OMG! I KNEW IT! I knew I was having mystical experiences with the music of The Band. During their concerts, I would dissolve into a one-ness with everybody and everything. You have described this perfectly--our encounters with the Music of the Spheres. I love this quote: "When art is truly great, you seem to meld with it." AMEN, world without end! One of the fascinating discoveries I am having is that so much of my experiences in life ARE truly mystical--not just New Age concepts. Thank you so much for this. I believe Peter Himmelman expressed this a couple of months ago in an essay here. I love Beyond Belief so much. It's the first thing I read every day that it comes out.
Great art is ineffable--words about it cannot replace experiencing it. Great art reaches our emotions. Directly. One can of course, critique, analyze, and otherwise try to describe it, but those pursuits, while very interesting in their own right are, like the hothouse tomato in your example, a pale reflection of the real thing.
OMG! I KNEW IT! I knew I was having mystical experiences with the music of The Band. During their concerts, I would dissolve into a one-ness with everybody and everything. You have described this perfectly--our encounters with the Music of the Spheres. I love this quote: "When art is truly great, you seem to meld with it." AMEN, world without end! One of the fascinating discoveries I am having is that so much of my experiences in life ARE truly mystical--not just New Age concepts. Thank you so much for this. I believe Peter Himmelman expressed this a couple of months ago in an essay here. I love Beyond Belief so much. It's the first thing I read every day that it comes out.
Great art is ineffable--words about it cannot replace experiencing it. Great art reaches our emotions. Directly. One can of course, critique, analyze, and otherwise try to describe it, but those pursuits, while very interesting in their own right are, like the hothouse tomato in your example, a pale reflection of the real thing.