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Rhythmic chanting in music sends me into a strange trance

UberScout

Please Don't Be Mad At Me 02/09/1996
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This might be a light worker or a spirit animal thing, but I experience a weird phenomenon whenever I listen to certain types of "spiritual" music, specifically the kinds that include shamanistic drumming and chanting.

If I sit there and listen to it long enough I have a thousand yard stare where I can almost "see" stuff from LONG ago; I'll be in a hotel room, and in this trance I see people with face markings and feather garments trampling around with staves and throwing talismans into a fire. Or, the same thing but there are animals like birds of prey tied up at their limbs being tortured and having their blood drawn to mark people's foreheads with.

Am I seeing into the past or something? Was this a vision of some past life I had being invoked by this music? Was this some previous walk-in where i was some kind of sage or medicine man? I dont really look at that stuff on a regular basis, but I've seen plenty of NatGeo documentaries about primitive tribes that still exist to this day, who literally still live in the past; I'm talking like, villages in the middle of a forest, chief leader and all, people are stirring broths and brews, everybody lives in huts made of straw, and nobody uses so much as a light switch. In fact I remember a documentary about this tribe where boys who turn sixteen have to undergo a coming of age ritual where they lay face down on large straw tables and a priest uses a thinly sharpened stone to make deep, skin-depth cuts in their backs, in a certain formation, for three hours. While they're awake. And remember these are primitive people, they dont have sedatives or pain killers, but they do give the boys a funny tasting plant to bite down on that doesn't numb the pain. The cut formations are done based on what clan they're in. Higher tier clans have more complicated cut formations. Woe betide you if you're the princess' brother...

I have no idea where these visions come from, and I certainly dont invoke them myself or create them in my mind. I had planned to use this type of music for reiki meditation...guess there's something about me I dont know yet...?
 
I think you are in fact seeing into the past.
The past that you mentioned: "I've seen plenty of NatGeo documentaries about primitive tribes..."

I think you are recalling and perhaps embellishing upon the memories of documentaries you have seen.
 
You might be on to something, my leafy friend. But still, I still manage to scare myself when it happens.

To be specific, I was listening to this when i first saw the visions:


I had the Genesis version of the Lion King as a kid, and the most I remember this music playing is a minigame where Timone is tossing bugs off a fallen tree and Pumbaa has to catch them, another version of it that plays during the final battle against Scar (do NOT let him pounce on top of you, the death screen is unnerving as adult Simba), and another after the game asks you to continue, that one being the creepiest because its nothing but "CONTINUE?" and Rafiki slumped down all depressed and distraught, against a pitch black screen. If you say yes he perks up and smiles yelling "The King has returned!" out of your TV speakers.

I know its irrelevant but there are some other slightly nervous things about it as a kid, namely because SEGA Genesis consoles aren't good at mimicking voices. The game also had cutscenes with slightly modified voice samples from the movie. Not the scariest thing but as a 3 year old with embryotic autism its kind of hard to react properly too.

Pumbaa: "MAN, I can't believe I ate all those bugs!!" (Mini game score tallying points over a blackground with no music)
Me: EEEEE@@#$&#%@@%@@@#%@
 
I used to love that games a kid! At least, that's what I remembered. When I played it a few years later, I realized I never got past the first few levels. It's so difficult!
 
Wait till you make it to Scar. You fight him at the edge of Pride Rock just like in the movie, but youre supposed to wait until he turns his back and then throw him aside. If he lands on top of you, you have literally a fraction of a second to shake him off before he basically OHK's you. If you manage to beat that part its not over; you then have to traverse an absolutely satanic layout of VERY! small, pixel wide platforms to the top, where he turns absolutely feral on you.

Disney, are you feeling okay?
 
Chanting and drumming does put our brain waves into an altered state.
That's why the Native American and South American tribes and clans did this and still do in those
primitive areas you speak of that they show on National Geographic.
Sort of like hypnotic.
They do this and even in modern societies to get into this altered sensation.
I've done drumming circles a lot myself with people who gather with these metaphysical beliefs.
Never used any hallucinaginics either.
The native tribes usually do to enhance the experience even more.

Who knows what goes on in our brains during these times.
Have you ever experienced the crystal Chakra bowls in tune?
That was a far out experience for me that produced some physically felt reactions.
Goes well for those who practice Reiki.
 
So it IS real! It IS a real thing that can be invoked! As a starseed I've always known that energy can be manipulated and invoked for millions of purposes including, what my little sister and I coined as "Star magic" or "moon work" but to hear that it physically affected someone else other than me and my 9 yr old sibling confirms it all that much more! This is mass awareness in action!!

And to think the whole cause of this was a 16 bit audio sample from a rasterized game console...
 
This sounds to me to be an instance of a highly suggestible person being
subject to flights of imagination, and grasping at an explanation that makes
his life meaningful.
 
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Nobody truly knows what's completely real on Earth. The Earth is the best liar that ever lived. Who's to say I'm actually telling the truth? Not saying anyone's calling me a liar or that I'm calling anyone else a liar, you just have to expect the unexpected. That's all you can do in this world, is always be ready for what nobody else is ready for.

There's a lot we dont know about this world and the information about it is constantly changing. One minute somebody says they met Nelson Mandela in a prison cell, the next they're saying he died of a stroke, then the next somebody else says he just shot thirty people in a mall. Anything is plausible, everything is possible.
 
Just because there are varied explanations doesn't mean they are all true.
 
I have done a lot of "alternative" research all my adult life. What you are experiencing is taking place in your own conscience.
Chanting and drumming does put our brain waves into an altered state.

"What" you are experiencing is a reality but don't be too concerned about any dreadful affects. While currently residing within your current reality, altered states of conscience are harmful.

It is beyond the scope of this forum to explain the "workings" of our own individual consciences but suffice it to say, looking for a truthful explanation is definitely NOT going to be found by seeking knowledge from "main-stream" sources - such as National Geographic or "organized religion". Also, for you to gain a complete comprehensive understanding of this new subject matter will require hundreds of hours of research. I wish there was a non-exhaustive way to educate our society about metaphysical subject matters but the "powers that are in control" don't want the masses to know anything about our real nature as a species. That is the bottom line.
 
Have you guys done a lot of drugs? I know how that sounds, like I'm saying, "y'all are nuts!" but I ask because I've only ever heard talk like this while on or shortly after doing things like LSD and shrooms, so now I'm just curious. Mostly curious to know if there are many people who think these things and have never done drugs.
 
I've never done drugs, and I'm studying Shamanism at the moment. I've had some very real experiences while having energy work done to treat my PTSD, and I've had very definite flashbacks to a past life during certain activities (Martial arts...I was Samurai in a past life). I can understand animals telepathically, communicate with them without speaking, and can sometimes feel the energy of the Earth during meditation. I may do some light herbs, but I don't do hard drugs or hallucinogenics. This is just the path of spiritual expression that feels RIGHT to me.
 
I've never done hallucinogenics or drugs aka recreational or street drugs. Not even weed.
No cultural or religious background influences either.
Parents were Christian, but, by the age of nine, I couldn't buy into what I was being taught as the
all inclusive truth and began studying different cultural backgrounds and trying to make some logical
conclusions on my own.

Later in life I studied psychology and scientific findings on the power of the mind.
I have had many experiences that could be classified as metaphysical without pursuit.
This led to an interest in the meta-sciences and obtained an Associates degree in Metaphysical Sciences
and philosophy.

Just because there are varied explanations doesn't mean they are all true.
This so very true. Not all can be true, but, not all can be untrue either.
I've tried to seperate theologies from philosophy and what science can prove as of todate.
Our scientific knowledge has always grown and changed through time and will continue to do so.

I can relate to @Ronin82 as I have known Shamans and practiced martial arts, tai chi and Reiki came naturally, but, still I studied and got the degree. Reiki is now being used in veternary settings as a real
process of energy manipulation. I understand the connection you speak of with animals and all things.
All is connected.
Energy is a word that needs scientific defining as all things are energy just in different forms and vibratory
levels and density of atoms into what we call mass. Even dense objects of matter are loosely formed
molecules. Study some physics.
Philosophy is enjoyable also for myself and as a discussion topic in groups.
 

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