Dear Friends,
This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class A/V CP 18, which will be published in Volume 15 of The Living Light Dialogue. This quote begins with a question from a student.
"It was said that good music is helpful in the healing process. What type of music would be considered good?"
Yes. In reference to good music: now try to understand that good music is ever subject to the censorship of our past experiences. And so for us as individuals in a mental world, you see, what we judge is good music is dependent upon our feelings of good, which are experiences which have passed. Now, for example, when the judgments of the human mind are satisfied, at that moment we experience what we understand as God or good feeling.
And so it is with music. From past experiences when our judgments were satisfied, we then became receptive—for no censorship of mental substance was in the way—we became receptive to the Principle of Good, known as God. Now when we do not feel good, we, of course, realize that judgments that we believe that we are, are unhappy. And because we believe we are the thought of the mind, instead of the true being which uses the mind, and because the mind is the vehicle through which the judgments express themselves that we have created, when the judgments are not satisfied, they inhibit our experience of what we truly are.
And so good music, good music is music that a person is receptive to and feels good. Now some people, they like slow music. Some people like fast music. Some people like hard rock music. Some people like soft rock music. Well, what you should try to understand, in reference to that question, that what is taking place is the judgments of mind are satisfied; they lay down and take a nap and you experience at that moment who you truly are and that’s good. Now—however, that’s good because the judgments have been satisfied.
Now what is good music? That that I have discussed is good music subject to the censorship of the human ego, the uneducated ego. Good music is music that is harmonious and pleasant, peaceful, enjoyable, and is instrumental, consistently, not dependent upon the satisfaction of judgments, is instrumental in strengthening the true being to once again experience God, the Principle of Good."
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Sincerely,
Russell Fitzgerald
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