Have you read The Tibetan Book of the Dead?
A cynical.interpretation: if people can be convinced they are born sinners, they can be more easily manipulated.
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
This is an offshoot of the jazz thread. I and others found that we could not talk about jazz without discussing other musical genres, as well as the philosophy of music. So, this is a thread in which people can suggest good music of all genres, and spout off your feelings about music itself.
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When i was young. I read the Bible at 10 because there was no other book. I read the Egyptian and Tibetan book of dead many years later. But the books that changed my life was not an orthodox book from any religion. At 20 i read "talking with angels" translated by Gitta Mallasz this book has nothing to do with reincarnation but throw me with another book " The freedom of doubt" by Alexis-Preyre, a book so extraordinary that i begun to understand what is spiritual experience... https://www.amazon.co.uk/freedom-doubt-Reflections-natural-sceptic/dp/B0007EYO38 I become convinced by reincarnations by reading many books by many writers... Too many to count... The main spiritual writers i read about reincarnation were Edgar Cayce and Rudolf Steiner ( i read 200 books from Steiner )
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I walk 3 hours a day listening music for half the part... You cannot listen Liszt or Scriabin or Beethoven walking ...Not Jazz either... But Gregorian song or Indian devotional music you can... They goes well with walking and meditating .. This series "Bhaktimala" with very powerful Indian singers 6 cd is stupendous for walks ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvfiGTu0qOg&list=RDmvfiGTu0qOg&start_radio=1
Any Gregorian song will do save the Old Gregorian of Iegor Reznikov, it is impossible to listen to this walking. Iegor is a mathematician who begun singing and rediscover old Gregorian before the Gregorian reform All his albums now impossible to buy are miracles of "harmonic singing " well recorded : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EatHHyXiqBk&list=RDEatHHyXiqBk&start_radio=1 |
"Music is light and joy coming with the syllable" Iegor Reznikov speaking about old Christian monastery singing before Gregory reform as a yoga... Reznikov is a genius who rediscovered "harmonic singing " in the Christian tradition : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o56fnmcSajA&list=PLNcZrq8jR6EvXxiy0qz0HWRhBRy3omWKm |
I want to promote Roberta Flack. I think she is underappreciated because her singing did not fall into any genre. Like Aretha Franklin, she learned to sing in church and has a beautiful gospel voice. For me, she has the most full and expressive voice of all of the female vocalists of her generation, white or black. Here is a sample of her singing "Bridge Over Troubled Waters." Think about how she has taken this very popular song and made it her own. |
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