I have noticed how often I return to certain melodies, even though I have almost stopped listening to music in general. So I decided to share these melodies with you. While listening to them, I like to think about something, sometimes I don’t even understand what I’m thinking about, but it feels like something important to my soul. So here are those melodies:
There’s soo many songs, but I guess one that would encompass my general interests would be the background to videos like these, that I loved when 10, and still love today: https://youtu.be/A5ExG9LRtQM?si=Z9qxBuFG5ZmudzRk
For more, all songs with historical, anime, spiritual, and really any theme that is beautiful are my favorite dear songs that I will gladly return to anyyytime:
I like Uwade, she’s from South Africa. I can’t paste links into this editor very well. There’s a live performance recording from Santa Cruz from a couple weeks ago.
This reminds me of a subconscious dichotomy of alternating desires, a cycle between returning to source and individuating, where there’s a transition, like saying goodbye to a lover and the heart strings are immense. These two had a moment, like doves of peace, where you can attune to their beauty if it resonates.
On and off, I go to Self Realization Fellowship to hang with Paramahansa Yogananda and the lineage of Masters. I receive a bliss that nourishes. A couple of times, I’ve heard a voice that presents itself as Yogananda. It offers a summary of an event unfolding before me or of a conundrum within me. Once I asked, “Why do you speak to me?” I heard ‘brother.’ Images of me, as a male, were near this entity from some incarnation before he took the personage of Yogananda. There is a melody that each SRF congregation plays–simple key strokes on a harmonium. Sometimes the sounds wisp through my mind, and I assume my brother is near.
There’s a Stephen Sanchez piece High,
that reminds me of musical transcendence.
I think there’s some backstory on it - made for
some story where a person tries to liberate
another from a bad situation by sharing
something beautiful with them. An idea
of freedom in transcendance here.
Elyanna was born in Nazareth, she’s half Chilean and half Palestinian, a Christian. She reminds me of a transcendent dove of peace. Somehow she lends me hope of some
Phoenix rising out of Gaza, (who shares music.)
Nice prompt. Its interesting to hear what resonates with others.
This piece makes me feel like I’m floating and sinking. Not sure what it is about melancholy. This strange dynamic of expressing our grief and consoling us at the same time.
