Visionary Art by Luis Tamani Timothy Leary was well-known American psychologist and writer whose life’s work revolved around advocating the exploration of “inner space” through the…
Featured art by Trisha Thompson Adams (Wake Up World) Anxiety — that feeling of dread, fear, worry and panic — is certainly nothing new. Hippocrates wrote about…
Consciousness
This Hypnotic Meditation Allows You to Expand Your Intuition and Help Heal the Collective Unconscious
The following song, “The Hypnotist” by Sisterlove is a hypnotic meditation set to soothing music to calm the soul, and expand the intuitive faculties of the…
Consciousness
The Physics of Playing a Guitar Visualized: Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” Viewed from Inside the Guitar
The video below shows a visualization of the physics of music in real-time from the inside of a guitar. By placing his phone inside an acoustic…
Art
“Are You Lost in the World Like Me”: A Powerful Social Commentary/Music Video by Moby & The Void Pacific Choir
The music video for “Are You Lost in the World Like Me” by Moby & The Void Pacific Choir is a powerful social commentary on the…
LSD is a powerful substance with multiple effects on the mind and psyche. But while its properties are decidedly hallucinogenic, it also exerts a mighty impact…
Nicholas Roerich was a Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, philosopher, and public figure, who in his youth was influenced by a movement in Russian society around the…
Most know him as a science fiction writer turned cult leader. L Ron Hubbard was the founder of widely criticized modern religious group, Scientology. Few people know…
The season finale of Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared debuted just three weeks ago. If you’re not familiar with the series, we highly recommend you check out their…
This short excerpt features a quote from sci-fi author Philip K Dick on his spiritual awakening and how it relates to music. In a private letter to…
If you can sing the three note melody that starts of The Simpsons theme (The-Simp-Sons) then you are well on your way to understanding its similarity to this…
Brian Eno began his career as a glam rock artist and gradually shifted toward solo electronic music. Albums like Another Green World (1975), Discreet Music (1975), and Music for Airports (1978) highlight…
For the infant, the womb was the inner world. The parameters of reality seemed to extend no further than the womb. We hear sound and music for…
The meaning of music is nearly impossible to describe with words. Descriptive language rarely succeeds in capturing the essence of a song, and even then, the map…
Harps predate the piano keyboard by over 2,500 years. The two are nearly identical instruments in design, but pianos introduce hammer and key technology, turning the…
That feeling when you listen to beautiful music and you can’t help but feeling completely immersed in it: you are having a skin-orgasm. That feeling…
Art by Santosh Chattopadhyay A political documentary called Zeitgeist (located here) took the internet fringe-conspiracy scene by storm in 2007. The film included a detailed comparison between…
New age marketers have turned the word alchemy into a vague catch all phrase implying spirituality without any reference to the original art. Ask somebody what alchemy…
If you are interested in studying the correlation between esoteric philosophy and music theory, you need to look into Pat Martino. His book The Nature of Guitar outlines…
The complete letters of William S Burroughs can be found in a compilation called Rub Out The Words. These documents show that during the 1960’s, he…
The bridge between the Fretboard and the Head of a guitar is called the Nut The Head on top of a Nut Acorn Nut Acorn Nuts as Silver Bells SPACE…
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ― Confucius The term cymatics was coined by a Swiss man named Hans Jenny (1904-1972)…
Artwork by Pilar Zeta Sword in the Stone The Black Stone at Mecca Black Stone | Notes on Musical Staff The Words in the Notes The original Italian…
The study of life on Earth is called biology. So far as the general public is concerned, sentient life on other planets has not yet been discovered…
You are probably already familiar with the sound frequency A432 Hz and the story that goes along with it. New Age musicians and sound healers tend to…
The William Herschel Telescope, Located in the Canary Islands, Spain It may look like an oversized golf ball double-strapped to a catapult, but the large structure…
Popular musicians and composers sometimes plagiarize from one another. Here are just a few examples of what happens when derivative works are mashed up together and…
Kepler is an opera by Philip Glass dedicated to Johannes Kepler. It premiered on 20 September 2009 at the Landestheater in the Austrian The early 17th century…
Marcello Pellegrino Ernetti was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and renowned musicologist specializing in Pre-Christian ancient music. He had a university degree in quantum physics and…
The whole notion of Western music comes out of a distinction between cultural hemispheres. Eastern and Western musical aesthetics are very different. How different are they…
