translumination

"translumination" is an original experimental documentary done some years ago. Because I held it private, it has not been available publicly. I am embedding it here after finding it buried in my YouTube account. I'm not sure why it is hidden or if it will show here. It has three acts and has been broken up, so acts should play sequentially. See act 2 and 3 below. CH

Muslim "Call to Prayer"

by Mu'id ibn al Nur, (with rain sounds)
The adhān (also Athaan: IPA: [ʔæˈðæːn]) (أَذَان) is the Islamic call to prayer, recited by the muezzin. The root of the word is ʼḏn "to permit", and another derivative of this word is uḏun, meaning "ear."

Adhan is called out by the muezzin in the mosque, sometimes from a minaret, five times a day summoning Muslims for mandatory (fard) prayers (salah). There is a second call known as iqama (set up) that summons Muslims to line up for the beginning of the prayers. The main purpose behind the loud pronouncement of Adhan five times a day in every mosque is to make available to everyone an easily intelligible summary of Islamic belief. It is intended to bring to the mind of every believer and non-believer the substance of Islamic beliefs, or its spiritual ideology.

OM by Vakmumbai

"OM" the sound of the Universe, not unlike the music of the spheres.
Aum (also Om, written in Devanagari as ॐ, in Chinese as 唵, in Tibetan as ༀ, in Sanskrit known as praṇava प्रणव lit. "to sound out loudly" or or oṃkāra ओंकार lit. "oṃ syllable") is a mystical or sacred syllable in the Indian religions, including Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism.

It is pronounced as a long or over-long nasalized close-mid back rounded vowel (IPA [oːⁿ]). It is placed at the beginning of most Hindu texts as a sacred exclamation to be uttered at the beginning and end of a reading of the Vedas or previously to any prayer or mantra. The Mandukya Upanishad is entirely devoted to the explanation of the syllable. The syllable is taken to consist of three phonemes, a, u and m, variously symbolizing the Three Vedas or the Hindu Trimurti.

The name omkara is taken as a name of God in the Hindu revivalist Arya Samaj. Similarly, the concept of om, called onkar in Punjabi, is found in Sikh theology as a symbol of God. It invariably emphasizes God's singularity, expressed as Ek Onkar ("One Omkara" or "The Aum is One"), stating that the multiplicity of existence symbolized in the aum syllable is really founded in a singular God.[1]

Siddhartha from LibriVox

The reading will start with chapter one and cycle through the rest of the book.* Chapter 1, Son of the Brahman, 20:59. (*If you close the page the player will start over again, see below for additional solutions.) LibriVox recording of Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse. Translated by Gunther Olesch, Anke Dreher, Amy Coulter, Stefan Langer and Semyon Chaichenets.

Read by Adrian Praetzellis.
Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong journey towards Enlightenment. On the way he faces the entire range of human experience and emotion: he lives with ascetics, meets Gotama the Buddha, learns the art of love from Kamala the courtesan, and is transformed by the simple philosophy of the ferryman Vasudeva whose wisdom comes not from learned teachings but from observing the River. Herman Hesse (1877-1962) was a German-Swiss novelist, poet, and painter. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)

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Carmen of the Spheres by Greg Fox

This is "Carmen of The Spheres" a "Musical Piece" developed through a manipulation of the time-based measurements of the rotation of the planets around our sun. Published in 2006 by Greg Fox, the underlying principals perhaps hold some genetic, psychologial, emotional, meaning for earth-bound human beings. Give it a shot, it's an interesting meditation piece.