RE: [ENG-SPN] Neuroscience and Mysticism: The God Module in Sacred Architecture / Neurociencia y Misticismo: el Módulo de Dios en la Arquitectura Sagrada
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your point about how sound lingers in those stone spaces really stands out, with the accoustics acting like a gentle metronome for the temproal lobe. That frame makes the God Module feel less like a metaphor and more like a circuit being nudged by rhythm and resonance. Medieval builders might have been the earliest sound engineers, just without the mixing desk.
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Before them, the first great civilizations also knew the secrets of acoustics. In fact, in the Middle Ages, some effects other than sound were revived, such as light, which, at certain times (solstices, the name day of the saint to whom the temple was dedicated, etc.), fell on a predetermined point, illuminating the altar, illuminating a specific chapitel—a detail which, like the "special effects" of the time, as I call them, acted precisely with that intention, opening that channel that would allow the faithful to have another kind of sensory experience.
totally with you on this.
Line up a solstice beam onto the altar or a chosen chapitel, the body reads the cue and the mind tips into another experinece much like with deep chant.
Kind of wild how temples worked as precision machines for state shifts, right?
That was precisely the fundamental purpose sought in their construction: that they should, in some way, be 'intermediaries' with the Divinity. And I believe this is applicable to all temples of great cultures and civilizations, regardless of our faith. From this perspective, the temple was more than just a meeting place.
Exactly. They built them as intermediaries, yes, but also as tuned instruments that shaped attention and emotion through reverberant stone, timed light, and ritual rhythm < so the space itself did the work. Across cultures, that aim toward the diVInity shows the same gerat design instinct in different guises, more than a meeting hall ever could. Kinda feels like they were early cognitive engineers, right?
Indeed, one could perfectly well reach that conclusion.