"Those pre-Enlightenment doctor/magicians knew much about soul and spirit and it was a central consideration in all their approaches to medicine. They knew how to grow soul and awaken the spirit. They knew sound had something to do with it as well."
Loved reading this as I prepare to offer a Sound Journey with my partner this evening - drums, rattles, flutes, hand pans, rain sticks, vocal toning & more to let frequency & vibration do what it does best: connect us ever deeper back to ourselves as we explore, create, and receive with our hearts (our first and forever drum within...until Spirit guides our Soul to another land).
"By making art, it doesn't have to deal with paints or instruments or any specific medium, all it needs to be is an authentic expression from the heart. This is what moves people. It's what touches their souls—and, in turn, awakens the spirit." I used to publish a blog called Farm Imaginings - the whole idea of it was farming as an art. I photographed urban and rural farms that were in some way a form of authentic self-expression. It never ceased to amaze me what unique forms people created with their plantings and hardscape - but the overall effect was something soulful for sure.
This conversation brings me to the teachings in Alchemy and from Paracelsus about the Alchemical trinity of Salt-Mercury-Sulphur; Body, Spirit, Soul. Salt/Body being the material level/container, mercury being the spirit, which is more of a collective- everyone has a spirit, the breath of being, or like the spirit of a lemon balm plant that would be similar to other mint family plants, silver would have the spirit of a metal, and the sulphur/soul that would be a unique signature to that body and spirit. The sulphur of lemon balm or silver being it's unique properties and soul signature.
We all have the divine breath of life, a mercurial force that is housed within our salty bones, and the sulphur is that individual soul piece that is unique to each being and carried throughout lifetimes and along the golden threads of each individual path. We had a cool example one year at an Alchemical herbalism workshop I was at- and it was noted that everyone who sat and meditated with Cedar trees felt an overarching protection feeling, but each person's interpretation of what that protection meant or how it related to them was very individual, and we connected it to that trinity- Cedar ( salt ) / Protection ( spirit ) /individual circumstance/type of protection felt ( sulphur)
Art and music would definitely fit into this trinity with a million examples and what we would feed our salt/mercury/sulphur in regards to the lunar and solar....what are your thoughts?
"Those pre-Enlightenment doctor/magicians knew much about soul and spirit and it was a central consideration in all their approaches to medicine. They knew how to grow soul and awaken the spirit. They knew sound had something to do with it as well."
Loved reading this as I prepare to offer a Sound Journey with my partner this evening - drums, rattles, flutes, hand pans, rain sticks, vocal toning & more to let frequency & vibration do what it does best: connect us ever deeper back to ourselves as we explore, create, and receive with our hearts (our first and forever drum within...until Spirit guides our Soul to another land).
"By making art, it doesn't have to deal with paints or instruments or any specific medium, all it needs to be is an authentic expression from the heart. This is what moves people. It's what touches their souls—and, in turn, awakens the spirit." I used to publish a blog called Farm Imaginings - the whole idea of it was farming as an art. I photographed urban and rural farms that were in some way a form of authentic self-expression. It never ceased to amaze me what unique forms people created with their plantings and hardscape - but the overall effect was something soulful for sure.
Love this.
This conversation brings me to the teachings in Alchemy and from Paracelsus about the Alchemical trinity of Salt-Mercury-Sulphur; Body, Spirit, Soul. Salt/Body being the material level/container, mercury being the spirit, which is more of a collective- everyone has a spirit, the breath of being, or like the spirit of a lemon balm plant that would be similar to other mint family plants, silver would have the spirit of a metal, and the sulphur/soul that would be a unique signature to that body and spirit. The sulphur of lemon balm or silver being it's unique properties and soul signature.
We all have the divine breath of life, a mercurial force that is housed within our salty bones, and the sulphur is that individual soul piece that is unique to each being and carried throughout lifetimes and along the golden threads of each individual path. We had a cool example one year at an Alchemical herbalism workshop I was at- and it was noted that everyone who sat and meditated with Cedar trees felt an overarching protection feeling, but each person's interpretation of what that protection meant or how it related to them was very individual, and we connected it to that trinity- Cedar ( salt ) / Protection ( spirit ) /individual circumstance/type of protection felt ( sulphur)
Art and music would definitely fit into this trinity with a million examples and what we would feed our salt/mercury/sulphur in regards to the lunar and solar....what are your thoughts?