Finding the Light - from music to meditation
By Rob Eising
There are moments in life where the experience of being part of something gets suddenly expanded or magnified, and we are caused to search for deeper meaning about the mysterious ways our lives can emerge or evolve. The music that accompanies this meditation occurred out of such a situation and if you spend time in the ideas, imagery and music of this video, it will hopefully allow you to find these deeper states within yourself.
How the music arose
Imagine some 80 people gathering in a meditative evening that was organized
on Zoom early in 2024. The focus for the evening was on the human mind, what it is, what it can do, and how it influences our life. I provided the live music whilst the collective meditations were taking place.
One of the meditations involved focusing upon the faculty of imagination. Imagination seems to be granted to the human species with permission to make use of it in any way, because as humans we have been given free choice. So, we can imagine anything we dare to dream of… if you think about it twice… did you think about it twice?
So, why dream, what to dream, how to dream, when to dream, maybe even where to dream? Are these core questions? Maybe not for our ordinary lives, but what about our lives that sense there is something more, like evolution. Evolution, not as a thing or a word, but as a process that is leading us to boldly go somewhere we have never been before.
This music emerged in that very moment where some 80 people were meditating on the faculty of imagination. It makes me wonder, what made that music, right then?
The narration in the meditation is an attempt to give some guidance about how to make use of your faculty of imagination more purposefully. For, if you feel deep inside of yourself, is there not a longing that lives in you that keeps stirring, keeps prompting you to search for these deeper meanings in life? Is there a secret power in the mind that can actually influence our current state of affairs for the good and maybe the better?
What is Light?
by Jerry Pike
Have you considered that light is always nearby, helping us navigate our lives. It offers awareness, intelligence and understanding about the world we live in. Light also exists at higher levels, from the light of the mind that makes us bright, to the light of the emotion that causes us to be inspired.
Then there is the deeper light within, which comes from our true essence character that knows better who we are, even if our conscious mind does not. It persuades us towards what we haven’t realized about ourselves, and who we might become.
In using our imagination, in the right state of mind, we can start to touch some of what lives deep within us, waiting to be discovered.
This music emerged in that very moment where some 80 people were meditating on the faculty of imagination. It makes me wonder, what made that music, right then?
Rob Eising
My life is forming as I live it, explore it, evaluate and refine it. So, what to say about that evolving story?
The first instrument I discovered at a very young age was our family breakfast table. With my little spoon I hit all things standing on that table; plates, glasses, cups, jars with metal or plastic caps, the cheese, fruits, the wicker basket, everything in the district...
Both the sound that each object reflected back to me, as the variance of vibration in the spoon that my hand could sense was a gift, transferring a message: this is my nature.
Is music the artful translation of the expression that things, liveforms, plants, animals, humans, that creation is feeding us with, in every connective exchange we dare to engage with?
Jerry Pike
I find it strange that after all these centuries of exceptional progress and accomplishment, we still do not know how we got here, whether it is for anything, and is there something higher on the planet than just us? Such questions have been a central focus for my life.
The excitement however is that in the 21st century we now know so much that, if we can put conventional thinking and established beliefs to one side, we are in a great place to explore this enigma. This mystery is ripe for, maybe not solving, but opening up through not only intelligence, but also feelings and some of the exceptional experiences that we are now able to share with each other that was not possible before.
