Justin St. Vincent's QUESTION:
"What do you believe is the spiritual significance of music ?"
Iasos' Response:
I do not believe that music has any inherent "purpose" or obligatory "role".
However I do believe that music has the potential to be a profoundly-deep spiritual influence on listeners.
Music is a "conductor" for certain types of energies:
Most obviously, music is a conductor of emotions - transferring the emotions of the music-creator to the emotions of the listener.
Less obviously, music is also a conductor of states of consciousness - again transferring the consciousness of the music-creator to the consciousness of the listener.
Even less obviously, music is a conductor of INTENT - transferring the Intent of the music-creator onto the listener.
When you harness these 3 potentials in the direction of "spiritually influencing" the listener, the PROFOUND potential of music becomes immediately obvious.
If the musician is feeling spiritual emotions while creating the music, then those listeners that are capable of feeling such emotions will be resonated into these spiritual emotional states.
Note:
Resonance still limits which listeners will be affected in such a manner.
If one listener never feels anything remotely close to spiritual feelings, then no amount of music imbued with these qualities will "resonate" that listener into feeling such feelings. However, if the person's emotional body has such feelings within its emotional range, then such music will resonate that particular listener into such spiritual feelings.
If a musician is in an exalted expanded state of consciousness while creating the music, then ONLY-those listeners whose awareness is capable of achieving such states of consciousness will be "resonated" into such expanded consciousness. I refer to this capability as {music being a "vibrational gateway" to higher states of being}.
And if a musician is creating music with the INTENT that the music have a healing effect, or a spiritualizing effect, then this INTENT, embedded within the sound-vibrations, will reach the listener - and affect him/her - to the degree that that listener is capable of resonating with those intentions.
We are now living in an era where there is an increasing number of musicians who are dedicating their lives and careers, to INTENTIONALLY create music that has a spiritualizing effect, and in other cases, a healing effect, and in other cases, both.
And the music created by such dedicated Souls will have a profoundly spiritualizing influence, not on all listeners, but at least on those listeners who are potentially capable of resonating with such expanded states of awareness, and loving harmonious states of feeling.
In my case, early in my career, I accidentally "discovered" that certain music could instantly resonate my awareness into exalted cosmic states of awareness - but only for a few seconds. So I thought: "Wow! If music can do this, wouldn't it be great to create music that can get you there, and then keep you there for an extended period of time!"
Thus began my own personal career of creating music, with the very conscious and focused INTENTION of creating music that would resonate the listener (through the "vibrational gateway" of music) into:
My life has remained steadfastly focused on this intention, but in recent years, I have widened my delivery to include spiritual visuals synchronized with spiritual music - delivered through the format of DVDs.
Music is capable of inducing Divine Emotions.
Visuals are capable of inducing Divine Thought-Forms.
When Divine Emotions and Divine Thought-Forms are triggered simultaneously
- in a synchronistic and synergistic manner -
their combined influence catalyzes or "ignites" the listener into states of truly expanded consciousness.
This is my current INTENT with my DVDs.
Lovingly & Enthusiastically at your service,
Iasos
iasos.com