The Glass Bead Game

A Radio Exploration of Human Commonality Through Music of Wildly Different Styles and Genres, Organized Around a Different Theme or Idea Each Week and Tied Together by Relationships of Keys, Pulse and Atmosphere.

"I suddenly realized that in the language, or at any rate in the spirit of the Glass Bead Game, everything actually was all-meaningful, that every symbol and combination of symbol led not hither and yon, not to single examples, experiments, and proofs, but into the center, the mystery and innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge. Every transition from major to minor in a sonata, every transformation of a myth or a religious cult, every classical or artistic formulation was, I realized in that flashing moment, if seen with truly a meditative mind, nothing but a direct route into the interior of the cosmic mystery, where in the alternation between inhaling and exhaling, between heaven and earth, between Yin and Yang holiness is forever being created."

------- Joseph Knecht, Master of The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

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