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Romy the Cat
Boston, MA
Posts 10,409
Joined on 05-28-2004
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You have reached some very interesting point, milord. Subtraction rather than addition is what mystics of various traditions kept repeating throughout the centuries. I presume most here are familiar with Huxley's "Perennial philosophy", which is a great organizing principle of those various traditions. I'm wondering if you reached that point by an intellectual work or through numerous enough "those moments"? I remember you describing "those moments" very well, where you feel expanding beyond your own borders and re-evaluating your relationship with the Universe.
BTW, Bach does not give me those moments. Throw stones on me, but too intellectual for me. And since my work is 100% intellectual probably I need a different "take off platform". Haendel, Vivaldi can. Or, since we are there too, reading great minds on quantum mechanics. I recommend the last of them - David Bohm. You might like his differences of similarities and similarities of differences. |
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I am very glad that you picked on the “Subtraction” concept.
It is very not accidentally here, and you are very right: the linage of subtraction
is well trained with starting from Zen Buddhism and over the thinking of the
more interesting to me philosophers, not to mention the contemporary quantum theories.
Yes, the relationship with the Universe, the relationship with own consciousness
and relation of a person’s consciousness with collective
consciousness. All of it and much more has been encoded in that music. The key
is to stop perceive it as “music”, no matter how convincing and comfortable it
is but rather look at some of Back’s works as a humanity exercise… I never described
at my site “those moments” and I do not think that the value of the moments
could be understood from listening music. I think the understanding of the “value”
has no definition in music or audio. They are the general properties of a person’s
psyche and Music, not to mention audio, are just sonic evidence of a psyche existence.
Now, can the music/audio provide loop back to psyche? Yes, it can, can it
provide very specific and very structured feedback. Yes, it very much can. This
is what I call “shamanic ceremony” when some aspects of psyche and sound in the
room are enforced to assure more prolific psyche evolution.
"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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