@-GinΠΓ Τάο Makes sense. In the east it's Tao but in the west it's Tau and Hebrew Tav or Taw. Especially the TenSion part. Tzion.. consciousness is some S curve (curse) that's trying to STrengthen itself out like a Triad into a Z. Going from a minor triffecta or sad ascending to a Major Triad buy tightening your STring. A SerpenT like sine wave coiling through cycles of ups and downs around a zero point trying to reach unity gain or zero. It's a signal sine wave soul. You're really in two places at once in a entanglemind. As a wave in the corona of the sun and as a particle which is partial here on earth. We're like a Semi Tone that need to become whole ToneS in SpaceTime.
Irani Shia sufi Monsoor Hallaj who is a famous pir of dewbondi, tableeghi Jamaat, berelvi (rizvi) used to worship jin satan through meditation like Kabbalah Jew, christian saints,Buddhists,hindu pandits to open 3rd eye to reach the highest level of spirituality. That's why these blasphemous words “anal haq (I’m truth/god) and prostrate to me” were coming out from the mouth of mansur hallaj. May Almighty ALLAH protect us fromq this antichrist dajjalik fitna Aameen.
Modern composer John Zorn has played with elements of Jewish Mysticism among many other esoteric and occult themes. His background is in Avant-Garde Jazz of 1980's New York and Japan but long has he been in a far more controlled composition and production sphere influenced by klezmer, metal and chamber music. I recommend to study his works.
I first found out about this guy when I was in high school he put out a record with the drummer for Napalm Death and I think the project/group name was "Painkiller". I remember it was really weird stuff for my young mind but I was very intrigued by it. Dig it, if you're not already hip to it. It was on Earache Records, probably circa 1990/91.
Thank you for this thoughtfully-organized overview that includes rarely-seen-in-English quotes from the substance of advanced Jewish phenomenologies of the spiritual power of music. They are so compelling, and one need not be Jewish or adhere to any one specific tradition to feel how true they ring. Music makes us resonate with and perceive whispers and echoes of unseen realms and realities. I think even the mystics understood that--Kabbalisms could be highly insular and particularistic in their views of non-Jews, but in several places, music is mentioned as universal, with clear implications that "even" non-Jewish musics can be holy or contain holiness or spring ultimately from a divine source. It's not surprising to me that just talking about music nudged an entire tradition slightly in the direction of universalism.
Amazing insights on the historical concept of music as a means of elevating the human spirit… Thank you for all your great work. “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” - Ludwig van Beethoven
Thank you for the fascinating exploration of music in Jewish mysticism! I can personally attest to the incredible power of music in inducing altered states. A few years ago I created an ecstatic practice involving music and singing and it quickly became one of my favorite because it so quickly and reliably brings me into mystical/blissful states. It brings me into deeper states of absorption and bliss than literally anything else including breathwork, yoga, psychedelics, and meditation.
"I heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: The fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah" Those lines always haunted me, and I feel like they were rooted in the topic of this video somehow.
Next week Sunday us Jews will be fasting the Fast of the 9th of Av, remembering the destruction of the 2 Temples and everything bad that happened to us in history. Would you consider covering the impact of the destruction of the First and Second Temples on Judaism (not asking for it to be done by next week but more it would be interesting to hear your overall take on it)?
I find it ironic that this was posted today, as it is the Three Weeks, when many Jews refrain from listening from instrumental music, only vocal; in fact, an industry of acapella music for the Three Weeks and the similar Sefira period has developed.
This reminds me heavily of the Mitzvah Tantz at some Hasidic weddings. The explanation I read was that the bride has the Shekhinah upon her face on that day, so men come to joyfully dance before the Presence as the newlywed is in constant prayer. Could be particular only to specific Hasidic sects, but that’s my shallow understanding of how ecstatic music in relation to the Shekhinah is applied to ceremonies.
I was hoping that you might play some of your beautiful music during this brilliant piece. It was still beyond excellent, and the music at the end, divine, as always.! Thank you ~
This was a great lecture. MUSIC IN CULTURES TRAVELING. RELIGIOUS LEADERS TRYING TO UNITE AND THEN DIVISIONS . SONGS AND MUSIC LIVES ON. PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORIES. HUMANITY FOR ALL. REVERENCE ✨️ ❤️ 🎶🥁🎹🎻🎺🎷🎶🎵
It's really interesting how much Bob Marley had in common with Jewish mysticists xD Even music like Death Metal unites millions of people, It itself is a extremely potent "semi religious" aspect of life, even to many atheists. Can you maybe do an episode on similarities between being religious and being obsessed in fringe culture? An episode on the similarities between religious people and Heavy Metal fans would be amazing as it has many similarities to things like Star Wars fandoms, which I think you might already have done.
I just had to comment here that I am a Jewish daughter of a Kabbalist and my partner is a Black Metal musician. I am 36 weeks pregnant with our first child. Our daughter will be a living manifestation of what you are saying in your comment.
@@fighttheevilrobots3417 I've been my whole life into extreme metal and I know 1 or 2 things about Kabbalah, I have nothing but huge respect to it. Could you please explain how has been your experience having a Black Metal musician as a partner and a father as Kabbalistic Jew? Thanks beforehand and congratulations for your baby btw!
@@angelc.4422 thanks for asking! We just had our daughter, she is now one month old. I think part of what helped us bond was that he understood esoteric references that I was raised with that no one else ever did. We could talk about concepts and ideas that that I could only ever talk about with my dad. My father (Gd bless his soul) passed in 2020 and my partner really helped me through the grief of that. We also have an understanding that our daughter will be raised Jewish but there is no pressure for him to convert. He has exposed me to music that I never would have found without him. (My favorite genre is rap.)
@@fighttheevilrobots3417 My condolences about your father's passing, kudos to your partner to help you out with that kind of pain/burden. In the other hand, it's wholesome you guys already have your baby! Pretty cool how you guys understood each other without being closed minded about religion/mysticism and music, really. There's few metal bands talking about kabbalah, check out Obscura's "Ten Sepiroth", pretty evident. Kabbalah is one of the only things ever that made me not want to keep reading about it when I found out about the Tree Of Death.... As I imagine, I'm sure your husband is totally comfortable with satanism in metal/music in general, just like myself, but the Qlip**th... I must admit, it scared me, I see it as the real deal. Just a few bands talk about it, like Therion, I don't like them tho, but interesting nevertheless. I don't know what can kind of rap you like but you definitely need to check out Death Grips.
very good video, and I know I just asked this yesterday in a different comment section, but i will ask again here and now: have you thought about doing a video on sami religion? i think it would be very interesting, even if it might have to only cover some surface elements and not go as deep as your other videos. thank you for making such great content!
Make a video about Orthodox Christian (Byzantine) chanting tradition. It goes back to the ancient Hebrew tradition of worship in the Temple of Jerusalem and the Synagogues
@@xunqianbaidu6917 of course, that’s because Greek was the main language in early Christianity. I was referring to the chanting tradition rather than language.
@@xunqianbaidu6917 and that includes not only the Greek language but also Aramaic/Assyrian, Coptic, Arabic and later Church Slavonic. Hymnography was developed into a musical system (with notes and Odes) very early in the first centuries
@@xunqianbaidu6917 also if we see through history, the most well known hymnographers are from Middle East (Palestine, Syria, Jordan region) like St. John of Damascus, St. Ephrem the Syrian, Romanos the Melodist etc.
one theme kept repeating itself for me lately: music to attain higher realms and what happens in a worldly realm affects the other dimensions. Philip, I highly invite you to check the work Dr. Ibrahim Karim. He is the founder of BioGeometry and he made an extensive research about the ancient Egyptian esoteric knowledge. If only we understand the power of sounds shapes and numbers..
My housemate knows the head movements and does some of them when performing Resh. Non standard, I know, but they must do something or he wouldn't do it. I should ask him about how ot makes him feel. Interesting video as always, thanks!
It's all "religious", music in itself is inherently, immaterial and esoteric. This includes the sacred and profane, everything from the tunes you hear at a grocery store, your friends band, the DJ down the street or that Bach you play at Christmas, it's all "spiritual."
There is a persistent tradition that the earliest kabbalah focused on eight sephiroth, with ten being a later modification. If there is any truth in this, perhaps the eight 'original' sephiroth are correlated with the musical octave. Just speculating...
I did once see a video of Hazidic Jews singing a religious song and dancing. Those gents did not look like the type to rock hard. But man, did they rock hard.
Hi! I just came across ur channel and wow it’s super interesting!! I saw your video on Midnight Mass and thought “omggg u need to do a review on the tv series Evil!” it’s a show that tackles science, religion, and the supernatural and honestly a show that keeps you on edge with a bunch of cliffhangers plz if u do, do find the time to watch this masterpiece u won’t regret watching it trust me
Prophecy is a faithful account of *'the music of celestial spheres' (the Pythagorean 'Musica Universalis')* after which mundane events come to pass 'when the time is full' - a glimpse into the *'divine economy'* , factual, but _limited in scope_ and prone to misinterpretation - out of the actual 'tune' - by the inexperienced - like a lucid dream. The _resonnance_ of matter, sounding - and the resulting harmonies were celebrated in bronze age Chinese states - before their unification by Shihuangdi - where rather sophisticated bronze bells, capable of playing multiple notes, arguably 'synchronized' the sentiments of a court's subjects toward social integration. 'The Catholic Concordance' by Nicholas of Cusa refers to the experience of *_concordia_* in contrast to dissonance - the 'kingdom of God' is *immanent* at all times, it is for man to notice it by atuning himself. It is noteworthy that while formalized sacrifice and ritual isn't perceived by modern man as a meaningful interaction with the world, a concept of resonance speaks for itself - as does the vast 'culture industry' in which the 'consumption' of music has become a substitution of genuine religion - but maybe also preserving souls from complete alienation of a secularized, 'engineered' society.
love how you approach these videos, huge fan, very thankful for your work. if i could make a humble request, id like to know more about hinduism (sry if this is a bit vague) have a beautiful day :)
The outer music made by striking an instrument is an attempt to express the inner music heard by a true practitioner . They practice a method of turning off the outer sound and listening inwardly to the celestial music that is created spontaneously by the Holy Spirit. if one learns to attune their consciousness to this nonphysical , spiritual music they can hear whole symphonies incredibly beautiful mystical melodies that come straight from the source . this heavenly music transmits wisdom and bliss and feelings of divine love and will lead the soul who has become entangled in mind and matter back to their true and original abode of immortal bliss in Sat Lok
I've stated this in other, and excellent, presentations of yours, but I think it very important that when discussing "altered states of mysticism" that one understands that the 'normal beingness' in this world, that is defined as the dichotomy of self and world, IS the most altered state! In contemporary terms that ‘real’ beingness is the dichotomy between the egoic/body-self and the world. But that egoic translation of our world view is not the 'real' (as defined by scientific materialism). So, in terms of your UA-cam video regarding mysticism I would say that the path is the progressive rediscovery of the original and True state prior to the egoic translation of the "Umwelt"; our self-centered world. To put a fine point on it, our bricks and mortar world, which we perceive as our true dwelling place, is the ultimate “Altered State”. The mystical path is the re-cognition of that which is the original, non-altered and always/already Divine dwelling place. That is why mysticism is so difficult. It is the counter description of our world view that we hold so dear and fight to keep all through the mystical journey.
1:10 Academic humour 😂. If you are ever minded I'd love you to look at unitarianism sometime (as distinct from unitarian universalism) Would be an interesting topic for inter-religious study.
I don't consider myself any one religion so I figured I'd ask if my beliefs are something close to Unitarianism -Christianity is an anarchist religion about tearing down hierarchy instead of creating it. The point isn't to submit to God; God is what connects everyone, and things like wealth or borders or social classes block that connection. - The only way to escape Samsara (the endless cycle of pain and rebirth) is to embrace it and come to terms with it instead of trying to run away from it. -The Catholic Church shouldn't blame people for worshipping figues like Santa Muerte. Many of her worshippers are minorities, immigrants, refugees, sex workers, and thieves, all of whom Christianity is supposed to protect. "Blasphemous" figues like this aren't the cause of a loss of faith in mainstream religion, they're just a symptom of it.
@@chendaforestI'm still learning a lot about Buddhism so I could be misinterpreting things but I think it's less about "escaping" Samsara and more about "transcending" it, if that makes sense. Like what do you do if you're stuck in hell forever? You have to learn to cope with it somehow. And Nirvana is that state of mind over matter where you can live in that suffering and accept it without denying it
Hope I'm not having too many video requests/suggestions but an introduction on Sanskrit and how it might have influenced other religions like Abrahamic religions would be very interesting
I can answer that Sanskrit has zero influence on Abrahamic traditions. The closest it gets is being a sort of far-removed cousin to English via the Indo-European language family. It has zero relationship to Hebrew or Arabic. (Or Persian; or Aramaic or Greek). And it's not the "mother of all languages" no matter what anyone tells you
FYI I listened to this while the theme from the video game The Outer Worlds was playing in the background... Hearing both together felt like perfection
Great video! Loved learning about the role of music throughout the history of Jewish mysticism. If anyone is interestest, the channel Esoterica goes into a lot more detail about pretty much all of the subjects discussed in this video, though not from a musical perspective.
I would suggest that Judaism is not Islam's sister religion . Being 3000 years older and the Torah being the foundation of the Quran... it's more like a father
Ashkenazi orthodox jews don't listen to music at this time of year, as a form of mourning for the destroyed temple, until the date of tisha be-av. A shame, because this looks like an awesome video.
The tree of life diagram comes from the Wholetone scale. The invisible shape the Wholetone scale makes on a 6 string guitar. Check out my cheese video trying to show it. Why 6? Because man was created on the 6th day. The 6th scale degree is also the relative minor of the Major scale.
@@dogsquadindia the ossetian religion is still practiced in large numbers, whereas in mongolia, tengrism is only practiced by a minute 1-2%, its more common in turkic countries like tuva I believe, but still marginal
In an earlier video on kabbalah you mentioned Abraham Abulafia believed that language is inherently related to the creation of the world. Is there any elaboration of how that works?
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” - Ludwig van Beethoven
Love that!
If you wanna know the secrets of the universe just think in vibration frequency and energy. Yeah that's also music.
@-GinΠΓ Τάο Makes sense. In the east it's Tao but in the west it's Tau and Hebrew Tav or Taw. Especially the TenSion part. Tzion.. consciousness is some S curve (curse) that's trying to STrengthen itself out like a Triad into a Z. Going from a minor triffecta or sad ascending to a Major Triad buy tightening your STring. A SerpenT like sine wave coiling through cycles of ups and downs around a zero point trying to reach unity gain or zero. It's a signal sine wave soul. You're really in two places at once in a entanglemind. As a wave in the corona of the sun and as a particle which is partial here on earth. We're like a Semi Tone that need to become whole ToneS in SpaceTime.
@@LetsTalkReligion Hello Filip, can I get permission from you to translate your videos and upload them?
Irani Shia sufi Monsoor Hallaj who is a famous pir of dewbondi, tableeghi Jamaat, berelvi (rizvi) used to worship jin satan through meditation like Kabbalah Jew, christian saints,Buddhists,hindu pandits to open 3rd eye to reach the highest level of spirituality. That's why these blasphemous words “anal haq (I’m truth/god) and prostrate to me” were coming out from the mouth of mansur hallaj.
May Almighty ALLAH protect us fromq this antichrist dajjalik fitna Aameen.
Modern composer John Zorn has played with elements of Jewish Mysticism among many other esoteric and occult themes. His background is in Avant-Garde Jazz of 1980's New York and Japan but long has he been in a far more controlled composition and production sphere influenced by klezmer, metal and chamber music. I recommend to study his works.
You forgot to mention that it absolutley fucking slaps my man.
I especially recommend Book of Angels volume 10 - Lucifer.
I first found out about this guy when I was in high school he put out a record with the drummer for Napalm Death and I think the project/group name was "Painkiller". I remember it was really weird stuff for my young mind but I was very intrigued by it. Dig it, if you're not already hip to it. It was on Earache Records, probably circa 1990/91.
All iterations of the book of angels get played a lot round my house, and get recommended to friends too.
Zorn, and id say Daedelus, a producer, although they probs woudnt tell you that but those who can listen while hearing simulatiously will know
What a fantastic, concise yet comprehensive overview of a beautiful and complex subject. Truly magical. Thank you Filip.
❤️
Thank you for this thoughtfully-organized overview that includes rarely-seen-in-English quotes from the substance of advanced Jewish phenomenologies of the spiritual power of music. They are so compelling, and one need not be Jewish or adhere to any one specific tradition to feel how true they ring. Music makes us resonate with and perceive whispers and echoes of unseen realms and realities. I think even the mystics understood that--Kabbalisms could be highly insular and particularistic in their views of non-Jews, but in several places, music is mentioned as universal, with clear implications that "even" non-Jewish musics can be holy or contain holiness or spring ultimately from a divine source. It's not surprising to me that just talking about music nudged an entire tradition slightly in the direction of universalism.
Amazing insights on the historical concept of music as a means of elevating the human spirit… Thank you for all your great work.
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” - Ludwig van Beethoven
As the daughter of a Kabbalist, thank you.
Thank you for the fascinating exploration of music in Jewish mysticism!
I can personally attest to the incredible power of music in inducing altered states. A few years ago I created an ecstatic practice involving music and singing and it quickly became one of my favorite because it so quickly and reliably brings me into mystical/blissful states. It brings me into deeper states of absorption and bliss than literally anything else including breathwork, yoga, psychedelics, and meditation.
One more academic channel on religion is Religiolog. Please support him. He deserves it.
As a musician I strongly connect music with my spirituality. I sometimes think of music and what it evokes in me as my higher power
thanks for sharing..
"I heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this: The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah"
Those lines always haunted me, and I feel like they were rooted in the topic of this video somehow.
I find it ironic that you release this on the week (leading up to Tisha B’Av) when observant Jews do not listen to music.
Regardless, amazing video.
Nothing better than noodling with the Byzantine scale for hours, it can be trully teanscendental, it's my own way to meditate.
Perengranetti is a youtube man who has beautiful harp/psalms.This has been the most informative Let's Talk Religion ever 🙌 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Next week Sunday us Jews will be fasting the Fast of the 9th of Av, remembering the destruction of the 2 Temples and everything bad that happened to us in history.
Would you consider covering the impact of the destruction of the First and Second Temples on Judaism (not asking for it to be done by next week but more it would be interesting to hear your overall take on it)?
I find it ironic that this was posted today, as it is the Three Weeks, when many Jews refrain from listening from instrumental music, only vocal; in fact, an industry of acapella music for the Three Weeks and the similar Sefira period has developed.
This reminds me heavily of the Mitzvah Tantz at some Hasidic weddings. The explanation I read was that the bride has the Shekhinah upon her face on that day, so men come to joyfully dance before the Presence as the newlywed is in constant prayer.
Could be particular only to specific Hasidic sects, but that’s my shallow understanding of how ecstatic music in relation to the Shekhinah is applied to ceremonies.
Before or after they shave her hair? (I don't know)
Your Hebrew pronunciation is spot-on. Great work!
Great video, thanks. Rav Nachman of Breslov was the great grandson of the Ba'al Shem Tov.
So grateful that you are creating this music and mysticism series. You are uniquely qualified for this exploration..
Music, the language of the Soul.
I was hoping that you might play some of your beautiful music during this brilliant piece. It was still beyond excellent, and the music at the end, divine, as always.! Thank you ~
I am overwhelmed in the last third of this video with the sense that John Coltrane would have loved this.
I love your videos on music and religion! Music plays a huge part in my religious practice, too. I chant every morning.
great video as always! the quality of your videos never fall off
This was a great lecture. MUSIC IN CULTURES TRAVELING. RELIGIOUS LEADERS TRYING TO UNITE AND THEN DIVISIONS . SONGS AND MUSIC LIVES ON. PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORIES. HUMANITY FOR ALL. REVERENCE ✨️ ❤️ 🎶🥁🎹🎻🎺🎷🎶🎵
I loved your closing remarks neatly summarising everything!!
It's really interesting how much Bob Marley had in common with Jewish mysticists xD
Even music like Death Metal unites millions of people, It itself is a extremely potent "semi religious" aspect of life, even to many atheists.
Can you maybe do an episode on similarities between being religious and being obsessed in fringe culture?
An episode on the similarities between religious people and Heavy Metal fans would be amazing as it has many similarities to things like Star Wars fandoms, which I think you might already have done.
I just had to comment here that I am a Jewish daughter of a Kabbalist and my partner is a Black Metal musician. I am 36 weeks pregnant with our first child. Our daughter will be a living manifestation of what you are saying in your comment.
@@fighttheevilrobots3417 I've been my whole life into extreme metal and I know 1 or 2 things about Kabbalah, I have nothing but huge respect to it. Could you please explain how has been your experience having a Black Metal musician as a partner and a father as Kabbalistic Jew? Thanks beforehand and congratulations for your baby btw!
@@angelc.4422 thanks for asking! We just had our daughter, she is now one month old. I think part of what helped us bond was that he understood esoteric references that I was raised with that no one else ever did. We could talk about concepts and ideas that that I could only ever talk about with my dad. My father (Gd bless his soul) passed in 2020 and my partner really helped me through the grief of that. We also have an understanding that our daughter will be raised Jewish but there is no pressure for him to convert. He has exposed me to music that I never would have found without him. (My favorite genre is rap.)
@@fighttheevilrobots3417 My condolences about your father's passing, kudos to your partner to help you out with that kind of pain/burden. In the other hand, it's wholesome you guys already have your baby!
Pretty cool how you guys understood each other without being closed minded about religion/mysticism and music, really. There's few metal bands talking about kabbalah, check out Obscura's "Ten Sepiroth", pretty evident.
Kabbalah is one of the only things ever that made me not want to keep reading about it when I found out about the Tree Of Death.... As I imagine, I'm sure your husband is totally comfortable with satanism in metal/music in general, just like myself, but the Qlip**th... I must admit, it scared me, I see it as the real deal. Just a few bands talk about it, like Therion, I don't like them tho, but interesting nevertheless.
I don't know what can kind of rap you like but you definitely need to check out Death Grips.
What does Marley have in common w the Jewish mystics? Genuinely curious
very good video, and I know I just asked this yesterday in a different comment section, but i will ask again here and now: have you thought about doing a video on sami religion? i think it would be very interesting, even if it might have to only cover some surface elements and not go as deep as your other videos. thank you for making such great content!
I would love to do that at some point!
I have experienced nigun as a technique to reach d’vekuth, in a few instances at the Chabad Lubavitch house.
Make a video about Orthodox Christian (Byzantine) chanting tradition. It goes back to the ancient Hebrew tradition of worship in the Temple of Jerusalem and the Synagogues
@@xunqianbaidu6917 of course, that’s because Greek was the main language in early Christianity. I was referring to the chanting tradition rather than language.
@@xunqianbaidu6917 and that includes not only the Greek language but also Aramaic/Assyrian, Coptic, Arabic and later Church Slavonic. Hymnography was developed into a musical system (with notes and Odes) very early in the first centuries
@@xunqianbaidu6917 also if we see through history, the most well known hymnographers are from Middle East (Palestine, Syria, Jordan region) like St. John of Damascus, St. Ephrem the Syrian, Romanos the Melodist etc.
Another great teaching Mr. Holm. Enjoyed it!
Thanks for making such an interesting video and also thanks for showing your sources.
I had a similar profound thought that the most popular songs are just the prayers of the masses, which influence the world as a whole.
one theme kept repeating itself for me lately: music to attain higher realms and what happens in a worldly realm affects the other dimensions.
Philip, I highly invite you to check the work Dr. Ibrahim Karim. He is the founder of BioGeometry and he made an extensive research about the ancient Egyptian esoteric knowledge. If only we understand the power of sounds shapes and numbers..
I love your videos, i listen to these before going to sleep.
Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩
Excellent presentation. We listened to this just after I stopped playing music. Kinda made it more poignant. You do fine work sir.
My housemate knows the head movements and does some of them when performing Resh. Non standard, I know, but they must do something or he wouldn't do it. I should ask him about how ot makes him feel.
Interesting video as always, thanks!
love that you've posted this near the end of the Nine Days
Amazing video! You went IN!! LOVE IT
Excellent as always Filip! Tack!
It's all "religious", music in itself is inherently, immaterial and esoteric. This includes the sacred and profane, everything from the tunes you hear at a grocery store, your friends band, the DJ down the street or that Bach you play at Christmas, it's all "spiritual."
There is a persistent tradition that the earliest kabbalah focused on eight sephiroth, with ten being a later modification. If there is any truth in this, perhaps the eight 'original' sephiroth are correlated with the musical octave. Just speculating...
Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.
I would really appreciate a video on the Druze religion. I believe not many people know of that very interesting religion.
The Druze and the Yazids
A great gift. Thank you.
as always, awesome content! thanks, Filip!
I did once see a video of Hazidic Jews singing a religious song and dancing.
Those gents did not look like the type to rock hard.
But man, did they rock hard.
Hi! I just came across ur channel and wow it’s super interesting!! I saw your video on Midnight Mass and thought “omggg u need to do a review on the tv series Evil!” it’s a show that tackles science, religion, and the supernatural and honestly a show that keeps you on edge with a bunch of cliffhangers plz if u do, do find the time to watch this masterpiece u won’t regret watching it trust me
Fillip as always amazing and insightful work, but I have to say ; I love the new beard style.
Amazing video, thank you
Prophecy is a faithful account of *'the music of celestial spheres' (the Pythagorean 'Musica Universalis')* after which mundane events come to pass 'when the time is full' - a glimpse into the *'divine economy'* , factual, but _limited in scope_ and prone to misinterpretation - out of the actual 'tune' - by the inexperienced - like a lucid dream.
The _resonnance_ of matter, sounding - and the resulting harmonies were celebrated in bronze age Chinese states - before their unification by Shihuangdi - where rather sophisticated bronze bells, capable of playing multiple notes, arguably 'synchronized' the sentiments of a court's subjects toward social integration.
'The Catholic Concordance' by Nicholas of Cusa refers to the experience of *_concordia_* in contrast to dissonance - the 'kingdom of God' is *immanent* at all times, it is for man to notice it by atuning himself.
It is noteworthy that while formalized sacrifice and ritual isn't perceived by modern man as a meaningful interaction with the world, a concept of resonance speaks for itself - as does the vast 'culture industry' in which the 'consumption' of music has become a substitution of genuine religion - but maybe also preserving souls from complete alienation of a secularized, 'engineered' society.
That's why judaens are so good with music
Hebrew chants are amazing...very spiritual and bearers of peace!
Check on yt: "peace and love chant, for peace and good mood in your life"
🎶🎵 Soul dances to the beat of the 💜 ❤️🎶 🎵
love how you approach these videos, huge fan, very thankful for your work.
if i could make a humble request, id like to know more about hinduism (sry if this is a bit vague)
have a beautiful day :)
This would be a great segue into Raga/Raag!
There is definitely more videos on Hinduism coming!
Excellent discourse
13 days late but hellyeah love the content 💫
Great video, brilliantly explained
Thank you!
The outer music made by striking an instrument is an attempt to express the inner music heard by a true practitioner . They practice a method of turning off the outer sound and listening inwardly to the celestial music that is created spontaneously by the Holy Spirit. if one learns to attune their consciousness to this nonphysical , spiritual music they can hear whole symphonies incredibly beautiful mystical melodies that come straight from the source . this heavenly music transmits wisdom and bliss and feelings of divine love and will lead the soul who has become entangled in mind and matter back to their true and original abode of immortal bliss in Sat Lok
Music is a great tool for trance.
I've stated this in other, and excellent, presentations of yours, but I think it very important that when discussing "altered states of mysticism" that one understands that the 'normal beingness' in this world, that is defined as the dichotomy of self and world, IS the most altered state! In contemporary terms that ‘real’ beingness is the dichotomy between the egoic/body-self and the world. But that egoic translation of our world view is not the 'real' (as defined by scientific materialism). So, in terms of your UA-cam video regarding mysticism I would say that the path is the progressive rediscovery of the original and True state prior to the egoic translation of the "Umwelt"; our self-centered world. To put a fine point on it, our bricks and mortar world, which we perceive as our true dwelling place, is the ultimate “Altered State”. The mystical path is the re-cognition of that which is the original, non-altered and always/already Divine dwelling place. That is why mysticism is so difficult. It is the counter description of our world view that we hold so dear and fight to keep all through the mystical journey.
By the rivers of babylon where we sat down and there we wept when we remember sion
No video about Muharaam and the death of Imam Hussien (as)? It’s an important aspect in Islamic history.
1:10 Academic humour 😂. If you are ever minded I'd love you to look at unitarianism sometime (as distinct from unitarian universalism) Would be an interesting topic for inter-religious study.
I don't consider myself any one religion so I figured I'd ask if my beliefs are something close to Unitarianism
-Christianity is an anarchist religion about tearing down hierarchy instead of creating it. The point isn't to submit to God; God is what connects everyone, and things like wealth or borders or social classes block that connection.
- The only way to escape Samsara (the endless cycle of pain and rebirth) is to embrace it and come to terms with it instead of trying to run away from it.
-The Catholic Church shouldn't blame people for worshipping figues like Santa Muerte. Many of her worshippers are minorities, immigrants, refugees, sex workers, and thieves, all of whom Christianity is supposed to protect. "Blasphemous" figues like this aren't the cause of a loss of faith in mainstream religion, they're just a symptom of it.
@@scottromig7633 I would agree with all your points, especially the last one. How do you believe one can escape samsara ?
@@chendaforest Buddha taught all about that. ❤️
@@dogsquadindiayeah, I was very new to learning about Buddhism and I didn't realize that "Nirvana exists in Samsara" was actually the whole idea
@@chendaforestI'm still learning a lot about Buddhism so I could be misinterpreting things but I think it's less about "escaping" Samsara and more about "transcending" it, if that makes sense. Like what do you do if you're stuck in hell forever? You have to learn to cope with it somehow. And Nirvana is that state of mind over matter where you can live in that suffering and accept it without denying it
Hope I'm not having too many video requests/suggestions but an introduction on Sanskrit and how it might have influenced other religions like Abrahamic religions would be very interesting
He will then be hate bombed by hindutva haters. Dangerous
I can answer that
Sanskrit has zero influence on Abrahamic traditions. The closest it gets is being a sort of far-removed cousin to English via the Indo-European language family. It has zero relationship to Hebrew or Arabic. (Or Persian; or Aramaic or Greek).
And it's not the "mother of all languages" no matter what anyone tells you
It’s amusing to think that, every time my dad sings “Baby Got Back”, God is singing along.
Good video, one only concern is dangerous. Grown in what make things real. Good luck!
Put simply it's hypnotism. Sarcasm as well.
FYI I listened to this while the theme from the video game The Outer Worlds was playing in the background... Hearing both together felt like perfection
Have you ever tried playing Dark Side of the Moon while watching Wizard of Oz?
@@donkeysaurusrex7881 I've heard good things... Can't say I've given it a go, perhaps one day
@@donkeysaurusrex7881 yes and it is FREAKY
Now I want to hear some of this music! Where can I find it?
Great video! Loved learning about the role of music throughout the history of Jewish mysticism. If anyone is interestest, the channel Esoterica goes into a lot more detail about pretty much all of the subjects discussed in this video, though not from a musical perspective.
Rabbi nachman of breslov was the great grand son of the Baal Shem tov and was born after his passing.
Between 2:58 and 3:01 fly accompanying you
The sound of the Shriinahh! shekhina
For magicians, this is why you should have a copy of 777 and take the time to understand it, it really isn't as difficult as it looks.
Why does that prescription for singing the vowels make sense lol
I would suggest that Judaism is not Islam's sister religion . Being 3000 years older and the Torah being the foundation of the Quran... it's more like a father
Ashkenazi orthodox jews don't listen to music at this time of year, as a form of mourning for the destroyed temple, until the date of tisha be-av. A shame, because this looks like an awesome video.
לא רק אשכנזים.
They can't listen later?
@@josef2012 next week Monday.
Your Hebrew is really good!
Music is religion's only redemption, if it wasn't for the music of faith it would be easy enough to wrench mankind from it's tribal root
You should do a video discussing nada brahma
The tree of life diagram comes from the Wholetone scale. The invisible shape the Wholetone scale makes on a 6 string guitar. Check out my cheese video trying to show it. Why 6? Because man was created on the 6th day. The 6th scale degree is also the relative minor of the Major scale.
Have you ever examined the Eck movement? They describe themselves as the religion of the living ght and sound of God.
Ah this video explains end of evangelion
Man, can you please do a video about Cheondoism?
Loved it🖤💫🤍
Please post more videos about Avempace!!
now I´m curious about music in christian orthodoxy...
Cool!
music make you lose control
could you please make a video about the ossetian religion?
Or....the native Mongolian religion Tengar?
@@dogsquadindia the ossetian religion is still practiced in large numbers, whereas in mongolia, tengrism is only practiced by a minute 1-2%, its more common in turkic countries like tuva I believe, but still marginal
What is mysticism?
Suggestion to make a clip about voodoo since you have good knowledge and voodoo often is sensationalized and portrayed as a joke.
In an earlier video on kabbalah you mentioned Abraham Abulafia believed that language is inherently related to the creation of the world. Is there any elaboration of how that works?
God spoke all things and everyone into existence....
Do one video about Al Farabi.
Is there anything this guy doesn't know about religion? He must have been studying since childhood
song of songs
I've decided: you're Sazed.
The holy priest of Jewish music.... you mean Leonard Cohen? hehe
The hair and beard is on point bro