When encountering fear or anxiety, slow down.. ask yourself 'why?' repeatedly.
'Why do I feel anxious about this idea/event/person/potential/experience?'

When the answer comes.. Ask 'why' again about that answer.

and so on.

Follow back to source.

The idea is to change yourself through grace not through 'hard knocks'.

ferrara~
some of us might find it most helpful if you would care to share the lessons you learned from that experience.
if you had an opportunity for a 'do-over', how would you 'ground the energy'?

haha, thankyou for the reinforcement of the idea was shared with me last week to solve this conundrum.. Its so new to me that I actually can't recall it all at present! So much learning going on at the moment it is silly (or perhaps it is more like un-learning).

First reference is to your supplied link:

"schizophrenic experience is an experience of isolated, disconnected, discontinuous material signifiers which fail to link up into a coherent sequence. The schizophrenic thus does not know personal identity in our sense, since our feeling of identity depends on our sense of the persistence of the "I" and the "me" over time "

-> The opposite is true. Schizophrenia is an ungainly reconnection of disconnected aspects of consciousness. If we define the idea that schizophrenia is a disconnection of sorts, then we are ALL schizophrenic. N.B. many drugs for shizophrenia actually INDUCE it... in as many as 50% of patients. The doctors need more patience and then they will have less patients.

Next up (An amusing one indeed):

"For we must not delude ourselves: Freud doesn't like schizophrenics. He doesn't like their resistance to being oedipalized, and tends to treat them more or less as animals. They mistake words for things, he says. They are apathetic, narcissistic, cut off from reality, incapable of achieving transference; they resemble philosophers --"an undesirable resemblance"... "

-> Oh how disgusting, not a philosopher! LOL

"Freudian psychoanalysts have often tried to lead the schizophrenic down the road to ego formation, and normality"

-> Normal is an illusion created by those who fear change. How unfortunate.

"Deleuze and Guattari see the schizophrenic as capitalism's exterminating angel. For them the schizo is a radical, revolutionary, nomadic wanderer who resists all forms of oppressive power. They believe that radical political movements should "learn from the psychotic how to shake off the Oedipal yoke and the effects of power, in order to initiate a radical politics of desire freed from all beliefs" "

-> Sounds kind of good to me.. I'm not sure you can ever get rid of all beliefs though.. I'm sure you will create some more pretty rapidly in a state of disbelief!

I intended to read the rest of the text but once the writer started wrangling with the concepts from such an intellectualised angle I had to eject, too many unnecessarily complex structures were created, the answer is much, much simpler than anything that was written there (for me anyway).

And so, to your personal points:


"being one that engages in the creation of music,
how does one bring into harmony your eternal hypothesis
and yet still believe in the power of music enough to engage it?"

-> Time is an artificial construct which we create whenever we disconnect from eternity. Harmony and music IS ETERNITY, ALL IS VIBRATION. One only need disconnect from the idea of time in order to BECOME HARMONY. YOU are a vibration. Time is created when one is not being their natural self. Time flies when you are having fun and ceases to exist completely when you are highly joyful and excited.


"that is to say, doesn't music in and of itself, (the experience of time in rhythm) negate your assertion?"
-> If one is creating music when in a state of BEING music then one will be 'flowing' with the NATURAL rhythm as expressed in the idea of the mayan organic timing system. We move from a concept of TIME to a concept of TIMING. It is a matter of perception, as is all experience.

"otherwise the white label would have no groove...."
-> Your experience of your reality IS the groove, you are also the needle and all else. Welcome back to yourself!

yes I really liked that Pinchbeck piece too

thanks for posting the comment Ferrarrrrrrra

:)

"It is my growing conviction that while astute use of intelligence is always a good thing for smart navigation of our complex landscape, equally useful is a foolish sense of trust in our shared space of this living earth in its dreaming genius to guide me through what I can't possibly prefigure beyond general abstractions."