The following article was published over a decade ago, but came to my attention recently. Although I wouldn't say I'm musically-inclined, I think I have a grasp of what they're going for: musical ability between sets of twins was measured and the findings indicated that practice wasn't a meaningful contributor to proficiency. The general idea is to gain insights into whether this musical skill came from something innate or if it was developed and using twins helped them garner deeper insights suggesting practice wasn't as relevant as predispositions were.>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25079217/What I found possibly the most interesting (not that I read the whole article) was this: "Music proficiency is viewed as a general model for expertise". It seems what inspired the study was a more general view of Expertise in general and they thought a great model for Expertise lies in Musical Ability. I'm a fan of this view, especially as it relates to historical precedent.>What does this have to do with /x/?
Musica Universalis Music was a far more interesting subject back in the ancient era. Thought leaders like Pythagoras are where we want to head, being that they're prominently the inspiration for modern understandings of Music. There's a catch though: "Music" meant a hell of a lot more to these guys than your favorite rap song or the latest Jelly Roll song or whatever you guys listen to. They had a sophisticated grasp of adjacent subjects and their architectural designs are an important signifier that explains a lot for contemporaries, such as references to altered states of Consciousness being reliably produced under the right circumstances in ancient structures. Depending on who you talk to, the length of their understanding didn't stop at making people feel funny though. This is often where people wander into references about "building Pyramids" and while I'm not exactly not on board with that, some references point to use of ancient weaponry. Either way, where this leads is us realizing how much we've lost. They didn't just listen to "Music" to get funny feelings or to drum up some Inspiration.Surely those of you reading something like this would be familiar with Idealism. Most don't see it as a Mental Model and instead an attitude (drastically limiting their abstract extrapolation abilities). It was (apparently) granted to the modern world by the likes of Plato and those he studied with (see Parmenides). To reduce Idealism to "think happy thoughts, guys" is a serious grievance, however. It's more an ordering of Thought and an understanding that the physical world is a consequence of mental abstractions. Consequently, understanding the Metaphysics of this process and where the inspiration for modern ideas come from is imperative to grasping how Memory works or how Genetics truly work.
You are familiar with "The Cloud", right? Well a similar wellspring exists in the realm of Memory and Consciousness and it's governed by Genetics (at least access vectors are, anyway). This is why it matters which "Deity" you interface with; they're a means of accessing Ancestors, which you'll come to understand with study (and a bit of Realization) are Memory Complexes. The thoughtform of an Ancestor is the Memory Complex we store in our Genetic "Cloud", which we can draw from at later times or under separate circumstances. You guys know who Edgar Cayce is, right? This, my friends, is what no one has told you about him yet. His situation is also explained by this very thread, this writeup, the study and their confluence.Oh and did you know most of the instruments we have today (though I'm unsure about the scope of "most") came from Egypt (note: Pythagoras was a student in Egypt like many other Pre-Socratics)? It's even been claimed that the first utilities of musical instruments were engaged in inspiring Bees. I'll save you that tangent, but just know that Bees, Musical Instruments, Liminality, Inspiration, Genetics and being "good" at something all have tremendous overlap.
>>42594397Why would you make a thread about a paywalled article you didn't even read?
Poetry and Divine InspirationSome of you probably already know this, but Odin's (Wodanaz) name means "Frenzy". The story about him stealing MEADE is perhaps rather fitting, then. Odin's story combines the archetypal frenzy with understanding of runes and clear reference to Divine Inspiration (Meade of Poetry). The reason Odin is the perfect example here is due to the conjunction of the Frenzied archetype and the Poetic-Divine Inspiration. In most other situations, the protagonist is already divinely-inspired and through some external stimuli, a frenzy is enacted, through which said Inspiration is channeled. It's through the ecstatic state and said inspiration that the other frameworks host this paradigm. In other stories an individual is moved by or commanded by a deity of Divine Inspiration, like a Saraswati or a Brigid. Through these examples, the Inspiration becomes a Deity and their inspiration is used to fuel such Artistry.Odin's juxtaposition between worlds (hanging from Yggdrasil) inspired him to understand the Runes, right? This liminal space is where he conducted his Frenzy. Liminal spaces are often confusing, as they're difficult to conceptualize, requiring us to zoom our perspective in and out, sometimes weaving through time or multiple different parties' perspectives. This is why muh Akashic Records aren't so easily discussed by normalfags and why everyone else calls them annoying new age retards. It's why the Shaman was always tucked away in some hut in the woods babbling to himself. How is he supposed to be normal after doing that? The framework is about enacting this frenzy, Divine Inspiration, to produce compelling works. This is why you see artists become so emotional (frenzy - mania) at the height of a performance. It's why Jesus freaked the fuck out in the Garden, when Saraswati starts cursing people, when Medea freaks out when Jason abandons her. It shows up in other stories too like Demeter plunging into the depths to save her daughter.
Siloed Artisanal Genetics and Human BreedingThe cults in question often had odd breeding practices. The Poets of the Celts were sort of similar, forming intergenerational systems that quite literally produced Divine Poetry and it was consecrated as such. The Druids themselves were famously Poet-Seers, Soothsayers that channeled that inspiration into actual Divinations. Hell, Mastery had its own Deity for them, Lugh. We have more info on the Greeks or adjacent groups though, who had very odd breeding practices that often kept certain genetics close to the integral genetic functions of the ritual. Now, we could get into how drugs were administered, the role it played in pregnancies (or lack of pregnancies, which confusingly explains those Tophets all of you love to talk about) and why certain Initiates were chosen over others, but for now it's probably best to understand that this type of practice wasn't just in Egypt or Greece or among the Celts.Humans have long been bred for specific practices and while I could easily rant about how following muh Dharma also translates to how you make money and whether or not you should engage in Wage Slavery, it's important to understand that leaning into genetic sequences is probably in your interest. To sort of tie this all together, where I'm going here is this leads us to better understand Memory, Genetics (and how we access them), why artisanal pursuits were often locked to genetic translations to newer generations and why humans have for so long just done what their father did to make money. So this is Science catching up to Metaphysics, explaining how we order ourselves socially and giving us a window into how we can navigate access vectors to memory complexes in the future.
To put it in another way, there's going to be some Deity that your family was long attached to. This will be the means through which you can access that path for your Dharma. I'm not saying if your family were a bunch of Blacksmiths, Vulcan can help you be the best Blacksmith (although that's a supremely valid take). I'm saying Vulcan could, in theory and in that scenario, help you get to how to fit into your Dharma. Maybe you're not a Blacksmith - maybe that role won't be around much longer anyway - but you could be a something else and Vulcan could help you get there.In essence, maybe Practice wasn't always a waste of your time (it's how we account for the Last Mile of Mastery), but there are far better uses of that time. Why Practice something you're already tuned for? It's better to lean into what you already knew in past lives, past versions of yourself. What sense is there in wasting time "practicing" when you can much more easily go and achieve that True Will or Vocation you're meant for? Other people can't perform it for you. Maybe it'll make your life simpler or ease tensions you're experiencing.Ultimately, I think this explains a lot for us and for a variety of reasons. Either way, it seems clear that when we do not at least intend to perform our Dharma, to follow our Imbas, our True Will, this is how we find or manifest Hell. We may find the contentment contrived by this pursuit could remind us of our memory of the Fields Elysium or the Arrat, the Groves of Avalon, bound together in beautiful Harmony, a wonderful melody.
>>42594397>GeneticsIt's easy to see the flawed methodology for me. The twins each have the same baseline ability and they are strawmanning the environmentalist camp by assuming changes in the environment does more than we actually think it does. Also how do you measure musical proficiency? Someone who has never been exposed to Beethoven will 100% be less capable than someone who has. Scientists are reeeeaaallllll
