In astrology the inner self’s three divisions belong to the Sun (ahamkara), the Moon (manas) and Mercury (Buddhi). You indentified Buddhi as the medium between the senses and the mind - and that’s great, IMO! that exactly how I explain the planets to people!

Along the lines of how you described Music in the tamo-guna. I would like to contribute the way I have been thinking about therapy, etc. since working as an astrologer. “One man’s food is another man’s poison.” I think that not everyone should wake up around the sunrise. I don’t think the mode of goodness is the ultimate cure for everything. I think that first the individual has to be diagnosed in terms of what ayurvedic doshas (these pertain to psychology too!) and thus gunas are in what balance - and then their environment and habbits have to be adjusted to attain and maintain a better balance. For example, a person with insomnia needs more darkness, etc. Tamoguna is positive as well as negative, etc. In reading your article as a third party reader, I started to get the impression that maybe you are saying everyone should put themselves in the mode of goodness, and they will be happy.

Yesterday I thought, for about 2 hours that I lost my wallet. Suddenly I was oblivious to all the other things that usually distract me and compete for my attention. I think with bhakti it’s probably something like just the opposite, but with a similar effect. In my case my distress made me blind to everything that usually attracted my focus, but in the case of bhakti it would be joy blinding one to everything else.

Great work! I love the article, and the subject is ambitious and a great one to tackle!