Interview:

VIBRATION, MUSIC, AND SPIRIT

Although there are three main themes to this title they are as a collective one and the same. The human body is, by perfect design, an optimal transmitter and receiver of vibrational energy. Although we use our bodies as such in a subconscious way every day, few have really tapped the true potential it is capable of. We are surrounded by vibrational energy and it’s many forms, and our awareness is coupled to our six senses, yes six, of which five are gifts we are given, and the sixth one we are meant to develop. Music is but one source of the vibrational stimulation we sense. Quantum physics, although nearly a century old now, is still but an adolescent science where its full understanding and application is but a mere drop of water in a sea of potential. As a part of the whole, little has been done in the Quantum field and it’s relationship to music and human consciousness. Maybe because here is no “money” in it at this time like its application in technologies, like the MRI and PET scanning devices of healthcare use, or that pure physics is not ready to deal with consciousness any more than the taboo of science and religion. It will come around however in its time. But we do not really need the physicist to tell us the details of the relationship of quantum physics, sound, and the human body and even more so consciousness. As said we are perfect by design quite capable of recognizing vibrational information in a much more subtle way than any device of today can measure or experiment validate. We “just know” from our inherent gift. All this vibrational energy effects us in one way or another.

Music is a generator of one source of such information. Our perception of those vibrations will either align with our own or can cause discordance with them. Hence our likes and dislikes of musical tastes. Our entrainment of these vibrations and elicit response can be helpful or harmful. We have all had experiences of music that has brought us to tears, made us feel unrest, motivated us, or got us “high”. Our personal chemistry and vibration reacts to the music and the message it carries is delivered to our consciousness where it is shared throughout the body, and we “feel and create” from it. Each genre of music carries a key to elicit response. Classical music generally includes a full spectrum of sound waves created by all the instruments included in a symphony orchestra. Along with other factors, this may in part be the reason Classical music has such continued appeal to listeners. It fills us fully and in all ways. On the other extreme, we have music that awakens emotions through structures of primitive rhythms exciting our survival related sensors. In the Bible, Joshua is said to have symbolically brought down the walls of Jericho with his army of horns. All sound stirs our emotions and influences our consciousness. Our consciousness effects our creation and perception of our reality. We do not have to hear in order to be influenced by vibration, but if the chain of vibration to consciousness is fully broken the continuity of life is broken as well. The Lakota have a prayer phrase often used and known by many called the “Mitauye Oyasin” which means “we are all related”, it is not intended as a human to be in human relationship alone but of “ALL” things. So it is music that creates vibration, the body senses that vibration, we identify and align with it, this process alters our states of being and our consciousness, our spirit. Mitauye Oyasin “it IS all related”.

“It is music that creates vibration, the body senses that vibration, we identify and align with it, this process alters our states of being and our consciousness, our spirit.”
– Barry Higgins, composer and flautist