"The Mystery Of Sound Is Mysticism"

Bull Roarer

I suppose, for those who otherwise have no awareness of a "higher self" , the act of connecting with it during creative expression may be interpreted as contacting something "outside" one’s self.

In some case yes for sure...But for those with no consciousness about themselves , it is way easier to negate even external manifestation and even blocking them at the source ... Because of the respect at the cosmic scale for free will , nobody can be forced or coerced in a state he consider alienating for himself ...

This is why sleepwalker walk manipulated by less respecting forces in some cases... See the last 4 years of brainwashing ...

 We can be manipulated to go down , but not to go higher , we must decide it ...

« Myself sorry, but if I am sometimes a robot it is  by free choice »--Groucho Marx🤓

@stuartk I love that interview he gave with Ed Bradley in the mid-‘00s.
I’d always perceived Dylan to be guarded in interviews, and in that one he seemed so unguarded and forthright. 
Bradley asked him, “Do you ever look at music that you’ve written and look back at it and say, “whoa, that surprised me”?”  
Dylan said, “…I don’t know how I got to write those songs. Those early songs were like almost magically written…
’darkness at the break of noon / shadows even the silver spoon / the handmade blade, the child’s balloon / eclipses both the sun and moon / to understand, you know too soon / there is no sense in trying / pointed threats, they bluff with scorn / suicide remarks are torn / from the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn / plays wasted words, proves to warn / that he not busy being born is busy dying’…
…well…try to sit down and write something like that. There’s a magic to that. It’s not Siegfried & Roy kind of magic, you know? It’s a different kind of a penetrating magic. I did it at one time”

“Try to sit down and write something like that.”  
What a great comment!  
I love that.  
That sums up whatever it is we’re talking about here, whether one calls it “mysticism,” “channeling,” “magic,” or whatever.

@tylermunns 

Yes -- that was the interview I was thinking of. Thanks for providing the transcript (more accurate than my hazy memory) !  ;o)

Anyone who had written poetry know this state : it is going from one level of consciouness to another ...

«Art is nature speed up and God slowed down » Malcom de Chazal

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don’t understand us.