Synchronized Expression
Entirety of religion and spirituality is like a family gathering where kids drink juice from their kiddie cups and pretend to be cheerfully drunk while the grownups get smashed to oblivion. Followers wiggle in self-induced pretensions of trances while the so-called authorities get high on their indulgences.
That’s why there are those that try to sell you access to yourself. That, because they don’t know who (they are). Thus, they don’t know what they are doing. Particularly in the context of self-realization being for free. No one charges you a dime when you realize who you are. The knowledge is also sort of a gift. It kind of occurs. If you prepare the soil, that is. But I digress.
All art forms in which people can express themselves simultaneously have something to do with music. Sure, people can express themselves simultaneously in any way they like, but if music is not involved, the result is pure noise. See internet. Take two or more people talking at the same time, arguing their point as is often the case in public “debates,” which resemble contests more than exchange of ideas, and contrast the result with a group of dancers or musicians having a simultaneous dialogue (even if confrontational).
A working church is a band, a healthy tribe is a traveling dance ensemble. But also a group of cooks who rock around their kitchen with their utensils, serving their audience sensory treats of art. You can extrapolate the rest. I also know of no one who would think about remuneration while performing the act of their life. If anyone treats church and path to Absolute — but also life in general — in any other way, it’s just a self-gratifying perversion.
However, it must be said: bands that don’t put their music above all are always banal, boring, and, in the end, forgettable — sort of waste of everyone’s time and energy. No matter the size of audience the band may have. Naturally, there are also one-man bands. And of course, people who know God don’t need to have exhaustive theological and philosophical debates.
That’s how I see the future.
