Alexandre Tannous
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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And that's something psychedelics teach, especially when done in a good setting, where there's paying attention and they're not just being taken as medicine. You can do that. People can go to a fish concert and pray to death and everything else and parties and Burning Man. But at the end, it can create a healing experience, but at the end, how much attention?
How are we flippantly labeling, perpetuating the mislabeling? If this is happening, what is this about? Do we think it's a planned spirit? Do we think it's the ancestors and all these things? What are the consequences of us calling in something? Are we being empowered? Are we trying to gyp the self yet again? What works in the process, I'm realizing, is sound, music.
As the tryptamines, psilocybin, psilocin, the DMTs, create heightening of the auditory cortex to guide us back to a state of harmony. And we call that many stories. I personally believe that
grandmother when you drink ayahuasca is you man it's an aspect of you it's just the lenses the filters and we're connecting to the field that is all us and grandmother ayahuasca or the spirits are not something else outside of us we think they're outside at the end one of the deepest truths for us understand that there's no inside and outside
Yes.
Yes.
More holistic, absolutely going back to perceiving the world differently, reality, the cosmos, the universe differently. And this is what in hermeticism they say, it's all mental. The universe is mental, it's all mind. You're all of that.
That's the ultimate truth that I'm finding, again, whether in Sufism, and I studied Sufi music minutely, deeply, played it too, microtonal music, and the journey that I went through and the specialization helped me understand these things in a way that... Others don't. Based on my life experience and my endeavor and all the suffering, everything came together.
And that's what every person should look for because there's no need for haste to find meaning, mission in life, or find value or purpose. It's there. You're just not contextualizing properly. You're mislabeling it. And that's where the healing, the rehabilitation needs to come. So the guiding force is sound, is these frequencies.
Now, the equal temperament that we did in the West, the quantization of... the 12 half-steps that became equidistant. Keep in mind that things become more complex if you go into other cultures' musical systems. In the classical music, for example, it's 22 divisions in an octave. They call them 22 shrutis. Shruti, S-H-R-U-T-I. In Arabic classical music and Persian, it's 24 tones, double, 12.
In Turkish classical music, also using the Macomb system, is 53 tones. In Byzantine chants, the chants that are sung in the Greek Orthodox Church, I grew up in that church. My parents were not very religious, but I was imbued by this. They alter your consciousness. Ethos creates a different pathos. So the music, and when you listen to...
Classical Persian, Turkish, Arabic, classical music, sitting and listening without any substance. It is known, and this is known culturally. I've experienced it many times, playing it, listening to it. It's a very known thing. You go into a state of tarab, T-A-R-A-B.
It's a state of euphoria, of ecstasy, enchantment that is induced by deep listening, judicious listening, attentive, intentional, preferably you sitting down not doing things. You benefit something, but it's limited.
you're washing the dishes or you're cooking or if you're having conversation, the more attention you give, and this is something that people should know, it goes on to infinite level of how much sound can entrain you. Acoustics can modify your consciousness. And it seems that humans use that in a variety of different ways.
Mantra system, the sutra system, mantras that people use in meditation, incantation, prayers, and can be accompanied by dancing, whirling or not bodily movement or not it doesn't have to be verbal and you can do it in experiences and ceremonies for healing, trance and possession and I've studied that deeply whether in
North Africa, the Gnawa music, the music that was brought by the slaves from West Africa, became mixed with the Berbers and the Arabs and created music that is still practiced nowadays. This was healing music, G-N-A-W-A.
and candomblé and santería, and you have religions, so this is a very serious thing, but you come back to music that is played based on the encoding that's within us, because a singer will sing automatically, whether she or he is trained over many years in the conservatory system, in equal temperament, or university system, they will come back to sing in non-equal temperament, notes that cannot be played on a piano.
on a guitar because these shrutis are notes between the notes. So you need the fretless instrument, like a violin, viola, cello, bass, where there are no divisions, like on a bass guitar or guitar, six string or 12 string guitar. Instruments like pianos with keyboard, where this key, that key can't play in between, harpsichords, organs.
marimbas vibraphones and xylophone these are all instruments that allow you to play this and that but humans favor the blue notes the notes between the notes and when you are using music of other cultures and religion that i mentioned you're dealing with very sophisticated tonal system so you have different modes or makamat plural of makam a mode is a group of notes like a scale
But we reduced the power of the scale in the West because of the system, which became about novelty. And it gave us a lot of wonderful things. And we created, nonetheless, a testament to human ingenuity and creativity, amazing musical systems. Classical music is fantastic. That's my training. I came from that.
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