Iasos: A guide to inter-dimensional travel
Musician's collaborations with hyper-dimensional being result in soul-nourishing sounds.
4/17/2000
Eudaimonia, written by Rachel Dempsey (a.k.a. "Tressa") is a column dedicated to spirituality and health.
Iasos (pronounced ya-sos) is a joyful and lively music creator who specializes in "celestial music." Graciously he delivers his listeners to places that stretch well beyond earthly boundaries - to various dimensions and heavenly realms.
Born in Greece, Iasos moved to the United States at the age of 4. By age eight he was playing the piano, and by age 10 he began studying the flute. In our interview, after warning me about his tendency toward loud, explosive bursts of laughter, Iasos shared why he choose to play flute. When signing up for the school band, he originally expressed interest in learning the saxophone. He laughs as he explains that his instructors took one look at his teeth and told him he'd be a flute player. He remembers feeling "sad and disappointed" at the time, but admits that "actually either way would've been great." He considers the flute to be a very magical instrument, featured frequently in several of his pieces.
After earning a degree in anthropology from Cornell University, Iasos decided to devote his life to manifesting the "paradise music" he was hearing in his head. Considered one of the founders of the contemporary genre of "New Age" music, Iasos communicates his musical intentions through his statement of purpose; he hopes to "help a soul achieve an enhanced resonance-connection with the grander part of who they really are." Blessed with divine collaboration, Iasos is further motivated by the potential "uplifting, healing and spiritually invigorating" effect his music would have on listeners. Iasos has been described as a "traveler in consciousness" and his what he manifests as "renditions of his travels in the form of sound."
AlienZoo: Can you tell us about the inspiration behind your music?
Iasos: I am getting music ideas from a higher-dimensional light-being named Vista, and they don't call him Vista for nothing! He is a very high-level being and his specialized focus is activating the third eye, activating other people.s third eye to the point where they have the all-seeing eye of god. The music is very visually triggering, innately visual for pretty much everybody.
AlienZoo: Can you tell us more about Vista and your first encounters with him?
Iasos: I was hearing music in my head spontaneously for a few years and I didn't know where it was coming from. It was somewhat like putting on headphones and listening to music, but without headphones. It felts really heavenly to me. Initially, I called it "heavenly music." Now I call it "inter-dimensional music." I was hearing it, loving it, and I said I wish I could create music like this. But synthesizers didn't exist yet and I was hearing unusual sounds - not like trumpet and violin.
[Vista's] part of the agreement is to transmit musical visions in my mind. And my part of the agreement is to receive these visions and manifest them into an actual sound that anyone can hear. The whole point was not to make me wealthy or famous, but to create music to facilitate the vibrational upshift that our entire planet is going through.
I looked up to him like a younger brother would look up to an older brother. I say this with tremendous humility because his level of evolution is far beyond mine. The difference between us is like a worm and a human. Despite the tremendous gap in spiritual evolution, there is this oneness and love we have for each other - I totally adore him. When you work with a divine being their qualities begin to rub off on you.
Iasos on ETs and UFOs
In addition to manifesting music channeled from divine being Vista, Iasos has also experienced a close encounter. On his Web site, iasos.com, one can find channelings from the Essassani and Pleiadian civilizations.
AlienZoo: What are your thoughts on aliens and UFOs, and the extraterrestrial beings that have been channeled?
Iasos: I have not personally met any ETs, but I've absorbed wisdom from many of them. Basically, wisdom is a matter of remembering what you already really know. The ET I personally have the highest respect for, for communicating the highest wisdom, is from a civilization called the Essasani. These beings are one dimension higher than we are: Right now the Earth is evolving from the third dimension to the fourth dimension, and their civilization is evolving from the fourth dimension to the fifth dimension, which is non-physical. They are also 300 years ahead of us. They can time travel, so it is no big deal to pop in here. For them, channeling information here is like channeling to their grandparents.
I had a UFO sighting on Maui in 1979. It was pretty spectacular visually. The sun was setting and I was playing flute out by the water. It started to get dark and I could see stars. I look up and I see this huge, huge white circle in the sky. It was hard to gauge how big it was. When you look at a sunset you know how wide the sun looks? It was the width of five suns right next to each other. That's how wide it was but it was a full circle. It was milky white and its edges looked as if they were air-brushed. It wasn't a sharp boundary but a hazy boundary. It was perfectly still, perfectly solid.
Suddenly, with incredible intensity, a point of brilliant light shot out from the edge of the circle. It shot out with a brilliance and intensity that my eyes had never seen before or since. That brilliant point of light started getting bigger. Then I realized that I was seeing rotating circles. These were actually different-sized circles sharing the same center. Some were rotating clockwise, some counter clockwise. They were spinning so fast, strobing. They were of an intensity that is not normal to our dimension, glowing neon pinks, lavenders, oranges. The only thing similar to it is if you are looking at a fire and you see glowing hot coals. You know how they are a glowing, incandescent orange? It was like that but it wasn't just orange it was all of the colors.
Here's the interesting part: The axis of the circles just happened to be pointed exactly at me! So, when I saw these circles getting bigger and bigger they looked like they were coming closer. I was ready to go because I thought they were coming to get me - they were pointed right at me. [Laughs.] There was no sound at all. It was perfectly silent. You'd think something so visually spectacular would have a sound to it.
It soon became two milky circles of the same size. Then, another brilliant point of light came out of the second circle just as had come out of the first. It was the most outrageous thing my physical eyes have ever reported to my brain. Eventually, there were three perfect circles in the sky and then they turned on their side, displaying a classic UFO shape. The three circles were exactly parallel to one another. The next day in the Maui Sun they had a cover-up explanation for this. They said it was an unannounced, high-altitude, barium explosion test. How could a test like this create three circles of the same size, hovering exactly parallel to each other?
They remained in this position for another 10 minutes. Gradually, the first one started fading and then disappearing; this took about seven or eight minutes. Then the second and third.
AlienZoo: Were you afraid at this point?
Iasos: No, when I tuned into them telepathically, I got a very benign feeling from them. I also got the feeling that they were so much more advanced that they could think circles around me. They were busy doing some kind of manipulation.
AlienZoo: I find it incredibly interesting that you happened to be playing your flute when these events transpired. What are your feelings in regards to music as a communication with ETs?
Iasos: I think of music as an emotional communication. If they can relate to it they can relate to it. Each ET civilization has its own way of thinking and feeling. I suspect it had nothing to do with that. I suspect that they were doing something important to them. I got a feeling of great benevolence and that they could think five or six times faster then I could. They were just busy doing something they needed to do, and they did it and split.
AlienZoo: Earlier you mentioned that the earth is due for a vibrational up-shift. On your Web site you say that the human race we will be entering higher and higher vibrations, and eventually shift to a higher dimension. Can you explain this idea?
Iasos:Humanity on this planet has agreed collectively (meaning as souls we agreed to this before we were even incarnated) that the whole planet is going to up-shift and that we are going to up-shift with it. There is also the free will of each human personality here. Some choose to go along with it and some choose not to. God/Goddess loves everybody and wants to make sure that each person has a play ground that's just right. It's like a third grade schoolroom becoming a fourth grade schoolroom. To beings that insist on taking advantage of others, on warfare, and on killing, God says, "You want to do that? No problem, we'll create a world were you can do that as long as you want until you are good and sick and tired of it. I am a patient being." The people who don't want to go along with the up-shift can stay where they are. Those who want to go with the up-shift can just flow along with it. Each person can pick whether they wish to go up the escalator to a higher dimension or whether they just want to stay put. God loves them all he says, "Take your time learning your lessons - take as long as you like."
AlienZoo: Is your music a tool to help people reach these higher levels of vibration?
Iasos: Exactly. It is designed to help people make this transition. There are many things patterned into the music to facilitate this process. I'm helping people refine their perceptions. And this is done musically by making very subtle time discriminations. This is analogous to a painter who paints with a very fine or microscopic brush, as opposed to a medium brush. The tinier the brush, the tinier the detail on the painting.
An architect creates structures in a three-dimensional space, a musician creates structures in time. I am a time architect. Some of the patterns I create are very tiny, and as a person perceives them, it obliges him or her to work on the highest subtle perceptions that they possibly can. Another way of doing it is by taking a field of sound that is gradually fading out and adding another field of sound gradually fading in. If I do it subtly, you can just barely hear it. The mind thinks, "Am I hearing this or just imagining it?" and it tries really hard to hear it. This gets the brain to work on very subtle levels.
The frequency of emotions work just like octaves. When you go up or down an octave you double the frequency or half the frequency. The emotion for gladness, for example: an octave higher you have happiness; another octave, joy; then bliss; then rapture. It just keeps going. But the human language doesn't have words for it because humans very seldom go there. Angels cruise in those emotional altitudes. They live there.
My music is designed to familiarize people with higher octave versions of emotions that they are already familiar with. Instead of love, higher-octave love, instead of happiness, higher-octave happiness. I just finished a new piece that will be on my up-coming album, "Rapture of the Heart." It is a very intense version of ecstatic feelings. On Earth, when we experience intense emotions, they are typically negative emotions like intense anguish or anger. It is very seldom intense bliss. This particular piece has such intensity, it's almost unbearable. However, it's only harmonious emotion that is being experienced with this intensity.
AlienZoo: Can you tell us about the next album?
Iasos: Yes, it will continue where (my last album) Elixir left off. Elixir is a journey through six different celestial higher-dimensional realms. Likewise, my next album will be a journey into higher-dimensional realms. Each piece will take you to a different space; all of the pieces are wonderful and wild.
AlienZoo: In conclusion I wanted to ask you about your favorite composers. Who do you most admire and why?
Iasos: I most admire two classical composers: Claude Debussy and Ravel. Basically, musicians are merchants who are marketing emotions served on the latter of sound. Musical preferences boil down to emotional preferences. There are some classical composers that may be great classical composers but I don't like them because I don't like experiencing the emotions their music evokes.
There is a book called Music and its Secret Influence Throughout the Ages, which talks about how evolving particular composers had an effect on mankind in that point in time. For example, Bach's music was orderly and mechanical, which helped stimulate people's intellect. Beethoven helped bring repressed emotions to the surface. Stravinski helped crush crystallized thought forms to help people become more open-minded. The influence of Debussy and Ravel was to make people more sensitive to the invisible nature forces, the "elementals." Afternoon of a Fawn and pieces like this help make people more sensitive to this realm of elemental beings: angels, faeries, divas, and gnomes.