Don’t you love those moments when something is happening and there is the perfect piece of music playing literally, or playing in your head – the soundtrack of the soul, making a moment perfect?
Throughout time music has nourished the soul. It has a wonderful way of reaching deep inside our very being. In ancient times, healers and philosophers and Abbesses and priests have talked about the power of music to heal the soul. From the ancient Greek mythology of Orpheus enchanting the cosmos with his lyre, through to Marsilio Ficino in the Renaissance, healers would pluck the cosmic notes of the universe on the strings of their lyre required for healing for the soul of the person they were treating. But it is not just humans who tune into melody and rhythm, I recall some research showing that plants responded to the birdsong around them. It was as if the plants related to the music of their landscape. And why not I say?
Whether plucked on the lyre or sung by a bird, I love the way music feeds the soul and creates connection. Melodic connectivity helps shape our shared and individual cosmology. The ancients talked of us as being made of stardust, and it was regarded that everything on this planet: plant, person, animal, place had a corresponding star in the universe. The idea of heavenly bodies and the matter of earthly bodies were intimately connected. Music was regarded as a manifestation of the vibrations of that energy, that connection spiralling through time and space.
If we resonate with the cosmic notes of the universe, what does this mean for the soundtrack of our life? Which pieces of music are the ones that we draw most comfort from and feel most as a part of us, an extension of our very being?
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