1 post tagged “enigma”

I was driving to work yesterday, listening to a contemporary Christian CD by the vastly popular Hillsong, because even though I do not subscribe to religious beliefs, I do love some of the contemporary music. But as I was listening to the lyrics, talking about the cross and being devoted to Jesus, I began to wonder why the New Age, or the spiritualist movement, doesn't have their own music, something I could listen to and not only enjoy the music but also the lyrics. And it dawned on me that there is such music. One of my favorite groups of all time has always been Enigma. Ever since I first listened to Sadeness,

around the years 1990, 1991, I was hooked. I just absolutely love this song!! I love the combination of the drum beat, with the Shakuhachi flute, and Gregorian monk chants. It all just melded together so beautifully. This has to be in my top 5 favorite songs of all time.

Another Enigma favorite was Return to Innocence.

Love, Devotion
Feeling, Emotion
Don't be afraid to be weak
Don't be too proud to be strong
Just look into your heart my friend
That will be the return to yourself
The return to Innocence
If you want then start to laugh
If you must then start to cry
Be yourself, Don't fake
Just believe in destiny
Don't care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don't give up
And miss the chance
To return to Innocence
That's not the beginning of the end
It's the return to yourself
The return to Innocence.

I have always loved those lyrics and have posted them on various of my blogs, myspace, facebook,etc . There can not be any more beautiful lyrics anywhere in popular music. How positive, how life affirming, how true, how spiritual. Just be yourself, don't fake, and don't care what people say, just follow your own way.

I have always tried myself to live up to that ideal. I have always prided myself on just being myself, no matter what.   had a girlfriend one time, while I was in the Navy, who told me that the thing she liked about me the most was that I am just myself and that I don't pretend to be anyone other than who I am. I took that as one of the best compliments I have ever received. It's a better compliment than if she had told me how good looking I was, or how funny I was, or how charming. I am all of those things, ha ha, j/k, but the most important thing is to just be yourself.

Another favorite Enigma song is Dream of the Dolphin.

Beautiful song and original lyrics.

In every color there's the light.
In every stone sleeps a crystal.
Remember the Shaman, when he used to say:
"Man is the dream of the dolphin".

One more Enigma Song, Cross of Changes

If you understand or if you don't
If you believe or if you doubt
There's a universal justice
And the eyes of truth
Are always watching you.

That is something that I truly believe yet Christianity preaches the opposite. In order to be a Christian and go to heaven you have to believe a certain way, their way, as if belief was a choice anyway, as if a person could will themselves to believe something in which they don't. How much truer and freer the statement, "whether you believe or you don't, whether you even understand or you don't, there is a universal truth and justice, and you have access to that universal truth as much as anyone, that universal love belongs to all of us, not just a select few.

I want to make this kind of music, spiritual, life affirming, beautiful music of the soul, meditation a part of my regular blog experience. To be a part of my theme, so that when I find beautiful music, I will post it for all to hear and enjoy.

Everyone needs a focus, for their lives, for their blogs, etc. In the past on my blogs I have just written about anything and everything that comes to mind, in a kind of stream of consciousness. But William Faulkner and James Joyce I am not. I think I need more focus.

So my focus from now on is going to be spiritual and religious matters, which include great music. Most of what I have been writing about on Vox has been about my growing awareness of spirituality and breaking away from the religion of my youth, so nothing too much should change. Yet, with a renewed focus, I should be more prolific.

We shall see.