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Bonde, Lars Ole: Analogy And Metapher In Music Therapy Theory ...
Appendix 1: A Man suffering from Schizophrenia ON CLASSICAL MUSIC AND
ITS MEANING:
(1) Sublime music tells in its own way about unknown regions of the human
mind, about lost horizons, about sorrows and joys, shortly: about all the
innumerable nuances of the human mind.
(2) What the natural sciences and the fine arts cannot tell about man,
classical music can.
(3) Classical music is a mirror, in which mankind can look and recognize
itself.
(4) Classical music draws an eternal portrait of the human mind.
(5) Sublime music tells man about eternal, unreachable ideals and about the
vanity of all matters.
(6) Ideal music tells man, that his life on earth is only an fragile dream filled
with passions and illusions, and that it will break sooner or later, to man’s
great sorrow and pain.
(7) God, Nature, Nirvana illuminates aspects of its consciousness through
music.
(8) Therefore music is an exact image of eternity.
(9) Through classical music God tells man an ever new story.
(10) Music is a precise appearance of unity in nature
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