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from "Rust Out" by Dr Bailey page 94
I was told by a fellow physician that music in the church is as individual as your favorite colors in the rainbow. Indeed, one can find any "flavor" of music in the church depending on where you are any given weekend. So it depends on yo)ur individual taste and there is nothing wrong with any given style of music as long as you are praising Jesus-Right? Wrong-music can influence the brain detrimentally or beneficially.
Frontal Lobe and Music
The frontal lobe is where your spirituality, morality and choice (your will) are located. Music is one of the few things in life that enters your brain through the temporal lobes and limbic system (the emotional regions) and not the frontal lobe/judgment center. Music, such as rock with it’ssyncopated rhythm, bypasses the protective screen of the frontal lobe, producing a addictive high and a large emotional response with very little logical or moral interpretation music therapists tell us.1 Few people understand the powerful influence that music can have on the frontal lobe of your brain (the seat of judgment), just like TV and alcohol, it can have a hypnotic effect on you. You may never submit to hypnotism (control of your brain by something or someone else), but are you doing the same thing with music?
Patty Hearst
Patty Hearst (the granddaugther of William Randoph Hearst, newspaper magnate) was kidnaped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) in 1974 and shortly thereafter was caught on video cameras helping the SLA rob banks. After her release, William Sargent, one of Britain’s foremost experts on brainwashing, examined her. He found Patty was an unwilling victim of a "forced conversion” or brainwashing through continual playing of loud rock music. According to Sargent, her nervous system was kept at maximum stress and under this constant pressure it can "inhibit” and "exhibit paradoxical brain activity-bad becomes good and vice versa."
Three Parts To Music
In 500 B.C.E., Pythagoras described three components to music:
1) Rhythm affects the physical part of the body. Musical rhythms help synchronize natural biological rhythms, thus enhancing body functions, while other rhythms clash with or disrupt those internal rhythms.
2) Melody affects the emotional and mental aspect of man. Aaron Copland, the dean of American composers, said, "A rnelody that remains static (on the same pitch) can through repetition produce a hypnotic effect.”
3) Harmony affects the spiritual nature of man.2 Dis-harmonic rock-like music causes damage to the temporal lobes and atrophy (wasting) of the frontal lobe. This degeneration of the frontal lobe would be expected to influence moral worth, learning and reasoning power. Harmonic types of hymns and symphonies, on the other hand, can produce a very beneficial frontal lobe response.
Imbalance of Rhythm
If there is an imbalance of rhythm, physical reactions are emphasized more than the spiritual nature of man. Is that good for your spiritual life?
Fives Causes Of The Production Of Adrenaline By Music
Music can create tension when used to the extreme, thus releasing adrenaline. This is done through:
1) Dissonance (non-harmonic chords),
2) Unresolved cadences (stopping without an ending leavmg you up in the air),
3) Syncopation (emphasis on the naturally weak beat, were found 2:4, not 1:3), Orderly rhythm-/ONE, two, THREE, four/; Rock music- /one, TWO, three, FOUR/
4) Monotonous repetition (Praise songs?),
5) And driving rhythms.
Body Chemistry and Music
Your body chemistry is affected by the low frequency of the bass guitar and the driving beat of the drums. It diminishes the cerebral fluid flow around and in the brain, which stimulates the pituitary gland, which controls all of the hormones secreted in the body. This then causing an increase in sex, opiate and adrenaline hormones. This imbalance of the hormones in the body causes radical changes in the blood sugar in the brain, which in turn inhibits moral judgement, just like alcohol.5 The rock and roll beat produces an over-secretion of the hormone epinephrine, resulting in:
1) Abnormal sexual stimulation,
2) Calcium depletion stopping the normal function in all cells,
3) A serious depletion of brain blood sugar,
4) Muscle coordination and control becoming synchronized with the basic beat,
5) Brainwave activity itself aligned with the rhythm,
6) And electrophysiological synchronized release of horrnones.
Can Cause Permanent Brain Changes
Thevibrations from rock rhythms can result in a more or less permanent functional alteration in the cellular structure within the brain.6 This was documented by researchers who found changes in the hippocampus, a region in the temporal lobe near the brainstem, which is associated with alertness, memory and learning. Abnormal branching and sprouting of the nerve cells, and a disruption in the normal messenger RNA (a chemical crucial to memory storage) were found.7 Permanent learning difficulties can result. This could explain why rock music listeners are more prone to us drugs, vandalism, engage in extramarital sex, shoplift, and why heavy metal listeners are much more likely because of low self-esteem to consider suicide.3
The Benefits of Music
Classical music has been shown to help college students learn spatial relationships in geometry.4 A study showed that listening to Mozart piano sonatas significantly increased spatial-temporal reasoning.4 In a follow-up of the Mozart study, children three to five years of age who received eight months of group singing and keyboard lessons scored significantly higher on the "object assembly" task (arranging pieces of a puzzle to form a meaningful whole, requiring frontal lobe function) when compared to children in the same preschool who did not receive music lessons.8 Another study showed that musicians who possess perfect pitch were soundly exposed to classical and/or sacred music before the age of seven.9
But, I hear you say, ’I don’t like that kind of music!’ Anyone can learn to enjoy classical, reilgious and sacred music. University students, who had never studied music, were exposed to Bach and rock, alternately for 25 days. At the conclusion of the study, the researchers questioned them as to their preference. Unanimously, they said, "Bach, because rock is too much like the confusion of everyday living to be ultimately satisfying.
What is the Source of the Rock Beat?
A Christian group was trying to convert some ‘primitive’ South Seas Islanders to Christ. To attract their attention, they played some religious rock. Soon upset islanders were peering from behind trees and shouting, “From where did you get our devil music.”
A friend from the US brought some Christian Contemporary music when visiting a missionary family overseas. Some local congregation members walking by the house were astounded to hear strange sounds coming from within the home. They rushed to the house and excitedly asked, ‘Why are you calling on the spirits with your music,’ for they thought the missionary family had lost their senses and were communicating with demons.2
David Pratt, a former satanist high priest says, “The beat and style of the music used in the occult rituals is the same that I now hear in Christian. power tracts.”
Stephen Maphosah from Zimbabwe when visiting the US was shocked when he listened to a Christian radio station. He lamented, “The same beat that I used to play to call up the evil spirits is in the music I heard on the Christian station.”
Several African pastors heard a Christian rock tape sent froin the US, in disgust they asked, "What are you doing allowing your church people in America to call up the evil spirits with their music.”1
The Frontal Lobe and Music, Not New
The impact of music on the frontal lobe was recognized 23 centuries ago by Aristotle, the Greek philosopher of the 4thcentury B.C.E.. He wrote: “Music directly represents the passions or states of the soul-gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites and other qualities; hence, when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion he becomes imbued with the same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to the kind of music that rouses ignoble (degraded or vulgar) passions his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form. In short, if one listens to the wrong kind of music he will become the wrong kind of person; but, conversely, if he listens to the right kind of music he will tend to become the right kind of person.”10
Satan Has No Frontal Lobe!
“I was shown Satan as he once was, a happy, exalted angel. Then I was shown him as he now is. He still bears a kingly form. His features are still noble, for he is an angel fallen. But the expression of his countenance is full of anxiety, care unhappiness, malice, hate, mischief, deceit, and evil. That brow which was once so noble, I particularly noticed. His forehead commenced from his eyes to recede. I saw that he had so long bent himself to evil that every good quality was debased, and every evil trait was developed. His eyes were cunning, sly, and showed great penetration. His frame was large, but the flesh hung loosely about his hands and face. As I beheld him, his chin was resting upon his left hand. He appeared tobe in deep thought. A smile was upon his countenance, which made me tremble, it was so full of evil and Satanic slyness. This smile is the one he wears just before he makes sure of his victim, and as he fastens the victim in his snare, this simle grows horrible.” 17
Satan, without his judgment center, wants to you to be just like him. God wants to restore you to His image. Your choice, you decide!
References
1. McElwain, I,, “Personal Communication with Dr. Neil Nedley in 2000.” Dr. McElwain is the Retired Chair of the Music
Therapy Department, Phillips University, Enid, OK.
2. Hart, I., “Satan’s Music Exposed,” Salem Kirban, Inc., Kent Rd, Huntington Valley, Penn.;1981:45, 58, 113.
3. Scheel,K.R., from the University of Iowa, “Reports from the104th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological
Association,”in Toronto, August 1996.
4. Rauscher,F.H., “Listening to Mozart Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning: Towards A Neurophysiological Basis,”
Neuroscience Letter 185;1995:44-47.
5. Noebel, D., “The Marxist Minstrels,” American Christian College Press, Tulsa, OK;1974:91.
6. Gram Grams, D., “The Manual on Poisonous Sounds,”1975:36.
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8. Rausher, F.H. “Music and Spatial Task Performance: A Causal Relationship,” presented at the American Psychological
Association 102th Annual Convention in Los Angeles, CA, August 12-16, 1994.
9. Schlang, G., “In vivo evidence of Structural Brain Asymmetry in Musicians,” Science, Feb 5 1995;276(5198):699-70l.
10.Grout,D.S., “A History of Western Music,” 3rdEd, New York, W.W. Norton & Co;1980.
11.Oster, D., “Why Popularize Christian Rock,” Medical Missionary Press, Marshall, NC 28732,;2002:1-4.
12,Blanchard, J. “Pop Goes The Gospel,” Evangelical Press, Hertfordshire, AL6 9EQ, England;1986
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14.Godwin,J., “Dancing With Demons,” Chick Publications, POBox662, Chino, CA. 91708;1988.
15,Rosenvold, L.&L., “Adventist Carnivals,” Rosenvold Publications, Inc. POBox 330, Hope, ID 83836; 1991.
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17.WhiteE.G., “Early Writings,” Review and Herald, Washington, D.C.;1882:152-153.
18.Newsweek (Feb. 16, 1976);24.
19.Halpern, S., “Tuning the Human Instrument,” Belmont, CA;1978:(note 24), 103.
20.Larson, R., “The Day Music Died,” Carol Stream, IL; 1972: 72, 123.
21.Altshuler, LA., “A Psychiatrist’s Experience With Music as a Therapeutic Agent: Music and Medicine,” New York;
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22 Diamond, J.,”Your Body Doesn’t Lie,” Nev York; 1979:101,159-160.
23.Roesenfeld, A., “Music, The Beautiful Disturber,” Psychology Today, Dec 1985:54.
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