Jonathan Goldman - Waves of Light
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Artist: Jonathan GoldmanEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-10-09
Music Label: Spirit Music
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- Waves of Light
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Jonathan's big thing is about the function of intent in conveying a message through sound waves. Whether you feel that the 'science' which serves as a ground to his works is sketchy doesn't really matter - you can prove this to yourself by listening to something which you know drives you insane and observing the effect. What happens? Something about it, the sound and the message it forwards, doesn't agree with you. Now listen to something you enjoy and observe the effect of that - you feel attuned to it. Jonathan takes this deeper, in that he proposes that not only the sound itself but the intent of the one producing it and the one listening to it has a transformational effect. This is fairly obvious, in a sense, but we often ignore this sort of basic law in the interest of intensifying desirable emotional responses, even when these are not in accordance with a natural state of health and harmony in ourselves - a state which is content, free from physical and mental tension, and centered in compassion.
Jonathan himself in interviews and writings recalls an event where he was playing guitar in a punk rock band while noticing the effect the sound was having on the audience in the club. Anger, aggression, violence, restlessness, tension, etc., were being produced by the expectations of those present and the response of the musicians creating the sound which conveyed similar feelings. He had a flash of intuition where he wondered whether the opposite was possible - whether it was possible to heal, to engender feelings of compassion and harmony, in people rather than feelings of aggression, tension, and self-contracting egoic responses.
Again, this seems (at least to me, anyway) to be an obvious 'law' occurring naturally, not only in humans but in life itself. And yet again, if we will admit this to ourselves, we prefer to give continuity to bad feelings. We like them! Watching horror movies, we like to be scared to death and shocked. Listening to angry music or sad music, we like to be titillated by these things and wallow in our self-contracted states of negativity. When we are unhappy, there is somewhere to go - a goal, a desire, is planted in the mind that we can still go from here to there, and so we are benefited by these ill emotions because they give continuity to the thought that a state of supernal happiness and contentment can be achieved. Transcending this is difficult, because when one is nearing that state, that of being totally content, the mind worries because it has no more room to move, in a sense. The habituated patterns of thought have to cease for total contentment and dispassion of mind to manifest fully. This means dissolving that purgatorial state where one feels more comfortable in a lower, less happy, more self-contracted state and simply relax into the underlying state of mind which is by its nature contentment, dispassion, and supernal happiness. This is, I feel, the goal of such releases and the drive for artists and researches like Jonathan Goldman.
His favorite formula is the simple FREQUENCY + INTENT = HEALING.
This release, WAVES OF LIGHT, consists of relaxed chimes from tuning forks. They appear and disappear like calm ocean waves overlapping each other. Listen to them as if they are colors showering over and through you. This is imagination, of course, but there's nothing wrong with that; there are too many people who approach 'healing' music with the idea that nothing is required on their part to be changed through the music. This is totally wrong. It's not a violent, forceful thing - you can't be raped into being healed by sound. It's a relationship, and a communion. Feel as if your body and consciousness has dissolved into waves of luminous light and sound, it merging into you and you merging into it infinitely. It IS a transformational process, as one surrenders ordinary anxieties in favor of this transcendent experience of feeling one's being, pure and undefiled by tension, as the sound gently and gradually comes and goes...
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