Can anyone help me?--Music Therapy and Christianity
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rickyfan3 ...@yahoo.com (Lucy_you_got_some_splainin_2_do)
I don't know if this is the right forum in which to place this message, but I will try. I am a young Christian woman considering the field of Music Therapy. I have done some reading into it and part of me is disturbed by it. I was wondering if any of you could direct me to some information about Music Therapy within the realms of Christianity, maybe to a website or something. Also, any information you could give me would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
"Peggy Tatyana" progersNOS...@xmission.com
It might be more helpful if you were to explain what it is about music therapy that you find troublesome. It strikes me as a lovely avocation for a Christian woman.
One of the few such areas of expertise that I'm familiar with is one called "Chalice of Repose," which ministers not to the ill, but to the dying. The official website is at http://www.chaliceofrepose.org/.
Good luck in your endeavors.
Peggy
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Matthew Johnson matthew_mem...@newsguy.com
In article <vWkad.2375$wV4.2148@trndny03>, Lucy_you_got_some_splainin_2_do says...
Go to http://www.ccel.org, and look for ST. Basil the Great's commentary on Psalm 1.
Then go to http://www.slavyanka.org and order some of the best such music ever performed, written by Tchaikovsky, Kastalsky, Archangelsky.,..
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Subducat se sibi, ut haereat Deo. Quidquid boni habet, illi tribuat a quo factus est (St. Aug. Ser. 96)
"Daniel L. Snyder " sn...@tcq.NOSPAM.net
In article <vWkad.2375$wV4.2148@trndny03>, If you email me directly, I will put you in touch with my wife. She is a Music Therapist - currently focusing on early childhood through Musikgarten - and she is also a wonderful Christian woman.
"Brenda G. Kent" wt...@victoria.tc.ca
I am wondering what you have read on music therapy that has you disturbed?
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Bren
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"For a person's a person No matter how small" -Dr. Suess
rickyfan3 ...@yahoo.com (Lucy_you_got_some_splainin_2_do)
I don't know exactly. It is just a feeling, I think. I think it started when I read about some therapists using such techniques as Tibetian singing bowls and Hindu chants and things like that. There is a part of me that wants to run from anything that smacks of New Age-ism and I got an uneasy feeling. So I was wondering about people who are Christians and who practice Music Therapy. How do they get around issues such as that and how can they incorporate their faith into their jobs?
Quasin Quasin...@netscape.net
1. If you do therapy, do it your way.
2. Don't run from something just because non-christians do it too.
Satanists pray and use candles in worship, that doesn't make prayer or candles inappropriate for Christians!
Easterners have a disturbing tendency to dismiss anything not understood - not that long ago germ theory was mocked by western medicine even though experiments proved there might be something to it! Now western medicine mocks anything not based on ***aulting the body with drugs or cutting things out. Many Christians avoid all non-Western approaches to health as somehow satanic, as if the materialistic approach of Western medicine is somehow godly.
Find out why some use singing bowls, etc., instead of dismissing them just because some non-christians use them. Is it a purely religious practice, or is there something they have discovered about physical body resonating to certain wave lengths in health-enhancing ways?
Recklessness is not healthy, but neither is undue fear, and that includes undue fear of unfamiliar practices.
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