Grant Cameron - Tuned-In: The Paranormal World of Music

Sometimes it drives me crazy. In absolute silence, I hear music. I hear music, I hear rhythms, I hear bird songs. I live in an aural world. It's never totally empty. 16-Grammy Award winning singer Sting talking about music in his head that he can't shut off.

What if you slept, and what if in your sleep you dreamed, and what if in your dream you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower, and what if when you awoke you had the flower in your hand. Ah, what then? Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As I write this introduction, the idea that I would ever write a book on music still makes me uneasy. The reason for this is simple. I am in most ways a music idiot.

I took piano lessons for a couple months before my parents realized the mistake they had made and pulled me out. Even though my whole family is musical I cannot play even the simplest song on any instrument. I never intentionally listen to music, and even after two years researching music and the paranormal I still don't listen. I have only bought two records in my entire life - one 45 and one long play 33.

The only reason I got into the musical world is that a UFO experiencer/abductee, whom I respect deeply, told me that the aliens had told him the message was in the music. However, this alone was not enough to drag me down the music rabbit hole.

What dragged me into the world of music were two songs that my friend believed to contain the message. One was "Kashmir" by Led Zeppelin, and "After the Gold Rush" by Neil Young.

The reference to Young was the bait that made me willing and ready to spend time looking at the connection between the aliens and rock and roll. I didn't have much faith in the music connection, but I had been in the world of the paranormal paying close attention to coincidence or synchronicity.

When I heard that Young may be carrying a message from the aliens, I was very interested. That is because Young grew up in the same Canadian city where I grew up and have lived my entire life - Winnipeg. It is not a major city, and many may never have heard of it. As I was being told he might have a message from the aliens, I was immediately thinking in the back of my mind, "What are the chances that someone coming from the insignificant place I live in would be carrying the alien message?"

That one synchronicity made me do a check and the light went on when I read the lyrics to "After the Gold Rush." It was an environmental message which I already knew experiencers were getting from the aliens. In a recent survey of experiencers, 37.50 % answered yes to the question, "Did the ETs give you an environmental message regarding the Earth?"

I was further convinced when I discovered that other famous musicians, who themselves appeared to be experiencers, had also done versions of the song "After the Gold Rush."

I was convinced but knew that it would not be easy to sell the crazy idea that aliens were influencing music to raise consciousness. I had been in the paranormal investigation field long enough to know that as Max Planck once said, new ideas get adopted only when there are enough funerals of older individuals who still buy into the old ideas they were indoctrinated with in school.