Have you ever experienced a time warp while dancing?
Bending time lately? Acceleration of time is easy. That happens to everyone dancing tango. How about experiencing a century of bliss -- or so it seems -- in a minute or an hour? What scientific experiment could we possibly do that would be more profound or more fun than slowing, stopping or reversing time?
Our human expressions of time often minimize the magic of each moment. People often like to use clichés about time: "It seems like just yesterday," or "Life is short." How about saying, "It seems like a century ago when we first met"? Why not be amazed at how many things have happened even just a moment ago?
Time Warp Experiment Directions:
Agree with someone who is present -- really present -- to try an experience in Time Warp. Since expectancy (through human language) is clearly skewed towards acceleration of time, you will need someone who is is has the expectancy (open mind) for time to go slowly and maybe even stop or reverse.
Choose a person who is musical and present -- but more than with the music. Choose someone who is with you as you are not as they would like you to be. Then, agree to slow down, stop or even reverse time. Experience Quantum Physics or the Divine (however you would like to express your world view).
Since doing this time-warp experiment with a yoga-teacher tanguera and a tanguera who came up with the phrase, "Minutes in Eternity," I swear I have made a Quantum (Physics) Leap in my tango experience. (Will my tango-epiphanies ever stop exponentially growing brighter?)
For those who feel as if they have experienced a time warp--cool. Go find someone to measure the Time Warp's depth, intensity and duration, just so that you know for sure that you were not deluded by feelings.
For those who feel as if they have experienced the divine, I have a passage from the Holy Canyenge Scriptures (also known as the "The Tanguero's Bible"):
"One moment is as a thousand years in thy arms, and a thousand years, as one moment. So shall it be for all those who touch the hem of the Divine, for those who dance with the soul they embrace."
-- Saint Mark*
And...
"Blessed are those who connect with their own divine nature and who dance with the Divine Spark within others for they will experience minutes of eternity on earth."
-- The Sermon on Mount Muse
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Our human expressions of time often minimize the magic of each moment. People often like to use clichés about time: "It seems like just yesterday," or "Life is short." How about saying, "It seems like a century ago when we first met"? Why not be amazed at how many things have happened even just a moment ago?
Agree with someone who is present -- really present -- to try an experience in Time Warp. Since expectancy (through human language) is clearly skewed towards acceleration of time, you will need someone who is is has the expectancy (open mind) for time to go slowly and maybe even stop or reverse.
Choose a person who is musical and present -- but more than with the music. Choose someone who is with you as you are not as they would like you to be. Then, agree to slow down, stop or even reverse time. Experience Quantum Physics or the Divine (however you would like to express your world view).
Since doing this time-warp experiment with a yoga-teacher tanguera and a tanguera who came up with the phrase, "Minutes in Eternity," I swear I have made a Quantum (Physics) Leap in my tango experience. (Will my tango-epiphanies ever stop exponentially growing brighter?)
For those who feel as if they have experienced a time warp--cool. Go find someone to measure the Time Warp's depth, intensity and duration, just so that you know for sure that you were not deluded by feelings.
For those who feel as if they have experienced the divine, I have a passage from the Holy Canyenge Scriptures (also known as the "The Tanguero's Bible"):
"One moment is as a thousand years in thy arms, and a thousand years, as one moment. So shall it be for all those who touch the hem of the Divine, for those who dance with the soul they embrace."
-- Saint Mark*
And...
"Blessed are those who connect with their own divine nature and who dance with the Divine Spark within others for they will experience minutes of eternity on earth."
-- The Sermon on Mount Muse
And from the non-dancers Bible:
II Peter: 3:8 (I did not make this up):
"....With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day."
Experience with me Namastangó: Divine sparks, dancing in tandem.
RE: And from the non-dancers Bible:
ReplyDeleteII Peter: 3:8 (I did not make this up):
"....With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day."
How small and insignificant is that "Lord" who only resides just above the clouds and deals only in "a thousand" years. I would prefer one who could recognize, at least, a gazillion years and the one billion galaxies.
Waxing poetic about tango rarely touches on the real joys of the dance... hugging, intimacy with a stranger, feeling a partner's heart beat faster, feeling the breath, expressing the lead of the musicians and maestros, creative improvisation, etc.
Andrew... I quoted the non-dancer's Bible only as a second source. You did not like "one thousand years" and a Lord who is quite limited. First, since this Greek text was written, there has been lots of inflation; so now it is over a "gazillion years." :->
ReplyDeleteRegarding this limited deity you perceive: Andrew! Of course, choose the deity you wish! It think that God’s bank account and calendar has expanded, and perhaps he has a better telescope. My guess is that she is now including new galaxies in the pending revised scriptures. Not sure, though, I haven’t been keeping up with the updates. :-)
Regarding your statement,"waxing poetic about tango rarely touches on the real joys of the dance." What would you suggest? Waxing prosaic? I really don’t mind your prose about the real joys: “…hugging, intimacy with a stranger, feeling a partner's heart beat faster, feeling the breath, expressing the lead of the musicians and maestros, creative improvisation, etc.” I think you have said it very well here. However, I am not sure that you touched on the real joys as well as a poem (which I did not include in this post). Please note there is no poem in this post, but indeed, I may have insulted some or even missed the mark of describing “the real joys” when I playfully made up the existence of the “Canyengue Scriptures.” It was meant to be only that – playful.
Respectfully, “…the one who dances with angels”
A few weeks ago, I experienced a time warp with one of my classmates. This particular lead is someone with whom I find it very easy to connect. We were mid-tanda at a milonga after class and, out of character, I had zoned out in his embrace. Clearly he could sense I'd taken my brain off the hook and he took the opportunity to try a new step with me. As he led me into a move requiring my free leg to swing and wrap freely, suddenly there was all the time in the world for me to execute the move in a controlled and graceful way. I am tall. There are only a couple of local dancers taller than I. And when I'm asked to execute something requiring that free leg to swing, I feel like I'm never given enough time for my (what feels like) 3 miles of leg to move naturally. This time, time slowed to the point where it was easy. :)
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