shadow wrote:I think that some music genres can work as a weak mind-altering tools of themselves. When combined with psychedelics definitely they can enhance the trip and determine its course. It is especially true if the trip is more personal and inner-self oriented. Electronic, ambient music can turn it into a cosmic travel beyond space and time, while classical symphonic music will bring mythological and dramatic themes.
Like endlessness I am also referring to my own experiences. I was actually inspired by one of the Maryland psychiatrists, Stanislav Grof. If you want to look further I recommend reading his book "The ultimate journey".
I'm in complete agreement there shadow. Music, IMO, combined with complete focus in a pitch dark environment can induce altered states of consciousness, probably not with as much power as with psychedelics, at least IME but music alone can definitely transport.
BTW, I have also enjoyed two of Stanislav Grof's books, "Adventures in Non Ordinary Reality" and "The Holotropic Mind". A great writer and a inspired explorer of the mind and psyche, and a very important person in the growth of psychedelic therapy.
As for music and psychedelic journeying, I find the choice of music is a massive guiding force. To cheesily quote Forrest Gump, "They go together like peas and carrots"
"The love I've made is the shape of my space"