How does the spiritualist movement connect to music in Brazil?
A way that comes to my mind—maybe a very raw way—is that music is related to medicine in the old sciences. A shaman would bang a drum to cure you. And if you go further than that, the political force of art is making people emotional—touching their heart. If you touch someone’s heart, that’s good enough. That’s changing someone’s perspective. Making the fluids in the body run smoother—wetting their soul instead of drying it. That has a political force. When you’re playing music, I think you’re not only curing yourself but whoever is listening to it and enjoying it. That has a lot to do with the unseen—the forces of the spirit and the mind. I’m perceiving it as a medicine right now. You can say having a good laugh is medicine. And any form of art could humor you. The word ‘humor’ comes from ‘humid,’ from water—and water is the strongest conductor for energy. I don’t know. Maybe I went in a crazy spiral to nowhere? Maybe the connection to being psychedelic is just my syntaxes on that exp
A way that comes to my mind—maybe a very raw way—is that music is related to medicine in the old sciences. A shaman would bang a drum to cure you. And if you go further than that, the political force of art is making people emotional—touching their heart. If you touch someone’s heart, that’s good enough. That’s changing someone’s perspective. Making the fluids in the body run smoother—wetting their soul instead of drying it. That has a political force. When you’re playing music, I think you’re not only curing yourself but whoever is listening to it and enjoying it. That has a lot to do with the unseen—the forces of the spirit and the mind. I’m perceiving it as a medicine right now. You can say having a good laugh is medicine. And any form of art could humor you. The word ‘humor’ comes from ‘humid,’ from water—and water is the strongest conductor for energy. I don’t know. Maybe I went in a crazy spiral to nowhere? Maybe the connection to being psychedelic is just my syntaxes on that exp
