Tony Pasquariello - The Drum Circle

I really enjoyed having a drum circle on the Nolan Trail towards the end of the semester. It was a very relaxing, interesting, great time that I wish I could experience in all of my classes. I was reading one of the blog’s already posted, by Andrew, and its cool to see that he’s reading a Mickey Hart, maybe the same one, book just like myself, and was able to relate it to the drum circle class and the statement Kelly said about shamans, very similar to what I did. One of my favorite quotes from Mickey Hart’s book is about Shamans and drums. “This, I think, is the drum’s function. Its rhythms set up a ripple in time, ensuring that the shaman can find his way back from the timelessness that is mentioned in almost all accounts of the other world. The danger to the shaman who has ridden the drum out of his body is not so much being lost in space as being lost in time. In a sense the drum functions as an extension of the heart that is beating in the shaman’s empty body, back here in human time. An instrument of time travel. A beacon when he is out of his body.”