Feeling a lack of control over one’s own fate is arguably a large characteristic found in different types of mental anguish and suffering. Being able to understand the self is a method of gaining some of that control. Different types of therapies have their own methods for attempting to achieve this goal. In the process [...]
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Ze Frank can be fairly entertaining on his video blog there. On this particular episode, he discusses the limitations of consciousness: the show with zefrank: 01-08-07 I post it here, because I think the point he makes connects well with the idea of improvisation. When a person learns to improvise, he begins to harness a [...]
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“Wind, water, and stones”: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Music is the channeling of a form of Nature. A musician attempts to create a certain abstract space. Within and of that space, there is Nature. As an improvisation, a musician attempts to Play what is Now. Themes flow through and repeat [...]
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I’ve been practicing meditation in one form or another for a few years now. Whenever I mention it, I usually get an odd look. There is a certain unspoken need to explain it, yet the more I do it, the more obvious it seems to me are its benefits. At the same time, paradoxically, it [...]
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Improvisation is the process of developing an observing ego. This ego learns to be without censorship. Rather it observes the notes, phrases, and concepts emanating from within. The “within” is the unconscious. In the process, the ego, as a part of consciousness, begins to understand what comes out from the unconscious. As it does so, [...]
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