--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: > > By the way, I have never heard the Stones' song mentioned > at the beginning of this post. I looked up the lyrics > though, and guess what, I can kind of see why Barry likes > it. It is not my cup of tea. If he can see spiritual > development stages in it, fine. I do not.
No problem. What I saw in the song was my subjective experience. I wasn't trying to sell it to anyone. But I will explain it a little, because that gives me the opportunity to bring up a neat topic: Walking Away. Having run into a forum of former Rama students, some of whom walked away from him and others who hung in there until the end, and had him walk away from them, I've been reading some of their Walking Away stories lately. The moments in which the long strange trip that was studying with Rama ended for them. "Angie" struck me as an appropriate soundtrack for many of these heartfelt stories. There is a bittersweet quality about the moment of Walking Away. Such moments have that quality whether you are walking away from a long-time lover or walking away from a long-time spiritual teacher. I think that Jagger and Richards did an admirable job of capturing the poignancy of such mutual walking away moments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMkFjYRWM4M > Oh, I am soooo not special. I flunked the test. Take pity > upon my wretched mundane soul*. Don't be such a drama queen. No such putdown was ever intended, nor do I think it even existed. Some hear a rock song and it has no meaning or emotional loading for them; some hear it and it clicks a circuit on in their brains and unlocks a set of memories and emotions for them. No harm, no foul either way IMO. I mean, there are probably people on this forum who cannot comprehend why I don't get all choked up and emotional and bhaktified when I hear Paul McCartney's "Cosmically Conscious." They can hear something special in the song, something that makes it meaningful to them. I cannot. So even if the putdown you imagined were true, in this case I'm the person who is not "special." :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz8ZNtoCHrI Then again, "Cosmically Conscious" has gotten 44,144 hits on YouTube. The two versions of "Angie" on YouTube have gotten 15,293,646. Which of those numbers in your opinion indicates "specialness" and which does not? See? Does not compute. It's not quantifiable. You either groove with a song or you don't. Being special has nothing to do with it.
