Patrick on March 10th, 2010

A sumptous film, visually, in its story, language and characters. It’s keeping me up tonight…blissfully so…

It’s not a bad book, either.

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The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism

The Tao of Physics

The following is a comment storm that blew out of a seemingly innocent status message I posted on Facebook. It got a few of us thinking, and I think the thinking in it, on all sides, is interesting.

Note that the quote, by Stephen Edwards, is not taken from the book, The Tao of Physics, by Fritjof Capra.

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Ironically, what quantum physics teaches us is that what we can’t see is what controls our world! That’s where faith comes in. ~ Stephen Edwards

Ann:

An important difference is that the process of investigation continues, the unseen is not dismissed as supernatural and unknowable.

Patrick:

<smile> Don’t dismiss faith as a process without investigation, or query, Ann. It sometimes is, but is not necessarily so. Whatever faith I have came through a lifelong investigation coupled with a series of empirical experiences.

I have faith in love. Science produces myriad theories regarding its nature. I prefer my faith — it’s more poetic, for one, but more importantly it describes my experience of it better than any theory based on scientific methods of inquiry.

Moreover, scientists today are functionally no different than priests and prophets; they are the possessors of strange, even arcane, knowledge expressed in a language undecipherable to the lay person. The vast majority of people accept the tenets of science as articles of faith rather than from an understanding of established theoretical constructs. (Which also explains why science has such a difficult time convincing the masses of basic scientific insights.) As Arthur C. Clarke noted: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Alan:

Faith may be investigated but, it is not amenable to empirical investigation. This doesn’t mean there is no poetry or awe just that it is a different, non-rational means. I prefer to approach the understanding of the world on the basis that it is real and knowable.

As a science educator, I would agree that many people don’t understand all scientific constructs but if they want to they can. This differs fundamentally from from chances of understanding the supernatural.

Patrick:

I think you’re making an assumption about how I’m using faith, Alan, that limits its application. I’m not talking about “faith in god” or any such religious or spiritual confine, but the idea that acting on a reasonable faith is essential to our daily existence.

As a scientist I apply scientific inquiry to matters that are amenable to its methods. I also prefer to approach the world on the basis that it is real and knowable. But is it always wise to limit yourself to one way of knowing?

As a spiritual being, I recognise also that a number of my experiences are not, as you say, entirely amenable to scientific methods of inquiry. That does not mean they are not immune to rational consideration. Because I cannot scientifically explain them certainly does not change the fact that they are real and known to me. I’m not willing to restrict my knowledge to the narrow confines the methods of science have, thus far, defined as real and known, or perhaps are even able to. And in trying to construct an understanding of the world that fits this knowledge, I am forced to step outside the confines of scientific convention. To maintain that construct, it’s necessary to apply a liberal dose of faith. Faith in my experience. And faith in my ability to rationally understand the ramifications of them.

Science and religion share a tendency to a hubris I find dangerous, each setting themselves up as the sole arbiters of what is real and knowable. Thomas Aquinas, Albert Einstein and Carl Jung, among others, were all far too wise for that.

<smile> I agree that many people don’t understand their own spiritual nature, but if they want to, they can. Learning to access your spirituality is really not significantly different than learning to understand science. In fact, the basic techniques and methodologies were established thousands of years ago.

June:

Blah…Blah…Blah..” it’s clouds illusions I recall – I really don’t know clouds at all” (Joni Mitchell) Debate all you want…What if it all doesn’t matter? Smile – Dream Big – Strive to be your Best – Stand aside.. see what happens.. if you don’t like it – do something else…

Karen:

Science is set out for us, and the acceptance is easier when there is someone to stand and explain principles and tenets – learning to access and embrace your spirituality is a daunting process to wade through on your own, Patrick….no guiding hand, no text book answers, no theories to fall back on, a personal journey where you put your heart and faith on the line – it’s a process I’m in the middle of right now and faith is my guide and mentor in this one :)

Patrick:

J: For some it doesn’t matter. For others it does. “A time for every purpose under heaven…” I llike and agree with your thoughts on living…it seems that being my best places me in the category of: it matters to me; it’s important to express how.

<smile> “Both Sides Now” was part of the Olympic opening ceremonies. I posted it here: … part of that “it matters” thing. ;)

K: Yep, under most circumstances the spiritual journey seems more difficult than mastering science. I wonder how much that is due to the relative lack of resources and teachers, along with the prevailing negative attitude in our society toward it. And I wonder how much is due to the nature of spiritual knowledge and wisdom, so resistant to the scientific modes of inquiry we’ve been taught to rely on. Among the things I’ve learned is not only is there no single authority on spiritual questions, the understandings of two people, when expressed, may appear on the surface to be in conflict when, underlying them, the central ideas are compatible. Not unlike the dual nature of light.

When we look at it from some perspectives, it appears wavelike. When we look at it from other perspectives, it behaves as if it consists of particles. Light is neither a wave, nor a particle. No matter what perspective we see it from, it is still light, and how we describe it takes nothing from the beauty of a sunset. The difficulty arises not in the nature of light, itself, but in how we express our scientific understanding of it. For those with a deeper mathematical comprehension of light, it makes a certain amount of sense. For the rest of us, well…. It’s light’s illusions I recall…I really don’t know light at all.

Alan:

I love your last paragraph Patrick :)

As far as ‘knowing’ anything goes I don’t think we can hope to do anymore than describe and make connections but, look at the wondrous things we’ve achieved doing just that!

If you see faith as merely trusting in your judgements which are based on prior observations then I’m with you.

Karen:

I love it as well…and was in the process of writing much the same comment myself Alan!

Patrick:

Thanks, guys. :)

What we’ve achieved…and what we can observe that exists, all around us, without any of our doing…. All sources of wonder, that shortened-breath sensation of the exquisite, dare I say, divine? :)

That’s pretty much what I mean by faith, Alan.

Alan:

Divine? I’d rather not say it :) But, hey, I’m all for wonder and exquisite sensations that shorten your breath ;) We are talking about the same thing aren’t we?

Patrick:

Waves and particles, Alan. It’s all light. :)

June:

what I find interesting about “Science” is that it fails to include the possibility that an “energy pattern” no matter what form it takes, is sentient. So if you were to study light from the perspective that it is a self-aware, actuated entity that has the ability to choose it’s shape based on it’s environment (or it’s mood :) ) that might explain… See more some things.. Maybe the consciousness of light is seeking to understand it’s higher purpose as well? Perhaps light is part of our esoteric family-which is why we are so dependent on it in physical form. Maybe light depends on us too in a way we are not aware of ? Just a thought…

I agree that there is no “right way” – so to get back to Faith… Faith for me – is the trust that an intelligence (that I am one with) has placed my consciousness here experiencing this reality because my presence is important at this juncture.. I also trust that this intelligence is what inspires me, speaks to me through my dreams, a friend/stranger or sensations with the messages that propel me to create until my presence here is no longer required.. and for the most part, in that I find momentum, peace and joy.

Patrick:

That’s some pretty impressive blah…blah…blah there June. :)

Steve:

Pat, right up your alley would be the classic book “The Tao of Physics” I suggest you look it up.

Patrick:

I did, years ago. Decades ago, actually! And, as a matter of fact, it’s sitting on the coffee table in front of me…

Hmmmm….

Maybe it’s time to revisit it?

Steve:

ha… cool.. yeah I read it I think my junior year at RIT

Alan:

June, I think water is self-aware and cleverly constructed the world and us in order to get from place to place.

June:

Hey Patrick ! I can “Blah” with the best of them …:) Blah Artists are everywhere… Like they say (who ever “they” are) it takes one to know one *wink*
Alan: Yes.. water is a close personal friend of mine…. and trees (their roots) were actually the first “World Wide Web” :)

Alan:

Hey, I liked water so much I let it occupy most of my body. Or, maybe it is their body?

June:

Maybe… or maybe it is the space in between Light Energy..

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Gary on March 8th, 2010

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The text below (with some new edits) was posted as a link on my Facebook profile a week shy of three months ago. I’d just returned from a nearly 3 month-long road trip through the western US, preceded by 2 months in Australia. The story it tells begins to describe the unusual relationship I have with music. Yes, it’s my muse, as this site’s title insists, a source of inspiration and insight. Even more than that, there’s a mystical timeliness to the way songs appear in my life, an undeniable synchronicity often accompanied by portent, a message or significant meaning.

Some music…well…some music reaches out to you in times of need. This album, So, has accompanied me through some of the biggest changes in my life. When my first significant relationship failed explosively, it was there, in the car tape deck, as I drove away in grief. When she and I crossed paths a year later, and found in just a few moments a peaceful, loving closure, it was the unwitting hand of a dear friend, Monica, which later that evening pulled So from the depths of the glove box where it had lain, unplayed — too painful to play — for most of that year and teturned it to the tape deck. Red Rain It was cued to Red Rain.

Red Rain is, for me, among the most powerful musical laments. I don’t really pay much attention to the lyrics of this song, other than the painful cry of, “Red rain is pouring down, red rain. Red rain is pouring down all over me.” In the aftermath of that breakup, the red rain was tears, anguish, pain, the sense of betrayal and loss, the tumult of a world turned upside down. I cried out that chorus, with my voice, with my heart, with my mind, with my soul.

“I’m so sorry!” Monica apologised, after I explained its significance, “I’ll take it out.” I shook my head and smiled. “No, it’s OK now,” explaining the chance meeting, and how that reconciliation transformed the meaning of this music for me. “Now I hear the beauty of it again, even through the pain…no, it’s more beautiful for having experienced the pain.”

It came again, a few years later at the end of my father’s funeral service. My brother-in-law started the car and the radio piped in with Red Rain, cued up, just for me. There it was, change…grief, pain and beauty again, another transformation.

“So” is my music of transformation. It’s no surprise that it comes to me as I return home from this extended journey of nearly 6 months. There’s been pain, as not all that I’d hoped and dreamed came to be. But there has been so much beauty, so much change, so much growth and learning, and love and loss, and you can’t experience these fully, completely, without also experiencing the pain and grief that comes your way.

Now, when I hear the music from this album, it reminds me; pain, grief, love, beauty: these are all the exquisite experiences of living, not just of being alive — any fool can do that — but of really grasping life. To truly live requires allowing yourself to feel and experience all these and more, and find the beauty in them.

Music: my muse. Music: the messenger. Music: spirt guide.

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Gary on March 7th, 2010

Last week I saw Diana Krall in concert, which has prompted me to reproduce this blog I posted previously on my Facebook notes. At the concert, I was hoping Diana would sing ‘A Case of You’, but alas she did not. She didn’t sing any Joni Mitchell songs but she did sing a Tom Waits’ one so I can’t complain.

A Case of You is one of my all-time favourite songs. The first time I heard it was off Joni’s Blue album, which was released way back in 1971. I think I may have bought it in the mid-80s.

Blue, a collection of heart-felt, intimate, confessional songs, is one of Joni’s most acclaimed albums. Rollingstone Magazine rated Blue number 30 in its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Who can argue with that?

Many of the songs on the LP were written following Joni’s breakup with, I think, Graham Nash or was it David Crosby or Leonard Cohen, I can’t recall, Joni had a few great loves (and who could blame them, she was beautiful and super-talented).

Joni said this of Blue:

“The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defences. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defences there either”.

A Case of You has been recorded by an array of artists including KD Lang and Diana Krall. Even Prince has done a version in his inimitable style. I have five versions on my Ipod and I like them all. It’s a particular favourite of jazz singers. Joni’s version is the definitive one but her keening, high-pitched vocal on the original recording isn’t for everyone. A version I also like is by the American jazz singer, Jane Monheit. Joni’s version is interesting also for the fact she plays the song on a dulcimer, an instrument not used often in the pop genre. By the way, if you are a fan of jazz singing, I implore you to check out Jane Monheit if you already haven’t done so.

It’s hard to explain why I like A Case of You so much. I know it has a lot to do with the utterly gorgeous melody, and also a lot to do with the enigmatic, bittersweet, poetic lyrics.

The song is very intimate and deeply revealing. The opening line sets the scene and frames the narrative, ‘Just before our love got lost’. She bares her soul without fear or favour. You have to marvel at the courage it took to make such intimacies public. The lyrics describe a strong independent woman, not one to be trifled with (‘if you want me I’ll be in the bar’) but also a vulnerable woman (‘I am a lonely painter’, I’m frightened by the devil’), and full of memorable couplets (‘Love is touching souls, and surely you touched mine’).

The lyrics read like a preamble to a movie script, very cinematic. I love the small details, the ‘blue TV screen light’, ‘cartoon coaster’, which she uses to paint a vivid picture. And I love how she pays tribute to her homeland, Canada.

Joni Mitchell is one of the true greats of rock music; one who has influenced a generation of artists, and still does to this day. As a songwriter she’s right up there with the likes of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. She’s also a fine musician and performer.

This, folks, is a love song. Here are the words:

A Case of You

Just before our love got lost you said
I am as constant as a northern star
And I said, constant in the darkness
Where’s that at?
If you want me Ill be in the bar

On the back of a cartoon coaster
In the blue TV screen light
I drew a map of Canada
Oh Canada
And your face sketched on it twice

Oh you are in my blood like holy wine
Oh and you taste so bitter but you taste so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you
I could drink a case of you darling
And I would still be on my feet
Oh I’d still be on my feet

Oh I am a lonely painter
I live in a box of paints
I’m frightened by the devil
And I’m drawn to those ones that ain’t afraid
I remember that time that you told me, you said
Love is touching souls
Surely you touched mine
Cause part of you pours out of me
In these lines from time to time

Oh you are in my blood like holy wine
And you taste so bitter but you taste so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you
I could drink a case of you darling
Still Id be on my feet
And still be on my feet

I met a woman
She had a mouth like yours
She knew your life
She knew your devils and your deeds
And she said
Go to him, stay with him if you can
Oh but be prepared to bleed
Oh but you are in my blood you’re my holy wine
Oh and you taste so bitter, bitter and so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you darling
Still Id be on my feet
I’d still be on my feet

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Patrick on March 6th, 2010

Please excuse me… I’ve been caught up in the mundane world the past few days and, so, not posting. Well, I’ve been writing — there are at least three blog posts in varying degrees of draft status… Eventually. <grin>

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Gary on March 3rd, 2010

Saw Diana Krall last night at the Brisbane Entertainment Center and I have to admit walked away feeling a tad underwhelmed. Did not fly to the moon, not a bit. In fact, it’s left me thinking that perhaps Ms Krall is a tad overrated.

Her job is a difficult one no doubt. Having to improvise on the piano and sing at the same time would unravel most musician’s head, but last night she did not impress. To my ears – untrained I admit – she’s a better pianist than she is a singer. Yet her reputation is based on her singing ability so how much is this down to marketing and how much down to merit? Don’t get me wrong, not saying she is a poor singer, but if you strip away the marketing and the soft-focus album covers and the media hype over her marriage to Elvis Costello yadda, yadda, I wonder…

Last night, the arrangements of some of her songs were in such a frenetic tempo that she had trouble spitting out the words in time. What’s with this tendency to speed up songs when played in concert? Most of the improvised ‘jams’ were boring especially those when the bassist took centre stage.

I was also surprisingly unimpressed by her band. I usually go to jazz concerts and come away gob-smacked at the prowess of the drummer and bassist, but the two musicians last night were so low key you’d be excused for thinking that maybe Ms Krall and her manager have put them into performance straight-jackets. The drummer did not raise a sweat and looked disinterested. Both did not appear very inventive.

DK was supported by Melody Gardot and Madeleine Peyroux and I reckon both those singers sounded better than Diana. Gardot in my mind has a better voice. Her voice is clearer, purer and has a wider range. She was only allowed a very short set, but in that brief time she showed enough to suggest she’s going to be a bigger star. I don’t think DK will want her as a support in the future. Too much pressure.

I was also surprised at DK’s lack of stage presence. I wouldn’t call her charismatic. Her patter with the audience was incoherent most of the time and betrayed a nervousness that seems out of place for such a seasoned performer. Perhaps she felt the extra pressure to perform out of her comfort zone because the concert was being filmed for a DVD. Maybe she was tired. Whatever it was, she put in a flat performance.

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Patrick on March 2nd, 2010

It’s the 50th anniversary of the publishing of Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, and I’ve got the film paused, just after the scene in which the verdict is handed down. Guilty. Both the film and the book resonate very deeply with me, in all the themes they touch upon. Family, community, love, goodness, social responsibility, justice, right and wrong…right and wrong particularly regarding the conditions of racial and class inequality as they existed in the United States in the years before the Civil Rights Movement, but also right and wrong in the spiritual sense of a human dignity that trumps the rational system of justice. Underlying all these is a greater theme that ties them together in the person of Atticus Finch.

Jem, I don’t know if it’ll help, but, I want to say this to you. There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.

~ Maudie Atkinson
To Kill a Mockingbird

I began the day with the subject of courage and, it seems, I’ll end the day with it again. Not the courage of super heroes, or of those who feel compelled to lead, but the courage of those who live out their convictions, who do not flinch from the unpleasant jobs no one else will take on. The heroes who step up when no one else will. It’s these people, the unlikely heroes, like Harry Potter and Atticus Finch, Rosa Parks and others who take on the mantle of leadership without the desire to lead, all those stand their ground rather than back down. Those who risk. Even those, like Joannie Rochette and Petra Majdic, who simply find the courage to do their best when others might wilt and whither.

We, as a society, need these unlikely and largely unsung heroes. They move us, inspire us, give us faith in our fellow beings, even ourselves. They lead without leading, guide without without offering guidance.

When Maudie tells Jem his father’s among those men born to take on the ugliness in the world, he simply replies, “I know.” Moments later, Atticus informs them all of Tom Robinson’s death and leaves to inform Tom’s family, Jem insists on going with him. Unflinching. Later, when he and Scout are attacked by Ewell, he disregards his own safety to try and save his sister. Jem knows because, like his father, and already at this young age, he sees that unpleasantness in the world, won’t shy from it, challenges it. Jem is already among such men.

My question…is it a birthright that makes such heroes? Or is it simply a choice of the moment, one that must be made time and again? I think that, perhaps, some are born with the resources readily available to them, so they risk when others shy away. But I think also that those resources are available to all of us, that we can find them in ourselves at any time. That when a defining moment comes in our lives, we can choose who we are, what we’re about, and make the choice that is right, the choice that protects the mockingbird.

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Patrick on March 2nd, 2010

The greatest achievement of this games wasn’t Canada’s first Gold medal, or its last, or any other Gold or Silver medal awarded in the Olympics. The two most courageous performances in the Olympics netted Bronze. One was a battle as much with emotional trauma as with any other competitor. The other was a battle through serious injury, repeated several times over.

On February 26 it was announced that Petra Majdič and Joannie Rochette are the two Olympians to receive the prestigious Terry Fox Award, the purpose of which is to honour an Olympian who touched the world with courage, humility and extraordinary athletic abilities at the 2010 Games.

I’d forgotten about this award when I began this post. In fact, all I knew when I started looking for a song to post was that I wanted to talk about courage. I started with Joannie, then recalled Petra…then rediscovered the award while researching her.

Rochette’s mother died suddenly, just two days before competition. Ranked fifth in the world entering the Olympics, she skated a near-perfect short program and a long program good enough to secure the Bronze, unable to hold back the tears at the end of either performance.

Today, this is not a bronze. This is a gold with little diamonds on it.

~ Petra Majdič

During a warmup for the 1.7km Classic Sprint competition, Majdič — the odds-on gold medal favourite — skied off the nordic course into a 10m gully, crashing hard into the rocks below. She skied through a qualifying heat, ending in a heap of pain at the finish line, having just qualified. There were 3 more heats that day and at the end of each, she lay just beyond the finish line, sprawled in agony. At the end of the last, the final heat, only two competitors had crossed ahead of her. It was only after this that the extent of her injuries were revelealed: several broken ribs and a pneumothorax. She accepted the Bronze later that day with a chest tube to relieve the pressure.

Courage is…
   when you’re afraid
      but you keep on moving
         anyway

Courage is…
   when you’re in pain
      but you keep on living
         anyway

~ The Strange Familiar

I am honoured to have witnessed these performances, live on television. Honoured, moved, inspired.

This song, Courage Is…, isn’t a great piece of music. Its lyrics are a little more direct, more on-the-nose than I normally like. And yet, the words and music speak truthfully and simply. Not just about the courage displayed by a couple of elite athletes confronting emotional and physical hardships, but by the courage displayed daily, by all of us, as we confront the hardships of living, and convert them into the joys of life. Remember, too, that it’s not always about winning the gold. Any display of courage is a gold medal with little diamonds on it.

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Gary on March 1st, 2010

Just watched the news, which showed the joy in Canada after the hockey win. Wow! The party must still be raging even as I write. I’m guessing productivity at work won’t be very high tomorrow.

The first song that came to mind after seeing the celebrations was this one. Written and released by Neil Young in 1970, ‘After the Gold Rush’ was a track on Young’s third LP of the same name. It has nothing to do with what has occurred these past 24 hours. It was just the title that prompted me to post it, particularly in light of Canada’s superb performance at the games and the record number of gold medals won. Then again, the refrain, ‘all in a dream, all in a dream…’…and ‘the chosen one’ (Sidney Crosby?) perhaps the lyrics do hold a connection. :)

I couldn’t find a decent NY clip of the song so decided on this acappella version.

Now that the party’s over, what now Vancouver? No hangover, I hope.

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