dan schwartz - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm no longer wondering why we're here. i'm wondering IF we're here. If all we can know about ourselves is that something (that we possibly mistake for ourselves) is having an experience, than what's all this brouhaha? Everyone everywhere is in some self-generated story or another, so what's with all the messing around with each other's story?Is it true that Einstein said "Anything that one sees is a delusion of their consciousness?"The possibilties stack up: "Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about." "He not busy being born is busy dying." "There's nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time. It's easy..." "We were talking about the space between us all." "It really doesn't matter if I'm wrong or right." "The wheel is turning and you can't slow down." "What? Me Worry?"We're surrounded, by poetry, on all sides. I surrender."When it all falls apart, there is love." - Rosanne Cash
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My Interests

"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. . . . No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded." -William James, *The Varieties of Religious Experience*

I'd like to meet:

The living and the dead, in any order.

Music:

Too much.Then again, too little.Street Fighting Man; Gimme Shelter; Oh Happy Day; Instant Karma; Within You Without You; Sonic Seasonings; Word Jazz (Sound Museum); Silent Night; the Roches' "Losing True"; the Harmonic Choir's "Hearing Solar Winds".I've posted some old unreleased tunes - click on my friend called "untitled"

Movies:

2001, Nostalghia, To Kill A Mockingbord, Love Actually, The Philadelphia Story, Russian Ark, Night of the Hunter, Christmas Story, Garden State, V For Vendetta...so many perfect movies.

Television:

What's to talk about? The Daily Show.

Books:

Stanley Messenger's "the Intraterrestrials" (a web book), Barbara Ehrenreich's "The Worst Years of Our Lives", Elaine Pagels, Ishmael, the Beatles Recording Sessions, Temples of Sound (pure inspiration)

Heroes:

Martin Carthy, Ali Akbar Khan, Jack Casady, Steve Reich, Stanley Messenger, Jung, Hari Georgeson, Klaus Voorman, Robert Fripp, Barbara Ehrenreich, Maggie Bryant, Cynthia Keltner, Elin Litzinger, Thia Sexton. Then there's Ghandi, Mandela, Lennon - all the usual suspects; people who stood up and declared their own humanity despite massive attention and enormous pressure to acceed to mass hallucination. So really, any human being striving to find who and what they are regardless of any apparent circumstance. And Professor Frink.