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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: What I am doing?

Post Subject: The point of it...Posted by Axel on: 7/20/2009

is, that we ARE the creators as you say --- of EVERYTHING we perceive and therefore what we think also. You are what you think.
So if you do not create a difference between something soul-less and something having soul then you just have not created that difference for yourself.

You talk of audio-levels of perception from the 'Moron TM' to some transcendental perception of listening at level 4. That is what you created also, that’s all there is to it
and some, maybe many, might create this then also for themselves.

I do not know if in your world of the 'pragmatic' something like soul even exists, or can exist. The American Indians speak to the ghost of their ancestors, mathematician to their irrational numbers, you wax on audio-levels, and the next guy might talk to his transistor radio.
I think all it does, it fill our world with some quality of meaning, actually quite simple. A dog regards his master, an audio-nut his hi-fi because it adds MEANING to the individual.

If I disregard my appreciation for some care-fully crafted and looked after thing, i.e. disregard the soul expressed to ME by it, I feel impoverish, made the poorer for it. The smile of a child, the beauty of a flower, the look of a cat, if one is receptive to it, have this quality at the most basic level, and some beautiful architecture or even equipment can posses it too.

Items can also become the opposite i.e. soul-less, it is the case practically with EVERY mass-produced item, and maybe because this can not truly harken back to one creator with his purpose behind it. Mass-produced stuff is usually corrupted in this sense. However, if it is re-engineered, modded, improved, changed, it once again starts to take on a different soul/identity. Like R. Pirsig's motorcycle, in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". I think he called it the GHOST in the machine.

Now if all this appears to be just airy-fairy BS to you, -- mind you, then all of your own mental pursuits that you create on this site would fall into the same category. All you are busy with are then just your own selected ghosts. And let me hasten to say it is FULL of those. I and I guess most contributors are just going with the paw-waw and feel no need to prove that these ghost do not exist. Reviewer of course are not to happy with all of this, as they generally see no 'good medicine' in it at all.

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