“all the new age baggage associsted with it is a way of partimg the weak minded from their money”
Couldn’t agree more. Though I’d go a step further to say the acceptance of any sort of authority, be it religious, psychological, scientific, spiritual or whatever, is the death of free enquiry in its rawest sense, and that is the basis of a weak mind
“I do think its possible that some people can see auras but it is a synesthesiac 'sensing' of their visual emotional cues... like tasting colours or seeing sounds”
It’s all just energy before being processed through various lanes of more rigid Sensory Red Tape, so would say you are more or less on point with that. I’m mildly synesthetic, see sounds but not as colours. A black backdrop with ripples like you would see in the water, but rippling out forward towards by different amounts depending on velocity etc, coming from the area they are placed in the stereo spectrum. Has got more noticeable since started focusing more on music. Like searching for that balance, when the ripples start coming out in my mind it’s nearly there. Hard to describe
Pretty interesting topic, all this. Managed to get the nod to do my dissertation on synesthesia and the relationship between visual colour and musical pitch (despite it having fuck all to do with the course really). Yer man Alexander Scriabin was a bit of a legend. Mapped the colours of the visual spectrum across the keys of the musical scale by some fancy pants maths and/or mushrooms. His colour system, unlike most synesthetic experiences, accords with the circle of fifths which came from Newton’s Optiks. Which adds another dimension entirely, imo … madness
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