Alexandre Tannous
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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So in the New Testament, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, first sentence in the Gospel of John, and the Word was God. Word here is a mistranslation of the logos, which Christ or Christ consciousness is in line with the logos.
And there's a lot of loss in translation in both the Old Testament and the New Testament, especially the Old Testament, but that's a whole other story. I don't know if we've touched on it or not. But in Eastern philosophies, you have the primordial AUM that created the universe. Not AUM, it's A-U-M, that's AUM.
And I can talk about later what I believe AUM stands for and not the sound itself, may not be. In ancient Egypt, they had very high art, religion, very complex and beautiful empowering to the individual. They tell you that the universe was sung into being. The aborigines in Australia tell you that the universe was created with two songs.
In the West, Western science and academia, we have the Big Bang. In Kabbalah, they talk about the Tetragrammaton, the unpronounceable name of God. So everywhere you go, and without all the time digging so deep to get to it, it's right there in the beginning. That acts as the best hook. Come hither. Draw. Take me more seriously. It resonates with you.
There are ways to drive reality toward correct expansion of consciousness or incorrect. And we've been dealing now with very important, debilitating things
major archetypes that are competing with christ consciousness which is what we all should follow and it's not just reserved for christians all religions even atheists the expansion of consciousness to be in line with true north with a fundamental intelligence in the universe we call god is the logos we'll talk about it later yeah or if you're buddhist meta loving exactly loving kindness exactly yes has many different names and um
All of these things started drawing me more and more that started this personal research. I was specialized in ethnomusicology and music of West Asia, Turkish, Arabic, and Persian classical musics, which are microtonal, and they include notes that fall between the black and white keys on the piano, and more notes per octave, not just 12.
C to C sharp, C sharp to D. Non-musicians should know that there are 12 half-step. And the half-step in a Western octave is the smallest division of sound. Every time I use a jargon, I'm going to explain it because I'm not going to assume people know these basic things. They may have studied recorder a long time ago, but I'm going to assume that people don't know because this is very important.
And unfortunately, I have to stay on the surface because for me to talk about more sophisticated jargon, I need to spend time to lay the ground and connect the dots. So people should keep this in mind. And again, feel free to ask specific questions if you want to guide me in this, but I'm going to give you just...
the umbrella of this complexity and how compelling it is in what trickles down to us as being music, that it's not just what we think it is. It's far more than that. It's a system. When you understand these things, go deep into it over the years, you realize that music trickles down to us from a system in the past, seems to have come from Mesopotamia.
creators of cultures because these microtonal systems that we call the Macomb system that is now manifesting has been for a long period of time in Turkish classical music, Persian, Sufi music, Arabic classical music, and that influenced so much the world, influenced immensely the Raga system in India, Central Asian, music of Azerbaijan, all the way to Western China.
They used the Mugam system there, similar to Macomb. Macomb is spelled M-A-Q-A-M, Mugam, M-U-G-H-A-M, and went westward toward North Africa. And that's the origin of the blues. Microtonal music, blues, you can't play it on piano, you can play blues, but you can't play the notes between the notes. You need a voice or bending the string on a guitar or using instruments where you can bend the notes.
You can do that on wind instruments like saxophones and trumpets. But it's very tricky. So I'm giving support based on acoustics and what resonates with us and what humans seek and how far and deep this can go. That's where I'm coming from. Better understanding of the human being. And humans have practiced these things to very sophisticated levels that I'm
getting the message that music is not just an art form. It's a system for unraveling consciousness, healing, revealing, creating rehabilitation, suggesting, supporting, furthering, lubricating our attempt to practice spirituality, to lose the self.
It's played in rituals for healing transpossession in syncretic religions like Vodou, Santeria, Candomblé, and many other religions that came from West Africa region. It was called Daome and mixed with Catholicism and practiced in the Americas. And still practiced in various parts of Africa. Music for...
healing in shamanic music, for example, its function with psychedelic plants, sacraments or not. So, What is this about? Well, it's to support us, and the force behind that is acoustics, the physics of sound. Acoustics is a branch in physics that focuses on understanding sound and vibration. And I can go into so many things, but the system, the force behind all of that power that music has,
is raw harmony, unadulterated harmony. And this is called the harmonic series. People should learn about it, then either on my website or Wikipedia page, and there's a lot of things. Unfortunately, around big, powerful tools like that, there's a lot of woo-woo, as you would expect.
and a lot of unconfirmed rumors and wishful thinking and stories without taking out of the context from the ancients, without really translating down, how can I, as a Westerner, understand this in a non-dogmatic way? Or I look outside. Or, you know, not understand what this is truly about.
Because most of the time, all the time, sometimes, they are transmitting something our mind cannot understand, cannot fathom. So it feeds us a little truth that makes us run toward them and grab on them. And the unfortunate thing is that ego inflation, lack of self-love, makes us use them and talk about them and use them as a profession, but we're not fully benefiting from them.
And that's something we were addressing earlier. It follows us even here. And that is eventually what breaks the legs of the guru, the shaman. the healer, if they're using powerful tools, knowledge and psychedelics, music, sound, breath work, yoga, meditation. It's very hard to use these tools without going rogue. And what can exacerbate the situation is people's behavior and looking outside.
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