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The Living Force
floetus said:Hello Ana :) Sorry, you are right. It is not a very common word. Its the closest word I could find. Let me put it this way: Have you ever watched an expressive musical jam-session? Different musicians are spontaneously playing together, improvising without expectations. They just do. They seem to just feel it. They understand each other without words. They seem to have forgotten themselves. There is nothing left that could ever stop or limit the purest creative stream. It just flows through them.
"When the musical slang phrase "Being in the groove" is applied to a group of improvisers, this has been called "an advanced level of development for any improvisational music group" which is "equivalent to Bohm and Jaworski's descriptions of an evoked field", which systems dynamics scholars claim are "forces of unseen connection that directly influence our experience and behaviour. Peter Forrester and John Bailey argue that the "chances of achieving this higher level of playing" (i.e., attain a "groove") is improved when the musicians are "open to others musical ideas", "complemen[t] other participant’s musical ideas", and "taking risks with the music". [wikipedia - excerpt]
When I am drawing, I can make a quite similar experience. I'd describe it as a state of being one with the thing you are focused on. Its like being completely united with an open stream of creativity, with the moment of experiencing. Its based on craft (knowledge, experience, practice) and an open mind (humbleness, no expectations, no boundaries). It just flows through you like the purest embodied mind.
Its hard to find the right words to describe it. I believe there are countless descriptions out there, that are all meant to catch this certain state of being.
I realy like it, thank you!
floetus said:Well, I guess I am like a child, that was used to believe in fairy-tales, until one day they started to make me sick. I am afraid of the men in the moon ;)Ana said:And, May I ask why did you choose the scary and pale face of this child as avatar?
Thanks for the explanation :)