Does your higher self speak to you through songs?

[Fastidious Emanations]

Thank 'you' ananogy for reminding me that the whole of creation perpetually 'exists' in balance regardless of how it is perceived. Or how 'imbalanced' it seems.
This information seems quite transient, mundane and/or obvious on the surface.

[IAM Identity=AmariPaul]

Does your higher self speak to you through music?  Mine does.

There are a variety of songs that are special to me for this very reason.  During a particularly broken time in my life my higher self spoke to me through the following song.  As the tears streamed down my face and I silently asked the universe why it had forsaken me, it suddenly played on the radio in divine timing:

Son of Man, by Phil Collins



Lyrics 

(I've highlighted the words that I felt my higher self was emphasizing at the time I heard it and felt its palpable presence):

Oh, the power to be strong
And the wisdom to be wise
All these things will
come to you in time
On this journey that you're making
There'll be answers that you'll seek
And it's you who'll climb the mountain
It's you who'll reach the peak


Son of Man, look to the sky
Lift your spirit, set it free
Some day you'll walk tall with pride
Son of Man, a man in time you'll be


Though there's no one there to guide you
No one to take your hand
But with faith and understanding
You will journey from boy to man 


Son of Man, look to the sky
Lift your spirit, set it free
Some day you'll walk tall with pride
Son of Man, a man in time you'll be


In learning you will teach
And in teaching you will learn
You'll find your place 
beside the ones you love
Oh, and all the things you dreamed of
The visions that you saw
Well, the time is drawing near now
It's yours to claim it all


Son of Man, look to the sky
Lift your spirit, set it free
Some day you'll walk tall with pride
Son of Man, a man in time you'll be


Son of Man,
Son of Man's a man for all to see

---

What songs do you feel your higher self has spoken to you through?

This speaks to me to. and at the perfect time

[Jade]

I have been loving me some Vangelis lately.




Losing sleep in a waking dream
A recurring face I see come to pass my way
Still, my heart, will you please be still, my heart?
In this world of change, you keep turning me 'round again

In my mind, could it be that
I'm just a fool?
For love is blind to danger
Is this faith?
Then why should I hesitate
When love would dance with a stranger?

Shout it loud, from the rooftop high
Let it burn inside, and try, only to fade and die
If I knew all there was to learn
Every twist and turn
Why do I still try?

[Minyatur]

What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story.
And the greatest good is little enough,
for all life is a dream
and dreams themselves are only dreams...

[...]

Now the moment's finally here
And it feels like just before
Only now I face the truth
I will have to wait no more

Will this ever end?
I've been through enough
This is the part where I wake up with blood on my hands
Traveling back to where it all began

As for the boy, it pleased me to know
That he'll just wake up nine years old, alone and afraid
He'll live for the day this moment comes around again

Now the moment's finally here
And it feels just like before
Even now I know the truth
I accept my fate no more

[...]



[...]

Passages of time
Buried in the chaos of my mind
Chronicles of life
Concealing a truth I left behind

Passages of time
Buried in the chaos of my mind
Chronicles of life
Concealing a truth I can't deny

Moon begins to rise
Reflecting on a life once sanctified
Night begins to fall
Voices of my youth, immutable

Memories collide
My scattered soul is almost unified
Thoughts are in full flight
Enveloping a wisdom earned with time

Passages of time
Stripping back the layers of my mind
Chronicles of life
Unraveling a truth which I must find

Passages of time
Stripping back the layers of my mind
Chronicles of life
Unraveling a truth I kept inside

Snow is falling all around
What once was lost has now been found
The life I had to leave behind
Is crystallising in my mind

Reminiscing on the past
A bygone time that could not last
The splintered crystal of my prime
Is now a bell that will not chime

The crystallising thoughts of youth
They flood my mind and show me truth
My soul was free in days of yore
A white seed that once was pure

The snow is falling all around
What once was lost has now been found
The life I had to leave behind
Is crystallising in my mind

Reminiscing on a bygone time
Splintered crystal prime a bell that will not chime
Crystallising thoughts of my faded youth
Flood my mind and bringeth waves of truth
Now the echoes of a false lullaby
Like a black seed in a bed of lies

Splintering the crystal a bell that will not chime
Thoughts flood my mind in truth a faded youth
(The snow is falling)
I reminisce on the past a time gone by
(New life is calling)
Splintering the crystal a bell that will not chime
I will return

[...]

[Jade]

I love this song. I've heard it a hundred times. It's one of Rush's more mainstream hits. However, I always thought the song was Time Stands Still, but just today I learned it's actually Time Stand Still, as in a command instead of a statement. I like it so much more!!! Here is the song, with bonus awesome awesome 80s video featuring Aimee Mann.




I turn my back to the wind

To catch my breath before I start off again
Driven on without a moment to spend
To pass an evening with a drink and a friend

I let my skin get too thin
I'd like to pause, no matter what I pretend
Like some pilgrim who learns to transcend
Learns to live as if each step was the end

(Time stand still)
I'm not looking back
But I want to look around me now

(Time stand still)
See more of the people
And the places that surround me now
Time stand still

Freeze this moment a little bit longer
Make each sensation a little bit stronger

Experience slips away
Experience slips away
Time stand still

I turn my face to the sun
Close my eyes
Let my defenses down
All those wounds that I can't get unwound

I let my past go too fast
No time to pause, if I could slow it all down
Like some captain, whose ship runs aground
I can wait until the tide comes around

(Time stand still)

I'm not looking back
But I want to look around me now

(Time stand still)
See more of the people
And the places that surround me now

Freeze this moment a little bit longer
Make each sensation a little bit stronger
Make each impression a little bit stronger
Freeze this motion a little bit longer

The innocence slips away
The innocence slips away
Time stand still
Time stand still

I'm not looking back
But I want to look around me now
And we see more of the people
And the places that surround me now

Time stand still

Summer's going fast, nights growing colder
Children growing up, old friends growing older

Freeze this moment a little bit longer
Make each sensation a little bit stronger

Experience slips away
Experience slips away
The innocence slips away

[Night Owl]

I have been loving me some Vangelis lately.




Losing sleep in a waking dream
A recurring face I see come to pass my way
Still, my heart, will you please be still, my heart?
In this world of change, you keep turning me 'round again

In my mind, could it be that
I'm just a fool?
For love is blind to danger
Is this faith?
Then why should I hesitate
When love would dance with a stranger?

Shout it loud, from the rooftop high
Let it burn inside, and try, only to fade and die
If I knew all there was to learn
Every twist and turn
Why do I still try?

Do you know this one from vangelis? Really epic

[Jade]

Yes, love it!! I fell in love with Vangelis thanks to Carl Sagan's Cosmos. For that reason the Heaven and Hell album may be my favorite!

[Night Owl]

Rush's discography is pretty awesome in it's entirety too. Nice to know there are other Rush fans. Those guys could be wanderers.

[Aion]

Like 80% of my thoughts come in the form of music. It is always part of my intuition it seems. However as a musician the music isn't always that of other people but often I will get impressions of the music or lyrics I am working on at the time or sometimes old songs will come back to remind me of their feelings.

[Night Owl]

You are not alone. I'd say 95% of my thoughts are musical thoughts. Mainly rythms but melodies too. Sometimes I can't listen to someone speaking because my mind can't shut the music down. If I could compare my brain to a computer, it's like music is a high priority task with admin access.

Sometimes people think I look like I have a problem on my mind and I'm like dude my mind's going boom-tsi-pa-ta-pou-pou-ts-boo-shhhh. I don't have time to have problems right now.

[Night Owl]

I wonder what music sounds like in a 6D social memory complex

[Minyatur]

80% of my thoughts are in the form of words, just a gemini thing.

20% are abstract concepts.

On a more on topic note, sometimes my higher self speaks to me through instrumental parts, it says "Behold the glory of the wordless!"

[AnthroHeart]

I was listening to My Heart Will Go On earlier on the radio, and it made me tear up. I also teared up at the next song. My higher self was definitely shining through and giving me a tender heart.

[Jade]

Whoa Gem, huge synch, I forgot you posted that (on my anniversary no doubt) and came here to post about Steve Winwood, who I was just reading had many of his songs co-written by Will Jennings, who is hugely prolific, including helping James Horner write My Heart Will Go On. I was 11 when Titanic came out. I've seen that movie in the theater multiple times.

It comes back full circle because one of the reasons I love Steve Winwood so much is that he performs the closing song from my favorite movie from when I was little, Balto. It's called "Reach For The Light" and it was about as inspirational of music that I'd heard when I was little outside of church. And Gem, you may be the only other I know who even knows what song I'm talking about.

On to what I wanted to post when I opened the thread!

---

I'm super excited because a new concert tour has come across our radar: Steely Dan with Steve Winwood! We actually saw Steely Dan just last year at Red Rocks (probably the awesomest outdoor amphitheater ever), but the weather was horrible. Still had a great time. Now we get round two, and the opening act is Steve Winwood which excites me to no end. Not only is his solo career full of cotton candy gems of songs, but his earlier work with Traffic is awesome and great too. But seriously, he has some songs that would be nothing short of hymnals, even in context. In fact, I was reading the Songfacts for Higher Love, which mentioned that it was written inspired by church songs, as Will Jennings was a pastor's son. Higher Love is one of the greatest songs, and I've always considered it on the level of sacred, inspirational music.

Winwood played many of the instruments on Back In The High Life and wrote the music for the songs, but for this and many other songs on the album, Will Jennings wrote the lyrics. Jennings is a very successful songwriter who also collaborated with Winwood on the albums Arc Of A Diver and Talking Back To The Night, and went on to write "My Heart Will Go On" with James Horner for the movie Titanic. Jennings told us:
"I was born in East Texas and my mother and father's families were from Arkansas and the generations before were from the Deep South. My father's father was a Methodist preacher, a circuit rider, in Arkansas. My earliest memories are of the music in church and of my aunts and uncles singing the beautiful old hymns. 'Higher Love' is a generation past that, when things were not so much taken for granted, so that one has to plea, 'Bring me a higher love,' and the lines are all trying to explain why there must be higher love. A modern hymn, you might call it."

Think about it, there must be higher love

Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is a wasted time
Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine
Things look so bad everywhere
In this whole world, what is fair?
We walk blind and we try to see
Falling behind in what could be

Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?

Worlds are turning and we're just hanging on
Facing our fear and standing out there alone
A yearning, and it's real to me
There must be someone who's feeling for me
Things look so bad everywhere
In this whole world, what is fair?
We walk blind and we try to see
Falling behind in what could be

Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?

Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
Bring be a higher love
I could rise above on a higher love

I will wait for it
I'm not too late for it
Until then, I'll sing my song
To cheer the night along

I could light the night up with my soul on fire
I could make the sun shine from pure desire
Let me feel that love come over me
Let me feel how strong it could be

Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?

---

And bonus, since we can post multiple videos now, Reach For The Light, which I'm positive I've posted before (I'm sure I've posted Higher Love before too)




Deep in the night

The winds blow cold
And in a heartbeat
The fear takes hold
Deep in the storm
There's a place that's soft and still
Where the road waits to be taken
If you only will
The voices inside you
Can lead your soul astray
Believe in what you dream
Don't turn away
Don't you turn away
Reach for the light
You might touch the sky
Stand on the mountaintop
And see yourself flying
Reach for the light
To capture a star
Come out of the darkness
And find out who you are
Somewhere in time
The truth shines through
And the spirit knows
What it has to do
Somewhere in you
There's a power with no name
It can rise to meet the moment
And burn like a flame
And you can be stronger
Than anything you know
Hold on to what you see
Don't let it go
Don't you let it go
Reach for the light
You might touch the sky
Stand on the mountaintop
And see yourself flying
Reach for the light
To capture a star
Come out of the darkness
And find out who you are
Now, there's no turning back
When your destiny is calling
Listen to the thunder roll
And let your heart break free
Reach for the light
You might touch the sky
Stand on the mountaintop
And see yourself flying
Reach for the light
To capture a star
Come out of the darkness
And find out who you are
Reach for the light
You might touch the sky
Stand on the mountaintop
And see yourself flying
Reach for the light
To capture a star
Come out of the darkness
And find out who you are
Reach for the light

[AnthroHeart]

I love Steve Winwood's Back in the High Life Again the most.
Higher Love is also great. I bought both songs through Amazon MP3.

[Bring4th_Austin]

When I was first going through my "awakening," a lot of the awakening dealt with the idea of aliens, UFOs, and channeling. My skeptical mind was thrashing out pretty hard, pulling out all stops to try to divert me from traveling down this path of wackiness. At this point, I was pretty certain that UFOs were a legitimate phenomenon and was initially starting to explore the idea of channeling. This concept of aliens as being spiritually advanced beings here to guide us and offer us spiritual guidance was so wacky to me, it was hard for me to even investigate this with an open mind because of this skeptical resistance. I had a couple of frustrating incidents that were starting to pull me away from the investigation and get "back on the rails" with my life, leaving all this alternative spirituality BS behind.

As I was driving home from work one evening after a particularly difficult evening of internal turmoil, I threw a tantrum like a petulant child. "If any of this is legitimate, if there is really something to be found on this path, you HAVE to show me now or else I'm walking away forever!"

At the exact moment I said that, Styx "Come Sail Away" started playing on the radio. Cheesy song, but a classic. Of interest are the lyrics near the end:

A gathering of angels appeared above my head
They sang to me this song of hope, and this is what they said
They said come sail away, come sail away

...

I thought that they were angels, but to my surprise
They climbed aboard their starship and headed for the skies
Singing come sail away, come sail away

I knew the ending of the song already. I thought it was pretty silly. But I listened silently and waited for the end to come, and laughed my ass off when it got there. It was hardly anything. My skeptical mind said, "Coincidences happen all the time. Taking random coincidences as signs is naive." And maybe it was a coincidence and no higher power was at work.

But it was just enough to keep me going. Anything less and I might have let the doubt defeat me. It was the tiniest nudge possible to get me to go home and keep reading this wacky channeled information that I had stumbled across. It was enough to get me to stop taking myself so seriously and just take that next foolish step. It really was a turning point, I think, because the moment is still etched in my mind clearly.

[AnthroHeart]

Yeah, especially when I'm in that state between dreaming and awake, I'll hear such beautiful music that I never heard before.

[Parsons]

But it was just enough to keep me going. Anything less and I might have let the doubt defeat me.

You'd think so, but in my experience, you can still reject signposts like that and wake up later. I had two blatant, 'hit-you-over-the-head' moments that I completely rejected and only recalled years after awakening. I think some people have the awakening preprogrammed to be a louder and louder alarm clock.

[Bring4th_Austin]

But it was just enough to keep me going. Anything less and I might have let the doubt defeat me.

You'd think so, but in my experience, you can still reject signposts like that and wake up later. I had two blatant, 'hit-you-over-the-head' moments that I completely rejected and only recalled years after awakening. I think some people have the awakening preprogrammed to be a louder and louder alarm clock.

You're right, I'm sure. The pull towards the Law of One in my life would probably not cease if I decided to pass it on at any point. It seems like a strong preincarnative path choice. The "turn" away from doubt and towards the open mind would have happened at another point, but Styx did the honors of pushing me in that direction.

[Nicholas]

Yeah Stevie Wonder had a similar effect on me with his track 'Superstition'. During a drug rehabilitation I kept going to the toilet to wash my clammy and sticky hands and face. I played this old 45 record of Stevie W that I had bought at a thrift shop (I was a music collector at the time), and heard for the first time..."Very superstitious, wash your face and hands". Also I heard..."When you believe in things that you don't understand and you suffer...Superstition ain't the way". 

He essentially informed me not to pay too much importance to my own thinking as it was waaaaay too grandiose and subjective at the time. 

Thank you Stevie, I honour you. Thank you Higher self, I bow in appreciation.

[isis]

I went in a department store about a week ago noticed cher's "believe" song was playing. I had to laugh, bc I couldn't help but perceive it as my higher self being like, "I really don't think you're strong enough..."
Although amused, I was like -_-

Then I went in same department store again yesterday and uncle kracker's "follow me" started playing and I was like "that's more like it" bc the line that mostly stood out for me (that felt from my hs) was:
"everything is alright." <3

I dedicate this song to my higher self:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMti45ZYBhs
she's so hiiiiiiii *cough cough* iiiiigh above me, she's so lovely.