curtisdeltablues wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hugo wrote:
>>
>>> Interesting article here:
>>>
>>> http://mysterytopia.com/2008/07/meditate-on-it.html
>>>
>>> It doesn't really explain how mantras came to be
>>> so powerful, if indeed they are actually different
>>> from any other randomly chosen sound.
>>>
>>>
>> Think resonance. It is the resonant qualities of the sound which
>> determine the effect and the basis for Nada Yoga (the science of
>> sound). Remember the TM lecture example of scratching your
>>
> fingernails > on the blackboard as an example of a sound that wouldn't
> probably make > very good mantra. :)
>
> Proof by analogy is just lame. Using an extreme example proves
> nothing. There is no detectable difference between sounds like the
> mantra sounds and any other ordinary word. This is just an claim
> supported by religious assertion IMO.
>
Nonsense. Go read up on nada yoga rather than make up your own folk
philosophy. And apparently you would think that there is no difference
between dissonance and consonance in music by your "folk philosophy."
:D :D :D
