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Writer's pictureThomas Tittmann

Musical Medicine - a PANacea for life's pandemoniums...

At last evening’s LI Baha'i Fellowship's ArtShare, a friend related a story of her bout with a GI infirmity whose name included “pan-”…


Yesterday morning as I was having breakfast, I was thinking about healing music and “pan’s”…and a favorite instrument known as the “handpan” came to mind. In this same corner of my musical mind, I met other musical artists:

FIRST, sisters - who sing about the medicine of seeds, plants and other natural remedies…NEXT, two groups of musicians with deep roots in our natural world, as they circle the globe PANhandling....


These connections to the wisdom of the Earth were stimulated by Michael Crowfoot Walking’s presentation on Lakota Sioux spirituality - one based in the wonders of our natural world. (a post is in the works)



MEDICINE


First, sisters Leah and Chloe - Rising Appalachia


"Find your teachers in the voice of the forests

Unplug, you can't ignore this, wisdom of the voiceless

Remedies are bountiful and surround us

From the garden to the farthest, prayer made of star dust"


"The yard is feeding, stop stark the disbelieving

'Cause the garden holds the shards, the medicine is in the seeds..."

--Rising Appalachia - Medicine









SWEET!!!





PANning for Gold...en slumber...


This "PAN" can relax us...help us drift off to sleep...OR, just mellow a little...




"Wisdom in the Roots"


Title track from Hang Massive's newest album. Tracks include:



"Life is just a PAN in the woods..." Hang Massive



Note the mushrooms in the audience...Hmm...like the '60's...



Roots...





Lull a BYE...


"Once there was a way

To get back homeward

Once there was a way

To get back home


Sleep, pretty darling

Do not cry

And I will sing a lullaby

Golden slumbers fill your eyes


Smiles awake when you rise

Sleep, pretty darling

Do not cry

And I will sing a lullaby"

Golden Slumbers - The Beatles




And this wisdom from the first person to introduce me - at age 26 - in his classic "Be Here Now" - to a loving version of the energy some call "G-d"...



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