tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841684678223214738.post4815972334046976667..comments2024-02-19T00:39:22.870-08:00Comments on zoe in wonderland: Santa Caterina IV: Tango to a Parallel Universezoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526746200112764467noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841684678223214738.post-13374990769754153462013-07-23T18:57:23.526-07:002013-07-23T18:57:23.526-07:00yes, i think exactly that: the ability to lucidly ...yes, i think exactly that: the ability to lucidly dream would be the first step--it seems to me, then you stretch that lucidity into waking, to a much more vivid interaction with your environment. <br />the drumming as the thundering of hooves is genius!!zoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16526746200112764467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841684678223214738.post-85024404145776923502013-07-04T15:57:41.706-07:002013-07-04T15:57:41.706-07:00Ridden, yes, I can totally believe that in several...Ridden, yes, I can totally believe that in several myths horses should be read as expressions of the deactivated sleeping body, experienced for example in sleep paralysis, which is mounted by a rider signifying a change of mental state. For ex in a myth of Odin/Hermodr he enters a hollow tree to sleep and it changes to a steed who carries him to the otherworlds. The higher animal then is his higher i e more flexible oneiric self. If this myth was prototypical for shamanistic practices, at one point the drumming must have sounded like thundering hooves! And have you seen the painting "Nightmare" by Fuseli? Same elements there; horse, rider and still body, albeit in a more traumatic situation. Makes me think that maybe being able to perfectly handle nightmares is the first step towards a Tesla-level consistency of focus? Music as harmony or being one with the horse rather than having a (night)mare?<br /><br />/NAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841684678223214738.post-22487120599644437542013-07-03T12:32:13.218-07:002013-07-03T12:32:13.218-07:00what an amazing thought--to *create* a synaestheti...what an amazing thought--to *create* a synaesthetic effect....i have been reading that there's the possibility we all experience the world synaesthetically as infants, so it's something we are taught to suppress; if i we focus hard enough, then, we could, like tesla, or like frida, or like this 'case study,' find a connection that spoke to us and dig into it, changing the neural pathways of the brain. hopefully the brain doesn't then look for a way to rationalize that strengthening pathway by introducing a head trauma!<br />it's worth the risk, though, yes?<br />now, this idea of music as an animal, that's another thing to explore; what if that is where the idea of being "ridden" by a spirit in voodoo comes from? if during the drumming you are overtaken in a way that is best expressed as a higher animal riding you--as we would consider ourselves, riding a horse? what if it's no (anthropomorphized) god or goddess, but rather the music itself taking a form we recognize as more similar to our own?zoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16526746200112764467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841684678223214738.post-7860046390036411502013-07-02T14:48:18.899-07:002013-07-02T14:48:18.899-07:00Maybe the woman happened to discover a methodical ...Maybe the woman happened to discover a methodical use of spontaneous synaesthesia? If so, when she repeatedly willed the pair to appear a neural pathway was created that later, after the accident, triggered independently of her will. This would be akin to how Magicians work with visualizations and sensual ritual elements (the more senses involved, the easier we sink into the imaginal). In the works of renaissance philosopher and magician Ficino, who used music as an ingredient in his magical-theurgical rituals to create meddling spirits, the synaesthetical dimension of music is acknowledged:<br /><br />"Now the very matter of song, indeed, is altogether purer and more similar to the heavens than is the matter of medicine. For this too is air, hot or warm, still breathing and somehow living; like an animal it is composed of certain parts and limbs of its own and not only possesses motion and displays passion but even carries meaning like a mind, so that it can be said to be a kind of airy and rational animal." Marsilio Ficino: De Vita Coelitus Comparanda (VCC 21, 81-85)<br /><br />Wonderful image -- and keep asking the hard questions! : )Niklashttp://www.niklasnenzen.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841684678223214738.post-10412947379114273822013-07-02T07:23:29.404-07:002013-07-02T07:23:29.404-07:00WOW, that's a fantastic story, and one i'd...WOW, that's a fantastic story, and one i'd never heard about. what a find! so that's two people who managed it, free-will-style...i guess it's a bit like the eidetic imagery tesla talked about, right? still no talent here, but re-invigorated in my intent...zoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16526746200112764467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841684678223214738.post-53884845343158408062013-07-01T14:10:43.125-07:002013-07-01T14:10:43.125-07:00Wonderful! What a crazy, electric scene you've...Wonderful! What a crazy, electric scene you've painted here. The reduced palette with the cool red smoldering against the blues makes everything seem vivid and explosive. And I love the idea of these different realities joined by/entered through music. <br /><br />A little while ago I was reading Frida Khalo's diary and she described a scene from her childhood, which she called 'The Origin of the Two Fridas', and which reminded me of the passage you quoted above. When she was a child she used to breathe on her windowpane and draw a door in the steam, which brought her to another reality where she would meet with a woman who danced and listened to her problems, and gave her an immense feeling of happiness, apparently. She said that even as an adult thinking of that made it vivid and real again and brought her great strength and peace.<br /><br />I don't know if that helps answer any of the questions you posed, but it seemed to me to have a relation of a sort. yew tree nightshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14159879472613574800noreply@blogger.com