Pythagoras' Music of the Spheres 

I love how, when I searched up "Music of the Spheres" on RU-vid this wondrous lecture came up before Coldplay's new album! What a treat.

Oh shit... Is that what that is? Once woke up from sleeping. Had this dream. Where I heard this indescribably beautiful music. Fucked me up for a week. Made me cry when I thought about it. Unlike anything in real life.

I won £25 on the fruit machine in the pub. I wonder if people in the future will read about my triumph.

I have heard this music. I had a heart attack, didn’t realize that was happening, because I was a young athlete. I laid in my backyard, in terrible pain in my chest. I started to say the Lord’s Prayer. Then, I heard it. It was the most mysterious sound ever. It sounds like thousands of angels, except, it’s so trippy. When I heard it, I knew I was dying. I told my husband, I hear the music of the spheres, please race e to the hospital, I for sure am dying. My husband did, I was rushed into surgery, and saved. I will never first that music. Too beautiful,for human ears. 👼

I've been fiddling with music and various influences in my art for a few years; only recently have I begun seriously to study astrology, after much dalliance with Hellenism Platonic and Neo-platonic philosophy. I'm edging into Pythagoras and Keplar slowly. I greatly appreciate this lecture being left in the public domain. Maybe some day I'll make it to Byzantine and get to experience the Infinity installation. Until then, I will continue to try channel the planetary music into my ten little drumsticks :)

More of Scott ! amazing charisma, humor and knowledge!

Thanks for sharing!!!

What a great lecture - really enjoyed this.

Thankyou for a great talk.

Nice, thanks for the upload.

One of the answers that McGill gives to the question at 1:10:57 is just so off-track, that I have to comment. The questioner says he has been reading about modern discoveries in Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity which suggest that the world, rather than reducing to something material and mechanical, reduces into something more “abstract.” The questioner’s point is that modern QM findings seem to challenge reductive materialism and scientific realism. For example, almost all of the famous QM founders were driven into mysticism - Heisenberg, Shroedinger, Pauli, Bohr, etc. in order to try and explain what they were seeing. For example, Max Planck: “matter is not real as we ordinarily think of it. It is being held in place by some great force and behind this force, we must assume, is a great Mind.” So the poetry professor completely misses the thrust of the question and goes on to give the standard little grammar school story about how philosophy got its start when thinkers tried to explain things without recourse to mystical explanations and that is what makes philosophy different -the subtext is that all good materialists know that theories that postulate non-material entities can’t be possibly be true. Well, Platonic philosophy was taught at the Greek academy for almost a thousand years right up to 530 AD and is loaded with references to mystical ontology, “The One” as the source of all that is, “Divine Mind/Logos” as the second person of the Greek trinity, as it were, followed by “World Soul.” So is he trying to suggest that Platonism is not philosophy? Bertrand Russell famously observed that the entire history of philosophy is merely footnotes to Plato. Any number of famous philosophies feature conceptions of divinity prominently.

I had read somewhere that in ancient times, someone began a rumour that Pythagoras was a son of Apollo, so he was treated differently. Obviously, he had the power to hear the planets, maybe it explains because he was divine accordingly to the ancients.

Loved all of it. Brahe had a beautiful model.

Pythagoras was educated in Egypt. Many of the ancient people have done so travel to Egypt to study. Metapsychosis comes from them probably.

awesome

love it!!

why does McGill not have a youtube channel? where can I see his classes?

*There is a better video explanation about Pythagoras: The YT Channel owner is called "George Brooks". Pythagoras - George Brooks.*

I'm a musician, I set here through this whole thing waiting to hear some music. Instead I got two scientist and their theories on music as they both readily admit they neither one know the first thing about music. Typical academia. Dudes, there are only 8 notes on a octave scale. They are named: A,B,C,D,E,F,G, then it starts over again at A. Not too hard right? You should retitle this video "Pythagoras's Failed Music Theory (and the Idiots still talking about it 2,500 years later)".

Does the song of spheres work though

1:14:14 “nature is, is - is just, it’s fuzzy... that’s just the way it is”

math is the language we use for explaining and understanding quantity and ratio based phenomena. it does not "fit" nature it is the only way we are able to understand it in practical terms.

The Scarlett Book of Freemasonry has the teachings of Pythagoras

Music is vibration is life. Is music... Etc. (But nobody listens 😂)

Plato always had spoken with metaphors and Pythagoras is one of his influences. I had always viewed his concept as "the music of the spheres" as a metaphor for a world created with music and harmony. Kind of follow a rhythm in tune with society and the universe. Sound travels many distances and NASA can hear our universe and taped such a sound. It is just one more Platonic metaphor to say "the music of the spheres." Ancients were very poetic and use often metaphors and many other verbal styles to communicate their ideas about the universe. If is "divine" means you don't have the answers to prove what is it?

Air is the Means of Transmitting Sounds. PLANETS' sounds how? Should Only Alternative AETHER?

You lost me at NASA. I do love great music choirs singing harmonies and great ballads Great minds always studied nature and astronomy and respected Grand Design of the creation

born 12 may 574 bc when jupiter conjuncts uranus, neptune, and pluto

I am somewhat taken aback that the question raised about 440Hz was seen as a distraction. No mention of 432Hz. How can one not relate frequency to music? Crazy.

Leave it to a couple of professors to talk for an hour and never get to the point. They love to leave out all the interesting bits and constantly hedge their audiences' expectations--to assure all of us that none of this should be taken too seriously. I learned 10x more about this subject from a random sampling of a few RU-vid videos from total amateurs than I did from this "scholarly" video.

So is a close space

Many ancient Greek mathematicians calculated distances using a geocentric system,as they knew that it would produce a more accurate result.For example,the great Aristarchus of Samos who tried the correct solar system positions and used an heliocentric system wasn't as accurate!This didn't mean that they believed in whatever system they chose as a key point for their calculations to be the centre of the solar system.They knew that from the earth used as the starting point,the centre,they would get better results .This is what foreign scholars of antiquity seem to overlook,they think that Greek philosophers eg. Aristotle actually believed that earth was the centre, which is a misconception,to this day. I enjoyed the video,would have loved to hear about the exiled god Kronos as I'm sure Kepler re-discovered who the "diabolus en musica" REALLY is!Of course,living in an age of Christianity,he would never tell!However,the cause of the augmented 4th and diminished 5th was and is the ancient god Kronos,hidden in a Pythagorean triange.For those who speak Greek,there is a teacher of this theory on RU-vid,under the name of apollonios.

Pythags is cheeky using the number 9 in his Cipher, the Chaldeans didnt use it in theirs as its far to Sacred

hypatia. is that just a long shot?

The guy who’s doing the introduction, is not doing the actual lecturers any favors

Inward-eye is talking about the 3rd eye.

45:45 “Those spheres can’t make music. They are only banging and shaking.”

I wonder if Pythagoras knew about the Swanee Whistle ? Maybe he invented it ?

Amen A-ten

could he have collaborated with a priestess??

Well said, there is no concrete biography of Pythagoras. In reality, all evidence points to him originating from the school of Zalmoxis

Lots of great questions from the audience. It’s too bad these two don’t have a clue as to what magnetism is and what kind of understanding Pythagoras had. First, in order to understand magnetism, you must understand the nature of light. You must understand that light is not an emission, and neither is magnetism. Check out Ken Wheeler here on RU-vid at Theoria Apophasis.

My comment is as a stand from a Nihilistic perspective to the both of you: How would you explain Religious and Monastic Chants?

Yeah. I stopped the video at "a 6th century BC philosopher who Nine thousand years ago..."

he hates beans and when he was running from his enemies he come across a bean Field he had to slow down they caught up with him and he was 👊💯😞

The Chinese knew about elliptical orbits and even the moons of Jupiter way before Kepler

GEOCENTRIC not heliocentric.

There's 5 years of silence required for the real students. It's based on incubation meditation as listening to the source of sound as infinite time-frequency complementary opposites from noncommutative phase.

Study poetry?

he wasent greek. just because greece does not exist in this time. :P he was Sumer or maybe Pelazg

Astonishing that this poor guy thinks there erect satellites in "space"

Of course Pythagoras thought that earth is geocentric Schumann resonances is one of evidence, why talk about music in empty space without any listeners that just illogical.

Of course Kemet first where else .

You cant get out of earth Maybe they read the ancient greeks and try to understand

Braindead brought me here

does the catholic church still have neoplatonic data. ie astrological observations recorded on papyrus? hidden? away from world knowledge? if so they dont own the rights to it. why dont htye release it?

Interesting lecture but the person coughing during the whole lecture just ruined it for me..I feel for the people sitting close to him 😒

The satellites are in the atmosphere There is no sound in the space Emptiness Here there is sound because we have belts

Of course there isn’t most of Greek History is created by academia lol

Started off fairly well until the whiz kid got going.

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No answer to golden ratio and 440. Academics at its finest. This is the crap that makes your whole presentation, in my opinion, not so good.