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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in
time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated
from the rest -
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There was a button on the right hand side of the frame of the gate, flashing its red light into the gaps of my thoughts, as I focused my vision into its blinking pulse. The red light outlining the words PRESS TO OPEN, ceased its rhythm on the contact with my fingers, as I touched the blinking words.
The gate wall started to elevate to the top of its oval frame, shortly after moving my shoulders, I stepped out of the spherical room into a lobby.
I suddenly woke up, and realized I had been dreaming. I found myself laying down on the floor of my bedroom in Brookline, Massachusetts, at 2:46 on a June morning of 1991!
I got up, stared at the window and paused there for a brief moment. Until I realized I need to put some clothes on, and go outside for an early walk.
As I started walking on the side walk of this two-
As I kept walking, I started to reflect on the Keith and Johann’s encounter in my dream, its illusionary meaning.
Johann was in heaven, where he has been for the last 229 years. -
Intriguing enough, in the year 1985 when the Keith and Johann’s encounter had taken
place in my dream, Keith would’ve been in his home, recording primitive music for
his own personal delectation. The same recording was eventually documented and released
under the title Spirits. Through this touching experience with the ground, the core
of the earth, the Primeval as he would evoke it on a written note, Keith himself,
questioned the essence and the fate of all music. He reasoned that if the earth is
our most prominent access to the Cosmos, then primitive music is cosmic music indeed!
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But why were I reflecting upon the illusion of Keith and Johann’s encounter? The
paradoxical ascendance-
The optical illusion of the two-
I had just been reading a book by J. W. Dunne called An Experiment with Time. Dunne
concluded that our dreams are free from the constraint of our physical time-
Then, I thought about the distinguished psychologist and epistemologist Jean Piaget and his most brilliant and evolutionary ideas. As I paused leaning against a light poll on the side walk for a little while, I felt that I may have had captured the meaning of Keith and Johann’s encounter.
In the content of the dream, I could find the key to the explanation of the dream
by recalling Piaget’s book Psychogenesis and the History of Science. Written with
the collaboration of the physicist Rolando Garcia, the book aims to elucidate two
parallel evolutionary processes; one in the development of intelligence in the child’s
world, and the other in the development of classical physics from early mechanics
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The Hymn of Release was a farewell in the Italian Baroque Concertato Style, alternating its ripieno enthusiastic polyphonic theme with a contrasting homophonic concertino section.
Johann had been released.
The lights in the spherical hall were slowly turned on, and the 1:23’ :31” mission seemed to have ended.
I had been in the control room as a spectator during the journey, standing by before a glass wall next to the sound engineer, by whom I was granted the invitation to follow the journey.
All of a sudden, I noticed that Keith started to walk towards the exit gate to leave the spherical hall, when I realized I must rush to the gate before he walked away. It was going to be my first chance to say hello to one of the most remarkable musicians in the history of humanity.
Once I approached the gate, I realized it was too late. Keith had just passed through the gate, when a massive wall went down shading the echo of its noise masked with the sounds of his footsteps as he walked away. Did I really hear his footsteps, or was it just my imagination?... No sounds can pass through the gate wall once it is locked down to the ground.
I paused before the gate for a moment looking down at the ground as if something which I didn’t quite understand had suddenly driven me disappointed and hopeless, not knowing that I was just about to read some of the most powerful words I had ever come to face!
All of a sudden, I found myself facing an abstractive intersection along the two
ways street. An intersection of two crossing of ideas, so to speak. I could either
go one way or the other way. -
I turned to music and physics, and once I made the decision, I dove myself into the
depth of a cave of abstractions for some long days secluded. -
It was time to go back home. So, I started to walk again, formulating a sequence of linear thoughts from a remote data in the bank of my memory. They represent the last thoughts under the Piagenesis psychology before I could forge away with the discipline of musicophysics!
I must have scanned through it a few times faster than it will take you to read the next following paragraphs. What I have come to call, the walking thoughts.