From: Paul Turner (paulj.turner@ntlworld.com)
Date: Mon Mar 01 2004 - 21:44:40 GMT
Hello Mark
Mark said:
Apparently, babies become calm when played white noise. If we
contemplate the relative lack of patterned experience of babies, i
wonder if there is significance to be found here?
Paul:
It's funny you mention this, I have recently witnessed this effect of
what may be near to "white noise" (vacuum cleaner, hair dryer) on my
baby daughter and wondered about it. I thought that perhaps white noise
is somehow related to the white light people report at near death
experiences. From this link I was struck by the idea that the experience
of white noise and white light can, perhaps only by analogy, help one
understand what is meant by the line from the Buddhist Heart Sutra that,
"form is emptiness, emptiness is form." White noise is pure potential
and is clearly something, yet it contains nothing discernible and so is
equally nothing at all. Perhaps our reality begins with this nothingness
and infinite potential and is created by gradually shutting out this
potential on the basis of value. Enlightenment is then the reverse of
this process until nothingness is restored.
Maybe then, this sound reminds babies of the wholeness from which they
have only recently emerged?
Just thought I'd share my conjecture with you. Thanks for sharing your
ponderings Mark.
Paul
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