“The Calliope (meaning “beautiful-voiced”) crashed to the ground”. And through the decades, so did the complexity and higher-minded nature of what “music” once was, and could be again. Whether you pronounce her name Cal I-O-Pee, or Cally Ope, she was one of nine Muses, whose name was later applied to a steam-driven (gas) musical instrument. At one point, the calliope was intended to replace church bells, whose healing tones are now rare in our world. Over the decades, the majestically tuned bells of the olden days fell, losing their uplifting, healing frequencies. This, of course, is the selfsame path that modern music has followed, intended by those with malice aforethought. At what spiritually destructive vibratory level do these malignant souls resonate?

In Episode 644, we trace how music fell, in plain sight. We start in the Romantic era, when melody and drama still aimed at the higher mind. Then, we watch the mechanical age arrive and capture sound itself with the phonograph. Music could then be mass produced and subject to manipulation. From that point, the decades read like a blueprint for cultural engineering.