Music and the Occult
Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:06 am
"Fallen angel that is I, I'll lead you, all you left behinds."
As is obvious to the knowledgeable members of the Forum, the Quantum state of Everything is never static. Ever changing, Becoming. That which is static is safety, that which changes is threat - to a society of idealists who would create a dogma of idealism and attempt to halt all progress behind it. In the current world, we have reached such a point of stasis. The exponential growth of knowledge has suddenly stopped, when we should be blessed with life-changing events globally on a daily basis.
Growth is unreasonably slow, but there, among a few, exists a field where change is still steady. It is music. It is the direct manipulation of vibrations, the second most potent stimulant to our five apparent senses (the first, of course, being light and vision).
From a spiritual (or even psychological) point of view, Sound has the ability to alter mental states the easiest. Music is therefore a powerful tool, with uses from relaxation to inducing energy. The most widespread use of Music in current times is in Entertainment and Commerce, but that is a topic that deviates from the direction I would like to go.
Of the many genres of modern/contemporary music, One will usually find that they are more resonant to a specific.
For me, and I shall explain why, it is the genre of Electronic (or Dance) music. Specifically, the three most prominent sub-genres; house, dubstep, and drum-and-bass.
While most music we find ourselves entangled by in our daily lives, instrumental music goes unheard. When one says "instrumental", One imagines classical music in general. From piano & violin to Eastern classical music, perhaps a guitar with a few friends. As you will notice, each of the instruments involved are ancient. Since change is what we must embrace for growth, we must look beyond the traditional. In recent years, the rise of dance music in festivals across the United States and Europe, prominent among other places of the planet, have ushered in these relatively new types of music, all produced on electronic instruments.
The key principle of instrumental music is that it involves little to no vocals. While the Voice remains human's most powerful musical instrument, it is very subjective. Words, as we all acknowledge, have power. This is why I believe instrumental music to be a Second Voice, allowing One's own consciousness to take shape and form without being influenced by another's voice or words.
This is where the genre of Electronic music come in. Contemporary, as well as being new, these genres work off vibrations purely out of thought form and visual representations of sound. Much like the alphabet, a waveform is only a visual guide to a sound. It involves no physical immediate intermediate intervention by the human body - that is, you don't pluck a string causing a vibration, but One visualizes, listens, orders, revisualizes, listens, until a sound with meaning has formed.
The bulk of dubstep lays in the use of bass as music - the lower tones of the octave. Many of us Occultists believe in the power of the primordial vibration, the "Aum", for example. As such, it is easy to understand how such music may influence the human mind and soul.
The most widespread use of Electronic music is in dance. Why is it that this genre causes such an effort by the human body to maintain rhythm? Of course, it is easy to dance to anything as long as it has a beat. However, unlike other genres where concerts and gathering is mainly for patrons to see their favourite artists perform, Electronic brings obscure artists to the stage where thousands gather to Feel the sound and resonate with it. It is not limited to only upbeat obscenities, deeper in the genre lies "slow", pure thoughtform provocations.
For this reason, I urge each and every Occultist to study and listen to Electronic music. Beyond your personal preference, use this kind of music for meditation, rituals and so on. Relaxation is a foolish state of mind, required only before attuning yourself to higher powers. Meditation is key, until you delve into vibrations of far, far higher frequencies than normal. Music is a weapon as much as a tool. And finally, whatever is your preferred genre of choice, I urge you to find listen to its instrumental side.
I leave you, hypocritically, with this track. May it serve as an example to every statement in this short essay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw20UhfgdZI
As is obvious to the knowledgeable members of the Forum, the Quantum state of Everything is never static. Ever changing, Becoming. That which is static is safety, that which changes is threat - to a society of idealists who would create a dogma of idealism and attempt to halt all progress behind it. In the current world, we have reached such a point of stasis. The exponential growth of knowledge has suddenly stopped, when we should be blessed with life-changing events globally on a daily basis.
Growth is unreasonably slow, but there, among a few, exists a field where change is still steady. It is music. It is the direct manipulation of vibrations, the second most potent stimulant to our five apparent senses (the first, of course, being light and vision).
From a spiritual (or even psychological) point of view, Sound has the ability to alter mental states the easiest. Music is therefore a powerful tool, with uses from relaxation to inducing energy. The most widespread use of Music in current times is in Entertainment and Commerce, but that is a topic that deviates from the direction I would like to go.
Of the many genres of modern/contemporary music, One will usually find that they are more resonant to a specific.
For me, and I shall explain why, it is the genre of Electronic (or Dance) music. Specifically, the three most prominent sub-genres; house, dubstep, and drum-and-bass.
While most music we find ourselves entangled by in our daily lives, instrumental music goes unheard. When one says "instrumental", One imagines classical music in general. From piano & violin to Eastern classical music, perhaps a guitar with a few friends. As you will notice, each of the instruments involved are ancient. Since change is what we must embrace for growth, we must look beyond the traditional. In recent years, the rise of dance music in festivals across the United States and Europe, prominent among other places of the planet, have ushered in these relatively new types of music, all produced on electronic instruments.
The key principle of instrumental music is that it involves little to no vocals. While the Voice remains human's most powerful musical instrument, it is very subjective. Words, as we all acknowledge, have power. This is why I believe instrumental music to be a Second Voice, allowing One's own consciousness to take shape and form without being influenced by another's voice or words.
This is where the genre of Electronic music come in. Contemporary, as well as being new, these genres work off vibrations purely out of thought form and visual representations of sound. Much like the alphabet, a waveform is only a visual guide to a sound. It involves no physical immediate intermediate intervention by the human body - that is, you don't pluck a string causing a vibration, but One visualizes, listens, orders, revisualizes, listens, until a sound with meaning has formed.
The bulk of dubstep lays in the use of bass as music - the lower tones of the octave. Many of us Occultists believe in the power of the primordial vibration, the "Aum", for example. As such, it is easy to understand how such music may influence the human mind and soul.
The most widespread use of Electronic music is in dance. Why is it that this genre causes such an effort by the human body to maintain rhythm? Of course, it is easy to dance to anything as long as it has a beat. However, unlike other genres where concerts and gathering is mainly for patrons to see their favourite artists perform, Electronic brings obscure artists to the stage where thousands gather to Feel the sound and resonate with it. It is not limited to only upbeat obscenities, deeper in the genre lies "slow", pure thoughtform provocations.
For this reason, I urge each and every Occultist to study and listen to Electronic music. Beyond your personal preference, use this kind of music for meditation, rituals and so on. Relaxation is a foolish state of mind, required only before attuning yourself to higher powers. Meditation is key, until you delve into vibrations of far, far higher frequencies than normal. Music is a weapon as much as a tool. And finally, whatever is your preferred genre of choice, I urge you to find listen to its instrumental side.
I leave you, hypocritically, with this track. May it serve as an example to every statement in this short essay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw20UhfgdZI
A set of research results indicating that listening to Mozart's music may induce a short-term improvement on the performance of certain kinds of mental tasks known as "spatial-temporal reasoning;"[1]