Bholanath
Jedi
Being a practising initiated traditional musician (sp. South Asian) and non-indigenous "ethnomusicologist" for over 35 years, I've sought to understand and expose the more esoteric aspects and roots of these perennial natural human forms of expression/communication - ritual music and dance. We live in an environment innundated with sonic stimuli, most of which is lumped into the term "music". We all know it continuously affects the mind/body, but in ways little understood by most people despite the volume of new age "sacred music"/"music-of-the-speres"/"music-of-the-chakras" type bs promoted beginning in the 80s by self-promoting grain-of-knowledge wankers (and a now-booming biz). Truth is, what we listen to, subject our consciousness to, has always had a profound effect on individuals and society on a deep psychic level. Traditional/indigenous music&theatre artist-scholars have preserved and passed on this as a precise science for millenia.
A couple years ago I came across Drew Hempel's M.A. thesis entitled "EPICENTERS OF JUSTICE: Music Theory, Sound Current Nondualism, and Radical Ecology". I don't know if SOTT forum readers are familiar with this quite dense exposition, but I found it pointing to crucial aspects of this field of inquiry, and coinciding with my own researches (music, mathematics, consciousness, political history, ecology).
See it here: http://www.lightmind.com/library/hempel/epicenters.html
Any opinions? Have the C's discussed the subject of Music, in this context or any other?
A shorter paper of Hempel's on a related, but slightly different subject is: "The Actual Plan for the Matrix: Incommensurability, Harmonic Resonance, and the Religion of Technology".
Can be found here: http://www.nonduality.com/hempel.htm
-wild and crazy, or another piece of the puzzle...?
I don't think Hempel is actually a musician, but more of an activist and intense researcher. Traditional musicians have always practised their work with an almost frighteningly serious sense of responsibility (while having fun) and in that vein I did send him complements for his contribution to public knowledge. (He's Anti-copyright.)
Check it.
A couple years ago I came across Drew Hempel's M.A. thesis entitled "EPICENTERS OF JUSTICE: Music Theory, Sound Current Nondualism, and Radical Ecology". I don't know if SOTT forum readers are familiar with this quite dense exposition, but I found it pointing to crucial aspects of this field of inquiry, and coinciding with my own researches (music, mathematics, consciousness, political history, ecology).
See it here: http://www.lightmind.com/library/hempel/epicenters.html
Any opinions? Have the C's discussed the subject of Music, in this context or any other?
A shorter paper of Hempel's on a related, but slightly different subject is: "The Actual Plan for the Matrix: Incommensurability, Harmonic Resonance, and the Religion of Technology".
Can be found here: http://www.nonduality.com/hempel.htm
-wild and crazy, or another piece of the puzzle...?
I don't think Hempel is actually a musician, but more of an activist and intense researcher. Traditional musicians have always practised their work with an almost frighteningly serious sense of responsibility (while having fun) and in that vein I did send him complements for his contribution to public knowledge. (He's Anti-copyright.)
Check it.