What if the drums have a different story to tell?

What if the drums have a different story to tell?

A story about living together in richness, equality and love, not in separation, stress, consumerism and war.

The way in which the drums speak with each other in the West African rhythms is an expression of intimacy, of healthy coexisting and creating with each other, of natural closeness and boundaries, of a society where each one has it’s important role and complements the others so that everybody is healthy and wealthy. Like one organism.

The story of the drums comes from a time when the world was less mental and not at all urban, when there were no screens or traffic or police or governments and there was less conflict.

In that time, nature was the leader, the mother, the father, sister and brother.

The people playing the drums believed that by creating drum sounds in specific ways, they communicate with nature and with the invisible world of beings, so they played drums as an offering, as prayers, as intentions, for celebrations and rituals, for asking nature to keep them safe and to bring what they need. A profound way of connecting and interacting with community, nature and life itself, outside and inside oneself.

So what if the drums have a different story to tell then the one we are telling ourselves today in our busy capitalist urban society?

A story about living in harmony, about the universe, about life, nature and us.

The world is constantly changing and times are not coming back, but essential core ingredients about values, natural laws and ways of being can help us forward in the stories that we are living and creating to shape our future.

It may be less of a story for our minds and intellect, but more one for our hearts to feel and understand.

It’s in the sounds and the gaps in between where the mind finds ease and the senses give life to the being within.

Listen and let the story in.