by Elizabeth Alexander

On June 24th, Iasos, one of the originators of New Age music and composer/performer of modern spiritual/electronic albums like "Sacred Sonic Tools" and "Elixir" will perform at a benefit for the Berkeley Psychic Institute as they prepare to upgrade Psychic Reader Newspaper to a more elegant, magazine format. It will be the first live performance by Iasos in the Bay Area in over five years. The experience will include projected visuals—also by Iasos—displaying the latest celestial visions that he has been working on for the last three years.

In anticipation of this upcoming “spiritual healing extravaganza,” Psychic Reader’s Elizabeth Alexander met up with Iasos to find out more about the music and the new visuals he is incorporating into his events. Specifically, we wanted to know more about the spiritual healing benefits one might experience with the multimedia presentation format, and what a participant could expect to encounter at the upcoming June concert. The interview took place at Iasos’ home in Marin.

Psychic Reader: People often say that they experience deep healing and relaxation—a sense of peace—when experiencing your music. Why do you think this is?

Iasos: Well, I didn’t start out trying to create “healing” music. But from the beginning, people would come up to me after my concerts and say, “Thanks for the healing!” or “Your music was so healing!” It wasn’t long before I figured out that if the music is beautiful, it’s healing. And so by focusing not on healing, but on beauty, I got healing results.

I realized that beauty is healing. Why? Because beauty is harmoniously organized energy patterns. So, if you listen to these harmoniously organized energy patterns, you will become more harmoniously organized in your own energy body. And that produces a healing effect. Beauty is physically healing, physically relaxing, emotionally uplifting, and spiritually inspiring. It’s also the most fun path back to divinity!

I usually never promote my concerts as “healing events.” I normally let people find this out for themselves, as a kind of bonus! In fact, the upcoming concert in Berkeley is the first time that I’ve ever used the term “healing” in the announcement. But it’s true, healing has always been a big side-benefit of the music.

Psychic Reader: You are considered to be one of the founders of “New Age” music. I also know that your music is constantly evolving, and that you've been adding other media, like color and visuals that combine with the musical experience. What is keeping you on this multimedia path towards musical divinity?

Iasos: I’ve been tuning into higher dimensions and a higher dimensional being that has specific musical information and ideas. Before I really knew about or understood my connection with this higher-dimensional being, at a certain point in my musical career I started hearing music in my head spontaneously. I had no idea where it was coming from! It was somewhat like putting on headphones and listening to music, but without headphones. It was beautiful. I was hearing it, loving it, and I starting wishing that I could create music like it. But it wasn’t conventional music nor was it even conventional sounds. Synthesizers didn't even exist yet. I didn’t know how to create this music, but a voice inside my head kept saying, “You can do this!” So I kept on working at it, and eventually the technology caught up with me. I could then really start putting together these kinds of sounds.

The primary being I work with is a higher-dimensional light being named “Vista.” His special focus is activating the third eye; the “psychic” or “clairvoyant” sixth chakra. For a long time I was not clear where this music was coming from. But one day it all came to me at once, in a giant flash of insight: This being and I had made a spiritual agreement, an agreement made even before I was born into this body. The agreement is that I would incarnate into this body, and he would transmit these musical ideas to me, and I would create them as sound—so anyone could hear it and benefit from it. The whole point of this musical exchange would be to assist the vibrational upshift on this planet.

Psychic Reader: So how does this healing quality assist a person in raising his or her spiritual vibration?

Iasos: For any healing modality, healing is not creating something new, but is merely realigning the body to its own already-existing Divine blueprint. In other words, healing is reestablishing a dynamic state of balance out of a temporary state of imbalance. There are innumerable ways to do this, but using sound is one potent way to facilitate deep healing. Sound can heal through four primary means: physical resonance, emotional resonance, intent and belief.

Physical resonance results from the vibrating air "shaking up" the molecules and causing the energy system to synchronize with itself into "standing waves" which, out of random chaos produce order, symmetry, coherency, and stability. This increased coherency is the direction of increased health, longevity, and greater life force. This means that sound can cause the various parts of your body to synchronize with each other, such as your heart beat synchronizing with your breathing and your brain waves. Any system that self-synchronizes into standing waves causes these waves to reinforce each other (sustained good health), whereas in a vibrating system without standing waves, the waves tend to randomly cancel each other out (disease).

"Shaking up the molecules" for sound-healing through physical resonance can occur, for example, by toning with your voice or using gongs or using Tibetan bowls that are rubbed in a circular fashion. This type of sound healing—physical resonance—usually does not involve a complex blend of many instruments, such as an orchestra, but usually only one potent sound by itself.

Emotional resonance means that music influences your feelings, and your feelings directly affect your health. To properly understand this, one must understand how different dimensions can influence each other. Then we can apply this understanding to your physical body, your emotional body, and your mental body, each of which is vibrating in a different dimension, or a different “range of frequencies.” Because of resonance, two systems tuned to the same frequency can have an energy-transfer between them.

Keeping this in mind, you can see how each of your body’s physical, emotional, and mental states can influence each other. Sound and music influence your emotions. This is an energy transfer from the physical plane to the emotional plane. Furthermore, your emotions influence your physical body. This is an energy transfer from the emotional plane back to the physical plane.

Psychic Reader: So all these levels are connected...and when one part is in “disharmony” then that influences the others?

Iasos: Yes. Harmonious music and sound leads to harmonious feelings which lead to good health. Furthermore, your emotions influence your thinking. This is an energy transfer from the emotional plane to the mental plane. And your thinking influences your physical body. This is an energy transfer from the mental plane to the physical plane. Specifically, your cells respond to the mental pictures you hold in your mind of "how" your body is "supposed" to behave. Your beliefs about how your body is "supposed" to be will have long-lasting effects in how your body actually does behave.

So through emotional resonance, sound healing triggers a chain reaction between dimensions that begins as physical dimension sound and passes through your emotional body and mental body. In that way, both your emotional and mental bodies influence the state of health of your physical body.

But don’t infer from this that I’m saying that you should repress or suppress inharmonious feelings! When you find yourself in such a state, the worst thing you can do is repress or suppress your feelings. The healthiest thing to do is to express them, release them, clear them and be done with them (study children—they’re great at this!)...rather than sustaining a state of inharmonious emotions. It is the long-term sustaining of inharmonious emotions that provides a supportive environment for poor health. The hypothetical ideal of course would be to "create your reality" in such a way that inharmonious emotions seldom get triggered in the first place.

Psychic Reader: What does the emotional body look like?

Iasos: Your emotional body is an egg-shaped energy field larger than your physical body and surrounding and interpenetrating your physical body. Each emotion is usually localized in one particular part of this emotional energy field. For example, anger might be localized in your solar plexus. Often, a person may decide that their emotion is "bad," "shameful," or "too painful," and consequently they’ll decide to NOT let themselves feel it. This causes the area where this emotion exists to "freeze-up" or "lock-up," and basically get stuck and not flow. Since the flow of prana or life-force is EXTREMELY interactive with the flowing of emotional energy, if the emotional energy freezes up in one particular area, then the flow of life force also freezes up in that area. This means that not enough life force is flowing into that area now. So whatever physical organs happen to occupy the same space where the emotional energy got stuck are now no longer receiving sufficient life force! If this condition persists, then predictably those physical organs will begin having serious health problems!

The solution: LET YOURSELF FEEL THE FEELINGS! GET THE EMOTIONS FLOWING!

Emotion IS “energy in motion!”

Typically, new incoming thoughts have to pass through your intellectual censor, where you decide to accept or reject those ideas. However, music is "sneaky." Sound and music by-pass any intellectual censor and totally saturate their influence on your emotions and feelings. This highlights the importance of "taking dominion" over your own world and always monitoring what music you are allowing into your emotional world. Whatever you choose to focus your attention on—you are creating a connection, a “wire,” that allows its energy to flow to you, and your energy to flow to it. So whether your attention is focused on television reporting some horrible disaster or focused on a beautiful flower, you and the object of your attention immediately begin resonating together as one synchronized system, and you immediately begin absorbing the qualities of that reality!

Music can perform the function of assisting you in attuning to the Universal First Cause and in keeping your attention focused there for an extended period of time. So sacred music performs this function of facilitating your attunement to the Universal Source and sustaining your focus on the Universal Source, thereby causing you to become more healed by establishing a sustained alignment with the Infinite Eternal Source of all Life. Just think—for each second that your attention is focused on the Universal Source of all Life, there is a tremendous stream of healing balancing energy flowing into your body and energy fields!

As our planet continues its dimensional upshift, there will be more and more ceremonies that consciously include and combine the angelic kingdom and the elemental nature kingdom with the human kingdom. Music can be the unifying force that resonates these three kingdoms together into a unified whole—for worship, adoration, and alignment with the One Universal Source that makes all of us alive.

These next few years, there will be appearing many musician-light-workers specifically focusing on creating music for all these purposes. Avail yourself of their sounds. Use sound to accelerate your evolution, rather than passively allowing sound to have a sluggish effect on your growth. Take charge of your life—what music you hear. Look for music that is coherent, emotionally uplifting, and centering. Music that feels like it is coming from a loving heart. Ask your own heart: How is this music affecting me—on all levels? Trust what your heart tells you, and act on it. Choose and intend to effortlessly ride these sound waves gracefully upward towards your own expansions—on waves of light.

Psychic Reader: In June, you are going to be performing in Berkeley as part of a benefit for the redesign of this publication, and by the way, thank you! It's the first time in many years that you've performed live in the Bay Area, which makes this concert even more exciting.

Iasos: I don’t do concerts unless someone invites me to do one. So in the last few years, I haven’t really been inspiring people to invite me to perform because I’ve been very focused on my video work. I’ve sort of been living like a monk in seclusion for a few years, learning video special effects software and the software in preparation in the release of my new DVD. But that’s coming to a close now. When the DVD is finished, my next focus will be to do multi media concerts.

Psychic Reader: Will we see a little preview of this DVD at the June 24th concert?

Iasos: You’ll see a lot of it at the concert in Berkeley in June. I have a few instruments for that concert where there won’t be an visuals at all, but for most of the instruments, there will be continuous visuals. Music is capable of inducing divine emotions and visuals are capable of inducing divine thought forms. When they are working together, synergistically, that combination can lift people into states of higher consciousness and expanded awareness. That’s the whole point of my multimedia concerts and the DVD I’m working on.

Psychic Reader: Most of us live in a stressed state, especially in the workplace. Some people, I think, would consider your music to be beneficial as a sort of background music to relieve stress. Would you agree?

Iasos: I have some music that is specifically designed to be background music. It sort of “flavors” the space like incense does. In those cases, it is very soothing, relaxing, nurturing and healing. But I have other music that's not at all designed for background music. It's the exact opposite. Instead, it's intended for focused attention. It's designed to arouse higher states of energy and consciousness.

Psychic Reader: Tell us more about the musical experience you are putting together for June 24th.

Iasos: If they are interested in spiritual experiences, if they are interested in going to higher consciousness spaces, or going deeper within, or in contacting their own divinity, then this concert is for them. It's not about the kind of mentality of having a beer and going to a football game. It's designed for people who want to have deep spiritual experiences.

It will be a different experience for each person. Some will be focused primarily on the music, others will get swept away by the visuals, others will open up to both at the same time. It's fine with all cases. My job is to provide a smorgasbord, a rich variety of beauty patterns in sound and visuals.

A certain amount of color healing always happens. The way I present color is not based on the usual concepts of color healing where one color equals this or that kind of healing. What I do is to present ALL the pure colors at the same time. Then whichever color their energy field is lacking will be absorbed—effortlessly, instinctively, automatically. So when they leave the concert with will be in a much more balanced state.

Psychic Reader: There will be a lot of psychics at the June event. Are you looking forward to this unique kind of audience?

Iasos: I can’t wait! I predict that people will be coming up to me afterward and telling me about what kind of psychic experiences it triggered. These events are usually an extreme catalyst for normal people, so for psychics it will be about fourteen times as much of a catalyst! I think it will be a good match up between audience and performer.

People can attend the concert just as a unique experience. I have no problem with that. But I would suggest that people come to the concert with an intention. I invite people come with an intention that during the concert they will be elevated to higher states of awareness, increased contact with their own divinity and if they need healing, they will receive healing. And they can still have fun, it’s just a matter of setting an intention. They’ll get much more out of it than just fun. It’s all a matter of choosing to have an intention, or not.

Psychic Reader: Tell us about the Iasos dress code for your concerts.

Iasos: There are a few things about this Iasos tradition. I ask people to come dressed the way they envision themselves as their divine self, their god or goddess self. Let everyone see who you really are, dress as magnificently as you always imagined your higher self to be. It's very inspiring. It's a confirmation and validation for you, and it's also very inspiring to see other people dressed that way. It helps people establish and recognize and confirm their own divinity. And also, on a party level, it's just fun!

Psychic Reader: Well, thanks very much for your time. I'm looking forward to seeing you on June 24th.

Iasos: Great, I can't wait either! See you then.

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