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Tonality of the month: LydDorian or ClusterPro

The June 2021 tonality of the month is LydDorian / ClusterPro — a Cluster / melodic heptatonality.

1) LydDorian / ClusterPro — rhythmic sound sample — 0:49 loop — plays until stopped or you go to another page on this tab.
2) LydDorian / ClusterPro — calm sound sample — 8-string guitar — May 2021 — 1:03 loop
3) LydDorian / ClusterPro — expanded sound sample — 8-string guitar — May 2021 — 3:36 loop

LydDorian or ClusterPro, known also as acoustic scale or Lydian dominant, consists of fascinating harmonic traits. Its most contrasting two pitches are the tritone and minor seventh. They appear more harmonic when initially approached from above, not from below. After introducing them from above, they gradually become more palatable also when approached from below.

This was a personal discovery. It reversed the previous rejection of this so-called acoustic scale from the Tonalibus catalogue of anchored tonalities. Now this tonality became the latest catalogue addition, after discovering its delicate harmonic qualities and intricate anchoring. Before, it had appeared insufficiently harmonious. But the deficiency was because of not seeing its qualities and not knowing how to use them harmoniously.

Finding qualities of harmony

There seems to be some wisdom in this, a valuable lesson of harmony going well beyond music. If something appears insufficiently harmonious, apparently disturbing tones or elements may actually integrate when approaching them form another angle. In the mentioned tonality it was from above instead of from below. Something to contemplate!

You may enjoy a sound sample loop, such as the one of the tonality of the month, as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation, for upliftment, focusing, or simply for relaxation and regeneration as soothing background sound. Further, you could hum or chant along, for example using HU or another mantra syllable, and tune yourself to the fundamental.

Tonality of the month: LydDorian or ClusterPro
Full moon over sunset clouds and Alps, May 2021, Grächwil, Switzerland
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Allergic freedom

Allergic freedom

A good friend of mine
Once upon God’s time
I knew better than most
Developed a sixth sense.
You might call it an allergy
To absolutes and exclusivity
And to make one look good
At the expense of others.

He thought it a quality
And offered it as service
To strengthen and to purify
What he held sacred and dear
Specifically the holy scriptures
Of his chosen spiritual path
He so fully made his own
As he applied this trait.

But he was condemned
His service not welcome
In this most essential form
His dedication put in question
And his stature torn apart.

Deprived, rather freed
Of a crutch used so long
Forced to stand on his own
In the end it held its promise
Leading to spiritual freedom
As he rooted deep and firm
In divine light and sound
The very love of God.

Allergic freedom — Which way is up? And which way is down?

Allergic freedom Q
Does this mountain brook flow from the right to the left, or, the other way around, from the left to the right?

“Here is the cutting to the chase: There is a point at which your spiritual practice and your spiritual lexicon, your language for it, your concepts about what spirituality is, your accumulated experience of spiritual activity, just simply falls away. It becomes indistinguishable from living life. There is no difference between inner life and outer life, ideally.”
— from Not on the Radio with W. A. Mathieu, November 12, 2018

Allergic freedom A
Glacial melting water flowing down from the Blüemlisalp through the Chiene, Kiental, May 2021

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One’s own way

One’s own way

Yes, I am going my way! 
Are you going your way? 
Unless you are, indeed 
You're not going your way. 
Can anyone ever go 
Someone else's way 
Beyond being inspired 
To get moving along? 
Traveling together works 
As long as we are clear 
That sooner or later 
Our paths will part. 
Thus, let's celebrate 
While we are together 
The light and sound
 In the love of life. 
Thank you for being 
While we were and are 
And will be, also not 
In the freedom of now. 
Love is what carries all 
Everyone and everything 
The only way is under our feet 
Yours, mine, and everyone's. 
We rally around ideas shared 
Visions can unify and divide 
Until conscious beyond duality 
Now all is one, and one is all. 
Teachings and teachers 
Fulfill their very purpose 
When, finally, at long last 
One stands on one's own feet. 
Am I going my own way 
When I am who I am? 
I am going my own way 
When I am home as soul. 
Because, as well as in spite of all 
Oneself, teachers, and teachings 
In the end it all comes together 
Otherwise it is not yet the end. 
In the miracle of life and love 
Each ending is a new beginning 
Each new start follows conclusions 
As every moment God realizes itself.

“Journey Around the Sun” — a circular Core modulation

8-string guitar — 7:08 — April 2021 — PentaCor, ReachUpMix, Dorian, ReachUpMix, PentaCor — as loop on a separate tab

“What is half will become whole.
What is crooked will become straight.
What is empty will become full.
What is old will become new.”

— from verse 22 of the Tao Te Ching 道德经 by Lao Tzu (1972 Diederichs edition, p. 62)

One's own way
Another spring awoke and blossomed — May 2021 — Chanhassen, Minnesota

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Prajñāpāramitā – प्रज्ञापारमिता

Prajnaparamita – प्रज्ञापारमिता – “Prajna is wisdom, and paramita means to cross over, or to reach the other shore. Our life can be seen as a crossing of a river.” — Q1

Is it worth mentioning
Generally best in silence
One on one -- or openly
What's the point to give
When it is visible to all
But none wants to see
Or just what fits so well
Into the frame one set
Often one-sided fixed
Then there are cracks
Accommodate reality
Cannot be restricted
Sides break through
Yet sooner than later
Disputes be settled
At once and for all
Like weeds pulled
With all their roots
Relegate to hedges
And karma dissolves
Detached free core
All earned every step
The way is the present
Just being and non-being
Practice light and sound
Soul and a golden heart
Not one nor two-sided
But free at long last
To mention in silence
So everyone may hear.
PentaPro / PentaNa — calm sound sample — 8-string guitar — April 2021 — 1:16 loop

Prajnaparamita – प्रज्ञापारमिता

“When we hear the sound of the pine trees on a windy day, perhaps the wind is just blowing, and the pine tree is just standing in the wind. That is all they are doing. But the people who listen to the wind in the tree will write a poem, or will feel something unusual. That is, I think, the way everything is.” — Q2

“When you are you, you see things as they are, and you become one with your surroundings. There is your true self.” — Q3

From Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki — Q1 p. 69 — Q2 p. 88 — Q3 p. 95

Prajnaparamita – प्रज्ञापारमिता
Gently blending spring tree blossoms — May 2021 — Chanhassen, Minnesota
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Tonality of the month: Dorian

The May 2021 tonality of the month is Dorian — a regular diatonic heptatonality.

1) Dorian — short sound sample loop — 0:26 — plays until stopped or you go to another page on this tab.
2) Dorian — expanded, meditative/contemplative sound sample — February 2021 — 2:34 loop

Dorian, the tonality of the month of May 2021, is the most evenly balanced diatonic heptatonality. Actually it stands right in the very middle between the contrasts of minor and major. Though its tetrachord classifications associate it with minor. Nevertheless, Dorian realizes a most striking balance between regressive and progressive, between major and minor polarities. This shows in the exact symmetry of the interval and pitch distribution matrix of this tonality. And this also reflects in its inherent horizontal harmonic axis. On the piano keyboard, Dorian corresponds to the white keys with D as fundamental.

You may enjoy a sound sample loop, such as the one of the tonality of the month, as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation, for upliftment, focusing, or simply for relaxation and regeneration as soothing background sound. Further, you could hum or chant along, for example using HU or another mantra syllable, and tune yourself to the fundamental.

IMG_3085 cxv - Tonality of the month: Dorian
Sun setting, going down to come up again another day — Eriz, Switzerland — June 2020