Sound created by singing bowls, drums, flutes, string instruments, and many others described in this book, can produce healing effects. Many music therapists and sound healers have been using this knowledge with success. Working with sound healing to harmonize body, soul, and spirit is more complex than just working with music or using sounds. Our consciousness is the key to lasting changes, and sounds can work as keyholes. The system of the five elements--earth, water, fire, air, and space?creates a comprehensive approach to using sound that integrates body zones, emotions, and thought patterns as well as the subtle anatomy, the energy fields of the human being. Perret learned how the use of the ancient wisdom of the five elements can produce a harmonic balance. In working with sound healing we need to find the right sounds for a person. An "earth" person may need some "fiery" sounds and instruments to get a step further, while an "airy" person may need more "earth," or more "grounding." This is a practical handbook for therapists and anyone else interested in sound healing.

The author considers neuroscience and psychobiology to identify analogies with the potential of musical expression to bring about therapeutic change, as observed during his work with children with autistic spectrum and pervasive developmental disorders.

In these extraordinaty times of change we can learn to use our thoughts and actions for the benefit of nature and all sentient beings: animals, human, bees, birds, nature spirits... This present book describes how healing works, how to proceed and how to beypass inner hindrances. I have been studying and teaching spiritual healing for many years. The changes of recent years have moved my focus very naturally from personal development towards including nature healing. In my book Earth-Healing (in German and French) I explain hwo this shift came abouit through the many requests from nature spirits. Healing in all its forma, from spiritual healing, to distant healing or prayer, is a simple and natural procedure. It is based o Love, the ever-present energy of the Universe. New nature spirits have recently appeared to encourage humans to become more aware of and to send daily distant healint to our immediate natural surroundings. Groups of citizens throughout the world have become active to legally secure the rights of nature for river systems, forests, etc. We neet to link local action to global awareness. We can all contribute no matter who and where we are.

Siberian shamans say that the sound of their frame drum is the horse that carries them into the beyond. Some music can indeed to this for us. How is this possible? 'Music as a Mystical Journey' explores this theme. The book is about spiritual transformation and our search for happiness and harmony. A mystical journey is a search that follows an inner call. The word mystical refers to a quest common to all religions and yet does not belong to any one exclusively. All mystical traditions like the Sufis, North American Indians or shamanic cultures, went beyond religion into an open space of fraternity and communion with nature and the divine. Today music is present all around us, and we have all been deeply moved by it at some point in our life. Few people realise how this feeling experience can lead them more permanently into silence, joy and freedom. This book explores a.o. the energy of the Black Virgine or virgin blackness in music.

What fascinates me is the fact that the smaller harps, the no-pedal harps, are widely called 'Celtic harps' all over the world. They could have been called 'small harps', 'troubadour harps' or something else. But the term 'Celtid harp' stayed. Believing that there is more to it that just a technical term, I want to explore what draws people to vbuy a 'Celtic harp' and play 'Celtic Music'; The term 'Celtic' points at something deeper, something many people nowadays are looking for and need. This book is not particularly about Ireland, and even less so contemporary, urban Ireland as this, I believe, is not the reason Celtic harpist come to the harp. I am interested to explore what exactly brings them to this quite unique instrument, and why Celtic. Exploring why they mainly play Irish traditional music on it is yet another question I will give some thoughts.

In this book I have chosen to deal with the experience of spirituality by exploring seven major themes: our spiritual aura and our inborn qualities / the influx of spiritual energy into each of the zones of our body / obstacles towards spirituality that we meet in daily life / cooperation with non-physical intelligences (nature spirits, guardian angels, spirit guides.) / spiritual healing / spontaneous artistic expression / a committed relationship

This present collection mainly includes texts about develop-ment and the right attitude to growth of mind and com-passion. Bob Moore's teachings are essentially an oral transmission which included numerous exercises, meditations and practices. These are not part of this book. They are transmitted by his students

The author considers neuroscience and psychobiology to identify analogies with the potential of musical expression to bring about therapeutic change, as observed during his work with children with autistic spectrum and pervasive developmental disorders.

Décrit l'opposition entre une population musulmane côtière ouverte à toutes les influences, les Malais, et une population païenne ou chrétienne autarcique de l'intérieur, les Batak.