Contemplative Music

[trjones]

Yes that is likely. She is a devout Latter Day Saint from Utah who is public about her ethical standards. I would imagine she has samadhi somewhere along her karmic life-stream.

[Jhanon]

I enjoyed the first couple Lindsey Stirling songs I heard, but no longer enjoy her music. I agree with your explanation of dubstep and violin.

Lately, music has been less for pleasure and more for protection. Currently, there is almost never silence or even quiet in my daily life. And it has made me aware just how sensitive I've become to the insanity of humanity.

I primarily listen to my energy, wave, ambient stations because they keep me centered and calm.

Michel, I agree with your comments about nature and music. However, I frequently hear a song I like and will listen to it for 6 hours a day, and up to 5 days. Not so much lately, for various reasons.

I will endeavor to add more music when I find the time.

[Alexander]

Aum Namah Shivaya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SONGcgo7TOk

I also enjoyed Lindsey Stirling when I was first heard her music. I have also since lost interest in her.

[Jhanon]

Pretty good, Alexander. For some reason, I'm not enjoying it as much I honestly think I should. Hahahaha. I wonder why that it is.

I also wonder why we both enjoyed Lindsey Sterling in the beginning, and then lost interest in her later. I know people are always making fun of "hipsters", saying they think they're cool because they like stuff before others do. And I often get lumped into this. But, I've honestly found that I lose interest in things as they grow popular, or become influenced by popular tastes.

Take Lindsey Sterling, for example. I really enjoyed the first couple songs I heard of her, and this was when her few songs on YouTube had very few views. And without knowing she had become popular, I heard her full length album, and I just hated it. It seemed like more of the same, and in the process, it had this watered down effect. Soon after, I discovered she became popular. The same thing happened to me with dubstep, deadmau5, and numerous other artists and genres. I honestly would like to enjoy the music on the local radio, because it would be convenient. But, good God! That music is awful. And all they do is play the same thing over and over. How can anyone stand that!?

Sorry, I needed to get that out. Because when I talk about it with people in-person, they can't help but make a hipster joke.

[Jhanon]

Here is one similar to what Alexander just posted. I've begun to lose interest in it, but at one point I very much enjoyed it for a long period of time. Wait, no, I was wrong. I just listened to it again, and it's blasting kriya down my body.

Sutra Rhythms - "Visions of Zen"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fOLj40Az-s

And here is one more that I recently shared on my FB. It's very short yet beautiful. This is another of those songs that make me feel like I'm retiring from human life.

Ólafur Arnalds - This Place is a Shelter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBM8_8DnPDo&feature=youtu.be

Speaking of retiring, here is a very childish poem that song inspired me to write about being an "old soul" and retiring. I wrote it while listening to that song a few days ago.

Child-like Poetry of the Elder Soul

The old soul lays down their distractions and toys,
growing weary of dysfunction and noise.
Its flowering spirit rejoicing in despair,
no longer interesting itself in worldly affair.

The burning of passion begins to smolder,
growing tired and all the more older.
And there's declining desire for the fire,
the attachment to its warmth illustrating its dire,

Watching the worldly grasp and amass,
remembering all the suffering it brought in the past,
It looks back wearily at the long path prior,
shedding every desire but a longing to retire.

(Yes, this is how I work. I disappear from something for a while, and then blow up all over it. What I mean is that it is normal for me to disappear from something, like this forum, and then if I'm really keen on it, I'll come back with an explosion of activity.)

[Alexander]

I'm trying to think of what made me lose interest in her. I suspect we both picked up on the same thing. It's also more serious to me than, "Oh, she's popular, I can't listen to this anymore."

I think that miserable people make the best music: and I intuited that all the attention she got made her lose the austerity/gravity she had. So what she gathered before her popularity, she's lost and can't get back.

[Jhanananda]

I liked Ólafur Arnalds - This Place is a Shelter very much, thank-you, Jhanon

[Michel]

Nice tune, Jhanon. I especially like the visuals of the person alone in the boat on open water facing the light coming through the clouds.

I think that miserable people make the best music...

Poignant observation, as usual, Alexander. I bet you would make a dreadful composer of music. lol

[Jhanon]

I'm glad you guys liked the music. And yes, I'm also inclined to agree with Alexander.

Adversity and suffering generally inclines humans toward open-mindedness and creativity, like how the path of enlightenment does, no?

[Jhanon]

This one....

As soon as it comes on, as the volume builds, the entire immaterial tactile sense vibrates increasingly in anticipation. It's like a rocket ship building power.

Then the first piano stroke comes, and it blasts energy down the spine, radiating shock waves every few inches, and the heart chakra aches. Every single stroke tells a 1,000 stories, and memories not remembered, yet felt. Pain. Tears. Throat Chakra pushing and pressing. But happiness. The "cheering/singing" sounds hit the crown, showering everything below. Saying, "it's almost over. It's almost over. Just a bit further", like to cheer on an exhausted marathon runner of life, who has one goal only, under which all else is organized.

Eluvium - Don't Get Any Closer
http://youtu.be/qKyMDjFxIQ8

There are few, if any, Eluvium songs that don't touch deeply for this body of bodies. It appears he has pioneered a new genre, which is a mixture between "ambient" and a dirge (which is the kind of music that spirit always leads me to make when I make music). The genre is called "Drone."

I have strong suspicions that Eluvium is a mystic. He lives in Portland, OR. His music is slowly becoming known and appreciated, yet very quietly. It almost seems his music is a calling to genuine mystics, or people who are ready to retire. I have a strong feeling about this, that his music could be a tool for gathering others who are suffering and ready to retire. I can't imagine any other kind of individual who would take pleasure in his style. How can every song speak so deeply to me? Deeper than any music I've ever heard.

[Jhanananda]

Thank-you for the link.  I have been listening to Eluvium's music for a long time.

[Jhanon]

More than a year? I'm not sure what you mean by "a long time." I make the distinction because I'd like to know if my hypothesis about Eluvium being appealing mystics and pre-mystics has any credence.

[Jhanon]

God, I love this song so much. It's been making me surge with energy and tears for over 24 hours. What did I do with those 24 hours? I let the inspiration of this song flow through me, and it created something beautiful and unique. I may share it someday, but it is rather personal to my family. For now, here is the song.

I love Eluvium. Eluvium must be a mystic for mystics. His music touches me so deep. It brings back all the greatest experiences I've had of Light, Love, Energy...HOME.

Eluvium - "Covered In Writing"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY8WjTsG3XE

I think....I think I'm going to start creating movies with his music that detail my mystical path for YouTube. It's through the heart that the message travels, anyway.

[Jhanon]

Kryptic Minds - "Fade to Nothing"
http://youtu.be/rp-uMmPPk8E

[Jhanon]

HOW CAN LIFE BE SO BEAUTIFUL YET SO TERRIBLE? That's what I thought as I heard this song on my Pandora, thinking it was beautiful. Then I couldn't find it to stream somewhere online.

Michna - "The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale"
https://play.spotify.com/track/5WYG5VBGZIAjGJ9Ev71LjZ