The Awakening

So I've started reading this new book that James and I found called The Awakening. To say that it is one of the strangest books that I've ever read is probably a bit of an understatement. I've only managed to get through about fifty pages so far and already I feel like my mind has been running on sand for about five hours. Seriously, I can barely get up enough energy to form enough coherent thoughts to write this down before it goes fluttering out of my head.

Despite how much this seems to have assaulted my conscience, there is one thing that I found that was interesting in the book so far. The author mentions music as one of the most basic and underlying foundations of the human psyche. That is, it is something that not only connects each of us to each other, but to everything around us as well.

It may sound weird to say this but all I could think of while I was reading was Roberto's, and so many other listeners for that matter, response when he listened to the meseirer (sorry about the spelling). He described it, I believe, as something that brought about a powerful emotional response, much like the men and women that we listened to on the recording described it. For each of them there was something that they could not describe, something deeper. It delved into an inner part of them that they may not have understood or known about before, but I think that The Awakening may provide me with an answer to exactly what that was. I can only hope that I can understand it when I get there.