in 2004, Dawoud developed a method of live music performance for yoga and martial arts classes. The idea was to both harmonize the music with the energies invoked in the class, and to invoke energies needed. He incorporated elements of Indian raga, and many other musical forms for the purpose of creating a system of improvisation that utilizes, at will, the psychoactive properties of music.

 

Inevitably, Dawoud used the techniques he developed to conduct guided meditation. The difference here is that while guided meditations have traditionally used words, suggestions, imagery, etc. to guide the individual and group meditation, Music Meditation uses musical form. The music for these Sessions is completely improvised. Each Session is specific to a particular time and place.

 

The results were successful.

 

Attendees reported effects ranging from relaxation and refreshment, to recovering repressed memories, deep meditation states, trances and visions, and astral travel. A few examples of some of the more intense experiences: A woman claimed to have had an out of body experience; floating around the room, and eventually out of the building and into the street before returning to her body. Another man reported he found himself walking through a forest, talking with winged serpents. Another woman reported that she found herself standing at the foot of a hill, atop which was an enormous crystal goblet, with books and scrolls orbiting it.

 

While the aforementioned stories are true, these results cannot be promised. It is important to understand that this is not a sound meditation, although it employs elements of this. What Dawoud has developed is unique and unprecedented.

 

This music is called the Sacred Forbidden Music. It employs elements of diverse genres, cultures, traditions, and arcane music theory. It is, by design and nature, psychoactive.  

 

 

For years, no recordings of either the Music Meditation Sessions or the Sacred Forbidden Music were available, as the unique energy of the individual session cannot be reproduced in a recording. A limited edition CD of the music was released in Summer of 2016; and is available at the Sessions, at Scent Elate, Namaste Bookshop and Quest Bookshop, or by visiting Dawoud’s Kunaki.com page. Digital downloads of the music are also available at the God’s Unruly Friends Bandcamp page. 

 

Dawoud does not teach theSacred Forbidden Music to the public. While general descriptions are available, inquiries to learn the details of the Sacred Forbidden Music have, and will continue to be, refused. 

 

Announcements for these sessions will always be found in the Performances session of this website, and in the newsletters. For bookings, to sign up for the newsletter, or other questions, please contact Dawoud.