Music and Your Mind: Listening with a New Consciousness

Helen Bonny & Louis Savary

Print ISBNs:  1-891278-36-3 or  978-1-891278-36-5

E-ISBN:  978-1-937440000-8



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A ground-breaking book exploring music, imagery, and altered states of consciousness, leading to Bonny’s method, Guided Imagery and Music. 1973, 1990 (ISBN 1-891278-36-3) 136 pages, $26.



Table of Contents
Acknowledgments iv
Authors’ Note vii
Preface viii
Introduction xii
Chapter 1 How to Reach a New Consciousness 1
Chapter 2 The Individual Listener 19
Chapter 3 Exercises for the Individual 28
Chapter 4 Listening in a Group 37
Chapter 5 Exercises for a Group 56
Chapter 6 Music and Religious Experience 70
Chapter 7 Exercises for Religious Experience 83
Chapter 8 Music Appreciation in the Classroom 90
Chapter 9 Exercises for the Classroom 95
Appendix A Toward a Theory of Consciousness and Music 101
Appendix B The Mood Wheel 107
Appendix C Suggested Recordings for Altered States
of Conscious Experience 		113
Suggested Further Reading 120