I’ve just written this briefly this morning in response to a few conversations I’ve had with different people recently . . .
Music is all around us – sometimes it makes us feel happy, sometimes sad and every emotion in between. Our emotions are triggered by many different cues and signals, but how is it that we consider some music to be healing or even transformational?
The reason is simple. There are two kinds of music, one we hear with our ears, and the other we feel with our hearts. Most people will understand how we can hear the music, but how does some of it reach our hearts?
It’s all to do with rhythm, frequency and vibration.
Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used drums and rattles for ceremony, communication and healing – using the right intention, the simple drum produced a heartbeat at rhythms and frequencies that could easily be absorbed into peoples’ bodies to induce healing or even altered states of consciousness. However, these rhythms and frequencies were far from random, and are received not primarily by the ears, but up through the spines into the pineal gland where the signals are processed. The default response from the pineal gland ( the ‘Seat of the Soul’ or ‘Third Eye’ ) is usually to release secretions that make us feel good like Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a naturally occurring hallucinogenic drug.
So, what we are talking about is simple cause and effect. Create the right environment and intention, and healing, wellness or even transformation can occur.
Today, Shamanic Practitioners still use the drum and rattle as their main healing tools, but the growing trend for Trance Dancing or Ecstatic Trance has the potential to take healing and transformation to a much wider audience. However, most people who deliver these events struggle to produce an experience that their audience can really feel. Of course they will dance, scream and wave their limbs about, but they will do that at their local disco on a Saturday night too!
Most DJ’s and Trance Facilitators simply don’t understand how to use technology to deliver the correct combination of rhythm and frequency that can enter the body through the spine to induce the healing and transformation they are seeking.
Without getting too technical here, they need to understand what source material to use and the formats and equipment that best deliver the required frequencies; Professor Trance is superb, but he simply won’t work if he’s in a MP3 format (designed for you mobile phone) played through a laptop, dodgy amp and speakers at an ear-splitting volume.
Don’t be confused – you may hear the vibe, but you certainly won’t feel it . . .
I feel another workshop coming on!
