Tuesday, May 26, 2026

OM (the Moody Blues Song)

"The best way to travel" and "Om" were two of the songs I listened to that helped me soul travel then around 1970 and 1971. I had been given Soul Travel by the Angels already as a way to survive to 30 and beyond which worked by the way. I was given soul travel as a gift in 1968 when I was 20 in Yucca Valley, California between the city of Yucca Valley and Landers where I and my father built a house there between 1968 to 1980 on weekends when my father and mother retired there.

Is Soul Travel a good spiritual path? It always worked for me. It began when the Archangels saved my life from whooping cough when I was 2 and I wanted to go with the angels after they had healed me. So, Archangel Gabriel Gave me soul travel as a way to keep me alive to 30 and beyond because he told me I had promised to stay alive and do spiritual work here on earth for a long long time in this lifetime. He was right!

By God's Grace 

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Om (The Moody Blues song) from wikipedia

Om (The Moody Blues song)

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"Om"
Song by The Moody Blues
from the album In Search of the Lost Chord
ReleasedJuly 1968
Recorded5 June 1968
GenreRaga rock, psychedelic music
Length5:50
LabelDeram Records
SongwriterMike Pinder
ProducerTony Clarke

"Om" is a song by the British progressive rock band the Moody Blues that was released in July 1968 as the final track of their album In Search of the Lost Chord. It was composed by the band's keyboardist, Mike Pinder. "Om" has a heavy Indian influence and sound to it. The word "Om", which is chanted repeatedly throughout the song, represents Aum, a sacred mantra in the Hindu, Jain, Sikh and Buddhist religions.

On the album, "Om" is preceded by a short spoken-word interlude titled "The Word". "The Word" was written by drummer Graeme Edge and is recited by Pinder. "The Word" explains the album's concept, and that the mantra "Om" is the lost chord referenced in the album's title, which concludes with:

To name the chord is important to some.
So they give it a word,
And the word is "Om"

Like many of the album's preceding tracks, "Om" make use of a variety of instruments. "Om" features both Pinder and Ray Thomas on lead vocals, and playing their usual instruments, Mellotron and flute, respectively. The remaining band members are featured on instrument other than their usual instruments, which includes Justin Hayward on sitar, John Lodge on cello, and Graeme Edge on tabla, a popular Indian percussion instrument used in the classical, popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent and in Hindustani classical music.

"Om" is one of several songs in the raga rock style on In Search of the Lost Chord.[1]

While "The Word" and "Om" are generally played together, "The Word" was released on the band's 1974 compilation This Is The Moody Blues without "Om". However, the final word of "The Word", which is also the first word of "Om", was included.

Personnel

References

  1. Bellman, Jonathan (1998). The Exotic in Western Music. Lebanon, New Hampshire: UPNE. pp. 301–02. ISBN 1-55553-319-1.

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