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[Bekah]

Colors.

Bek

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On Jul 29, 2012, at 8:40 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:

> On 7/29/2012 3:16 AM, Phillip Greenlief wrote:
>> makes sense to me ... the hopi's say that the origin of consciousness began with the apprehension of sound.
> 
> Proust's involuntary memory starts with smell but I think sound is high up there in importance.
> 
> P
>> 
>> sent from phillip's iPhone
>> 
>> On Jul 28, 2012, at 6:30 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> In a footnote to my posted suggestion that perhaps one level going on
>>> here in the Lydian-Phrygian discussion was that the the disappearance
>>> as felt belief in the devil (in the music) meant that via Orpheus and Pythagoreanism
>>> the devil came back as The Return of the Repressed--as a new 'mythic' belief
>>> so to speak,a  modern Freudian-caused one, I have stumbled across
>>> this from Yeats's "A Vision"....(Yeats did give us 'As above, so below" from this book
>>> too, I believe):
>>>  
>>> "It is as though myth and fact, united until the exhaustion of the Renaissance, have now fallen
>>> so far apart that man understands for the first time the rigidity of fact, and calls up, by that
>>> very recognition, myth"...---W.B.
>>>  
>>> And from Safranski's bio of Nietzsche: "Music precedes the Tower of Babel...only universal
>>> form of communication....."The related notion that music is closer to our essence than any other
>>> product of our consciousness goes back to the beginnings of history. This notion underlies both
>>> Orphic and Pythagorean doctrines."....and more including Kepler and the Music of the Spheres,
>>> "music as the language of the cosmos and as figured meaning."
>>>  
>>>  
> 
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