I am glad you fare well on this health front ...
My best to you ...
Just got the results of my lung CT: No trace of cancer, despite my best bad efforts to get the rot.... COPD is under some sort of control, yay....
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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Very deep observation ! Thanks.
I felt the same, once we lived through a ASC musical experience driven by THC you felt it always stored in our body memory ready to reveal to us again, even without THC, how the music content (visual in my case and derived from the music ) spoke to our consciousness as from a higher level of meaning.
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@puptent ....Thurston didn't hang with me....😏 When down to sticks 'n stems, the 'long beyond needing to be committed' hippie tykes get creative.... ;) Gets a bit 'raw', but....no pain no gain....db or otherwise.... Planning a run to the MAF in 8/'25 with my mutants....be there or blow it off. I will be obvious.... ...and not as obnoxious as you might think or fear.... ;) |
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