Lou Gold wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 9:15 pm I love Vivaldi. The Winter music surely aligns with the text. I wonder, would you have recognized the icy winter simply from the music or did you need it augmented by the name and text?
I also wonder in you have actually listened in full to what Collier says about his process or are you projecting a more generalized notion of popular music? Do you have any feeling that he is part of a paradigm shift from me to we and/or a fuller individual participation that is less elitist?
I think the music certainly embeds the archetypal soul-gesture of Winter and could be identified as such without any labels or text, as could the other seasons in his cycle.
Lou, there is a huge gap in our standards for what the creative human spirit is capable of. The Paradigm Shift happened 2,000 years ago and, about 120 years ago, a critical imaginative stage of this Shift began unfolding. We should be clear that the Shift is not a result of Earthly human deeds in the last few years and decades but rather the expression of archetypal beings undergoing their own evolution. These beings incarnate in our Earthly life of thinking, feeling, and willing, and therefore their evolution also translates into the development of higher human faculties. Through the imaginative and higher faculties currently unfolding, the human spirit can begin participating in artistically rendering the spacetime flow in which Collier and everyone else unfold their localized artistic philosophies and deeds.
I know a few people on this forum, and perhaps you are one of them, feel that these suggestions are absolutely bonkers. That's no problem. It is healthy to admit such sentiments once in a while since all too often people pretend to be 'understanding and accepting' of spiritual realities when they have neither understood nor accepted. At the same time, though, I would ask you to put aside whether this is 'true' and simply imagine what reality would be like if it were true. That would mean thinking individuals at this stage of evolution could begin working with departed souls and archetypal beings to artistically fashion the very flow of perceptual reality across all scales of existence. Indeed, it would mean there are already human beings doing just that, although not advertising their wisdom and deeds on YouTube. This is the very same work we are doing across the threshold of death.
Now switch from that vision to what Collier is managing to do in his Ted talks and concerts, and we get a sense of this huge gap between what we are both speaking about, respectively. Sure, he is part of the centuries- and millennia-long Paradigm Shift simply by being a conscious and thinking human being. He has perhaps reaped some more of the fruits of this imaginative unfolding than the average human being, although certainly not as much as those beings aesthetically structuring the spacetime flow according to the highest moral ideals. Most importantly, we can all become these latter beings to some extent - we don't need great genes, a 'lucky' inheritance, once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, tons of money, or anything similar. We only need a thoughtful interest in the perceptual world (outer and inner), a noble ambition, and a sacrificial love for humanity.
