@sns - Indeed, when I was in college and taking lots of hallucinogens, some of which we even knew what they were, we were reading all those Castaneda books.
One of my best friends' dad made 'Altered States'.
Critical listening and altered states
Ok, this is not a question about relaxing, but about listening to evaluate how the system (or a piece of gear is sounding).
What, in your experience, are the pluses and minuses of altering your state of mind for listening? This can include anything you've used to affect your everyday state of mind, from coffee, beer, scotch, tobacco, to much stronger — and psychoactive, dissociative — additives.
What do you gain by altering your consciousness in terms of what you notice, attend to, linger on, etc?
What causes more details to emerge?
What allows you to stick with a thread or, alternately, make new connections?
Or perhaps you like to keep all those things *out* of your listening; if that's you, please say a bit about why.
What, in your experience, are the pluses and minuses of altering your state of mind for listening? This can include anything you've used to affect your everyday state of mind, from coffee, beer, scotch, tobacco, to much stronger — and psychoactive, dissociative — additives.
What do you gain by altering your consciousness in terms of what you notice, attend to, linger on, etc?
What causes more details to emerge?
What allows you to stick with a thread or, alternately, make new connections?
Or perhaps you like to keep all those things *out* of your listening; if that's you, please say a bit about why.
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Some substance are at the roots of religions... Why not using them in some sacred cirsconstances? I did it with THC for listening the "Christus" of Liszt one of the greatest religious work since Bach...
The first 30 minutes contain what is nearer to a music describing Nature before sin, impossible to describe the simple purest cinematographic image of Eden in music... It is the same with the choral Work of Hildegard of Bingen... I used THC to increase my concentration and focus on each chord... |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsSDzI0_I4U The "rub" according to Chris Rock. |
@bolong Part and parcel of the human condition. Is reality too much or not enough? |
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