place on Earth. These are imprinted on the astral plane and accessed only with the experienced magician who are familiar with the ablility to tap into the unconciousness. Akasha is important to know as its qualities are expressed through art, music, writing, religion, healing, magic, and ritual work. It is associated with the crown chakra, The World in tarot cards, and contains reflection of the vibes of light and dark. I found it important to unite all things as well as the connection to…
the body and the care of it, to which we are enslaved, which compel us to acquire wealth, and all this makes us too busy to practice philosophy.” (66b,66d) Socrates himself may have enjoyed the pleasures of life, such as in his admitted inquiry of music. However, it is also possible that he investigates these pleasures only for the sake of wisdom, and never for the pleasures themselves. Therefore he would not have betrayed his purpose of pursuing…
using the dialogues of Socrates. The political justice is where Plato’s ideal city is modeled after the four main virtues that include wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. The individual justice is based on the three characteristics within the soul of individuals and…
inevitable outcome of a war, the role of The Guardians is needed to protect the city, these Guardians are raised to be tough, have courage, be obedient and generally elite in the ways of protection. These Guardians are molded as children where their music, food, and the world around them is monitored and constructed to ensure The Guardians love their city more than themselves. Plato continues on by describing a myth that is the Nobel lie describing the origin of the city to ensure people will…
Art and Irrationality. According to Plato in the Ion and the Republic, art engages with the irrational part of the soul—both in respect of how art is produced as well as how art is enjoyed. Discuss why, for Plato, this is the case, and whether your agree with him or not. In the writing of Plato, he advocates that art is produced alongside with irrational part of the mind. However, the definition and meaning of art has changed from the time of Plato to today. In Wittgenstein’s remark about…
Essence of Ghosts The argument of Benjamin Radford, from Live Science Contributor, Are Ghosts Real, by Radford et al., written in standard from. 1. People believed that ghosts are widely believed of paranormal phenomena. 2. They are many ghost stories included from the past. 3. Some people believe that they can communicate with the spirits. 4. Ghost hunters are not finding strong evidence of ghosts existing. 5. Many people have different views whether the ghosts move on or they stay…
What is life? Are we just some complex organisms that magically appeared on earth? In this paper, I plan to argue the pointless existence argument by Erik Wielenberg. He simply said that life without a goal is pointless and without any goals no man/women has an eternal meaning. Basically, everyone is born just to die at some undetermined point in time; no one is predestined for anything. No matter how small or simple, everything that dwells on earth has a purpose. Life purpose varies from the…
Before watching this documentary, I had no knowledge of the existence of the show called Soul Train. As someone who was born near the end of the show’s run on television, and as an Indian-American, I was never exposed to Soul Train as a kid. I did, however, recognize the term “soul train line.” To my surprise, I already knew some of the segments that were made popular by Soul Train. This dance-music program has had a strong influence on popular culture today so that the newer generation,…
two examples of different female performers, describe how changes in the role of women in American society were reflected in popular music between 1965 and 1970. The 1960’s were a time for people to express themselves and break out of social norms in their everyday life. But this also was a time for women to break norms and change their role in both society and music during 1965-1970. One woman who was breaking many norms in the musical world at the time was Janis Joplin. The performance in…
The soul boys was a working class youth subculture, which began in the early to mid-70s. The individuals of the soul boy’s subculture consist of white and blacks, which enjoyed soul and funk music. The soul boys is an outcrop of a mod, they are clothes obese, and they are also obese with black music. Also, there were two types of soul boys, the soul boy in the North, usually like the classic soul of the 60s, and the Soul boy in the South enjoyed more of a contemporary soul. Per Paul Hodkinson’s…