nostr:npub13l3lyslfzyscrqg8saw4r09y70702s6r025hz52sajqrvdvf88zskh8xc2 have you looked into the work of Stan Grof and his 4 BPM matrixes?
Its a trip ✨
I bought a Stan Grof book recently, and talked to a Grof breathwork teacher.
Listening to music from my birth year, that would be playing when my parents were expecting. Quite the trip. The Cold War era was a tough time. // I’ve come to believe a lot of memories are stored in the body, every in infancy. These imprints can flare up later in life. Hence “the issue is in the tissue” and “the body keeps the score” //
Looks great - congrats!
ADD is a euphemism for being easily distracted and therefore highly open to suggestibility. I struggle with it quite a bit and think it makes me more vulnerable to social media / hyper online culture rather than less.
Hahaha I disagree…
Aw yeah, that’s spot on. Thanks for sharing
I meant the former (see screenshot) but I definitely put this album on many an evening to help me sleep also, very soothing.
I’m blown away. These lyrics (below) are exactly what I was wrestling with as a teen, suffocating from anxiety. I felt trapped and wondered if free will maybe didn’t exist at all.
Like Wyatt says, I believed: “Had I been free, I could have chosen not to be me.”
I never consciously listened to lyrics growing up, but I always am surprised when relistening, how closely the themes of my favorite music harmonized with my emotional landscape.
Free Will and Testament - Robert Wyatt, 1997
Given free will but within certain limitations,
I cannot will myself to limitless mutations,
I cannot know what I would be if I were not me,
I can only guess me.
So when I say that I know me, how can I know that?
What kind of spider understands arachnophobia?
I have my senses and my sense of having senses.
Do I guide them? Or they me?
The weight of dust exceeds the weight of settled objects.
What can it mean, such gravity without a centre?
Is there freedom to un-be?
Is there freedom from will-to-be?
Sheer momentum makes us act this way or that way.
We just invent or just assume a motivation.
I would disperse, be disconnected. Is this possible?
What are soldiers without a foe?
Be in the air, but not be air, be in the no air.
Be on the loose, neither compacted nor suspended.
Neither born nor left to die.
Had I been free, I could have chosen not to be me.
Demented forces push me madly round a treadmill.
Demented forces push me madly round a treadmill.
Let me off please, I am so tired.
Let me off please, I am so very tired.
Rediscovering Robert Wyatt’s “Shleep” album. I was really into it when it came out—I was around 15. Surprised to discover it deals with insomnia, an issue I didn’t become aware of until I was in my thirties. 
He’s the real deal imo. Also ppl have made awesome music with his voice as the lead track.
Really appreciating Ram Dass lately. Audio version of “Becoming Nobody” is my pick of the week. 
I think it’s fueled by anxiety. When people feel helpless, they reach for the tribe to support them. Hence abandonment of individualist values.
Classical Music: who are your favorite composers?