I agree, music is very affecting and when it harmonizes with our energy field, since everything we percieve is vibration of energy, then when it harmonizes or strengthens our energy it often gives us a "boost"

 I've always intensely loved music, and i love to sing...  My Dad and bro are musicians, and maybe one day i'll pick up the guitar.

You're right, what we call the spiritual is simply frequency differences..

 I've heard the only difference betweem physical vibration and what we call spiritual forces, is both the rate of vibration and the polarity or charge of energy...

Material/physicality is made up of very condensed, and slowly vibrating energy which contains positive and negative forces.

  Spiritual energies, like Love and the "higher" planes nearing Source are very fast in vibration, and purely postively charged...

 Positive=active/ever expanding energy, negative=passive/contracting/which attracts positive force...

 Negative is only really a balance.

Peace

Yeah, haha i'm just now starting to really get into learning alot of thoery, i like it alot.

Mainstream music is a sick puppy, the music isn't that terrible....music is just music. It's the way it's marketed and dumbed down for the general public that i really hate.(I guess you could say that for just about everything else in this country too though..sadly.)

It's just a big money making machine, it's not pure like music should be. It's tainted by big record companies pushing all the buttons, getting 'look' that will sell to the general public.

I'm under the impression that if you have the right look, and the right sound for the right time, you can make alot of money, despite your level of talent. Hell, i know a few guitar players who are 10x better than anyone you will hear on your local radio station, but they aren't the most attractive people, and they aren't willing to conform to the 'popular sound' of the time.(whatever it may be)


Ugh, sorry that has nothing to do with the afterlife, but i hate to see good talent go un-noticed.

Perhaps music is here for our inspiration, for our motivation.  I know that I probably wouldn't be here if I didn't have music to listen to... it's strange to say such a thing, but it really is that important for me in day to day life.  I'm sure plenty of people can say the same thing.

Strange thing... I found out a few months ago that my 2nd cousin Carlos (an unbelievable guitarist) died from a heart attack back in 2003.  I was shocked at this news, and some part of me wondered if his death had anything to do with my sudden, random urge to take music theory and later get vocal lessons.  I had never before had any interest in learning music but around the time of his death something made me feel like I just *had* to... really odd when I think about it. 

One of my favorite musicians, Nina Hagen (think Maria Callas meets Godzilla meets Betty Boop) has very distinct daemon that seems to transform her into an entirely different persona when she's performing - I would kill to see one of her shows (figuratively, of course!).  Some say this daemon is found in all kinds of creative work.  She's been pretty spiritual since the early 80s, I believe, and recently did an album of Indian spiritual music.

Words in music have always been secondary to me, as well.  I've always been more interested in the arrangements and emotion that I can find in a piece/song.  One of my favorite bands, Cocteau Twins, rarely ever used real lyrics in their music.  They managed to pull it off and gain a large cult fanbase because of the singer's confident, angelic emoting - which contrasts with her other persona, the one with a heap of unfortunate human self-image issues.

I think maybe some would say that w/o vibrations, there actually would be no life, space or time, since everything vibrates and has a frequency...  Read some stuff about Nicola Tesla, very interesting material from a hundred years ago about resonance, harmonics, etc.  This reminded me of this Hemi-sync invention I've been reading about on this site and Monroe's site.  Anyone who plays electric guitar knows how to make that particular phenomenon happen, to bend two strings and create an off key summation of them as a 3rd note that can be tuned by moving either or both of the bent strings.  It's not good for much other than a transition, but it's a cool effect to play with, and definitely focuses the brain to separate things out and pick the 3rd note.

I've often wondered what evolutionary purpose music has.  It's a purely human thing, but seems to have no great purpose other than our enjoyment and enrichment, just like all art.  Music to the human brain has provable and unmistakable effect, good and bad, depending on all these different factors.  I suppose we could have evolved to enjoy music as a primal bonding thing or trance inducing ritual thing, but cultures have such different ideas of what makes music!  And there doesn't seem to be any reason to have it for our survival.  I've gone for months without hearing any music (boot camp) and it didn't hurt me a bit - although I certainly made up for it afterwards... I learned to play guitar!  Weird.  All music seems to share variations in vibration though, and infinitely different arrangements of the variations.  Really interesting topic and one of the great mysteries in my opinion. 

It's cool that when we all think music can finally progress no further and is perhaps total crap (like now), a new revolution comes along and some really amazing, timeless material comes out.  Perhaps it mimics our consciousness evolution, sort of happens in fits and starts!  Anyway, great topic.

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Hey guys!

I do love that this thread has been brought back up, i do love this one so much because of what its all about and believe its something we can truly get to grips with and love and understand in this lifetime and its full of expression of us and the universe.

And i gotta say Justin!!! Thanks so much to Irene, I am so grateful and truly appreciate what she did for me, I now have 2 CD's of Pearl Jam, 'Rearview Mirror: The Best Of'. Ive got it all now and must admit I am impressed, i like this! Gotta listen to more though, I have a feel for it but need to get the whole view . Irene also sent me a band called PowderFinger, and i love these so much already, specially track one! It is such a good song and i relate it to me and New Zealand and really feel it.

Just wondering does anyone play instruments here and hows it going? I play bass and trying to get alot better especially recently, i learnt all around the world yesterday, wlel have for a while, just the intro i'm a little dodgy on lol, i can do the speed and the beginning bit its just where it goes down. Anyway love to hear of you all!

Ryan