Music Can Help Heal Your Soul

The Big Bang Of course a scientific theory,

Until proven wrong,

Is known to be right.

Anyway,

My name is Douglas Gromis,

Thanks for joining me.

And the big news nowadays is that the James Webb telescope has basically discovered that there's no such thing as the Big Bang.

It didn't happen.

What happened was the telescope was pointed in a certain direction where there should have been less galaxies and less galaxies until it came into this cosmic dark age.

But that's not what happened at all.

What happened was that it kept discovering new galaxies and the galaxies they said should have become smaller and smaller in size but they were getting bigger and bigger in size.

It's very interesting.

So that leaves so many questions unanswered to us.

Like,

Okay,

So if the Big Bang didn't happen then when and how did it start?

I like what Osho and Alan Watts have both said about this and they both agree that maybe there was no beginning.

I fathom that.

That there's never a beginning and there'll never be an end.

It's kind of hard to even digest.

Maybe next to the James Webb telescope might discover that there is a multiverse or maybe it might be able to figure that part out for us.

Who knows?

I mean,

This is interesting times we live in that so much could change.

We've been thinking since the 1920s that the Big Bang was it.

That was the big theory.

That was the scientific core.

But so we ask ourselves,

You know,

Where do we go from here?

And the mystical approach,

What all the mystics have been saying is that this godliness,

This maybe when the universe did start,

If it ever did have a start,

That God dove into his creation and became what is known as the universe today or the multiverse or whatever you want to call it.

He is known as that.

That is him.

He dove into it and became this essence of everything that exists.

But where there's evidence of the raindrops,

There must be an ocean not far away.

Meaning that if we are all basically raindrops and small very minute pieces of what God is,

Then there must be an ocean somewhere that where all this rain is coming from.

Something is getting absorbed into the sky and cycled through the system and out we come as these beautiful souls.

Which brings up the next question.

How do we get in contact?

Is it possible for us to get in contact with that essence,

That essence of oneness that we all come from,

The core of creation?

How do we get in contact with that?

Since we're already the drop,

Then we can start with that.

We can't start with what's outside of us and try to become one with what's outside of us.

We have to start within.

We have to take that journey inward in order to discover this oneness.

If there's a tie that ties everything together,

It's found within us.

In a way we feel like we're in our own prison.

We are contained inside of a body and we don't know the way in.

We don't know the way out.

It feels like a prison at some time.

But there is evidence of people actually getting out of the prison and how they got out of that prison.

Buddha went into meditation and dissolved into meditation.

Kind of a negative approach,

But that was his approach to negate this.

Say God is not this,

God is not that.

And the Hindus have a word for it called Neti Neti.

But Buddha dove into meditation and narrowed everything down to nothing.

It's like,

Okay,

I've deleted everything,

So what's left is God.

That's what happened to him when he attained enlightenment.

He negated everything and then he just stopped trying.

He just gave up on everything and just stopped trying.

And then just sat there and meditated for the essence of just meditating.

And then the magic happened for Buddha.

With Jesus it was surrender.

Jesus surrendered first to John,

John the Baptist,

And with that surrender he obtained his enlightenment.

I'm reading about a mystic named Nanak.

And Nanak came to God through music.

There's a Sufi story in the book that I'm reading and I'd love to share with you guys if you've got a minute to hang on and listen to this story.

It's really cool.

So what happened was there was this mystic.

And the mystic was known throughout the land as being a very special soul.

And just by meeting him you would get lit yourself.

You would just feel his essence,

His beauty,

And it would just turn you on and make you feel happy and joyous inside and everything.

So anyway,

The king heard news of this mystic and he heard that he was coming to his village,

His town.

And the king arranged a meeting with the mystic and he brought around his entourage with him.

And what happened was the king got turned on.

He got happy and everything,

But he also found out that his wife got very excited too and got very happy and it kind of made the king a little bit jealous.

So for the mystic's punishment of doing that to his wife,

The king locked him up in a tower that was like 300 feet tall but had a small window.

But there's no way for the mystic to get out of the tower.

I mean he was way up there and there's no way out.

But what happened was the mystic whispered something into the queen's ear before he got pushed up and locked up.

And that very night the queen found this insect that spun a silver cord,

A small silky cord,

And she coerced the insect to climb up the tower and left behind this silver cord,

This fine thread.

And the insect made it all the way up and dropped off the silver cord to the mystic.

And then the wife tied on a little bit thicker of a thread to the silver cord and they pulled the thread up.

And he had a little bit of a stronger bond.

And then they kept doing this until they got a rope big enough to hold the weight of the mystic and then he climbed down to safety and thanked the wife and went on his merry way.

So it's a Sufi story.

And basically what Nanaka is saying is that music can be that fine silver cord,

That fine thread that ties you up to godliness to get you out of this prison that you're in.

And music is so beautiful and it can do so much for you.

If you close your eyes and just listen and be still your mind and just listen and let the music carry you away,

You'll find it brings you back to godliness.

It brings you closer to this divine essence.

It may just be like the thread though and you have to take it to the next step,

Which would be like meditation or something deeper than just the music itself.

And that'll get you even closer to the door.

That'll get your essence right up to god's doorstep.

And then eventually you have to drop the meditation and just dive into pure emptiness,

Pure silence.

And that way you're actually dropping that and now you've got the rope.

Now you've got a hold of the rope that will get you down from your prison.

But it can all start with music and I think that's so beautiful.

I think I remember recording a week or two ago saying that music is non-dual.

It is basically beyond duality.

You can add duality to the lyric and in a sense you can say that there's holy music,

Music you might listen to in church.

But in general it's neutral.

It goes above and beyond duality.

Just the essence of the sound of music.

So you can't say music is either good or bad because it transcends all dualities when you apply it to a mystical sense where you're drawing that energy and going from music into silence and then from silence into the abyss.

And the abyss is where you find the gold.

That's what the pot of gold is.

So yeah,

The greatest discovery of our age right now is that there's no Big Bang.

Things are changing all the time.

So it may be up to science one day to take us beyond what we know.

But until then we listen to what the mystics say and the mystics say that basically there was never an ending.

There was never a beginning.

There was never going to be another end.

It will just be existence forever.

Very hard to grasp such a wide concept but it's got a beauty of its own that can only be shared through a moment of silence.

A moment with your divine maker.

Because when you analyze music it's all about timing.

And even the minutest gap between notes is a moment of silence.

And the way that these gaps are arranged with the sound makes music either listenable or makes it some staticky noise.

But noise is not music.

Music is what's pleasing to your soul and pleasing to your ears.

Like I said,

Music as Nanak says,

It can transform your soul.

If it's just that thread,

That single thread that gets you somehow out of the prison.

But a thread nonetheless.

So anyway,

Hey guys and girls thank you for joining me.

I appreciate all your time and listening to me.

Thank you and Namaste to all my spiritual friends and aloha and mahalo to my surfing friends and blue skies to all you skydivers out there.

Take care of yourselves now.

Bye bye.