I’ve been listening to Johann Sebastian Bach’s music for many years. Listening to his works (especially his organ works) has become a spiritual experience for me. It’s somewhat difficult to fully explain it with words. But I would say phrases like “finding the spiritual meaning”, or “not needing anything else to comprehend”.
Through all these years, I’ve become aware that Bach’s music is about duality. And that his music is a dialectic between the two pair of opposites. A very harmonic dialectic, so you can feel the original unity behind all the notes, chords, counterpoints and sounds.
I’ve been suspecting there had to be some relationship between Bach’s music and spiritual teachings (alchemy, tantra, kundalini, occult arts, gnosticism, kabbalah…). A few months ago, I had the intuition that in the Toccata in F major (BWV 540), some pedal notes do actually sound like the OM sound (this resemblance is particularly strong in Ton Koopman’s Teldec version… it’s not the version of BWV 540 I most like though…).
This week, in the middle of a very stimulating email exchange with a friend, I had the idea that maybe Bach’s music is what better reminds us of the primordial sound, of the original unity of the Universe. I decided to further research about it. Then I found Eric A. Meece’s essay, which provides many, many insights about the Toccata and the esoteric mysteries.
I immediately knew I’d found a treasure. I felt like finding the Rosetta stone. All the insights, all the interpretations, all the analogies were already there. Just to be read and appreciated. Well, to be honest, I think this Rosetta stone contains much more insights than I could possibly have discovered by myself.
I also strongly recommend watching a couple of videos created by Eric A. Meece. The first shows how each section of the Toccata matches each chakra. In the second one, he shows the matching of each part of the Toccata to the major arcana of the tarot.
In summary, a breakthrough in my experience listening to Bach’s music. And also a mystical and spiritual one.