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    Meditating On The Healing Power Of Alice Coltrane's 'Journey In Satchidananda'

    Almost 50 years after its release, the album remains a vision of universal healing, spiritual self-preservation in times of trouble and the god that appears when you seek her out.
    by Sydnee Monday Feb 06, 2018 5 minutes
    Musician and spiritual leader Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda released <em>Journey In Satchidananda, </em>the album that would become synonymous with her sound<em>, </em>in 1971.

    I was searching when I first heard Alice Coltrane's music. The summer of 2016 was sticky and humid; the air was swollen with loss. Within a two-day period in early July, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were shot and killed by police in Louisiana and Minnesota. Castile's fiance, Diamond Reynolds, live-streamed the traffic stop for a broken tail-light gone awry, the barrel of the officer's gun still pointed inside the car as Castile bled out. Reynolds' 4-year-old daughter watched from the back seat. Within a week, news broke of a gunman in Dallas killing 5 police officers, the deadliest attack for law enforcement in the U.S. since Sept. 11th. But news of yet another killing by police seemed to break every day.

    It had been relentless in 2014, and a visceral kind of hopelessness had drifted in like fog as theand decided to try meditation again.

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