On Jul 26, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Bhairitu wrote: > However we're getting a bit offtrack here and most yogis will tell you > that mantras on the aural level have the same effect at the mental > level > but are even more powerful there. Again most of them who have given > it > much thought in terms of sound physics would say it is resonance and > how > the nervous system resonates with the mantra. And that is why > different > mantras have different effects. If there are people here who don't > experience that well maybe later....
Well another important concept is the idea of rhythmic entrainment, that certain frequencies cause a locked entrainment in other objects (e.g. "sympathetic vibration"). If this can happen in physical objects, why not the brain, a physical object connected to both our ears and our thoughts? I think it would be fairly easy to show how different musical modes affect people differently by doing EEG studies of people listening to different musics in differing modes. Clearly this was something recognized long ago in the west, as I believe the Roman Catholic Church even forbade certain modes. Some were considered sinister or diabolical. I'm sure, had it been heard by church officials, the minor pentatonic with a flatted 5th (the Blues scale) would have surely been deemed subjectively and objectively "demonic". Certain modes, like Phrygian IIRC, were believed to make people go insane. This same principle is also behind the idea of blues and Rock & Roll being "the devil's music". It's sinistroversus, left-turning, and probably hits sympathetic neural receptors in the right brain. Very scary when you spent a lifetime locked into the the left brain.
