Therapeutic music:

My massage therapist plays some ethereal music by N. Carlos Nakai, a Native American flutist which puts me in a trance like state. Sometimes I feel like I'm hovering three feet above the floor, in a semi conscious state.

I have EXACTLY that kind of hypontic,transporting, trancendental experience with the following favorites:
1. Chick Corea's work with Flora Purim, and the title track to the Romantic Warrior RTF album
2. Santana's Welcome album, and selected passages from Santana's Caravansari and Borbolletta
3. Ditto on the Weather Report, for me it's Heavy Weather and Tale Spinnin
4. Jade Warrior Waves, Kites
5. Brian Eno's Before and After Science or Another Green World
6. Pat Metheny's As falls Witchia
7. Ralph Towner's Solo Concert
8. Kieth Jarrett Arbor Zena
9. Steely dan title track to Aja
10. After 20 years of listening to Miles Davis Kind of Blue you will achieve enlightenment. To say nothing of Coltrane's Naima or After the Rain
11. Repeated listening to Happy the Man's first album will actually result in some sort of "high" it's hard to explain

Gunbei you are right, R. Carlos Nakai as well as Mary Youngblood are both excellent players and are the most widely known Native American flute artists. Nakai has many, many discs but my two favorites are "Canyon Trilogy" and "Mythic Dreamer" both of which are strictly flute music uncluttered by any other instruments. Mary only has a few discs. I prefer the first one"Offering" which was recorded live in a cave. Beautiful, smoothly lilting sounds for drifting away. Very soporific indeed.

Peace, Lee

Lee, thanks for the heads up on "R." Carlos Nakai and Mary Youngblood. I'll have to look into more of their offerings. Thanks!

Thanks for all the responses, I will check those out.