Merlin once said to me, love works. By this simple yet profound statement he meant that love is the solution to any and every problem. And A Course in Miracles states that there is really only one problem: separation. Love is the solution: it dispels the illusion of separation. A great many songs have been written about love, but the one that has persistently echoed in my mind for decades is one by the progressive rock band Yes.
Yes — Love will find a way (1987)
The lyrics:
You want to get close to me The feeling so clear But I need some time to see Vision through my tear You want to get next to me I need your intrusion I don't need to be Blinded by confusion Here is my heart Waiting for you Here is my soul I eat at chez nous Love will find a way If you want it to Love will find a way Love will find a way for me and you Love will find a way Love will find a way Love will find a way Love will find a way So you want to get over me And that's how you feel Everything you want to be Seems so unreal I want to be all of you And that's the confusion It's so hard for me To draw a conclusion Here is my heart Waiting for you Here is my soul I eat at chez nous Love will find a way If you want it to Love will find a way Love will find a way Love will find a way If you want it to Love will find a way Love will find a way Love will find a way I believe that there's a way If you want it to Will love find a way Love will find a way Will love find a way Love will find a way
The lyrics explore the dilemma all lovers face: how to unite (something their souls long for) without losing their individuality. The resolution given, the assertion that love will find a way, applies not only to dilemmas associated with romantic relationships; rather, it is universally applicable. The lyrics, in combination with the melody, have a vibrational power that has uplifted my spirit time and time again. I cannot very well explain technically why this is so. However, there is someone I know who does understand such matters and he wrote a book on the subject of transcendent musical experiences:
A reader of Kurt’s book left this review:
Kurt Leland is also the author of The Multidimensional Human: Practices for Psychic Development and Astral Projection, The Unanswered Question: Death, Near-Death, and the Afterlife, Otherwhere: A Field Guide to Nonphysical Reality for the Out-of-Body Traveler, etc.
He wrote in the Preface to this 2005 book, "Over the years I've received a great deal of information from Charles (a "nonphysical teacher") about how composing, performing, and listening to music can promote one's spiritual growth. Despite his apparent nonphysicality, Charles has been the best music teacher I've ever had. What I've learned from him lies behind everything I've written in this book... In (this book) I introduce the idea of transcendent musical experiences (TMEs), a term I've invented to describe the extraordinary emotional, spiritual, or mystical reactions we can sometimes have when composing, performing, or listening to music."
Here are some additional quotations from the book:
"In popular music, the visionary phase often attempts to illustrate images and story lines from the Middle Ages, as in King Crimson's 1969 album In the Court of the Crimson King ... and the progressive rock band Genesis's 1976 release Wind & Wuthering; or mysticism, as in the 1975 album Initiation by Todd Rundgren, based on the teachings of the early twentieth-century esotericist Alice Bailey, and Yes's 1974 release Tales From Topographic Oceans, based on Paramahansa's Autobiography of a Yogi." (Pg. 172).
"When I listened to this eighty-minute, four-movement suite, I was struck by it energetic similarity to Todd Rundgren's Initiation, which was inspired by esotericist Alice Bailey's A Treatise on Cosmic Fire." (Pg. 252-253)
It was a friend of mine who introduced Kurt to the music of Yes. But Kurt did not specifically mention Love will find a way in his book, so I don’t know where he would place it on his scale of consciousness. I only know that it sings to me of the power that love has to overcome all obstacles.
I discovered this song in 1996, nine years after its release on the album Big Generator and just after the heart-rending end of a romantic relationship with a woman who I believe is a soulmate, as confirmed by Merlin. The circumstances were such that I couldn’t foresee any possibility that we would ever reunite in a romantic sense; yet I felt I couldn’t live without her. (And that's the confusion. It's so hard for me To draw a conclusion.) So I listened to the song over and over again and used its vibration to power the assertion that love would find a way somehow, some day, to reunite us again. I was willing to set aside my personal needs and ambitions, which were contradictory in any case, and yield to a higher power, namely Intent.
I moved out-of-state and lost touch with my soulmate, but the echoes of the song stayed with me. Many months later, we reconnected in a most extraordinary way as described in this post. Decades later we are still close friends, closer than ever. We have what has been called agape to distinguish it from the more conditional variants of what people commonly regard as love. I became somewhat capable of unconditional love, which I couldn’t even comprehend beforehand, as a result of a transformative near death experience (NDE) not long after our parting — I literally couldn’t live without her. That experience raised and refined my vibration. Pain has a way of doing that.
So, what sets this song apart from countless other songs about love is that its lyric, love will find a way, is an assertion and it has sufficient vibratory power to back that assertion. It can activate the Big Generator that powers timeline traversals and bends reality. The way that Love finds to overcome obstacles may not be the way you want, when you want, but love does work if you round up sufficient intent — if you want it to. The catch is to set aside personal ambitions and align your personal intent with Intent, which I think of as the doing of Love.
I love this.
"So I listened to the song over and over again and used its vibration to power the assertion that love would find a way "
I'm in full agreement here. Frequency and vibration are such powerful tools - surely that can heal bodies and hearts and minds. (I think - eventually - frequency will be what heals many injured by the jab.) We used to know these things - long time ago - and we will know them again.
A TME - in Santa Fe NM, watching a square dance performance during a festival. At some point the music and the dancing became an experience of unspeakable beauty, all the parts coalesced into a moving painting with sound that scooped you up and took you with it - I can't describe it. I was fully transported. Came back to 'earth' when my young son asked me why I was crying.
Beautiful. Thank you.
The vibrations of music help heal.