Visual Listening

" There is in souls a sympathy  with sounds

   And as the mind is pitch'd the ear

   is pleased,

   With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave,

   Some chord in unison with what

   we hear,

   Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies."

                                                          - William Cowper

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The mechanism of hearing

The tympanic vibrations at low frequency

Biomechanical Engineering - WRJ Funnell

The Spiral Pattern of Fibonacci Series of Leaves

    The leaves of a plant when seen from above grow in a spiral pattern. The angles between one leaf and the next follow a strict mathematical series known as the Fibonacci Series. This ensures that each individual leaf on the plant stem receives the maximum amount of sunlight available.

The growth of Leaves on the plant stem.

THE NATURE OF SOUND

                      Designers of classical Renaissance times developed an unbroken tradition of study based upon arithmetic, geome-try, and astronomy. They held music to be the essential ingredient. Music was the supreme discipline, providing a philosophical foundation for the visual arts grounded in a universal order.The parallels between "musical experience" and the sub atomic reality are remarkably similar. Physicists seem to rely mostly on numbers and instrumentation to "see" and map resonances. An artist relies on his or her senses and intuitions.

Gaia, Music, and the Human Form

                             Proportions such as the golden section thus represent relationships seen in geometry and mathematics,art and architecture,sound and music-and the human body. Taking the whole body as a fundamental, there are numerous proportions to be discovered. Within the head, the chin-to-eyebrow distance represents a fifth interval. The tapering of human limbs illustrates the law of rhythmic diminution, clearly shown by the proportions of the hand, and the closing of the fist in a natural spiral - a living embodiment of the Fibonacci sequence. Thus sound and music express cosmic laws. They are gateways leading from the world of our senses to the intelligible world. The laws that govern them have been embodied in the natural world since life began. Plant and animal cells are packed into space in the orders of Platonic solids; bees fashion perfectly hexagonal cylinders; conches, nautiluses, and other molluscs reveal the same harmonic proportions in the spiralling patterns of their shells; even microscopic unicellular creatures display jewel-like examples of geometric symmetry.

                                 The human body is a living manifestation of these ratios and proportion,. It is a "sounding board" awaiting the positive influences of therapeutic sounds, in which pitch and volume, resonance and harmony, play vital roles. We are an integral part of the unique and consistent geometry of our planet, demonstrated by life forms and consciousness. We are part of, and respond to, the music of Gaia.

"Listen to music"

               In your creative imagination: transmute the sounds, Into form and colour, Dancing and alive, A kaleidoscopic vision of love and beauty.

                                                  Look at a tree.

In your creative imagination - Transmute the images, Into rhythms and melody--Free and singing. A living harmony of energy and joy  -  Listening reflection

The Major Sixth

                                                   The human body is made of atoms which are found throughout the Universe.The human organism can be viewed as a manifestation of vibrational states-in a sense,a cohesion of matter, sound, and light.visible for us, and thereby clearly demonstrating the similiarties between the patterns and forms we see in nature, and the patterns and forms inherent in sound.

Music and proportion

The mathematical ratios and relationships between musical sounds, scales, octaves, and harmonics are no isolated curiosity.They appear in many forms throughout nature, as shown by these two examples.The interval of a fifth is particularly important. It has the next-smallest wavelength after the fundamental note; The fifth is of essential importance in musical systems worldwide. Following the development of geometry in ancient times, the proportions of the principal musical intervals could at last be seen in visual form, as the regular geometric forms known as the Platonic solids. The second example is the musical relationship termed the major sixth, in which the frequencies of the notes are in the ratio 8:5. The ratio of the major sixth has its parallel in visual terms.It is familiar to artists and architects alike as the golden section, also known as the golden mean or divine proportion.

Molecular Co-resonance

           Atoms are constantly vibrating and emitting infrared radiation in a highly complex manner. However, precisely because of the complexity of their infrared vibrations, molecules also produce much lower "beat" frequencies. It turns out that these beats are within the human audible range (20 to 20,000 Hertz) and are specific for every different molecule. Thus, as well as radiating in the infrared region, molecules also broadcast frequencies in the same range as the human voice. This is the molecular signal that Benveniste detects and records. If molecules can broadcast, then they should also be able to receive. The specific broadcast of one molecular species will be picked up by another, "tuned" by its molecular structure to receive it. Benveniste calls this matching of broadcast with reception "co-resonance", and says it works like a radio set.
The ' window frequencies ' known as Schuman Resonances are the vibrational frequencies of the earth's electromagnetic fields (emfs). This means that the brain waves of a person in the Alpha [ 8 - 13 Hz ] and Beta [ 14 - 30 Hz ] states will resonate in sympathy with the earth's emfs producing constructive interference which amplifies the vibration.The discovery of millions of crystals in the cells of the brain suggests that the brain might be able to tune in (similar to a radio receiver) to the surrounding earth's emfs, the crystals providing the vibratory link between the earth's natural frequencies [ from its surface to the boundry of its solid inner core ] and the Alpha - Beta brain waves, resulting in Schuman Resonances with a diurnal variation of Plus or Minus 0.5 Hz
The transmission of waves from the brain throughout the body - in possibly a similar way to transmission of radio waves from a radio tuned to a certain frequency - could help the body achieve its own particular resonant frequencies thought to achieve, or be conducive to, optimal health. Under normal healthy circumstances, the brain transmits correct frequencies to all cells of the body to keep them resonating at the optimal frequency by tuning into the electromagnetic atmospherics via Schumann Resonances - an essential role in all resonate effects, whether these are photonic,sonic, gravitational, electromagnetic or gravitonic.

What is more startling is that the visualised sounds are scalar frequencies inherent in Nature's Silence ( natural sounds of extremely low frequency [ ELF ] such as the splashing of a water-fall, the gurgling,meandering flow of a stream, the reverberating sound of thunder and lightning,the howling of the wind and the sferics of celestial orchestration ]

  "Visual Music" speaks a language made of three-dimensional, sound-emitting images. In other words, its language, the inner harmonic tones, caused by Electron Spin Resonance of absorbed chemicals by smell or ingestion. which gains in energy the longer it is sustained, can actually become visible - as if the vibrational wave patterns were shifting into the visible spectrum or inducing a vibrational excitation of the air in such a way as to affect light diffraction .Thus, sounds can be seen and colours be heard, the phonons and photons of biological origin. Curiously, mystics have always called the pervasive creative sacred Sound, Logos or Word, the Audible Life Stream (Blavatsky, 1987; Hines, 1996). They declare the Light and the Sound are one [ Sonoluminescence ], and holographic concept is another name for Unity.

                            "  All things.... are aggregations of atoms that dance and by their movements produce sounds. When the rhythm of the dance changes, the sound it produces also changes. each atom perpetually sings its song, and the sound, at every moment, creates dense and subtle forms. "

 - Alexandra David-Neel in Tibetan Journey

    In modern physics, sound is a wave with a certain frequency which changes when the sound does,and that particles, the modern equivalent of the old concept of atoms, are also waves with frequencies proportional to their energies. According to field theory, each particle does indeed ' perpetually sing its song ', producing rhythmic patterns of energy in ' dense and subtle forms'.

   Acoustical holography employs sound waves to create a movement on a surface that is used as the basis for creation of an optical hologram. So we essentially convert between a pattern of sound waves reflected off an object in space into a pattern of light waves that can reconstruct the shape of that object. We have a transformation between two levels of vibration, two media as it were, preserving a pattern in space. (Miller and Webb, 1973).

SUBATOMIC VISUALIZATION

What is more startling is that sound, which gains in energy the longer it is sustained, can actually become visible - as if the vibrational wave patterns were shifting into the visible spectrum or inducing a vibrational excitation of the air in such a way as to affect light diffraction. Working from the hypothesis that this visible phenomenon might somehow proceed from the interior harmonic tones made audible through the ingestion, inhalation and absorption of products and further speculating that these tones might be caused by the electron spin resonance of the metabolizing these assimilated substances within the nervous system, the task became one of attempting to determine how to produce a visible standing wave and, further, of attempting to describe just what this wave might be in physical terms.

                        The temporal process of metabolism leads in the human brain to a special kind of phenomenon, which is thought, and the nature and texture of this thought is affected and altered in relation to what specific metabolic processes are occurring within the brain. It is not longer tenable to regard these processes of consciousness merely as an epiphenomenal reflection of the metabolic processes occurring simultaneously within the brain. It has been found that this process is a two-way exchange: Metabolism gives rise to special kinds of potentiated energy states within an organism, but these energy states reflect and, in some degree, determine what kind of metabolic processes will occur.

Therefore, the ancients have this to say: Food is Medicine and Medicine is food.

                    We are what we eat

                             We are what we drink

                                         We are what we breathe

                                                       We are what we think

                        Clearly, thought does have causal effect; reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought.Thought-Form is visualised speech.Thoughts, as visualised speech heard in silent reading, prayer or observation, are osseous vibrations amplified and transmitted in mineralised body cavities. The highly reactive metals ,rarely found as pure elements, become minerals first to be biological by reacting with Oxygen,Hydrogen,Nitrogen,Sulphur,Chlorine etc. The metallic atoms in minerals are the centres of charge in large molecules that form cells and living tissues. The metallic elements coordinate and direct the flow of electrons, atomic reactions,strength of membranes and enzymatic actions in biological life.Concentration of metals in all bio-objects creates their specific electromagnetic characteristics. Salt, a product of ionic chemicals,an acid and a base, is chemical fire. Cell salts are the bioradiate Life Force, Prana or Chi which comprises the Living or Spiral Wave of the Universe.

A tuned resonant cavity is a hollow space, the dimensions of which have a naturally occuring frequency which sets up a resonance, or harmonic  feedback loop, and tunes with another frequency,that other frequency is the Human Mind for the purpose of eliciting various altered states of consciouness.Therefore, thought can have direct influence on the physical texture of reality.

     Dr.FHLew

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