luka

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From religion is probably a bit determinative but you have many of the same component pieces. Reverence. Awe. Beauty. Sublimity and also sublimation of the libido.

Sexuality by other means
 

luka

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"It is a feeling which he (Romain Rolland) would like to call a senaation of 'eternity', a feeling as of something limitless, unbounded - as it were, 'oceanic'."

FREUD
Civilization and its Discontents.
 

luka

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I was trying to inveigle a couple of mates into discussing the religious feeling of '70s roots but this is all I got out of them
"That is a tune! Not too fast, great up tempo vibes. .

Sent from my iPad"

Almost wanted to cry
 

luka

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A typology of various religious tendencies as manifested in music would be possible.

From pentecostal fervour to ambient retreat to inner sanctum and stillness. The gamut.
 

luka

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I was trying to tempt them with questions like
What does slowness contribute to the feeling tone of roots? What about horns and the way the horns are deployed?
 

sadmanbarty

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That's quite a statement there Barty!

I suppose there's some truth to it.

Take 'Sex, Drugs & Rock n Roll by the Blockheads'. On initial listening it's sardonic, brashly of the mortal world. But on closer inspection you uncover a coded religiosity.

The Holy Trinity: "Sex and drugs and Rock & Roll".

Salvation "Is all my brain and body need".

It's a proclamation of faith.

Alright Si, keep your knickers on.
 

luka

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Freud rejects the oceanic ("I've never felt it") as the source of religion. He ascribes it to the desire, in a hostile, threatening world, for the protection of the father.
 

sadmanbarty

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And the trumpet shall be blown, so all those that are in the heavens and all those that are in the earth shall swoon, except him whom Allah will ; then it shall be blown again, then they shall stand up awaiting
 
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