb Winston.
(02:31:50) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The examples given in the following material will show us just what a powerful force music truly is, and how we can use it as the bridge.
(02:32:14) (Host-WalksInSpirit) As Cayce said in Reading 3659-1: “Music alone may span that space between the finite and the infinite.”
(02:33:17) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Let’s begin our journey across the bridge…
(02:33:34) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Lesson One: “Music As The Bridge”
(02:33:35) (Leon) ok Walks
(02:33:58) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It would seem that there was never a time when music did not exist, and when the fundamental urges and feelings of man were not expressed through it. But even without man’s participation, music fills the earth.
(02:34:29) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Think for a moment, of the music of the waves upon the shore, of the morning as it breaks with the music of nature, of the night as it falls with the hum of the insects, of all the kingdoms as they unite in their song of appreciation to an all-creative influence that gives nature consciousness or awareness of its being itself.
(02:34:41) (Host-WalksInSpirit) And harmonize that in thine own appreciation, as to bring music akin to the song of the spheres.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 2581-2
(02:35:27) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It is indicated in many of the Cayce Readings that the way to mental, physical, and spiritual harmony is found in the vibrations of music.
(02:35:45) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Tones and sounds will be the channel through which the coordinating of forces for the body may make for the first of the perfect reactions…” – Edgar Cayce Reading 758-38
(02:36:26) (Host-WalksInSpirit) There are specific suggestions given to show how music may be applied in a practical way to our complex lives.
(02:36:50) (Host-WalksInSpirit) For many years there has been the application of music therapy in mental illness, but never to a physical, non-psychosomatic illness. The Cayce Readings say that this, too, would yield to musical influence. One reading indicated that music lessons would revitalize the atomic structure of the body.
(02:37:25) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Do give the entity, then, a background of not too formal a nature, but the musical education, that there may be the better vibrations in the keeping of the anatomical structures in the body for its health's sake.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 5263-1
(02:37:58) (Host-WalksInSpirit) We often tend to believe that music-making is for the talented and that others are eternally consigned to seats in the audience. The Readings tell us a different story:
(02:38:19) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Do learn music. It is part of the beauty of the spirit… In the harmony of sound, the harmony of color, even the harmony of motion itself, its beauty is all akin to that expression of the soul-self in the harmony of the mind, if used properly in relationship to body.
(02:38:30) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Not that music is to be made the greater portion of thy life, but let much of thy life be controlled by the same harmony that is in the best music, yea and the worst also; for it, too, has its place.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 3659-1
(02:39:25) (Host-WalksInSpirit) One of the books which Cayce recommended as an accurate source of information about the function of the unconscious mind on the psychic level is “The Law Of Psychic Phenomena” by Thomas Jay Hudson:
(02:39:53) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Music belongs to the realm of the subjective; it is a passion of the human soul, and it may be safely affirmed that all really good music is the direct product of the subjective mind. It is true that there is much so-called music to be heard which is the product of the objective intelligence.
(02:40:27) (Host-WalksInSpirit) But no one can fail to recognize it’s origin, from it’s hard, mechanical, soulless character and quality. It bears the same relation to the product of the subjective mind that mere rhyme does to the poetry of a Milton. Music is at once the legitimate offspring of the subjective mind and one of the most potent means of inducing the subjective condition.
(02:45:03) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It is a well-known practice of so-called “spiritual mediums” to have music at their séances for the ostensible purpose of securing the “harmonious conditions” necessary to insure a successful performance. Their theory is that music harmonizes the audiences, and that by a reflex action, the medium is favorably affected.
(02:45:37) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It is probable that such would be the effect to a limited extent, but the greatest effect is direct and positive upon the medium.
(02:46:00) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The East Indian fakirs invariably invoke the aid of music to enable them to enter the subjective state when they are about to give an exhibition of occult power. In fact, the power of music over the subjective mind is practically unlimited.
(02:46:45) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It speaks the universal language of the soul, and is comprehended alike by prince and by peasant. It is the most powerful auxiliary of love, of religion, and of war. It nerves the soldier to deeds of heroism, and soothes his dying moments. It inspires alike the devotee of pleasure and the worshipper of God.
(02:47:14) (Host-WalksInSpirit) But whilst it interprets every human emotion and embodies the inward feelings of which all other arts can but exhibit the outward effect, it’s laws are as fixed and immutable as the laws of mathematics.”
(02:47:42) (Host-WalksInSpirit) One application of this immutable law is the use of music as a bridge between the states of consciousness:
(02:47:59) (karen) would this e te same as chanting or toning as to raise the blocks in pyramid building.
(02:48:26) (Host-WalksInSpirit) I think so, Karen.
(02:48:49) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “As has been indicated, music becomes to the entity a means of expression that bridges much of that which may bring beauty and harmony into the experience of the entity; and it is then one of the channels in which and through which the entity may bring to self much of the beauty and harmony that has been lost by the turmoils of the minds of men about the entity.
(02:49:05) (Host-WalksInSpirit) For they take hold upon the ways of the world, and He hath given that the WORLD cannot know - it is not ready; only those who listen to that voice within where He hath promised to meet those who know the beauties of the more abundant life.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 412-9
(02:49:44) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It eases the change and makes it possible to direct, by conscious will, the desired attitude. A good example is the lullaby which is a musical bridge between the waking state and the sleeping state. It is the focal point of the mind on a repetitive sound, which, by preconditioning, means sleep.
(02:50:14) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Chopin’s works were the depicting of only here and there the nocturne or the sleepy feeling, this can be to the entity turned into the rhythm of life itself.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 949-13
(02:51:09) (Host-WalksInSpirit) There is a direct application to the home situation. The anxiety of chores may block the easy flow of energy and music may be used as a bridge to change the tensions of anxiety into creative energy.
(02:51:39) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “For in the home is the music of what? As indicated, it is an emblem of the heavenly home. And as these are made into the harmonious experiences that may come in the associations, they may bring indeed the music of the spheres in the activities as one with another, and those that must be contacted in the highest of man's achievement in the earth - the HOME!” – Edgar Cayce Reading 480-20
(02:52:20) (Host-WalksInSpirit) This reading surely places the homemaker at the head of the of those who contribute to the glory of God on earth. There is music which not only may contribute to the harmony of the home, but to the activity and maintenance. The housework flies to a fast moving, full symphony playing the “William Tell Overture.”
(02:52:27) (karen) oooooommmmmmmmmm *********
(02:52:59) (Host-WalksInSpirit) This can produce the stimulation to accomplish twice as much housework as if we work under our own “steam.” Music can also aid our attitude about the job we must do, and the very attitude we hold while working contributes to the overall vibrations of our homes.
(02:53:22) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “…each home, each hall, each edifice, has - and there is felt the vibration of such a place. Some are in harmony, some are at disharmony. Music is harmony or disharmony. As this is brought in thought by or through music, such may be attuned - and thus used as the channel, the means of approach to that necessary for individual conditions.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 2881-3
(02:53:27) (diane) i listen to reggae when i do housework. lol
(02:53:33) (Host-WalksInSpirit) LOL Diane
(02:53:50) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Well, Cayce said all music has it's value!
(02:54:00) (Host-WalksInSpirit) I agree with him!
(02:54:09) (diane) it make me feel fine!
(02:54:23) (Host-WalksInSpirit) LOL
(02:54:34) (Host-WalksInSpirit) One of the more interesting occasions in which to work out an applied musical routine was a teachers’ course for Head Start in Greensboro, North Carolina. Following the same schedule each day with special tunes at specified times the children became conditioned to a change of activities. The confusion accompanying changes was almost completely eliminated.
(02:55:11) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The reason Head Start, or any other pre-school training, is to give the child the opportunity to become aware of his identity and to set up success situations in relation to personal endeavor, as well as in competition. A child must learn to work and play with others, but even more important is the “built in” pattern of success which relates only to himself.
(02:55:34) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Within a musically oriented day, there are many opportunities for the children to be exposed to success situations.
(02:55:53) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It is not necessary for the teacher to be a musician. She need not play or read music. The only necessary element is a willingness to sing. To a child, his teacher is the diva of all times, so no teacher need be shy about the quality or range of her voice.
(02:56:05) (diane) yes, musical cues for transitional activities work wonders
(02:56:48) (diane) it's strange , but the room could be in chaos, and it i'd just sit there and sing
(02:56:52) (Host-WalksInSpirit) I had no idea the influence music has on kids till I read this, and I thought back to how peaceful I was at music lessons. :-)
(02:57:05) (diane) they'd all calm down and wander over to listen. lol
(02:57:11) (Host-WalksInSpirit) LOL
(02:57:43) (diane) try it in the car with little ones on a long trip!
(02:58:02) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The rest of my childhood may have stunk, but that one hour a week was Heaven!
(02:58:14) (karen) and how about animals Wis , they also are drawn to soothing music
(02:58:32) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Yep, they sure are, Karen. Buster loves it!
(02:58:52) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Do attempt to bring greater harmonies into the experience through the practice and through the application of self in making music. Even though it may be only on a comb or on glasses or on bells, on a harp, violin or a piano, MAKE MUSIC!” - Edgar Cayce Reading 5201-1
(02:59:02) (diane) karen...were you the chatter who ordered the special "pipes"? musical ones?
(02:59:27) (karen) no diane
(02:59:32) (diane) ok
(02:59:42) (Host-WalksInSpirit) A “good morning” song gives the teacher and the children a chance to greet each other in an orderly and happy way. The teacher should use what she knows and make up the rest – literally “play it by ear.” This is an important factor among Head Starters and it gives the child his first opportunity of the day to relate to his own identity. It may be chanted as his coat is being hung up and as he takes his place in the circle of chairs.
(03:00:00) (diane) yep
(03:00:14) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Each activity of the day may be introduced with a song. The teacher can make up her own words to popular tunes or television commercials which all of the children know. If she will start humming the tune for the next activity before she tells the children to get ready for the change, they will soon sing it with her and start the desired activity without direction.
(03:00:42) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Music is a must as a bridge between very active play and quiet table work.
(03:01:24) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Surrounding the body there should be those things that pertain to music, rhythm, harmony, peace, undisturbed reaction, or those things that appeal to the imaginative forces of the body - without too great a disturbance in the fire elements of emotion - will make for much more calm and normal reactions.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 758-37
(03:01:57) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Energy built up in the play yard may be brought down by degrees frustrating either the teacher or the children. One method of effecting a transition is to allow the children to march around their chairs to a tune which gradually decreases tempo. The reverse can develop a more controlled recess period.
(03:02:09) (Host-WalksInSpirit) When the children are brought up to an active state in an orderly manner in which they are exercising control, the transition to the play yard is less frantic.
(03:02:10) (karen) would the rythmn of poetry also be considered as musical
(03:02:49) (Host-WalksInSpirit) I would think so, Karen. I always say... a song is just a letter or a poem set to music.
(03:03:12) (Host-WalksInSpirit) If you can write a letter or a poem, you can write a song.
(03:03:40) (Host-WalksInSpirit) There is a most relevant application of music to industry. It is important that music used in factories be timed to the movement of the machinery. A bridge is needed in order to harmonize the pulse between worker and machinery, for every object which moves in repetition has its own rhythm.
(03:04:11) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The introduction of a different tempo causes discord in the pulsation. There are also muscular rhythms to repeated action which should be taken into account.
(03:04:55) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “As has been so oft demonstrated and indicated, EVERY activity must be TIMED; which is the harmony or the rhythm of music itself - whether in the preparation for a shooting of a set, or a portion of a scene, or the timing necessary for the stroke of the oar or the stroke of golf or tennis or baseball, or the step necessary in the cycling of the body for expressions to others, in conversation or in writing of any nature.
(03:05:11) (Host-WalksInSpirit) And the material expression becomes, "It is timely."” – Edgar Cayce Reading 949-13
(03:05:38) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “…see the rhythm in the activities of every nature; whether in viewing the scrubwoman or the artist in giving expression - see the timing of same necessary to make the activity VALUABLE and of a SPIRITUAL nature in its essence!” – Edgar Cayce Reading 949-13
(03:06:06) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It may seem as if we are dealing with two rhythmic patterns, mechanized and kinesthetic. But actually, the movement of the machinery dictates the muscular process. The smoothness of the movement is directly related to the efficiency and speed of production.
(03:06:31) (Host-WalksInSpirit) A flowing melody above a compatible rhythmic pattern should be selected. A variation in the speed of the machinery, and of course the accompanying music, assists in keeping workers alert.
(03:06:46) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Then to enable all to see in their labors, by the very overflow of the abilities of the entity in setting same to music, becomes a helpful influence - and the ability to make all force of a spiritual nature for that of mental and spiritual development.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 949-13
(03:07:06) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Every employee in a mechanized plant is affected by the rhythm of the machinery. When it is within hearing distance this is easily understood, but the more subtle vibrations are still picked up by the human mechanism at a distance and still reach the nerves, causing tensions and perhaps tempers. A change in speed will break these patterns.
(03:08:22) (Host-WalksInSpirit) This is true. I used to work in a furniture factory, and I'd get "in rhythm" with the saw, sander, and lathe.
(03:09:22) (Host-WalksInSpirit) In offices where there are no repetitious rhythmic patterns set by machinery, background music may make for harmonious working conditions. Obviously, the nature of the work in the office dictates both use and selection since the music should not compete for the attention of the listeners.
(03:09:35) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Every activity of human experience may be set to music… and keeping that of the SPIRIT of the activity rather than the DRUDGERY…” – Edgar Cayce Reading 949-13
(03:10:02) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “See music in the activity of every group, every figure the representation of a phase of human experience, human endeavor - whether it be in the material activities of life from the viewpoint of the laborer, the scrubwoman, or the executive in high places - that may be set to music in such ways and manners as to give and lend encouragement and bring hope and faith in the BETTERMENT of such relationships, such activities in the lives and experiences of individuals.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 949-13
(03:10:45) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Chants used in relation to meditation illustrate the same law of the bridge applied to ones self.
(03:11:12) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Do learn music. It is part of the beauty of the spirit. For remember, music alone may span that space between the finite and the infinite. In the harmony of sound, the harmony of color, even the harmony of motion itself, its beauty is all akin to that expression of the soul-self in the harmony of the mind, if used properly in relationship to body.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 3659-1
(03:11:19) (Qrious) so you could do the humpty dumpty chant.. and do a self healing? lol
(03:11:54) (Host-WalksInSpirit) If that's what cranks your tractor, Qrious!
(03:12:03) (karen) a bridge as sorts from source to source
(03:12:19) (Qrious) does it says how to use the body properly with harmony Blu?
(03:12:38) (Host-WalksInSpirit) I already know that. ;-) LOL
(03:12:58) (Qrious) lol.. thats funny.. crank your tractor.. gotta remember that one.
(03:13:01) (Host-WalksInSpirit) A bridge from the finite to the infinite. :-)
(03:13:16) (diane) i prefer automatic ignition. lol
(03:13:54) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Not that music is to be made the greater portion of thy life, but let much of thy life be controlled by the same harmony that is in the best music, yea and the worst also; for it, too, has its place.
(03:14:06) (Host-WalksInSpirit) But cling to that which may be experienced by listening and watching a mother sing the lullaby of Brahms, and it will mean much throughout thy life. Catch something of the note that is indicated in the love and in the emotion of the body as it may sing the song of songs, or the pure true notes of 'the songs my mother sang to me.'” – Edgar Cayce Reading 3659-1
(03:14:39) (Qrious) the worst music.. has a place.. well.. maybe as an irritant..
(03:14:44) (Host-WalksInSpirit) We use chants to make a transition from the attention centered on the finite to the infinite or from this world to “My Kingdom” within, as the Master Jesus expressed it. The vowel sounds in chants help us to differentiate the outer world results, which we perceive with the five senses, from the inner world of our own being, which is the true causal world.
(03:15:30) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The Edgar Cayce Readings repeat over and over that “mind is ever the builder.” Spirit is the cause, mind is the builder, and the physical is that which is built, or the result.
(03:16:06) (Qrious) Hawaiian kahunas speak chants in a melodious way to tune in.. at least thats what I learned.
(03:16:12) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “In music the entity finds MUCH solace, MUCH that bridges those distances - whether of the mental or of the spiritual forces. In same the attunement of self may be brought the nearest to the applications of the innate FORCES of self, and to the ENTITY the strains of same [music] - whether in that of the deep vibrations, of those that raise up and up - or those of the higher chords that bind - carry for the entity the ATTUNEMENT of self in the sphere or element, or PHASE of experience the entity seeks apace.
(03:16:50) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Well were THIS developed to a more acuteness IN this PRESENT experience, for the acumen of experience to the entity is gained MUCH more in a manner that may become concrete ensamples of the attunement of a soul with the heavenly, or the happy, choir.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 115-1
(03:17:08) (Qrious) so higher chords bind.. then the lower must loosen.. would you say so ron.. I really am guessing.
(03:17:09) (Host-WalksInSpirit) My People too, Qrious. :-)
(03:17:30) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Some very important conclusions may be drawn from the readings on music, which, if applied, can restore harmony, balance, and creativity to the soul, mind, and body.
(03:17:32) (ron) try a laxative
(03:17:50) (Qrious) ouch. ron.. lol
(03:18:04) (Host-WalksInSpirit) This concludes Lesson One: "Music As The Bridge"
(03:18:07) (ron) having a little fun with words :)
(03:18:24) (karen) i would think that the higher chords would be freedom
(03:18:36) (diane) Great topic and presentation, WIS! ty
(03:18:43) (Host-WalksInSpirit) I'll be posting a breakdown of each chakra and it's corresponding musical key also.
(03:18:47) (Leon) Thank you Walks
(03:19:14) (karen) wonderful and awe -inspiring material Wis
(03:19:19) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Thanks!
(03:19:20) (diane) Put me in the mood to go and do a little Karaoke. lol
(03:19:29) (Qrious) been to alot of Pow Wows.. and alot of deep drumming with melodious singing with higher pitches .. was riveting.
(03:19:43) (Host-WalksInSpirit) This will be a six-week series on "Music As the Bridge"
(03:20:02) (Qrious) do a yoddle song diane.. that oughta get ya tuned.. lol
(03:20:02) (karen) kooooolllll Wis
(03:20:35) (Qrious) I noticed each tribe had a different drum pace and song.. lots of them.
(03:21:06) (diane) J gave me a Bose radio once and if we have company, there's one station that provides the neatest background music. The whole mood of the place changes
(03:21:13) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Yep. I can tell just about what tribe is drumming just by their drum and songs.
(03:21:32) (Qrious) wow.. thats a good memory.. Walks.
(03:22:10) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Southern Plains - My People - have fast and thundering beats. Like the horses of a war party.
(03:22:26) (diane) A yoddle song, Q? .lol
(03:22:40) (Qrious) its a vocal sound diane.. lol
(03:22:41) (Host-WalksInSpirit) While the Southeastern Peoples have slower, lighter beats.
(03:23:06) (diane) you mean "yodel", like a Swiss miss?
(03:23:21) (Qrious) yep.. my dislectic spellin' .. lol
(03:23:47) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Those Bose radios are awesome, Diane
(03:23:48) (Qrious) the islanders all have different beats.. the Tahitians are the fastest..
(03:24:01) (diane) I sing "Boots" and Dock of a Bay. lol
(03:24:25) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The Bose company engineered the sound systems on the Space Shuttles for NASA