. . .exploring the poetic mysteries
of sound, music, art,
spirit, and healing . . .
Part
Three
• Outer Music and Inner Enlightenment
- an ancient Buddhist dialog
- a lovely image of Avalokiteshvara
• Singing: the foundation of everything
- a traditional Hindu tale, as told by Ali Akbar Khan
• Sound and Silence
- from the intro to "The Healing Forces of Music" by Randall McClellan
• Those who do not sing and dance will never reach God
- a quote from Swami Kripalvanandji, inspiration for Kripalu Yoga
• An offering to the Divine Musician
- Afterward to the book "Music and Life" by Hazrat Inayat Khan
• The Spirituality of Music
- from the writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
• "Toning for Health" by Ted Andrews
- from his book Sacred Sounds
• "Chant's Encounter..."
- a poem by Frederick W. Chapman
• Ted Andrews, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, et al
• "The Mind of Sound" by W. A. Mathieu "You are made of music..."
• An ancient Sufi myth, and Old Testament Psalms
• Leonard Bernstein and Nadia Boulanger
• Sound, Wind and creation in Tibet
• Gibran, Dryden, Sanskrit Prayer
• Dhammapada, Cluny inscription, Schopenhauer, Upanishads
• Dante, Yogananda, a Scotsman in the Himalayas
• Plato, Ravi Shankar, Upanishad, RW Emerson
- the very first texts I posted on this website
(early 1995!)