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Just a comment on the fact that Russel Crowe continually brought his right hand up to compulsively itch the center of his forehead. Almost sometimes seemed to be brushing away something in front of his third-eye.

This reminds me of how geniuses are always scratching the tops of their heads to itch the tingling of their crown energy center.

So what are the effects of an under-active third-eye chakra?

"Poor memory, poor vision, can't see patterns, denial"

"Can't see patterns!!" --and Nash's was ultra-over-active making him the king of discerning patterns.

An over-active third-eye chakra:

"Headaches, nightmares, hallucinations, delusions, difficulty concentrating"

Sounds like schitzophrenia to me.

Also, Russel also didn't see so much with his eyes as he was always looking down. Almost as if he could see with inuition. Didn't have to explicitly look, explicitly focus on one object to see. He could see what was on his future wife's math paper without looking at it.

And his photo-focus gaze was obvious in the number decoding scene, photo-reading, activating, and processing.

When Nash is trying to fight his mind illness, he and his wife touch their hearts--heart energy being the way out of over-active brain energy. "Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart," he says at the nobel prize award ceremony.

And Jennifer Connely...damn fine. (and a yalie too!)

There is a vital connection between sex energy and brain energy.

Impotence is a safety mechanism.

Impotence is like pain. If you break your leg then the pain you feel if you try and walk is to prevent you from doing further damage. It is a useful thing, but a real pain in the... leg.

It is a way to conserve your "jing" or sexual essence. When your jing runs out, you die.

Likewise, when your jing is running low, you're not able to complete the connection between root chakra and crown chakra, so genius powers falter.

Note that Nash lost ALL of his genius powers on the psych meds--essentially by becoming impotent, my contention. He also stopped scratching his third eye. There was no more brain juice.

Then he stopped taking his meds so he could screw his wife again and go back to cracking puzzles. After four days, his erections and genius powers (and theta-hallucinations) came back.

I stand amazed at the bio-energetics of genius!

Viagra is a lot like penile-amphetamines. Turns your root chakra real fast, gives you sexual power, but ultimately leaves you worse off than before as it burns off your vital energy.

Same thing with Exstacy. That is a heart chakra amphetamine. Essentially spins your heart vortex real fast, makes you want to hug, kiss, and love the world. You can feel it in your heart, radiating around your heart. ...over time though, it makes you depressed and quite the opposite.

Amphetamines-like drugs are short-term pleasure, long-term pain. They spin your chakras fast, but there is a terrible price to pay. Typical amphetamines spin your solar plexus chakra like crazy--the chakra of virulent raw adrenaline power. As with the two above examples, after a time, chronic fatigue is your daily affair as you have quite literally "burnt out" your bioenergy.

I'll definately look out for your ... elaborate ... discoveries and ingenius observations

I can't wait for him to start banging his wife again .. LOL
sorry ...

where do you get all your ideas from, man? I mean, these posts, they were pure genius! I doubt if anyone who watches the movie will ever notice those details .. I envy you man, you are an inspiration for us all
here you can see the perfect specimen of superior self-help-program-administration!

where do you get all your ideas from, man?

Good question. I'm really good at seeing connections and the underlying order of things. ..I'm a bit too 'hard-hitting' and intense for most people though. I guess you just get more of what you reinforce. Just gotta clock in the quality time.

So I bought the 'A Beautiful Mind' soundtrack... there is one theme that is so strikingly brilliant. When I heard it, I felt like... THIS is the ideal state of mind. THIS is what life is all about. THIS is genius. THIS is renaissance, golden age, natural brilliance, ... Power Mind.

It's urgent, yet sustaining in its urgency. It's compelling. It's *total* flow. Flow incarnate! A tense flow. An, "I defy you stars!" flow. A Man versus Nature flow. Militant spirituality.

I like it.

Would that all of humanity played this tune with their minds! Overnight golden age.

I've been listening to just this on repeat for some five days now. It's like ceaseless inspiration. Keeps you up late at night and getting up early. Kicks you gently in the ass. Pushes you out the door and into the fray to do battle with chaos.

On Track 1
A Kalaidoscope of Mathematics
From 0.00 to 1.30

and

On track 4
Creating 'Governing Dynamics'
From 0.00 to 1.00

It's neo-minimalist if that means anything to you. By James Horner.

give it a whirl...

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I love to know the soundtrack before T watch the movies ... it's like previewing and pulling trigger words. It kind of prepares you for the movie and you know when you can expect some really touching theme to happen ...

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Would that all of humanity played this tune with their minds! Overnight golden age.

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I think that it depends so much on your character and past experiences what kinds of musical pieces really touch your heart. I've got a few songs and themes that just give me goosebumps and make my eyes fill with tears when I listen to them ... like "Final Dream" from the original Dune (1993) soundtrack. Wow listening to that while or after reading Dune really .. touches .. me. But then again, so does floating in a pool and feeling the water on your skin after you've read Dune. (I love that book ).
Or "Now we are free" and "Elysium" from the Gladiator-soundtrack .. WOW
And for me, nothing beats "La Mer", "The Great Below" and "Hurt" by the Nine Inch Nails (NIN).
or "The Bridge of Khazad-Dum" (the really sad end-part) and "Lothlorien" on the LotR - soundtrack ...
umm ... now I've really got to go .. I've got a rendevouz with a stereo and my headphones ...

I too love the epic hollywood battle scene music. Oftentimes involving self-sacrifce. Very moving. The soundtracks to Gladiator and LOTR are beyond compare. I'm a big fan of incidental movie/tv music, and in particular, battle music. I love battle music!

What struck me about those two tracks, though, was that they were not depicting battles in the ususal sense. James Horner, the composer, was attempting to depict the inner struggle of an ultra-genius mind.

Mind-Battle Music !!

Since you haven't seen it, here's a quick backdrop: John Nash was a perrenial class skipper. He wanted to matter; he didn't just want to be another person. He wanted to come up with a unique idea. He spent his four years at Princeton trying to come up with that idea for his senior thesis. When it came time to put the senior projects up for awards, Nash had nothing but his research--he hadn't hit upon the famous "Nash Equilibrium" yet. So he was denied consideration for the award.

The music depicts him *urgently* trying come up with his theory of governing dynamics before the award deadline--the significance of his existence is endangered! It is the perfect Natural Brilliance music. Horner is trying to capture the "mad genius" process in sound.

So, this is very much a battle of the mind. A mind battle. A Man versus Fate kind of thing. In his own mind, the world is resting on his shoulders. It's got that 'do or die' intensity of battle music, but ... instead, it is a...

Genius in the Trenches.

If you were a cheese, what kind of cheese would you be?

...running out of fresh ideas he takes an original work, makes a variation on it, adds a soprano and labels it a new piece.

You don't know this to be the case. Perhaps he's written so much music, has so much collected stuff in his pantheon, that sometimes he feels he has already written the perfect piece for a given scene.

Further it really 'grates my cheese' to hear a nomination for most/best original score - for something highly unoriginal!!

Unoriginal? How so? Because he sounds like himself? Example: I don't know how many Bach organworks sound ...EXACTLY... alike. I wouldn't call Bach 'unoriginal' though.

why now must he go and stuff it all up by giving us cheap, recycled music.

Well, not having listened to Bicentennial Man, I do not feel this soundtrack is cheap or recycled. Even if it were recycled, how is it cheap? Perhaps he is improving upon his genius? Perhaps he thought he could do better than the last album? Wanted to give it another go?

Listen carefully next time. You'll hear what I am talking about.

I once recognized a Horner passage that was copied, verbatim, from film to film. It was in Aliens, Clear and Present Danger, and ... one other, can't quite remember. But it was the SAME passage on three separate CDs! I didn't mind at all, though. The theme was a minute or two long.

In fact, I felt a modicum of satisfaction that I had been able to discern the similarities as my brother, who'd been listening the CDs years more than I had, had not made the connection.

He's very prolific, you know. He must pump 2 albums out a year. I don't have all his CDs, perhaps a dozen... (I only buy soundtracks from "epic" films.) A lot of Hans Zimmer's stuff sounds similar too--I guess it's just his style.

Also, I imagine it's quite difficult to create minimalist pieces that don't all sound alike. Steve Reich's music? All sounds the same to me. Philip Glass's early stuff sounds almost identical too.

My guess is he probably does what's best for the film. If that means re-hashing some old bits, so be it.

Sergei Prokofiev did this very same thing for his Romeo and Juliet soundtrack in the 1930's. He originally wrote a 3 minute piece for his "Classical Symphony", (an atonal mock-up of Haydn). As he was writing the score to Romeo and Juliet, he found the perfect place, and just dropped that 3 minutes of music in the film, verbatim.

Is that "cheap, unoriginal" music?

All in all, I think that they do what is best for the film, rather than for the 'at-home collector'.

Why do all my emails and posts and general writings sound so up-front and in-your-face? I don't know. It's particularly bad when writing to girlfriends and such. I have to read the letter over like 5 times to weed out anything that could be remotely construed as arrogant or harsh or rough or angry or blunt or uncaring or anything of this nature. Because if you strike just one wrong note, you ruin the piece, you know? And then you don't get a piece... This takes quite a bit of energy.

I think it may be because of the music I listen to as I write this stuff--urgent do-or-die battle music!! The emotion I'm trying to pass on is really "passionate intensity" rather than any flavor of confrontation.