Alchemists tried to turn base metals into gold. Television tries to turn bad scripts into hits. Scientists try for the really big prize: Turning here & now into there & then. In other words, space/time travel...
This has been the dream of humanity for centuries. Especially lately when our physicists have mastered so much of the right stuff. Thrust, speed, and propulsion. But while staggering amounts of money and mastery assemble in places like Switzerland's Hadron Collider, this wonder can be found no further than your very own CD player.
Here's how you do it.
Select a favorite old song (it has to be at least 10 years old)...turn down the lights (dim is OK, dark is even better) ....then close your eyes and permit the music to seep into your very being. If you do this in just the right way -- Shazam, you're back there! You're back then! For the next 3 minutes, you really really are!
Maybe it's that Christmas morning you scrambled under the tree to rip open what Santa brought you. Or that June night when you held in your Senior Prom arms that special someone you were sure would be in your life forever. Or possibly that band march you and your kids tapped to as together you watched the local Fourth of July parade through town. Or it could be that haunting love theme the two of you held hands to in the movie theatre that long ago night-of-nights.
Music has this way of directly connecting with where your heart and soul live. Oh, it passes through the aural nerves and brain circuits; but it virtually by-passes the intellect. Who needs intellect and cognition when magic is at work...? The magic of being transported into places and moments no longer visible on any maps. Except the secret, treasured map of your life.
An extraordinary power, this. However, it's not one which can be designed into a formula. Or completely shared with others. This is a very personal alchemy of acclamation. A burst of exaltation. A skill to be mastered, then to be cherished. And if you can, it will permit you to travel anywhere and anytime in your life. All at the speed of a heartbeat or a tear drop.
One warning! Once you've mastered these spellbinding journeys, be sure you remember how to find your way back....
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