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<blockquote data-quote="Pantheon" data-source="post: 1587850" data-attributes="member: 20083">Yes, it seems that sound and hearing is a more spiritual organ than sight. Sight is actually the least spiritual organ (the most spiritually 'blind'), and only in modern times has seeing become the primary sense organ (&quot;only what I can see is real&quot;). In ancient Egypt, hearing was seen as the supreme sense organ, and when you think about it, the world was indeed spoken into existence by the Word.I'm not so sure about that. In Orthodoxy, there is a place for darkness. Black is the color of defiance to the World, hence genres like doom metal can serve a spiritual purpose. There even exists some Orthodox black metal bands. There is no point in running from darkness, because evil is in everyone. Just because you listen to dark and heavy music it doesn't make you evil, it can mean you are realistic about the existence of these things. I don't even want my metal to be 'Christian', because it's not the point. The point is that it deals with topics of darkness, including evil. That doesn't mean you shouldn't also listen to church music, because beauty and serenity is also important, but I don't believe in shutting out everything dark and aggressive, unless you aspire for an ascetic life of course. If anything, the chaos and non-conformism that metal introduces is a good antiseptic towards the suffocating clinical order and control of modern society. This is why the rise of metal IMO always had a spiritual component, because it arose as a reaction against the mainstream (including mainstream Christianity).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pantheon, post: 1587850, member: 20083"] Yes, it seems that sound and hearing is a more spiritual organ than sight. Sight is actually the least spiritual organ (the most spiritually 'blind'), and only in modern times has seeing become the primary sense organ ("only what I can see is real"). In ancient Egypt, hearing was seen as the supreme sense organ, and when you think about it, the world was indeed spoken into existence by the Word. I'm not so sure about that. In Orthodoxy, there is a place for darkness. Black is the color of defiance to the World, hence genres like doom metal can serve a spiritual purpose. There even exists some Orthodox black metal bands. There is no point in running from darkness, because evil is in everyone. Just because you listen to dark and heavy music it doesn't make you evil, it can mean you are realistic about the existence of these things. I don't even want my metal to be 'Christian', because it's not the point. The point is that it deals with topics of darkness, including evil. That doesn't mean you shouldn't also listen to church music, because beauty and serenity is also important, but I don't believe in shutting out everything dark and aggressive, unless you aspire for an ascetic life of course. If anything, the chaos and non-conformism that metal introduces is a good antiseptic towards the suffocating clinical order and control of modern society. This is why the rise of metal IMO always had a spiritual component, because it arose as a reaction against the mainstream (including mainstream Christianity). [/QUOTE]

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