Meditation

I don't know ... to me that would not be "meditation" as much as it would be tripping. But that line, might be for me, not anyone else.

When one compares something like Frank Perry's first album, to just about anything else, you  should, almost immediately after, to tell the difference. The first minutes eat up your stomach. And it takes various listens to get used to it, and realize that it is not the music causing that, but your reaction to it, and your inability to flow with it, which is a bit on the scary side at first.

This is just like reading things like the BARDO ... we still use archaic logic and ideology to identify it, and discuss it. Because we do not have any way to "describe" the inner levels, the BARDO, cleverly, uses dragons for each and every "door" to the next level, which is the same thing as saying that we would be scared and not able to get to the next level by ourselves ... AT FIRST.

There is very little "rock music" that allows you to LIVE within a meditation ... and one forgets the point that defines a RAGA since the idea is to start and then somewhere along the way to fly and fly and fly and fly ... until you KNOW that you are there, and not imagining it, and the audience is in the same state. You can not have this in most rock music, specially when it constantly comes back to previous moments and scenes, and this tends to hurt the fluidity of the "MOMENT" of the piece at hand.

I have, for 40 years, looked for meditation music, and probably have one of the largest collections of it, but I am not wanting to share this list anymore ... it's my own private and loving and caring domain in inner quietness, and I am tired of saying these things in  a place that has not enough quietness and the majority of responses are not about music with the inner quietness at all for whatever reason. And the first album that got me started was Wolff and Hemmings' "Tibetan Bells", though by that time I had already read the Bardo, Popol Vuh, Gurdgieff, Crowley, Rampa and many other books that discuss these deeper parts, bits and pieces of the inner side of things. It just feels to me, like this is just a Cliff Notes version of the whole thing, when we have to rely on "minor gods" to take us there!

Somewhere in this board there is another thread of this discussion and I had a listing of materials. The "seeker" has to find his/her own truth and inner self!