At that time, in gratitude, I humbly asked to be given the means and privilege to make others happy through music.” In the liner notes of A Love Supreme (1965) he describes a vision he had: "During the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. His album Om (1965) includes recitations from the Bhagavad Gita. He was an active student of religion, described himself a believer of all religions, and studied a wide variety of faiths. If one of my friends is ill, I’d like to play a certain song and he will be cured when he’d be broke, I’d bring out a different song and immediately he’d receive all the money he needed."” ( x) I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. He said, “I would like to bring to people something like happiness. Wikipedia: “His study of Indian music led him to believe that certain sounds and scales could “produce specific emotional meanings.” According to Coltrane, the goal of a musician was to understand these forces, control them, and elicit a response from the audience. His musical experimentation was very much a spiritual practice. He believed musical structure transcended all cultural distinctions and treated it as a metaphysical language. The glyph thing is fun but yeah in all seriousness John Coltrane is a saint in the African Orthodox Church, and it’s for good reason - his music is deliberately mystical in nature, he considered it a form of serious religious expression.