Many find "ambient music" desirable as a retreat from the stresses of contemporary life.
This is worthwhile as a beginning of understanding. Plainly, we are conditioned to certain ideas that produce expectations of life and our place within it. We expect "intensity" and it is expected of us. We expect "extremes" and believe them to be "normal" within the scheme of things. But this is a kind of programming that is deleterious to elevated states of being and consciousness.
It is necessary to discern what stresses in our experience lead us to clearly appreciate the cultural expressions that directly oppose them. Gaining a fundamental sense of such things, rather than ignoring them in a specious "quest for authenticity", makes perceptual change permanent, rather than simply possible.
This is worthwhile as a beginning of understanding. Plainly, we are conditioned to certain ideas that produce expectations of life and our place within it. We expect "intensity" and it is expected of us. We expect "extremes" and believe them to be "normal" within the scheme of things. But this is a kind of programming that is deleterious to elevated states of being and consciousness.
It is necessary to discern what stresses in our experience lead us to clearly appreciate the cultural expressions that directly oppose them. Gaining a fundamental sense of such things, rather than ignoring them in a specious "quest for authenticity", makes perceptual change permanent, rather than simply possible.
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