Full Description
According to Socrates, humans have nothing more to learn because we already know everything we need to know. We have simply forgotten it. A true teacher is one who can help us to remember forgotten knowledge. The great Michelangelo perceived his unique creations in rough and uncultured stone blocks. He said that to see the finished sculpture, one only needs to eliminate the unnecessary particles and debris. Just like these stone blocks, we all possess hidden and forgotten wisdom. To live our true nature, we need to separate ourselves from our limited beliefs and understandings. This is the very essence of the book you have in your hands. "Rhythm Alchemy" is full of insights from ancient times and from our deepest self. The book synthesizes the ancient knowledge of numbers, the heartbeat, the rhythm of breathing and our personal situation within the bigger, universal vibrations, as well as our interactions with people and nature around us. "Rhythm Alchemy" offers invaluable knowledge about ourselves and the unique harmony between the human being, his or her inner world, his or her rhythm and the surrounding reality. We may not realize how often we use musical terms like rhythm, melody and harmony to refer to things which happen to us in our daily lives: the rhythm of our heart, how our feelings soar in space, the melody of our personal inner voice trying to interweave with the harmony of other voices around us. We are constantly seeking and wanting to write the composition of our "happiness". When we compose this work, even though we tirelessly seek inspiration from outside us, our score often stays blank. This is because we do not pay sufficient attention to the true inspiration which lies within us. In order to reach this inspiration, we need to rebuild the bridges linking us to the roots of our true nature - rhythm. When we begin the intimate dance with the vibrations of our existence and begin to experience the real flavor of each wave which colors our emotions, then we will attain the creative power of the composer expressed in what we call "happiness". Martin Ivanov's book "Rhythm Alchemy" provides us with the spiritual and physical parameters of our cosmic score. It will guide us to our place in the composition and provide us with the ideas and knowledge we need to participate fully in both - how to compose our life and fulfill our innermost dreams.
Contents
About the Author 7 Foreword 9 The Discovery 12 Part I - Discovery 13 1 The Lost City of Atlantis 14 2 Megaliths 18 3 The Legacy 23 4 Toth the Atlantean 25 5 3 27 6 Toth the Atlantean goes to Egypt 29 7 The Great Pyramid 31 8 Hermes Trismegistus and Hermetic Philosophy 34 9 Orpheus 37 Part II - Truth and Rhythm 39 10 The Beginning 40 11 Maya 42 12 Vibration 45 13 Rhythm 48 14 The Door 51 15 The Key 55 16 1 366 560 60 17 Pythagoras 64 18 Tetractys and the 47th Theorem 68 19 The Threefold Law 71 20 Microcosm and Macrocosm 79 21 Rhythm and Tetractys 82 22 13 86 23 The Evolution of Consciousness 91 24 Rhythm and Polyrhythm 96 ParT III - Alchemy 99 25 The Capstone 100 26 Alchemy and the Philosopher's Stone 104 27 Mental Transmutation 106 28 From Aristotle to Geber 109 29 The Initiation Process 114 30 The Tablet of Isis 118 31 9 123 32 The Matrix of the Capstone 125 33 3 x 3 x 3 (length) 127 34 13 (width) 132 35 The Virtual Interactive Matrix 136 36 Cause and Effect - 1st level 143 37 Correlation - 2nd level 147 38 Finding Your Way 152 39 Tuning the "strings" - 3rd level 157 40 Mental Transmutation - 4th level 161 41 Induction 166 42 Telepathy 169 Part IV - A n c i e n t M u s i c 173 43 Ancient Music 174 44 The Ancient Alchemical Instrument 177 45 Restrictive Beliefs and Convictions 180 46 Rhythm Session in Prison 183 47 Corporate Rhythm 186 48 Rhythm and Autism 190 49 The Old Man and the Drums 194 50 The Children from Doganovo 198 51 Rhythmology 205 52 The Rhythmology Experiment 207 53 Conclusion 209 Illustration Credits 216 Bibliography 217
