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Kyrie Eleison

Have mercy on us

For we have all sinned

And cannot be redeemed

Without your help

Kyrie Eleison

Help us Oh Greater One

Help us for we cannot Do it alone

Kyrie Eleison

Help us to love our enemies

Help us to accept crucifixion

Help us to give up exploitation

Help us, Help us

Oh Greater One

Kyrie Eleison

We cry out

We worship that which is greater

Being inadequate ourselves

Kyrie Eleison

Kyrie Eleison

We cry unto you

We cry unto you

Oh Great Lord

Ruler of the Universe Supreme

Kyrie Eleison

Daskalos – The Teacher

What you experience here breaks into several traditional archetypal patterns and expressions. This is done to get back to the original source roots where the original primal energies are.

We need contact with these primal archetypal energies to renew ourselves and experience transcendence of our everyday lives and personalities.

The Latin mass has roots in pre Christian cultures, including Jewish ancient chants. So it is nothing new to go back to archetypal roots.

Religions themselves can become dogmatized and over perfected or ritualized.

For those of us who love tradition Gregorian chants as well as old Latin Masses, and the Renaissance masses as well, such as of Thomas Tallis, we can experience transcendence in the perfection of the singers and the composed music.

However, Dream Chant is Ur-grund, root chant that originates from primal ground. To achieve this level requires a letting go and tuning into original source energies.

Trained singers have difficulty letting go in chant and expressing, not musical notes already composed, but primal sounds going in and out of organized harmony to achieve that spontaneous effect, that, when it works, is ‘greater emotion’ transcending everyday culture and mathematical perfection, as in perfect pitch, memorized notes, and exquisite perfection of singing technique.

About Dream Chant one person said it aptly, “I can see groups of people all over the world doing this because it feels so healing.”

Whether such a recognition happens will be anybody’s guess, and is certainly something for the future.

Strephon Kaplan-Williams as a dreamworker and spiritual psychologist, started doing Dream Chant, spontaneous chant in 1985 with the tones from an Indian harmonium as a basic ground cord that you simply take off from in chanting sounds.

Patricia Sun of California was doing what she called toning at the time in which one kept a tone going as part of ones meditative trance state. The other influence was a German composer, unnamed, who had his workshop groups just all make sounds together, each spontaneously on his or her own for a cacophonous effect.

This experience broke up traditional singing and chanting but did not lead to Dream Chant, which is the spontaneous chanting of intra-harmonizing sounds to produce transcendent sound that is a blended experiencing of harmony and dis-harmony together, created spontaneously and not following set patterns, which is what composed music does in the notes being the same every time.

The effect of dream chant is healing because the harmonious and the dis-harmonious are blended together out of an unconscious interrelating of forces in the collective unconscious of the individuals assembled.

The effect can also be disconcerting because many people are afraid to be spontaneous and risk letting go to Source energies, afraid that they will simply descend into unconsciousness and chaos.

They are instinctively right.

Psychologically speaking, when you let go of your conscious assumptions about what you and reality are, and let transcendent forces in you operate, you are afraid of being overwhelmed by these unconscious forces.

The answer to fear is, of course, total letting go consciously, and not resistance and contraction.

Strephon Kaplan-Williams has used Dream Chant since 1986 with his dreamwork process groups because first in these groups he does much laying out of context, much emotional healing work, and much individual dreamwork. Thus there is already built up a strong context for working with the collective unconscious and with emotions that are evoked.

If you go irrational you have to first build a healing context that can take the place of the over-rational mind. This is what Kaplan-Williams has discovered and does with his in depth dreamwork process groups.

In this Lenten Meditation Strephon has written the words to both take traditional elements of the Latin-Greek mass and spontaneous Dream Chant elements and blend them together.

Daskalos means ‘archetype of teacher’ in Greek, as Strephon uses it.

Dream Chant is a ‘high-risk’ process. For the practitioner never knows what will come up.

A trained singer cannot fake a result. You must be in tune with your own core being or you will be too frightened to let go to the greater source energy from which Dream Chant comes.

Strephon has done all six voices spontaneously, as well as the guitar line. This level only happens with years of dream chant experience, so take it for what it is.

For the listener your best experience is to hear the chant over and over when you feel able to let go to it. This is not simply music to enjoy, but it is music to re-tune the soul, the core source being.

Listening over and over you may feel safe enough to join the chant on your own steam.

You will know when to risk and participate.

You will know also when it seems right to listen and enter a trance or meditative mood so as to encompass dark spaces but with the light of healing and transcendence also available. Just give it all a try when you are perhaps alone, or with special persons and go with what is evoked out of your experiences.

Strephon Kaplan-Williams took the Kyrie as the base word, as a great cry, which is what prayer is emotionally, and used that as a form, a phoneme from which to evoke the experience of core being that is also transcendent.

Kaplan-Williams also cut out any references to Christ.

What is the mass like without a Jesus Christ in it?

More primal certainly, since there were chants way before Christianity, and music as healing certainly.

Christianity is more a religion than an experience, unless its practitioners can get themselves back to a primary state of being and creating, which is a ground of being before any developed religion. We are dealing with primary source material here.

Thus this is not a Christian variant on the mass. THIS IS NOT CHRISTIAN.

This is archetypal, or prior to organized religion, of which Christianity is only one of the organized religions.

Is there a need for a son of God, a Messiah, if one is transcendentally related to the God Experience itself?

Son of God means humanizing the God Force, personalizing God, which then has to take away from experiencing directly the G-d Archetype, the core experience of transcendent power and being.

We are not devotes of any organized religion with its dogmas and rituals. Nor are we devotes of any organized form of musical expression. We don’t think memorizing notes are needed if you can let go and sing or chant the archetype directly.

This then is Dream Chant and Archetypal Recovery.

Go to the universal core of your being and therein seek your transcendent renewal for a vitalized and meaning-filled life.

It is in this spirit that we present this Dream Chant with images that also are evocative.

Remember, while there are Christian influences this is not Christian, of a religion.

This is Dream Source content, just like night dreams are. Stay with the experience and try and know what is being evoked within yourself.

Give it time to grow and prosper in your life.

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