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Originally Posted by swa(y)
i wouldnt even really know how to discuss this. im thinking the same thing you get out of chanting, i get out of listening to a train roll down its tracks.
i like "repetition". it is soothing. esp. when ya have a mind thats constantly ten million mph...sorta helps me focus on one topic with a bit more ease, and sometimes it relaxes me to a point to where i hardley feel as if im thinking at all. just, putting me onto some subconcious plain where things feel better and i can (usually) sleep.
i dont really think of it as being "spiritual" though. i probally could, if i wanted to...i just dont tend to think about things in that sort of way.
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thank you for adding some substance to this discussion!
I did not necessarily want to talk about the religiousity of chants as much as the music and sound of them.. yr feelings in regards to ambient minimalist sounds is EXACTLY the kind of thing I get from chanting or meditating with chanting either live or recorded going on.. I stumble into an Ethiopian church every sunday because there is a live performance of such satisfying music and singing through the Liturgical chanting that my very soul is as you said, 'put into a subconscious plain where things feel better."
but I am also fascinated by the continuity of chanting as music. It is ancient and yet modern, and appears to continue well into the future, despite the massive competition of radio and ipod and mass market media..
i mean, two hundred years ago people went to Church or the temple to hear some music because they didn't hear anything remotely musical anywhere else. The Church/Temple is the original concert/dancehall..