Intuitive healer and channeler Andye Murphy took some time in February to ask her guides about why rock music impacts us so powerfully from a spiritual perspective. After taking copious notes on the information, we got together the other day and I had the pleasure of interviewing Andye with my new flip HD video camera. Love new technology.
The information brought through from Andye’s guides was very similar to some of the concepts I discuss in my book, I Found All the Parts: Healing the Soul through Rock ‘n’ Roll. Highlights of our discussion include:
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Music with a drum beat calls fans together for a higher purpose
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Music without drums can facilitate an inner healing experience
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Musicians are not necessarily the teachers: fans and band are equal and come together to support one another and raise our vibration
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Andye feels Red Hot Chili Pepper guitarist John Frusciante is a good example of a high level being bringing forth spiritual energy and awareness through his music.
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Dancing at concerts to the beat of the drum is a way for fans to shake off old energy and usher in new levels of consciousness. Sound and movement are keys to healing.
Andye Murphy and the Healing Power of Rock Music, Part 1
Andye Murphy and the Healing Power of Rock Music, Part 2
Andye’s notation about music and movement as an essential part of healing with rock ‘n’ roll come off the heels of my ordering Bradford Keeney’s book, Shaking Medicine. My copy arrived today, and I’m eager to learn more about how music, movement and healing are intertwined. One reason why I’m so intrigued is because years ago, a friend of mine getting her Master’s Degree in Counseling described part of a book she was reading which stated that when animals in the wild have trauma, they “shake” until they have processed the trauma, and then go about their merry way.
That one observation has always stuck with me since I was uncovering the healing power of “rock” and “roll” at the time. Both rock and roll imply movement. Could it be that the beat of the drum in rock music is essential on some level for healing and raising consciousness because it makes us want to move?
Recently, I sent an email to the band I follow about drumming, and how shaking and movement might be important for us. This is an excerpt I sent on February 9, 2009.
Last year I read Drumming on the Edge of Magic by Mickey Hart. He states “rhythm is time,” and claims the drum rhythms set up a ripple in time, ensuring that the shaman can find his way back from the timelessness that is mentioned in almost all accounts of the “other world”. So what did I see at the California shows this December? The drummer once again gave me an important clue. A digital clock sat next to him every show. Drummer = rhythm = time = a trip into the “other world”?
Mickey talks about musicians being like shamans. In other texts, they’re called witch doctors or high priests (of rhythmic noise, I guess). For years I’ve sensed that rock musicians are here to help the masses heal, and now I believe one way to heal is to transcend time. We seem to transcend time when we raise our consciousness. If raising consciousness means raising our vibration so that we are like those electrons in an excited state, what can we do to augment the process? Since I only have my own experience to go on, I thought about the night of my awakening.
I was feeding my daughter in her bedroom, rocking her back and forth in my glider. Now that I think about it, I may have even been humming to her. Simultaneously, the desire to understand my attraction to you and your music that night was incredibly intense. I wonder if it was a combination of asking a question with great fervency coupled with movement and humming that might have triggered a knowing of the future which left me in an “excited state” of bliss for months. Can everyone have an experience of transcending to a timeless state, and if so, will that help us heal?
It Must be Something in the Water
What might be the mechanism for how this happens? Perhaps water is an important ingredient in the time/healing formula. In numerous texts I uncovered a connection between water and music, and quote in my book, “The earthly body is mostly water. In this sense the body acts as a conductor, resonating to vibrations made around it. The sounds trigger a profound awareness and response on the cellular level.”
…Other research claims water is able to carry a memory of everything from particles to emotions, especially when it is shaken (like in homeopathy). For many years I’ve sensed the concepts of homeopathy, where the principle “like cures like,” can be applied to music and healing. So I suspect that my memory of the future was due in part to the water in my body, which acted as a conductor between my consciousness and time as I rocked my daughter back and forth. According to numerous texts, everything in the Universe is made of sound, and all sound vibrates. Maybe that’s why a generation of music is called rock and roll. Movement, getting all shook up, might be a key part of the healing power of music, as well as our ability to transcend time.
Perhaps we all need to “shake our booty” a bit more to heal from truma, or connect with spirit. In my next blog, I’ll discuss more about movement and spirituality after I read a bit of scholar Bradford Keeney’s intruiging book, Shaking Medicine.