V.C.V. Speaking here:
"Assigning divinity to any language"
Especially one which is spoken by some 80 million people is irrational.
Assuming divinity for a language is factually wrong, kills it's growth and
is merely an expression of chauvinism. Those who believe in the divinity of
a language cannot claim any detachment and objectivity needed for areas like
linguistics and other modern areas of knowledge.
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To which heavenly traveler replied:
Greetings V.C.V.,
I believe that it is correct to assign divinity to the Tamil language in the
light of the following modern scientific discoveries:
http://www.alphaomega.se/english/cymatics.html#ayin Cymatics - The Science
of the Future? (with illustrations)
Is there a connection between sound, vibrations and physical reality? Do
sound and vibrations have the potential to create? In this article we will
see what various researchers in this field, which has been given the name of
Cymatics, have concluded.
By Peter Pettersson, translation Yarrow Cleaves
In 1787, the jurist, musician and physicist Ernst Chladni published
Entdeckungen über die Theorie des Klangesor Discoveries Concerning the
Theory of Music. In this and other pioneering works, Chladni, who was born
in 1756, the same year as Mozart, and died in 1829, the same year as
Beethoven, laid the foundations for that discipline within physics that came
to be called acoustics, the science of sound. Among Chladni's successes was
finding a way to make visible what sound waves generate.
With the help of a violin bow which he drew perpendicularly across the edge
of flat plates covered with sand, he produced those patterns and shapes
which today go by the term Chladni figures. (se left) What was the
significance of this discovery? Chladni demonstrated once and for all that
sound actually does affect physical matter and that it has the quality of
creating geometric patterns.
Lissajous Figures
In 1815 the American mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch began studying the
patterns created by the intersection of two sine curves whose axes are
perpendicular to each other, sometimes called Bowditch curves but more often
Lissajous figures. (se below right) This after the French mathematician
Jules-Antoine Lissajous, who, independently of Bowditch, investigated them
in 1857-58. Both concluded that the condition for these designs to arise was
that the frequencies, or oscillations per second, of both curves stood in
simple whole-number ratios to each other, such as 1:1, 1:2, 1:3, and so on.
In fact, one can produce Lissajous figures even if the frequencies are not
in perfect whole-number ratios to each other.
If the difference is insignificant, the phenomenon that arises is that the
designs keep changing their appearance. They move. What creates the
variations in the shapes of these designs is the phase differential, or the
angle between the two curves. In other words, the way in which their rhythms
or periods coincide. If, on the other hand, the curves have different
frequencies and are out of phase with each other, intricate web-like designs
arise.
These Lissajous figures are all visual examples of waves that meet each
other at right angles. As I pondered the connection between these figures
and other areas of knowledge, I came to think about the concept that exists
in many societies and their mythologies around the world, which describes
the world as a web.
For example, many of the Mesoamerican people regarded the various parts of
the universe as products of spinning and weaving: "Conception and birth
were/.../ compared with the acts of spinning and weaving; all the Aztec and
Mayan creation and fertility goddesses were described as great weavers."(1)
A number of waves crossing each other at right angles look like a woven
pattern, and it is precisely that they meet at 90-degree angles that gives
rise to Lissajous figures.
Hans Jenny
In 1967, the late Hans Jenny, a Swiss doctor, artist, and researcher,
published the bilingual book Kymatik -Wellen und Schwingungen mit ihrer
Struktur und Dynamik/ Cymatics - The Structure and Dynamics of Waves and
Vibrations. In this book Jenny, like Chladni two hundred years earlier,
showed what happens when one takes various materials like sand, spores, iron
filings, water, and viscous substances, and places them on vibrating metal
plates and membranes.
What then appears are shapes and motion- patterns which vary from the nearly
perfectly ordered and stationary to those that are turbulently developing,
organic, and constantly in motion. Jenny made use of crystal oscillators and
an invention of his own by the name of the tonoscope to set these plates and
membranes vibrating. This was a major step forward. The advantage with
crystal oscillators is that one can determine exactly which frequency and
amplitude/volume one wants.
It was now possible to research and follow a continuous train of events in
which one had the possibility of changing the frequency or the amplitude or
both. The tonoscope was constructed to make the human voice visible without
any electronic apparatus as an intermediate link. This yielded the amazing
possibility of being able to see the physical image of the vowel, tone or
song a human being produced directly. (see below)
Not only could you hear a melody - you could see it, too! Jenny called this
new area of research cymatics, which comes from the Greek kyma, wave.
Cymatics could be translated as: the study of how vibrations, in the broad
sense, generate and influence patterns, shapes and moving processes.
The Creative Vibration
What did Hans Jenny find in his investigations? In the first place, Jenny
produced both the Chladni figures and Lissajous figures in his experiments.
He discovered also that if he vibrated a plate at a specific frequency and
amplitude - vibration - the shapes and motion patterns characteristic of
that vibration appeared in the material on the plate. If he changed the
frequency or amplitude, the development and pattern were changed as well. He
found that if he increased the frequency, the complexity of the patterns
increased, the number of elements became greater. If on the other hand he
increased the amplitude, the motions became all the more rapid and turbulent
and could even create small eruptions, where the actual material was thrown
up in the air.
The shapes, figures and patterns of motion that appeared proved to be
primarily a function of frequency, amplitude, and the inherent
characteristics of the various materials. He also discovered that under
certain conditions he could make the shapes change continuously, despite his
having altered neither frequency nor amplitude! When Jenny experimented with
fluids of various kinds he produced wave motions, spirals, and wave-like
patterns in continuous circulation. In his research with plant spores, he
found an enormous variety and complexity,
but even so, there was a unity in the shapes and dynamic developments that
arose.
With the help of iron filings, mercury, viscous liquids, plastic-like
substances and gases, he investigated the three-dimensional aspects of the
effect of vibration. In his research with the tonoscope, Jenny noticed that
when the vowels of the ancient languages of Hebrew and Sanskrit were
pronounced, the sand took the shape of the written symbols for these vowels,
while our modern languages, on the other hand, did not generate the same
result!
How is this possible? Did the ancient Hebrews and Indians know this? Is
there something to the concept of "sacred language," which both of these are
sometimes called? What qualities do these "sacred languages," among which
Tibetan, Egyptian and Chinese are often numbered, possess? Do they have the
power to influence and transform physical reality, to create things through
their inherent power, or, to take a concrete example, through the recitation
or singing of sacred texts, to heal a person who has gone "out of tune"?
An interesting phenomenon appeared when he took a vibrating plate covered
with liquid and tilted it. The liquid did not yield to gravitational
influence and run off the vibrating plate but stayed on and went on
constructing new shapes as though nothing had happened. If, however, the
oscillation was then turned off, the liquid began to run, but if he was
really fast and got the vibrations going again, he could get the liquid back
in place on the plate. According to Jenny, this was an example of an anti
gravitational effect created by vibrations.
Universality?
In the beginning of Cymatics, Hans Jenny says the following: "In the living
as well as non-living parts of nature, the trained eye encounters
wide-spread evidence of periodic systems. These systems points to a
continuous transformation from the one set condition to the opposite
set."(3) Jenny is saying that we see everywhere examples of vibrations,
oscillations, pulses, wave motions, pendulum motions, rhythmic courses of
events, serial sequences, and their effects and actions.
Throughout the book Jenny emphasizes his conception that these phenomena and
processes not be taken merely as subjects for mental analysis and
theorizing. Only by trying to "enter into" phenomena through empirical and
systematic investigation can we create mental structures capably of casting
light on ultimate reality. He asks that we not "mix ourselves in with the
phenomenon" but rather pay attention to it and allow it to lead us to the
inherent and essential. He means that even the purest philosophical theory
is nevertheless incapable of grasping the true existence and reality of it
in full measure.
What Hans Jenny pointed out is the resemblance between the shapes and
patterns we see around us in physical reality and the shapes and patterns he
generated in his investigations. Jenny was convinced that biological
evolution was a result of vibrations, and that their nature determined the
ultimate outcome. He speculated that every cell had its own frequency and
that a number of cells with the same frequency created a new frequency which
was in harmony with the original, which in its turn possibly formed an organ
that also created a new frequency in harmony with the two preceding ones.
Jenny was saying that the key to understanding how we can heal the body with
the help of tones lies in our understanding of how different frequencies
influence genes, cells and various structures in the body. He also suggested
that through the study of the human ear and larynx we would be able to come
to a deeper understanding of the ultimate cause of vibrations.
Trinity
In the closing chapter of the book Cymatics, Jenny sums up these phenomena
in a three-part unity. The fundamental and generative power is in the
vibration which, with its periodicity, sustains phenomena with its two
poles. At one pole we have form, the figurative pattern. At the other is
motion, the dynamic process. These three fields - vibration and periodicity
as the ground field, and form and motion as the two poles - constitute an
indivisible whole, Jenny says, even though one can dominate sometimes. Does
this trinity have something within science that corresponds?
Yes, according to John Beaulieu, American polarity and music therapist. In
his book Music and Sound in the Healing Arts, he draws a comparison between
his own three-part structure, which in many respects resembles Jenny's, and
the conclusions researchers working with subatomic particles have reached.
"There is a similarity between cymatic pictures and quantum particles. In
both cases that which appears to be a solid form is also a wave. They are
both created and simultaneously organized by the principle of pulse (Read:
principle of vibration). This is the great mystery with sound: there is no
solidity!
A form that appears solid is actually created by a underlying vibration."(4)
In an attempt to explain the unity in this dualism between wave and form,
physics developed the quantum field theory, in which the quantum field, or
in our terminology, the vibration, is understood as the one true reality,
and the particle or form, and the wave or motion, are only two polar
manifestations of the one reality, vibration, says Beaulieu.
In conclusion:
I would like to cite Cathie E. Guzetta's poetic contemplation of where the
investigation of the relationship between sound and the arising of various
life forms might lead us in the future: "The forms of snowflakes and faces
of flowers may take on their shape because they are responding to some sound
in nature. Likewise, it is possible that crystals, plants, and human beings
may be, in some way, music that has taken on visible form."(5)
Footnotes:
1. Klein, Cecilia F.: "Woven Heaven, Tangled Earth: A Weaver's Paradigm of
the Mesoamerican Cosmos." in Ethnoastronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the
American Tropics, Ed. by Anthony P. Aveni and Gary Urton, Annals of the
Academy of Science, Vol. 385, New York, 1982, p. 15
2. McClellan, Randall: The Healing Forces of Music: History, Theory and
Practice, Element, Inc., 1991, p. 50
3. Jenny, Hans: Kymatik: Wellen und Schwingungen mit ihrer Struktur und
Dynamik/Cymatics: The Structure and Dynamics of Waves and Vibrations,
Basilius Press, 1967, p. 10
4. Beaulieu, John: Music and Sound in the Healing Arts, Station Hill Press,
1987, p. 40
5. Guzzetta, Cathie E.: Music Therapy: Nursing the Music of the Soul, in
Music: Physician for the Times to Come, Campbell, Don (Editor), Quest Books,
1991, p. 149
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http://www.sozra.com/cymatics.html
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Is there a connection between sound color and creation ?
Welcome to the Sozra Sound Video Project
excerpt:
"The universe, believe it or not, is nothing other than a giant musical
instrument with a very special but predictable pattern of harmonically
related oscillations which determine the structure of everything from
galactic clusters to subatomic particles. (continued)
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http://members.aol.com/markalex9/Reviews/nada-brahma.html The World Is
Sound: Nada Brahma Music and the Landscape of Consciousness by Joachim-Ernst
Berendt
Joachim-Ernst Berendt's book is a seminal work.
He is a master compiler of musical-pythagorean information.
excerpt:
The universe and I exist together, and all things and I are one. As all
things are one, there is no need for further speech. But since I just said
that all things are one, how can speech be not important? ..Behind the
divisible there is always something indivisible. Behind the disputable there
is always something indisputable. You ask: What? The wise man carries it in
his heart. CHUANG-TZU (continued)
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http://members.aol.com/Lambdom/Home/ILRIHomePage.html
"Lambdoma Harmonic Keyboard"
The International Lambdoma Research Institute (I.L.R.I.) was founded in
order to encourage and promote the continuing research and application of
the Lambdoma and to spread the understanding of the wisdom and relationships
which are encoded in its matrix of whole number ratios.
This research includes relationships between musical intervals, colors,
geometric forms, mathematics, room resonances, chakra energy centers,
rotations of planets, the periodic table of elements and altered states of
consciousness.
(continued)
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http://members.aol.com/areoasis/Reviews/pythagoras.html The School of
Pythagoras
'All Is Number'
Physics, Kabbalah, Sacred Geometry, DNA, Sufi, Linguistics, Hebrew,
Astronomy, Biology, Meditation, Physiology, Greek, Egyptology, Music, Knots,
Anthropology, European Iconography, Topology, Zohar, Dance, Arabic, Hero's
Journey, Genesis, Coding, Artificial Intelligence, Isaac Newton, Trinity,
Tree of Life, Pi, Metaphysics, Talmud, Unity, History, Sri Yantra,
Pythagoras.....
What do these all have in common?
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http://www.microweb.com/ronpell/Cymatics.html Cymatics: Thought Food for
Composers
Ron Pellegrino's Recommended Thought Food for Composers of Sonic Music and
Visual Music
Cymatics, a book by the Swiss physicist Hans Jenny, published by Basilius
Presse AG, Basel in 1967, and currently available from Trans-Hyperborean
Institute of Science.
The field of cymatics is the study of the structure and dynamics of waves
and vibrations, the fundamental materials of music and of life forms. The
study of cymatics should be included in the fundamental theoretical studies
of anyone interested in sonic or visual music. ithout waves, vibrations, and
periodicity there is no movement, no sound, no music.
For an excellent overview of the subject of cymatics visit the page
Cymatics: The Science of the Future? on the ALPHAOMEGA site.
Hans Jenny's book is filled with photographs of beautiful organic imagery
(Chaldni figures) he created with sound waves (including some music of Bach
and Mozart) driving metal plates and various diaphragms covered with
lycopodium powder, liquids, metal filings, and viscous material. He used
vibrating crystals so he could precisely control the frequencies and
amplitudes of the signals creating the dynamic imagery for his studies.
The text of book makes the case for the principle of periodicity being the
fundamentally dominant force in both the organic and inorganic world. "What
insights into vibration and periodicity have been gained in the vast range
extending from the cosmic systems (rotations, pulsations,
turbulences, circulations, plasma oscillations, periodicity of many kinds in
both details and the whole) down to the world of atomic or even nuclear
physics (shell model of nucleus; nucleon structure; organization of meson
clouds)! Here again, the idea of periodicity is all-embracing."
Cymatics is an excellent, thought-provoking theoretical source for anyone
interested in the physical fundamentals of composition. Jenny created the
image on the book's cover by driving a plate covered with viscous material.
(continued)
©1996-2000 Ron Pellegrino and Electronic Arts Productions.
All rights reserved.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/16/science/16COSM.html Frequencies and
Wavelengths may have formed the Universe we see today
Scientists have seen the Voice of Creation sounding after the Big Bang!
For the cosmologically inclined: A telescope in eastern Australia has seen
what appear to be the faint imprint of waves, much like sound waves, that
may have rippled through the gases of the young universe. Scientists have
long theorized such waves were the seeds for all structures glittering in
the heavens today.
The findings, which were presented last week at a scientific conference but
are being made available to scientists around the world today, have emerged
from the largest and most detailed mapping of galaxies ever made. If
confirmed, the observations would be scientists' first direct glimpse of
what amounts to a blueprint for the structure of the universe.
(continued)
Full Story at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/16/science/16COSM.html
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http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/sounds1.html
Is Sound Behind The Creation Of Crop Circles?
(stimulating article with many lovely illustrations) (continued)
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http://www.belinus.co.uk/mythology/Orpheus.htm Orpheus was the most famous
musician and poet of ancient times. His lyre, given to him by Apollo (after
he invented the Cithara), could enchant not only the wild animals, but the
trees and rocks as well.
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quotes:
http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/ACC.Laws.html Arthur C. Clarke Laws
Clarke's Second Law:
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a
little way past them into the impossible.
Clarke's Third Law:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
*
'The Word is still spoken in sparrow song, wind sigh, and leaf fall. An
electron is a single letter; an atom, a complex word; a molecule a sentence,
and an indigo bunting an entire epistle of the sacred. The ocean whispers
its mystery within the chambered seashell. Listen quietly to the longing in
your heart for love and justice and you may hear an echo of the holy word
that addresses you. Hush for a while. Be still and know.' -- Originally
published in Spirituality & Health
*
In their study of Nature's secrets, they not only find wonderful pleasure
for themselves, but they believe that they please the Author and maker of
Nature. For they think that in the manner of other artificers, He has
exposed this machine of the universe to man's view because man alone is able
to contemplate it, and that therefore a careful observer and eager admirer
of his workmanship is dearer to him than a dull and unmoved being who looks
upon this great spectacle like an animal incapable of thought.
-- Sir Thomas More
Utopia, 1551 A.D.
*
The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the
structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation.
-- Thomas Paine
*
The God whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively,
a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate
his processes to the convenience of individuals.
-- William James
*
All things are artificial,
for nature is the art of God.
-- Thomas Browne
*
The universe seems . . . to have been determined and ordered in accordance
with number, by the forethought and the mind of the creator of all things;
for the pattern was fixed, like a preliminary sketch, by the domination of
number preexistent in the mind of the world-creating God.
-- Nicomachus of Gerasa
*
I hear the Music of the Spheres
Singing to me
Wonders of Realms Invisible,
Where Angels and Men
Meet in one accord.
-- Charles H. Kropf
*
When thou doth hear this music blest
Let heart take flight with all the rest,
And feel the notes that vibrate
through The all and every mote of you.
And thus the color's sharpest hue
With life and richness come to you,
A brilliance which may ebb and flow
And bid you follow where they go.
-- excerpted from "Sieve" by Mirabel
http://www.allspirit.co.uk/sieve.html
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