From the Vault: Like a Circle in a Spiral, Part 2
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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You might consider spinning around in a circle either great fun or a one-way ticket to barf town, but spinning and whirling are also tied to childhood development, artistic expression and the pursuit of meditative states. Join Robert and Joe as they explore the spin on this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind. (originally published 12/10/2020)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. This is Robert Lam. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Joe McCormick and it's Saturday, Time for the Vault. |
| 0:11.8 | Today's episode originally published December 10th, 2020. It's like a circle in a spiral, |
| 0:17.0 | part two. |
| 0:18.0 | That's right. This is a fun one. So let's go ahead and spin around. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:35.0 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam. |
| 0:38.0 | And I'm Joe McCormick and we're back with part two of our series about people spinning around in circles. |
| 0:43.0 | That's right. Part one was essentially a breakdown of why we feel dizzy when we spin around in circles. |
| 0:52.0 | And then we also went in just a little bit into the art of spinning around in circles, |
| 0:57.0 | particularly as it relates to figure skaters and ballet dancers. |
| 1:02.0 | Now while figure skaters and ballet dancers, I would say regularly practice feats that I am in awe of in terms of their athleticism |
| 1:12.0 | and their ability to spin around and stuff and still execute precise movements afterwards. |
| 1:17.0 | I got to say there's one thing that maybe makes them not that impressive, which is, yeah, they only spin for a few seconds at a time. |
| 1:24.0 | What if you were to spin around in a dance performance that lasted for minutes and minutes on end? Maybe hours, who knows? |
| 1:33.0 | Yeah. And this we're getting into the realm of the whirling dervishes, of sufy mysticism, the sufy whirlers that you find. |
| 1:43.0 | Mostly isolated in modern day Turkey, but in some other regions as well. |
| 1:48.0 | And if you haven't seen footage of this and then certainly heard the corresponding music, I really encourage you to check it out because it is phenomenal. |
| 1:57.0 | It is just a watch it. It's a very meditative experience I find. I've always found this very intriguing. |
| 2:05.0 | I think I'd seen some clips on TV at some point and then back in the 90s at one point is I was getting increasingly into world music and into dead condensed and stuff. |
| 2:15.0 | I picked up an album off hemisphere records titled Mevlana, Music of the Whirling Dervishes and really was blown away by it. |
| 2:25.0 | I looked it up again and I don't think this particular album is available anymore, but you can find the particular musician is Neza Usel. |
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