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Re:Voice Is a Garden: Margaret Watts Hughes's Victorian Soun... by dr_dshiv on Saturday August 10, 2024 @10:10AM (#41209655)
If you check out anything by Joscelyn Godwin, you will find TONS of great primary source material. He is really rigorous and goes into it. Like “Music, Mysticism and Magic: a sourcebook” — but all of his books, really, are filled to the brim with the traditions of mystical sounds.

And the Embassy of the Freemind in Amsterdam is a great contemporary place for these ideas.

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Re:Voice Is a Garden: Margaret Watts Hughes's Victorian Soun... by samstave on Saturday August 10, 2024 @05:48PM (#41212478)
> Joscelyn Godwin

>Professor of Music at Colgate University and a widely respected musicologist, Godwin traces the history of the idea, held since ancient times, that the whole cosmos, with its circling planets and stars, is in some way a musical or harmonious entity. The author shows how this concept has continued to inspire philosophers, astronomers, and mystics from antiquity to the present day.

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https://i.imgur.com/fnwNhmi.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/BiQE7fh.png

Wow - thank you for bringing this to me.

When I was 17 I astral projected and went to space and heard the Music of the Spheres.

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