Some Thoughts and Memories

The following is from a film called The Great Dictator in which Charlie Chaplin gives an extraordinary speech...full of vision and power. Rightly, or wrongly I regard it as possibly the "greatest" speech of its kind.......   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8HdOHrc3OQ  (includes the music from Inception entitled Time) I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshe...

Though I love Early Music (ie. Medieval, Renaissance, and the Baroque) my musical tastes are infact very varied...as partially indicated on the profile section of this blog site...However, there is one very specific piece of music which hits it off with me completely. It is An Ending (Ascent) by Brian Eno. To me it always hits the right notes. It is magical, and indeed, transcendent......  Ofcourse, there are many excellent examples of computer generated music artfully produced . But for me An Ending is it..!! It sums up everything..about  life and the universe...and as such I have placed an entry here along with relevant links... Moreover, such music when concentrated upon via meditation can become subtler, and subtler in one's mind, and hence, become more, and more glorious, and transcendental..Here, I refer to the deep, more esoteric side of music at higher levels of consciousness. Such "worldly" music like An Ending, or indeed, anything el...