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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Pat Metheny, Chogyam Trungpa, Jazz, Rock And Space: Sex, Confinement, Liberation

Khajuro Group Of Monuments
"It'll turn your world upside down."

Dear Chuck,

Thanks for re-sending Pat Metheny's "Better Days." https://youtu.be/fQUxw9aUVik

Chogyam Trungpa said people don't feel at home in freedom because it's too panoramic, too open.

No floor. No ceiling. No walls. (No corners to back ourselves into?)

In a way, there's nothing "concrete" to call "home."

In the midst of openness, we have no anchor and tend to "stutter spiritually," suddenly realizing we're "on the high wire" -- without the wire! -- suspended over net-less void with nowhere to go but down.

What goes up... 

I wonder if the relative popularity of rock over jazz is that jazz - at its best - is so open that it threatens "us."

Rock, on the other hand, always links its inspirations to essentially sexual beats.

For most people -- at least "in their prime" -- it is sex that keeps them tethered -- earthbound -- so they needn't fear the blue yonder.

Or the deep blue sea.

Swept away.
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Blue Yonder

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Concerning the floor, roof and walls of "home..."

In Poco's "Good Feelin' To Know," I cannot hear the lyric --- "I've got that old time feeling burning deep inside in my soul and I am yours, baby I'm home" --- without perceiving myself in the immediate aftermath of sexual climax, still coupled, surrounded, embedded, anchored.

"A Good Feelin' To Know"

At "bottom," sex merges confinement and liberation... physical enclosure with a perception of non-material hyperspace openness.

The best of both worlds?

The profoundest truths are paradoxical?

Pax tecum

Alan

PS In Latin, "Matter" and "Mother" are started out as the same word: "Mater."


On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:32 AM, CH wrote:
This is one of 2 Metheny tunes that channels pure joy for me. I'll send you the other, too.

C


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