Mudra – The Sound in the State of Grace

Photo by Helene Gritsch

Like a prayer, music can open the Doors of Knowledge.

According to the Tibetan Lamas, this can be achieved through the ringing of a bell, which becomes a vehicle…

For Native Americans or African animists, drums too can be esoteric channels: when the person playing them has shamanic gifts, their Sound can give access to the vision of the cycle of existences…

Through Sound one can connect with the Spirits of the Air and ask for their support.

Music understood in this way is sacred, closely linked to spiritual search and practice.

Tibetan mantras and Balinese dances also take on this value, since they aim to reach the “state of grace”, spiritual union: with one’s guide, with a master, with the deities…

The Performance ONENESS belongs to this research.

In line with the previous Symbolic Actions – in particular “The Invisible Real – The Web” – the Artist declares, both directly and subliminally, that each of us belongs to the whole: the connection of microcosm and macrocosm, the union of the living with other beings, human and non-human, with the earth, with the entire universe…

The declaration is expressed through Mudras: a dance of the fingers that moves the energy that sustains us…

Mudras consist of positioning and moving the hands so as to draw mysterious, precious symbols in the air: a special language to activate an equally special communication…

The Dance of the fingers

Love at work: healing with mudras.

In Mudras the hands change constantly and according to precise rules: alternating their position, they move the particles floating in the air.

The Movement creates an invisible but powerful flow of energy that resonates with the highest cosmic energies.

What the hands express, with gesture and touch, is Love – Love at work, which leads back – being its source – to supreme harmony.

Mudras have the power to penetrate the heart, transmitting knowledge of universal love.

It is a very special knowledge, because it is based on understanding through deep communication rather than on cultural, mental learning…

One understands the meaning of Unity. One reaches the Universal.

The Joy of total union is a powerful medicine: the moment the ego gives way to the omniscient Self, illness disappears.

One knows one is in the hands of a Universal Essence, a great healer, perfect and impartial.

Creative power

Mudras have a great creative power, direct and identical to what is manifested: their power comes from the fact that they spring directly from an everlasting universal source…

So are human beings: but they are often unaware of it; they have forgotten, they cannot see, they have lost the possibility of glimpsing the supreme manifestation of themselves.

The voice

The sound that accompanies the gestures is a supreme gift, leading back to the music of the universe.

The multitude is perceived as one, and the one becomes the multitude…

Gesture and voice are the key to establishing the connection: one hears in unison the voice of the universe.

It is ecstasy, a heart beating in an eternity without time, without beginning or end.

On a higher plane of awareness one hears the celestial notes of the angelic choirs…

All that remains is to express infinite gratitude for this gift.

Teri Volini