Interview:

The spiritual significance of music appears when there is a clear connection between the timelessness of the divine and the metronomic display of our earthly reality. Music allows us to play with time, in a sense. We can choose a certain sensory display to unfold for an allotted time thus giving humans an experience of their own creation. Music is really just another opportunity to express our creative nature and the things of creation reflect the divinity in the person creating and calls to the divinity within all of us. Some music does this in such a powerful way that you know, without a doubt, that the expression contains something indefinably special. This is perhaps why most religious and spiritual practices use music in their services. It inspires us and helps us connect with the field of consciousness, with spirit, and with God. Sarah Stockton states in her book “Restless In Christ: Answering The Call To Spiritual Commitment”; “By choosing to create, we choose to matter, to imprint ourselves on the world, to join the human conversation”. When we engage in music it feels like a conversation of souls with the spiritual foundation that created us.

“Most religious and spiritual practices use music in their services. It inspires us and helps us connect with the field of consciousness, with spirit, and with God.”
– Andrea Santos, vocalist and violinist in Shanti Shanti