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Music With a Message (Positive please)

Joseph Stephan said:
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If you want to see something truly amazing, do a Google search for Derek Trucks / Layla and watch him as a 12 year old play Layla live as lead guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band. Very impressive! Some people are just flat out gifted and he certainly is one of those people. FYI, so is Billy Strings (unrelated to the context of this post but another massively gifted musician)
 
MickHewitt said:
Praise Jah for the emotion in music!
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With not such a positive vibe from music is the latest words from Lady GaGa

I'm just a Holy Fool, oh, baby, it's so cruel
But I'm still in love with Judas, baby…
I wanna love you
But something's pulling me away from you
Jesus is my virtue—
And Judas is the demon I cling to
— “Judas” by Lady Gaga

One of the best ways to examine how ancient Gnosticism has embedded itself in the modern world is to look at “pop culture.”

Debuting her new music video at the 2025 Grammys, Lady Gaga’s latest “Abracadabra” offering features Dionysian tribal dancing frenzies, a death spell, and incantations under “the dark moonlight,” among other things. It’s only the latest example which highlights the quintessential “experiential” dimension of all Gnostic belief.

Always playful and prepared for a general audience, the underlying magic of the these modern incantations comes by way of catchy lyrics, hypnotic rhythms and suggestive visuals. The accompanying music video usually tells its own separate story, offering additional ambiguous layers of meaning which are absorbed into the psyche with the aid of catchy “hooks.”

So what is Gnosticism, really?

Modern Trance-formational Magic

Like a poem said by a lady in red
You hear the last few words of your life
With a haunting dance, now you're both in a trance
It's time to cast your spell on the night
—“Abracadabra” by Lady Gaga

Centered on the notion of “experiential” knowledge (or “gnosis”) and “altered-states” as a sacred rite, experiences of the divine in Gnosticism are presented as trance-formative experiences. Going back to ancient times, these sacred experiences were traditionally overseen by the Greek God Dionysus, or Bacchus.
Seems the latest displays at the Paris Olympic and these Grammies are all tributes to Satan! Like all blessed gifts given us from Jehovah.......The opposition wants to corrupt it! These signs must be a sign of his imminent arrival!
 
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BrooksB said:
If you want to see something truly amazing, do a Google search for Derek Trucks / Layla and watch him as a 12 year old play Layla live as lead guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band. Very impressive! Some people are just flat out gifted and he certainly is one of those people. FYI, so is Billy Strings (unrelated to the context of this post but another massively gifted musician)
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Yeah some of us have a natural bent for musical instruments. But everyone can become skilled at anything.
Trucks is another player who tries to target emotions. Not sure if he worked at it or was he moved by other slide men, ( Duane, Howlin wolf, and others ) and it grew on him? There are a lot of great slide men around.
Trucks sounds like he is up there. Watched many clips of Trucks and Susan and their band. Cooder must be somewhere up there too.
 
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