(07-21-2009, 07:27 AM)Taha Wrote: Someone asked me in a class one time about this 'higher' and 'lower' vibration question, along with, "Is it ok to like loud heavy metal music?" My instinctive answer was that to be really balanced and integrated we have to be firing on all chakras, not just some...
...What I find interesting - and I'm talking about myself here too - is why we seem to feel that 'higher' stuff is more 'spiritual' than 'lower' stuff? As Pluralone said in another thread, it isn't, and only living all of it will make us whole and help us integrate all parts of ourselves. We need to be firing on all 7, not spluttering along hoping that we're doing better by ignoring the parts of our engine that are holding us back.
We all know from the Law of One how important it is to balance all the chakras. And I agree that heavy metal music, even mild rock music, can be very energizing and nourishing to the lower chakras. I would even go farther and say that I have felt nourished on many levels, not just the root chakra, by the best of the music out there.
But that's not what I meant when I said 'lower the vibration.' I didn't mean 'lower' as in 'lower charkras.' Perhaps 'lower' was not a good choice of terms.
I wasn't referring to which chakra music affects at all.
I was referring to whether the music seems to be STO or STS in vibration.
I'm not sure whether music can even be classified as STO or STS. Surely the artist's intentions, thoughts, and emotions conveyed in the music have STO/STS leanings. If CoB's lyrics are about killing someone, that's decidedly STS in nature.
So my question had to do with allowing such STS influences into my own consciousness.
As I mentioned, to me personally, since, most of the time I don't even understand the lyrics anyway, the lyrics usually don't affect me nearly as much as the tone of the voice itself, and whether the music is harmonious or discordant. Music can be very, very heavy and still harmonious. Or, it can be discordant and chaotic. But even that doesn't bother me - if I don't like I'll simply not listen to it. What bothers me is stuff like Opeth or DB, who has lush, orchestrated, stunningly beautiful, yet the heaviest of the heavy music, accompanied by a voice that makes my skin crawl.
It is this incongruency that has me befuddled. I wonder how they do that. What sort of mixed polarity is at work here? And why do I have such mixed feelings about the music itself? I am not able to fully enjoy it, yet parts of it are so musically incredible that I find myself trying to tolerate the voice, and I'd rather not do that, because I don't want to develop a tolerance for it and ignore my initial feelings that it lacked resonance. The truth is that it both resonates and repels.
It's not like I'm worried about the state of my soul if I listen to it, or anything like that. I'm just trying to make sense of my mixed feelings about it, and of the nature of the music itself, since this harsh vocal trend is so prevalent in the metal scene now.
Anyway, I hope I clarified that it isn't about which chakras are affected, but about polarity.
(07-21-2009, 07:27 AM)Taha Wrote: Yellow = control
Orange = sex
We have a thread over in the 'Sessions' sub-forum that deals with sexuality. I'd rather not get this thread off-topic, so I invite you to join the discussion over there. (NOT saying that this mention of the chakras was off-topic - it was very much ON-topic - but further analysis of the chakra system would be.) For now, I will just say that, in my understanding of the Law of One teachings about the chakras, the both control and sex encompass far more than a single chakra. I have some comments about sex encompassing ALL the chakras, but I will make those comments over on the other thread. Look for the thread with 'Sexuality' in the title. The thread's been inactive for awhile and could use some participation.