Put on Gary Numan's "Dance" initially at a normal listening volume. Then turn it down a little about every 10-15min. Allow your ears to adjust to the lower volume before you lower it again. You will find that over time it won't seem that you had turned it down at all. Keep reducing the sound and you will keep adapting to it. Finally you reach the point where you strive to hear the words. You are now very near the point when you stop trying to actively listen and it becomes a true ambient sound, coming from beyond you while it is still of you. Tuning into it while it's making out individual words is no longer important. Discrete words and notes played on an instrument will play close to subliminally throughout the night until you wake in the morning. You find yourself fascinated at how clear your hearing is and why you don't remember altering from a state of somatic consciousness to a way of being outside of that base bestial level. Like ozone, magic leaves in its passing a certain static sweetness and revealing the, until now, invisible without any spoilers as to the details. Experience it, breathe it in and accept it as but one more vector along which you exist. As you live your life let but one principle be your lodestone: pay attention. That one precept will gather more of itself to itself as time passes. At a point that you will be only able to refer to as an epiphany, you will become aware that your lodestone has been a true companion for longer than you can fathom. It has gathered up a reserve of magic to itself. This is natural; be not in the least anxious. Just keep up your explorations only from now on no longer alone. On some deep level you have merged with your partner and have traded the the best aspects of each other with each other. From this now forward, fully partnered, intentionally proceed with active attention at all you undergo. And remember!
Now:
Many albums can take you into this listening-while-barely-conscious mode but the effect will vary with the listener and the music but, I do include it in amongst those experiences in which decreasing intensity promotes increasing sensitivity. You learn about your own limits just as you are learning what it is about you that exists without limits. Coiled within your core you remain in touch with EVERYTHING that seems to be apart from yourself.
And there you go, my adventurous friend.…
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