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The Power of Music
to Create and Destroy
Music has the power to create and destroy
because sound is one of the most powerful creative and destructive forces
in the universe. The universe was created, in part, by sound.
"In the beginning was the Word" (John 1:1), and by the Word spoken,
by mighty fiats spoken like "Let there be light" (Genesis 1:3), God created
the vast universe. By sound the
worlds were framed. If the sound of the Word can help create
a universe, just think of how destructive sound can be if it is misused!
Unfortunatelly, and tragically, sound is being
grossly misused in most of today's music. This is not just
my belief. There is scientific evidence for it.
In 1968, Dorothy Retallack began a series of experiments testing the effects of music on plants. She had one group of plants close to a radio playing classical music, and another group close to one playing rock music. The plants close to the classical music grew toward the radio, one of them even twining itself lovingly around it. On the other hand, the plants close to the rock broadcasts grew away from the radio as if trying to get away. The growth of some plants close to the rock music was stunted. The roots were short and scrawny, their leaves were small, and the plants died. The plants close to the classical music, however, flourished. Many others conducted experiments testing the effects of music on plants. Their conclusions were the same. Plants near classical music grew faster, larger and more abundantly than plants near rock music that did very poorly. Articles were written such as "Music that Kills Flowers", "Bach or Rock: Ask Your Flowers", and the question was asked "If rock is doing that to plants, man, I wonder what it is doing to me?" Plants don't have an intelligence as we do, so they can't be prejudiced against rock, and for classical, music.
Dr. John Diamond tested the effect of rock
music on the body. He found that rock music has a weakening effect
on the body, that it does physical harm to the body in the long run.
The following is extracted from "The Music in Your Life" from his
book YourBody Doesn't Lie: I tested the effect of rock music
kinesiologically, using hundreds of subjects. I found
that listening to rock music frequently causes all the muscles in
the body to go weak. The normal pressure required to overpower a
strong deltoid muscle in an adult male is about 40
50 pounds. When rock music is played, it is only 10 to 15
pounds. If rock music weakens muscles, it probably weakens all the
internal organs, which means that it could weaken the heart, which is a
muscle.
Rock music does much more than weaken and harm the physical body, it shatters the soul through all the chakras (spiritual centers). The soul is like a delicate crystal which can be easily cracked and shattered if it has not been sealed and protected by God. An analogy of the power of sound to shatter crystal is the famous commercial, "Is it live, or is it Memorex?", in which Ella Fitzgerald shatters a glass simply by singing a note.
Rock and jazz (and other forms of music)
cause the energy to be released from the higher chakras and to descend
to the lower chakras. The pounding beat of rock, and the jagged rhythms
of jazz, forces the energy downward. This energy concentrates and
builds up in the lower chakras, and it must be released. Unfortunately,
it is often expressed in sex, violence, and destruction. Rock and
jazz are greatly responsible for an overemphasis of the sexual nature,
for the sexual culture, and a debasing of life. "Rock 'n' roll" was
a ghetto slang term,