Spiritual Music Fan Clubs

There is a hidden code in music that only musicians can decipher. It's a puzzling language that speaks to the core of the soul without the need of words - a dialogue that leaks through the hard shell of our rationale exposing the vulnerability of our emotions. It's overwhelming at times and impossible to explain to outsiders. It can easily be seen in the expressions of a performer playing live music. The facial expressions and body language will accompany the musician as he spills his heart out onto the instrument. The most intimate confession rolls from the performer's fingers onto the audience. While he does this, he is breaking the barrier of time and space and a direct spiritual communion between the creator of the composition and the performer takes place.

I truly believe that once a soul learns the hidden code of music, it will choose to continue down that path in the lives that follow. Once a musician, always a musician. It explains why I, like many others, was born with perfect pitch (the ability to recognize all notes by memory) as well as my childhood dreams where I saw myself playing a strange looking piano that sounded like a plucked string instrument with inverted colored keys, my wrists adorned with strange white ruffles. Obviously, it was the memory of a past life as a harpsichordist during the Baroque period, most likely.

Many composers, including Mozart and Brahms, declared that they were merely a tool used by a universal creative conscience to transport the music from its original source into our world. Mozart described his creative flow as falling into a state of trance, and warned others about the danger of losing control of our earthly reality. But, if all music has been written already, and it's merely waiting for someone to bring it down from its sacred throne into our ordinary lives, then who are these composers? Why are they the chosen ones to speak on behalf of the Muse? And why do musicians, as well as some listeners, feel connected to these men, in some cases as if he or she were still standing right next to us as we hear or play their music?

Although they lived lives far from perfect, the souls of the musical masters have achieved a higher spiritual level through the repeated lives devoted to the art of Music. You could say that they've been in school for many centuries and they have reached the genius level. Of course, given different circumstances these musically evolved souls might not have reached full potential, but I strongly believe the purpose of their lives is to inspire others that are beginning school, merely in primary grades. Therefore, full development of the soul's potential is granted and discussed in Heaven before reincarnation. Yes, that soul knew that he would go deaf and would have to continue writing music skillfully before it reincarnated as Ludwig van Beethoven.

When these Masters die, their music serves as a link to communicate with them. In fact, I strongly believe they become interested in people who manage to find a way to "break the code" of their music. Years ago, when I was practicing for an all Brahms program, I had a strange encounter with his spirit. At first, I thought that it was my imagination from spending so many hours sitting at the instrument playing his music, but when my sister, who was visiting at the time and who had never seen a picture of Brahms, described having seen a short old man with a long white beard smoking a cigar, dressed in a late 19th century men's suit; I knew she was referring to him. She had seen him inspecting the grand piano that I had purchased the day before. She woke up and saw him surrounded by a beautiful glowing aura. He noticed her, smiled, and kept on examining the piano. Then he disappeared.

I haven't felt or seen him ever since I gave my piano playing a rest, I know he is not one of my Spirit Guides. Like many other composers, he serves a higher purpose - to inspire humanity. But I'd never felt so blessed to be clairsentient (to feel the souls of the departed). I hope one day he pays me another visit. Until then, I will cherish my experience as one of the best things that has ever happened to me.