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In this Thesis I will attempt to answer questions about the relationship
of its use for alternative healing and the effect of music along with everyday
subjects may seem a bit farfetched to some people but the more I researched
the subject of Cymatics along with its healing properties it became more and
more clear that there was also a relationship between music and the patterns
found in society. A subject such as this requires much more research than
has been performed but I will try and un-blur the line as much as I can with
the research I have done along with observations I have made on the effect
sound therapy and alternative healing techniques and finally I will move on
humans.
Swiss medical doctor and natural scientist, Dr Hans Jenny (1904-1972). Hans
substances such as powders, pastes and liquids to life by using pure tones to
excite these substances into forms such as flowing rivers and flowers along
with structures that resemble art and architecture. All of Hans Jenny’s
into form through the use of different materials and a pure tone.
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Cymatics uses a simple vibrating platform connected to a piezoelectric
to a signal generator and a tone of say 2 KHz is dialled up. On the platform
is the material that will be affected by the tone whether it be salt, sand,
tones.
field and the sand moves out to the edges forming the lines that represent
the field lines. When two frequencies are applied to the sand mixture at
applied to glycerine, an insect like figure appears and moves like a worm or
When a black liquid is dripped into a transparent fluid, the vibrations now
which continue to form two by two for as long as the tone continues.
These eddy formations that are generated in the liquid are similar to the
ones formed in the cochlea of our ears whenever we hear any type of sound.
A plastic substance will always form into ball like shapes; to begin with
smaller ball shapes jiggle around slowly forming and blending with other
balls to form larger sphere shapes from the same continuous tone.
The human voice can also be used to affect matter in the same way as the
tone, a sequence of notes sung will form different shapes and a visual
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Music and complex waveforms will also generate form in a liquid although
When a tone is applied to iron filings along with a magnetic field the
attraction of the filings to the magnet are substantially reduced allowing the
iron filings to move around freely within the magnetic field and also form
structures taking the shape of ant hills, or small cone or pyramid type
objects but only because of the sound vibration applied will these forms
appear.
All materials and substances and the various states of movement behave in
characteristic ways under sound vibration. A pulp will form a round shape
and will circulate inside to out but the lycopodium will circulate in the
opposite direction.
In either substance the vibrations will cause the material to join together,
separate and pulsate all in quick succession with an outcome which looks
water but with magnetic properties. Higher pitch tones seem to generate
more uniform patterns with an increase in pitch forming more and more
complex patterns whereas lower tones seem to generate smooth ball like
a more violent outcome with spikes and ejections of the substance from the
main body.
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Cymatics has been used also to aid in the healing process and has been used
by the American Indians to heal the sick with sound and vibration. Also
Brazil.
Cymatic therapy is the use of pure tones to stimulate the tissue and
structure of the human being, all organs and areas of the body produce a
Cymatics works on the principal that a specific organ will have a specific
frequency and the use of a tone to replicate the natural frequency of the
generated by the sick organ back to the original. In the 1930’s a researcher
appeared. Moreover, Burr was convinced that altering the body’s energy
These concepts were ahead of their time, but are now being confirmed in
the ways disease alters the biomagnetic field around the body. In the early
frequency of the pulsations was not steady but swept up and down from 0.3
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The biomagnetic pulsations from the hands are the same frequency range as
The “Qi emission” from the hands is so strong that they can be detected
Early Cymatic therapy performed by Dr. Peter Guy Manners based on these
findings along with early research carried out by Hans Jenny centred
around the audible aspect of this type of therapy and treated arthritis,
muscular disease, bone disease, joint deformity and so on. It was kept into
lack of blood supply to their feet due to diabetic neuropathy had tone
generators under the soles of their feet during treatment. The tone would
blood was able to be drawn into the feet and minimize the damage caused
by neuropathy.
The mere thought of the use of sonic vibrations to enable healing in humans
and possibly animals must seem a bit far fetched for some people to
practitioners are taught to practice to become “in tune” with the human
body and its ailments, but it also opens the door for anyone with a desire,
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need or curiosity to use another form of treatment aside from the
traditional.
The use of sound is at the forefront of our civilization, not only in the form
by Hans Jenny used sound to manipulate matter into shapes and patterns
and into almost living structures, therefore, does music also have the power
to shape?
If a simple pure tone can give rise to complex patterns to violent eruptions
to swirling, swarming, dancing amoeba like shapes then the use of complex
reflection of its culture. This may be so in many cases, but there are also
people who strongly believe that music shapes our personalities and our
ideas for centuries before our time, but is it fair to say that music
resonates with other like minds giving the pied piper illusion?
All genres of music can be traced back to earlier forms of music, that is to
say, that all styles of music today came from somewhere. It could be said
that there is no new music - only adaptations of other forms and genres
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manipulated by the writer to form a composite of genres that influenced the
If there were truly a new genre then it would probably be disregarded and
not accepted by the wider public as it would be seen as too far ahead of its
time. People are conditioned to like certain things by a certain age - mostly
things that we have come into contact with before. This brings up the issue
If we are predisposed to like certain things that fall into the categories or the
boundaries we set for ourselves, or are set for us, then music must be the
The tables turn when form is already determined by a living entity such as a
human being. A heart has a beat due to the physical requirements for life
therefore the basis for music is already in place. Where the line is blurred as
music, is at the point where music resonates with the conditioned mind of
process then to the untrained eye the music can be seen to have an adverse
will induce a frequency into another tuning fork not in motion, if they’re
both in the same key. Then a psyche with form already in place will
automatically begin to resonate with the music that is being produced and
the listener will relate to the thought process that went into producing the
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music and therefore will have an effect similar to the tuning forks. In this
case the two forks are already in motion -one being the piece of music and
the other being the mind of the listener, in which case the listener will seek
out the music that resonates with their psyche at that moment. The mind
manipulates the form and the form resonates with the mind. This is why I
think we sometimes like to hear music that reflects our thought process at
the time. Sometimes we come across music that seems so new and so fresh
that we think that it is a new form or new genre, which can be explained by
the mind taking on a new form itself. As we grow and discover new things
about the world and ourselves our mind and thought patterns change only
Have you ever heard something that seems to exactly duplicate the way
you’re thinking at the time, and then find out that this band or group have
been around for years? The music seems to have such an impact on you at
the time that you see it as a new style but in an old genre. Does this mean
that if you were to hear this piece a few months ago or even a few months
later, would it still have the same impact on your mind as it did when you
originally heard it? Did this album or song come to you as a result of the
your new thought process or was it your new way of thought which may
have seemed minor or insignificant at the time which bought the music to
you to drive home this new thought process or period in life. Music can
resonate with the human psyche and we can relate to the message being put
forward by the music, but if this is the case then it would be unfair to
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If enough people are feeling the same way about an issue then the right
piece of music at the right time may be all that’s needed to give society that
Regardless of the like or dislike of the genre the message is being delivered
it’s the message that is of importance. Just like good music is good music no
matter if you’re into that specific genre, you cannot deny good music if it
truly is. The same goes for a way of thought, if the message is one that many
everyone no matter who said it, who sang it or what style of music it was
delivered in.
emerge does this also apply to patterns emerging in society not just from
music but also from any sound that is prevalent in everyday life, for
life or anything they thought about from day to day if they were to hear a
worker have different ideas about the world if they were to be listening to
Not to say that all factory workers and office workers are unproductive or
dissatisfied with their jobs nor am I saying that these people would want to
something that you can relate to on a physical and spiritual level and not the
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which most of us accept as a normal environment.
Some people are so focused and driven by the world we live in today that
the sound of a child’s laugh or a bird’s chirp would seem to be the most
annoying sound they could imagine while they were trying to work. We
know that a baby is most at ease when they can hear the mothers’ heart beat,
as it is the babies’ closest recognition to the warm safe womb. A toddler can
be calmed down by the sound of its mother’s voice and often parents will
buy specially made audio CDs that are designed to help calm babies and
some sound before we are born so it would make sense that we would
Every sound has its own signature or fingerprint and no two sounds are
alike, except for pure tones, and most sounds can be grouped into
categories. So given this are there patterns emerging in society from the
It’s obvious to me that the same physical laws that affect the entire human
race are the same as the physical laws that make up all music and all
experiments are affected by the pure tones applied to them, thought patterns
from an existing form i.e. our brains are able to affect sound and in turn,
affect and resonate with the form and patterns already found in society.
one way or another with specific pattern outcomes which can be recreated
time and time again with absolutely no change in the results, provided the
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characteristics of the experiment are the same.
Although there have not been many experiments looking into how the brain
which has shown that both the right and left hemispheres of the brain are
science. People are always looking for new ways of thought and new ideas
in which we humans operate and function within ourselves and within our
societies. I believe the time has come for us to put conventional teachings
and ways of thought on the back burner for the sake of finding better ways
conditions. For so long the norm has been to accept what these professions
have been telling us sometimes without question. I don’t think that these
things I have mentioned can be always fixed by a pill and often they’re not. I
also believe the drug companies like to make us think that they have a fix for
thought as most drug companies have a finger in the teaching pie when it
comes to university. After all they need to sustain their incomes somehow
and what better way than to be advising medical students and the public on
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More and more people seem to be looking for alternative treatments for all
conventional medicine is just that “conventional” and its not the only way
I hope that in the future it will be possible to steer away from the norm and
into a new way of dealing with these sometimes life threatening situations
where everyone could potentially diagnose and heal in their own homes
then there would be no need to use drugs as a first option. I would hope that
researchers into the effect of music and sound on the human body. It seems
to me that the surface has only been scratched and what was found had
would bring down and be announced as a pipe dream, but had the potential
to become a major part of all our lives. Ultimately this could spell the end of
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References:
http://video.google.com
Peter Pettersson
http://word-mysteries.com
http://reiki.org
http://home22.inet.tele.dk/hightower/octave3.htm
Mike Adams
http://newstarget.com
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6: Picture on front page taken from
http://lucidquest.com
7: My brain.
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