We the Choir Gather and We Learn to Sing Together

[Patrick]

...when you show up for rehearsal or a performance, do you tell people, "I'm a wanderer, so I'm just going to radiate my high vibration self and not do the work of learning the music?"  I kinda doubt it...

I don't tell people that no.

Although, that is closer to reality than you might think.  I'm not a musician or a singer per se.  There is a minimum of technique involved, I cannot read partitions but I do look at it for the words and the notes going up or down gives me an idea of if my pitch should be going up or down, etc...  But if I record myself alone, it's very much lacking.

In the choir, I just sing from my heart.  Together it's no longer lacking, it becomes beautiful.  After a public performance, I've had people from the audience tell me they could feel it coming from the heart.  There was even a new member that joined specifically because of this.

So I never felt the need to do the work of learning how to make proper music.  We learn to make music together.

...Anyhow, this is sort of what I'm trying to get at.  That quote in the OP is about validation from others just for showing up...

You don't get the benefits just for showing up.  You also have to want to sing.  To join with these energies.

That is not done for validation.  It's just an unconditional giving of the self.  There is no expectation of return.

...That's fine, but if you really want to do the work of making music, you must "pay your dues," no? Ergo, a wanderer can just show up and hang out...

Making music per se maybe, but in a choir I'm not sure no.  I am basically just showing up and pouring my heart out.  I rarely practice by myself outside the choir (although they do encourage that of course).

...and maybe that was a carefully chosen pre-incarnative choice, for example, sometimes you just need an easy lifetime to balance out the rougher ones--you can just show up and vibrate casually, or maybe you wanna do serious work in consciousness?  Maybe you want to go so deeply inside the music that your sense of self becomes transparent?  Maybe not.

Not sure I'm following.  But people can choose not to sing, to sing alone, in small groups, in a choir, join the planetary song, join the universal song.  Also, whatever the little self incarnated here does, a part of us never stopped singing the universal OM song.