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Reissue: How Trance States Shape the World

The Emerald

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The Dance of Dionysus

Dionysus almost always gets associated nowadays with partying, right. And that may have been a part of it at times, but that's not the scope of what we're talking about here. The devotees of dionys s were religious devotees who undertook great austerities, pain deprivation, fasting, exposure,. very similar to the ascetic ecstatics of india. Specific musical scales were more tranceworthy than others. So when aristotle says that the phrygian musical mode makes people enthusiastic, this can sound rather technical. It needs to be revisited in the context of what enthusiasmos is and what thephrygian mode sounds like.

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