Just watched Paul McCartney’s The Space Within US tour. Accepting that it was edited for effect it must be one of the best rock n roll music & documentary DVDs to exemplify the universal and transcendent nature of music.
Audience shots show the high degree of basic positive human emotions- happiness, joy etc – but there are also shots that suggest reverie, awe, a sense of grace and even religious ecstasy. What we see in them, and flowing from them, is part of human nature – intrinsic before the holy breaks down into the fragments of negative qualities through adverse socialization.
There isn’t in this concert the sense of kinship through being paid-up members of ‘we hate X, Y or Z group’. Instead there is the joy of experiencing the joy and love of their higher Selves – in the midst of thousands of others experiencing the same pure life force.
In addition to words of praise from a range of notables, including President Bill Clinton, Bob Spitz says of McCartney and his music, ‘He brings joy to the world.’
The reason that commentators saw it as genuinely spiritual was that the responses were unladen with ideology and its thousands of ways of dividing us from ourselves and from each other.
It’s worth much more than a time-filling watch.
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