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The Soul Musician

I was gratefully listening to a theologian musician repeat a rabbinic tradition of four levels of resonant soul: individual (egosystemic), communal (local), social (cultural, national identity) global (Earth,ecosystemic). A mature musician, like a wise theologian, sees these four soul identities as circular double-binding octaves, mutually informing up and down, in and out. As EarthMother's original staging womb organically recreates using the fractal language of DNA inscription, prediction, predication, to recreate yet another individual soul, as BrahmanEarth outside soul is to AtmanEgo inside spirit of dynamic resonance, preferring regeneration as positive as more power-indwelling than degeneration as negative. So, it was jarring when this musical theologian referred to human bodies as machines, rather than organisms. Machines seem to be left-brain dominant power reductions as compared with Left with Right-balancing organisms. For robotic machines, punishing or rewarding communities, leviathan bureaucratic autocratic societies, lifeless planetary spheres, power is either on or off, energy is positive or negative. For living organisms, individual through holonically Earth-wombed, power is both regenerative and degenerative, positive and negative; Not digitally governed by our either/or switch but analogically healed, developed and wounded, decomposing with both/and holistic interdependent consciousness. Human nature sounds like a robotic analogy and hopelessly predictable, dully rational as a LeftBrain dominant machine. Humane nature/spirits feel organically metaphoric polyphonic polypathically rounded theo/eco-logical music composed and decomposed, marvelously trans-rational as left with right hemispheric balance, rhythm, communal pitch, cultural resonance, EarthWomb global Soul, ZeroZone regenerative more powerful than degenerative, Yet organic cycles and recycles, purpose and repurposes of life decomposing death require both to recreate recompose recologize recognize theologize musical soul as powerful resonant both-thought/and-felt structure. But, when we started singing together I knew for sure he, as we, feels more and better as metaphoric musicians than analogical machines.

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