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Simon Heather

What Makes an Action Good or Bad?

“What makes an action good or bad?
Not how it looks, not whether it is big or small.
But the good or bad motivation behind it”.

– Patrul Rinpoche

from:

Lyz Cooper

Sounding the Mind of God

\\\The mind of god is cosmic music resonating througout hyperspace\\\ Michio Kaku, quantum physicist.

We are all connected. There is no separation between you, your neighbour, the floor and the universe and yet many of us live our lives conned into thinking we are separate from each other. This illusion of separation sets up an un-healthy state of suffering at a cellular level because we are unable to align to something that is not true. This suffering is evident in the fear, anxiety, war, famine, poverty, relationship and financial issues as well as many other conditions evident in the world today.

One could argue that everything is perfect and that in order to live in bliss (which is our natural way of being) we first need to feel suffering so that we can learn from this. I believe that a little self-awareness coupled with some powerful and simple exercises with sound can give us a \\\get out of jail free\\\ card!

When writing my book, Sounding the Mind of God my

from:

Stefan Cartwright

LIVING SOUND : 17 October 2009 (Bees)

I recently heard a radio broadcast on BBC radio 4 about a project in Manchester to increase the population of honey bees. Bee keepers had been brought in to train allotment holders to start their own hives and produce honey. When interviewed about their experience, the participants reported feeling nervous at the prospect of being covered by a swarm of bees, even in a protective suit. What surprised them was how relaxing and therapeutic the encounter was. The news item made me smile, though it left me thinking why? What could bees do that would have such a positive effect?

They buzz!

I made a Google search and found a few articles about bee sounds. The sound created is reported to average between 225-285 Hz which corresponds with the notes ranging from around A2 and D3 on the piano i.e. just below and above middle C. The tonic of Indian drone instruments such as the Tanpura and Shruti Box is mostly tuned within this frequency range. It is also a range favoured for chanting.

Wh

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Jill Purce

Healing Voice Intensive - The Sonorous Mandala of Birthing and Dying

After 40 years of both pioneering and developing the whole field of sound healing and 35 years of intense study of Tibetan Buddhism, I have developed a series of extended ceremonies (each week has a different theme), combining continuous chant with an exploration of the geography of consciousness, journeying through the mandala which embodies the union of the sacred masculine and feminine, bliss and emptiness. I have found this work heals like nothing else and changes peoples lives in magical and enduring ways.
So as part of my HEALING VOICE- WEEK INTENSIVE OCTOBER 31st- NOVEMBER 6th in London, the particular theme I will be teaching is the Tibetan Practice of conscious living and dying. It is a wonderful, magical, healing and utterly life-changing week including Overtone Chanting, Breath Yoga, Purification Practices and the journey through the Mandala using chant to liberate us from afflictive emotions which normally make us depressed, unhappy and frustrated, so we experience ecstas

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Simon Heather

The Spiritual Significance of Music – Simon Heather

Scientists in Germany have recently found flutes dating back to 35,000 years ago. The flutes are the oldest musical instruments found to date. (see link 1 below)
The researchers say that music was widespread in pre-historic times. The scientists believe that music created a powerful bond between people as they moved northwards colonising new lands. This gave humans an edge over the Neanderthals who eventually disappeared.
For thousands of years people have sung and made music together. This created a feeling of connection between people and also connected them to the earth and the rhythms of nature.
Music contains the mathematical ratios that make up the whole cosmos. Listening to music puts us in harmony with creation. Music can make us feel happy or sad. Music can soothe us or energise us. Singing and making music is good for our soul. In Germany they have a saying &ndash
&ldquoWhere there&rsquos; singing join the throng, evil man thinks nought of song&rdquo.
Recent scientific r

from:

Tobias Kaye

musical patterns in nature

do you experience natures forms as musical? looking at a Teasle head (Dipsacus sylvestris) the other day i was annoyed when a friend suggested that there was a Darwinian necessity for it\\\s habit of flowering from centre, moving both upwards and downwards over a week or two. for me it seemed clear that this was a musical pattern, like a chord that spreads from one note through second, third and out towards the octave.

Walking the South West coast path I noticed that the tight and steep estuary villages of S.E. Cornwall steadily widen as one comes east into Devon. this is followed by Start Point and the huge shingle beach of Slapton. Far to the the East Portland Bill begins a west flowing pattern of long shingle beach followed by tight brook-valley villages becoming wider towards Exmouth. When I view that whole hundred mile spread in my minds eye it feels to me like a musical event, Variations on a theme.

I don\\\t have google world but i suspect that it would show up there a

from:

Simon Heather

The Mantra of Youth

I recently came across this quote by the great Siddha Yogi Baba Muktananda.

Question - \\\How do you manage to stay so beautiful and young looking?\\\

Muktananda - \\\The secret to life is to live a life of discipline and dwell constantly in the Self. I do not repeat the mantra of old age. I repeat only the mantra of youth and so, I remain young. I live only in the Self. I find fulfillment only in the Self. I don\\\t repeat the mantras that bring old age, such as anxiety and craving for sensual pleasure.\\\

(From the book \\\In the Company of a Siddha\\\)

If you would like to learn more about the power of mantra I will be running a workshop on the 29th November on \\\The Sounds of the Chakras\\\.

For more information please take a look at my web site.

from:

Andrew Hodges

Debunking

I found James dAngelos article refreshingly clear. It has been my view for quite some time that Chakras dont have absolute pitches attached to them. We are all different and if we see each other just as musical instruments then of necessity we are all different lengths and volumes. It is inevitable we that we will resonate differently.
Where I am still confused is the question of is there a relationship between chakra pitch whether relative or absolute and the Yoga seed sounds?
Anyone care to comment?

from:

Andrew Hodges

Reaction to Initial Rehearsals of My Latest Composition

If I hadnt been heavily steeped in the improvising experience I think I might have had a very uncomfortable evening when my latest piece was placed in front of one orchestra I know and love. (Ill leave their name blank because what I have to say could apply to any band whatever their level of ability.)

I am sure other composers go through the same kind of torment when their latest master-work begins to emerge in rehearsal. The difference between the way the piece is imagined and the way it first appears is often very marked. What you wrote might need a reworking if what you hear and what you intended are different.

On the other hand, despite the weaknesses in performance, I find that the players reactions can still be enormously positive even though what was played sounds more improvisational than written.

Listening back to the recording one asks not only just how much more rehearsal will improve the performance plus how much is there still to do in the writing but also

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Andrew Hodges

Thoughts about the next Lifesound workshop

My next Lifesound Workshop is on the 16th May and as we are now just a few days away the preparations for it are beginning to come to fruition.

Recent research as part my PhD have begun to reveal some new approaches that can be taken with group intuitive improvisation and I am very keen to see how they play out with the next group workshop.

I am also very hopeful that at least part of the workshop will include a world\\\s first. This will involve a very unusual way of starting an improvisation that I have yet to see evidence of anywhere else in the world. Someone reading this will undoubtedly be intrigued to find out what this is. Looks like you\\\ll have to book on to find out (www.lifesound.org)

On the other hand you can also wait until my next update on this site and I\\\ll be able to tell you how it went. Someone will probably say that it\\\s actually been done before but until then I\\\ll stick with my belief that this will be a first.

from:

Andrew Hodges

Sitting Comfortably

We often find ourselves sitting on the floor, possibly in front of a client or an audience of avid listeners, or in a yoga session leading a meditation wondering just how much should we be paying attention to what we&rsquore doing and how much we are actually putting on the pins and needles in our legs or the gradually increasing muscular pain at odd points in our body. Sometimes we might find ourselves comfortable enough for playing the harmonium but then are completely unprepared for the mediation that follows. As respected leaders, facilitators and teachers we can always tell ourselves how we &lsquoshould&rsquo be sitting. We may have in our minds an ideal that we feel we ought to be or portray to others. You only have to check out the many books available to the yogi to see images of asanas (postures) and in particular people sitting crossed-legged on the floor. With practice it becomes possible to move into and become comfortable with this sitting position. But until we have devel

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What Makes an Action Good or Bad?

Sounding the Mind of God

LIVING SOUND : 17 October 2009 (Bees)

Healing Voice Intensive - The Sonorous Mandala of Birthing and Dying

The Spiritual Significance of Music – Simon Heather

musical patterns in nature

The Mantra of Youth

Debunking

Reaction to Initial Rehearsals of My Latest Composition

Thoughts about the next Lifesound workshop

Sitting Comfortably

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The Spiritual Significance of Music – Simon Heather

musical patterns in nature

The Mantra of Youth

Debunking

Reaction to Initial Rehearsals of My Latest Composition

Thoughts about the next Lifesound workshop

Sitting Comfortably

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