Music and the Soul: Contents
Table of Contents for Music and the Soul: A Listener's Guide to Transcendent Musical Experiences.Foreword
Acknowledgments
Part I: Music and the Soul
Chapter 1: Transcendent Musical Experiences
Chapter 2: Music and the Soul
Chapter 3: The Secret Influences of Music
Chapter 4: Music from the Human to the Ethereal Realms
Chapter 5: The Serpent Power and the Yoga of Sound
Chapter 6: Building a Continuum of Human Potential
Part II: The Yoga of Listening
Chapter 7: The Yoga of Listening
Chapter 8: The First Center: Arousal
Chapter 9: The Second Center: Desire
Chapter 10: The Third Center: Intensity
Chapter 11: The Fourth Center: Expression
Chapter 12: The Fifth Center: Well-Being
Chapter 13: The Sixth Center: Command
Chapter 14: The Seventh Center: Expanded Consciousness
Chapter 15: The Eighth Center: Cosmic Consciousness
Chapter 16: Preparing for Transcendent Musical Experiences
Part III: Music of the Soul
Chapter 17: Listening as a Spiritual Practice
Chapter 18: Good Music Versus Bad Music
Chapter 19: Spiritual Teachers in Music
Chapter 20: Wagner the Seer
Chapter 21: Celestial Symphonies: Bruckner and Mahler
Chapter 22: The Would-Be Mystics: Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern
Chapter 23: The Sometime Mystics: Busoni, Hindemith, Stravinsky, and Bartók
Chapter 24: The Achieved Mystics: Scriabin and Messiaen
Chapter 25: The Evolving Mystics: Stockhausen and Rautavaara
Finale
Chapter 26: Achieving Transcendent Musical Experiences
Notes
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index