We can be almost certain that the ancient world had music. The curvature of caves amplified sounds on similar acoustic principles to the vaulted ceilings of churches and cathedrals, which are essentially modern caves for praising a god through music.

Cave paintings cluster at points of maximum resonance in caves.

Shards of bone flutes have been discovered next to cave paintings.

Michael Spitzer, Musical Human

We find ourselves huddling together for warmth inside a cozy canyon cave, nestled back a ways from the chill desert floor as darkness descends, enveloping all in its chill embrace.

As our nascent conflagration begins to bless us with its bounty, flames flicker against glowing faces, and shadows dance against cold cave walls, and memories harken to our cherished compadre Plato, who once found himself in a similar situation…

Joe: All the gods, all the heavens, all the world, are within us.

They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other.

That is what myth is.

Myth is a manifestation in symbolic images, in metaphorical images, of the energies of the organs of the body in conflict with each other.

This organ wants this, that organ wants that.

The brain is one of the organs.

Walt: Do I contradict myself?

P Willy: Yes dear, you contradict yourself.

Walt: Very well then—I contradict myself.

I am large—I contain multitudes.

Mouse:
And it occurred to me that the animals are swimming
Around in the water, in the oceans, in our bodies

And another had been found
Another ocean on the planet

Given that our blood is just like the Atlantic, and how!

Hamlet: There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Seneca: We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Jesus: If I’ve ever known perfection in this life, it was as a perfect jackass.

Am I proud of what I’ve accomplished? Well, some of it.

Was I right when I thought I could do it all by myself?

Oh man, I was worse than right—I was wrong.

But what a ride it’s been—what a ride.

Ed: Let every man be his own guru, every lady her own gurette.

Such is the latest holy word from Swami-Roshi-Yogi-Rambanana Bung.