Okay, so my meditation music would likely be the FURTHEST thing from people's minds, but I just have to vent about how incredibly powerful it is for me, and hopefully there is at least ONE person out there who can appreciate the power of this artist's calculated style...

I feel my greatest sense of calm, clarity, peace, and elation when I listen to...
Maynard James Keenan...the lead singer of Tool. Yeah, that's right, the rather offensive and dark techno metal poets...I absolutely love Tool, and there is nothing that touches me as deeply as their genius of a lyricist and lead singer...

Most people don't know, but Maynard is a nut for Jungian imagery, metaphysical unknowns, and infinite quandaries...Each of his songs is built lyrically and melodically about a piercing abyss of human thought. The genius he must possess to so elegantly unite heart-wrenching words with their perfect instrumental corollary is astounding.

Why do his lyrics bring me such peace...? Because they echo the same fears, emotions, and weaknesses that exist in my own life...

An appetizer...:

And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping...the moon tells me a secret, a confidant:
"As full and bright as I am, this light is not my own and a million light reflections pass over me...The source is bright and endless."
She resuscitates the hopeless, without her we are lifeless satellites drifting.
...And you will come to find that we are all ONE MIND, capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable.
-"Reflection"

I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow. To feel inspired...to fathom the power...
to witness the beauty...to bathe in the fountain...to swing on the spiral
of OUR DIVINITY and still be a human.
-"Lateralus"

My shadow's shedding skin. I've been picking scabs again. I'm done digging through my own muscles looking for a clue. Been crawling on my belly figuring out what could have been. I've been wallowing in my own confused and insecure delusions. With a peace to cross me over, with a word to guide me in, I wanna feel the changes coming down. I wanna know what I've been hiding in my SHADOW. (DIRECT REFERENCE TO JUNGIAN CONCEPT OF CHROMOSOMES 46and2...)
-"46 and 2"

Cast a calming apply up and over satellites to draw out the timid wild one...To convince you it's alright. And I listen for the whisper of your sweet insanity while I formulate denials of your effect on me. You're a stranger, so what do I care? And vanish today, not the first time I hear all the lies...What am I to do with all this silence?
-"A Stranger" (this is from his other band, A Perfect Circle)

And one that applies to us all...

Lost again, broken and weary, unable to find my way. Tail in hand, dizzy and clearly unable to just let this go. I am surrendering to gravity and the unknown. Catch me, heal me, lift me back up to the sun.

I choose to live...I choose to live...I choose to live.

-"Gravity", A Perfect Circle


Yes.... :)

your little appeteazer for "Reflection" i loved. It kind of...STUCK OUT...from the rest to me.

I do know what you mean. I do. Some music to me just sticks...I cannot explain this phenomenon.

For instance, i have loved the red hot chili peppers since I first started to really take an interest in music. 6th grade I believe was the first time I heard their musci. I can still remember watching their music video, "Californication" at my best friend's house.

And orchestral music. Ever since I was little, I have always been awed by its sound. When I think back. Almost every time I visited my grandmother, I would watch this movie called Fantasia. It was so amazing. It was absolutely my favorite movie.

Maybe it is all a matter of extended exposure to certain sounds. They become important to you. They become part of who you are, and maybe how you think. Proning you to have a certain taste for certain sounds and music.

If you enjoy instrumental/classical (you said that, right?) then you would love this classical choral piece called "O Magnum Mysterium." If you can obtain it, the best version is by Chanticleer--try to steer clear of the Linda Ronstadt version.

It's incredible. It gives me chills.

Also check out a song by Bjork called "Joga."

K. What are the names of the cd's containing those 2 songs?

Hm...I dunno...I'll try to find out...