Today has been updated NEWPSYCHIATRY with a text of Emil Cioran, writer and philosopher of Ruman origin but settled in Parsis, where he describes his reiterate musical raptures. To this author music is of major importance and we find constant references to it in his work as an efficient way of provoking experiences with clearly ecstatic characteristics: “To live in perpetual exaltation, spellbound and maddened in a drunken bout of melodies, an intoxication of divine sonorities, for me to be the music of spheres myself, an explosion of vibrations, a cosmic song and an upward spiralling of resonances. the songs and the sadness stop being painful in this intoxication and my tears burn again as in the moment of supreme mystic revelation.” The description of the ecstatic paroxysm could hardly be more explicit, and in it we find the same “tears of joy” that had been experimented by St Augustine, St Ignatius, St Teresa and St John of the Cross, tears that are accompanied by the intense conviction of receiving “supreme mystic revelations”. For Cioran, there is no doubt: music arouses genuine ecstasies in the brain, that is, sudden experiences having all the characteristics of extraordinary mystic phenomena and accompanied by a vivid impression of oneness with Truth. He even uses the term musical ecstasy over and over again when speaking of them: “Musical ecstasy implies a return to identity, to origins, to the first roots of existence. In it all that is left is the pure rhythm of existence, the immanent and organic current of life. I hear life. From there all the revelations spring.” Cioran conceives rhythm and melody as the essence of life and such mentions are made time and again: “I am captivated and driven mad with joy by the musical mystery lying within me, which projects its flashes in melodious undulations, which undoes me and reduces my being to pure rhythm. I have lost my substance, that unyieldingness that gave me prominence and profile, which made me tremble before the world, and feel abandoned and homeless in a deathly loneliness and I have arrived in a sweet and rhythmic immaterialness, when the search for my self no longer has any meaning, for my melodization, my transformation into melody, into pure rhythm, has taken me out of the usual relativity of life.” See last updating at: newpsychiatry/
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 01:50:28 +0000
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