Music Of The Heart

Music Of The Heart

The truly spiritual cultures throughout history have been the ones that have made no delineations between the secular and the sacred. They have had the wisdom to see that inherent to all life was divinity, either slumbering or expressed.

In many cultures, the sacred, regenerative powers of sexuality coupled with love have been deeply revered. As a result, they have flourished, rich in vitality and gilded by the reverence attached to the act of procreation.

In my teaching of spirituality to students of different nationalities, a common thread ran through their cultures: sexuality had somehow become separated from love and furthermore had lost its luster. It had been diminished from the sacred and relegated to the banal and commonplace.

It had become totally devoid of romance. I wanted to restore romance to sexuality to track the origins of its demise and place it back on its throne of the heart, from which it had been deposed. It is for this reason that I jointly composed with the master Paul Gasztold from Toronto, Canada and sung the musical CD An Affaire of the Heart.

I had understood that part of the lusterless condition sexuality as a whole had dwindled into was due to the fear of both genders to go too deeply into opposite polarities – an essential component of vitality. Women did not want to seem overly assertive, and men shielded away from being too receptive or passive. The pulsating into opposite poles throughout the music was therefore very specifically designed.

A Short Interview with Almine Regarding Her Music

Q: This CD is very much different from your usual spiritual way of life; why didn’t you compose spiritual music – you would’ve had a ready-made student base to sell it to?

A: Art needs to be created because the artist has something to say – not because it is commercially viable.

Q: But weren’t you concerned that the sexual flavor would damage your credibility with your other work, the really important work?

A: There is no important work – only a series of moments to live authentically from the heart. My spiritual teachings are not for the masses. It is for the few who are not afraid to fly above the clouds where the air is thin, but the view is spectacular to fly there. You have to leave the flocks of birds behind.

Q: There could be someone examining your image, really misinterpreting the sensual photography on the CD cover.

A: Yes, you’re right. I’d rather have other images as well. In the year this CD was produced and composed, I also wrote and published three books – all of them ground-breaking in the field of metaphysics. During that time, I also had a full lecture schedule in multiple countries and produced and distributed six lectures with original background music CD’s which are selling in major bookstores.

Q: That’s amazing! How did you do it?

A: Well, with difficulty since I’m also of course a single Mom… but regarding the images, they’re simply home photos that were doctored to make them more professional looking… I didn’t have time to do a professional photo shoot.

Q: Thank you for speaking to me and for your beautiful music.