Yeah, I like blending the arts and consciousness, like B2 was mentioning earlier, and like the Oneida and Shaker groups, did. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote:
Doc, I love reading the song titles for the tracks on the album cover. I have found from the studying of other historic spiritual groups like ours you can often get in the minds and hearts of members then by looking at the text of their songs. The song text a lot of times have their ideology embedded in them. As part of movements the songs they often would sing as groups or for entertainment though corny at times were often fun and patriotic to the group for the people who were there at the time. I was at a conference last year with a whole bunch of academics and we took a tour of the historic village of Zoar, Ohio, early settled by German mystics. On the tour of the historic village we went in to their big brick meeting house and the tour guide described something to the effect, 'that this is where he gave his sermons'. Upon the word 'sermon' you could see this collective shudder in the tour group about the thought of listening to sermons. But the meeting house had amazing acoustics for singing and the spoken word could be easily heard anywhere in the meeting house. It was really cool. I had got to Zoar the night before and looked around on my own and noted that about the Meeting House. The thing to explain to these modern day folks though from the perspective of being inside vital revolutionary spiritual groups the meetings were actually fun to be in. The members knew the language of the shared experience and had developed their own songs to go along with the cultural dynamic of the movement. At the time of these mystical separatist groups like Zoar forming in America they were unified and having fun doing it. I was at Oneida in New York a couple years ago and interviewed some aged people who were part of Oneida and they said the same thing. What they remember about the community was that it was fun. The community was really fun to be part of. Likewise it was with TM in its day and for those still in it now. -U.S. Buck in the Dome The Doctor writes: I have been going through several lifetimes worth of belongings, and came across this record, that I probably bought in the Communist Chinese store, Hong Kong, c. 1970. (So *that's* how they won...): https://app.box.com/s/jjxylhxkkwc3bu31m9tz https://app.box.com/s/jjxylhxkkwc3bu31m9tz
