Music and the Longing for Old Forms of Consciousness

I've had some more messages of support from musicians. Donovan said he thought my book 'wonder-filled'. Gareth Sager of The Pop Group said it expresses in words what he's tried to express in his music.

When we listen to music and are 'carried away' by it, when we feel music's patterns working through us, playing us as if our bodies were other instruments in the orchestra, we feel re-connected with the cosmos and feel again that sense of being at home in a cosmos that cares for us, is 'anthropic' and carrying us along to our ultimate destiny.

So part of what attracts us to music is that it reactivates us in a form of consciousness that not long ago everyone enjoyed. Not long ago everyone felt that they were guided along every step of life's path, that the cosmos was nurturing them, that they were being prompted to play the parts they were meant to play in patterns set in motion by God and marked by the movements of the stars and planets.

So we may regain some of these joys, usually lost to the modern, alienated form of consciousness, when we listen to music, and if we revive the old form of consciousness but do so with the heightened awareness and conscious exercising of intelligence that esoteric philosophy brings, then we are right at the growing tip of human consciousness right at this minute.

An old initiate once told me that Mozart went through several brief incarnations before his incarnation as Mozart so that he would be able to remember, while encased in flesh, something the rest of us only retain as a very faint echo - the music of the spheres.

Comments

[Nick]

"When real music comes to me - the music of the
spheres, the music that surpasses understanding -
that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium.... those moments are what I live for."

John Lennon

[jonathan black]

Nick, that's an amazing quote! I haven't come across it before.

i didn't put much about rock and pop in my book, partly because I didn't want to seem too anglo-centric, but you may've spotted the subliminal reference to Lennon in the last chapter.

[Nick]

Imagine no religion, Mr Booth? It's easy if I try :D

[Al]

"Religion is poison."
-Mao Tse Tung
:P

[jonathanblack]

the dead are grateful

who are they grateful to?

St Francis

whose spirit is St Francis spreading?

the Buddha's

the dead, dylan, donovan, lennon - it all hangs together