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The Society for Music, Ritual, and the

Ecstatic Experience

Director's Introduction

W. Gerard Poole, Ph.D.

Categories of Inquiry

The Ritual Spiral Model of Ritual Systems and Cultural Generation

Music, Neurology, and the Ecstatic Experience

Music and Emotional Cultivation

Music and the Ecstatic Experience in Festival Culture

Music in Gaming, Metaverse, and Ai

The Internalized Musical Cyclical Form

Music and the Ecstatic Experience in Christian Culture

The Ritual Spiral in Music and Culture Syncretism

Musical Cosmologies of the World

Dr. Poole's "Music and Humanity Course"

Current Posts

Coming Soon: An animated model for a Tree of Internalized Cyclical Musical Forms (IMCF)

In the making; an animated model for the Ritual Spiral

Introduction to this Section: The Ritual Spiral Model of Ritual Systems and Cultural Generation

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Towards a Model of Cultural and Social Differentiation in Relation to Creativity

More on BloomTv and their Approach to the Transformational Festival

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Introduction to Music, the Brain, and Evolution, from my "Music and Humanity" Course.

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About the Society for Music, Ritual, and the Ecstatic Experience

Why the SMREE

The marvel that was once our Western University System has been polluted beyond all recognition by sixty years of ...[fill in the blank]....

Hence the SMREE. This is my small contribution towards rectifying that sad state of affairs.

Click below to read our statement of purpose and objectives

Photos from the Field

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