1. RELEASE FROM A PURITAN MIND

Why is the release from the puritan mind so important?

It is easy to understand if it is realized that commandments, laws and religious brainwashing is a substitute introduced when natural virtue fails. It is true that it brings about a social and religious aura which supports and appears to improve a society, but what it does is really close the door to the development of a natural virtue.

The origin of music is unknown, as it occurred prior to the advent of recorded history. We can assume that. Human music may echo these phenomena using deliberate patterns, repetitions and tones of nature. Some cultures still in existence have forms of music imitating natural sounds which may have led prey into a hunter's trap.

Certainly as part of that ritual during pre-hunt ceremonies and celebrations after hunt we can imagine dance being integrated with the sounds transmitting the tale. So through time vocal music related to nature was indelibly linked and conditioned body movement.

It actually was an external expression of internal experiences related to natural activities.

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