phenomeNEWS - This Month's Music Review

This Month's Music Review
by Greg Ozimek

CEALO - MUSIC FOR MEDITATION
(blue cover)
Fr. Andrew Rogers
www.andrewrogers.us

Scene 2: A Deeper Look

Last month we looked into the enticing and deeply moving affects of Father Andrew Rogers’ free form music created as if impromptu with the angels.

I must say that since writing the review for last month and after spending another month listening to Music for Meditation (blue cover) very many times at all times of the day and night that I have something even more encouraging to report. You can surf while Cealo - Music for Meditation (blue cover) plays in the background. And the quality of the surfing is enhanced by the angelic presence (and presents) engendered by the musical experience. It is brilliant. It is oh so cool.

Surf?

Yes. It could almost feel like yesterday, but it was very many years ago that I discovered a very safe experience I could venture into. I could repeat it whenever I had the time and wanted to.

I’ve never heard of anyone doing anything like this (and I’d sure like to hear about it if you have) and I called it “Surfing the subtle levels of consciousness” or simply “surfing.”

While surfing is different than lucid dreaming and “dreaming,” the body’s level of respiration is likely near that of sleep, yet more refined.

The surfing takes place usually after a normal night’s rest or after a nap. While laying on my side (this is important) and with eyes closed, in a dream-like level of “body resting and mind active” (technically defined as dream state), I work with a stream of conscious thought which I direct.

Yes, to this point it sounds like lucid dreaming.

To make this very simple to understand, my surfing is different in that my meditation background and even breathing techniques (krya) can come into play as a way to introduce the thought of whatever I am currently thinking or wondering about in my waking day.

If there is any effort to any of this it is much less than the breeze created by a butterfly wing on a calm day.

If I am laying on one side or the other the effect is that a hemisphere of the brain is definitely more dominant and there is a flavor to the visions or thoughts that result: laying on one side more creative and spatial, on the other more precise and numeric (quantitative).
Before Father Andrew sits to play he makes a statement to the angels. His hands and fingers then become like a pipe for their energy to flow through as he plays either his pipe organ or synthesizer. He has told me he is not really aware of how the whole piece of music is being put together although he does have a sense of what kind of passage he is playing as he is playing that passage.

With this music playing in the background, loud enough to hear but not loud enough to keep me from sleeping, I go “back to bed” to surf.

This surfing is different with the angelic-centered music of Father Andrew in at least several ways. I find that whenever my very subtle thinking mind begins to drift out of the realm where the answers to my thoughts come from indeed it is pulled with some kind of magnetic attraction to the music and, amazingly, the angelic feeling is there connecting with my heart.

The duration of surfing is also longer, extended because of the most appropriate sound track which weaves my mind back into that subtle mind state with a renewed fervor as if encouraged from my heart. It’s sweet.

When we listen to Father Andrew’s style of music it is easy to drop all barriers and resistance and just be with an open heart. To be able to surf while gently bouncing between the subtle mind realms (which may be Ritam and the Akashic Records) and the outer world filled with the impulses of angels... is a peak experience.

All profits from both Cealo CD’s go to Cealo’s charitable work the non-profit Foundation for Global Harmony 501(c)3.