Kurt Leland, "Music and the Soul"

**Neil Templar** · 14th February 2009, 09:33 AM

hmmm. hasn't arrived yet.
it usually takes a while... Holland, you know? it takes a while for anything to happen round here.

**Korpo** · 14th February 2009, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by Neil Templar

hmmm. hasn't arrived yet.
it usually takes a while... Holland, you know? it takes a while for anything to happen round here.

Really? But I guess they think they're lightning fast...

Oliver

**Neil Templar** · 15th February 2009, 06:06 PM

sometimes i wonder how the businesses here stay afloat.
the service provided often gives the impression that they really don't care whether or not you want to spend your money with them..

but then again, last year the Dutch were officially the happiest people on the planet..
they just don't get stressed about anything..

**Mishell** · 15th February 2009, 06:30 PM

I wouldn't be stressed either if I had what they have. (I won't get specific for fear of being moderated.)

BTW, service is total ♥♥♥♥ over here too.

**Neil Templar** · 15th February 2009, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by Mishell

I wouldn't be stressed either if I had what they have. (I won't get specific for fear of being moderated.)

BTW, service is total ♥♥♥♥ over here too.

i thought Germany was all about efficiency??

**Korpo** · 15th February 2009, 07:10 PM

Well, I got my copy of the book. Did not take long either.

But if you wonder how people treat you as a customer, don't ask...

Oliver

Ouroboros · 15th February 2009, 09:07 PM

Originally Posted by Mishell

I wouldn't be stressed either if I had what they have. (I won't get specific for fear of being moderated.)

Y'know, I was thinking the same thing but didn't want to say anything.

**Korpo** · 15th February 2009, 09:49 PM

The subtletly... Oy!

Oliver

sono · 16th February 2009, 04:30 AM

Is anyone else here a fan of Busoni's music? What he does with Bach is astonishing, & I love his opera, Faust - yet I remember my lecturers were not as impressed as I am, so maybe I am reacting purely emotionally!

**Korpo** · 16th February 2009, 08:32 AM

And what would be wrong with that?

There's a music for everything. The book describes how different musical attributes stimulate different chakras. Kurt also describes how the soul steers us clear of music that does not contribute to our growth. You are unique, so you have your own "musical needs."

Also, Busoni is mentioned in the book:

Originally Posted by Kurt Leland

I know of no other music by Busoni in which the mystical element is so apparent as in Doktor Faust. This is why I classified him as a sometime mystic. Like Schoenberg, he was visited by an inpiration that resulted in a few moments of eigth center music - and never again. [...]

In the yoga of listening, the middle 8th music of grace in the Symphonia from Doktor Faust could be useful as a means of realigning ourselves with the soul whenever we've gotten off the path of realizing its plans for our growth.

(from "Music and the Soul" by Kurt Leland)

Busoni's music has a couple of pages in the book.

Oliver