Larry_Golade a dit:
Maybe, yes. But unless we institute some form of hippie fascism we're not all gonna meditate regularly. When I think of the world's great religions/mythologies/literature/narratives in general, there's always a tension between a wish for some form of blissful stasis (be it bucolic beatitude, nirvana, union with the godhead, etc.) and a fascination with the sound and the fury. I for one wouldn't want to give it up. It could be that I'm twisted and deranged, but as much as I love *peaceful* art like Blake's Songs of Innocence or polyphony, among my pathways to aesthethic joy are also writers like Dostoievsky or Lovecraft, black metal, Bergman's films, etc. Wanting to get rid once and for all of the deep, gut-bound mechanisms that such works may appeal to would eventually lead to a return of the repressed in my opinion, and perhaps not in the form of art this time.
Meditation has nothing to do with hippie fascism, i know you're being sarcastic but that is exaggerating the entire meaning of meditation. By meditation i don't mean only the stereotypical cliche of sitting cross legged with your eyes closed, i mean living in the present moment while running, exercising, walking, working, cooking, listening to music, sex, playing etc. Also, i meant catharsis and throwing the subconscious noise outside through breathing exercises and catharsis. If you're sublimating the unconscious darkness and throwing it out using such methods, a person's needs to indulge in twisted art, music, and drama would naturally reduce. You don't have to be in a blissful statis permanently, but you can be in bliss when the dark or the light nature show up in life. In fact there is no need to be in a stasis most of the time, you can do whatever activity you're doing at present and enjoy it completely. By meditation i don't mean a repression of any kind, in fact i'm talking about sublimating the dark repression and indulging in the light natured of reality. I know its not possible to sublimate the dark totally and you need to face it in life, but there is no need to be blatant about the dark natured of reality and promoting it through twisted art. I'm talking about what Eckhart Tolle says about pain bodies "Eckhart Tolle calls the pain-body, an energetic field that actually feeds on toxic thoughts and emotions" Basically we're feeding our pain bodies through aggressive music, art, and violent movies. People release their darkness on a canvas, art and movies, politics, violence and other pain bodies feed on it by looking at it, watching it or reading about it.
By meditation and bliss i don't mean you stay in a permanent non functional reality fixed on light reality, you still carry about your daily activities and things to do list only you do it meditatively. Life is emptiness in the end, you can make that emptiness pleasant or you can make it twisted, depends what kind of a mental world a person lives in. Wouldn't you be in a better, calmer and less aggressive place of mind while listening to some peaceful, melodious music than some dark metal??