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Music, Worship, & Rituals
« on: September 19, 2017, 08:56:33 pm »
Recently, I've been playing with different music videos from YouTube to help enhance and deepen the trance I enter with my meditations. Right now, I'm loving . I'm also looking into other sources as well, to vary it up.

What music do you use, and if it's on YouTube (or someother source) let us know!
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Re: Music, Worship, & Rituals
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2017, 12:19:20 am »
What music do you use, and if it's on YouTube (or someother source) let us know!

Enya's "Storms in Africa" is my favorite.

"Dream of the Innocent" by Helen Trevillion is good too, fairly restorative and energizing but restful at the same time.

It depends what frequency I'm at. When I'm nervous, "Here Comes A Thought" (Estelle, Steven Universe sountrack) tempo songs just make it worse, so I would rather go for the second season reprise of the Galavant theme—or, when it's really bad: the full version of "When It Falls" by Jeff Williams and Casey Lee (RWBY season 3 soundtrack).

When I'm already mellow, "Here Comes A Thought" is fine.

And if you don't mind more looming in the music, "Temple of the Sky" by Erutan is loopable.
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Re: Music, Worship, & Rituals
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2017, 07:58:14 am »
What music do you use, and if it's on YouTube (or someother source) let us know!

"Walking and Falling" by Laurie Anderson. The echoing, cycling notes, very simple, instantly zen me out, as does the deliberate cadence of her voice. And the words are the kind of strange, possibly profound observation typical of Anderson.


The first song sets the wheel in motion / The second is a song of love / The third song tells of Her devotion / The fourth cries joy from the sky above
The fifth song binds our fate to silence / and bids us live each moment well / The sixth unleashes rage and violence / The seventh song has truth to tell
The last song echoes through the ages / to ask its question all night long / And close the circle on these pages / These, the metamythos songs

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Re: Music, Worship, & Rituals
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2017, 09:22:28 am »
Recently, I've been playing with different music videos from YouTube to help enhance and deepen the trance I enter with my meditations. Right now, I'm loving . I'm also looking into other sources as well, to vary it up.

What music do you use, and if it's on YouTube (or someother source) let us know!

Lately I've been drawn to Aine and Venus type energy. For that I like listening to Bjork. Big Time Sensuality is one I've come back to.

For more mellow meditations I listen to Ong Namo by Snatum Kaur. I also sing old hymns I learned in childhood as they have a deeper meaning to me now.
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Re: Music, Worship, & Rituals
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2017, 06:32:22 pm »
Enya's "Storms in Africa" is my favorite.

"Dream of the Innocent" by Helen Trevillion is good too, fairly restorative and energizing but restful at the same time.

It depends what frequency I'm at. When I'm nervous, "Here Comes A Thought" (Estelle, Steven Universe sountrack) tempo songs just make it worse, so I would rather go for the second season reprise of the Galavant theme—or, when it's really bad: the full version of "When It Falls" by Jeff Williams and Casey Lee (RWBY season 3 soundtrack).

When I'm already mellow, "Here Comes A Thought" is fine.

And if you don't mind more looming in the music, "Temple of the Sky" by Erutan is loopable.

Enya is one of my favorites. Adeamus (spelling?) is my all time favorite of hers and helps me focus.

There are a few others that I'm exploring.
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Re: Music, Worship, & Rituals
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2017, 09:36:39 pm »
What music do you use, and if it's on YouTube (or someother source) let us know!

This is very relevant to my practice; I listen to albums of music all the time to help me meditate or achieve union with my Powers.

My neo-Dionysian practice is really heavily reliant on classic rock as the "music of the new gods," especially Queen. I consider the album Innuendo to be my path's holiest text.

...aside from that very specific callout, however, I find that more trance-like music is good for meditative purposes. There's a wonderful Greek band called Daemonia Nymphe that does music based on ancient Hellenic motifs and themes, and I've used their work for ritual purposes multiple times. Kim Boekbinder's album The Sky Is Calling also beautifully invokes my ideas of an Aphrodisiac/Persephone-like goddess associated with both the stars and human mortality.

(You can find both of the above on the site Bandcamp.)
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Re: Music, Worship, & Rituals
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2017, 07:17:13 pm »
This is very relevant to my practice; I listen to albums of music all the time to help me meditate or achieve union with my Powers.

My neo-Dionysian practice is really heavily reliant on classic rock as the "music of the new gods," especially Queen. I consider the album Innuendo to be my path's holiest text.

...aside from that very specific callout, however, I find that more trance-like music is good for meditative purposes. There's a wonderful Greek band called Daemonia Nymphe that does music based on ancient Hellenic motifs and themes, and I've used their work for ritual purposes multiple times. Kim Boekbinder's album The Sky Is Calling also beautifully invokes my ideas of an Aphrodisiac/Persephone-like goddess associated with both the stars and human mortality.

(You can find both of the above on the site Bandcamp.)

Thanks for the references. Listening to their album, The Bacchic Dance of the Nymphs - particularly interested in the Bells of Archeron, Calling the Twelve Gods, and for some reason, I can't stop looking at both Summoning Pan and Tyrvasia.... So good!
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Re: Music, Worship, & Rituals
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2017, 07:41:46 pm »
Thanks for the references. Listening to their album, The Bacchic Dance of the Nymphs - particularly interested in the Bells of Archeron, Calling the Twelve Gods, and for some reason, I can't stop looking at both Summoning Pan and Tyrvasia.... So good!

Found another source - as an app - that proves interesting: Relax Melodies. Allows you to mix several sounds together to create a meditative state, as well as using certain frequencies to induce different states.

I did this last night and Holy Shit. I went into a deep meditative state within a relatively quick time frame (about 10 minutes, when it usually takes me much longer), and I actually visualized where I was, and got to meet a (maybe my?) God... who I think either kissed me full on the lips or was staring deeply into my eyes. I can't remember what happened at that point.
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