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August 8, 2022January 18, 2023

August 2022 Tonalibus update

This August 2022 Tonalibus update announces the latest personal sound samples and a change in Spiritualibus blog posts. It concludes with a message on therapeutic music and a personal photo.

Personal sound samples and playlist update

Playlist Tonalibus F — So many colors of reality will soon conclude and make room to start Tonalibus G. Because by now Tonalibus F already consists of ten pieces and offers some 102 minutes of meditative new music. Most recent additions, which are also under Sounds in Summer 2022, include: “Individual bhajan” — a progression experiment, and “Gratitude in advance” — a true gift.

“Individual bhajan” — concieved as theme for a personal theater production — Phrygian, ReachMin, ReachMix, Mixolydian — 8-string guitar, tingsha cymbals, gong, and double voice — 13:08 — as loop on a separate tab

“Gratitude in advance” — inspired by a gift of true love prepared before the first encounter — HexaBluNa or HexaLolo — 7-string guitar, 8-string guitar, crotales, gong, and tampura — 6:10 — as loop on a separate tab

August 2022 Spiritualibus blog update

In recent months it was possible to add comments to new posts on the Spiritualibus Blog. However as of now this capability is no longer available. It was turned off because there were more comments from unidentifiable sources and potential hackers coming in than usable contributions.

Therapeutic music — become a friend of the NSBTM

“Perhaps you have had this experience. You or a loved one is struggling with pain, depression, fear, sleeplessness, or loss of will. Then someone steps in to say, ‘Let me be with you, just as you are.’ The offer is to share space and music with another without words, judgment or objective to change or modify the other, and without expectation of praise or reward. Many times, music accompanies the sacred liminal space between now and what is to come. This is the role of the therapeutic musician.

“The certified therapeutic musician is a highly trained professional whose objective is to provide intentional music at the bedside and other settings to work together with the other’s mood, body rhythms, culture, and musical preferences to provide comfort care. The anecdotal as well as documented evidence of the benefits of therapeutic music are extensive. Among other valuable results, therapeutic music has been shown to move heart rate, blood pressure, and respirations to more optimal levels and to ease anxiety and reduce pain. This musical support is accomplished at a very low cost and without negative side effects.”

Rachel Christensen, NSBTM Secretary, National Standards Board for Therapeutic Musicians

Reflections of a warm summer evening farewell

August 3, 2022August 3, 2022

The highest

The highest
It’s highest
So we think
And elevate
Into exclusion
Condescension
Rather descends
Losing the height
In egotistic claims
Often for control
Just plain power
Instead of love
Discard pseudo
In everyone else
Termed negative
With a monopoly
On every positive
Self-satisfaction
At the very best
Worst deception
Disband this hold
Relish the height
Without spinning
In loving silence
A spark of eyes
And tears of joy
In an embrace
Of the highest
Ever new again
Welcome home!

“Gratitude in advance” — a true gift

HexaBluNa or HexaLolo — 7-string guitar, 8-string guitar, crotales, gong, and tampura — 6:10 — as loop on a separate tab

Compassion and loving kindness

“We cannot place blame: we have the opportunity to learn from these problems [environmental, health, social, etc.], which can help us to develop strength within ourselves. We can share that strength and can transform one another through the practice of compassion and loving kindness for one another.”

— Dr. Tsering Palmo, founding nun of the Ladakh Nuns Association, quoted by Emma Lewis of the Asian Legacy Library in her article “Metta in Action: Buddhist Nuns in Ladakh Fight Climate Change“, April 2022, Tricycle

Full moon rising high, maybe the highest

July 28, 2022August 9, 2022

Tonality of the month: HexaBluNa or HexaLolo

HexaBluNa or HexaLolo — calm sound sample — 8-string guitar — November 2021 — 2:54 — as loop on a separate tab

HexaBluNa or HexaLolo — rhythmic sound sample — 8-string guitar — November 2021 — 2:23 — as loop on a separate tab

The tonality of the month of August 2022 is HexaBluNa or HexaLolo, a Blu(e) hexatonality. Its first name, HexaBluNa, indicates that this is a hexatonality based on the first few Na(tural) harmonics with the addition of the Blu(esy) minor third and quart in the lower tetachord. Its second name is HexaLolo. This indicates that the lower tetrachord is the lowest possible or Lolo version of Reach. And the upper tetrachord contains just the minor seventh. A distinguishing feature of this tonality is the presence of two consecutive half tone steps. They juxtapose and allow this tonality to blend the contrasting common notions of minor and major side by side unified as one.

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.

Tonality of the month: HexaBluNa or HexaLolo — Summer sun gradually progressing towards the horizon — July 2022 — Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota

July 26, 2022September 16, 2024

May the blessings be

May the blessings be
In the name of spirit
The name of the divine
In the name of God
Conclusions conclude
As beginnings begin
We let endings end
So new starts can start
Make room as there is
What seems infinite
Space and freedom
Drop by acceptance
And let go of dogma
As religions border
Some form of insanity
Legitimized by people
Sparked by experience
Of spirit’s harmony
Realizing the divine
In life and in love
The beauty of being
In the present moment
Continually discovering
Observing in silence
How God realizes
The moment itself
The blessings of now
All together in love
In the name of spirit
The name of the divine
In the name of God
May the blessings be.

“Individual bhajan” — a progression experiment

Phrygian, ReachMin, ReachMix, Mixolydian — 8-string guitar, tingsha cymbals, gong, and double voice — 13:08 — as loop on a separate tab

May the blessings be — wealth of evening colors — July 2022 — Lake Murten, Switzerland

July 13, 2022January 31, 2024

July 2022 Tonalibus update

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