N really P but on the historic sources of the authority of a vision. Link after quote.

[Robin Landseadel]

On Sep 6, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Ian Livingston wrote:

> Because one choice of imagery, action, sensory observation, language,
> etc. generally more successfully elicits the desired or some desirable
> responses in an audience.

Going back to the Nick Drake article I previously posted, something  
else to think about that relates in a deep way to this "Crisis of  
Modernism":

     	Our tastes and preoccupations are mostly timebound and trivial.
	Drake's work opens a door on the eternal. In his songs, we find
	in action the Romantic ideal that beauty can elevate
	consciousness. The proof? The fact that so many are drawn to
	his work by its contemplative refinement without any awareness
	of its transcendental inspiration. Even if his lyrics weren't so
	deeply considered, his music would still transfix us with its
	timeless harmony. Nick Drake is far more than merely a rather
	special singer-songwriter of the late Sixties. More significantly,
	he speaks to us from a tradition almost lost today, though
	nonetheless vital. His pantheism, his sense of the holy in
	nature, may be anomalous in our modern world, but it seems
	we need it.

	The World Health Organisation predicts a vast upsurge in
	clinical depression in the first quarter of the coming century.
	Already, GPs report that half of their patients display signs of
	this illness. Can it be that the materialist world, in which there is
	no intrinsic meaning, is killing our souls? Nick Drake's work
	reminds us that life is a predicament and that the world is an
	insoluble mystery. It tells us that a "magical", contemplative way
	of seeing can keep us aware of this, preventing us destroying
	the world through the arrogant assumption that we know what it
	really is. We do not. We're all exiled from heaven, though some
	of us don't know it. But when "magic" reveals heaven to us in a
	wild flower, we remember. And then we hear the chime.

Copyright © 1999 Ian MacDonald

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