Music - Spirituality or Nature?

[JayG84]

Music is something that I've found difficult to contemplate where in fits into consciousness and spirituality. I'm a musician, and it's such a huge part of my life. It affects me deeply, it helps me process things, it can change my perspectives, it can bring people together and understand each other. 

Music seems like it's all around us. Every culture has it. Shamans even use it in ceremonies to help bridge the gap to the the spiritual realm. To me it almost feels like a fundamental part of the universe, like it's the sound consciousness makes or something. 

What do you guys think? What is your experience with music? Where does our connection to it come from? Do you think it's fundamental or just the ego assigning meaning to meaningless sounds?

[Leo Gura]

Of course people enjoy music because it has a spiritual quality to it.

But then again, that's true of all art. The point of art is to connect us with spirit.

Spirit and nature are identical. In fact, everything is spirit, so you could probably make anything into a vehicle for spirituality, like peeling potatoes.

Music seems to have a hypnotic effect on the mind unlike other activities like peeling potatoes. Which makes music useful for changing people's emotional states. Which is a doorway to changing people's states of consciousness. Shamans use repetitive beating to induce shamanic trances and enable astral projection.

In our modern materialist culture, where virtually everyone is disconnected from spirit and God, music becomes an easy alternative to undertaking the hero's journey. Which is why it's so popular and so shared. It's like spirituality for the spiritually-clueless, lazy, and cynical masses.

It is fascinating how the human animal is like the only animal that digs music. Why don't cats tap their foot to the beat? That would be a great question for some neuroscientist to research.

[Gabriel Antonio]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Music seems to have a hypnotic effect on the mind unlike other activities like peeling potatoes. Which makes music useful for changing people's emotional states. Which is a doorway to changing people's states of consciousness. Shamans use repetitive beating to induce shamanic trances and enable astral projection.

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