Was Back to AtD Music of the Spheres--Not

[Prashant Kumar]

Sound is apparently the last sense fighter pilots lose before complete loss
of consciousness.

Prash

On 29 July 2012 17:16, Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net> wrote:

> makes sense to me ... the hopi's say that the origin of consciousness
> began with the apprehension of sound.
>
> 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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