Sunday, 30 July 2023

In respect of music a (half-serious) system of classification suggests itself, which might also apply in other areas. On a descending scale with considerable leeway for overlap, there are, the spiritual (spirit in the sense of absolute-spirit, nothing to do with religion which belongs mostly in the next level) which is independent of the forms of experience, such as time and space, the psychicl or soulfull, having to do with all heavens and hells and the myriad channels between them, and is embodied but independent of the precise form of body, then the endocrinel, fully embodied in a human body with ordinary human passions, then the animalicl which is bodily but focused on certain parts of the body, then the insectoidl and the vegetablel - which being directly below the spiritual on the spiral can easily be mistaken for it. Everyone will fill these categories out differently, but for example, only Bach and Mozart populate the spiritual, Wagner and Bruckner are psychic and Mahler and Verdi endocrine, or animalic and insectoid, take your pick, American minimalism is vegetable.

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