Jes Bertelsen about Johann Sebastian Bach
Edited from Jes Bertelsen: Energi og Bevidsthed

We decided to have a chapter specificly on Bach’s Organ fugues, not because particularly many people like them these days, but because they deserve to be liked. Bach’s music is very powerful spiritual purifying and uplifting music.

No music uplifts if the listener cannot surrender to it

Although J. S. Bach was not enlightened, he was often in states of illumination.
Thus his music is often composed from states of higher consciousness,
and his music contains structures of impulse-field - or love - light.

Bach has composed music on three levels:

1. Music that does not contain higher consciousness

2. The openers music that attempts to affect the aura towards receptivity to the spiritual dimension

3. The core-works, music that directly describe and convey higher consciousness.

Examples of music that are not meditative:
The 6 organ concertos.

2. The openers:

1. Balancing of the chakra system:


Example: Prelude and fugue BWV 543.
Other examples is BWV 545 and 546

This music works on the physical spine, the whole structure of the spine is worked through, so that the etheric chakra system can become grounded, and relate back to the physical connection to the centre line.
An exercise that will enhance the effect of this music is:
First contact the physical spine from medulla (the grove of the neck) to the tail bone.
Then, synchronized with a lightly forced breathing, the consciousness is moved from the tail bone to the medulla and down again, down on the in-breath and up on the out-breath. At the end a line of light is imagined in the centre along the spine.
Then the music (Prelude and fugue BWV 543.) is heard

 

2. The Crimson-purple sound-field


Example: The Fantasy in C minor BWV 562
is one of the easiest accessible in this category.

A number of Bach’s organ works create a very characteristic color in the aura, even at the same level in different people, namely level with the secondary chakras in the knees.
This Bach-color is a connection between a deep, dark red, and transparent violet.
The Bach-music uses this colour tone to connect a deep heavy suffering-related energy frequency ( the deep read color related to the knee-chakras)
with a high, fast vibration, that is directed upwards towards the spiritual aura (the transparent-violet colour). In this way a balance is made possible between suffering and grace, and this can create a connection to higher consciousness.

Once again one can prepare one’s aura in a simple way, and in this way maybe be able to feel inward into the esoteric structures and dimensions of the music.:
First, stand, and centre the awareness at the back of the knees, then slowly bend and stretch the legs, maintaining the consciousness at the back of the knees.
After a couple of minutes, try to link in to the crimson-purple color .
Then, listen in meditative silence to the music.
Another fugue where the color is clearly is created is BWV 564.

3. Opening of the Crown chakra

Example Passacaglia and fugue BWV 582

The third category of openers work directly on the vibrations of the Crown chakra.. Here Bach clearly, tonal and vibrational connects the energy structure from the Crown chakra itself, with the root chakra
One can try to prepare for this music in this way:
First imagine a transparent red ball balancing on top of the crown, (in order to activate the Crown chakra). Then you imagine a point of golden light in the root chakra (in order to activate the root chakra in the direction of perceptibility to higher energy).
At the end Listen to the music in meditative silence.
Other examples is BWV 537 and BWV 544.

4. The core of the Bach-field

Example Doric toccata and fugue BWV 538

In the core of the Bach-field, where expressions of clearly higher states of consciousness is evident, we find some of Bach’s greatest and most incomprehensible works, , the Tripplefuge BWV 552, and the greatest and deepest of all Bach’s compositions: The art of the Fugue.
In the Doric toccata and fugue, Bach describes two strange energy structures, both clearly belonging to higher meditation.
One is the so called universal point, the other is the illuminated root center.
The universal point is that space in consciousness, where consciousness is
linked both to the collective unconscious and to higher consciousness. The consciousness has a source, an umbilical cord, where it springs from the cosmic eternal. This point can be localized by attempting to move the consciousness backwards continually, in the investigation of who the I is, or where thoughts come from.
The illuminated root centre is a vision, a vibrating structure of light, assembling a four-leafed flower in light. This vision comes when higher consciousness directly is connected with the root chakra. In this way the root chakra is cleansed and enlightened.
Bach’s Doric toccata and fugue creates these two structures in the aura, when it is allowed to work in a receptive and open, balanced personality.
When music from the core of the Bach-field is heard in a higher state of consciousness are the here described four structures manifest as autonomous fields of light and vibrating sound, it is consciousness-music in pulsating light, vibrating in cosmos as galactic fields.

The art of the fugue deserves a chapter for itself, but I have chosen not to in order to have space to cover other topics



Listen to the music

Be aware of your physical reactions,
when and how they change:

Breathing
Body posture
Tensions
Aces and pains
Numbness

Be aware of your psychological reactions
when and how they change:
Basic mood before the music
Shifting moods during the music
Memories
Images
Thoughts
Level of creativity