The Body, Music, and Healing

Abstract

Nothing is more ironical than strengths that generate weaknesses. I think particularly of the ability of Western philosophy and science to objectify the world. To so sharply demarcate things and pin them down that they become objects. Ob-jecta — the Latin roots connote things thrown in front of us. So framed and constituted in experience, things transformed into objects “out there” are subjected to scientific observations and experimentations that tease out, or force out, some of their hidden features.

Music is the sound of life — Carl Nielsen

As true stillness comes upon us, we hear, we hear, and we learn that our whole lives may have the character offmding that anthem which would be native to our own tongue, and which alone can be the true answer to the questioning, the calling, the demand for ultimate reckoning which devolves upon us - Henry Bugbee