Crazy Wisdom
Episode #426: The Voice as Portal: A Journey into Consciousness, Creation, and Connection
- Consciousness & Philosophy
- Psychedelics & Inner Frontiers
- Spirituality
- human voice
- singing
- Song Keepers School
- healing
- South American plant medicine
- psychedelics
- shamanism
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Timestamps
00:00 Introduction to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast
Key Insights
- The Power of the Voice as a Tool for Healing and Connection: Reya Manna emphasizes that singing is more than a performance—it's a sacred act of self-expression that connects us to our essence and to the unseen world. The vibration of our own voice can ground us, heal emotional wounds, and serve as a tool for blessing and transformation when used with intentionality and love. This deeper understanding of the voice’s role in healing can reframe how we view self-expression and creativity.
- Rediscovering Ancestral Wisdom and Connection to Nature: The conversation highlights how many of us have become disconnected from ancestral practices and the natural world. Reya explains how nature holds wisdom in its patterns and sounds, serving as a "library" of memory and guidance. Through offerings, prayers, and song, individuals can rekindle a relationship with the earth that restores a sense of belonging and purpose.
- Singing as a Transmission of Love and Sacred Intentions: In contrast to the commodification of music in modern society, Reya describes how the act of singing has traditionally been used by shamans and healers to convey love, protection, and blessings. By building a practice of singing from the heart, individuals can access their authentic voice and align with their higher purpose, amplifying their energy field and positively impacting others.
- Navigating the Modern Landscape of Technology and AI with Discernment: Stewart and Reya discuss the rise of artificial intelligence and its impact on creativity and self-awareness. They reflect on how AI can replicate but cannot embody the soulful essence of human expression. This prompts a reminder to foster resilience against digital distractions by grounding ourselves in embodied experiences and genuine human connection.
- The Interplay Between Spirituality, Desire, and Social Conditioning: The discussion delves into the Gnostic myths and the idea that true desires originate from the "high heart" and guide us toward our soul's blueprint. However, lower desires—amplified by social media and consumerism—can entrap us in illusions. Recognizing this distinction can help individuals reclaim their agency and align with their authentic spiritual path.
- The Divine Feminine and Sacred Balance in Creation: Reya brings attention to the erasure of the divine feminine in many spiritual narratives and emphasizes the importance of restoring balance by honoring both masculine and feminine energies. She shares stories of ancient priestesses and the sacred role of women as conduits of creation and wisdom, suggesting that reclaiming this knowledge is essential for collective healing and spiritual evolution.
- A Call to Collective Kindness and Creative Agency: The conversation ends with a reflection on the power of individual actions in creating ripples of collective change. Whether through a simple song, a kind gesture, or a moment of deep listening, every act of love and care contributes to a more harmonious world. Reya underscores the importance of remembering that we are creators of our reality, capable of shaping a future imbued with compassion, connection, and truth.
Episode transcript
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Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. Today I've got Raya Mana and she is the founder of the Song Keepers School. Welcome to the show.
Yep, we're gonna get into a lot of stuff and departing from the last two years of artificial intelligence talks, we're gonna talk about philosop recipe, we're going to talk about spirituality, and we're going to talk about how to open one's voice because that's an interesting topic that I think a lot about. Podcast helps with that. Really excited. So yeah, let's go into what you've learned about singing. How. How has singing influenced your life?
Oh, such a beautiful question. Well, I kind of came into this world singing. I started singing before I could talk and I felt so free as a child to sing and express and d dance and play and always wanted to be a singer. And as I started to get older, the message that I got really strongly was you can't make any money from singing, so you have to choose something else. And you know, the way that the western world kind of slates singing is into this category of performance. And even though I love to sing, I there it felt like some incongruence in terms of just singing to like be seen or to get attention or something like that or to be the best. And so as I got older and began my college career, I was thinking first of being a doctor, then being a lawyer, and I kind of then fell into philosophy. But I was also working a lot with music and classically trained in opera and jazz and. And so I kind of had this dichotomy with singing. Singing was something that fed my soul. It was an expression of my soul, but it was something that it didn't feel like really had a place in this world. I didn't feel like I was good enough. You heavily laden with self worth issues and. And then at some point I sat in my first South American medicine ceremony and I heard the shaman singing the Healing. And there's this light bulb that went off in my head, and it was like, I knew it. I knew that singing was for so much more than we had been taught. And in my kind of exploration of what I was going to do in the world, what I came to is I have a master of social work and a master of divinity, and I became a transform coach. My. My thought process is to help people kind of unravel some of their deeper emotional wounding. But I thought that that was entirely separate from singing. And so sitting in a South American medicine ceremony and seeing that they could be intertwined really set me on a new course. And. Yeah, so I. I'll just pause for a minute to see if there's anything you want to interject.
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