How much is music valued in your land? Is it looked upon as
an extra expensive something that little Jonny does as a hobby or is it looked
upon as the life affirming healer that creates bonds through sound?
Music expands the right side of the brain that the formal
education system seems to miss and in this age of the religion of science it
also gives us a doorway into the creative world of the unconscious and the
dreamtime which is the territory of the genius.
I value music highly because I do not think there is much to
be gained by being boring and limited by the belief systems of the rational. The
rational do not stretch themselves to create a better world that is done by the
dreamers, the rational edit those dreams and then hopefully find a way of these
things happening.
At the moment there seems to be resurgence in the arts but
not through government funding but through people trying to enrich their lives.
Make sure that you ride that wave and make your teaching and
playing relevant. We are moving in ‘interesting times’ and that as in the
Chinese curse can mean all sorts of things both good and bad. We all need music
to raise our spirits and even in this day and age of the religion of science
and rationality we still need to realise that the unconscious works in a non
rational way and it is the powerhouse of our mind.
Vic
