The power of love is a curious thing
Now, Bastian,
you’re old enough to get your head down out of the clouds and start keeping both feet on the ground.
Right?
My head is stuck in the clouds
She begs me to come down
Says “Boy quit foolin’ around”
I told her “I love the view from up here
Warm sun and wind in my ear
The overview effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from outer space.
It is the experience of seeing first-hand the reality of the Earth in space, which is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, “hanging in the void”, shielded and nourished by a paper-thin atmosphere.
The effect may also invoke a sense of transcendence and connection with humanity as a whole, from which national borders appear petty.
We’ll watch the world from above,
as it turns to the rhythm of love
We’ve got to find another way
to make the world go ’round
Is it love that makes your
world go ’round and ’round?
More than a feeling,
that’s the power of love
Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende (12 November 1929 – 28 August 1995) was a German writer of fantasy and children’s fiction. He is known for his epic fantasy The Neverending Story…
Ende’s writing could be described as a surreal mixture of reality and fantasy. The reader is often invited to take a more interactive role in the story, and the worlds in his books often mirror our reality, using fantasy to bring light to the problems of an increasingly technological modern society.
His writings were influenced by Rudolf Steiner and his anthroposophy.
There are people who regard the deed of Copernicus as the biggest of the cultural revolutions which humanity has ever experienced as far as the historical memory reaches. One has to admit that the impression and the influence of this spiritual revolution was so significant for any outer thinking of the human beings that, indeed, hardly something more effective can be compared with it.
One can bring to mind also easily what it had to mean to the world of the sixteenth century, the earth on which one believed to stand firmly resting in the universe, not only to have to retrain the relation of the own residential place, of this planet, of the sun, of the whole universe.
The human beings literally lost the ground of their view. What they had regarded as firm up to then that the sun and the whole starry heaven circles around this firm earthly residential place, and everything that is spread out in space exists only because of this earthly residential place, one had now to assume that the earth is something that hurries with big speed through the cosmic space.
They had to imagine the sun as something that does not move in relation to the earth and the earth even as something moving.
Rudolf Steiner
Copernicus and His Time in the Light of Spiritual Science
That’s the power –
Makes the world go ’round
Down from the clouds,
words stumble ’round your head –
Just can’t believe in everything they’ve said
Hey you with your head up in the clouds
and your eyes closed –
Did you ever think we’d grow?
The old blueprint no longer manifests itself
as the correct way to exist –
wipe the grime off the view hole
Notes & References
🎥 Rhythm Of Love
🎼 Song Excerpts
Another Way To Make the World Go ’RoundWe've got to find another way to make the world go 'roundSource: World Go ‘Round by No Doubt
Is It Love That Makes Your World Go ’Round and ’Round?Is it love that makes your world go 'round and 'round?Source: Is It Love? by Bette Midler
That’s the Power–Makes the World Go ’RoundThat's the power - Makes the world go 'roundSource: The Power of Love by Huey Lewis & The News
We’ll Watch the World from AboveWe'll watch the world from above, as it turns to the rhythm of loveSource: Rhythm Of Love by Plain White T’s
- Wipe the Grime off the View HoleThe old blueprint no longer manifests itself as the correct way to exist - wipe the grime off the view hole
Source: World Go ‘Round by No Doubt
With Your Head Up in the Clouds and Your Eyes ClosedHey you with your head up in the clouds and your eyes closed - Did you ever think we'd grow?Source: Can’t Believe a Single Word by VHS or Beta
Words Stumble ’Round Your HeadDown from the clouds, words stumble 'round your head - Just can't believe in everything they've saidSource: Another World by Cheap Trick
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Get Your Head Down out of the CloudsNow, Bastian, you're old enough to get your head down out of the clouds and start keeping both feet on the ground. Right?Source: The NeverEnding Story
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Human Beings Literally Lost the Ground of Their ViewThere are people who regard the deed of Copernicus as the biggest of the cultural revolutions which humanity has ever experienced as far as the historical memory reaches. One has to admit that the impression and the influence of this...Sources
The Rudolf Steiner ArchiveCopernicus and His Time in the Light of Spiritual ScienceWebsiteCopernicus and His Time in the Light of Spiritual Science -
Viewing the Earth from Outer SpaceThe overview effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from outer space. It is the experience of seeing first-hand the reality of the Earth in space, which is immediately...Sources
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Overview EffectThe overview effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from outer space.
