Talking Brains host Andres Canales-Johnson discusses fundamental questions about life and the human mind with thinkers from diverse and unique backgrounds, from the whole spectrum of the arts and sciences.
This conversation is super interesting and reassures what I also have experienced with life-drawing sessions, scientific break throughs, and the creativity. Dr Betty Edward’s book Drawing with the right hand side of the brain. It’s the ‘let go’ of knowledge, concepts and theories, and allow o self leaping between the artist that is drawing while holding the charcoal and the observer. The transcend happens when the observer (experiencer) detaches him/herself from the *knowledge* stored in the left hand side of the brain, to go floating in a total submersion of the experience (consciousness) that happens in the right hand side of the brain. The transcend happens when we are fully absorbed, by the experience. When we become one with the experience. We become the experience itself.
This is wonderful! It helps me to untangle the threads in my mind that were formed by attending a large service with close to 2,000 attendees that seemed to be levitating with the song they were singing praising God. You leave this place and it doesn't even matter whether the music is what you would call "good". I don't remember because none of us were there. You actually leave and join another dimension that is kind, loving and exploding with love.
All these explanations are still based in logic. But the true nature of the reality is likely something else. I've had a very unique experience. In 2017 I woke up in the operation theater and saw my own body laying on the bed being operated by the surgeons. I remember everything they've said and done while I was asleep. If consciousness is can only "work" with a functioning brain, how could that have happened to me? My brain was shut down by the anesthetics.
This is not the ultimate teaching. The ultimate reality is simplicity. When Sarvapriyananda talks about what awareness is, it gets so complicated it can give you a headache.
*My argument for single consciousness: No one can claim "I have experienced consciousness of other". Everyone only knows their own consciousness and they have no experience of any other consciousness that's why there is only one consciousness.*
According to temporary physics the outside reality can be divided in both objective and subjective aspects. For two observers which are not stationary towards each other the same quantum of energy can take on different forms. What is particle momentum to one could be photons to the other. What is a photon to one could be particles to the other. So if I hand you, say, a cat, the fact that you also recieve something which is a cat is not to be taken for granted, but only established by the special case that our relative velocity is near zero. The fact that it is a cat to me depends on me and the fact that it is a cat to you depends on you. It could be dead, that is, a bunch of X-Rays for me and alive for you. Or whatbis dead light to one could be a living being to another. You see
I love the depth of detail he goes into while creating a supportive framework of the piece. For us OCD types, it's one of those relief triggers when Mangini absolutely NAILS a unison run with JP, JM, and JR. Also, hearing him attempt perfection in time might be robotic and boring to you, but for us weirdos, it's intensely satisfying to experience.
What a deeply contemplative interview! So captivating, emptying and filling at the same time. I had to take it in three sessions. But, it pulls one back again and again, and in the end silence pervades. Thank you for this deeply profound and uplifting interview. Heart felt at its core❣️❣️❣️🌹
25:00 I don't agree with that statement at all. Whenever I hear Mike talk about how he does things or stuff regarding his technique, I always feel he's picking the things he wants you to know rather than offering the knowledge as is for people to decide how they should approach it. In a sense, he's talking a lot but not saying much.
Replying to the individuals who think there is to much explaining and diallog going on. Mike, most likely knows that. But when you start doing the exercises and process the info, I find myself going back and listening again when I run into a roadblock.
All life is a hallucination. Our thinking mind is a hallucination. Story telling is a hallucination. Our beliefs are hallucinations. We watch TV that’s a hallucination, then we dream. Yet another from of hallucination. Few, if any people actually experience life directly, without filters, and without the milliseconds it take for reflected light and/or sound to reach our brain. At its core, we’re all full of…
I don't think I've ever heard a musician at the absolute top top top summit level explain every thought in their head step by step while they're playing. Its amazing what he's able to convey. For instance when I play doubles on the bass drum, I could not sit there and audibly say heel up, ball down, heel down, ball up, repeat. Its one thing to be able to do it and another to describe it and at his level its amazing. I'd be cool to see him break down an entire DT song like that.
Loved the whole thing. Listened to it through, but I have a really hard time at extracting information about anything Mike says and learning from it. I don't know why, but I have the feeling that he is withholding information, lessons and tips all the time, which makes his knowledge very inaccessible to all who have not studied RK1 and 2 (like me). I get that one should not spoil the contents of ones work, because one earns money by selling the books. But at the same time, the only way of promoting your book is by advertising it (and you have to give away some of its contents). I also know that income isn't Mike's primary objective, though. For future interviews I would suggest a more guided interview (although I get it's not the format you're after).
I'm sorry to leave this downer of a comment, but I've been following Mike's videos and music for many years. I think of him as one of the GOATs in drumming.
I also have this impression. I've seen many interviews and written text by Mike in regards to his technique and one thing he seems to be very good at is telling what he doesn't do and the reasons for that. But at the same time, he doesn't tell what he does either. Or he tells everything about what he does without saying what it actually is. It's almost like you're playing 20 questions with him. By comparison, I've seen Benny Grebb's drumeo lesson and The Art and Science of Groove and, the stuff he mentions comes directly from that DVD, but you have a more thorough explanation in it.
I love the Talking Brains intro not only because my favorite drummer played it but because it just fits the upcoming cognitive psychological discussion
In deep sleep Awareness aware "no thing " ( I am writing aware no thing instead of aware of no thing because aware of no thing means there's Awareness and it is aware of no thing ) because there's no Awareness in deep sleep for the mind. Because for the mind, bodymind and world is still there but because Awareness is not there so therefore we have no Awareness of anything. But in reality bodymind and world is come and go in Awareness And when they're not in Awareness, Awareness have no Awareness of them and so in deep sleep Awareness is aware no thing. This is all from the swamiji.
Buddha rebelled against vedanta in his entire life, people like Sarvapriyananda and his teacher Vevekananda and Shankharacarya were always against Buddha's teaching. He talks about Tibetian Buddhist which is far from Buddha's early teaching. Theravada Buddhist has the record of Authentic Early Buddhist Text. People like you (sarvapriyananda) have destroyed the Gem of Buddha's teaching from its birthplace India.
World appears in Awareness. So this world is nothing but appearance of Awareness. It is a power of Awareness by which Awareness appears as the world without changing itself.
