Spiritual Music

Gautama Buddha instructed his monks not to listen to music. But in Hinduism, devotional music has, across the Ages, served as an aid to spiritual practice. Although I’m a big fan of Gautama’s teachings, my sentiments are with the Hindus, because I know from personal experience that the“right” music can be spiritually helpful.

The question is, what is “right” music? The answer is, whatever music helps you connect to and stay connected to the Spirit. Music that opens the heart and/or stimulates vertical feeling-intensity (such as certain psychedelic and hard rock) can be classified as “potentially” spiritual - and I say “potentially spiritual,” because unless you are able transmute the musical vibration into spiritual energy, then it’s not spiritual for you.

It’s common to consider New Age music, such as Paul Horn’s Inside the Taj Mahal, Ray Lynch’s Deep Breakfast, and Merlin’s Magic-Chakra Meditation music, as “spiritual”; likewise, it’s not uncommon to also consider some classical music -- exemplified by Pachelbel’s Canon (which Adi Da classified as 7^th-stage music) – as spiritual. But not many people consider rock n’ roll spiritual – but I do. In fact, for me it’s the most spiritual music of all. But not all rock n’ roll, just some.

For example, I don’t find the Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, Guns and Roses, and AC/DC to be spiritual. But -- perhaps because I have Scorpio rising and five planets in the 8^th house – I find the Scorpions very spiritual.  I also spiritually vibe with Dokken, Queensryche, and various songs by Great White, Rainbow, Dio, Metallica, et al.  Although the ’80s is often referred to as the “hair-band era,” I consider it my personal “spiritual rock era.” But I also find various ‘60s and ‘70s rock – such as Deep Purple, Jefferson Airplane, Moody Blues, and early Jethro Tull – to be spiritually uplifting.

Thanks to YouTube, you can sample virtually all the commercial music that’s out there. And by sampling it, you’ll find the music that “floats your spiritual boat.”

Here are some songs that I really like, which you can listen to at YouTube:  Child in Time (Deep Purple), White Bird (It’s a Beautiful Day), Pride of Man (Quicksilver Messenger Service), Catch the Rainbow (Rainbow),  Fly People, Fly (Scorpions), Always Somewhere (Scorpions), We Used to Know (Jethro Tull), Feeling Good (Michael Buble).  If you like my recommendations, I’ll be glad to provide more.