Christopher was not just an artist and musician, he was an acoustical shaman. I first met Christopher in 1991 at The House of Symphonies, up Glorieta Mesa outside of Santa Fe. The home he built there had become a popular destination for seekers of higher knowledge and he was always ready to share a wisdom tale. When I arrived on the mesa, we had an instant recognition and thus began an apprenticeship and friendship that lasted almost 35 years. As I left that first day he said, 'mi casa, es su casa', and so it was. For many years I made the journey to the mesa staying for weeks or months as part of the family with Christopher, Mary and Michael. During the days on the mesa, Christopher, Mary, and I would play the crystal bowls, unraveling the symbols, the symphonies that were carved into the walls of the house. It evolved organically, the choosing of the 3 bowls for each of us, though it evolved to 4, and then Christopher guiding us towards the concepts we were to explore. Beginning with the tenet, that the prime law of the universe was enthusiasm and simultaneous acknowledgement. That if one creates something, if one enthuses something into being, and there is no acknowledgement, one would physically take on mass. Meaning, that all mass is the want for enthusiasm. So, beginning with this premise, we began working with the bowls. Tapping was acknowledging, rimming was enthusing. And from this action our symphonies took on life. He taught about the 3 bodies, the physical, the auric and the dream body. The physical being everything of the physical, including emotions and mental constructs. This was the straight lines. The auric was the body that could expand infinitely or contract infinitesimally. This was the curving lines. The dream was that deep place of knowing. This was the spirals. So with our 3 bowls, each representing one of the 3 bodies, we would play. We would drop into awareness and identify a body, then tap the bowl to acknowledge it and then rim the bowl to enthuse it. Using awareness we would play from body to body, tapping and enthusing until reaching a place where all was in balance. Christopher would say, we were souling, that soul is a verb, an action, a way of being. And thus began my long apprenticeship at the House of Symphonies. I can say that Christopher Lantz was the person who influenced me the most in my life. This is just the smallest bite of the rich and intensely fulfilling life that we shared together. There are a thousand stories I want to tell, I smile saying 1000, because to Christopher numbers were not quantities, rather they were qualities. (Smiling inside now, as if listening to one more of his stories) I didn't know how much he gave to my life. How enriched I was by his presence until now as we say farewell. I can only hold space and ask him to please keep the channel open and continue to teach in the dreamtime. Together forever, for when someone touches your heart, there can be no apart. Josie Yerby