4. Alice ColtraneJourney In Satchidananda

Years before I’d become familiar with the music of John Coltrane – his earlier stuff and then later stuff that he did with his wife Alice. When he passed on, she started doing her own music and that touched me very much. I was a young teenager, starting to get involved in spirituality and her music rocked my world. When she released Journey In Satchidananda, which means ‘existence, knowledge, bliss’ in Sanskrit, it was a term that I was familiar with. The resonance of the music became something that I would sit and listen and try and meditate to. I didn’t really know much about proper forms of meditation but I would just sit and be in that space with the music.