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Paul Barnes, Liszt, Music, and God.

http://debashishbanerji.com/consciousnesswriting/integral-education-in-higher-education/ It’s curious and wonderful how certain doors open into further corridors.  Paul Barnes, the transcriber of Philip Glass’s Orphee, turns out to be a kindred soul in his own right.  One of his passions is the religious music of Franz Liszt, which has been sadly neglected (especially by the Church, which stands in desperate need of musical inspiration).  Here are some of the quotations he places on his website theoretically in connection with Liszt, but indicative of a larger philosophy:

http://fhaloanmichigan.org/wp-json/wp_live_chat_support/v1/remote_upload “We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery.   God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.”    – Kallistos Ware

And ipse dicit:

“It is my fervent belief that recovering the ancient understanding of the penetration of the spiritual into the physical would at least be one step in overcoming a desacralized and compartmentalized world-view so prevalent in today’s world.”

His website is http://www.paulbarnes.net.

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