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One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is that it changes people's consciousness. Through rhythmic repetition of ritual sounds, the body, the

One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is that it changes people's consciousness. Through rhythmic repetition of ritual sounds, the body, the brain and the nervous system are energized and transformed. When a group of people play a rhythm for an extended period of time, their brain waves become entrained to the rhythm and they have a shared brain wave state. The longer the drumming goes on, the more powerful the entrainment becomes. It's really the oldest holy communion.

Layne Redmond
Powerful, Play, People

Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient technology for directly synchronizing the mind/body complex, creating conditions for psychological and physical healing.

Layne Redmond
Healing, Mean, Technology

A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women’s capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.

Layne Redmond
Males, Full Potential, Limits
Layne Redmond (1997). “When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm”

Because drumming was recognized as an ancient source and symbol of the power of female technicians of the sacred, drumming was banned. Henceforth divinity was to be exclusively masculine. The suppression of women was directly linked to the suppression of the goddess.

Layne Redmond
Female, Drumming, Divinity
Layne Redmond (1997). “When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm”

In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls the tides of both water and blood – the sacred fluids of the early religions. The second is the concept of periodic rebirth, symbolized by the moon’s monthly waning and renewal. The third is the notion of continually repeating cycles of change.

Layne Redmond
Moon, Blood, Civilization
Layne Redmond (1997). “When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm”

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