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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Coast to coast, George nor with you.
Speaker 2: Peter Sterling, master harpist and sound traveler, Former yoga and
Speaker 2: tai Chi teacher, ski instructor, tour guide. Peter has found
Speaker 2: his calling by connecting with the angels is. Twenty five
Speaker 2: years of being guided by Angels plus has provided him
Speaker 2: with a vast body of knowledge to assist humanity, all
Speaker 2: of us in opening to a new dimension of awareness.
Speaker 2: Peter shares his wisdom at workshops where he explores sacred geometry,
Speaker 2: the harmonics of sound and light, the mystery of crop circles,
Speaker 2: and the evolution of d NA. Peter eleven years. Where
Speaker 2: have you been?
Speaker 3: I know, George has been too long, but I'm glad
Speaker 3: to be back. Good to have you brought me back
Speaker 3: around on you?
Speaker 2: They would have you been? What have you been up to?
Speaker 3: I've been great. You know a lot has happened over
Speaker 3: the last ten years. I don't I remember last time
Speaker 3: I saw you. I bumped into you at the bar
Speaker 3: at the hotel, helped Boldorado on a Saturday.
Speaker 2: Night when we were doing our beyond belief shows that's right.
Speaker 3: Exactly exactly, And so, gosh, what's been happening lately? I've
Speaker 3: just been producing a lot of music. I just launched
Speaker 3: my sixteenth album on June twelfth, called Mystic Voyager, and
Speaker 3: this is a beautiful recording. It's getting rave reviews around
Speaker 3: the world so far, and super excited about that. And
Speaker 3: I've been winning awards too. There's been some good this
Speaker 3: last year. I won the Visionary Music Award the Covert
Speaker 3: Visionary Music that's like a North America for New Age
Speaker 3: Album of the Year from my previous album, The Winding
Speaker 3: Way that came out last year. And before that, I
Speaker 3: won the Hollywood Music and Media Award New Age Album
Speaker 3: of the Year for my other album, Sanctuary of Light.
Speaker 3: So there's been a lot of recognition from my work
Speaker 3: and now. Also I launched a single this last year
Speaker 3: called called The Long Cold Winter. And this came to
Speaker 3: me like a vision the angels gave to me, George,
Speaker 3: and it came to me here in Sedona where I live.
Speaker 3: I'm talking to you now, but this song dropped in
Speaker 3: on my harp. It was so vivid, such a strong melody,
Speaker 3: and it had all this imagery and my friend and
Speaker 3: I were like, wow, it feels like World War two,
Speaker 3: like in the winter, the war going on, and the
Speaker 3: Angel was like, you need to record this song immediately,
Speaker 3: which I did. I started recording it, and then all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, I saw in the news of the
Speaker 3: war broke out in Ukraine. Started seeing all those pictures
Speaker 3: of the refugees and women and shoulder and just struck
Speaker 3: me deeply. And the Angel showed me this whole screenplay
Speaker 3: for this music video, which I produced it and followed
Speaker 3: to just like they told me. And I sent it
Speaker 3: out to international film festivals around the world, and it's
Speaker 3: won several awards for best Music Video, like in Paris
Speaker 3: and won the Los Angeles Cinematography Award last year, and
Speaker 3: in New York and the Stockholm, Swedish Film Award Best
Speaker 3: Music Video, the Bali Film Award Best Music Video. It's
Speaker 3: been pretty cool my music the last few years. I'm grateful.
Speaker 1: Peter.
Speaker 2: How did you become a harpist?
Speaker 3: Well, that's that's where the story starts. I came to
Speaker 3: Sedona about on the late eighties, so it's got almost
Speaker 3: forty years ago. But I came here to live as
Speaker 3: an artist. I've been living in Aspen. I was a
Speaker 3: ski instructor, teaching skiing to the rich and famous, having
Speaker 3: a fabulous life. But there was something else that wanted
Speaker 3: to come through me. So I came to Sedona. I
Speaker 3: heard about this place, this mystical power spot with red
Speaker 3: rock formations. The word was getting out. This was before
Speaker 3: the Internet, and I just knew I had to go.
Speaker 3: And the first time I came down Oak Creek Canyon,
Speaker 3: I was in the spring. It was just so struck
Speaker 3: me so deeply, the beauty, the power of the red rocks,
Speaker 3: and I just heard the home, like this is my home.
Speaker 3: And so I ended up moving here. But shortly after
Speaker 3: I arrived George, I got a message from my inner
Speaker 3: voice that I was too there was something else that
Speaker 3: wanted to come through me, something big, and I was
Speaker 3: to release all my material possessions, acquire of Oakswigen camper van,
Speaker 3: and I was going to live in my car, and
Speaker 3: I was going to be guided by this inner voice
Speaker 3: telling me to go to different places where I would
Speaker 3: discover things I needed to learn and remember about myself.
Speaker 3: And so that's what I did, and I lived and
Speaker 3: I ended up living in my van here George for
Speaker 3: about three years in Sedona, but I spent my days
Speaker 3: during that time just exploring the wilderness out back in
Speaker 3: the canyons here. I was just drawn to it, and
Speaker 3: I discovered that there was the most supreme and beautiful
Speaker 3: silence and stillness that exists in the canyons here of Sedona.
Speaker 3: And so my guidance was to just immerse myself into
Speaker 3: this back country, into the supreme silence and just sit
Speaker 3: in silence and listen to silence. And it was there
Speaker 3: that I would find the answers to that which I seek.
Speaker 3: And so that's what I did. I I just was
Speaker 3: practicing my yo guy, was doing a lot of healing
Speaker 3: work on myself during the time, living very simply. I
Speaker 3: had no money, basically, but I was just on my
Speaker 3: quest and living so close on the land and meditating
Speaker 3: for hours every day, just sitting in the silence and listening.
Speaker 3: Then ultimately what happened Georgia. You can just imagine me
Speaker 3: sitting out under a tree on a rock someplace in
Speaker 3: the canyon. But I started to hear the subtle strains
Speaker 3: of some sort of music. I was deep in my meditation.
Speaker 3: I was kind of like in a very rarefied state
Speaker 3: like a Somati state, and I was going through some
Speaker 3: really powerful, beautiful, sublime experience. But all of a sudden
Speaker 3: I started hear this subtle strains. I thought somebody was
Speaker 3: in the forest playing a stereo with some classical music
Speaker 3: on it. But then I realized, no, that's not what
Speaker 3: it is. I'm hearing something of a divine origin. And
Speaker 3: I had heard the stories, I had read the books
Speaker 3: of the saints, and many of the masters speak of
Speaker 3: the inner light in the inner sound, so I was
Speaker 3: aware of that. But all of a sudden, I was
Speaker 3: having my own mystical experience and hearing the most beautiful
Speaker 3: sound I had ever heard. The tone, the purity of
Speaker 3: the sound, the vibration of it just struck such a
Speaker 3: deep chord in me id like brought tears to my eyes.
Speaker 3: And so that's how it started. I heard. I heard
Speaker 3: the music on the wind in the silence of the canyons,
Speaker 3: and then from there I was the inner voice was like,
Speaker 3: just let the music take you on a journey, let it,
Speaker 3: let it, just trust, surrender and let go, just let go,
Speaker 3: let the sound current take you on an inner journey.
Speaker 3: And I did, and I was taken up into the light,
Speaker 3: and I just saw the glorious light, hearing this beautiful,
Speaker 3: heavenly sound. I was like surrounded by this golden light,
Speaker 3: but I could see I was looking at my inner
Speaker 3: vision George around me, and I could see I was
Speaker 3: looking into this like other dimensional space, just bathed in
Speaker 3: the blissful, ecstatic golden light, hearing this heavenly sound. And
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, I could see there was
Speaker 3: something around me. I could I can see some faint
Speaker 3: forms of something around me, and my inner voice was
Speaker 3: kind of teaching me, like I don't know, maybe my
Speaker 3: spirit eyes or angels were teaching me how to see
Speaker 3: on the inner planes. I to adjust my vision, and
Speaker 3: as I did that, all of a sudden it came
Speaker 3: into focus. Into my astonishment, I was surrounded by a
Speaker 3: whole group of angels, the whole flock that was. They
Speaker 3: were playing harps and flutes and violins just like we
Speaker 3: see painted on the Sistine Chapel and the classical Renaissance
Speaker 3: art to cherubs, and there they were. I was surrounded
Speaker 3: by a whole group of them. And that's that was
Speaker 3: that kind of moment where my life changed. In that
Speaker 3: moment where I realized that the angels are real?
Speaker 2: Who taught you how to play the Hardpeter self taught?
Speaker 3: Well, they did, they did. They They appeared to me
Speaker 3: and as messengers. You know, I had several encounters with them,
Speaker 3: and I write about this in my book, hearing the
Speaker 3: angels saying in great detail. But after a short time
Speaker 3: they telepath I had a telepathic communication. I still do,
Speaker 3: and they told me that my life's mission that I
Speaker 3: was asking to be revealed to me was to play
Speaker 3: the harp, and that I was to channel this heavenly sound,
Speaker 3: and that if I chose to do it, that the
Speaker 3: angels would work with me. They would teach me how
Speaker 3: to play. We would work together as a team to
Speaker 3: bring a special music to Earth at this time of
Speaker 3: you know, the dawning of the Golden Age. So it's
Speaker 3: like Golden Age music. It's and I just so I
Speaker 3: couldn't believe what I was hearing, like it was so
Speaker 3: you know, out of the box. I didn't know if
Speaker 3: I was losing my mind, Georgia. It was really otherworldly.
Speaker 3: But they kept showing up, and eventually I realized that
Speaker 3: this was, indeed was really happening, and so I finally
Speaker 3: said yes, And as soon as I said. Yes. Within
Speaker 3: a week I met a woman here who had a
Speaker 3: small harp for sale, and I ended up buying it,
Speaker 3: and I took it in my van, I went out
Speaker 3: in the forest. It had a little caring case, and
Speaker 3: I would hike out into the forest and find a
Speaker 3: special place to sit out in like boint and canyon,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and how tall is a small harp, well.
Speaker 3: A lap harp, one that can sit on my lap.
Speaker 3: It was a small I could sling it over my
Speaker 3: shoulder and I'd hike out in the canon find a
Speaker 3: plus plus special place to sit. I'd take it out
Speaker 3: and just put my hands to and it just starts
Speaker 3: strumming the strings, you know, just easily. But how of
Speaker 3: a sudden this energy would come come over me and
Speaker 3: my hands would begin to move on the strings by themselves.
Speaker 3: And what I later learned that this one angel in
Speaker 3: particular was like kind of teaching me how to play.
Speaker 3: Like it would it would overshadow me as an occult
Speaker 3: term where it would just kind of float above me
Speaker 3: or behind me. And I was just so open that
Speaker 3: my nervousness and pick up the subtle impulses and my
Speaker 3: hands would begin to move and as I got more
Speaker 3: comfortable with it, George, this angel actually completely would come
Speaker 3: into my body to teach, to teach me how to play.
Speaker 3: It was very intense. It was kind of like in
Speaker 3: the I describe it like in the movie Ghost with
Speaker 3: Patrick Swayzey.
Speaker 2: They jumped in our body, right, Yeah, when.
Speaker 3: He came in the body like that. So that's kind
Speaker 3: of what it was like. That's how this one angel
Speaker 3: taught me and my nervous system just that's how it started.
Speaker 3: It was very intense. It what happened. My eyes with
Speaker 3: tear profusely and I would just be dripping sweat. My
Speaker 3: hands would be trembling sometimes. But it was a very
Speaker 3: high frequency energy. I had to do a lot of
Speaker 3: preparatory work on my nervous system to prepare it for this.
Speaker 3: But but that's how I learned. And within ten months
Speaker 3: of just having the angels teach me like I just described,
Speaker 3: without any formal lessons, I made my first recording, Guided
Speaker 3: by the Angels, which I recorded here in Sedona. It
Speaker 3: was my first album called Heart Magic and that little
Speaker 3: to set tape I made back in the early nineties.
Speaker 3: It ended up getting discovered by an international record label
Speaker 3: that I ended up signing a contract with to release
Speaker 3: my music worldwide. And this was everything the angel said
Speaker 3: was going to happen, and it just unfolded magically. So
Speaker 3: I still work with them today. They still channel through me,
Speaker 3: and I'm helping others. I have students, you know, that
Speaker 3: I'm teaching to play the harp. We helping to facilitate
Speaker 3: this type of experience for people. And I also use
Speaker 3: my harp a lot here on the land because I'm
Speaker 3: a tour guide. I have a tour company and I
Speaker 3: take people out into the canyons. I take people to
Speaker 3: where I'm at the angels, and I take them to
Speaker 3: these remote places and I take out my little harp.
Speaker 3: I still have one, and I take it out and
Speaker 3: I do the wind harp George, which one of these
Speaker 3: days I have to take you out there so you
Speaker 3: can experience. But I just hold the harp up into
Speaker 3: the wind and the wind plays. It is the most
Speaker 3: celestial tone you've ever heard. It sounds like fires of
Speaker 3: angels and great pipe organs and cathedrals. It's definitely a
Speaker 3: celestial like a sound you've never heard. It's very healing,
Speaker 3: it's very high frequency, and it opens portals people can
Speaker 3: really travel on this sound. So I love doing this work.
Speaker 3: It's just a big part of what I do here.
Speaker 2: Would you call it angelic music?
Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely absolutely. I mean the harp, it's angelic harp music.
Speaker 3: That's That's how I describe it. But of course I
Speaker 3: have other I have other styles that I play. I
Speaker 3: love to. Some of my music is played on the
Speaker 3: you know, I'm played on serious satellite radio on the
Speaker 3: New Age and also one of my tracks is played
Speaker 3: on the Smooth Jazz station, so I kind of crossed over.
Speaker 3: So I love to play world music with few you know,
Speaker 3: world fusion with symphonic orchestral tones, New Age sounds with
Speaker 3: lush keyboard pads and layered vocals. I do a lot.
Speaker 3: It's got a lot of vocals on the new album.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I encompass a few styles, but it's always whenever,
Speaker 3: whatever genre creating, and there's always that angelic touch, that
Speaker 3: kind of fingerprint of the angels and everything I do.
Speaker 3: That's kind of the deal I got with them, Like,
Speaker 3: you know, so they're always there and die.
Speaker 2: What do you think the angels are for?
Speaker 3: What are they for? Well?
Speaker 2: Why do we have them?
Speaker 3: Why do we have them? I guess there's some sort
Speaker 3: of overseeing spirits that are they they oversee, they're administering
Speaker 3: spirits throughout the universe, you know, and they they work
Speaker 3: for God, you know. And of course, now the Cherubs,
Speaker 3: the ones that I connected with had the most direct
Speaker 3: experience in angelology. The Cherubs are you know, one of
Speaker 3: the highest orders of angels. They exist closest to the
Speaker 3: Throne of God, closest to the Flame of God, to
Speaker 3: the well spring. And indeed that's been my experience with them,
Speaker 3: and they have a brilliance to them. But they're they're
Speaker 3: like intermediaries, intermediarys, intermediaries for humanity and the higher uh
Speaker 3: spiritual counsels of the universe, you know. But it seems
Speaker 3: like my experience also is that, you know, we all
Speaker 3: have a guardian angel I believe who's with us from
Speaker 3: the time of birth. And and their main function, the
Speaker 3: way it's been shown to me, George, is that they're
Speaker 3: here to assist us to connect with the divinity within ourselves,
Speaker 3: with the with the God that lives within ourselves, to
Speaker 3: get help us to connect with our divine self. And
Speaker 3: and they're just masters of how they do it. You know,
Speaker 3: if you if if that's your endeavor and you want
Speaker 3: to uh connect with the higher power and and and
Speaker 3: fulfill your life's mission so to speak. The angels are
Speaker 3: here to assist. I think they're really here to to
Speaker 3: help to guide us on the right path. And I
Speaker 3: think at this time, you know, the world is so crazy,
Speaker 3: but I think to have your guardian angel, to have
Speaker 3: a good relationship with that, for that divine guidance is
Speaker 3: so important, so essential right now to have a higher
Speaker 3: power that we can connect with the help to guide
Speaker 3: us in our life. And that's certainly one of their
Speaker 3: functions for us personally.
Speaker 2: Here is it easy, Peter to connect with our angel?
Speaker 3: It was for me, you know, and I've helped a
Speaker 3: lot of people connect with their angels. You know. One
Speaker 3: of the one of the things when the angels gave
Speaker 3: me the music, George, you know, my music is like
Speaker 3: it's an angelic transport and it opens. It has within
Speaker 3: it what I call the heavenly harmonics. It has that
Speaker 3: feeling of that divine love is in it. And especially
Speaker 3: my real angelic stuff, like especially some of my earlier albums,
Speaker 3: like the Angels Gifts, that that has these these and
Speaker 3: transport people to a new level of awareness where they
Speaker 3: can connect with something greater and and there's been a
Speaker 3: lot of stories, a lot of testimonials. I have letters
Speaker 3: on my website of people just you know, being lifted
Speaker 3: out of depression and all sorts of life situations, healing
Speaker 3: diseases with it. It's it's a magical music and it
Speaker 3: can it can inspire people, and it can it often
Speaker 3: the music can remind people of home because it has
Speaker 3: that feeling of oneness in it. There's something that that
Speaker 3: feeling of divine oneness, that unified energy of oneness, and
Speaker 3: you can feel it in the music and that's very,
Speaker 3: very healing for people. If people can just open to
Speaker 3: receive that it can it can actually raise your vibration
Speaker 3: and move you into a new level of awareness and
Speaker 3: bring healing into your life.
Speaker 2: Now, not everybody Peter is a harpist, So how do
Speaker 2: we still handle this without that?
Speaker 3: Well, well, you listen to my music. That's what the
Speaker 3: angels gave it to me for. And more and more
Speaker 3: people are playing the harp, and hopefully there's going to be.
Speaker 2: Aroundom do they teach it in school.
Speaker 3: More and more? You know, there's some harp companies that
Speaker 3: are making small harps that are really on a mission
Speaker 3: to spread the harp love out into schools. So some
Speaker 3: of the schools have these special harpsicle harps, you know,
Speaker 3: and they come in all different rainbow colors. It's real
Speaker 3: fun for the kids. Kids love them, and I used
Speaker 3: to play in schools. They would go in and give
Speaker 3: a whole presentation about the magic harp.
Speaker 2: How much do one of those big harps cost?
Speaker 3: Well, the big harps, the classical harps that we see
Speaker 3: in the symphony orchestra, those can be you know, and
Speaker 3: twenty thousand and thirty thousand or more. So wow, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: they're incredible instruments, very heavy. I played one for a while.
Speaker 3: One was given to me by Lyon and Healy to
Speaker 3: use as a loaner for six months to record my
Speaker 3: second album. That was one of the magical stories. I mean,
Speaker 3: I was just starting out. All of a sudden I
Speaker 3: was contacted by the most famous heart maker in the
Speaker 3: United States for over one hundred years, and they're like,
Speaker 3: we've heard of your your music, this inspired new music,
Speaker 3: and we would like to give you one of our
Speaker 3: new electric classical pedal harps to play for free for
Speaker 3: six months. And so you can, you know, try it out.
Speaker 3: And this was just amazing how they sent that to
Speaker 3: me from Chicago and a huge crate.
Speaker 2: How many strings in one of the big ones.
Speaker 3: Well, those big ones have like forty five strings. I
Speaker 3: believe that most of the harps I play now have
Speaker 3: like thirty six strings, and.
Speaker 2: They're all different notes, all different notes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so my harp's are thirty six strings. I have
Speaker 3: five octaves, you know, seven notes seats. They're diatonic, so
Speaker 3: they're not chromatic really. Now, the big classical harps, those
Speaker 3: are chromatic harps, and they have pedals and you can
Speaker 3: shift and change musical scales as you're playing on the fly.
Speaker 3: But I play a lever harp, kind of a classical
Speaker 3: folk Celtic harp, and generally it's modal. I play in
Speaker 3: one key at a time for the most part.
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