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lol, it is only a delay and I will be visiting Berlin. Stockholm and Krakow in next 4 weeks so keeping busy!!
Music is uplifting, creates euphoria and releases into the brain the compounds that cause the feeling of ecstasy. If music is combined with dance then the experience is even more intense and meaningful. Of course if this is then done in a ritualised religious setting then religion will take the credit.
How music affects the brain and its ability to evoke the whole range of human emotion in a few bars is quite amazing. I started this thread a while ago now and it was after reading a series of articles on music and perception.
"Most people assume that the world is just as they perceive it to be. Yet experiments have forced researchers, including myself, to confront the reality that this is not the case. What we actually hear is the end of a long chain of mental events that give rise to an impression - a mental image - of the physical world. Nowhere is this more striking than in the perceptual illusion in which our brain imposes structure and order on a sequence of sounds to create what we call music." From issue 2664 New Scientist.
So the music we think we hear, like much of our sensory perception, is not the the same at source as it is when our neurons translate it into something meaningful to us. Another example of what we want to believe being self-created in our own brains regardless of the fact. So if we listen to music expecting a spiritual experience we will get it. It is not the music that evokes it but the pre-determined expectation of the listener.
tao
Music is uplifting, creates euphoria and releases into the brain the compounds that cause the feeling of ecstasy. If music is combined with dance then the experience is even more intense and meaningful. Of course if this is then done in a ritualised religious setting then religion will take the credit.
How music affects the brain and its ability to evoke the whole range of human emotion in a few bars is quite amazing. I started this thread a while ago now and it was after reading a series of articles on music and perception.
"Most people assume that the world is just as they perceive it to be. Yet experiments have forced researchers, including myself, to confront the reality that this is not the case. What we actually hear is the end of a long chain of mental events that give rise to an impression - a mental image - of the physical world. Nowhere is this more striking than in the perceptual illusion in which our brain imposes structure and order on a sequence of sounds to create what we call music." From issue 2664 New Scientist.
So the music we think we hear, like much of our sensory perception, is not the the same at source as it is when our neurons translate it into something meaningful to us. Another example of what we want to believe being self-created in our own brains regardless of the fact. So if we listen to music expecting a spiritual experience we will get it. It is not the music that evokes it but the pre-determined expectation of the listener.
tao
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