The Power of Collective Channeled Feelings:

With House Music as the Conduit

July/August –2007 (Revised May, 2009)

   How do gatherings of people dancing to house music affect

the potency of progressive change in the world? In a world

that typically ignores the collective power of positive feelings

and marginalizes them as only being a side-effect of thinking,

how can turning people on to their feelings in a celebratory

context improve the course of their lives? Almost nowhere

are positive feelings more evident than when people are

dancing together with collective intent to the sounds of house

music. And although this emerging phenomenon has been

given little mainstream attention, house music by its own

merits is now beginning to penetrate the hearts of the

multitudes.

   Feelings are in essence a quantum form of communication.

By quantum I mean it is a method of communication that is

beyond space-time,namely feelings are conveyable by distant

and unseen means. How is this provable? Let’s consider one’s

own personal experience in this regard. Have you ever felt so

strongly that something good was waiting for you somewhere

that you went there even though logically it did not make sense?

Have you ever felt really optimistic about something while

people around you were not yet feeling it? These are aspects

of non-local (“spooky action at a distance”) vibrations that get

transmitted into feelings, which then preclude occurrences that

confirm the original feelings. Thus feelings, intuition and the

“sixth sense” are often viewed synonymously and for the context

of this paper we will consider how these internal gifts can benefit

us as we dance together in Spirit.

  Those familiar with S.F. Bay Area house music dance culture

may have noticed a social environment where self-expression

and conveying of feelings is a bit more elaborate and if I dare say,

a bit more wholesome than other methods of musical organizing.

In particular house music, in its most soulful forms is penetrating

the hearts and minds of those living on the frontier of human emotional

evolution. It is our hope to see house music, with all its potential,

displacing other genres of music such as hip hop as the dominant

organizing mechanism of urban youth culture. Since house music

has the potential to incorporate the better aspects of hip hop and

R&B elements into its sound, people liking the positive aspects of

those sounds will not be left out – for now they will have the best

of everything in its most elegant forms, not to mention a

little gospel to go with it.

   In a metaphysical sense, the convenience of feelings with house

music being the conduit is another way of conveying spiritual information.B

y spiritual I mean those sounds that move the spirit to know itself deeper.

Certain songs galvanize specialized responses from the crowd.House music

has a way of directing excitement which becomes collective in nature.

All universal forms of music have a collective aspect to them. This is seen

in jazz, reggae and other instrumental forms; however, house music builds

on the element of dancing, where self-expression individuates

itself into its most fantastic expressions.

A collective feeling can affect space-time continuum. Indeed this is another way of saying that we can influence the future significantly, thus overcoming limitations when a collective desire is focused upon and given amplification by the feelings of many. There have been churches that have done this pretty well. This sense of “praise and worship” of something beyond ourselves has for a few years now been visible in the house music environment where enough people have developed a sophisticated understanding of spiritual evocation. In essence we are still in the early stages in regards to this form of liberation, but if this pattern of success continues, what soon we hope will transpire is a major convergence of hearts dedicated to the healing of human souls through the sound of house music.