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Allen Holmes is an excellent musician and good friend, and was one of the first interviewed for the Planetary Gig Talk podcast. He remembers me saying that Victor Wooten talked about music being a living entity and he has reflected on that a lot recently.

Allen says, \u201cI believe that music is a living spirit, it\u2019s alive, and that some people that devote themselves to it, that practice, are able to have a relationship with this spirit and learn from it.\u201d He also believes there is another living entity whose purpose is to destroy or counter music; like yin and yang, they co-exist and help each other grow. Allen calls this, for lack of a better term, anti-music. He says some musicians choose anti-music.

Allen says each of these have their own minions; the minions of music are things like pitch, tone, rhythm, skill, passion, emotion, and collaboration. Anti-music also has minions, such as passion without skill, materialistic and ego-driven playing, that pollutes music. The intention behind music is a key ingredient. Allen says, \u201cI feel like I am an instrument for the entity of music.\u201d

Allen also says, \u201cI believe everything is one; everything is interdependent in the biosphere of earth. We are all biospheres \u2026 we are all one. \u2026 I think it\u2019s important to recognize that. \u2026 I believe that Mother Earth is a living entity.\u201d

And Allen says a change is coming. \u201cI believe that mass consciousness is growing. \u2026 This is my new goal. \u2026 I want to write and make music that is going to help mass consciousness grow. \u2026 The people are rising. \u2026 I think there is a shift.\u201d