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preternatural
[prìːtərnǽtʃərəl]
초자연적인
기이한
우리 같은 '평범한 사람들'은
특이하거나 초자연적인 일과 거리가 먼 삶을 살고 있다.
그러다보니 '튀고 싶은' 사람들은 특이한 일들을 의도적으로 만들고 싶어 한다.
폐쇄적이고 일률적인 북한의 젊은이들 가운데 '약간 도두 보이려고'
남한 드라마를 보고 (북한 당국의 눈에) 획기적인
옷매무새와 머리 스타일을 했던 사건이 큰 화제가 되었다.
미성년자에게 '중형'이 선고된 것도 비윤리적인데
더구나 공개석상에서 그런 처형을 내린 것이
잔인해 보였다.
They were young teenagers with PRETERNATURAL looks in North Korean official's sight.
그들은 북한 당국의 시각으로 기이한 모습을 한 십대였다.
그들은 마치 그런 모습의 십대들이 사막을 걷는 펭귄 처럼 보였을 것이라고
빗대어 논평한 언론도 있다.
The North Korean teenagers were treated as penguins in the desert
seemed very PRETERNATURAL to the amazed Nothern judges.
북한의 십대들은 놀래 자빠질정도의 북한 재판원들에게는
기이하게 보이는 사막의 펭귄 처럼 취급당했다.
preternatural 은 Latin 어 preter (beyond)라는 접두어에
naturam (nature) 을 합친 낱말이므로
자연의 현상 (때로는 상식적) 너머의 모습을 나타낸다는 뿌리를 하고 있다.
눈 덮인 남북극 (南北極)에서 사는 penguine 은 natural 현상이고
그것들이 사막에서 사는 것은 beyond natural (preternatural) 인 것처럼 ~
Did Cleopatra have a PRETERNATURAL ability to charm people?
Cleopatra 는 사람들을 매혹시키는 신비한 능력을 가졌던가?
기이하고 초자연적인 능력이 인간보다
하등동물에게 더 뛰어나는 현상이 다분하다.
Just as dogs have a PRETERNATURALl sense of smell,
so bats have a sense of hearing that is much more PRETERNATURAL.
than human beings.
개들이 초자연적 (구체적으로 말하면 인간과 비교해서) 후각을 가진 처럼
박쥐들은 인간들 보다 훨씬 뛰어난 신비로운 청각을 갖고 있다.
그렇다고 인간들에게 초능력적 힘이 없는 것은 아니다.
The younger child, no older than two or three years old,
was preternaturally calm and focused in his mother’s lap.
두 살 또는 세 살보다 더 나이 많지 않은 어린이는
그 어머니의 무릎에 푹빠져서 초자연적 평온에 빠진다.
(Psychology Today, January 16, 2024)
(걑은 무릎이라고 아버지의 무릎보다 더 포근한 것이 어머니의 무릎)
그리고 대부분의 부모들은 이런 초자연적 힘을 가질 때가 있다
Most of parents have an almost PRETERNATRAL ability to understand
what was going on in their children's minds.
대부분의 부모들은 그들 자녀들의 마음에서 되어지는 것을
이해할 수 있는 거의 초능력을 가지고 있다.
I wonder I was one of them, too
나도 그들 가운데 하나인지 의심스럽다.
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Dogs have a preternatural sense of smell, bats have a sense of hearing that is preternatural.
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The student teaching the class seemed preternatural to the old school teacher.
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Seeing a penguin in the desert seemed very preternatural to the amazed onlookers.
She was possessed of an eerie preternatural beauty.
Parents had an almost preternatural ability to understand what was going on in their children's minds.
He is a young man with preternatural [=exceptional] good looks.
She has a preternatural ability to charm people.
Dogs have a preternatural sense of smell, bats have a sense of hearing that is preternatural.
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As I witnessed the droning sounds of Tarek Atoui’s hybrid sculpture performance Organ Within at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, I noticed a family of four—two young parents with two young children—sitting quietly on the floor pillows of the rotunda.
The younger child, no older than two or three years old, was preternaturally calm and focused in his mother’s lap.
He looked on, captivated and mesmerized, as the musicians walked from station to station.
The performers adjusted metal tubes, scattered balls, and bells onto a thin vibrating membrane, and reached inside different compartments of the modular instrument.
preternatural (adj.)
"beyond or different from what is natural," 1570s, from Medieval Latin preternaturalis (mid-13c.), from Latin phrase praeter naturam (praeterque fatum) "beyond nature (and beyond fate)," from praeter "beyond, over, more than in quantity or degree" (see preter-) + accusative of natura "nature" (see natural (adj.)).
Used at least since 1770s in the sense of supernatural, but technically and properly distinct from that word. "Preternatural is used especially to note that which might have been a work of nature, but is not" [Century Dictionary]. Related: Preternaturally; preternaturalness; preternaturalism.
also from 1570s
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natural (adj.)
c. 1300, naturel, "of one's inborn character; hereditary, innate, by birth or as if by birth;" early 14c. "of the world of nature (especially as opposed to man)," from Old French naturel "of nature, conforming to nature; by birth," and directly from Latin naturalis "by birth, according to nature," from natura "nature" (see nature).
Of events, features, etc., "existing in nature as a result of natural forces" (that is, not caused by accident, human agency, or divine intervention), late 14c. From late 14c. of properties, traits, qualities, "proper, suitable, appropriate to character or constitution;" from late 15c. as "native, native-born." Also late 15c. as "not miraculous, in conformity with nature," hence "easy, free from affectation" (c. 1600). Of objects or substances, "not artificially cultivated or created, existing in nature" c. 1400. As a euphemism for "illegitimate, bastard" (of children), it is recorded from c. 1400, on the notion of blood kinship (but not legal status).
Natural science, that pertaining to physical nature, is from late 14c.; natural history meaning more or less the same thing is from 1560s (see history). Natural law "the expression of right reason or the dictate of religion inhering in nature and man and having ethically binding force as a rule of civil conduct" is from late 14c. Natural order "apparent order in nature" is from 1690s. Natural childbirth is attested by 1898. Natural life, usually in reference to the duration of life, is from mid-15c.; natural death, one without violence or accident, is from mid-15c. To die of natural causes is from 1570s.
supernatural (adj.)
early 15c. "of or given by God, divine; heavenly," from Medieval Latin supernaturalis "above or beyond nature; divine," from Latin super "above" (see super-) + natura "nature" (see nature (n.)).
Originally of revelation, etc.; the notion is "being beyond or exceeding the powers or laws of nature." The association with ghosts, etc., has predominated since 19c. The older sense is maintained in supernal.
That is supernatural, whatever it be, that is either not in the chain of natural cause and effect, or which acts on the chain of cause and effect, in nature, from without the chain. [Horace Bushnell, "Nature and the Supernatural," 1858]
The religious sense has been better preserved in supernal.
That which is supernatural is above nature ; that which is preternatural or extra-natural is outside of nature ; that which is unnatural is contrary to nature, but not necessarily impossible. [Century Dictionary]
preter-
also praeter-, word-forming element meaning "beyond; over, more than in quantity or degree," from Latin praeter (adverb and preposition) "beyond, before, above, more than," properly comparative of prae "before," from PIE root *per- (1) "forward," hence "in front of, before."
Tarek Atoui's Organ Within at the Guggenheim Museum, New YorkSource: M Wei
Atoui’s work understands sound as more than simply an experience of hearing
and explores sound as a tactile and visual experience. As I slowly climbed the sloping levels of
the rotunda noticing the acoustic changes, I was struck by another way to experience this piece—as a mindful, walking sound meditation.
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The Healing Power of Sound as Meditation
Research suggests sound is a powerful tool to reduce pain, anxiety, and more.
Updated January 16, 2024
Reviewed by Ekua Hagan
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As I witnessed the droning sounds of Tarek Atoui’s hybrid sculpture performance Organ Within at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, I noticed a family of four—two young parents with two young children—sitting quietly on the floor pillows of the rotunda. The younger child, no older than two or three years old, was preternaturally calm and focused in his mother’s lap. He looked on, captivated and mesmerized, as the musicians walked from station to station. The performers adjusted metal tubes, scattered balls, and bells onto a thin vibrating membrane, and reached inside different compartments of the modular instrument.
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Tarek Atoui's Organ Within at the Guggenheim Museum, New YorkSource: M Wei
Atoui’s work understands sound as more than simply an experience of hearing
and explores sound as a tactile and visual experience. As I slowly climbed the sloping levels of
the rotunda noticing the acoustic changes, I was struck by another way to experience this piece—as a mindful, walking sound meditation.
In How Music Works, David Byrne describes the intimate relationship between architecture and music whose composition and experience is shaped by the space in which it is performed. Musicians write for the spaces in which they perform. The site-specific performance within the architecture of the spiral rotunda created a uniquely meditative experience of sound.
Sound has an ancient kinship with meditation and healing. Sound healing has ancient roots in cultures all over the world, including Australian aboriginal tribes who used the didgeridoo as a sound healing instrument for over 40,000 years to ancient such as Tibetan or Himalayan singing bowl spiritual ceremonies. Sound meditation is a form of focused awareness type of meditation. One kind that has become more popular is called “sound baths,” which uses Tibetan singing bowls, quartz bowls, and bells to guide the listener. These practices highlight themes of how the experience of sound manifests not only through hearing but through tactile physical vibrations and frequencies.
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Science is still catching up to understanding how sound heals, but the current research is promising. A review of 400 published scientific articles on music as medicine found strong evidence that music has mental and physical health benefits in improving mood and reducing stress. In fact, rhythm in particular (over melody) can provide physical pain relief.
One study published in the Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine found that an hourlong sound meditation helped people reduce tension, anger, fatigue, anxiety, and depression while increasing a sense of spiritual well-being. The sound meditation used a range of Tibetan singing bowls, crystal singing bowls, gongs, Ting-shas (tiny cymbals), dorges (bells), didgeridoos, and other small bells. The main instrument used was the singing bowls for 95% of the session. People who had never done sound meditation experienced significantly less tension and anxiety afterward, as well as those who had done it before.
There are many different theories that attempt to explain why sound experiences can be linked with deep relaxation and physical pain relief.
One theory is that sound works through the vibrational tactile effects on the whole body. Sound could stimulate touch fibers that affect pain perception. One study of people with fibromyalgia found that ten treatments (twice per week for five weeks) of low-frequency sound stimulation improved sleep and decreased pain, allowing nearly three-fourths of participants to reduce pain medication.
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Sound-based vibration treatment has been shown to help people with pain from arthritis, menstrual pain, postoperative pain, knee replacement pain. Sound-based treatment has even been found to improve mobility, reduce muscle pain and stiffness, increase blood circulation, and lower blood pressure.
Another theory on the benefits of sound rests on the concept of “binaural beats” or “brain entrainment” which hypothesizes that listening to certain frequencies can synchronize and change one's brainwaves.
Electrical activity in the brain is displayed in the form of brainwaves, or rhythmic, repetitive frequencies. These rhythms can be measured using a device called electroencephalogram (EEG).
There are four categories of brainwaves, which range from frequencies that occur during the most activity (beta) to the least activity (delta). Different states of alertness and consciousness in different parts of the brain generate varying frequencies of brainwaves.
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Beta waves are the fastest type of brainwave and occur when the brain is active and engaged mentally.
Alpha waves occur when the brain is in a state of non-arousal, such as when a person has finished a task and is resting or when one meditates.
Theta brainwaves are associated with daydreaming and rapid eye movement (REM) dreaming phase of sleep. Theta brainwaves occur when you are in a state like driving on the freeway or are running for a long time. This kind of state often is associated with times when ideas and creativity flow.
Delta brainwaves are the slowest and associated with deep dreamless sleep.
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The premise of binaural beats is that the brain synchronizes its brainwave frequency to the difference in hertz between tones played in each ear, which, depending on the frequency, can lead one to states of deep relaxation associated with beta waves or meditative trance-like theta waves.
Researchers are still trying to determine the mechanism of the healing benefits of sound, but sound in the form of vibrational therapy or meditation offers potential therapeutic benefits with low to minimal side effects. Atoui’s piece shows us the joy of being in the active presence of sound, perceived in its full totality, visually, tactilely, and acoustically.
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