source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:01:34 -0800 Subject: Re: Organizing fields, 1 From: "Jo A. Hainline" On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Gary Morrison wrote: > > There appears to be some sort of color-coding scheme involved here. > Obviously "infared" (lower frequency than red light) radiation cannot > directly appear as "flourescent red" to our eyes. If the author is > claiming that he can see infared with his eyes, then he is imagining > things. > Gary, the author is referring to a phenomenon which I also have experienced. This comes about through rather intensive eye training with solar light--not to be undertaken without guidance. The rods and cones of the eyes are sensitized to perceive beyond what I suppose could be called the "normal" range. Further discussin of this should be continued privately. > > > Therefore, we can no longer regard the physical > > chemical organism as more "real" than the non-physical electric organism. > > > (Here is strong support for the old metaphysical view that the human > > complex is more electric than chemical, more "spiritual" than physical.) > > What is this author's basis for suggesting that electrical phenomena are > not governed by physical laws and are thereby spiritual in nature? There > is nothing spiritual, metaphysical, or aphysical about electricity. The > laws that govern electric and magnetic phenomena have been known, and have > gone mostly unmodified, since the late 1800s. They are known as Maxwell's > Equations. > > Again the author is discussing what could perhaps be more accurately termed "radiant" fields and energy--these are either more "electric" or more "magnetic" in nature. I am sure that we are at the very beginning of our understanding of things electrical and magnetic; Newtonian physics falls apart on the microscopic level and I believe Maxwell's Equations will eventually suffer the same fate. I realize it is too much to expect that anyone could make sense out of my previous post taken out of context as it was. Let me attempt to clarify several of the "mystical" givens that form the basis of these thoughts and then take this discussion off this list if necessary. Even from the strictly "scientific" description I presume that all would agree that as the earth evolved out of the sun, so we must see the sun as the source also of life. Mr. Savoy has proposed that energy, and therfore matter also, has associated with it what he calls intelligence factors (IF) and that it is these IF factors that are responsible for organizing matter into forms which express life. In fact solar radiant energy is by far the most influential force on this planet. Savoy proposes that eyes evolved solely for the intake solar energy (intelligence)--Plato's metaphor of the cave is apropo. By absorbing solar energy in the proper way, changes take place in many ways, from stimulating the rods and cones to perceive a broader range of the electromagnetic spectrum to changes in the endocrine system and resultant physiological changes. As a result of the IF factors of sunlight there is also a tremendous impact on the psyche of the individual, which can be completely overwhelming (the devil made me do it!). This radiant energy absorption is a kind of nourishment for the organizing fields, or the intelligence that holds matter in particular forms. These fields reflect certain solar force centers and are linked to particular organ systems of the body. These fields can eventually "live" independently of the physical body, achieving the potential for "immortality". Taoist techniques collect "chi" energy, circulating it correctly to raise "shen", spirit, in the pursuit of immortality--unfortunately I believe that the negative alchemical presentation of taoist principles does a disservice to the true ideas, like judging the efficacy of science based on its involvement in producing the atomic bomb. But what does all this have to do with music? I believe that this general thread of discussion of things "mystical" is the result of several simple questions--as musicians, is there any reason to work with one particular scale or another? Does musical expression have any particular effect on us, our bodies, psyches, spirits? Bruce Kanzelmeyer Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 04:21 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA18855; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 04:21:03 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA18847 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id TAA10772; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:19:39 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:19:39 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu