Vibrational Healing through the Chakras
Part 2
Light, Color, and Frequencies
When you are born, you move out of darkness and into light. The Hopi used to keep the newborn in darkness for twenty days. Then the infant would be taken outdoors and held up to her Divine Father, the Sun.1 By contrast, most of us begin and end our lives in sterile hospitals, under bright glaring lights, offensive antiseptic smells, and the blaring sound of a television.
There was a time when you lived in a watery darkness, gently nurtured by muted frequencies. The rhythmic contractions of your mother’s uterus ushered you toward the light, where you disconnected from the familiar rhythms of your mother’s heart and blood, and took on the unique sound signatures that would accompany you through every moment of the rest of your life.
What could be more profound than this movement out of darkness, into the particular frequency of sound that still holds you in the unique shape and form that you recognize as your body? Every sound you hear comes through the filter of the three primary sounds of your nerves, muscles, and blood. Everything you see comes through the rose- or other-colored glasses of your electromagnetic aura.
Science of Electromagnetism
It’s plain to see that your body is made up of solid flesh, blood, and bone. You know that hormones and chemicals affect the function of your body, so it’s not hard to grasp that drugs (pharmaceutical or otherwise) affect your emotional and physical well-being. But how can light, color, sound, or smell affect your emotions and even alter the structure of your body?
I do not expect you to take a huge leap of faith into the world of Vibrational Healing. I will not ask you to leave your mind behind. When you fully grasp how unsolid your body really is you will appreciate how the vibrations of your body are highly mutable and fully capable of entraining to the healthy balanced frequencies of nature, as experienced through light, sound, color, aromas, and crystalline structures.
The following section describes the language of waves and frequencies so you can better understand the world of vibrations. It is not essential to read this section to use the tools of Vibrational Healing, but it will give you a greater understanding of how they work. If you are a healer, you will feel more confident and better able to explain the process to others.
This section is highly technical, so if you are not scientifically inclined, you may find it challenging. If you read it once quickly and then return later and read it again, you will be amazed at how much easier it becomes the second time.
Once you comprehend the basic nature and language of vibrations, you can appreciate how—under the best conditions—natural forces feed your vibratory field. You will learn how human-made devices alter your vibratory field—both positively and negatively. While vibratory tools can help offset the negative effects of destructive force fields, it is far better to avoid exposure in the first place. By educating yourself about healthy and unhealthy environments you can add many years to your life.
The Electromagnetic Spectrum
Electromagnetic radiation is a mixture of radiation of different wavelengths and intensities. The electromagnetic spectrum includes, in order of increasing frequencies: electrical power and telephone waves, television and FM waves, microwaves, infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays and gamma rays, and cosmic rays.2, 3 (See illustration.) These different forms of energy have a direct impact upon your health, but most people are ignorant about their effects, because the majority of these frequencies are invisible. By taking the time to learn about their effects you can empower yourself to choose which frequencies to bring into your body, and to what degree.
The Electromagnetic Spectrum can be confusing because different sources are measured in different units. The wavelength distribution is vast, so it is impossible to put all the sources on one chart, according to scale. The length of a cosmic ray is as short as 0.0000000000003937 of an inch, and the length of an electric wave can be as long as 3,100 miles!4 Clearly it would be too tedious to state the multiple fractions of an inch for 3,100 miles.
Electromagnetism is defined as the physics of electricity and magnetism. Electrical energy flows throughout the body and is produced by the body. Magnetic fields operate within and around the body.5
The magnetic field of the sun increases one hundred to one thousand times during increased sunspot activity, affecting both the magnetic and electrical fields of the earth and its atmosphere.6
Scientist Valerie Hunt conducted experiments that help explain how electromagnetism affects the human body. In one experiment she monitored subjects in the Anechoic Room at UCLA where a group of four individuals experienced a field devoid of electromagnetic energy, where sound and light were completely blocked. “Immediately we felt strange sensory aberrations; we lost the sense of time. . . our consciousness altered so rapidly that we were unable to operate instruments.”
Then a group of subjects was taken to a small shielded room in the physics department where the natural electromagnetic frequencies could be altered without changing the level of gravitational force or the oxygen content in the room. When the electrical energy was diminished, participants were unable to identify the locations of their bodies in space.
“The subjects burst into tears and sobbed, an experience unlike these people had ever endured. Although they reported that they were not sad, their bodies responded as though they were threatened, as they might be if the electromagnetic environment which nourished them was gone. Any sense of body boundary, the body image was absent. . . .”
When the electrical field was increased above normal, the subjects’ thinking became clear, and they had a sense of consciousness expansion. When the electrical level in the room remained normal but the magnetism was decreased, the subjects became uncoordinated and lost kinesthetic awareness. Their sense of balance was thrown off, and they had difficulty doing simple tasks such as touching a finger to a nose.
When the magnetic field was increased beyond normal, the subjects displayed extraordinary motor coordination and balance. Dr. Hunt deduced that a normal electromagnetic environment is conducive to carrying out physiological processes and to having normal emotional experiences. An advanced level of electromagnetism improves motor performance, emotional well-being, and a sense of higher consciousness. A diminished level of electromagnetism results in lower motor, sensory, and intellectual abilities as well as increased anxiety and emotion.7
Many authorities tell us the electromagnetism of our planet has been steadily decreasing and is currently at an all-time low. So it is not surprising that people are experiencing phenomenal amounts of anxiety, depression, and learning disabilities. Any way that you can bring higher levels of electromagnetic energy into your life will help counterbalance this effect. Spending more time outdoors in nature is one way to do this. Bringing more light, color, sound, essential oils, and crystals into your home, school and office will increase the electromagnetic energy, uplifting spirits, making it easier to concentrate, and creating a better sense of bodily awareness.
Terminology of Waves and Electromagnetism
The world of vibrations includes sound, light, and even aromas, yet they seem to be entirely different spheres. By understanding the terminology of waves and electromagnetism, you will see how they are all interconnected. Frequency is measured according to the number of oscillations or cycles per second (cps) of a wave (see figure A). Frequency is measured as hertz (Hz), the number of cps at which energy moves in a cyclical form. Each oscillation is a complete wave cycle, including the rise and fall of the wave.
Hertz frequencies are used to measure the rates of events that happen periodically in a fixed and definite cycle. The unit is named after German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894), who demonstrated in 1887 that energy is transmitted through a vacuum by electromagnetic waves. The becquerel also equals one event per second and is used to measure the rates of things that happen randomly or unpredictably.
Wavelength is the distance from one wave crest to the next (see figure B). The higher the frequency, the shorter the wavelength. The length of a wave is measured in nanometers (nm), each of which is one thousand millionth of a meter. A meter is close to a yard in length at slightly less than 40 inches. A nanometer is actually about the length of two atoms.
A complete oscillation is a complete wavelength. Objects are said to be oscillating when they move in regular, repeated cycles. The period of an oscillation is the length of time it takes to complete one full cycle. If the crest of one ocean wave hits the shore every two seconds, the period of oscillation is two seconds. Since frequency is the number of cycles completed per unit of time, the wave would be moving at two cps.
The top of each wave is called the crest and the bottom is called the trough. The distance from crest to trough is the amplitude. The speed at which the wave travels is the velocity. The greater the amplitude of a wave, the more energy it carries. Loud sounds (like those made by ocean waves crashing against cliffs on the shore) are made by high-amplitude waves with lots of energy. The amplitude of sound diminishes drastically as the sound wave travels because the wave spreads out in three-dimensional space instead of traveling in a single line along a one-dimensional medium.
Electromagnetic energy and sound waves are always confined to the constraints of a constant speed. This is like putting a wave of a given length in a box that represents a second in time. (See figure b.) The length of an electromagnetic wave within the box is a constant 186,000 miles, so it takes one second for a wave of light to travel 770 miles. The wave inside a box can open up and stretch itself out into two long, slow oscillations (the equivalent of 2 cps or Hz), or it can curl itself up, for example, into six fast little impulses (the equivalent of 6 cps or Hz).
A crude but memorable metaphor is to compare the wavelength to a woman’s hip measurement. You can have three broad women standing side by side in a closet (akin to the left side of the EM spectrum), or you can have six skinny women standing side by side in the same closet (akin to the right side of the EM spectrum).
Now I haven’t said anything about the height of the women (or the waves). They will all be the same height as each other. When you adjust the amplitude, this will cause the women (or the waves) to grow taller or become shorter. The more amplitude, the stronger the waves. In this metaphor, the tall women will be more forceful. Changes in amplitude account for a weak or strong radio signal, greater or lesser volume, and dim or bright lights of the same color.8
An excellent interactive website at http://micro.magnet.fsu. edu/primer/java/wavebasics allows you to adjust different frequencies and watch how increasing the frequencies (more waves) automatically diminish the length of waves (more skinny women). Decreasing the frequencies (less waves) automatically increases the length of the waves (less broad women). Frequency and length of the waves change in inverse ratio to each other. When amplitude or energy is added or subtracted, the number and width of each wave remains the same, but the height of the waves increases or diminishes.
Since the terminology of sound and light are different, the measurement of light or photons is in nanometers, and the measurement of sound is in hertz frequencies. Light waves are measured primarily by frequency. By using mathematical language we cab measure light in hertz frequencies, which enables us to grasp the vibrationary connection between sound and light.
Visible Light: Frequencies of Colors
The narrow band of light visible to the human eye comprises just 2 percent of the electromagnetic spectrum. Light that is invisible to humans has wavelengths that are longer and slower (infrared) and shorter and faster (ultraviolet) than the human eye can see. However, the body can feel the warming rays, and the skin can experience the penetrating ultraviolet rays of the sun, which (in excess) can cause sunburn.
We think of the color spectrum as red, orange, green, blue, indigo, and violet, but there is actually a continuous blending of colors from red to violet. The colors are usually measured in nanometers. The length of a wave of violet light is about 380 to 440 nm; indigo (a puplish blue) is 440 to 485 nm; blue or cyan is 485 to 500; green is 500 to 565; yellow is 565 to 590; orange is 590 to 625; and red is 625 to 740 nm.
The colors of light can also be measured in Hertz frequencies, using trillions of Hertz (THz). As the wavelength increases, the frequency decreases, so moving from violet to red, the numbers grow smaller instead of larger. The frequency for violet light is about 790 to 680 THz; indigo is 680 to 620; blue is 620 to 600; green is 600 to 530; yellow is 530 to 510; orange is 510 to 480; and red is 480 to 405 THz. This means that you look at the color red, your eyes receive more than four hundres trillion waves per second.9
Electromagnetic waves move in a stream of particles or energy packets called photons. All the energy packets of a given color have the same amount of energy. So all the energy packets of red light are the same size, and all the energy packets of violet light are the same size. The red energy packets are relatively small, and the violet ones are relatively large.10
Photons have no mass, but frequencies associated with the color red have a longer wavelength than the other colors. (See figure C.) Red can be seen on the left of the range of visible light, and violet is at the right. As you move from left to right, you move from lower hertz with relatively low frequency to progressively higher hertz, with relatively high frequency.
I used to find this confusing because I thought of red light as having high energy and being hot and penetrating, so I imagined that the red end of the spectrum would have lots of small, fast waves, and the violet end of the spectrum would have cool, slow, big waves.
In fact, as you move past the violet end, you move into the invisible rays of ultraviolet, and then X-rays and gamma rays. As the wavelengths become smaller, they become so tiny that they easily penetrate the skin, causing burns and possibly cancer. As you move in the other direction, past the red end of the spectrum, you find the slow, invisible, warming, and healing rays of infrared.
Returning to the metaphor of the women in the closet, you could dress the broad women in red and dress the thin ones in violet, and you would have a pretty good visual.
Color is a subjective experience, governed by the eye. A person who is color-blind sees different colors than a normal person. There are just three color-sensitive cone cells in the retina, and each has a pigment that is sensitive to a specific range of wavelengths of light. Under normal lighting conditions, the color you see depends on the degree to which each pigment is stimulated.
When you see a leaf as green, the chlorophyll is reflecting green light and the leaf is absorbing all the other colors. Black has no color, so it absorbs all of the light rays. White has all colors, so it bounces off all of them.11 The usual interpretation is that the leaf contains everything except green. I disagree. We interpret chlorophyll as green. The leaf already has an abundance of green, so it reflects that color because it doesn’t need it. Therefore that color or wavelength or frequency becomes available for us to see and use.
Light is seen as white when all three cone cells of the eye are stimulated by equal amounts of red, green, and blue light. These are the primary additive colors. When the red and green cone cells are stimulated equally, you see yellow (the complement of blue). Red and blue yield magenta (the complement of green), and green and blue result in cyan (the complement of red). Cyan is in the range of 600 to 620 THz. Since those two red and blue are at opposite ends of the natural spectrum, magenta does not appear in the color spectrum at all. The screen of a color TV or a computer monitor contains a combination of just three kinds of dots: red (long wave), green (medium wave), and blue (short wave). This is the additive color system, and when you start with a black surface and add all three colors you get white.12
In the subtractive system used for almost all printing and painting the primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. You start with a white surface, like a piece of paper, and add different amounts of red, yellow, and blue. With a printer you add cyan, magenta, and yellow.13
In psychic healing, when you visualize removing something from the body, it is common practice to put it into the violet light, which is supposed to dissolve it into free atoms. I’ve always thought of violet light as being in that gray zone where something becomes so extreme that it changes into its opposite (the Chinese would say that yin changes into yang, or vice versa). Perhaps it would be more accurate to suggest that we put such objects into the magenta light.
Invisible Light
Sunlight begins in the invisible infrared band, ranging from 700 nm to 1 mm. The length of these waves is longer than visible light. When sunlight moves into the invisible ultraviolet range (180 to 380 nm), wavelengths become so tiny that they are measured in electron volts (eV). An electron volt is the energy gained by an electron (or proton, which has the same amount of electric charge) moving through a voltage difference of one volt.
Infrared Light. In 1800 the astronomer Sir William Herschel was trying to understand why different filters on his telescope seemed to heat up differently. Herschel separated sunlight into its spectrum with a prism and then used three thermometers with their bulbs blackened with soot. He put one bulb in each color of the spectrum, and he used the other two bulbs as controls. He found that each color of light produced a temperature higher than the controls, and the temperature increased as he moved from the blue to the red. When he measured the temperature just beyond the red, he discovered a region where no visible light produced the highest temperatures. Herschel correctly surmised that there was a portion of light beyond the red, which we now call infrared.14
Cameras mounted along a highway can take your picture with an infrared light beamed into your car at night. You won’t see the light, and you won’t know the picture was taken. Infrared light can be used to map the dust between stars. Some animals, like the pitviper, have infrared detectors that enable them to find their prey in the dark. Infrared has a longer wavelength (less energy) than regular red light. The infrared portion of sunlight transmits warmth to the skin. Every warm object emits infrared electromagnetic radiation.15
Ultraviolet Light. Ultraviolet radiation ranges from about 3 to 100 eV. Ultraviolet’s short wavelength gives off more energy and is more penetrating than visible light, which is why it can cause sunburn and skin cancer when absorbed in excess. Honeybees see this light, and certain flowers that appear white to us may appear multihued to the bees.
Ultraviolet light stops abruptly at 290 nm. Beyond this intensity, its rays cannot penetrate the earth’s atmosphere, and they can only be detected by devices located outside of the earth’s atmosphere. There are three categories of UV light:
Near ultraviolet (320 to 380 nm): These long and apparently harmless wavelengths penetrate the earth’s atmosphere at intensities akin to visible light, including black light ultraviolet, which gives unusual lighting effects.
Middle Ultraviolet (280 to 320 nm): Middle-range wavelengths, also known as tanning ultraviolet light, are classed as UVB. This range has strong potential for burning and damaging skin, even at fairly low intensities. Sources emitting UVB should not be used for illuminating skin except under carefully designed and controlled conditions, such as therapeutic exposures and tanning facilities, where adequate distance between the light and skin is maintained, time of exposure is controlled, and eyes are protected.
Far Ultraviolet (180 to 280 nm): These shorter wavelengths include the germicidal wavelengths that can be very harmful. Stars and other “hot” objects in space give off far UV radiation.16
Other Forms of Electromagnetic Energy
Radio Waves. Most of the radio part of the electromagnetic spectrum occurs between 1 kilohertz (KHz) and 1 megahertz (MHz). Radio waves comprise a very broad band of the spectrum.17 They have a lower frequency and longer wavelength than light waves, ranging from about ten feet to many miles in length. Radio waves are continuous.
Radio waves are emitted by radio stations and also by stars and gases in space. Radio telescopes can penetrate the earth’s atmosphere even on cloudy days, and two telescopes can pick up fine detail of the entire distance between them.18
Microwaves or millimeter waves. Millimeter radio waves, also known as microwaves, range from around 300 million waves per second (300 MHz) to 3 billion waves per second (3 GHz).19 Their wavelength is about 1 inch long. Microwaves are used in microwave ovens because the energy is converted into heat and is easily absorbed by water, making the water molecules vibrate faster.20
Microwaves are used in radar. Millimeter waves are used in telemetry in space programs. Scientist Valerie Hunt used them to measure the human energy field (see Light and the Human Energy Field, page xxx). Microwave transmitters, including those that power cell phones, need to be in sight of each other. Each antenna is a half-wave long, no more than a couple of inches, is backed up by a parabolic dish that reflects the waves into a narrow beam to the next tower.21
As you become increasingly aware of the power of vibrations to affect your health, it becomes self-evident that vibrations also have the power to make you sick. Mobile phones and even cordless phones operate on frequencies that are potentially dangerous to the body. As the waves (hertz) get smaller and faster they become increasingly penetrating.
After radio waves, the next smallest are X-rays. When I was a kid, every good shoe store had an X-ray machine where you could look at your feet inside the shoes. As we became more knowledgeable, it became apparent that such machines were outright dangerous and their use was discontinued.
From 1953 to 1976, the Soviets directed microwave radiation at the U.S. embassy in Moscow from the roof of an adjacent building. When the embassy staff heard that this could lead to health problems, they researched the health effects of microwave exposure. Most of the information was found in Soviet literature, and it indicated adverse health effects in lab animals and individuals working with radar. Most microwave-related symptoms were psychological, including lethargy, lack of concentration, headaches, depression, and impotence. Soviet medical journals termed this syndrome “microwave sickness.” The Soviet safe standard for microwave exposure is more than 100 times lower than the American recommendation.”22
X-rays. X-rays are another form of electromagnetic radiation with high energy and short wavelengths, ranging from 100 to 100,000 eV or 100 eV to 100 KeV. The extremely high-energy radiation found in X-rays and gamma rays is produced by particles moving at very high velocities (speed of motion), which produces great heat. X-rays are even more penetrating than UV light, easily passing through human skin, muscle, and tissue, but not through calcium in bones. Hot gases in space also give off X-rays. When X-rays interact with matter, they produce ionizing radiation, which can cause mutations or cancer in tissue.23
Gamma-rays. All photons with energies greater than 100 keV are considered gamma rays. These rays have the shortest wavelength (about thirty times the diameter of the hydrogen atom) and the highest energy and frequency. They can penetrate metal and are used to detect tiny cracks in airplane wings, and for radiotherapy, a therapeutic treatment that destroys cancer cells. Natural or man-made radioactive materials emit gamma rays, as do nuclear power plants and big particle accelerators.24
Joy Gardner’s Spectrum of Biological Frequencies
We rarely think of the body as a source of electrical energy. Yet we know that the heart gives off an electrical charge that can be measured by an electrocardiogram (EKG) at about 225 cps. Since the definition of one Hertz is 1 cps, the frequency of the human heart is about 225 Hz.
Brain wave activity is measured by an electroencephalogram (EEG) oscillating from 0 to 200 cps, or 0 to 200 Hz. When muscles tense or shorten, they produce an electrical impulse that is measured by an electromyogram (EMG) with a range from 0 to 250 cps or 0 to 250 Hz.25
A fundamental measurement in particle physics is known as Planck’s constant. It was defined in 1900 by German physicist Max Planck (1858–1947) who showed that, at atomic and subatomic levels, energy occurs in discrete packets called quanta. Each quantum (singular for quanta) has energy hf, where f is the frequency of the radiation as measured in h, Hertz.
Since all forms of matter are composed of atomic and subatomic particles it is safe to say that everything vibrates, and can be measured in Hertz frequencies.25 German biophysicist Dr. Fritz-Albert Popp (born 1938), developed highly sensitive equipment that shows that all living cells emit electromagnetic waves which produce a permanent weak light in visible range (400 to 800 nm) called biophoton emission. If the cells are healthy, they emit more; if not they emit less.26
The electromagnetic spectrum (see illustration on page 53) shows the range of visible and invisible light, yet I wondered why it did not show the frequencies of audible and inaudible sound. I understand now that all electromagnetic energy moves at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second), and the speed of sound is a mere 46,200 miles per second. Light is usually measured in nano-meters (the length of the wave), and sound is usually measured in Hertz (the frequency of the wave, or how many waves exist within one unit of time). By measuring in hertz frequencies, you can grasp the vibrational connection between sound and light.
Then I discovered that smell could also be measured in Hertz frequencies. Bruce Tainio, who invented the BT3 Monitor to measure the frequencies of plants, found that the same machine could be used to measure the frequencies of essential oils, food, and human beings.
Another term for vibrations is waveforms, which brings us to French mathematical genius, baron Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768–1830), who invented a type of calculus. Fourier developed a mathematical way of converting any pattern, no matter how complex, into a language of simple waves, then back into the original pattern. These equations are known as Fourier transforms. They are used in Fourier frequency analysis (see Science of the Chakras, page 24) and are an essential part of laser technology (see Lasers, page 74).
Fourier discovered that the visual cortex does not respond to patterns; it responds to the frequencies of waveforms. He explored the other senses and found that a hundred years previously German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz demonstrated that the ear is a frequency analyzer.
More recent research reveals that the sense of smell is apparently based on something called osmic frequencies. Georg von Bekesy (1899–1972), an American biophysicist born in Hungary, demonstrated that the skin is sensitive to frequencies of vibration, and even produced evidence that taste may involve frequency analysis. He found that physical movements are stored in the brain through a process akin to Fourier mathematics where they are converted into waveforms.27
Human chauvinism makes us think that reality can be defined only by what human beings experience with their five senses. It is difficult for us to believe that there are sounds we cannot hear and vibrations we cannot feel. Yet we all know that dogs and cats hear sounds that we cannot hear.
Armed with all this information, I began to imagine a spectrum that would include the range within which humans (and other animals) can see, hear, smell, taste, touch, and feel. I pondered these ideas for several years, and then I produced a Spectrum of Biological Frequencies that includes all the reliable measurements I can find thus far that relate to human and animal senses (see illustration). As I said earlier, the electromagnetic spectrum includes both frequency and wavelength. The electromagnetic chart only shows frequencies of electromagnetic phenomenon. My Spectrum of Biological Frequencies gives frequencies for light as well as sounds, aromas, and food values that we (and other animals) are capable of perceiving. I expect this spectrum to evolve over the coming years, and I invite anyone who has additional information to contact me through my website (see Resources).
Let’s review the hertz frequencies:
1 Hz (hertz) = 1 cycle per second (cps)
1 KHz (kilohertz) = 1 thousand cps
1 MHz (megahertz) = 1 million cps
1 GHz (gigahertz) = 1 billion cps
1 THz (terahertz) = 1 trillion cps
Now let’s turn to the Spectrum of Biological Frequencies on page 66. As you look at this chart, it becomes evident that we live in a sea of vibrations. By learning how to enhance or diminish the vibrations of your own body (brain, heart, muscles, and aura) through the conscious use of highly vibratory tools (sound, essential oils, and colored light), you can maintain your balance and health. This is the essence of Vibrational Healing.
If the page were longer, I would have one continuous spectrum going from 1 Hz to 1,000 GHz. Since this was not possible, I created a spectrum in three tiers, beginning at the bottom left and ending at the top right. Please note that this spectrum is not drawn to scale. It would be spatially impossible to show hertz, kilohertz, megahertz, and so forth in 10 Hz increments from 0 to 1000. Instead I have settled for going in 10 Hz increments from 10 to 100, and then leaping up to 100 Hz increments from 100 to 1,000.
Brain Frequencies and the Schumann Resonance
Currently recorded human brain waves, as measured by an EEG, range from 0.5 to 200 Hz. The bands that define states of consciousness traditionally begin at 0.5 and go to 30 Hz.
Your normal waking consciousness, when you are engaged in an active conversation or highly alert, is generating beta waves, from about 40 to 15 Hz. It is also good for open focus meditation used in Zen Buddhism in which the focus is on everything simultaneously. As you become more relaxed and receptive, your brain waves become slower and higher in amplitude and you drop into alpha at 9 to 14 Hz. This is a time for reflection, meditation, and nonlinear, intuitive thinking.
The next level, at theta, from 5 to 8 Hz gives access to the subconscious where deep meditation, hypnosis, visualization, shamanic activity, and healing occur. It can also kick in while doing repetitive tasks such as running, weaving, spinning, or driving long distances. Original creative inspiration is often born while in theta and is also associated with going out of body (astral travel). This is the region of sleep characterized by active dreaming and rapid eye movement (REM). Finally, the high-amplitude, low-frequency delta brain waves, from about 0.5 to 4 Hz, occur during deep restorative sleep as well as profound meditation and hypnosis. In reality all four types of brain waves are always present, but only one type will predominate at any given time.28
The Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia, developed a technology called Hemi-Sync using stereo headphones or speakers to deliver, for example, a sound of 300 Hz into one ear and 30 Hz into the other. The brain integrates the two signals, producing a sensation of a third sound called the binaural beat. The brain waves entrain or lock onto and follow the 30 Hz signal that is perceived in the bone structure of the inner ear, causing the brain to shift into high alpha or even theta brain states that are used for enhancing creativity and lucid dreaming.29
Studies at the Center for Neuroacoustic Research, using special equipment, have shown brain wave frequency patterns as slow as one quarter cps with patients who were experiencing extraordinary states of consciousness, including high Yogic states of suspended animation. These deepest below-delta states are called epsilon states. During these times the right-left hemispheres tend to synchronize as the answer to a problem or a moment of great inspiration occurs.
There is yet another phenomenon reported by other research-ers in which brain wave patterns go from 40 to as high as 100 Hz or more, known as gamma brain waves, with the significantly high range being hyper-gamma. These are characterized by experiences of bringing information from all the senses together for a higher-level awareness of unity, as seen during shamanic and mystical experiences. There are even ecstatic states of consciousness recorded at frequencies of 200 Hz, called lambda brain wave states.30
From a different perspective, experimental physicist Bob Beck recorded the brain waves of proven mystics while they were doing their work and found that they vibrated at 7.8 cps, which is between theta and alpha. His work on earth resonances and their effect on brain wave frequencies was presented at a psychotronic conference in the United States and published in the late 1970s.
The earth’s atmosphere, between its crust and the ionosphere, has a basic frequency of 7.83 Hz. When thunderbolts of lightning strike the earth, they travel at the speed of light, which is 186,000 miles per second. Lightning can circle the circumference of the earth exactly 7.83 times in one second, thereby imparting a 7.83 Hz charge to the earth.
About 1000 lightning storms occur every second worldwide, and collectively account for the measured current flow in the earth’s electromagnetic “cavity,” between the surface of the earth and the inner edge of the ionosphere, sixty-five miles above the earth. They are not caused by anything internal to the earth, its crust or its core. They are related to atmospheric electrical activity, which does increase during times of intense lightning activity and increased solar sunspot cycles that occur every eleven years.
W. O. Schumann, a German physicist, predicted and then detected these waves during the mid-1950s. He said this resonance was between 7 and 8 cps. Bob Beck found it to be 7.8 Hz, within 1/500 of a cycle.31
In the 1960s, this frequency was monitored by the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder, Colorado. It found that several frequencies between 7 and 50 Hz actually compose the Schumann Resonances, starting with a 7.8 Hz nominal figure and fluctuating in approximately 5.9 Hz progressing overtones (7.8, 13.7, 19.6, etc.). These frequencies vary from one geologic location to another, and they sometimes have naturally occurring interruptions.32
There is a rumor in esoteric circles that the resonance of the earth has recently increased from 7.8 to 9 Hz. I have not been able to find any reliable sources to confirm this, nor does it seem possible unless the circumference of the earth or the speed of light changed. There is also a belief that this would indicate a rise in human awareness. Actually, since the 7.8 frequency is located just at the top of theta (deep meditation and shamanic activity) bordering on alpha (normal meditation and daydreaming), a frequency of 9 would pull us down, out of theta entirely, and just into alpha, which would actually be a drop in human consciousness.
Valerie Hunt speculates that when mystics attune to the 7.8 Hz frequency, they gain access to all the memories of the earth and the creatures that inhabit it, including possible information from the past and future. Mystics speak about the Akashic Records, a psychic library where all events that have occurred on the planet are stored. If such a channel exists, it would help explain why certain psychics can accurately channel information from the past and the future. I think of this channel of consciousness as being akin to the Deep Sound Channel in the ocean used by whales for communicating halfway around the world (see Sound, Science, and Medicine, page 134).
Other Anatomical and Food Frequencies
The electrical frequency of human muscular activity begins at 0 Hz and goes up to 250 Hz, including the heart at 225 Hz. The human aura, as measured by Dr. Valerie Hunt, has a continuous radiation that begins at 500 Hz and probably goes higher than 20,000 Hz (20 KHz), but that was the highest limit of Hunt’s telemetry machine.33 DNA has been rated at 8.5 terahertz (THz or trillions of Hertz) and living healthy cells at 27 THz.34
According to Tainio, in collaboration with Gary Young, N.D., healthy individuals resonate in a range between 62 and 68 megahertz (MHz). This number is obtained by taking many measurements throughout the body and then finding an average. People who are ill vibrate between 20 and 62 MHz. According to measurements taken with Tainio’s BT3 Frequency Monitoring System (see Resources), when you have a cold or flu your vibratory rate goes down to 58 MHz; when candida (systemic yeast infection) is present you vibrate at 55 MHz; when you have Epstein Barr virus you vibrate at 52 MHz; when you have cancer you vibrate at 42 MHz. When the death process begins, the frequency has been measured at 20 MHz.
Processed foods and adulterated and rancid oils measure from 0 to 10 MHz. It’s not surprising that this kind of food is known as junk food. It has no vitality and lacks the ability to enhance your vitality. Whole foods measure from 10 to 15 MHz, and dried herbs from 12 to 22 MHz.
The average living plant is 20 to 22 MHz, and a fruit that has been pollinated can be as high as 80 MHz. No wonder raw fruits, raw vegetables, and fresh juices are so good for your health. High-quality essential oils reach an all-time high of 52 to 320 MHz.35 No wonder you can raise your spirits, increase concentration, settle your stomach, relieve headaches, and even derive antifungal, anti-inflammatory and antibiotic effects just from smelling and applying essential oils.
Audible and Musical Sounds
Human beings hear sounds that are in the range of 16 to 25,000 Hz (16 Hz to 25 KHz). The range of the human voice is from 100 to 10,000 Hz (100 Hz to 10 KHz). The ear is most sensitive to tones from 500 to 4000 Hz, which is also the range of normal speech. Sounds from 2 to 4 KHz are in the optimal part of the spectrum for charging the brain and body, according to Dr. Alfred Tomatis. Gregorian chants are entirely in this range.36
On a piano, middle C is typically 256 Hz and C an octave higher is 512 Hz (double the amount of middle C). The lowest note on a piano vibrates at 27.5 Hz and the highest at 4,186 Hz. Violins range from 200 to 2000 Hz.
Why does a violin playing the note of middle C sound different from a flute playing the same note? This can be explained by tone quality. When a violin string is bowed, it produces many frequencies at the same time. The lowest is called the fundamental, and it determines the pitch. The other frequencies are overtones, which, in the case of the violin, are simple whole-number multiples of its fundamental. The unusual tonal quality of each kind of instrument and of each instrument within that group is determined by its own mix of overtones. A flute produces a nearly pure sine wave, a pure tone without overtones. The fundamental tone of a flute resonates at 440 Hz. A drum produces its fundamental tone at 50 Hz, and its overtones have no definite sense of pitch.37
Light Frequencies. Like sound, light has a frequency and the visible spectrum of light represents about one octave (one doubling of frequency), beginning with red at 405 THz and ending with violet at 790 THz.
Animal Sounds and Senses. Whales and elephants make sounds between 15 and 35 Hz, so their low sounds can stimulate alpha brain activity. Southern Right whales have a discrete call used for long-range communication that has a peak energy between 50 and 200 Hz. Dolphins communicate through pulsating clicks from 3 to 500 Hz and simultaneously communicate in whistles from 2,000 to 80,000 Hz (2 to 80 MHz). The dolphin range in water is amazingly close to the human speech range in air.38
Dogs and bats can hear or perceive frequencies up to 160 KHz. There is a good reason why most of us find a cat’s purring so comforting. House cats and wild cats purr during both inhalation and exhalation with a consistent pattern between 25 and 150 Hz, which is the ideal range for improving bone density and promoting healing. This may explain why cats purr both when pleased, as kittens do when nursing, and when in pain or under duress.39
Frequencies in the Home
While the following are not actual biological frequencies, their presence in your home is likely to have an effect upon your body. In the United States, common household electrical supply is at 60 Hz, which means that the current changes direction or polarity 120 times, or 60 cps. In Europe, line frequency is 50 Hz, or 50 cps.
Most countries have chosen their television standard to match their main supply frequency. Every television picture is produced by a fast electron beam of half pictures that occur 50 or 60 times per second with a conventional 50 or 60 Hz television. That’s why you see flickers when you watch carefully. Televisions are now available at 100 Hz without the flicker.
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