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 Sensuous $14.98 CORNELIUS is amazing, but Sensuous teases, yet does NOT put out! I'm a huge fan of both Fantasma, Point, & his AMAZING live shows that are a MUST SEE....but unfortunately, this album fell flat on its face. A couple of good tracks, but too much gibberish noise and soul-less tracks. Honestly, don't they just sound like a bunch of B-Sides from point???? Come on Keigo, I'll still buy the next album! ;-(  Est?e Lauder Sensuous Eau de Parfum Spray, 1.0 oz. $42.00 It arrived on time. Brand new,still wrapped, just as it was described. It was the best price around.  The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World $15.00 The Song of Songs of the concrete reality of the Earth is sung by David Abram in The Spell of the Sensuous from 1996. The foundation is laid by a demonstration that phenomenology not, as by Husserl, has to reduce the experience of reality to something purely subjective (solipsism). As by Merleau-Ponty, it can also look at perception as a duet between the body and the landscape it inhabits, a dance for two, an open cycle completed first in the concrete environment. Traditional science focuses the material world apart from the experience of it, while New Age often maintains that material reality is an illusion created by an immaterial consciousness. They seem to be opposed, but both see nature as something passive, to be manipulated by man. Both views are unstable, but by bouncing from scientific determinism to spiritual idealism and back, contemporary discourse easily avoids the possibility that both the perceiver and the perceived are interdependent and at once both sensible and sensitive. Merleau-Ponty is of the opinion that language has a first sensuous, evocative dimension of tone, rhythm and resonance and that added abstract dimensions build upon this flesh of language. Our speech inscribes us in the chattering, whispering landscape. But how did we end up in this inert, deterministic world that we often seem to live in? One reason is the Jewish and Christian traditions with a God who is not of this world; another one is the philosophical tradition from Socrates' and Plato's Athens with the derogation of the sensible and changing forms of the world in favour of pure ideas in a nonsensorial realm beyond the apparent world. And both traditions were, from the start, profoundly informed by writing, by the strange and potent technology we have come to call "the alphabet". Abram tells about the history of the alphabet, were the crucial point is the transfer of the Semitic aleph-bet into the Greek "alphabet". The Semitic letters kept a certain relation to physical reality: Aleph meant ox and "A" had the shape of the head of an ox etc. But when the Greeks took over, the letters lost all sensorial reference and turned into an abstract human system of signs. Abram strolls in the landscape of oral language, more exactly in those by Indians and the Aborigines in Australia. In the "Dreamtime" of the Aborigines he finds a total symbiosis between landscape and language. Innumerable Ancestors wandered in the Dreamtime, singing, across its surface, shaping the landforms by their actions. Every trait in the landscape is loaded with stories, speeches and songs. For my own part, I am back in the landscapes of Selma Lagerlf's Gsta Berling's saga and Nils Holgersson. Abram ponders upon space and time, earth and air, especially air. To us today air is not much more than empty space - we forget how air by the vital breathing connects the smallest cell within us with the whole earthly world. Words like "psyche", "pneuma", "spiritus", "anima", "atma" once also meant air, breath, wind. Air seems to have been looked upon as the stuff that builds mind, as the subtle body of the soul. For many oral, indigenous people, the boundaries enacted by their language are more like permeable membranes, binding the people to their landscape. But after the establishment of phonetic writing, language became an impenetrable barrier, a hall of mirrors: from a purely "interior" zone the speaking self looks out at a purely "exterior" nature. But the human mind is not some otherworldly essence that comes to house itself inside our physiology. Rather it is induced by the tensions and participations between the human body and the animate earth. Something is terribly wrong with our global aspirations, Abram means. In order to obtain the image of the earth whirling in the darkness of space, humans have had to relinquish something just as valuable - "the humility and grace that comes from being fully a part of that wirling world. [...] If, however, we simply persist in our reflective cocoon, then all of our abstract ideals and aspirations for a unitary world will prove horribly delusory. If we do not soon remember ourselves to our sensuous surroundings, if we do not reclaim our solidarity with the other sensibilities that inhabit and constitute those surroundings, then the cost of our human commonality may be our common extinction."  Sensuous Perfume By Estee Lauder 3.4 oz / 100 ml Eau De Parfum(EDP) New In Retail Box $69.50 After receiving a trial size Sensuous from a friend, I was hooked. The scent is pleasurable and soothing, and lasts all day. I received it quickly after ordering and am very happy with the purchase. |
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