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Liftance & THYME - Our Existence

by Liftance

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This track is one I am very proud of, and I had a lot of fun producing it with THYME. Enjoy!

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The most fascinating problem in the world... Is "Who am I, myself".
It is absolutely absurd to say that we came into this world. We didn't. We came out of it.
We are a soul, a spiritual essence of some kind, imprisoned inside a body. And that we look out upon a world that is foreign to us.
In the words of the poet Housman; "I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made".

Instead of feeling that we, each one of us, are something that the whole realm of being is doing... We feel that we are something that has come into the whole realm of being as a stranger, when we were born we don't really know where we came from, because we don't remember.
And we think when we die, that's just going to be that. Some people console themselves to the idea that they are going to heaven, that they are going to be reincarnated or they are going to 'summer land' or something else. People don't really believe that. But for most people it's plausible, the real thing that haunts them is that when they die, they go to sleep and are never going to wake up.
But that all depends, you see, on the false notion of what is oneself.

We have been taught to dread death, as if it were the end of the show. It won't happen anymore. And therefore to be afraid of all the things that might bring about death; pain, sickness, suffering. And if you don't know you see, if you are not vividly aware of the fact that you are, basically the works, you have no real joy in life... Being a stranger in the earth. A momentary flash of consciousness between two eternal blacknesses.

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released April 3, 2013
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Liftance Nelson, New Zealand

I produce electronic music. Hope you enjoy my tunes :D

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