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I have quite a bit of experience with Music Production. Big part of my Life Purpose. Here's my take... Rhythm is the baseline. In a certain sense, it's actually more important because it's sort of a fundamental ground-level you need to build up everything else in the track. In general, your Melody is going to work in tandem with the Rhythm. A different Rhythm might actually "recontectualize" the same Melody, because different notes are being emphasized. A great Melody is what you need to make a good "Genius-level" composition, but with a mediocre rhythm is still not gonna turn heads of the common viewers. You kinda need that highly-polished or professional beat to attract the majority of people, and then maybe a few with more "refined tastes" will recognize the genius of the melody underneath. But personally, I'm more of a Dance Music addict, and my mind loves to think of amazing and unique melodies for my own tracks. So I like to think I try to get the best of both worlds when it comes to Melody vs Rhythm
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Zigzag Idiot replied to AION's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
A lot depends on the worldview of those who are around you. It invites trouble. Especially when you're surrounded by fundamentalists of any religion with exceptions. Referring to oneself as God or being one with God has a nuance to it that many people will overlook. To feel or experience it is one thing. It's cheapened when it's stated verbally. But perhaps not 100 percent of the time. I read everyone's response after I wrote what I did above. We're all close to understanding one another it seems. -
This is my experience from 20 years of dancing. It truly also depends on my moods, feels, vibe for the moment / day. If I am being emotional, I look more for melody. If I am more in fun mode, then rythm. But when discovering new songs, I often skim the songs to find Alignment / Harmony in the song.
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The follow up for this video is something I need to listen to . Thanks Leo for your work.
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The need for more epistemic repsonsibility is apparent today more then ever with the advent of AI. All of us have a chatbot in our pockets that answers literally any question. I think sooner or later people won't be able to tie a shoelace without first asking ChatGPT. Personally, this technology benefits me a lot, but when it comes to epistemology, I think it has a potential to rotten my mind, make it lazy and essentially irresponsible.
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Thedoorsareopen: “The bottom line is the Middle East was about as peaceful as it’s been in my 40 year life, and then Hamas shot up a music festival.” Zazen: “There's literally been a war on terror, that turned into a war OF terror - the past decades in the Middle East. Bottom line is to read the entire page (context) and not just the bottom.“ Thedoorsareopen: “I don't give a fuck about Israel OR Palestine! I'm offended about October 7th as a music fan and music festival goer! Your righteous cause shades fear on every music celebration worldwide, and music is basically the best thing about being human.” It would be best - to not live under occupation and actually give a fuck enough to understand what led to such an atrocity in the first place. Two things can be true at the same time - that Oct 7 was atrocity and that the conditions that gave rise to it should be remedied. Your making it all about me me me. MY 40 years of life, MY music hobby, MY vibes have been ruined - equating that to 40+ years of occupation and domination of Palestinians who have their ears and heads blown off.
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I just don't find it worth my time. But you do you.
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Natasha Tori Maru replied to AION's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
There's some big implications and inferences with this statement. For clarity; you believe in God, and that she/he/it is something outside you, that is an arbitrator of morality or truth? -
Following and talking about all the news in Gaza because it’s so mainstream now but having no clue what happened in neighboring Syria in the last 14 years.
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integration journey replied to Karmadhi's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
What about the atrocities that happened in Syria in the last 14 years? Nobody feels bad for those? Is it not mainstream enough? Or the world forgets that we exist? -
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Better call Saul is an interesting show.
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If your toenail said I am 'your name' would you say your toenail is being unhealthy? Or would you say you go girl!
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I came up with a few questions about this episode. For @Leo Gura or anyone else who wants to chip in. 1) At the beginning of the episode, you said that developing an epistemic process is key, but you can’t tell us what it is because we would believe it. Why not have more trust in the viewer and share the basics of an epistemic process? It doesn’t have to be belief based. I feel like the episode How to Discover What’s True started to do this but didn’t fully flesh it out. Maybe an update could be helpful? 2) Does truth seeking have to feel like a burden, or is it just ego? Maybe the burden framing is problematic, because it assumes you don’t care about truth in the first place. 3) How important is it to read books or attend retreats? This on the list of things that are epistemically responsible. It feels like a double-edged sword because it’s a somewhat belief-based activity, yet you likely do need to take in some information. Maybe it depends on your level of progress in this work: you start out with lots of reading and learning from different sources, then you rely more as yourself as you get more advanced. The challenge then is accurately pegging how advanced you are. 4) What if you don’t love reality? I genuinely care about truth, but I wouldn’t say I love reality. Definitely not in every moment, only in peak states— to say otherwise would be dishonest. I don’t understand the idea that truth-seeking necessarily comes from a love of reality. 5) The episode frames epistemic responsibility as something that’s important for everyone, but what if that’s not true? Maybe it’s only important if you care. For example, if you have a “normie” mind and you just don’t care about truth maybe there’s nothing wrong with just living normally. The counterargument might be that not caring about truth will lead to suffering, but I’m not sure that’s true since lots of people are happy while being deluded (such as Trump probably). The best move might be to accept the radical relativism that, yes, there is an absolute truth, but if people aren’t interested in it then it’s their dream and their choice. 6) The end of the episode mentioned that even with epistemic responsibility, you won’t avoid self deception. Does this apply just to relative things or even the absolute? Obviously you can be wrong about individual things like politics, but can you be wrong about the absolute/God? In other words, can you have an absolute consciousness of God but at the same time be deceived about it? Hopefully these are interesting for discussion/contemplation.
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Anyone who is a good writer could dip into the vast Hindu literature and come up with a book containing borrowed wisdom and truth. But if it is written by someone of low character it will also contain unseen flaws for you to fall into. For example, if you read the Bhagavad Gita, you want to stick to one of the translations authored by self-realized masters like those of Yogananda, Chinmayananda, Sivananda, or Nikhilananda.
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"Row row row your boat" is a great way to see the difference between melody and rhythm.
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One thing I notice in Leo’s communication that could be improved is his tendency to overgeneralize science and assume the worst in scientists. For instance, Leo critiques science as if science is just a stagnate methodology that isn’t improving itself. Science is constantly improving and the domain of science is so vast that it is difficult to criticize the whole thing. Newton looking through a telescope and testing his observations is science. Science doesn’t have to be done in a group or within the domain of academia. Me sitting in my armchair contemplating and testing my observations and insights is as much science as academia. Academia science may be more rigorous than an Ethnography or philosophical contemplation but it’s still science. Leo tends to assume scientists are lazy, biased, atheistic, and dogmatic. This may be true of a lot of academic scientists. But it’s still a big generalization full of assumptions about a group of people. There is never any mention of a Tier 2 scientists. I am sure there are more great scientists out there than Leo may acknowledge. Leo assumes scientists don’t account for relativism or don’t take philosophy seriously, but I don’t think this is true. I bet there are a lot of scientists that think deeply about philosophy. I understand Leo’s critiques and have seen the dogma myself but have also seen the opposite. I just notice this bias to reduce science down or assume the worst. But there are probably great truth-seeking awakened scientists in the world today. Why couldn’t an awakened person be a scientist? What even counts as a scientist? A true capital S Scientist is one who cares relentlessly about Truth. So in a way, all of Leo’s critiques of science are of small s science and not capital S Science. Edit: How is me taking psychedelics and noting/testing my observations and insights any different from Newton looking through a telescope and noting/testing his observations/insights? They are both science. I still enjoyed the episode. Much love. 🙏
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Looking foward to watching 🙂
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Even spiritual poetry? Spiritual poetry written in a nonconformist free verse style could be groundbreaking. Of course most poetry is pretentious because it’s conformist and the poets don’t deeply understand reality themselves.
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I dislike it. I have zero patience for reading it. I find it pretentious.
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I don't think there's a movie quite as anviliciously stage orange as Meet The Robinsons If you didn't hear it the first time, don't worry, you'll hear the message of the movie 20 other times.
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