Talk:Meanification
Anecdote
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpiritualAwakening/comments/pe6ojq/interpreting_lyrics_as_messages_of_a_divine_nature/ (r/Soulnexus) Aug 29, 2021
I tried to explain the following idea to a couple people and I don't know if they really grasped what I was trying to get at, but maybe you'll have a better time with it.
I'll preface this by saying when I was psychotic everything in language came across as a message from God. When I overheard snippets of people's conversations I interpreted it as a divine message meant specifically for me. The meaning was always precisely relevant to the situation (and internal thoughts) I was facing at hand.
The same thing happened with news broadcasts, print media, music and lyrics. All of it, every word was a divine piece of information and was absolutely crucial and seemingly of the utmost importance. No word was wasted. Everything had an effect.
When I recovered I partly lost this ability. I no longer interpreted things in this fashion. I could hold a conversation without being bombarded by spiritual and archetypal implications. But the ability remained dormant in my mind and could be activated at will. And so when I hear songs now sometimes the lyrics really jump out as being divinely inspired. It could be a simple love song, but what I hear is a song of praise to God. Sometimes ordinary lyrics explain the most complicated and fundamental aspects of God in a simple way. I'll slap my forehead and go, "why didn't I think of that before?"
Sometimes, many times, perhaps even most of the time I don't even think the artists writing these songs are cognizant of the depth of wisdom that is buried in the words. Clearly, as is in the case of a band like Tool, for instance, the artist is explicitly conveying lyrics with a spiritual message/intent. But then, sometimes, a classic rock song everyone has heard 1000 times on the radio just really hits hard and deep all of a sudden. And at the precise moment when I need to hear that specific message. And I go, "holy shit, what a deeply significant and introspective message about God", meanwhile someone else hears a cheesy overplayed tune and interprets it in a completely different way.
And so I practice tuning into this divine strand of information when it is appropriate. And sometimes even the hardest of hard-core gangster rap has a deep and significant spiritual message. If one can hear the artist's intent they can hear the soul beneath the words, their spiritual struggles, and their spiritual victories. And then one can frame it up in contrast to their own life, seeing what parts they can learn from, and empathize with the lessons of the struggling artist they have already grappled with.
I feel like tuning into this might have been described as a kind of flow state. It is not specific to interpreting song lyrics, we can read a book, or scriptures perhaps and when we are feeling this way the words become applicable to scenarios that are playing out in our own lives, making any material of extreme personal relevance. Because we are all One, we have experienced everything that was ever written or sung about and in a way we just remember that, yes, I Am That too.
