Nederlands Turkish
Experience a compressed verison of the video, music + text.
The texts (sung and spoken) are about the impact of direct mystical experience.
Our encounters with the transcendent, glimpsed in the mirrors of
diverse specifics (here: a turning tulip in the elements and accents
in two languages) can transport us to another reality.
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The spoken text comes from the Seven Valleys, a Sufi-like text
by Baha'ullah, that in the DVD shown in the exhibition in Utrecht is spoken in Dutch by a Turkish man and in Turkish by a Dutch woman, clearly distinguishable by their accents.
This work is also about the awareness of influence (part of experience in the mirrors of diverse specifics), and accents are a clear indication of this. The music is by Sandy Hoover (London /U.S.), a friend of Sonja's. It is the final part of the song "Way Out There", a song built up in various modes (or styles/influences)
By My life, O friend, were you to taste of these fruits, from the green garden of these blossoms which grow in the lands of mystic knowledge, beside the brilliance of the lights of the Essence in the mirrors of names and attributes -- yearning would seize the reins of patience and reserve from your hand, and make your soul shake with the flashing light, and draw you from the earthly homeland to the first divine homeland in the Center of Realities, and lift you to a plane wherein you would soar in the air even as you walk upon the earth, and move over the water as you run on the land.
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