1 result for (book:tps2 AND session:601 AND stemmed:chant)
6/41 (15%)
chants
Sumari
songs
language
ancient
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(From 6-7 PM this evening Jane and I attended a cocktail party given by Leonard Yaudes in his apartment downstairs. Afterward Jane, Shirley Bickford—one of Jane’s ESP class members - and I listened to the tape of ESP class, made last night. The tape contained some of the Sumari chants Jane has been giving in class recently. They are extremely interesting. I told Jane before the session tonight that I couldn’t give her much of any sort of answer to her questions about the chants or the Sumari development in general. I didn’t have enough information, etc.
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(9:30.) The chants set up deep emotional responses in listeners and in those involved. The emotional, responses then are used as departure points for other experiences. The music, the chants, are richly endowed with what you might call for now racial memory, striking psychic as well as biological chords, and thereby releasing certain inner mechanisms and memories.
Hopefully the memories will later become memories of the future as well as the past. While the chants are indeed seeped in ancient knowledge inherent in the race, the knowledge itself when intuitively felt brings forth an experience of timelessness. This will make it possible for some to obtain a clear vision of their timelessness of the self, existing in future as well as past terms.
(Pause at 9:34.) The actions that arise out of the chanting—as the circle arrangement of students—these are all deeply buried psychically and psychologically pertinent actions that have been a part of your race from its earliest times. The chanting and the action are physical keys or symbols that open up the doors to a nonphysical state of existence before those of your race entered history. (Pause.) They were significant then, and evocative. They reminded man of his past. They were ancient the first time the first man chanted, or the first circle was formed.
Ruburt never would have been free enough in the past for such a development to occur, and it was of course, again, no coincidence that you attended class the night the chanting began in earnest.
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(9:40.) The chants vary also in intent, purpose and meaning.
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