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I'm curious to see how you guys integrate music into your practices/faith, if you do at all.  If you do, do you use it to help with certain meditation techniques?   Do you feel spiritually connected to certain kinds of music?   (I know that's a rather odd question, but I couldn't figure out how else to word it.  :whis: )

 
I have a playlist that I made for Bast. I rarely play it, though. :ashamed: It's supposed to be used for nightly rituals. For whatever reason, I usually do the rituals, but forget the music! Among a million-million other things, Bast is a goddess of music. So it's kind of . . . odd that I'd keep forgetting.

Songs that evoke a sense of desert, sun, fire, joy, happiness, light, rage, and destruction remind me a lot of Bast's complexity and depth. Also, stringed instruments. And some techno.

Also, I've picked up learning guitar for m'lady. Of course, I haven't been doing a very good job. Seems to be a pattern with certain aspects of my practice, lately. :ashamed:

I also have some rituals I want to try out some day that include dramatic reenactments with music and everything. Given my current living conditions, that can't happen right now.

I'm curious to see how you guys integrate music into your practices/faith, if you do at all.  If you do, do you use it to help with certain meditation techniques?   Do you feel spiritually connected to certain kinds of music?   (I know that's a rather odd question, but I couldn't figure out how else to word it.  :whis: )

 
I incorporate some kind of music into every aspect of my life as much as I possibly can. I honestly think that music is the biggest driving force in the entire universe.

I'm curious to see how you guys integrate music into your practices/faith, if you do at all.  If you do, do you use it to help with certain meditation techniques?   Do you feel spiritually connected to certain kinds of music?   (I know that's a rather odd question, but I couldn't figure out how else to word it.  :whis: )

 
Regularly.

My trad's practices include sung elements to the ritual setup at various points. When I'm working on my own, I also regularly use playlists to help me raise and focus energy for a particular goal (going to be doing that later today, in fact: in that working, there's three different sub-pieces of music, each 3-5 tracks long, or about an hour total.)

For non-ritual use, I keep a stack of playlists - each element, each Sabbat, a few other related things like that, that I listen to at relevant points as just general "music I have on during the day/while walking to work/etc. I also build equivalent playlists for ongoing magical goals. Usually these playlists run at least 4-6 hours, so there's very little repetition in a given day (or depending on how often I listen to it, a given week.)

In ritual with other people, I feel fairly strongly about music written for Pagan ritual or Pagan community purposes whenever possible. When I'm working on my own, I'm more relaxed about that, except that I won't use music written for other religion's ritual uses in Pagan ritual space. (But, for example, Mozart's Requiem is on my Samhain playlist for general listening.)

I'm curious to see how you guys integrate music into your practices/faith, if you do at all.  If you do, do you use it to help with certain meditation techniques?   Do you feel spiritually connected to certain kinds of music?   (I know that's a rather odd question, but I couldn't figure out how else to word it.  :whis: )

I incorporate music in with my rituals. I kinda have a play list of Welsh Folk music, Scottish fiddle and Bagpipe as well. It sets the mood and helps my focus on my rituals and get into that mind set.

I'm curious to see how you guys integrate music into your practices/faith, if you do at all.  If you do, do you use it to help with certain meditation techniques?   Do you feel spiritually connected to certain kinds of music?   (I know that's a rather odd question, but I couldn't figure out how else to word it.  :whis: )

 
Some music, absolutely. Some music helps me attain trance faster than quiet does (most of the time, anyway). The different expressions of different ideas seems to resonate well with some of the situations I find myself it, that in itself qualifies as a spiritual aid to me.