Inscendence as a complementary word to the transcendence brings you contemplations on various topics from the perspective of the reflective, associative and internal intelligence. A journey into depths to find, like Rumi said, the “Messiah, in my heart, I bear.” (مسيحا در دلم پيدا و من بيمار می گردم).
Enjoy the articles. Take them in. More than philosophical discussions or my attempts to convince you of anything, approach them as gentle meditations. Let them reveal that which your own Inner Heart knows. Perhaps they invite you to dream or to look at Reality with an expanded gaze.
[The articles from the old website, Orphic Inscendence, are here too.]
A Story of Senses: Hearing
Many of us hear, yet few of us are capable of listening, precisely because, as it is said in the beginning of this essay, to truly listen, one needs a heightened awareness and sharp focus. For most of us, music becomes a background noise to some work, in a car, or while we are having fun — very rarely do we listen to music for an hour or two without doing something else or looking at a phone. We are also assaulted by all kinds of unwanted noise and music that has no other purpose than to make silence disappear, which makes our minds overly stimulated and tired.
The Music of Everything
The quick journey around the world showed how different peoples saw and resonated with the idea of music as the language or form of everything. It also showed how mathematics, geometry and music are deeply connected. That’s perhaps why no other form of art is as addictive - for as Strauss says, “we enter into a kind of immortality” through it - we bring emotions, feelings, images from the realm of pure Imagination even if we just daydream listening to our favourite music.
The Joy of Being Sad
By the time song, or evening is finished, the discomfort, the pain, subdues, as song may be about a love that has betrayed or gone away, about death, loss, or just general life weariness. Indulged and shared, it offers catharsis - the pain is not dwelled on or overly psychoanalysed, rather the feelings are felt, and given to music and wine to cure — or perhaps it is Dionysus who transforms these boundaries breaking feelings into a transcendent experience.