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Will Smith's avatar

I can totally relate to this. It started in fourth grade, when we read The Odyssey and I found our about Circle. No way was I going to descend into that morass of FEELING! I loved learning, and staying in my head. Even when I learned a few Bach pieces, the music was in my head, not my body. True, there was this nagging feeling that music was different from other intellectual pursuits - for example, how could I be playing three different melodies at the same time?

Now I know that the music had not descended into my body, because I hadn't learned that my body is more intelligent than my brain. I also realized that the processing is different, more like an analog wave parallel computer that can process multiple threads simultaneously. Then I discovered a bunch of other stuff, like the ability of THC consumed orally to allow me to play during an entire church concert without becoming so nervous that I couldn't play, and that the music somehow eventually goes into the muscles, so I can talk to someone while I am playing.

I always WISHED that I could dance, but resigned myself to becoming a musician. At age 70, my whole body can't do those moves anymore; but I am sure that seeing others dance to my music gives me a connection to them, and it's more than a mating ritual. I've watched African and Eastern European dancing, and I am sure that entering the trance state during a community dance is a bonding experience for ALL participants, that we have hijacked and even vilified this community ritual and made it into a prelude to sexual intercourse. Dancing expands our life-force energy fields so that they overlap and intersperse, which can eventually be experienced in one's discrete reality.

Thanks for your post, very interesting indeed.

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Freedom To Offend's avatar

I understand the music is in my head not body line !

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