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You asked about concerts. I don't know if we have much on it with predictions but I do know that Vail, CO canceled their Bravo Vail summer outdoor music series of classical music concerts. I believe the Hollywood Bowl did as well. Those are outdoor venues. I would doubt that an indoor venue would open anytime soon. I guess it depends upon the state.
I am sure the bands and artists want to be performing as well. I do know that some are live streaming concerts. Now that small groups are gathering together, I would expects that the whole band would be able to be together on a stage or venue and that could be live streamed. Just an educated thought.
@dhyanaji, there is a thread entitled "Books We Recommend" under the topic "How to Cope and Even Thrive in Difficult Times." Not sure if your recommendations should stay here or under that book thread, but just an FYI.
I am familiar with Cayce and many years ago, attended a number of workshops at his Association of Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach.
@jeanne-mayell thank you!! I will look for the new thread too! I take metaphysical classes online and would love to get my PhD in metaphysics some day and do something related to psychology and healing for that thesis. It's online and not an "accreddited" school, but I already have my MA is counseling and art therapy, so I'm just doing it for me and I also think in the coming years (maybe not even in my life time) that this will all be accepted again as "real" healing.
@deetoo lol! Yeah, I'm about to turn 37 in July haha! I had to learn how to heal a lot of my own trauma (along with other creative therapists), so it's something that is near to my heart. I love my work so much and it's so amazing to see how alternative treatments help people heal.
I would expects that the whole band would be able to be together on a stage or venue and that could be live streamed.
I play in a couple of amateur performing groups, or I did until mid-March.
Here's the thing: It's fine for the audience if they can view a perfomance online or in a drive-in format etc. But the band still probably needs to rehearse beforehand. Getting a large ensemble together in a room where everyone is exhaling and inhaling vigorously is not a good way to social distance.
Small groups, duos, soloists--- yes that could work. But orchestras, choruses, bands with more than a few members: risky.
This brought a few random thoughts to mind:
1) Scientific research runs on money. This means getting grants unless you are independently wealthy. It's hard enough to get grant money if you're going against the grain in the conventional sciences. But then extrapolate that to something that most people wouldn't even think should be scientifically explored--- it becomes very difficult. Not that it can't be done. Just that you'd be climbing uphill both in terms of logistical support and then in trying to get the work published in any high-profile journal. (Going against the grain is also going to mean peer reviewers are likely to be inclined to shoot down your work when you try to publish. Partly because *they* don't want to look gullible by letting novel "crazy" ideas get published. )
2) "Amateur" psychic experimentation: When I was a kid this stuff was considered kinda "groovy" and maybe fun to mess around with. We had a "game" (more like a psychic experimentation kit) called "Kreskin's ESP". It included a pendulum, of which you could ask questions. Also there was a set of cards with different symbols of different colors on them (like-- red square, yellow circle, green square, red triangle, etc. )You were supposed to try to "send" the image to a partner and they were supposed to write down what they got and then you'd compare and score when you got through the cards. I worked this with my sister and with a friend. I could never send or receive anything from my sister. But the friend and I got something like 70% accuracy. It was cool. But no one believed us.
3) Proof of reincarnation: I've read Brian Weiss and other writers' anecdotal accounts of reincarnation. I would like to believe them, and I guess I believe more than disbelieve. What frustrates me is that especially TODAY with all the info available on the internet, that the details of many of the reported past lives could be chased down and verified or refuted, but is anyone trying to do that? Even in the 80's and 90's it seems more of this stuff could have been verified than was.
FWIW
No, orchestras and bands cannot get together. ( I had thought of small bands like rock or jazz when saying that.). I understand this dilemma well as my daughter is a percussionist and music major. Not sure how her senior year in college will go, the last few months have been a challenge since she had 4 ensemble courses which where unable to actually perform anything after the first week of March. Difficult to perfume when you are not allowed to perform.
@lovendures That is rough for your daughter. I know some music students and so far they can't even have in-person lessons with their individual teachers. Forget ensembles-- even small ones are not permitted. I hope she can motivate herself to practice-- for me it was always difficult unless I had the pressure of an upcoming lesson, rehearsal, or performance to scare me into it.
Depends where you are. Here in my city, one of our local favorite bands, The B-Side Players, is going to do a drive-in concert in the parking lot of our downtown baseball stadium. $50 per car, you stay in your car, they put the stage on one end of the lot, I guess.
Sorry for the tangent- @jeanne-mayell - feel free to move the question and reply as you see fit.
Jeanne and All Like Minded Souls here on the forum: Don't know if this should go on a new and separate thread entitled, "Recommended Books" as so many of you, myself included, have recommended numerous books to read or if this should stay here as it applies to this thread.......maybe both????
William James wrote several books, but his seminal work on Psychic/Religion was entitled, "The Varieties of Religious Experience" written at the start of the last century and as I stated in my last post, one of the books named while Edgar Cayce was giving a reading and in answer to an inquiry as to what book(s) would be best read to understand the psychic world/experience. He also named, The Golden Flower for those of you who love Freud/Jung and Psychology.
As Jeanne stated, so many cutting edge researchers seemed to have aged out at the turn of this century but there is so much there in a wide variety of research into the Paranormal/Psychic worlds just waiting to be hungrily devoured. Near-Death Experiences of People and Children too, Remote Viewing, The Work of the Late, Great Robert Monroe,,,"Far Journeys, The Ultimate Journey, etc....His Institute is still operating to this day in Virginia,but probably temporarily closed due to the Pandemic....There's so much available and to share especially at this time. Mind-Blowing Experiments in China w/ Kids who did totally amazing things w/ the Power of their Minds including 'Moving Objects' and Transferring Pellets from One Closed Test Tube into another Totally Sealed Tube....So welcome to this ever-expanding Universe and enjoy all the Wonders available to you, starting right here w/ joining one of Jeanne's classes or open yourself to one of her Extraordinary One-of-a-Kind Readings. I hear that she never disappoints!!!! You were guided to this site for a reason.
Namaste'
FYI There is a thread called "Books and Videos that Help Get Us Through.."
Just for future reference ;-)
Namasté!