Transformational Music For the Beleagured Soul

At the end of a lecture our teacher would play one of the Gurdjieff/de Hartmann compositions. He said the music would touch upon a part of us that was rarely if ever contacted. I think some music is like an aural mandala, it has an ordering principle and as such is fortifying to the beleagured soul.

This piece is called Holy Affirming, Holy Denying, Holy Reconciling--Gurdieff's Triamazikamno. 

Sometimes when you're stuck, and you're not quite sure what you need to do get an aspect of your life moving it can be very useful to remember this Gurdjieffen principle Triamazikamno-- the law of three:

Affirming-force or the pushing-force.  Pretty much always followed by:

Denying-force or resisting-force and needs in order for things to get moving:

Reconciling-force.

It's not usually clear where 'reconciling force' is coming from, it could be from another person, (unwittingly).  Or it could be from somewhere more transcendent.  It's difficult to say, but it's always useful to remember to pray for, or call on Third Force i.e Reconciling force,  when you're stuck.




And I found this a description of the experience of listening to what is usually just called Gurdjieff Music. 

One of the titles given to a collection of this music was “Journeys to Inaccessible Places,” and there seems no better description for the strange inner travelling I was called to, when available to it. At such moments there was a sense of total “consonance” between the vibrations of sound, a passing phenomenon in a temporal world, and the resonance from a world which has always been. [source]