The Whole Music Experience

 If you see if for sale on websites, don't purchase it. These companies are selling my book and not paying me royalties. They are also selling an outdated version of the book. I just found the book for sale on the Book Depository and it looks like this was done through KDP (Amazon). I had contacted Amazon several times to remove my titles from its sites but obviously, Amazon enjoys ripping off authors.  Save yourself grief and never self-publish your books with Amazon, KDP or any of its associates.  Whole Music was originally published by a hybrid publisher who uploaded the book onto Amazon and KDP in 2013. I went through the Attorney General of Washington State and had the contract with the hybrid publisher voided. Then the book was removed from Amazon and KDP. But I don't think Amazon or KDP got the memo. I spent 10 years of my life as a journalist researching music and six months interviewing musicians and authors to write the book. Amazon didn't do the research, they ...

 Not many people who visit this site also visit Whole Music Experience on Vimeo. But there are some fabulous videos on there if you want to hear what the ghosts of musicians have to share with us. Today, Mozart returned with an earful. Some of it was biographical, personal, and other information was metaphysical and musical. LINK

In 2012, I wrote a book on the healing power of music called Whole Music. This book was a companion to this blog which I launched in 2007 as a college assignment. Little did I know at the time that the blog would still be receiving traffic in 2022. Thank you for your return visits. When I researched the topic of music and sound as therapy; and when I interviewed sound therapy experts and musicologists, I had no idea I would become a sound therapist myself. I thought of myself as a researcher and music journalist. I also didn't know that I would become a Reiki Master. The Divine knew though and led me on this path. While the pandemic and the lockdowns were troublesome for many, I used that time to learn new skills even if I did it online. I suddenly had stimulus money and since I lived with my parents, I had no bills to pay. I enrolled in online Reiki, sound therapy, and other types of therapy classes. I spent $1.5K on sound healing tools, mainly tuning forks and flutes. And I wish ...

  I t's been a long while since I shared a musical post with you. Today, I'm thinking about music that blew my mind or caused me to swoon. I have heard thousands of songs during my life time from various genres. And every song leaves an impression but not as big an impression as the following ten songs. 1). Prelude to the Afternoon of the Faune by Claude Debussy I heard this song the first time when I was on college break. I was bored and I rummaged through my mother's record collection. Since I had taken a music appreciation class I wanted to listen to classical music even though I was more into rock music. I found the record with Claude Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of the Faune. Not knowing what a faune was and what a prelude to the afternoon might entail, I placed the record on the old-fashion turntable. When the first strains of the harp came through the speakers I nearly fainted because the music was sheer beauty to my ears. Two decades later, I rediscovered ...

  Marrying astrology to sound healing isn't new. Ted Andrews in his book, Sacred Sounds connected the notes of the Western scale with the astrological signs on a Zodiac Wheel. What I'm proposing is using planetary tuning forks (frequencies as opposed to musical notes) to unleash tension in a Natal Chart. This is just a launching point to exploring the intersection between the Natal Chart and sound healing. Let's use my Natal Chart as an example. While you can't see the lines on this Solar Return chart, it contains a Mutable T-Cross with the Saturn and the Moon in Pisces in the 2nd House opposing Uranus/Pluto in Virgo in the 8th House and Mars in Gemini in the 5th House squares everything. As you can see I'm in my 50s now and this T-Cross has provided me suffering (power struggles) and pitting myself against authority figures. So, how can I work with the flowing aspects in this chart using tuning forks? Well, one thing I could do is to apply the Jupiter tuning fork b...

In a way, this is a dream come true to interview George Harrison even if he is in spirit. I combine my gifts as a spiritual medium and music journalist as we explore the healing power of music from India, especially the sitar. It was not easy to tune into the frequency of Ravi Shankar but he did come through and with my favorite Beatle, George Harrison. Who knew these two were not only musical masters, but also spiritual masters. I uploaded this video originally on my YouTube channel Whole Music Experience which was buried under other channels. I am migrating that channel to Vimeo. CLICK ON THE SESSION

I crossed the bridge from musical research in the physical realm to channeling the spirits of musicians. I'm sure that all the great musicians channeled their music from a Divine Source, including Mozart. Listen to this session and love Mozart even more. This session was recorded on January 21, 2019 when the Sun was in Aquarius, Mozart's Sun Sign. The video is on Vimeo.   https://vimeo.com/562860171 An MP3 is available if you make a donation of $5 or more. PAY HERE Copyrights do apply. Patricia Herlevi, Copyright, 2019

  I'm in the process of relocating my spiritual channel session with musicians on the other side of the veil from YouTube to Vimeo. The channel is still called Whole Music Experience. Thus far, I have uploaded videos with John Lennon, George Harrison, David Bowie and Marvin Gaye. Today, I'm uploading videos of George Harrison (another session), and Glenn Gould. You will also find a new channel session with Eva Cassidy on the channel. My plan is to create a tab on this blog so you will have easy access to the videos. All the musicians discuss the healing power of music in their own unique ways. But I also go over their astrology charts in some videos and often times, the musicians' biographies are mentioned too. Please support this work (a labor of love) by subscribing to this blog, following the Vimeo channel, and helping me to get the world out. You can also make monetary donations  PAYPAL All the videos will be removed from my YouTube channel by June 30, 2021. I don't...

I've been wondering about music uses for the Aquarius Age. This new age represents energy, frequency, and let's add, intent. As we grow more consciously aware of the healing power of music and sound therapies, how do we take this information into practice? What do we need to focus upon? Here is information that is being downloaded for me at this time. Lyrical Content Since virutally anyone on a spiritual path these days has heard about the power of words then why are people still using shock words or profanity? And why are they marrying these low-vibrational words to musical frequencies and contours (harmonies, chords, notes, etc)? The words we speak and the words we sing matter. Many choruses in songs repeat phrases and these phrases act like hooks in our brain often lasting through the course of a day. Not only that, the phrases become like mantras. So, are we singing about our Divine Connection and spreading love in the world or are we listening to, "Like a Vir...

Perhaps having Neptune transiting in my second astrological house led to a dissolution of my work with music consciousness. For ten years, I researched music from around the world as a journalist and as a musician. Dr. Emoto's work with water crystals and discovering the power of classical music sparked this work.  However, in recent years, I needed to find other ways to make a living, I found myself living between homes and my stress levels reached a crescendo so I lost the thread of my original work. On top of all that, my book, Whole Music ended up taking a different route than I originally intended. The first publishing with a small hybrid publisher was a fiasco. Then, I found an agent to represent the book, but she was unable to find an editor to publish it. This caused me grief. And I wasn't sure where to go with music research. I wasn't earning any money from the work that ate up 40+ hours a week of my time. I ended up homeless and hopeless. Even my Go Fund Me...

Pixabay.com Many of us were told as children to stop daydreaming. I only pretended to stop. While some people find daydreaming a form of laziness or believe that people who daydream will never amount to anything, daydreaming is a form of creativity. It's how we incubate projects or even solve personal problems. True, daydreams provide an escape from challenges and harsh situations. And there is the right time and the wrong time to daydream such as we don't daydream while we drive in traffic or perform detailed work. But for us creative types, daydreaming represents a form of brainstorming. When we daydream we expand upon what we believe is possible. Daydreams also show us our heart's desires. When we combine listening to music with daydreaming we create a powerful conduit for manifestation. However, we need to listen to music that matches frequencies with our desires. So, if our desire would bring us joy, then we listen to joyful music while we engage our imaginatio...

image from Pix a Bay (free images) Often when we think of mantras, our minds turn to religious chants such as kirtans. We intentionally use mantras with our meditation practice or perhaps, when we feel frightened or alone losing our connection to the Divine, we chant mantras. However, this article is not about the warm fuzzy feelings we experience from sacred words and phrases. My definition of a mantra is a phrase that we repeat either mindfully or mindlessly. While some mantras are obvious such as the Moola Mantra or the Gayatri Mantra which are sung in Sanskrit, repeated words in everyday songs also act the same way on our brain as sacred mantras. While, a sacred mantra brings us closer to God or our god-self experience, a mundane mantra manifests our everyday life experiences. As modern-day humans, we surround and cloak ourselves in mundane mantras--ranging from the Rollingstones' "I can't get no satisfaction," to R.E.M.'s "I am superman and I can...

Photo by Patricia Herlevi, All Rights Reserved When I was 18 years old, I returned to my parent's house for college spring break and I shuffled through my mother's classical records. I found a recording of Claude Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of the Faun. The title intrigued me so I listened to the composition. I immediately fell into a trance. Musical trances weren't new to me at that time as I had fallen under musical trances as a child numerous times. But I found myself swooning to Claude Debussy's impressionistic music. I followed the different instruments as they rose and descended then hid behind other instruments such as harps, French horns, oboes, and flutes. Then, years later, I felt a craving for French Impressionist music. I bought recordings of Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy. And again, I swooned when I heard Debussy's prelude. I spent a summer exploring French Impressionist recordings in my music lab that I created in my Seattle apart...

Try this experiment. Next time you hear music coming from a passing car while you're out walking, pay attention to your body's reaction. Pay attention to how your body rearranges itself to match the rhythm and tempo of the song coming from the passing car. I've noticed this with myself. I'm walking on a city street at my own pace and cadence. Then a car passes by with rap music pouring out of the speakers. I notice that my step picks up, my heart races, and I end up walking to the rap rhythms against my will. Alternately, if I'm walking into a shop and a Bach prelude pours from a speaker, I pay attention to my body's rhythms as they slow down and my mind travels from worries of the day to contemplation. Or I stop thinking obsessive thoughts and I remember music history lessons about the Baroque Era--Bach's music. Right now, I'm listening to Marvin Gaye's greatest hits on YouTube as I type this post. I'm feeling my heart swelling with compas...

In our sped up world, we don't often take the time to deeply listen to music. I remember taking a music appreciation class at college in 1982 where the professor played a recording of Bach's Fugue in G minor every day for the entire quarter. We learned every nuance of that fugue, even if I didn't seriously listen to Bach' s music several decades later. So, for this practice get out your headphones and your music diary. Then listen to Kate Bush's "Man with a Child in His Eyes" which I'm including below. But first, I'm going to give you my impression of the song. Usually, when I review music, I review an entire album and I don't meditate on a single song. However, for this exercise, I have listened to this song several times through headphones. I've also heard the song many times in my adult life because I'm a fan of Kate Bush's work. It's important that you hear the song as opposed to just listening to it with your ears and...

H ere is the closing chapter of my book, Whole Music (Soul Food for the Mind Body Spirit). I look at the difference between mindful and mindless music. Some music is purely made for entertainment purposes while other music has healing or awakening intentions embedded in it.  This is not to say that all pop music is mindless as I found in my research that some pop songs are deeply therapeutic even if the musicians had little knowledge of this healing potential when they recorded or performed the songs. And then there is music which just adds more noise to an already chaotic background. We also need to look at psychological manipulation embedded in some music, especially background music in public places and used as commercial jingles to get us to buy products or change our behaviors in ways that don't benefit us. Closing: Super Music Versus Junk Music Like many other Americans, I spent my childhood eating junk food and listening to pop music.  Both the junk fo...