That's why Zatorre
helped organize a conference, "The Biological
Foundations of Music," sponsored last week by the New York
Academy of Sciences, at which experts in disciplines
ranging from neuroscience and neurology to brain imaging
and psychology met to exchange notes about what's
known--and, more important, what remains to be
learned--in this small but growing field.
What seems clear is
that the
ability to experience and react to music is deeply embedded in the
biology of
the nervous system.
While music
tends to be processed mostly in the right hemisphere of the brain, no single
set of cells is devoted to the task.
Different networks of neurons are activated, depending
on whether a person is listening to music or playing an
instrument, and whether or not the music involves
lyrics.
Specific brain
disorders can affect the perception of music in very specific
ways. Experiments done on epileptics decades ago showed
that stimulating certain areas of the temporal lobe on
both sides of the brain awakened "musical
memories"--vivid re-creations of melodies that the
patients had heard years earlier.
Lesions in the
temporal lobe can result in so-called musicogenic epilepsy, an extremely rare form of
the disorder in which seizures are triggered by the sound of
music. Autism offers an even greater
puzzle. People with this condition are mentally
deficient, yet most are proficient musicians; some are
"musical savants" possessed of extraordinary talent.
The opposite is true
of the less than 1% of the population who suffer from amusia, or true tone deafness.
They literally cannot recognize a melody, let alone tell
two of them apart, and they are incapable of repeating a
song (although they think they are doing it correctly).
Even simple, familiar tunes such as Frere Jacques and
Happy Birthday are mystifying to amusics, but when the
lyrics are spoken rather than sung, amusics are able to
recognize the song immediately.
"This goes way
beyond an inability to carry a tune," observes
psychologist Isabelle Peretz of the University of
Montreal. "They can't dance, and they can't tell the
difference between consonance [harmony] and dissonance
either.
They all appear to
have been born without the wiring necessary to process music." Intriguingly, people
with amusia show no overt signs of brain damage or
short-term-memory impairment, and
magnetic-resonance-imaging scans of their brains look
normal.
There is evidently no
way to help these unfortunate folks (though, admittedly,
they don't know what they're missing).
But for
instrumentalists, at least, music can evidently
trigger physical changes in the brain's wiring.
By measuring faint magnetic fields emitted by the
brains of professional musicians, a team led by Christo
Pantev of the University of Muenster's Institute of
Experimental Audiology in Germany has shown that
intensive practice of an instrument leads to discernible enlargement of parts of the cerebral
cortex, the layer of gray matter most closely associated
with higher brain function.
As for music's emotional impact, there is some indication
that music can affect levels of various hormones,
including cortisol (involved in arousal and stress),
also called Hydrocortisone, an organic compound
belonging to the steroid family, the principal hormone
secreted by the adrenal glands. It is a potent anti-inflammatory
agent and is also used for the palliative treatment of
rheumatoid arthritis. Use of cortisol in therapy
produces the same undesirable side effects as cortisone. Both drugs have been
largely superseded by such synthetic steroids as
prednisolone
testosterone (aggression and arousal) and
an organic compound
belonging to the steroid family and occurring as the androgenic, or masculinizing, hormone produced by the
testis. Testosterone is responsible for development of
the male
sex organs and such masculine characteristics as
facial hair and deepening of the voice. Testosterone
can be manufactured by chemical and microbiological
modification of inexpensive steroids, such as
diosgenin. It is used clinically for treatment of testicular
insufficiency, the suppression of lactation, the
therapy of certain types of breast cancer, and the treatment of frigidity in women.
oxytocin (nurturing behavior) as
well as
Natural oxytocin is
secreted by the posterior pituitary gland, which holds
and secretes oxytocin produced by the hypothalamus.
Oxytocin causes
milk to be ejected from the breasts during lactation;
the
amount of oxytocin produced naturally,
however, has little effect on uterine contractions and
does not
stimulate labour.When synthetic oxytocin is infused in
larger amounts, however, it causes smooth muscle in
the wall of the uterus to contract and initiate the process of
labour.
http://www.principalhealthnews.com/topic/topic100587017
More at:
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/oxytocin.html
trigger release of the natural opiates known as endorphins.
any of a
group of opiate
proteins
with pain-relieving properties that are found
naturally in the brain.
Endorphins have been found to be clearly involved in the
regulation of
pain;
even the analgesic effects of acupuncture treatments may
be attributable to them. Such substances are also
believed to have some relation to appetite control,
the release of sex hormones through the pituitary, and the adverse effects
of shock.
There is strong evidence that endorphins are connected
with "pleasure
centres"
in the brain. Using PET scanners, Zatorre has shown
that
the parts of the
brain involved in processing emotion seem to light up with activity when a
subject hears music.
Endorphins may serve
in modulating the release of other peptides from
endocrine cells in the digestive system.
Opiates achieve their effect on
the brain because their structure closely resembles
that of certain molecules called endorphins, which are naturally
produced in the body. Endorphins suppress pain and enhance mood by occupying certain
receptor sites on specific neurons (nerve cells) that
are involved in the transmission of nervous impulses.
Blue notes
from Britannica.
Again:
"Music makes me forget my real situation. It
transports me into a state which is not my own.
Under the influence of music I really seem to feel
what I do not understand, to have powers which I
cannot have." ~Tolstoy
In Babylon
according to Hislop who defines most gentile
Temple-states which includes that in Jerusalem because
God turned them over to worship the starry host (Acts
7 etc., etc.)
Only the high priest and other privileged members of the clergy and court were permitted to enter the cella,
or inner part of the temple, which held the special
statue of the deity
[Only these were
involved with the musical animal sacrifices for
purifying temple or personnel in the Jerusalem Temple.]
The needs of the
deity were
provided for in accordance with impressive
ceremonies carried out by a vast institutionalized clergy that included
priests,
musicians, magicians, soothsayers,
dream interpreters, astrologers, and hierodules (temple slaves or
prostitutes). Sacrifices of food, drink, or incense
were offered daily. Numerous festivals were held,
the most important of which was the celebration of
the new year at the spring equinox.
Encarta
Encyclopedia
"According to the
system which Nimrod was the grand instrument
in introducing, men were led to believe
that
a real spiritual
change of heart was
unnecessary, and that so far as change was
needful,
they could be
regenerated by mere
external means.
"Looking at the
subject in the light of the Bacchanalian orgies (Read Ephesus and
Corinth), which, as the reader has seen, commemorated
the history of Nimrod, it is evident that
he led mankind to
seek
their chief good in sensual enjoyment,
and showed them how
they might enjoy the pleasures of sin, without any
fear of the wrath of a holy God. (Voodoo, Rock, Boogie Woogie
becomes Contemporary Christian Music)
"In his various
expeditions he was always accompanied by troops of women; and by music and song, and games (ritual
drama) and revelries, and everything that could please the
natural hearts,
he
commended himself to the good graces of mankind." (Hislop, Alexander,
The Two Babylons, p. 55, Loizeaux
Brothers)
All of these
point to the observation that music releases
chemicals which produce the impulse for "fight, flight or sex." That is its only
historical value as performed in religious rituals
for the people.
As tantalizing as
these bits of research are, they barely begin to address
the mysteries of music and the brain, including the
deepest question of all: Why do we appreciate music? Did
our musical ancestors have an evolutionary edge over their tin-eared
fellows? Or is music, as M.I.T. neuroscientist Steven
Pinker asserts, just "auditory cheesecake," with no
biological value? Given music's central role in most of
our lives, it's time that scientists found the answers.
--REPORTED BY ANDREA DORFMAN/NEW YORK
While "loud" is often
associated with Rock concerts, 300 or 3000 voices when
on key produces a body-shaking power: you can feel it as
hurt in the eardrums and the shaking of your song book.
Therefore, "church" concerts produce the same effects as
Rock concerts at some level:
"On pages 90, and
131, of this book Battle for the Mind Dr. William
Sargent, a leading scientific authority on the
human nervous system, writes, "Electrical recordings
of the human brain show that it is particularly
sensitive to the rhythmic stimulation by percussion and bright light
among other things,
and certain rates
of rhythm can build up recordable abnormalities
of brain function and explosive states of tension sufficient
enough to produce convulsive fits in predisposed
subjects.
Of the results caused
by such disturbances, the most common one is temporarily
impaired judgement and heightened suggestibility
"Rhythm induced
stress shows up in many ways, including decreased performance, hyperactivity, increase in errors in
the work force, decreased decision making
ability,
emotional
pressures, depression
and lack of respect for authority.
One doctor said
that "in my practice I have found that the academic
records of many small children improve considerably
after they stop
listening to rock
music while studying.
"Unnatural rhythm, like many drugs, can become addictive.
Repeated exposure to it causes one to seek it. It is
as if a switch is thrown in the mind.
After
this switching takes
place the body
begins to crave this unnatural
beat or rhythm over a natural one.
"It is as if the body can no longer distinguish
between what is beneficial and what is harmful.
In fact, the body
actually chooses that which is destructive
over that which is constructive.
Chapter VII.-Sacrificial Orgies.
[Paul demanded lifting up HOLY
PALMS to exclude what he called WITHOUT WRATH or
without ORGE or ORGIES.]
"But they did not
cease to worship images, by reason of the evil
intelligence of the magicians, who found excuses for
them, which had power to constrain them to the foolish worship For, establishing this
things by magical ceremonies, they assigned them feasts from sacrifices, libations, flutes, and shoutings,
by means ofj which
senseless men, being deceived,
and their kingdom
being taken from them, yet did not desist from the
worship that they had taken up with.
To
such an extent did they prefer error, on
account of its pleasantness, before truth.
They also howl after their sacrificial
surfeit, their soul from the depth, as it were
by dreams, forewarning them of the punishment
that is to befall such deeds of theirs
JESUS SAID:
Now the parable
is this: The seed is the word of God. Luke 8:11
Those by the way
side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts,
lest they should believe and be saved.
Luke 8:12
How does the Devil LIFT UP to carry
away the IMPLANTED SEED?
Airo (g142) ah'ee-ro; a prim.
verb; to lift; by impl. to take up or away; fig. to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind); spec. to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by
Heb. [comp. 5375] to expiate sin: - away with, bear (up),
carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away,
remove, take (away, up).
Nasa (h5375) naw-saw'; or
nacıah Pcıaa 4˙6 [7] naw- saw'; a prim. root; to lift,
in a great variety of applications, lit. and fig.,
absol. and rel. (as follows): - accept, advance,
arise, (able to, [armour], suffer to) bear (-er, up),
bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain,
desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch,
forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high,
hold up, honourable (/ man), lade, lay, lift (self)
up, lofty, marry, magnify, * needs, obtain, pardon,
raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare,
stir up, / swear, take (away, up), * utterly, wear,
yield
H5375 is
referenced here:
Is.13:1 THE burden of Babylon, which Isaiah
the son of Amoz did see.
Massa (h4853) mas-saw'; from
5375; a burden; spec. tribute, or (abstr.)
porterage; fig. an utterance, chiefly a doom, espec. singing;
mental, desire: - burden, carry away, prophecy,
* they set, song, tribute.
Jer 23:32 Behold, I
am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the
Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by
their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them
not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not
profit this people at all, saith the Lord.
Jer 23:33
And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest,
shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the
Lord? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I
will even forsake you, saith the Lord.
Take thou away from me the
noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of
thy viols. Am 5:23
But ye have borne the tabernacle of your
Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god,
which ye made to yourselves. Am.5:26
All things are delivered unto me of
my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father;
neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. Matthew
11:27
Come unto me all
ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28
The heavy
lading was from the clergy whom Jesus identified
as a "den of vipers" and children of their father,
Satan. Their method of substituting their own
words did the same musical work of Satan. Laden
is:
Phortizo (g5412) for-tid'-zo;
from 5414; to load up (prop. as aa vessel or
animal), i.e. (fig.) to overburden with
ceremony (or spiritual anxiety): - lade, be heavy
laden.
OUTLAWED FOR THE CHURCH:
Rom 15:1 WE then that are strong
ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to
please ourselves
Aresko (g700)
ar-es'-ko; prob. from 142 (through the idea of
exciting emotion); to be agreeable (or by impl. to
seek to be so): - please.
Airo (g142)
ah'ee-ro; a prim. verb; to lift; by impl. to take up or
away; fig.to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the
mind); spec. to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Heb.
[comp. 5375] to expiate sin: - away with, bear (up),
carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away, remove,
take (away, up).
Areskos
A. pleasing, mostly in bad sense, obsequious,
cringing, Arist.EN1108a28, 1126b12, Thphr.Char.5.1.
II. areskos, ho, the staff borne by pornoboskoi [brothel keeper]
on the stage, Poll.4.120.
Arist.EN1108a28 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics book 2
[12] In respect of truth then,the middle character may
be called truthful, and the observance of the mean
Truthfulness1 ; pretence in the form of exaggeration is
Boastfulness, and its possessor a boaster; in the form
of understatement, Self-depreciation, and its possessor
the self-depreciator.
[13] In respect of pleasantness and social
amusement, the middle character is witty and the
middle disposition Wittiness; the excess is Buffoonery
and its possessor a buffoon; the deficient man
may be called boorish, and his disposition Boorishness.
In respect of general pleasantness in
life, the man who is pleasant in the proper manner is
friendly, and the observance of the mean is
Friendliness; he that exceeds, if from no interested
motive, is obsequious, if for his own advantage,
a flatterer; he that is deficient, and unpleasant in all
the affairs of life, may be called quarrelsome and
surly.
The Biblical and other
evidence clear shows that once you have become addicted
to music the SWITCH HAS BEEN THROWN and you have "fallen and
will never get up." Consistent with addiction, it is
common to try to tempt others into the same dilema.
Don't forget that a
thousand people all singing close harmony are moving
your brain in the skull. It is extremely loud and
harmful much like Rock music with amplification. Not
forgetting that "churchy" music is LOUD music or it
would not do its magical work we are asked to:
Consider the following three types
of damage that takes place in our bodies under exposure
to loud volume.
First, loud volume slows down our ability to memorize and do other brain
functions by constricting the flow of blood to the
brain. In the words of Dr. Arnold Scheivel,
professor of medicine at UCLA and an expert on
brain growth, "If there is a bottom line, it is that
no neuron is healthier than the capillary that
supplies it.
We have a very
strong feeling that in the capillary supply system is
the story of the maintenance or slow decline of the
brain."
How does volume effect blood supply? The blood vessels undergo a narrowing of
caliber in the presence of loud sound. This narrowing
decreases the flow of blood to the different parts of
the body, including the mind. A person studying under
the influence of loud music has a decrease in the
amount of blood flowing to the brain. This makes it
more difficult to memorize and to understand their
studies.
Second, loud music can cause a
form of
schizophrenia. When a person is exposed to high level
sound, a chemical is formed in the brain
that is normally found in schizophrenia patients in mental institutions.
A music therapist, investigating the effects of loud
music, gave an emotional stability test to 240 teenagers while
they listened to music.
A psychologist,
who was unaware of how it was given, examined the
results and determined that the test had been given
in a mental
institution.
Martin Polo,
the director of Audio Visual Services at UCLA and
noise consultant for the aerospace industry and
related technologies writes, "Lastly, the presence of
continued exposure to high level sound can trigger
psychopathological impacts on individuals."
These impacts can
range from depressions noted among females
during the menstrual period to actual
presence in the brain of chemicals normally
found in schizophrenia and psychosis. There are a number of
other interesting reaction to the presence of high
level sound which involve the brain, including
interference with vision.
Third, loud music can cause ulcers. When susceptible
individuals are exposed to loud sound over a period of
time, certain stomach functions are disrupted and an
increase of hydrochloric acid is released, causing
ulceration of the stomach. Martin Polon of UCLA
writes, "The continuing exposure to high energy sound
creates a stress reaction in the body that
significantly involves the gastrointestinal system.
Certain stomach functions are disrupted by abnormal
contractions of the abdominal area, and increased
infusion of hydrochloric acid causing dyspepsia. Recurring activation of
this
syndrome will lead to peptic ulceration in susceptible
individuals.
If you consider that
Crack Cocaine is dangerous when abused, how can you
deliberately feed our young people with a "church" dose of cocaine claiming that
you are not an extremist?
But, in harmonic
singing, the "barks" and '"drips" which drive us crazy
are momentarily very loud as everyone gets in "harmony." Therefore,
if you feed your children "moderate" doses of
music-induced morphine how can you know that you are not
just the "whip
arm" of
Satan tearing down the kingdom of God?
All of the ancient
literature says that you are the agents of Lucifer.
The Bible agrees that
music says to God: "We don't want to hear from you, we
have a better master."
Secular history even
at the Towers of Babylon knew what medicine is just now
beginning to grasp: music can disable the rational brain
God gave you.
"Then why did God give
me musical talent and the power to control people with
music?" Hitler asked the same question and moved Wagner
from the churches to the streets. God gave me the power
to consume buttered popcorn and I will be that you can
attract more "customers" to your theatrical religion if
you hand out hot, buttered popcorn. So, the use of
"talent" in an attempt to worship for others is "the
idolatry of talent."
If you have already
turned your "religious system" over to theatrical
performs, if the ancient stories are true:
You have fallen
and you will never be able to get up.
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