On
Carlos Santana's (winner of 8 Grammy’s in one night like Michael
Jackson)property in San Rafael, California, about twenty minutes north
of San Francisco, there are two buildings. The house closer to the
water is where the family lives: Santana, his wife, Deborah,
and their three children. The other house, a little higher up the hill,
he calls the church. "Here's where I hang out with Jimi(dead Jimi
Hendrix) and Miles(dead Miles Davis) and whoever, and play and
meditate," he explains. Santana is a night person, so he'll come up
here until two or three in the morning. A card with the word "Metatron"
spelled out in intricately painted picture letters lies on the floor
next to the fireplace. Metatron is an angel. Santana has been in
regular contact with him since 1994. Carlos will sit here facing the
wall, the candles lit. He has a yellow legal pad at one side, ready for
the communications that will come. "It's kind of like a fax machine,"
he says.
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| Jimmi Hendrix |
We talk of angels and the suchlike. There are few conversations with him that don't lead to a discussion of angels, or of the spiritual radio through which music comes. Santana has been increasingly engaged by angels since the day in 1988 when he picked up a book on the subject at the Milwaukee airport. "It's an enormous peace, the few times I have felt the presence in the room," he says. "I feel lit up. I'm not Carlos anymore, I'm not bound to DNA anymore. It's beyond sex, it's beyond anything that this world could give you a buzz. It makes me feel like Jesus embraced me and I'm bathed in light."
His attitude is: Now, in the wake of the success of his latest album, the 7 million-selling Supernatural, the world is interested in hearing him talk, and he is going to talk about the things he finds important. "What are you going to say?" he scoffs. "'There's no business like show business'?" Not in his case. "I don't care, man, about what anybody thinks about my reality," he says. "My reality is that God speaks to you every day. There's an inner voice, and when you hear it, you get a little tingle in your medulla oblongata at the back of your neck, a little shiver, and at two o'clock in the morning, everything's really quiet and you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: Write this down. It is just an inner voice, and you trust it. That voice will never take you to the desert."
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| Carlos Santana performing in a previous Concert |
Santana credits Metatron with alerting him to the recent changes in his life. In the mid-Nineties, he met some people in a spiritual bookstore near his home, and they invited him to their afternoon meditations in Santa Cruz. The last time he was there, Metatron delivered some important messages. "You will be inside the radio frequency," Metatron told him, "for the purpose of connecting the molecules with the light." Carlos Santana understood. He would make a new album and be on the radio again. And he would connect the molecules with the light: He would connect an audience with some of the spiritual information he now had. Metatron offered a further instruction: "Be patient, gracious and grateful," Santana was told, and he resolved to do just that.
[Excerpt From Rolling Stone Magazine Issue 836 — March 16, 2000]
Metatron (from Greek Meta+Tron meaning Beyond+Matrix.). Metatron is an angel in Judaism, some branches of Christianity and Islamic tradition Witchcraft. However, there are no references to him in the Jewish Tanakh (Old Testament), the Christian Scriptures (New Testament) or any Islamic source.There is no consensus as to his genesis or the role that he plays in the hierarchy of Heaven and Hell. A mysterious figure, Metatron is identified with the term, "lesser YHVH" which is the Lesser Tetragrammaton - in a Talmudic version read by the Karaite scholar Kirkisani. The word 'Metatron' is numerically equivalent to Shaddai according to Hebrew gematria, therefore he is said to have a "Name like his Master". This would appear to be Lucifer when he had said “I will be like the most high” Isaiah 14 v 12-15
Lucifer Metatron already had an exalted throne above the stars of heaven but wanted more. There may be two Metatrons, one spelled with six letters, and one spelled with seven. The former erroneously thought to be the transformed Enoch, while the latter is the Primordial Metatron.
We already know that Lucifer was the Chief musician of heaven so is this all just mere coincidence or not? I suggest we look a little deeper at music itself and what it does to the brain. Every known culture on the earth has music. Music seems to be one of the basic actions of humans. However, early music was not handed down from generation to generation or recorded. Hence, there is no official record of "prehistoric" music. Even so, there is evidence of prehistoric music from the findings of flutes carved from bones.
The influence of music on society can be clearly seen from modern history. Music helped Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence. When he could not figure out the right wording for a certain part, he would play his violin to help him. The music helped him get the words from his brain onto the paper. Albert Einstein is recognized as one of the smartest men who has ever lived. Music was the key that helped Albert Einstein become one of the smartest men who has ever lived. Einstein himself says that the reason he was so smart is because he played the violin. He loved the music of Mozart and Bach the most. A friend of Einstein, G.J. Withrow, said that the way Einstein figured out his problems and equations was by improvising on the violin.
In general, responses to music can be observed. It has been proven that music influences humans both in good and bad ways. These effects are instant and long lasting. Music is thought to link all of the emotional, spiritual, and physical elements of the universe. Music can also be used to change a person's mood, and has been found to cause similar physical responses in many people simultaneously. Music also has the ability to strengthen or weaken emotions from a particular event such as a funeral. We have seen this effect often in Gospel music with both positive and negative results. It is very clear that music does have an effect and is not neutral.
Rhythm is also an important aspect of music to study when looking at responses to music. There are two responses to rhythm. These responses are hard to separate because they are related, and one of these responses cannot exist without the other. These responses are (1) the actual hearing of the rhythm and (2) the physical response to the rhythm. The way in which a person will express that response physically with body movement we generally call dancing. The human body is made up of rhythmic movements, for example, the body contains rhythms in the heartbeat, while walking, during breathing, etc. For example, early missionaries to Africa thought that the nationals had bad rhythm. The missionaries said that when the nationals played on their drums it sounded like they were not beating in time. However, it was later discovered that the nationals were beating out complex polyrhythmic beats such as 2 against 3, 3 against 4, and 2 against 3 and 5, etc. These beats were too advanced for the missionaries to follow. Responses to music are easy to be detected in the human body. For example classical music from the baroque period causes the heart beat and pulse rate to relax to the beat of the music. As the body becomes relaxed and alert, the mind is able to concentrate more easily. Furthermore, baroque music decreases blood pressure and enhances the ability to learn. Music affects the amplitude and frequency of brain waves, which can be measured by an electroencephalogram. Music also affects breathing rate and electrical resistance of the skin. It has been observed to cause the pupils to dilate, increase blood pressure, and increase the heart rate.
Music played at around 60 beats per minute pattern can activate the left and right brain, this simultaneous activity maximizes both learning and retention of information. The information activates the left brain whilst the music activates the right brain. Simply using music while learning does not absolutely guarantee recall but can possibly improve it.
Background music in itself is not a part of the learning process, but it does enter into memory along with the information learned. Recall is better when the same music used for learning is used during recall. Also, tempo appears to be a key of music's effect on memory.
It is not just mere coincidence that many preachers enjoy a period in the sermon when music is used to enhance the delivery of the word and repetition is used. However, scientists tell us that the human mind shuts down after three or four repetitions of a rhythm, or a melody, or a harmonic progression. Furthermore, excessive repetition causes people to release control of their thoughts. Rhythmic repetition is used by people who are trying to push certain ethics in their music.
An Australian physician and psychiatrist, Dr. John Diamond, found a direct link between muscle strength/weakness and music. He discovered that all of the muscles in the entire body go weak when subjected to the "stopped anapestic beat" of music from hard rock musicians, including Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, Queen, The Doors, Janis Joplin, Bachman - Turner Overdrive, and The Band. Dr. Diamond found another effect of the stopped anapestic beat. He called it a "switching" of the brain. Dr. Diamond said this switching occurs when the actual symmetry between both of the cerebral hemispheres is destroyed causing alarm in the body along with lessened work performance, learning and behavior problems in children, and a "general malaise in adults." In addition to harmful, irregular beats in rock music, shrill frequencies prove to also be harmful to the body. Bob Larson, a Christian minister and former rock musician, remembers that in the 70's teens would bring raw eggs to a rock concert and put them on the front of the stage. The eggs would be hard boiled by the music before the end of the concert and could be eaten. The human body vibrates at a rate of 7.8 to 8 cycles per second when it is most natural and relaxed. The alpha brain waves, which correspond to a state of relaxation, are also in the 8 cycles per second range. The earth itself vibrates at the same vibrational frequency of 8 cycles per second. The stopped anapestic beat is based on a short long pause pattern. This rhythm is the basis of most rock, pop and dance songs of today. This beat is the opposite of the body’s natural rhythm and throws everything “out of sync”. Sound can be used to tune into the frequencies given off by the internal organs of the body to diagnose sickness such as cancer before physical symptoms appear or to be used in the healing process. There is so much more that I could say here but I will simply that we must take great care and notice of music in its every form and not deny the power there is in it. Those of us who choose to use music a part of our ministry must use it wisely understanding all the implications therein.
Written by: Bishop John Chambers.
