Music as energy
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:25 am
I posted this at Wigwam, but this is my forum so it should be here as well for comment.
OK I am going to explore something that is very lateral but is on topic, how energy effects us and how we perceive and react.
"You have a physical being, the one that you see in the mirror everyday, it is a biological organic machine that can break down and will wear out, being organic it is also subject to other biological machines hijacking it for their own purposes (fungi, bacteria and viruses).
You are also a reasoning and calculating being, this is the person doing the observing of you in the mirror. It is a biological organic computer that as with the modern electronic version can be subject to overload, information loss, or when the program gets corrupted, crashing.
Within these two physical personas is the energetic persona that makes it all work, and also provides the emotional aspects to your life. From the spark of life given to you at conception this energy is the means by which everything “works”, your energetic being. In Chinese. It is referred to as Chi (Qi), in Japanese Ki and in India Prana. It can manifest itself in many different ways that western science is only just beginning to understand."
I wrote that in my other life, the study of eastern energetic arts. Music for me is an energetic communication from one human (or group) to another, it is below the level of intellect and runs on our unconscious mind which runs on our genetic programming, it is a very important form of communication, a way of grouping people, you have heard of like mind, well this is like emotions. For me music is a language that is not intellectual not logical, though our minds constantly try to turn it into this, and that is the problem. Basically music should be left to just happen, let it affect us, change our moods. So how does it do this, within us are energy paths that lead to energy centres. These in Chinese are called Dantian and in the Hindu arts Chakra. There are three main centres, the physical one at you centre of gravity, like the hub of a wheel, all physical reaction emerges from this outward into action and motion. The emotional one, just to the right of your heart, you will feel it when you are emotionally hurt you feel the pain there. The thinking one (the monkey that will not shut up), this has largely taken us over and controls the others to a greater or lesser extent, it is the size of this that is the difference between animals and humans.
So external stimuli activate these centres and energy passes through us. An example which is very primary, you see danger, your emotional centre makes either run or turn to fight, your physical centre performs the action, and the mind look for best way to use, or freezes because the emotion of fear is too strong.
All animals use a type of music to communicate emotion, it is not an intellectual language the noises they make are designed to create an emotional rection, either go away, fight, mate, food, danger. These different noises manipulate responses - the music of life. As humans developed we used the same, from grunts and screams we progressed, and as our brains and intellect took over so the communication became language. BUT we still have our primeval emotional communication, it still functions. So how does it work, rythm and beat stimulate physical reaction, the desire to dance. Changes in key and note structure create emotional changes in us, especially that between a minor and a major key, reactions can be extreme such as being brought to tears or desire to share emotion with another person, or just a feeling of pleasure. The intellectual stimulus is more difficult to explain but the desire to read score or more complex musical structure like free jazz or the likes of Stockhausen seem to actively stimulate the mind.
So to cut a long story a bit, music for me is energetic communication stimulating parts of me to react, note I say music, that could be just hitting an empty tree with a stick to create a rythm. I find to a point fidelity helps to improve that communication in certain ways, best example is seeing further into the music, making it make more sense, helping it to communicate to you better, I call this good fidelty, but there is bad fidelity that is an imposed process, very much an artificial process that often ends up fighting the music, much in hi-fi has sadly gone this way. Into complexity.
So my point - let the music happen, then the hi-fi / music system you need / want will select itself.
OK I am going to explore something that is very lateral but is on topic, how energy effects us and how we perceive and react.
"You have a physical being, the one that you see in the mirror everyday, it is a biological organic machine that can break down and will wear out, being organic it is also subject to other biological machines hijacking it for their own purposes (fungi, bacteria and viruses).
You are also a reasoning and calculating being, this is the person doing the observing of you in the mirror. It is a biological organic computer that as with the modern electronic version can be subject to overload, information loss, or when the program gets corrupted, crashing.
Within these two physical personas is the energetic persona that makes it all work, and also provides the emotional aspects to your life. From the spark of life given to you at conception this energy is the means by which everything “works”, your energetic being. In Chinese. It is referred to as Chi (Qi), in Japanese Ki and in India Prana. It can manifest itself in many different ways that western science is only just beginning to understand."
I wrote that in my other life, the study of eastern energetic arts. Music for me is an energetic communication from one human (or group) to another, it is below the level of intellect and runs on our unconscious mind which runs on our genetic programming, it is a very important form of communication, a way of grouping people, you have heard of like mind, well this is like emotions. For me music is a language that is not intellectual not logical, though our minds constantly try to turn it into this, and that is the problem. Basically music should be left to just happen, let it affect us, change our moods. So how does it do this, within us are energy paths that lead to energy centres. These in Chinese are called Dantian and in the Hindu arts Chakra. There are three main centres, the physical one at you centre of gravity, like the hub of a wheel, all physical reaction emerges from this outward into action and motion. The emotional one, just to the right of your heart, you will feel it when you are emotionally hurt you feel the pain there. The thinking one (the monkey that will not shut up), this has largely taken us over and controls the others to a greater or lesser extent, it is the size of this that is the difference between animals and humans.
So external stimuli activate these centres and energy passes through us. An example which is very primary, you see danger, your emotional centre makes either run or turn to fight, your physical centre performs the action, and the mind look for best way to use, or freezes because the emotion of fear is too strong.
All animals use a type of music to communicate emotion, it is not an intellectual language the noises they make are designed to create an emotional rection, either go away, fight, mate, food, danger. These different noises manipulate responses - the music of life. As humans developed we used the same, from grunts and screams we progressed, and as our brains and intellect took over so the communication became language. BUT we still have our primeval emotional communication, it still functions. So how does it work, rythm and beat stimulate physical reaction, the desire to dance. Changes in key and note structure create emotional changes in us, especially that between a minor and a major key, reactions can be extreme such as being brought to tears or desire to share emotion with another person, or just a feeling of pleasure. The intellectual stimulus is more difficult to explain but the desire to read score or more complex musical structure like free jazz or the likes of Stockhausen seem to actively stimulate the mind.
So to cut a long story a bit, music for me is energetic communication stimulating parts of me to react, note I say music, that could be just hitting an empty tree with a stick to create a rythm. I find to a point fidelity helps to improve that communication in certain ways, best example is seeing further into the music, making it make more sense, helping it to communicate to you better, I call this good fidelty, but there is bad fidelity that is an imposed process, very much an artificial process that often ends up fighting the music, much in hi-fi has sadly gone this way. Into complexity.
So my point - let the music happen, then the hi-fi / music system you need / want will select itself.