For Adorno, the allurement of the Sirens represents losing oneself in one's past.
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Losing oneself in a song is as much a ward against exterior misery as it is a reminder to keep going, to start somewhat fresh and anew.
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As escape rooms and these newer, immersive parks have stoked audience interest, Westworld has become the perfect metaphor at the perfect time, cleanly articulating the allure of losing oneself in a "real" adventure.
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The exhibition "Water as Microscope of Nature: Leonardo da Vinci's 'Codex Leicester,' " which opens this week at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, on the other hand, offers the visitor the pleasure of losing oneself in the mind of a genius.
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Muraqaba is known as spiritual communion. In this practice one tries to unveil the mystery of life by losing oneself in it. One imagines his heartbeats calling out the name of the almighty. It is highly believed that it is true that our heart calls out for Allah with every beat.
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It looks like they're going to kill them... ...That's what "Horns Surrounding Me" is about. It's so gross and scary." Fourth track and second single, "In the Green Wild" shows Holter's character learning to cope with the stresses of living within the city. She's described the songs as "about escaping one's oppressive world, losing oneself in another world.
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One theme of Zhuangzi's that links Taoism to the Zen branch of Buddhism is the concept of flow, of losing oneself in activity, particularly the absorption in skilled execution of a highly cultivated way. His most famous example concerns a butcher who carves beef with the focus and absorption of a virtuoso dancer in an elegantly choreographed performance. The height of human satisfaction comes in achieving and exercising such skills with the focus and commitment that gets us "outside ourselves" and into such an intimate connection with our inborn nature.
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Mindfulness and technology is a movement in research and design, that encourages the user to become aware of the present moment, rather than losing oneself in a technological device. This field encompasses multidisciplinary participation between design, psychology, computer science, and religion. Mindfulness stems from Buddhist meditation practices and refers to the awareness that arises through paying attention on purpose in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. In the field of Human-Computer Interaction, research is being done on Techno-spirituality — the study of how technology can facilitate feelings of awe, wonder, transcendence, and mindfulness Elizabeth A. Buie. 2014.
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In his last discourse to his disciples, Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti said: Qawwali at Nizamuddin Auliya's shrine Chishti practice is also notable for Sama: evoking the divine presence by listening to and losing oneself in a form of music and poetry, most usually Qawwali.Sufi martyrs of love By Carl W. Ernst, Bruce B. Lawrence, p. 5. The Chishti, as well as some other Sufi orders, believe that Sama can help devotees forget self in the love of Allah. However, the order also insists that followers observe the full range of Muslim obligations; it does not dismiss them as mere legalism, as some strands of Sufism have done.
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In his book Inner Sound: Altered States of Consciousness in Electronic Music and Audio-visual Media, Jonathan Weinel described the track as a Chicago house track began with piano chords over a time signature. The track contains vocals declaring "Gimmie that house music to set me free / Lost in house music is where I wanna be" with a refrain of "Move Your Body / Rock Your Body". Weinel noted that the lyrics celebrate the "ecstatic revelry and physicality of losing oneself in dance" while critic Simon Reynolds reflected that "the social scene of Chicago house was one in which gay black men were able to find liberating communal experience of dance in response to their status as exiles from mainstream culture." Weinel reflected on this noting that these themes extended to other Chicago house tracks such as Joe Smooth's "Promised Land" and Fingers Inc.
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