Keep Singing!

we should sing more.

Sep 21, 2024

A lot more. The Birds sing. Imagine if humans had a gratitude morning some they sang each day? Some indigenous cultures have an understanding of how words effect our perspective of reality, and, choosing them carefully, was embedded into the culture. Words make our mental map of reality and, are not trifles. Set to music they become something extraordinary. Yet it all starts with the sound of breath. Breath, combined with the word combined with the tone and texture, and emotion of a phrase. The stuff of real magic. “Music is probably the only real magic i have encountered in my life. There is not some trick to involved in it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things…” Tom petty.

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I know times are dark. Yet we are not powerless, and not helpless. Humans have survived on this world for hundred of thousands of years, and we still have the skills that made this possible. Skills no other creature has refined to the degree we have.

In music, sound can be combined with words, in a form of expression so potent it is unequalled in the natural world. Words alone are powerful enough. Here is a great example of this deliberate and positive use of words. Chief Jake Swamp was a keeper of wisdom and passed down this lovely prayer for daily rising from his culture. We used to read it on Thanksgiving to keep the focus on gratitude. Where it ought to be.

Being one who loves the poetic, and singing, So, why not make something like this, a poem or song? Make it spiritual And Fun! Fun has to be part of my spiritual path. Humans, have way, more musical facility than birds, whales, or other singing creatures, in that they can make complex tools. For Biological purpose, the pressure that is heavily brought to bear on us, to survive that makes this so. Why are humans capable of the absurd complexity, the elegance of Duke Ellington and his orchestra? Could it be, The Orchestration of Our sonic potential is a way to format our consciousness? Ancient people believed so.

Poems/song is The original way to remember out ancestors and history. Our first original access to wisdom was our mothers lullaby. An attitude attunement like this might be a good way to start your day. You would need many Get me outa this bed songs to suit everyones needs, but here is, just one to illustrate.

There are an extraordinary number of songs there are that are educational. from the ABC song, months of the year to Red light/green light, they are the very best educators. In some cases the herb or other creatures, themselves can teach you. Other beings enjoy sounds too. Birds will listen very obviously. Cows, dogs, cats, Plants, (Apple trees, for example are still famously wassailed in the UK) what have you. You can find evidence of native people doing this everywhere if you ask them. They even had songs for the seeds. I suppose it is like singing to your unborn child, which is wise to do.

Why do humans make music? What is it’s proper use in biological terms? Like other organisms we also use sound for :

Inter species communication.
Announcing territorial boundaries.
Mating calls.
Ritual meanings
Joint group celebration events.
The Archetype of the Animal master and caretaker (as well as soil cultivator) Is deep and emerges constantly. Humans have traditionally sang to Trees (wassailing the apple trees is still done today for example) To praise the local waters, and seas (considering the emotional and electrical qualities of vortex and gel phase water, it now makes more sense. as professor Emoto and The water wizard Victor Shaunberger discovered. To call cattle, as can be seen in dozens of videos online) here is one—
and notice how the cow stop near the place where she stopped playing? keeping just that distance? Music Is the language of all things. The Green man, Dr. doolittle. Tarzan, all archetypes that live within us use sounds to interact with their external allies. All of us have a little Tom Bombadill in us.
And it starts if everything it hooked up well, remarkably early. Here are the lyrics a kid i know, to a ladybug at 4.
higgety ziggity zug
you are my favorite bug
you Are my favorite bug
of all the bugs higgety zug
you are my favorite bug!

Some people think making songs so early is unusual, i have found it to be in the norm, if, the children are immersed in music. The wiring to the brain is set up by the age of 2, generally, so i see no reason it should not be functional. I think people might miss it in the whirlwind of action a young child IS. As a parent, I was desperate for a nap right about then. I’d skip to second 15, to avoid the commentators.

Sonic Mating calls in nature are common in the extreme. Birds, Elephants, Whales, crickets, Elk, an endless list of songs both beautiful and terrible, and who knows what unheard creatures have vanished before us? The Plainfin Midshipman Fish, for example has ( i feel) a very meditative song, that we Humans have probably heard since time began. He also has an annoying buzzer/fart like sound that causes predators to withdraw every time. Sound is a powerful survival tool for the species.

Without a doubt Humans mating songs are the most complex. Skill proves fitness and health, so it makes sense biologically. Yet, There is nothing i know of that rivals us. I sometimes imagine Wooly Mammoth herders with a Carnx, calling their herds to another far hill in the early mists of a crisp autumn, to the ancient Clans, winter grass lands. the range of sounds that instrument can make leaves me in no doubt it was used to communicate over distances, complex information. Smoke signals so to speak, of sound. Even night, nay, especially at might it would have been effective. Sound is great at bouncing off mountains, and being so unique, hopefully the listener would know who sent the message.

It would be most effective at territorial warnings or ceremonial ritual sounds, like the Aztec death whistle (very scary sound that is so complex it cannot be reproduced digitally). Basically the scream of the black riders in the Lord of the rings movies. One of the other uses of community sings, is making work into a fun bonding experience. Or Building community through bonding experiences. When people dance or sing together, they trust each other more. They enjoy each other company more and their nervous system is harmonized with others. This is why singing lullaby’s is universal. We all probably have the experience of music “soothing the savage beast” of our over-excited system. It literally helps the Vagus nerve calm down. And we need that to be calm to get the stress hormone cortisol down too, so we can do important things like sleep, digest and heal.

Let me sing of the healing of life. To sing is to heal. To sing together is to heal each other. To process emotion of the most painful kind and know, You are not alone. And That, is the meaning of such genres as “the blues”. This is how individual and collective trauma can be healed. The ancestors also sing with you, the beings around you also hear. When you hear the howl of a wolf, do you not in your heart understand something of its meaning? Rejoice in their ancient relations with us.