The Seventh Scents

There is something more serious that I wanted to say.

While I think that many of us have had experiences of the kind of harmony that you are speaking of in the life patterns topic, I suspect that we each come to understand it in terms that are most personally meaningful to us. That is someone might see the experience as being one of cosmic consciousness, while another might see it as perfection, while yet another could interpret the experience it as waves (frequencies) and so on.

And the way that we interpret the experience has to do with our personality, with how we see things, and with what is most important and meaningful to us personally. Yet, the important thing is that no response it THE correct one (right vs. wrong/true vs. false). The responses say more about each of us individually in a personal sense.

This personal meaning is very important to those of us who are artists. Very briefly, I believe that there is the highest truth, which “encompasses” all truths, transcends them, and is more than them. And as artists we try to communicate that of the truth that we can. (Maybe some artists just try to reveal that local truth that they are dealing with, while others are trying to “squeeze” the bigger picture into some means that others can witness a taste of.) But it is through these personal meanings, which we have so much affinity with, that we use as the form in a sense, to carry what we are trying to communicate.

These personal meanings become the language with which we artists use to speak with. For instance, in my case, when I paint I have an affinity with abstract forms and simple shapes. I use these methodologies, these forms, to give a context to the subject I am trying to paint.

While in your case, being involved in music, you might use your leanings toward feeling your machine-ness idea about life as a form to express your music in. Not that you should start doing industrial music, but that you could try to take whatever you discovered in your experience of harmony that was giving you this feeling of the machine, and try to use this form as a framework for a rap – either as the words or the music or both.

You see, this then would make the song much more personal and meaningful to you, and convey to the audience more depth of meaning in your work. And you would convey in the undercurrent of feelings expressed in your song, the deeper truth of the authenticity of your vision, giving it more power and vision while still remaining personally relevant.

Learning about and exploring these personal affinities which are meaningful to us (as we continually discover truth), and using them in our work, is a life long process I think. Perhaps that is what keeps our work fresh and alive.