Sharing the Sound of Music
Today’s news features an except from the Auroville Choir’s concert of Celtic songs performed at Pitanga this last weekend, the highlight of which was a surprise: Anandi, choir member and daughter of Nuria and Joan, had composed the music for a poem by Wordsworth: romantic lyrics set to romantic, haunting music. Imagine 40 plus adult Aurovilians of differing cultures working together for the joy of singing…the choir is indeed a place where human unity prevails, in harmony. Also in the news a reminder to catch Emanuele’s painting on stone exhibition at Savitri Bhavan, plus the upcoming L’avenir and Housing Service on-line “Housing Needs and Resources” survey.
Most people will agree that the body and the mind are two aspects of the same thing, or two poles of the same entity, but they still cannot appreciate that there is no mind without environment. Ignore the personal experience of the environment of the nervous system—that is, the body and the external world— and there is nothing left that recalls mental life at all. Thoughts or feelings without their actual content, due to the personal experience of the environment, are nothing more than electrical changes in the structure of the nervous system. It is the connection of these changes with the environment that makes such a change into a feeling of attention for somebody, or into a sensation of red, or into the ideas of continuity, acceleration, beauty or justice. – ‘The Potent Self’ by Moshe Feldenkrais