Paul Lawrence, a trained classical musician and educator,has developed and led music programmes in Waldorf schools in Western Australia.He lectures, mentors, and teaches  acrossAustralia, India, Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia. The Music of the Spheres: A Listener's Guide brings together the distilled insights of more than 25 years of study, teachingand creative exploration.

• Introduction                                                                                                          9Part One:  A History of the Music of the Spheres                                               11Origins andBirth                                                                                                 12Prehistory andAncient History                                                                           15Pythagoras, TheBridge                                                                                      21Plato                                                                                                                    24The Music ofthe Spheres Becomes Mainstream                                               27Aristotleversus Plato                                                                                          30The Renaissance                                                                                                32In search of aCosmic Tone: Johannes Kepler                                                   38Losing theThread                                                                                               42A New Language                                                                                                45SpiritualDeafness                                                                                              49Part Two:TheMusic of the Spheres in Nature and the Human Being                53Metaphysicsmeets Physics                                                                               54My Story                                                                                                             58The Resounding“Bass Note” of Creation                                                          61The HarmonicSeries                                                                                          63Notes as aMicrocosm of “Creative Ideas”                                                   66“Seeing”Harmony in Nature                                                                            69The Human Being                                                                                                75PartThree:Learning to Listen                                                                            81Learning toListen: Introduction                                                                       82The Ear                                                                                                                   86Physical, Souland Spirit Sound                                                                       89RedefiningMusic: A New Way Of Listening                                                  95Sounds ofSilence                                                                                               103Silence and theWall of Ego                                                                              106Listening toMother Earth                                                                                  111Guidelines forHigher  Listening: Lessons from MotherEarth                 114Listening toFather Sky                                                                                       118Awakening toIntuition                                                                                       124Perception ofEtheric Currents                                                                        129ApproachingGrace                                                                                            133Part Four: TheMusic of the Spheres as Cosmology – Tone-Numbers1–7              137Our Method ofStudy                                                                                          138A Word onNumber                                                                                             140One                                                                                                                         144Two                                                                                                                          147Entering theOctave Portal: An Exercise                                                        151Three                                                                                                                      154Four                                                                                                                         158Five                                                                                                                          164Six                                                                                                                            170Seven                                                                                                                     174A NoisyInterlude                                                                                                 178Part Five: FromCosmology to Initiation – Tone-Numbers 8–14 181A Few Words…                                                                                                     182PrimeInitiation (The Eighth Harmonic)                                                         188SecondInitiation (The Ninth Harmonic)                                                        190ThirdInitiation (The Tenth Harmonic)                                                             193FourthInitiation (The Eleventh Harmonic)                                                    196FifthInitiation (The Twelfth Harmonic)                                                          200SixthInitiation (The Thirteenth Harmonic)                                                    205SeventhInitiation (The Fourteenth Harmonic)                                            210The InitiationScale                                                                                             216Epilogue                                                                                                                 217Appendix                                                                                                                220Acknowledgements                                                                                           222About theAuthor                                                                                                 223Acclaim for TheMusic of the Spheres                                                            224

In the age ofPop, Entertainment and AI this book serves as a gate to the passage fromhearing to listening. When in the soul interest arises for the deeper meaningand mission of music, the work of Paul Lawrence offers the spark of inspirationto enlighten the vast cosmic background.Miha PogacnikNaval, Maestro of Violin,inventor of TheMethod: Masterpiece & Leadership A remarkableachievement! Reading this book will take you on a rich soul journey from theorigins of the universe to a possible distant human future, all through aninner experience of musical tone. By combining a sharp intelligence with atrained musical sensitivity, Paul Lawrence has made an accessible guide both tothe essential nature of music, and to inner development through music.Andrew Hill,CEO, Steiner Education Australia The Music ofthe Spheres: A Listener's Guide is a beautiful and subtle guide to listen inwith growing awareness to ones own music Gracefully, resonating Eternally.Laced with personal anecdotes, Paul gently takes us on a rigorous, clear andharmonious journey through Time into the realm of Eternity … A sublime insightinto the art of the science of the spirit … evoking a further expansion ofgratitude for our wonderful existence!Brian Keats,Antipodean Astro Calendar The Music ofthe Spheres: A Listener’s Guide by Paul Lawrence makes the convincing casethrough myth, legend, historic descriptions, the evolution of consciousness andmathematical-musical examples how the finished works of this our world aregenerative forms brought into being through the energetic, living vibrations ofa sounding cosmos. This book is a subjective-objective exploration, in theGoethean sense, of how we can grow into an art of deep listening and hearingthe world creation we are all a part of. At times challenging for thenon-musician, this is a manual and field guide to reconnecting with our innerbeing’s relationship to the Music of the Spheres.Van James,Pacifica Journal