Raffael
RaffaelLessons from Beyond
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Shapes, proportions

It is very important for you to realize how important a role proportions and proportionality play, for example, in judging beauty. What makes a shape beautiful? Think about why you got the feeling of beauty from the creator? There is some ancient, elementary wisdom hidden in beauty and proportion.

At present, proportionality is used consciously in few places. The Egyptians valued this much higher, considered it much more important, caring about proportions was an integral part of their society. Even now, beauty is still important, but without the conscious attention that was already present in the life of humanity.

Beauty is not expensive. Beauty is free. But creating beauty requires awareness. If awareness exists in the creator, then he recognizes that beauty is a functional element.

I can advise you to start collecting nice shapes. The simpler the shape, the better. Investigate in depth what makes you think that shape is beautiful. At what point is it that you don't think it's so beautiful anymore. Try to discover what it depends on.

Once you're done with that, a very interesting experiment is to compare this discovery of yours to what people generally find beautiful. What do babies find beautiful? What do you think an animal finds beautiful? Does the plant perceive beautiful things? Do you react to it? If you understand these in their depths, you will realize that beauty and the pursuit of beauty are not to be condemned. It may be primitive, but it is not to be condemned.

The other important result of this game is that you discover in yourself the distorting factors that make you perceive other things as beautiful, like a baby or an animal with few convictions.

You will realize that beauty is universal. It is universal even though it is subjective for people. Subjectivity stems from the fact that you people have taken on different ideas, beliefs, and restrictions that distort this kind of perception.

Perhaps the best example of this is music. The beauty of music. Just think about how interesting it is that a certain type of person typically likes a certain type of music. Also keep in mind that the kind of music you like to listen to can depend on your mood.

What kind of music do you think you need? If your measuring instruments made it possible, you could measure the changes that each piece of music causes in a person. I wonder what kind of waves a person starts to generate after listening to certain music?

It is indisputable that pictures with the right beauty, visual stimuli with the right beauty, musical stimuli with the right beauty basically have a very important effect on you. A very exciting goal would be to develop a device that adapts to the person's current state, and offer music and images to the person, placing them in a space where they can either strengthen the beneficial properties of this state, or weaken the strength of this undesirable state.

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