[beatrisio]

wow! supercool thread!

i'm not sure where to start, so first i'll say music is one thing that's helped me not come totally unglued. i'm mostly a rock listener, but i really dig some vivaldi at times, as well as an eclectic mix of other music.

i hadn't considered markm's view on people expressing themselves musically due to traumas of past lives, but now i think that makes a lot of sense. thanks for that insight.

teresamh7, you mentioned a musician you knew said he "channels" while performing. i've been playing the guitar for twenty-some years, not professionally and only with a few public performances. i have noticed that there is that "zone" i can get into, when the playing is almost effortless, dare i say, self-less? perhaps musicians and other performers are being guided by their higher self during these periods. thought i'd throw that out for what it's worth.

thanks to thinkingwolf for posting the lyrics to black sabbath's "war pigs"! the music may seem ominous to some, but to me it is inspiring. i don't play the drums, but when that song plays i find myself air-drumming! the lyrical content does in fact seem as appropriate today as it was in 1971. the first time i really listened to that song was in 1996. i remember thinking that this song had a timeless quality to it. until then i never appreciated heavy metal that much. i too enjoy the music of led zeppelin (though to me they're not heavy metal as black sabbath is labeled). zep has gotten a lot of negative press, reference dark arts, aleister crowley, etc. perhaps i'm naive, but i just don't believe they could have created such great music without having a predominantly positive polarization. i remember reading somewhere that led zeppelin's music is for people who are interested in the future.

looking forward to a great future for us all!

doug