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< Oh, how about just a grazing glance 'o the good 'ole Thelema?
How else do you get the same semantic meaning on different wetware or hardware? Ship as source code! That's why traditions are passed down as rituals, or as specific instructions for meditation. Those are the equivalent of source in an imperative language. THOU SHALT. Music is a true human universal - everyone has the same reaction to the same pieces, in type if not in intensity. It's closer to the "native" data format, but because it's lower bandwidth than language or a visual medium, it can't pass on instructions as precisely. Call it assembly language.
Not so universal as you may assume! There is an interesting comparison for how Arabs and non-Arabs perceive emotional content within a certain system of note pitches:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_maqam#Emotional_content
And I'd be remiss if I didn't refer to the lost emotional connotations of the Greek/Church modes we're always making memes of these days: