IAMAI: ; Chapter 8 - Concerning Music

8.4 - Mechanics

Remember the Formula of Effectiveness. The longer an individual spends focusing over a change of time (fDt), the more effective they will be in that focus. The effectiveness in this particular reference is a change of consciousness. The longer the student focuses, the more there is going to be a change inside.

Also, remember in the formula relationship that as attachment approaches zero (A_S), effectiveness approaches infinite. As the individual starts working with this idea, and is not working with any untruth, their effectiveness can approach infinite. This concept is the springboard for magic and miracles.

Doing these types of exercises, you are opening up your Perceptional Lens Array and allowing a free flow from the event (the music) through an empty lens array, going through the cognitive, contacting knowledge. Done in a consistent manner, you can change your programming this way. Plus, the constant exercise of one point focus will make your focus stronger too, as in lifting weights. The growth comes in choosing to focus the lens.

Remember, that all you're doing with these exercises is just 'messing around' with the lens array. Playing with it this way and that. You are using the cognitive input of what's happening and avoiding the lower part of your individual matrix. I'm trying to get you to see there are consistent cause and effect relationships. Things will automatically begin to happen if an individual starts to apply the relationships.

That's why this course is laid out like a science program. None of what is being done here is new. It's all been said before, in another way, by probably thousands and thousands of people. I'm just attempting to demystify it. Metaphysics tends to be presented as too mystical and esoteric. They don't call it the occult for nothing.

As you do these exercises, remember sense of purpose and the motivational analysis. By remembering your sense of purpose, if you drift, it's easier to come back when you remember: "What am I doing this for? What do I want?"

What you don't want can be just as important as what you do want. It is very useful to bring your focus back by realizing, "No, I don't want to do that, I want to do this right now." Do the exercise just to do it. You don't know where it's going. That is non-attachment to the outcome.

Lab and Homework Assignment #13:
Music and an Empty Mind

Because the book format allows the reader to work on their own, it will be left up to the reader to pick the music they want to work with. For the classes format, I was going to start with drums as the first exercise. I would have the class in relaxed positions and, first, do a passive application of focus to music. This would be done for fifteen minutes.

Then, I would take a song, like Sugar Magnolia -- Sunshine Daydream,¹⁴ where the words can slip into a spiritual parallel; where the song says she, and she is God. This deals with that kind of parallel. "Head's all empty and I don't care." No attachment, and do either dance or sit. It doesn't make any difference; this is only an introduction.

The individuals would be instructed to use the songs and one point focus to enter. It is possible to really boogie with the song when they are singing. When the song gets into strong instrumental, the boogie can get stiller and stiller. The individual can enter deeper and deeper states.

Because the body can never do what all the notes or sounds are doing, the mind can enter the music as the body starts to get still. The body would never be able to relate to all the notes that it hears. It tends to relate to the gestalt of the music; the feeling.

This homework assignment is for the individual to pick four pieces of music, two instrumentals only and two with vocals. The pieces should be ten to twenty minutes long. Find a place where you won't be disturbed and get in a comfortable (but not too comfortable) position.
Do a short period of slow deep breathing, turn the music on, and enter. Do this once for each piece of music. Do an active and a passive exercise (a dance, and be still) for each piece. After each exercise, sit and be still for several minutes, and notice any thoughts or sensations and perhaps record them in your notebook.

One last thing to add to this chapter. Almost everything in this chapter is geared around individual experimentation. What hasn't been covered is what happens when a group of people are doing the exercise together, specifically to live music.

When a group of people empty their minds to music, with the intent of growth or union with God, something very special can happen. Depending on what the people bring to the event,¹⁵ and how much untruth is in the combined matrices, it can result in a minor group consciousness change to, "When two or more of you are gathered in my name, there also shall I be."¹⁶

¹⁴ Lyrics by Robert Hunter, from American Beauty, The Grateful Dead, Copyright 1970 by Ice Nine Publishing, Inc.
¹⁵ The Grateful Dead called this the 'x factor'.
¹⁶ Jesus...

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