Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Music, harmony, and the activation of life
Is music the voice of man's
consciousness as some have suggested? It seems to me that music is
more the voice of man's emotions and instincts which consciousness
follows but does not lead. Consciousness is activated by things
other than itself, by instincts and emotions that required, or
developed, the evolution of consciousness as an aid to successful
survival and reproduction.
I think that the most sacred music
would originate in the deepest activation's of life, that is, in the
activation within life of the Spirit-Will-To Godhood, which
essentially defines life as evolving toward Godhood, the most
“successful” stage of life. Consciousness and human culture
derive from this basic activation of life, which essentially defines “life.”
How would sacred music sound? Like the
activation of life itself it would exist within the natural material
world. The connection with nature suggests the harmony and order of nature
itself, the consonance and dissonance of nature defined as vibrating in
proportional harmony.
This natural music is unlike
modern atonal “music,” which has cut the connection between
realistic nature and art. Modern philosophy has done this too,
favoring words, notations, intellectual concepts over the reality of
living objects. Government deficit financing has also done
this, cutting the connection between goods and money---that is, the con-game of money backed by nothing.
But this reflection on music is not
anti-intellectual, it is anti-non-life, it is contrary to having our identity rooted fundamentally in non-living bookish definitions and pedantic conceptions in art. It is pro-reality in art, religion and philosophy.
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