The Old Philosopher

The Tao of Music: I was just frustrated with trying to define music one day.

Earth: I wrote this as a self-exploration exercize. It gives a fair view of my self-image.

Through the Looking Glass: This outlines my basic views on what music is and how we come to understand it.

Marty's Story: This little story illustrates the four ways we listen to music discussed in the Looking Glass essay.

Organized Sound: There are some problems with this standard definition.

The Absolute Aesthetic: Some can sense beauty as an absolute and eternal truth. Phillip is one of those few.

My Strengths: I actually turned this in as part of my year-end report.

Administrative Philosophy: This was inspired by Tom Ganey who is now retired from our Philosophy Department.

Philosophy Garden Here is an excellent resource source for the philosophically minded.

Music, Mind, and Meaning by Marvin Minsky This is kind of long and pretty weighty, but it contains a lot of good stuff for those who are interested in this kind of inquiry.

Generative Principles of Musical Thought by Manfred Clynes Minsky refered to this artilce so often, I just had to link to it too. Heavy duty stuff here.

The Spirit of the Seeker

Seeker Magazine Here is a thoughtful web-zine for those looking for meaning in this world.

Literary Works of Sanderson Beck. Many articles probing a wide variety of religious traditions.

Cynic Sanctuary Rick has a lot of stuff here. Go to his notebook for his Monthly Rant. Read the other things too.

Mysticism in World Religions This well-organized site examines Christianity, Judiasm, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism. Good for comparisons as well as basic background.

Not all mystical things are voodoo or black magic. Questions to which we have no answers are called mysteries.

Spiritually enlightening adventures. Really strange. Listen to Ruby I on-line. Buy their stuff -- it's great.