I know I've asked this question before, but it's my favorite, and I like getting new views on it.
The more I think about it, the more I realize that my personal spirituality is more in line with songs such as "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Breathe" than any dogma of an organized religion.
And when you get right down to it, is there any differance between reading the words written by man in the Bible and applying them to your life, or listening to the words sung by man on Dark Side of the Moon or the White Album and doing the same?
I'm not suggesting that I have alters to these musical artists or that I pray to them for guidance, more like I listen to what they have to say and think "Yeah... I can dig that."
What do you think of this? Wrong? Right? Crazy?
In closing, I'll leave you with my favorite scene from the movie Michael.
"Remember what John and Paul said."
"The Apostles?"
"No, the Beatles. All you need is love."
2007-03-13 19:13:44 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I've got to say that I'm completely blown away.
How incredibly, amazingly wonderful that you have found your spiritual connectedness in something so 'close to home'. That is fantastic. Really, I'm not being sarcastic. It's so refreshing to find someone who is honest enough with themselves to say "That touches me, that has Meaning, I feel that that music gives me purpose, uplifts me".
I have to say your spirituality is more honest, more genuine, than much I have witnessed. Good on you, to use that awkward Australian expression.
I read your question, and it was as though my brother the Sun had sung to me. It's beautiful. Anyone who tells you otherwise, well, that's their opinion. For me, I like how you think.
2007-03-13 19:28:14 · answer #1 · answered by busted.mike 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
It's great! I find this question as Shine on You crazy Diamond Part One comes on.
Now: I find nothing wrong with it. All You Need is Love is a great motto for life. However, it's all in the interpretation of the song: Breathe in the Air always sounded like a drug song to me - "Breathe, breathe in the air; don't be afraid to care," sounds like someone inhaling something.
While these are the philosophies of a handful of men - "Revolution" was purely Lennon, "Get Your Filthy Hands off My Desert," was Waters - so is most religion. Christianity is based around the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus, Buddhism st ems from Hinduism and the teaching of Buddha, and I could go on.
However, using music as a guide to life can also be an extremely dangerous thing. I don't recommend trying to read to far into thi ngs, such as the word "Rise" being repeatedly used throughout the White Album, or anything else like that - remember Charles Manson? Yeah, precisely.
Personally, though, the songs of Pink Floyd changed my life, radically. I went from being a teeny-bopper to blowing my mind on Dark Side of the Moon, and I would laugh and call myself insane because of the song "Brain Damage," I started to have socialistic thoughts because of "Money." Then I was introduced to John Lennon a few years later, the first song played for me being "Working Class Hero." Now that one hit me. It was deep lyrics, like Floyd, but unlike Pink Floyd, it was lyrics you could truly relate to. Since then, songs like "Give Peace a Chance," "All You Need is Love," "Strawberry Fields Forever," and "Wild Honey Pie," have become an integral part of me. Maybe not Wild Honey Pie, I enjoy that one, though.
Before I go, I'll leave you with this - No one we think is in our tree, it must be high or low.
Cheers!
2007-03-16 01:10:06 · answer #2 · answered by ezingoleb 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pink Floyd has some pretty dark themes... Waters especially has a lot of anger and resentment concerning the loss of his father (pretty much represented throughout the entire The Final Cut album.) I don't see their music as especially uplifting or spiritually refined. It's more often painful raw emotion expressed through some brilliant musical allegory. Perhaps that's why so many people can relate to it.
(BTW - if you like Floyd, try Dream Theater.)
2007-03-13 19:22:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
"All that you contact and all that you note is all of your existence will ever be" i locate no longer some thing incorrect with it. red Floyd and Porcupine Tree (awsome prog band) provide me more beneficial meaning then the Bible, the Quaran, the three Baskets of know-how or any non secular e book ever gave me. I recommend, i visit't see or experience God, yet i visit hearken to and note Roger Waters and that i visit follow his words. every time i'm annoyed, I basically positioned on Echoes and am thoroughly ok back and in case you'll locate meaning in some thing, then that's tremendous. meaning and non secular training shouldn't in any respect be constrained to what others see as suited.
2016-12-01 23:33:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a huge fan of both those groups though personally I don't base my beliefs on either of them. I think that what someone chooses to believe or not believe is entirely up to them. I also don't think that God or the Higher Power or whatever you choose to call him, is going to mind too much how you came to believe as long as you believe. Everyone should believe in something. Even very religious people disagree with people of the same faith from time to time. That's why I say "It's all in what you choose to believe."
Who cares how you got there...at least you're there.
2007-03-13 19:30:11 · answer #5 · answered by a17blossom 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The true artist can put us it touch with that spirit centre that is within. I love, Dark Side of the Moon. And a lot of The Doors songs, Jim Morrison{PBUH}.
2007-03-13 19:22:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
by itself yes but to an already well educated individual who knows how to place it it's beautifully done and who will snob Lennon's "Imagine" in this world if it is not food for the future then was else is any more avant guard . I think your proclivities are warrantedly in the right direction.
2007-03-13 19:23:38 · answer #7 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I may have mentioned this to you some time ago...but I've always been a huge Beatles fan. I lived through it in the 60's. So here's to you...Sexy Sadie!
2007-03-13 19:21:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nothing at all.
"And in The End
the love you take
is equal to the love you make"
"Dont accept that whats happening
Is just a case of others suffering
Or youll find that youre joining in
The turning away"
sound wise to me.
2007-03-13 19:30:39 · answer #9 · answered by answer faerie, V.T., A. M. 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. I truly feel that many rock musicians are modern day prophets in the most truest meaning of the words.. My favorite is Rush.
-----Printninja: my second favorite is
Dream Theater.
2007-03-13 19:20:43 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋