Music, Sound & the Sacred

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Music, Sound & the Sacred

  • “There is something in music that transcends and unites” -HH the Dalai Lama.
  • Why does music elevate the human spirit ?
  • How can it be a vehicle for spiritual fulfillment and enlightenment ?
The transcendent power of music has long been recognized as a vehicle for spiritual practice and a path to spiritual fulfillment and enlightenment. Spiritual music, a universally powerful form of prayer, has for millennia provided human beings with a sense of the greater spiritual universe. Chanting forms part of many religious rituals, and diverse spiritual traditions consider music as a means of opening the individual to spiritual experience.

In this episode of Global Spirit, host Phil Cousineau explores the transcendent qualities of spiritual and sacred music with guests Rev. Alan Jones and Grammy-award-winning singer and member of the Native American Onondaga tribe Joanne Shenandoah.  Experience the power of liturgical musical performances in Latin from Grace Cathedral in San Francisco (where the Rev. Jones serves as Dean) and witness powerful, live studio performances by Joanne Shenandoah and her daughter.

This episode also includes a hauntingly moving, seven-minute sequence from Peter Brook’s film, Meetings with Remarkable Men, in which the young mystic Gurdjieff learns the power of sacred sound as it resonates from the Afghan mountaintops.

“Among the many forms in which the human spirit has tried to express its innermost yearnings and perceptions, music is perhaps the most universal. It symbolizes the yearnings for harmony, with oneself and with others, with nature and with the spiritual and sacred within us and around us. There is something in music that transcends and unites. This is evident in the sacred music of every community – music that expresses the universal yearning that is shared by people all over the globe.” -His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Program Guests

Alan W Jones
Reverend Alan Jones, Dean Emeritus, retired on January 31, 2009 after over 24 years as dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. A former professor at the General Theological Seminary in New York City, Dr. Jones was also the director and founder of the Center for Christian Spirituality, at the General Theological Seminary. During his tenure as dean of Grace Cathedral since 1985, he has been a prominent lecturer in Episcopal, academic and spiritual circles both nationally and internationally.
Joanne Shenandoah
Joanne Shenandoah is a Grammy and Native American Music award-winning artist, and Wolf Clan member of the Iroquois Confederacy She has fulfilled the promise of her Native American name, Tekaliwah-kwa (“she sings”). Since emerging as an artist in 1990, she has performed at high-profile gigs at Carnegie Hall, the White House, Kennedy Center, Earth Day on the Mall, Woodstock ’94, the Parliament of World Religions in South Africa, the famous Sagrada Familia in Barcelona Spain, Istanbul, Hwa Eom Temple in S. Korea, and thousands of venues in the U.S.
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A Prophecy Song Performed
by Joanne Shenandoah
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Music That Transforms Us
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