The Seeven Archive
is sponsored by

Don't just sit there worrying! Get answers today!
Order Page for Tarot, I Ching, and Astrology Psychic Readings

One Hand Clapping:
The Taoe of Music

WholeArts and The Psychic Internet is proud to present the "Preface" and "Part One" of this remarkable book by Daniel d'Quincy. "One Hand Clapping: The Tao of Music," originally published by WholeArts in 1991, is a book-length essay on the performance of music from the perspective of Eastern philosophy and religion. Mr. d'Quincy is a noted composer, musician, author, inventor, educator, speaker, and photographer. Please visit his unique music sites at WholeArts: syNThony, and the WholeArts Online Music Conservatory.

Page 25

It is quite natural to imagine in ourselves an entity that transcends all bounds of space and time. All of us wonder, now and then, “what will happen “to me” after death?” - quite irrespective of whether or not we are religious - and the question is in itself this natural imagining. Even the confirmed atheists among us may have room in their universe for the survival of a person through fame or works. People even go so far as to speak about the soul of a work of art, the soul of a nation, or the soul of an age, thinking of something that outlives the physical term of the life of its creator(s). Therefore, let us not shrink now from asking if the soul really can, one way or another, define who we will be after we die.

But, then, if we really intend to approach this question from an eastern perspective, we will also have to ask who we were before we were born. This question is even more difficult for westerners, who do not customarily, and as a matter of cultural convention, have much truck with the idea of reincarnation. Moreover, this idea of reincarnation would also seem to be burdened naturally with the difficulties of faith and belief, even though there are people, East and West, who claim to know something about their past lives. Scientists have researched the question with the help of hypnotic regression, and other techniques, though not without controversial results. Still, there seems to be no reason in principle why the matter could not be approached directly and with objectivity.

Can you remember who you were before you were born?

If that is too difficult, try something a little easier that may serve just as well for our purpose. Try instead to remember who you were after you were born, but before you became you. Can you remember whomsoever you were the day before you knew your name?

It will be helpful to approach this question obliquely, by way of introducing a new idea into this discourse. Consider, if you will, the philosophical notion of the void. (Next Page)

| Top of Page |

| The Psychic Internet HomePage for Tarot, I Ching, and Astrology Psychic Readings |

"The Psychic Internet," and "Your Personal Psychic Link" are trademarks of WholeARTS.
Copyright 2003 WholeARTS All Rights Reserved