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Pilgrim

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(OT) Source of the "S Word" & ...

Aug 09, 2005, 16:57

Hi, PeterH,

Of course, sacred is a Latin word - and, of course, prevalent in the French language also; all these invasive religious types - what are we to do?

>I cannot explain that tingly feeling that sometimes also comes when I listen to certain music. If you consult a good dictionary for "spirit" you will see that there are many interpretations and it is by no means limited to religion, the soul or any of that stuff. So the term "spirit of place" is the one that I use when that tingle touches me. Where it comes from and why - I just don't know - but it does.<

Back in my electronic days, we used to study something called a "resonant frequency" which - according to the beloved Wikipedia at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonance:

"resonance is the tendency of a system to absorb more oscillatory energy when the frequency of the oscillations matches the system's natural frequency of vibration (its resonant frequency) than it does at other frequencies....."

And continues:

"A resonant object, whether mechanical, acoustic, or electromagnetic, will probably have more than one resonant frequency. It will "pick out" its resonant frequency from a complex excitation, such as an impulse.... In effect, it is filtering out all frequencies other than its resonance.

New Agey, again, but perhaps that's your "tingly feeling" ?

Pilgrim

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