What Transports? When Last?

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I was sitting here tonight, and I was transported to a wholly differently level to ordinary experience. It wasn't an elevated thing, it was space in between.

That is, it was evidence of something beyond my sitting on the couch and being me. A beauty, an extension of the moment. It was brought on by music. I was playing a record, and it didn't so much grab me - it was far too subtle than that - but its expression of emotion overwhelmed me. Such simplicity, such relief from bodily and daily events.

What was the last thing that grabbed you, out of the blue, and exposed something else - something other than an every day feeling of being?
 

As you know I have a background in meditation, so these states of mind are a bit unusual, but understandable. Many avenues of thought process' come together to form very new perceptions occasionally. I like those "spaces" a lot. I can't make them happen, they just show up occasionally. What is the music you had on? The thing that triggers that "moment" is also interesting. :)
 
Paco Dennis said:
As you know I have a background in meditation, so these states of mind are a bit unusual, but understandable. Many avenues of thought process' come together to form very new perceptions occasionally. I like those "spaces" a lot. I can't make them happen, they just show up occasionally. What is the music you had on? The thing that triggers that "moment" is also interesting. :)
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You had a trancendental moment or two by transcending our llimited cognitive capacities.
 

VaughanJB said:
I was sitting here tonight, and I was transported to a wholly differently level to ordinary experience. It wasn't an elevated thing, it was space in between.

That is, it was evidence of something beyond my sitting on the couch and being me. A beauty, an extension of the moment. It was brought on by music. I was playing a record, and it didn't so much grab me - it was far too subtle than that - but its expression of emotion overwhelmed me. Such simplicity, such relief from bodily and daily events.

What was the last thing that grabbed you, out of the blue, and exposed something else - something other than an every day feeling of being?
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I used to experience that quite often when I smoked pot. That was part of the appeal... you'd get transported to another state of mind where nothing else existed but the music. It was like being in a trance.

But that was a long time ago.
 
Let me preface this by saying I've never gone to a concert while on any kind of drug or drink. I've always wanted the full experience, sober, so i don't miss anything.

I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan in 88, and during his solo in Texas Flood, I could swear I was in the music. No body, no weight, just a sense of swirling and floating around. I felt the music, like it was a part of me.

I've had no musical experience like that before of since.

Man, I miss that guy.

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VaughanJB said:
I was sitting here tonight, and I was transported to a wholly differently level to ordinary experience. It wasn't an elevated thing, it was space in between.

That is, it was evidence of something beyond my sitting on the couch and being me. A beauty, an extension of the moment. It was brought on by music. I was playing a record, and it didn't so much grab me - it was far too subtle than that - but its expression of emotion overwhelmed me. Such simplicity, such relief from bodily and daily events.

What was the last thing that grabbed you, out of the blue, and exposed something else - something other than an every day feeling of being?
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Certain music always transports me. And I've composed and released music with the express purpose of transporting others to peaceful, meditative, pleasurable and sometimes even danceable realms. Here are two of the artists that really "take me away" and these songs are two of my favorites (among many):

After I discovered Michael E, when I heard this song, I wound up buying several of his tracks. The video is stunning.


Do you remember the dance hit Rainforest? Before Michael E, for me it was Paul Hardcastle, who has since Rainforest, become known for his Smooth Jazz recordings. I close my eyes and am in another world.


When last? Now!
 
At age 25, I was walking downhill on an old, retired gravel road in the forest. I was with a friend and my memory is that, at the time, we were looking for standing-dead trees that we might cut down and cut into short lengths for firewood. At one point, he walked a little further down the road.

I was just gazing out into this vista of conifer trees and I disappeared and only the nameless forest existed. No thoughts, no background of worries or concerns, no sense of body or self... all of that was gone. When my friend came back up the trail and conversation resumed, I came pretty much back to 'normal'. But I felt exhilarated, and that feeling lasted at least a day and only gradually faded off.
 
Yesterday watching Netflix movie Definately/Maybe This song played. "I Am Everday People". For the 1st. time since hearing it listening to the words I understood the message in the lyrics.

Lyrics
… Sometimes I'm right and I can be wrong
My own beliefs are in my song
The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then
Makes no difference what group I'm in
… I am everyday people, yeah, yeah
… There is a blue one who can't accept
The green one for living with
A fat one tryin' to be a skinny one
Different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on and scooby-dooby-dooby
We got to live together
… I am no better and neither are you
We're all the same, whatever we do
You love me, you hate me
You know me and then
You can't figure out the bag I'm in
… I am everyday people
… There is a long hair
That doesn't like the short hair
For being such a rich one
That will not help the poor one
Different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on, scooby-dooby-dooby
We got to live together
… There is a yellow one that won't
Accept the black one
That won't accept the red one
That won't accept the white one
Different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on and
Scooby-dooby-dooby
… I am everyday people
 
Paco Dennis said:
What is the music you had on? The thing that triggers that "moment" is also interesting. :)
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I listen to a lot of music, as I've mentioned. I've learned that one important aspect is volume. Volume has to go with the mood. If you're upbeat, excited, happy - then maybe it goes up a bit. Meditative, the volume goes down.

There is a very difficult album called "Spiritual Unity" by Albert Ayler. I had it for some time, and I found it almost impenetrable. That was until, late one night, I put it on very very quietly (it's a loud, brash, avant garde sax scream-a-thon), and I played it just within hearing. That changed everything for me, and I fell in love. Strange how things work.

Still, on the night in question I was listening to Bonny Light Horsemen.


Again, quietly. I do love music.
 

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