An acquaintance of mine argued over this some weeks ago. He's new agey kind of guy and has this violet light Christian love thing in his head. He was quite startled to find the following in a book called "The Source of Music--Music and Mantra for Self-Realisation" by Sri Chinmoy. So I went out and found a copy. From the chapter "God the Supreme Musician":
Music is God's Dream. God is dreaming at every moment through music. His Dream is called the cosmic Reality, the universal Reality. From the highest point of view, music is not mere words; it is not a concept, not an idea. Music is Reality in its highest form. God is playing the supreme Music in and through us, His chosen instruments.
So there it is again--We are just bit-players in in the dream of a transcendent consciousness or "god" if you will. We are just notes, each lifetime a repeating theme, the totality of lives a symphony of existence that is looking for a coda.
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