The following is a reply I sent to another forum and debate into this
issue....



Re: [HealingMusic] Investigations into healing
Date: 2/6/04 9:43:51 AM US Mountain Standard Time
From: GeoNeff
To: HealingMusic@yahoogroups.com



Zacciah...

I will find out if I can send posts from another sound forum about this
debate. Of course precisely the reasons that those of us who are opposed to (at
least  premature) certification is not wanting to foreclose on the
abundance
of work  in sound and create a necessary "canon" in order to have sound
work be assimilated into, and thus defined, by that canon  I and others
of course argue that there is  no other reason to try to corral all the
wonderful and mysterious diversities of a nascent and highly experimental field
and make them acceptable to popular culture except wanting to have one's canon
reduced to the criterion of acceptance and performance of that
culture. &
nbsp; As for your stressing the importance of both cognitive and intuitive
approaches,  my Ph.D. is in cognitive social psychology and I have
every
respect for, and understand the serious limitations of the "cognitive
approach."&
nbsp; It has been a part of my life's work to study the social psychology of
regulation/certification and the professionalization of human endeavors....
and it's terrible aftermath (along with the always idealistic/tragic reasons
that accompany its proposal).  The aftermath of such totalizing social
process organizations is always removed from their initiation and thus cannot be
corrected, as the big mess that results "is what is," has an a priori
"giveness," and so much has been invested by the vested that nothing can be
changed.&
nbsp; As my relatives on the rez would say, "here we go selling the tipi
again."&
nbsp; ( my spell checker wants to spell that tippee).

The profound appetite/instinct of western culture for regulation is something
akin to a cargo cult: the big bird shows up shiny with promise and disgorges
its glittering cultural memes which must be some gift from the gods that will
make life superior.  Waaaay down the (oiften red) road it turns out the
memes ate the tipi, the natives, and the garden.  But hey...it does
help
you to get government contracts.  Can't wait to listen in on the FDA
hearings about standards of research in sound and how really only those with
M.D.'s
and Ph.D.'s get to do it.  Or, of course, having gathered ourselves up
into an identifiable group with identifiable practices may just make us an
easier target to outlaw as not only dangerous but irrelevant (always a good
one).&
nbsp; Could this be why Newton wrote Newtonian mechanics for public
consumption and kept all his alchemical writings very very
private?   
Sigh.

May I have permission to post your reply  on another sound forum where
this debate is energetically underway?

Best.....Georgia


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