THEORETICAL FUNDAMENTALS

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MUSIC + BRAIN
Part 1   •   Part 2

Chronomedicine

Music as a Harmonic
Medical Data Carrier

The Special Status of the
Ear in the Organism

The Ear as a
Medical Instrument

The Significance of the
Soul to Medicine

The Significance of
our Consciousness
to Medicine

The Significance of the
Soul to Human Evolution

Scientists of Tuebingen discover the Brain Regions responsible for
Self Awareness

The Future of Pharmaceutics

Peter Hübner

 

 






Peter Hübner - Micro Music Laboratories
Peter Hübner – The Significance of the Soul to Medicine


When a per­soṉs think­ing is re­peat­edly bro­ken through by deep sleep – be­cause of a com­plete lack of ex­peri­ence – this per­son can never know for cer­tain whether he or she is dreaming or in day con­scious­ness. In my dreams I have often asked the peo­ple I have dreamt of re­gard­ing this situa­tion – I tell them: “I dream you all!” They an­swered: “You are tell­ing tall sto­ries!”
I said: “Yes, I dream you, and when I wake up, you have all gone!” They said: “This is a joke!”
I woke up: they were all gone!

Well, this also points to an­other func­tion inside of us; the “free will”.

As in the wake­ful con­scious­ness – or let us say: dur­ing “day-to-day” – I have no power in my dream to let the per­sons I dream say what I want to hear from them. For the same rea­sons, it may happen that I am fol­lowed in my dream by a lion.
Yet I am the one dream­ing! – but al­though I am the one dream­ing, I can­not pre­vent the lion from run­ning af­ter me, and my­self from run­ning away from the lion.

This ex­peri­ence shows in my opin­ion the func­tion of free will, and it shows that the free will is an (in­ner) au­thor­ity, which is, at least from our per­sonal wishes and wants, com­pletely free – and we may also learn a lot from this for our wake­ful con­scious­ness.

Well, and in this con­text – from this ex­peri­ence – I would like to say the fol­low­ing: we can­not even say what we think our­selves – that we our­selves are the crea­tor of our think­ing.

When I am think­ing, then I at least know on my part, from my own ex­peri­ence, that my “own think­ing” is at best an il­lu­sion: that on the one hand, this is not “re­al­ity”, and that, on the other hand it is not “my” think­ing, and that I per­son­ally am not the thinker – the crea­tor of “my” thoughts –, but that I only per­ceive what is hap­pen­ing in the field of my mind.

“My think­ing” is there­fore a com­para­tively ex­ter­nal ex­peri­ence – in my in­ner self I am not think­ing at all –, I am on the other side of think­ing: from there I ex­peri­ence my think­ing like events on a screen.

Har­monic mu­sic – i.e. mu­sic ac­cord­ing to the har­mony laws of na­ture – teaches us this.

And Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic® pro­duces this ex­peri­ence for many peo­ple: they find out that their thinking runs through like a cin­ema film: that it is not their per­sonal think­ing at all: that they really have lit­tle to do with it or noth­ing at all –, but that “their” think­ing runs through as if auto­mati­cally.

And who takes care of our think­ing? Quite ob­vi­ously, na­ture takes care of our think­ing over our heads.
But if that is true: that I am not a think­ing per­son: that na­ture de­ter­mines my think­ing, then, of course, the ques­tion arises at this con­fer­ence: “What about the field of medi­cine?”


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