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Thriving in Adversity

February 15, 2006. I got a call. My mother, after losing my father five months before, took her own life. She was distraught, feeling alone, scared with little sense of the beautiful, strong woman she was inside. That seemed to be left behind years before. I know. I was living the same life not long ago.

What I remember most about that day was the moment I felt a surge of energy stream through the top of my head and through my body. Out of my mouth, to my family who was gathered around, I said, “She did what she could. We will see this with as much love as possible.”

Music of the Spheres

“You now what’s out there? A series of higher tones arranged by nature and governed by the physics of the whole universe. It’s an overtone. It’s an energy. It’s a wavelength and if you’re not riding it, great Lordy, you’ll never hear it.

“Where do you think it comes from, what I hear?”

“I think it comes from all around you. Really, I mean it comes through us, some of us. It’s invisible but I feel it.”

“So only some of us can hear it?” “Only some of us are listening.”

Wizard (Robin Williams) in conversation with 11 year old music prodigy August (Freddie Highmore) in the movie August Rush (2007)

For a rich description of the Pythagorean theory of music and wonderful scientific and cross-cultural descriptions music as a healing force see this article.