Navigating Chaos– At West End Gallery
You have discovered the spiritual universe. Many others have discovered this same world, but each must make the discovery for himself. You are going to have a lot of joy sailing around this world of yours. Don’t fight the opinions of others, or waste your time arguing over these things. Follow the inward gleam of your consciousness and you will arrive.
–Ernest Holmes, This Thing Called You, 1948
This is one of those posts where one leg of my desired triad of image, word and music appears first, inspiring a search for the other two.
For today it was a piece of music that I came across yesterday. It was piece of music called Dance With Waves performed by Tunisian composer/ oud player Anouar Brahem. It came on a station I was listening to yesterday and captivated me with its buoyant pulse. Made me feel like I was bobbing on waves, lightly riding the rhythm of a much greater force.
Not sure that the other two legs hold up today’s triad but it doesn’t really matter. They work on their own, I guess. For your information, Ernest Holmes was a writer of the American New Thought movement, a pseudo-religious/metaphysical movement that goes back to the early 19th century. I don’t know much about it but from my brief look it seems to have many of the same Deist beliefs espoused by some of the Founding Fathers or of the Transcendentalist movement that inspired Ralph Waldo Emerson. It doesn’t have a real doctrine or dogma and encompasses much of the philosophy and wisdom that has come down from ancient cultures around the world.
Interesting to consider. And for the purpose of today’s post, it works for me, as does the painting at the top, Navigating Chaos.
Give a listen and find out for yourself. Here’s Anouar Brahem.
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