Music is a Pathway between Heaven and the Soul
In my recent Blog I talked about people experiencing music as a pathway to between Heaven and Earth, a little like prayer.
Prayer I believe is something that we all do at some level whether we acknowledge a belief in something higher or not. In times of desperation we cry out from our inner most being.
For myself I have struggled with the verbal language of prayer, I almost always experienced a feeling of powerlessness, no sense of inner support, often a sense of having to work up some inner sense of faith. Almost a little like demanding something that I thought I needed but was somehow not a part of the process. I was on the outside of the knowing. Perhaps because I prayed for something from a sense of lack, and one that is not in alignment with my own truth.
I have learned since that prayer is indeed a journey towards that inner alignment, it can be a letting go of the situation, and for myself it happened powerfully on an experiential level and it is then we find us ourselves suddenly experiencing an inner peace one that goes beyond the mind, whilst at the same time we have linked in to experiencing the gift of faith which is within us.
That is how it is with music and colour. It is all around us but we don’t know how to experience it as an embodiment to our journey.
While working with my harp I have been humbled to hold a place for others as they have experienced being held in Music. One where they have gone beyond the verbal language of prayer and have been experienced something of a higher nature.
My experience of music as a Gateway to Heaven was as such:
Prior to my experience we talked about the formlessness that sit’s beyond the void and the theory of sound and light/music and colour. I was then invited to lie on the floor and experienced many different musical sounds being played within close connection to my body.
What I experienced was profound. To put it in religious term’s it was like experiencing a form of prayer that once more went beyond the limits of our verbal language. I experienced a love that was beautiful, I felt so amazingly held. For myself I kept getting the words that it will be aright which were words that I needed at that time of my life. As I journeyed in that space I came to understand why people do not want to come back when experiencing a near death experience. I had somehow journeyed beyond the void and experienced that peace. I somehow knew it was in that space of formlessness…beyond the void. Jesus was somehow in that experience but not in an overwhelming way, He was just there.
I had in that time found a form of prayer that was indeed an experience of embodiment.
We can only experience deep peace in times of difficulty as we move beyond the mind. Its like the opening into greater power within us.
If we wish to experience the true power of prayer, we may also need to experience a meduim that can open a new pathway.
Then we are part of the prayer.
