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<blockquote data-quote="Mycanid" data-source="post: 3116078" data-attributes="member: 40370"><p>The most beautiful thing I have ever perceived?</p><p></p><p>Boy ... that's a tough one.</p><p></p><p>1. One of the most beautiful is a hard thing to describe. I am a fan of Celtic folk music, and especially the slower "airs". I have had an album for some time by Alasdair Fraser on which he (a fiddle player) plays a beautiful piece called "The Little Brown Island in the Middle of the Sea". The subject of the song is one of the islands of the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. Anyway ... when I went to the Outer Hebrides in 1999 (lessee, I was 29 then) and was traveling on a ship between the islands I was humming this and suddenly to my great surprise I suddenly "saw" that the original music had been composed as a "harmony" off of the "melody" of the islands and the sea's beauty - both visible and audible. I cannot describe it any better than that.</p><p></p><p>2. Another experience happened when I was 11. I visited NYC with my family and went to a branch of the Met Mus of Art called the Cloisters. It is a recreation of a late medieval/early Renaissance Roman Catholic Monastery. I don't remember much specifics wise ... most of what I have still in memory are impressions ... but it made an overwhelming impression on me. My parents said I got a far-away look on my face and walked away from them touching the walls as I went. There was Gregorian chant playing over the speakers in the place. That is where I first knew that God existed and that he was a Creator of things that were beautiful and that this place and the things in it had been created by men who were striving to imitate God on a "mini-level". It is what J.R.R. Tolkien called "sub-creation", I later found out. But it was undoubtably an AESTHETIC experience. I came to "perceive" all this through beauty.</p><p></p><p>There are many others, but these are the two that spring most immediately to mind. I don't want to hog up all the space in here. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mycanid, post: 3116078, member: 40370"] The most beautiful thing I have ever perceived? Boy ... that's a tough one. 1. One of the most beautiful is a hard thing to describe. I am a fan of Celtic folk music, and especially the slower "airs". I have had an album for some time by Alasdair Fraser on which he (a fiddle player) plays a beautiful piece called "The Little Brown Island in the Middle of the Sea". The subject of the song is one of the islands of the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. Anyway ... when I went to the Outer Hebrides in 1999 (lessee, I was 29 then) and was traveling on a ship between the islands I was humming this and suddenly to my great surprise I suddenly "saw" that the original music had been composed as a "harmony" off of the "melody" of the islands and the sea's beauty - both visible and audible. I cannot describe it any better than that. 2. Another experience happened when I was 11. I visited NYC with my family and went to a branch of the Met Mus of Art called the Cloisters. It is a recreation of a late medieval/early Renaissance Roman Catholic Monastery. I don't remember much specifics wise ... most of what I have still in memory are impressions ... but it made an overwhelming impression on me. My parents said I got a far-away look on my face and walked away from them touching the walls as I went. There was Gregorian chant playing over the speakers in the place. That is where I first knew that God existed and that he was a Creator of things that were beautiful and that this place and the things in it had been created by men who were striving to imitate God on a "mini-level". It is what J.R.R. Tolkien called "sub-creation", I later found out. But it was undoubtably an AESTHETIC experience. I came to "perceive" all this through beauty. There are many others, but these are the two that spring most immediately to mind. I don't want to hog up all the space in here. ;) [/QUOTE]
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