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Music is one of the most powerful gifts and means of expression that has been given to us-should we be able

to recognize it. It would be difficult to not admit that music is a universal language that transcends all kinds of barriers. Music can lift the soul whenever we lack the words to express the groanings within the deepest parts of our selves. To borrow from a western understanding of music as a concept, in the Greek, the word music is derived from the word muse. In Greek mythology, the muses were the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosnye. And interestingly enough, Mnemosnye was one of the Goddeses or Titans that wielded the power of memory. According to Greek mythology, Zeus and Mnemosnye produced nine children: and these beautiful energies archetypes that governed the arts, poetry, the sciences, and sources of inspiration. And in a metaphorical sense, music does have the capability to allow you to travel through time because listening to the right meolody can literally take you beyond the boundaries of time and space and into the transcendent. If we utilize it as a spiritual tool and not simply for our personal enjoyment, we can connect with the divi http://www.talesbeyondbelief.com/nymphs/muses.htm

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