Re: Hold that thought
In reply to Creedo and Transient,
I have been away from the forum for awhile, so now I am going back through and reading the posts...so I may be a bit "out of time" as it were, but please bear with me.
In reference to the exaulted music that fills my mind when I remember Handel's Messiah, I must predicate my opinions and expressions of my experiences in hearing this chorus at the morn by saying, I am a skeptical person in reguard to "organized" religions. Many, many wars have been fought and blood spent in the name of "my god is better than your god" or like mindsets, and most are clouded with the foibles of mankind, namely greed, power, politics, etc. But in each one can find the nuggets of truth, the nuggets of inspiration.
It is indeed sad that religions and the power of some religions, like at the Vatican, have stored knowledge for centuries and decades that should have been shared with the people of the world in which we inhabit. I think some of you out there know quite well of some of the particulars to which I refer. But, in their defense as well, some of these things are so ground shakingly profound (and possibly apocryphally devastating) that one doesn't have to imagine too far into the future to fear a non-perfect result...So, what it draws to in conclusion, when is the appropriate time to reveal these hidden truths.
And, who among us is brave enough to do so.
See, there are basic truths and all religions address these notions that we instinctively covet as humans. But, in the mix, all sorts of other more short-sighted concerns of mankind get in the way.
So I belive it is our joy and journey to try to learn what we can from all that is available. And to trust our inner-instinct and voices, to the journey of inspiration and nirvana.
So when I refer to a glorious communion of voices, that somehow resembles Handel's Messiah, I am refering to something more basic and electric and naturally present than merely a music composition by a genius. It is hearing the same thing that the composer himself heard in writing the piece. It's feeling the same urgency of life and beauty that inspired him to put the best words he could muster to meet the grandiosity of the chords.
Morning, sunrise, life alive in love.
HARPS IN OUR EARS: the multitude in harmony
The appropriateness of chance is astounding.
Persephone