Featured Transmission For March 2010

The Tree Within
(18"X24" Ink and Pastel created to "Icaro: Shamanic Songs")

Life is a matter of light and vibration dependent on the frequency of the waves set forth with the initial catalyst of motion, the spark that propelled all matter and reality as we know it, the Big Bang.
Music is an aspect of that frequency. Light slowed to the denser wave lengths of sound, where gravity is altered and the empty space held together by the unseen glue of dark matter, creates a field of resonance.
Throughout all cultures of the world, whether ancient or current, music has been used to heal, bring forth altered states of consciousness, and communicate with the divine.
In South America, the Amazon region of Peru, these constitute sacred songs called Icaros that are taught to shamans, the communicators of the unseen mythic realm, through spiritual ceremonies with the Vine of Souls, ayahuasca. The altering of perception, the changing of vibration, allows the master shaman to see a different reality with its own set of language and symbols that are expressed through a change of frequency, and these Icaros are aligned with this realm.
As humans, we grow accustomed to our dominant reality, our everyday world, and grow desensitized to the greater world that is expressed internally and externally, beyond our engrained perception. Icaros are a powerful example of the beautiful healing ability of song and the nature of plant consciousness communicating with our own.

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