I was driving around with a friend on a particularly beautiful day last week, and we were listening to some good music. As we chatted, she asked me, "Why do you think it is that music can affect us so deeply?" I responded that I didn't know. Music seems to connect with us, somehow, on the deepest level of our souls and speak to us even if there might not be any words. It just occurred to me minute ago that this might all be because of sacred time.
Music necessarily has a rhythm as it moves from note to note (even if that rhythm is "formless" and without meter-- the space between sounds is still a type of rhythm). It automatically connects its listeners with a specific tempo of living and thinking. Maybe just by listening to music, we begin to touch sacred time because we are touching a rhythm independent of ourselves and allowing our minds and hearts to go along with it.
I think that would make so much sense, and it seems to tie in with so many aspects of life and music. When we think of excitement and joy, we often think of fast-paced things... running, dancing, upbeat music. When we think of sad things, we often think of slowness... sitting with our head in our hands, sleeping off depression, sad and mournful tunes. Maybe music and movement, anything with tempo, are all wrapped up in sacred time and sacred time is all wrapped up in what we feel and think and do! Maybe it's not about which tempo you move at, but how deeply you connect with that tempo, how deep into sacred time you go.
Maybe music draws us into relationship with the Other without us even realizing it.
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