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Vi ses på plurdag, Paul van Herck, som är så lite känd att han saknar svensk wikipediasida.
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(Om boken. Egentligen hade jag bara tänkt leta fram några lämpliga citat och sen ställa tillbaks den i hyllan men det bar sig inte bättre än att jag läste hela. Mindes den som snarare festlig än bra, kunde nu konstatera att detta ändå var ett överbetyg. Allt var inte bättre förr.)
Första citaten (med enstaka meningar borttagna mellan öde citerade styckena):
"It’s no coincidence that “aspiration” means both hope and the act of breathing.
When we speak, we use the breath in our lungs to give our thoughts a physical form. The sounds we make are simultaneously our intentions and our life force."
"There’s a pleasure that comes with shaping sounds with your mouth. It’s so primal and visceral that throughout their history, humans have considered the activity a pathway to the divine.
Pythagorean mystics believed that vowels represented the music of the spheres, and chanted to draw power from them.
Pentecostal Christians believe that when they speak in tongues, they’re speaking the language used by angels in Heaven.
Brahmin Hindus believe that by reciting mantras, they’re strengthening the building blocks of reality."
"According to Hindu mythology, the universe was created with a sound: “Om.” It’s a syllable that contains within it everything that ever was and everything that will be.
When the Arecibo telescope is pointed at the space between stars, it hears a faint hum.
Astronomers call that the “cosmic microwave background.” It’s the residual radiation of the Big Bang, the explosion that created the universe fourteen billion years ago.
But you can also think of it as a barely audible reverberation of that original “Om.” That syllable was so resonant that the night sky will keep vibrating for as long as the universe exists.
When Arecibo is not listening to anything else, it hears the voice of creation."