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Cosmic Harmony, the Emergence of Life and of Human Consciousness
Abstract
The order and yet contingency found in the universe present a puzzle. The work presented here is devoted to the problem of cosmic harmony. It is through modern phenomenology that we can hope to capture the elusive source of harmony, the coincidence of sense and existence. A process of sense formation saturates the whole universe. A quantum-phenomenological explanation of the extension of the galaxies without reference to the Big Bang theory is to be posited. The miracles of life and of our vital-spiritual harmony are key to apprehending something of this explanation made from another perspective. Nietzsche’s philosophy is to be appreciated for its rejection of determinism and celebration of the freedom inherent in life’s unfolding. Tymieniecka’s phenomenology of life links the advancing self-individualization of life to the Logos that informs this creative development. She saw in the phenomenon of achievement, scientific, artistic, etc. a sign that agency is involved in the will driving the ontopoiesis of life. But there is a playfulness in the flow of life’s stream that resists objectification. The telos of all is not ours to impose, and a sense of that opens us to the higher realm.
... While the notion of cosmic harmony has gained ground in various domains such as eco-phenomenology (Dolidze, 2018), these ideas also characterise philosophical foundations of Ancient Oriental Music Therapy and other important traditions of healing music, e.g. in China. Particularly in the area of culturally sensitive music therapy, universal harmony and holistic equilibrium have become essential for the explanation of the power of musical interventions. ...
Music and arts for healing purposes look back over a multifaceted evolution and a myriad of phenomena in various cultures. Interdisciplinary considerations suggest to distinguish five different, but partly overlapping stages. The first refers to historical roots and ethnological sources, which have also influenced modern meta-theoretical perspectives and practices. The next stage marks the heterogeneous origins of modern music therapy in the 20th century that mirror psychological positions and novel clinical ideas about the healing power of music and the arts. The following heyday of music therapeutic models and schools of thought yielded an enormous variety of concepts and methods such as Nordoff-Robbins MT, Orff MT, Analytic MT, Regulatory MT, GIM or Sound Work. As music and arts therapies gained in international importance, clinical applications required research about their therapeutic efficacy. According to standards of evidence based medicine and with regard to clearly defined diagnoses research on music therapeutic practice became the core of stage four. The present stage is characterised by an emerging epistemological dissatisfaction with the paradigmatic reductionism of evidence based medicine and the strong will to discover the ‘true healing nature’ of music. This trend has given birth to interdisciplinary hermeneutics for novel foundations of music and arts therapies. Epigenetics, neuroplasticity, regulatory and chronobiological sciences, quantum physical philosophies, universal harmonies, spiritual and religious views, and the cultural anthropological phenomenon of aesthetics and creativity have become guiding principles. The present paper relates to the author’s EASA-speech on the 2nd of December 2022 about landmarks in the evolution of modern music therapy and its interdisciplinary perspectives.
... While the notion of cosmic harmony has gained ground in various domains such as eco-phenomenology (Dolidze, 2018), these ideas also characterise philosophical foundations of Ancient Oriental Music Therapy and other important traditions of healing music, e.g. in China. Particularly in the area of culturally sensitive music therapy, universal harmony and holistic equilibrium have become essential for the explanation of the Proceedings of the European Academy of Sciences & Arts, Vol. 1, No 2, (2023), pp. ...
Music and arts for healing purposes look back over a multifaceted evolution and a myriad of phenomena in various cultures. Interdisciplinary considerations suggest to distinguish five different, but partly overlapping stages. The first refers to historical roots and ethnological sources, which have also influenced modern meta-theoretical perspectives and practices. The next stage marks the heterogeneous origins of modern music therapy in the 20th century that mirror psychological positions and novel clinical ideas about the healing power of music and the arts. The following heyday of music therapeutic models and schools of thought yielded an enormous variety of concepts and methods such as Nordoff-Robbins MT, Orff MT, Analytic MT, Regulatory MT, GIM or Sound Work. As music and arts therapies gained in international importance, clinical applications required research about their therapeutic efficacy. According to standards of evidence based medicine and with regard to clearly defined diagnoses research on music therapeutic practice became the core of stage four. The present stage is characterised by an emerging epistemological dissatisfaction with the paradigmatic reductionism of evidence based medicine and the strong will to discover the ‘true healing nature’ of music. This trend has given birth to interdisciplinary hermeneutics for novel foundations of music and arts therapies. Epigenetics, neuroplasticity, regulatory and chronobiological sciences, quantum physical philosophies, universal harmonies, spiritual and religious views, and the cultural anthropological phenomenon of aesthetics and creativity have become guiding principles. The present paper relates to the author’s EASA-speech on the 2nd of December 2022 about landmarks in the evolution of modern music therapy and its interdisciplinary perspectives.
The problems under discussion here concern the phenomenological way of thinking in various fields of human activity. The phenomenological conception of quantum theory, resulting from an analogy made between Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology and Niels Bohr’s interpretation of quantum theory, is used as a basic conception here. While I certainly realize that the hypotheses and results of this investigation reach beyond Bohr’s interpretation, they are yet at the same time a logical extension of Bohr’s position to the field of existential phenomenology. By extending Bohr’s interpretation through the complementarity principle, “orthodox” quantum theory and the stream of consciousness writing and polyphony of contemporary fiction can be linked The basis for such an analogy is the fact that with both the atomic world and artistic reality the same phenomenological method of object construction is used.
Intentionality of time seems to play a role of vitally important phenomenon in comprehensible sphere of cosmos. The work presented here is just devoted to the problem of timing the space throughout the genesis and development of the universe. This philosophical inquiry goes beyond physical cosmology and refers to phenomenology of life in the light of biblical-theological experience of mankind concerning the supernatural celestial events.
To explain the correlation between the intelligible order of outer space and the logical structure of consciousness, it is suggested (based on the phenomenology of Hegel and in the spirit of the ontology of Heidegger) that being has an inborn intentionality of self-reflection. Therefore, incipient state of being – primeval chaos, which gives birth to the cosmos presents the self-reflective and hence the self-ordering system. Emergence of life and development of human consciousness both are essential points in unfolding this system, since Logos of life appears to have realized this inborn intentionality of being.
This position makes some critical remarks to the cosmological theory of “Big Bang”. Phenomenological interpretation of wave-particle duality explains the expansion of the galaxies without referring to the starting explosion.
It is suggested that the cosmos is not exhausted by the objective reality of mega-physical events and shares with subjective forces of life which make the sense of time penetrating all the cosmic river of stars. Although, time is relative (it depends on the reference system), the intentionality of real time (from the past toward the future) keeps its absolute meaning for all the diversity of beings. On the other hand, subjective origin of arrow of time ruins objective perspective of spreading the classical causality throughout space, since the cosmos has had not the mono-logical, continual structure.
Discontinuity of the upper-land means the coexistence of galactic physical reality with transcendental sphere of ideas and sense-forming acts. This subjective process of becoming the sense saturates the world and inserts some freedom and uncertainty within the starry order. Therefore, the cosmos is not absolutely intelligible and cognoscible. Neither the lack of cosmic information nor the failure of cosmological theory is responsible for cosmic uncertainty. The latter has a positive value, since it has manifested the phenomenological openness of cosmos toward primordial chaos. It makes an opportunity of creative development of human consciousness in the everlasting life of the universe.
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- Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka