So, its pretty rainy and blah here in Budapest. For some reason this video always picks up my spirits. Im sure there are a bunch of interesting harmonic progressions in it that actually manipulate you emotionally. Ah but thats why music is so powerful. :) In any event please enjoy. Oh and by the way, and I know ive said it already, but if there was ever a reason to define God, (you really cant, because God is after all the mysterium tremendum et fascinates - undefinable) but if you had to, for me, this song is God. And I know the song is actually about God, but for me its not about the lyrics, its purely how the sound and the way the singers present it that act on my subconscious via my shared and private experiences - the idea of aesthetic arrest. And God in this sense is not an outward space man, but a living being within the bowels of my own very personal existence. And here God is purely me, he or she or it is definable only in the context of my own existence. I guess Im just trying to make sense of what it can be like not actually physically believing in god, but rather defining it more in the sense of an archetype or a metaphor. And I suppose this is still sort of in the tradition of our religious cultural context, perhaps imbued with ideas of a more up to date scientific understanding of the world as well as a more up to date philosophical construction. So, in this context, being atheist, that is not actually believing in the physical manifestation of God, can still be centred in a religious context, because there can still be an emotional and psychological experience of God that is still within our shared religious contextualizations, inflected in a modern, global, scientific based experience world. Another way of inflecting this idea is by saying God is the culmination of our biological and social history, that is, God manifests itself in a psychological sense as a projection of our past, present and future. Theres a great quote by Campbell and unfortunately im paraphrasing, Go ahead and play the game of the garden of Eden or go ahead and play the game of the Hindu Upanishads, these are all true in the sense of metaphors and they are great truths, and Science may not be truer than any of these previous ideas, but its a lot more layered and deep. Well enjoy the music on your own terms, whatever that may be, I myself am still a bit melancholic. :) youtu.be/rArNpeXtRx4
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 08:46:38 +0000
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