2022 spiritual Archives – Page 4 of 7

This July 2022 Tonalibus update highlights some website changes. It announces the new main menu language selection and links to the Tonalibus / Ulrico pages on some major global music platforms. First though, it presents the latest playlist and sound sample additions. And it concludes with a spiritual reminder quote and a an fascinating 8-second video clip.

Playlist and sound sample updates

“New moon rising” — a sensitive welcome — 4:52 — 8-string guitar — ReachNaBal — as loop on a separate tab

New additions to playlist Tonalibus F and/or the Summer 2022 collection of personal sound samples include the following pieces:
1) “New moon rising” — a sensitive welcome — 4:52 — 8-string guitar — ReachNaBal — (above)
2) “Let’s talk” — a personal manifesto — 13:21 — double 8-string guitar, voice, and gongs — based on the four corners of the sound temple, from PentaCor, via HexaCorMix to LoReachUpMix and back
3) “Let’s listen” — a personal meditation — 13:21 — double 8-string guitar and gongs — based on the four corners of the sound temple, from PentaCor, via HexaCorMix to LoReachUpMix and back — plain instrumental version of “Let’s talk” without voice — (under Summer 2022)
4) And there are corresponding new extra tonality sound samples for ReachNaBal and PentaCor.

July 2022 Tonalibus update on menu options and translations

The page Contact of this website is now accessible as the last secondary menu option under About.

Under Start you now find links to the Tonalibus / Ulrico pages on some major music platforms.

The language selection option for English, German, French, or Italian is now a main menu option.

The Tonalibus website currently experiences isolated translation problems. In English all works well. But in German, French, and Italian some links that target a specific place in the body of a page land on the top of the target page instead of the desired location on that page. This happens e.g. with the link Blog Posts by Month, a secondary main menu option under Spiritualibus Blog, with some links as loop with recent sound samples, or with some tonality subgroup menu links like for Pentatonalities. The provider of the currently used translation engine is busy working on resolving this.

An old spiritual reminder quote as July 2022 update

“I have no special message to give but to remind you of the teaching of Maharaj Sawan Singh Ji, which he impressed on us all through his life and which constitutes the essence of the teachings of the saints of all times. What is their mission in this world? Saints are men of God, who come here on a mission of mercy to lead the suffering humanity back to the feet of God. That is their only mission in life. They come not to divide but to unite and are above the narrow distinctions of caste and creed. They do not wish to create new sects or castes, though when they pass away, their followers lose sight of their real teachings and take to various types of ritualism and narrow down the teachings, meant for the whole humanity, to particular sects and schools. This gives rise to castes or creeds and even bigotry and fanaticism; but there are no such differences in saints.

“Saints of all ages and countries have the same message to give, the same truth to teach. They tell us that the soul is a spark of the divine flame, but its light here is dimmed by mind and maya. They teach us how to pierce these veils and get united again to our source or origin.”

Message to overseas disciples in 1957 from Maharaj Charan Singh

A maple leaf, angular tracks, and freedom of light

Sunlight through foliage caressing the ground around a maple leaf — 8 seconds — July 2022 — Chanhassen, MN

July 4, 2022July 16, 2022

Sensitive — more or less

Sensitive — more or less
To ever blowing oneself up
Or even putting others down
Which does show weakness
And then as strength clearly
Where one’s consciousness
Still remains very human
And asks to be polished
With silent compassion
For oneself and all others
Recognize and step through
The gate of spiritual freedom
To simply relish the moment
Of the divine realizing itself
Without coloring or claim
To be any better or worse
But just be, simply being
What it is, you and we are
Unfolding in consciousness
In light and sound — and love.

“New moon rising” — a sensitive welcome

ReachNaBal — 8-string guitar — July 2022 — 4:52 — as loop on a separate tab

You may enjoy a sound sample or tonality loop as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation. This can help with upliftment, purification, and focusing. Or it could simply be used as soothing background sound for relaxation and regeneration. If you care to hum, chant, or sing along, you could use a spiritually charged syllable like HU or Ōṃ / Aum ॐ, or another mantra syllable that suits you.

Sensitive -- more or less — Sensitive, more or less — Marco helps experiment with the above sound sample, while shy Polo still keeps a safe distance — July 2022 — Shoreview, MN

June 23, 2022July 4, 2022

Let’s talk

Let’s talk
About what
We agree
And don’t
Know well
Each other
And learn
Who we are
Maintaining
Loving trust
I am not ready
To abandon
But to cherish
The difference
For whatever
It may be
In harmony
In its own way
Distinct as is
From any other
However fake
It’s the reality
That is mine
As is yours
For yourself
And certainly
Not for me
Just to be
Left but not alone.

“Let’s talk” — a personal manifesto

Based on the four corners of the sound temple, from PentaCor via HexaCorMix to LoReachUpMix and back — double 8-string guitar, voice, and gongs — June 2022 — 13:21 — as loop on a separate tab — plus also available without voice as “Let’s listen” — a personal meditation

June 12, 2022June 14, 2022

Our lights are on

Our lights are on
Yours and mine
We light up
Each other
Either pull up
Or push down
Never tell one
Their light is out
However it is on
Becoming bright
And ever shining
With divine love
There’s no room
For put-downs
Of any others
Nor of oneself
But upliftment
Of you and me
And all souls
On their way
Through life
Learning
To shine
Like a sun
First moon
At times full
Before fading
Then growing
Again an’ again
As cycles churn
We better pull up
Our lights are on
All together
We light up
Each other
The sun.

“Four by four” — corners of the sound temple

Four gongs — June 2022 — 14:09 — as loop on a separate tab

Past lights shining on from 1609

Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
Why lov’st thou that which thou receiv’st not gladly,
Or else receiv’st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
Resembling sire and child and happy mother,
Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: “Thou single wilt prove none.”

— Sonnet 8, Fair Youth sequence, William Shakespeare, 1609 Quarto

First light of a rising sun on early morning dew

Our lights are on — Dandelion spreading its seed — May 2022 — photo by Karin Gsöllpiontner

June 5, 2022June 6, 2022

Who cares

Who cares
For this
And more

Who looks
With eyes
Open now

Who listens
That much
Is sound

So many
Sing songs
All talk

Look closely
At oneself
And others

This many
So much
That is

Embrace
With love
Who cares!

“HU cares” — a sound cycle pūjā

Aeolian — double 8-string guitar and multiple voice — June 2022 — 5:09 — as loop on a separate tab

Truth, goodness, love, and beauty

Truth, goodness, love, and beauty are commonly regarded as poetic ideas, but they are, in essence, spiritual facts. These are the ideas which one should include in his speech and thoughts. They are the language of soul and bring about an awakening of that pervading, persuasive urge in man to realize himself in his totality, as a being essentially spiritual and eternal. Truth as given by spirit is neither esoteric, strange, nor fanciful. It is at once sublime, universal, and profoundly practical.

Truth cannot be taken as one’s own discovery, but it has to be continually rediscovered. It has to be reformed and transformed if its meaning, its living value, and spiritual nourishment are to be preserved. This is known as the law of spiritual growth, which results in the necessity to experience the same truth in ever-new forms, and to cultivate and propagate not so much the results, but the methods through which soul obtains knowledge, experience, and reality.

— Free after: The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Books One & Two, Paul Twitchell, pp. 425 and 433

Category: 2022 spiritual

July 2022 Tonalibus update