Where the rhythm takes us – words of others

“Imagine darkness so intense and so complete covering you like a velvet blanket. A blackness which cuts you off from the everyday world, which forces you to withdraw deep into yourself, which makes you see with your heart instead of your eyes. You can’t see, but your eyes are opened. You are isolated, but you know that you are united with all living things. And out of this utter darkness comes the roaring of the drums, the sound of the prayers. And among these sounds your ear catches the voices of the spirits, ghostlike, whispering to your from unseen lips. Lights are flitting through the room, almost touching you, little flashes of lightning coming at you from the darkness. Rattles are flying through the air. You feel the wings of birds brushing your face, feel the light touch of a feather on your skin. And always you hear the throbbing drums filling the empty space inside yourself, faming you forget the things that clutter up your mind, making your body sway to their rhythm…”
~Robbie Robertson “Contact from the Underworld of Red Boy“