No Jukeboxes

The following is an excerpt from my 1985 metaphysical / quantum-physics novel, Conversations with the Moon, (which had a first, small, private print-run under the title, Blue Suede Shoes) © ken winston caine, all rights reserved:

The brunette is uncertain whether she is hearing sounds on The Other Side.

But, she is certain she senses music… Music tickling her; music caressing her… Music filling, feeding, sustaining her.

Here, on The Other Side, she may be music. She may be a sustained chord; a full chord; a sweet chord; a round chord. She may be C Major…

She’s not sure. She is sure she senses music.

Music.

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Music is a drug. The sounds, rhythms affect the brain and encourage the release of endorphins — natural morphine — and can release a cascade of sexual excitement hormones, or any of a prescription list of brain chemicals which cause interesting aberrations in our states of physical and mental wellbeing.

Music conjures up emotions, tickles our fancy.

Doctors and scientists can tell us incredible things about the human body but, much to their embarrassment, and even with all their advanced scientific instrumentation and diagnosis and imaging devices, to this day they still have no idea where our fancy lies.

But they know, music tickles it.

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Lyrics with music can hurry the process along.

The lyrics may lead us down an emotional waterfall. They may outline the pictures our thoughts are admiring or considering in the infinite gallery of possibilities. They may create new pictures for our thoughts to consider.

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There are no jukeboxes on The Other Side. No street musicians, no philharmonics, no mariachi bands, no angels plucking harps, and no rock ‘n’ roll.

Instead, there is the sensation of music.

Everywhere.

The images music conjures, the emotions it elicits, the effects it produces. These are abundant. These are free and eternal.

In fact, these are the origin of music.

Music is one of the bridges between This Place and The Other Side.

Music is simply one way, one element of The Other Side, translates here.