Musical intoxication is awesome - fire up a fatty and there's nothing better sometimes. But it ain't very effective as meditation, except as pallative therapy, imo.
--- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Share Long <sharelong60@> wrote: > > > > Realized recently that some of my favorite musical pieces > > are the original soundtracks of movies. For example, Year > > of Living Dangerously, the fantastic soundtrack by Vangelis > > begins on this trailer when Sigourney Weaver appears. > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2k9d0c4sAM > > Those of a non-Tantric disposition or those who are > convinced that one can only meditate in silence may > not be able to get this, but back in the Rama trip > we used to meditate to this. > > Also to other soundtrack music of a similar nature > done by Tangerine Dream or Patrick O'Hearn. It was > a trip, and often deeper than meditations in silence. > Go figure. > > Here's one of my favorite Tan Dream soundtrack clips, > with visuals that are just as lovely. It's called > Love On A Real Train: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk30-AtiB4M > > The meditations I used to have (and still do, from > time to time) set to soundtracks from Tangerine Dream > were among the best of my life. Far from being in the > least distracting, the music seems to allow a kind of > flow state that very quickly results in any conscious > awareness of the music going away, leaving only a > strange state of silence in activity, in which any > conscious awareness of the self goes away. >
