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Fwd: Looping and Meditative States, etc
> On Oct 5, 2004, at 6:51, Krispen Hartung wrote:
>
>> Any other experiences like this from the rest of you? Are any of you
>> attending Looper's Anonymous? Do you wake up in the middle of the
>> night
>> with the cold sweats, aching for just one quick loop fix? Heh heh....
>>
>>> It's like looping is some sort of mind-altering opiate or something.
>> One can easily lose all conception of space and time.
>
>
> Speaking for myself that's not only true with looping. Any kind of
> music making induces that state of mind. I need only to play one note,
> or imagine doing that, to experience a drastic change in focus of my
> sensory perception. It's obvious that the part of the brain normally
> used for speaking "oral languages" has to make the way for "the
> musical mind", because if you are playing music and get a quick call
> from someone you might nog be able to speak at all for a second,
> before catching up on normal brain functions again. Try to throw quick
> questions at a musician friend when he is playing and you will get a
> healthy laugh! (don't play try this trick to the performers at the
> club ;-)
>
> As I'm also into practicing yoga and meditation, I've taken interest
> in comparing that particular (subjective) experience with music
> making. To me it's so similar that I cut down on meditation to stay
> out of the zombie zone.
>
> For a while I had a day time job looking after a training center,
> doing the cleaning of showers and stuff, and then I also undertook the
> experiment of running long distances in the wood three times a week. I
> never experienced the exercising to do any good for my body (rather
> the opposite, actually) but the most interesting thing was the state
> of mind induced after approximately fifteen minutes of running. Very
> similar to "the loopy mind" or plain meditation. Someone brought up
> "drugs" in a post and I would guess that we're actually talking
> endorphin here (a natural substance produced in the brain when the
> system i under pressure, chemically similar to amphetamine).
>
> But then there are other levels of meditation that may not share as
> much with the music making mind. As well as certain other adult
> activities that also set of some endorphin ;-)
>
> All the best
>
> Per Boysen
> ---
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