While on a study abroad trip in Egypt this summer, I had the pleasure of viewing a dance performance. The gentleman dancing would spin around and around, faster and faster, causing his outfit to becoming disclike. Though I do not fully understand the significance of the dance, you could “feel” energy resonating from him. You could see that he had gone into a trance, his spinning had spiraled him into another state of conscious. (An interesting side note, finishing spinning in circles for about 15 minutes the dancer showed no signs of dizziness or fatigue, and merely bowed and walked strait off the stage.)
Don’t we all from time to time get lost in music, dance, sound, language, and art? I often will be driving some where and a song will be playing that takes me to another world. I’ll still get where I’m going, but my dominant persona is no longer driving, a different part of my conscious is.
On a side note, did anyone else think of Tart’s Diagram of Perception when they saw the pictures of Mandalas and Yantras? (Not that they represent similar things, just the look and connectedness (and that is a real word haha))
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