‘The first thing shall be to establish a censorship of the writers of fiction, and let the censors receive any tale that is good, and reject the bad; and we will desire mothers and nurses to tell their children the authorised ones only. Let them fashion the mind with such tales, even more fondly than they mould the body with their hands.’ (Plato: Socrates – Adeimantus, circa 350BC, Athens, Greece)
'One of the peculiar characteristics of the savage in his domestic hours, is his wonderful patience of industry. With but a bit of broken sea-shell or a shark's tooth, a miraculous intricacy of wooden net-work has been achieved; and it has cost steady years of steady application. He will carve you a bit of bone sculpture, not quite as workmanlike, but as close packed in its maziness of design, as the Greek savage, Achilles's shield.' Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851
'Two cities radiant on the shield appear,
The image one of peace, and one of war.
Here sacred pomp and genial feast delight,
And solemn dance, and hymnal rit;
Along the street the new-made brides are led,
With torches flaming, to the nuptial bed:
The Youthful dancers in a circle bound
To the soft flute, and the cithern's silver sound:
Through the fair streets the matrons in a row
Stand in their porches, and enjoy the show.' (Homer, Iliad, 762BC)
‘'Some Neanderthal had the magical idea of blowing through a reed ... to entertain the children one night in a cave somewhere. Then, in a blink of an eye ... civilization’. David in Alien: Covenant.
'Music oft hath such a charm
To make bad good
And good provoke to harm.'
William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
Kung Fu Panda – Master Shifu
Master Wu (Ninjago)
'Someone has to rebuild. And Pennywhistle is that woodwind for the job.'
It's a super-power. (Rena Rouge)
Back to the future Marty McFly
Malcolm in the middle – Hal Skating
Dancer in the Dark Factory Scene
Close Encounters Music Scene
Electrici'y!
Cartoon Beatbox Battles
'If there's one thing I hate, it's an evil DJ. We need positive energy!'
'There's got to be a few sparks of sweet humanity left in this burned-out burg. We just have to figure out a way to mobilize it.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0nlEcKSjmY
'What do you do to relax?' (Spiderman, Across the Spider-verse)
Napoleon Dynamite
The Shawshank Redemption Opera Scene – Sull’aria, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro
'… I'm a teller of stories
I'm a singer of songs'
(I am Australian, Bruce Woodley / Dobe Newton)
The Never Ending Story, Stranger Things
Black Sabbath – Master of Reality
The first verse is the American native creation myth, next verse is Sanskrit creation myth, the 3rd verse is Aboriginal creation myth and the 4th verse is Big Bang theory:
And they say back then our universe
Was an empty sea, until a silver fox
And her cunning mate began to sing
A song that became the world we know
And they say back then our universe
Was a cold black egg, until the God inside
Burst out and from its shattered shell
He made what became the world we know
And they say back then our universe
Was an endless land, until our ancestors
Woke up and before they went back to sleep
They carved it up into the world we know
And they say back then our universe
Wasn't even there, until a sudden bang
And then there was light, was sound, was matter
And it all became the world we know
Heaven
Heaven's bodies
Whirl around me
Make me wonder'
Thom Yorke Dawn Chorus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1TiN-dBSxY
'I knew everything from the beginning but I couldn’t remember until this moment. I was woven into the creases of the lullaby.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccv-oNma3fQ
Art as a path of inner schooling
‘Fyodor says that Kirllov lives for his belly. That’s comprehensible and rational. All of us as rational beings can’t do anything else but live for our belly. But all of a sudden the same Fyodor says that one mustn’t live for one’s belly, but must live for truth, for God and at a hint I understand him! Isn’t it distinctly to be seen in the development of each philosopher’s theory, that he knows what is the chief significance of life beforehand, just as positively as the peasant Fyodor, and not a bit more clearly than he, and is simply trying by a dubious intellectual path to come back to what everyone knows? … What I know, I know not by reason, but it has been given to me, revealed to me, and I know it with my heart, by faith in the chief thing taught by the church.’ He had lived (without being aware of it) on those spiritual truths that he had sucked in with his mother’s milk, but he had thought not merely without recognition of these truths, but studiously ignoring them. … Now, as always, interference made him angry, and he felt sorrowfully at once how mistaken had been in his supposition that his spiritual condition would immediately change him in contact with reality.’ (Anna Karenina)
Anam Cara, a book by John O'Donahue: ‘Music is, perhaps, the art form that brings us closest to the eternal because it changes immediately and irreversibly the way we experience time. When we are listening to beautiful music, we enter into the eternal dimension of time. Transitory, broken linear time faces away, and we come into the circle of belonging within the eternal. The Irish writer Sean O’Faolain said, “In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.’
The Circle of Life in the Circle of Fifths
Lateralus by Tool.
Men in Black ending
Thor ending credits
Dr Strange v Dr Strange Musical fight
Dr Strange Jump through the multiverse
2001: A Space Odyssey – The ‘Star Gate’ Visual Effects
Ant-Man Subatomic Scene
Lego Movie Back from Reality
Interstellar – Tesseract Scene
Phylogenesis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenesis?fbclid=IwAR3mHRIbHR3FWDqmjJPV4x0IzZhV0ieTaEukIHDD8ammuqTIW20clAS5SPA
Om: 'A "cosmic sound" whose three phonetic components (a + u + ṃ) correspond to the three stages of cosmic creation (matter, life, mind), and when it is read or said, it celebrates the creative powers of the universe.'
With its roots in Hinduism, the Om symbol is said to represent the one-ness of all creation, including the heavens, earth, and underworld. The ritual of chanting Om has been done for thousands of years.
Moksha: freedom from the cycle of death and rebirth by knowledge of the true self. 112 methods, including breath.
"1. Lo, Radiant one, this experience may dawn between two breaths, After breath comes in (down) and just before turning up (out) the beneficence.”
“2. As a breath turns from down to up, and again as breath curves from up to down through both these turns, realise.”
“3. Or, whenever in breath and out breath fuse, at this instant touch the energy-less energy-filled centre.”
“4. Or when breath is all out (up) and stopped in such universal pause, ones small self vanishes. This is difficult only for the impure.”
“8. Attention between eyebrows, let mind be before thought. Let form fill with breath-essence to the top of the head and there shower as light.”
The ultimate musical trancsendance. 'Jonathan Livingston Seagul ain't got nothin' on me!' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEP0-8VAow
AI Generated image from neural scan
Down by the Water
Cover of a song by the Drums. The lyrics are surprisingly perfectly adaptable to the parent-child relationship. Moreso even! I mean, imagine trying to carry a full-grown adult all the way home!
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