Beelzebubs-Tales-to-His-Grandson-by-G-I-Gurdjieff

presence of beings and touch the 'khlodistomaticules' of one or another brain,they produce, in relation to the general functioning of the whole being, thisprocess of 'vibroechonitanko. '"The second particularity of the functioning of the perceptive organ ofhearing is that in general the vibrations obtained from the sequence of soundsof any melody evoke associations in the presence of beings in just that one ofthe three brains in which at that moment the 'momentum of what has just beenexperienced' is sustained most intensely, and as a result the sequence ofimpulses evoked for inner experiencing usually follows an automatic order."Well then, these learned musicians and singers in the city of Babyloncombined their melodies in such a way that the sequence of vibrations of thesounds would evoke in beings a sequence of associations, and thereforeimpulses for inner experiencings, not in the usual automatic order, that is tosay, they combined the melodies so that the sequences of vibrations, onentering into the common presence of beings, would evoke the'vibroechonitanko' in the 'khlodistomaticules' not of just one brain, as usuallytakes place—namely, the brain in which the associations predominate at thegiven moment—but now in one brain, now in another, and now in the thirdFurther, they predetermined the quality or, as they say, the 'frequency ofvibrations' of the sounds which would affect one or another brain."They were completely familiar with all this, that is, they knew fromwhich vibrations data are formed in this or that brain of the beings, and forwhich new perceptions these data might serve as what are called 'determinantsof new results."Owing to the combinations of sequences of sounds, there arosesimultaneously in the presence of beings different sorts of impulses evokingvarious contradictory sensations,