| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Woodstock Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This is a timeless song in many ways, universal, spiritual, truth-full. We are all "a cog in something turning" - in the wheel of Life. This is a calling to realize what we have lost in the modern world: our connection to the earth, the seasons, each other, ourselves - we have become out of tune, out of step with the rhythm of Life and with the Source and Creator of Life. So often we find ourselves drifting, half-living, going through the motions and often wondering Why? What is the meaning, the purpose? "And I don't know who I am but life is for learning." This song is a call reminding us that we are all connected to each other, all living things on earth (are carbon based), the Earth itself, and the Universe: "We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon..." To gain an understanding of the answers to our universal questions and "set my soul free" we "got to get ourselves back to the garden". ~ Angela |
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| Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I disagree with the statement an early commenter made years ago: "few if any songs are really meant to "mean whatever you want it to mean, man". I believe that many songs, poems - Art in general, especially works that truly touch and resonate with many of us - are at least partially divinely or spiritually inspired. The artist may have had one understanding of the meaning when it was created, but as many artists state the song/painting/poem/performance etc. often feels like it comes through them, not from them, in some way. This is especially true, I believe, when something is created in one sitting, when it just flows from them. I believe they are able to connect to the Source/Spirit that is the link to the Divine or God in all of us. I believe once an artist has created and released the creation to the world, it is meant, at its highest purpose, to be filtered and understood by those it touches through their own understanding of it. Reading/hearing what it means to others can enrich and expand our interpretation and filter what resonates as Truth through our own growing understanding of it. Even if very different from what the artist meant it to mean, the creative work can be inspiring and enlightening to those that receive it, however they interpret it, which will be colored by wherever they are in their own level of spiritual evolution/awakening/understanding. It can be interpreted literally, or as what the artist states it meant to them, figuaratively, or as what it means to the receiver personally in current life situations, or in a larger, universal spiritual/metaphysical meaning - or all of the above. The meaning(s) can change and expand as one revisits the creation with the perspective gathered through life experience. I believe that many artists are more connected to Spirit/Source than most of us, whether they realize it consciously not - they form a bridge between the Spiritual and the Physical and serve mankind by providing a prompting to understand what we cannot see and remember how to listen to what can only be learned through the inner knowledge taught by that still, small voice within us all. ~ Angela |
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| Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[ramthar:16220] - I disagree with the statement "few if any songs are really meant to "mean whatever you want it to mean, man". I believe that many songs, poems - Art in general, especially works that truly touch and resonate with many of us - are at least partially divinely or spiritually inspired. The artist may have had one understanding of the meaning when it was created, but as many artists state the song/painting/poem/performance etc. often feels like it comes through them, not from them, in some way. This is especially true, I believe, when something is created in one sitting, when it just flows from them. I believe artists are able to connect to the Source/Spirit that is the link to the Divine or God in all of us. I believe once an artist has created and released the creation to the world, it is meant, at its highest purpose, to be filtered and understood by those it touches through their own understanding of it. Even if very different from what the artist meant it to mean, the creative work can be inspiring and enlightening to those that receive it, however they interpret it, which will be colored by wherever they are in their own level of spiritual evolution/awakening/understanding. It can be interpreted literally, or as what the artist states it meant to them, figuaratively, or as what it means to the receiver personally in current life situations, or in a larger, universal spiritual/metaphysical meaning - or all of the above. It no longer belongs to the artist, which is why many agonize somewhat about sharing it. The meaning(s) can change and expand as one revisits the creation with the perspective gathered through life experience. I believe that many artists are more connected to Spirit/Source than most of us, whether they realize it consciously not - they form a bridge between the Spiritual and the Physical and serve mankind by providing a prompting to understand what we cannot see and remember how to listen to what can only be learned through the inner knowledge taught by that still, small voice within us all. ~ Angela |
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