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by Jemma Foster
‘Before its incarnation the soul is sound. It is for this reason that we love sound.’
- Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927), Sufi master
In 1952, composer John Cage (1912–1992) wrote a silent composition called 4’33”, which was inspired by a visit to an anechoic (echoless) chamber at Harvard University. Expecting to be deafened by silence, he was instead met with a range of sounds coming from inside his body. He could hear the popping and crackling of his nervous system and the swoosh of fluid in his glands, the beat of his heart and the pulse in his neck, a high-pitched ringing in his ears. Our biochemistry is a symphony with trillions of cells making up the orchestra. The natural world is always performing, from the jubilant birdsong of the dawn chorus to the eerie whistle of desert sand dunes and deep ocean bed murmurs.
Harmonics of a vibrating string Pythagoras came up with the idea of applying mathematics to sound after hearing the different notes that a blacksmith’s hammers made when struck. He figured out that this was due to the different weight ratios of the hammers. A hammer weighing half as much as its neighbour sounded twice as high a note – a ratio of 2:1. This is what we call an octave. Pythagoras found that plucking a string at certain points made pleasant sounds while plucking it in other places resulted in sounds that were quite jarring. He found that only whole numbers produced a harmonious sound. A ratio of 3:2 was particularly sweet on the ear and became known as the ‘perfect fifth’. This relates to the Golden Ratio, written using the Greek letter (phi). Pythagoras created a scale based on this and the octave. Examples in classical music include the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Debussy’s Dialogue du Vent et la Mer. The Golden Ratio, also known as the divine proportion, is a fundamental growth pattern in nature.
Music has always been a significant tool for ceremony and contemplation. Spiritual music has a twofold purpose. Prayers and intention float on the airwaves through music and up into the heavens. It is intended to invite beings from the celestial realms down to Earth and also to raise the spirits and awareness of humans up to the celestial realms, allowing people to come into resonance with higher spiritual principles, raising their own vibration and level of consciousness.
The ancient practice of sound healing is evident in the harmonic resonance chambers of the pyramids where it is thought that initiates would attune their vibration to each chamber as they raised their frequency, opening up new channels of information and higher levels of cosmic understanding. According to Egyptian scholar and indigenous wisdom keeper Abd’el Hakim Awyan (1926–2008), patients would lie on the stone slabs of the healing temples at Saqqara, Egypt, and the deified physician Imhotep and his successors would sit in another chamber from where they could listen to the sound of the patients as their vibrations channelled through the stone. From this, they would be able to diagnose where there was an energetic imbalance in the body which was creating a physical disturbance. We are beings of resonance and in constant vibratory exchange with our environment. Sacred vibrations and instruments such as tuning forks, singing bowls and shamanic drums are used to shift stagnant vibratory patterns causing dis-ease. To bathe in sound is to allow every cell in your body to be washed with its vibration and in doing so, attune your frequency to resonate at a desired level.
Like sound, brainwave states are measured in hertz (Hz), which indicate the number of cycles in a second. Earth’s own electromagnetic frequency, the Schumann resonance, averages at 7.83Hz, which is on the border of our theta and alpha states. When we do not resonate with this frequency, our bodies begin to weaken and become vulnerable to disease. For this reason, NASA created Schumann resonance generators in their spacecraft. Since the brain is a finely calibrated electromagnetic organ, any fluctuations in the geomagnetic activity of the Earth that alter this resonance, such as solar fl ares and lightning, also alter brain and neurohormone responses.
‘Our entire biological system – the brain and the Earth itself –work on the same frequencies.’
- Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), engineer and inventor
Sound and vibration can alter our biochemistry and, in doing so, our physiological wellbeing, causing neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin to flood the brain. A fast tempo can trigger the release of adrenaline; hypnotic tones can produce its opposite, noradrenaline. Our brain waves are altered, our mood shifts and every organ, cell and micro-organism within us responds to the call. In Western medicine, sound waves are used to break up kidney stones. When two frequencies meet and their cycles align, they create a harmonic resonance. By bringing sacred sound and shapes into our sphere of awareness, we are tuning in to their vibration. Low vibrational states include stress, disease and negative emotional patterns. By raising our frequency to align with higher rates of consciousness we widen our field of awareness and the depth of our experience.
Cymatics is a term coined by Hans Jenny (1904–1972) in his book of the same title, and refers to the demonstration of how sound waves produce geometric patterns. Chladni plates, created by Ernst Chladni in the 18th century, are connected to a machine that plays a tone. On top of the plates are grains of lycopodium powder or fine grains of sand, which come together to form shapes. The higher the frequency, the more complex the patterns produced.
Extract from Sacred Geometry 2020 by Jemma Foster.
Image by Jemma Foster
‘Before its incarnation the soul is sound. It is for this reason that we love sound.’
- Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927), Sufi master
In 1952, composer John Cage (1912–1992) wrote a silent composition called 4’33”, which was inspired by a visit to an anechoic (echoless) chamber at Harvard University. Expecting to be deafened by silence, he was instead met with a range of sounds coming from inside his body. He could hear the popping and crackling of his nervous system and the swoosh of fluid in his glands, the beat of his heart and the pulse in his neck, a high-pitched ringing in his ears. Our biochemistry is a symphony with trillions of cells making up the orchestra. The natural world is always performing, from the jubilant birdsong of the dawn chorus to the eerie whistle of desert sand dunes and deep ocean bed murmurs.
Harmonics of a vibrating string Pythagoras came up with the idea of applying mathematics to sound after hearing the different notes that a blacksmith’s hammers made when struck. He figured out that this was due to the different weight ratios of the hammers. A hammer weighing half as much as its neighbour sounded twice as high a note – a ratio of 2:1. This is what we call an octave. Pythagoras found that plucking a string at certain points made pleasant sounds while plucking it in other places resulted in sounds that were quite jarring. He found that only whole numbers produced a harmonious sound. A ratio of 3:2 was particularly sweet on the ear and became known as the ‘perfect fifth’. This relates to the Golden Ratio, written using the Greek letter (phi). Pythagoras created a scale based on this and the octave. Examples in classical music include the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Debussy’s Dialogue du Vent et la Mer. The Golden Ratio, also known as the divine proportion, is a fundamental growth pattern in nature.
Music has always been a significant tool for ceremony and contemplation. Spiritual music has a twofold purpose. Prayers and intention float on the airwaves through music and up into the heavens. It is intended to invite beings from the celestial realms down to Earth and also to raise the spirits and awareness of humans up to the celestial realms, allowing people to come into resonance with higher spiritual principles, raising their own vibration and level of consciousness.
The ancient practice of sound healing is evident in the harmonic resonance chambers of the pyramids where it is thought that initiates would attune their vibration to each chamber as they raised their frequency, opening up new channels of information and higher levels of cosmic understanding. According to Egyptian scholar and indigenous wisdom keeper Abd’el Hakim Awyan (1926–2008), patients would lie on the stone slabs of the healing temples at Saqqara, Egypt, and the deified physician Imhotep and his successors would sit in another chamber from where they could listen to the sound of the patients as their vibrations channelled through the stone. From this, they would be able to diagnose where there was an energetic imbalance in the body which was creating a physical disturbance. We are beings of resonance and in constant vibratory exchange with our environment. Sacred vibrations and instruments such as tuning forks, singing bowls and shamanic drums are used to shift stagnant vibratory patterns causing dis-ease. To bathe in sound is to allow every cell in your body to be washed with its vibration and in doing so, attune your frequency to resonate at a desired level.
Like sound, brainwave states are measured in hertz (Hz), which indicate the number of cycles in a second. Earth’s own electromagnetic frequency, the Schumann resonance, averages at 7.83Hz, which is on the border of our theta and alpha states. When we do not resonate with this frequency, our bodies begin to weaken and become vulnerable to disease. For this reason, NASA created Schumann resonance generators in their spacecraft. Since the brain is a finely calibrated electromagnetic organ, any fluctuations in the geomagnetic activity of the Earth that alter this resonance, such as solar fl ares and lightning, also alter brain and neurohormone responses.
‘Our entire biological system – the brain and the Earth itself –work on the same frequencies.’
- Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), engineer and inventor
Sound and vibration can alter our biochemistry and, in doing so, our physiological wellbeing, causing neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin to flood the brain. A fast tempo can trigger the release of adrenaline; hypnotic tones can produce its opposite, noradrenaline. Our brain waves are altered, our mood shifts and every organ, cell and micro-organism within us responds to the call. In Western medicine, sound waves are used to break up kidney stones. When two frequencies meet and their cycles align, they create a harmonic resonance. By bringing sacred sound and shapes into our sphere of awareness, we are tuning in to their vibration. Low vibrational states include stress, disease and negative emotional patterns. By raising our frequency to align with higher rates of consciousness we widen our field of awareness and the depth of our experience.
Cymatics is a term coined by Hans Jenny (1904–1972) in his book of the same title, and refers to the demonstration of how sound waves produce geometric patterns. Chladni plates, created by Ernst Chladni in the 18th century, are connected to a machine that plays a tone. On top of the plates are grains of lycopodium powder or fine grains of sand, which come together to form shapes. The higher the frequency, the more complex the patterns produced.
Extract from Sacred Geometry 2020 by Jemma Foster.
Image by Jemma Foster
by Jemma Foster
‘Before its incarnation the soul is sound. It is for this reason that we love sound.’
- Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927), Sufi master
In 1952, composer John Cage (1912–1992) wrote a silent composition called 4’33”, which was inspired by a visit to an anechoic (echoless) chamber at Harvard University. Expecting to be deafened by silence, he was instead met with a range of sounds coming from inside his body. He could hear the popping and crackling of his nervous system and the swoosh of fluid in his glands, the beat of his heart and the pulse in his neck, a high-pitched ringing in his ears. Our biochemistry is a symphony with trillions of cells making up the orchestra. The natural world is always performing, from the jubilant birdsong of the dawn chorus to the eerie whistle of desert sand dunes and deep ocean bed murmurs.
Harmonics of a vibrating string Pythagoras came up with the idea of applying mathematics to sound after hearing the different notes that a blacksmith’s hammers made when struck. He figured out that this was due to the different weight ratios of the hammers. A hammer weighing half as much as its neighbour sounded twice as high a note – a ratio of 2:1. This is what we call an octave. Pythagoras found that plucking a string at certain points made pleasant sounds while plucking it in other places resulted in sounds that were quite jarring. He found that only whole numbers produced a harmonious sound. A ratio of 3:2 was particularly sweet on the ear and became known as the ‘perfect fifth’. This relates to the Golden Ratio, written using the Greek letter (phi). Pythagoras created a scale based on this and the octave. Examples in classical music include the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Debussy’s Dialogue du Vent et la Mer. The Golden Ratio, also known as the divine proportion, is a fundamental growth pattern in nature.
Music has always been a significant tool for ceremony and contemplation. Spiritual music has a twofold purpose. Prayers and intention float on the airwaves through music and up into the heavens. It is intended to invite beings from the celestial realms down to Earth and also to raise the spirits and awareness of humans up to the celestial realms, allowing people to come into resonance with higher spiritual principles, raising their own vibration and level of consciousness.
The ancient practice of sound healing is evident in the harmonic resonance chambers of the pyramids where it is thought that initiates would attune their vibration to each chamber as they raised their frequency, opening up new channels of information and higher levels of cosmic understanding. According to Egyptian scholar and indigenous wisdom keeper Abd’el Hakim Awyan (1926–2008), patients would lie on the stone slabs of the healing temples at Saqqara, Egypt, and the deified physician Imhotep and his successors would sit in another chamber from where they could listen to the sound of the patients as their vibrations channelled through the stone. From this, they would be able to diagnose where there was an energetic imbalance in the body which was creating a physical disturbance. We are beings of resonance and in constant vibratory exchange with our environment. Sacred vibrations and instruments such as tuning forks, singing bowls and shamanic drums are used to shift stagnant vibratory patterns causing dis-ease. To bathe in sound is to allow every cell in your body to be washed with its vibration and in doing so, attune your frequency to resonate at a desired level.
Like sound, brainwave states are measured in hertz (Hz), which indicate the number of cycles in a second. Earth’s own electromagnetic frequency, the Schumann resonance, averages at 7.83Hz, which is on the border of our theta and alpha states. When we do not resonate with this frequency, our bodies begin to weaken and become vulnerable to disease. For this reason, NASA created Schumann resonance generators in their spacecraft. Since the brain is a finely calibrated electromagnetic organ, any fluctuations in the geomagnetic activity of the Earth that alter this resonance, such as solar fl ares and lightning, also alter brain and neurohormone responses.
‘Our entire biological system – the brain and the Earth itself –work on the same frequencies.’
- Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), engineer and inventor
Sound and vibration can alter our biochemistry and, in doing so, our physiological wellbeing, causing neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin to flood the brain. A fast tempo can trigger the release of adrenaline; hypnotic tones can produce its opposite, noradrenaline. Our brain waves are altered, our mood shifts and every organ, cell and micro-organism within us responds to the call. In Western medicine, sound waves are used to break up kidney stones. When two frequencies meet and their cycles align, they create a harmonic resonance. By bringing sacred sound and shapes into our sphere of awareness, we are tuning in to their vibration. Low vibrational states include stress, disease and negative emotional patterns. By raising our frequency to align with higher rates of consciousness we widen our field of awareness and the depth of our experience.
Cymatics is a term coined by Hans Jenny (1904–1972) in his book of the same title, and refers to the demonstration of how sound waves produce geometric patterns. Chladni plates, created by Ernst Chladni in the 18th century, are connected to a machine that plays a tone. On top of the plates are grains of lycopodium powder or fine grains of sand, which come together to form shapes. The higher the frequency, the more complex the patterns produced.
Extract from Sacred Geometry 2020 by Jemma Foster.
Image by Jemma Foster
‘Before its incarnation the soul is sound. It is for this reason that we love sound.’
- Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927), Sufi master
In 1952, composer John Cage (1912–1992) wrote a silent composition called 4’33”, which was inspired by a visit to an anechoic (echoless) chamber at Harvard University. Expecting to be deafened by silence, he was instead met with a range of sounds coming from inside his body. He could hear the popping and crackling of his nervous system and the swoosh of fluid in his glands, the beat of his heart and the pulse in his neck, a high-pitched ringing in his ears. Our biochemistry is a symphony with trillions of cells making up the orchestra. The natural world is always performing, from the jubilant birdsong of the dawn chorus to the eerie whistle of desert sand dunes and deep ocean bed murmurs.
Harmonics of a vibrating string Pythagoras came up with the idea of applying mathematics to sound after hearing the different notes that a blacksmith’s hammers made when struck. He figured out that this was due to the different weight ratios of the hammers. A hammer weighing half as much as its neighbour sounded twice as high a note – a ratio of 2:1. This is what we call an octave. Pythagoras found that plucking a string at certain points made pleasant sounds while plucking it in other places resulted in sounds that were quite jarring. He found that only whole numbers produced a harmonious sound. A ratio of 3:2 was particularly sweet on the ear and became known as the ‘perfect fifth’. This relates to the Golden Ratio, written using the Greek letter (phi). Pythagoras created a scale based on this and the octave. Examples in classical music include the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Debussy’s Dialogue du Vent et la Mer. The Golden Ratio, also known as the divine proportion, is a fundamental growth pattern in nature.
Music has always been a significant tool for ceremony and contemplation. Spiritual music has a twofold purpose. Prayers and intention float on the airwaves through music and up into the heavens. It is intended to invite beings from the celestial realms down to Earth and also to raise the spirits and awareness of humans up to the celestial realms, allowing people to come into resonance with higher spiritual principles, raising their own vibration and level of consciousness.
The ancient practice of sound healing is evident in the harmonic resonance chambers of the pyramids where it is thought that initiates would attune their vibration to each chamber as they raised their frequency, opening up new channels of information and higher levels of cosmic understanding. According to Egyptian scholar and indigenous wisdom keeper Abd’el Hakim Awyan (1926–2008), patients would lie on the stone slabs of the healing temples at Saqqara, Egypt, and the deified physician Imhotep and his successors would sit in another chamber from where they could listen to the sound of the patients as their vibrations channelled through the stone. From this, they would be able to diagnose where there was an energetic imbalance in the body which was creating a physical disturbance. We are beings of resonance and in constant vibratory exchange with our environment. Sacred vibrations and instruments such as tuning forks, singing bowls and shamanic drums are used to shift stagnant vibratory patterns causing dis-ease. To bathe in sound is to allow every cell in your body to be washed with its vibration and in doing so, attune your frequency to resonate at a desired level.
Like sound, brainwave states are measured in hertz (Hz), which indicate the number of cycles in a second. Earth’s own electromagnetic frequency, the Schumann resonance, averages at 7.83Hz, which is on the border of our theta and alpha states. When we do not resonate with this frequency, our bodies begin to weaken and become vulnerable to disease. For this reason, NASA created Schumann resonance generators in their spacecraft. Since the brain is a finely calibrated electromagnetic organ, any fluctuations in the geomagnetic activity of the Earth that alter this resonance, such as solar fl ares and lightning, also alter brain and neurohormone responses.
‘Our entire biological system – the brain and the Earth itself –work on the same frequencies.’
- Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), engineer and inventor
Sound and vibration can alter our biochemistry and, in doing so, our physiological wellbeing, causing neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin to flood the brain. A fast tempo can trigger the release of adrenaline; hypnotic tones can produce its opposite, noradrenaline. Our brain waves are altered, our mood shifts and every organ, cell and micro-organism within us responds to the call. In Western medicine, sound waves are used to break up kidney stones. When two frequencies meet and their cycles align, they create a harmonic resonance. By bringing sacred sound and shapes into our sphere of awareness, we are tuning in to their vibration. Low vibrational states include stress, disease and negative emotional patterns. By raising our frequency to align with higher rates of consciousness we widen our field of awareness and the depth of our experience.
Cymatics is a term coined by Hans Jenny (1904–1972) in his book of the same title, and refers to the demonstration of how sound waves produce geometric patterns. Chladni plates, created by Ernst Chladni in the 18th century, are connected to a machine that plays a tone. On top of the plates are grains of lycopodium powder or fine grains of sand, which come together to form shapes. The higher the frequency, the more complex the patterns produced.
Extract from Sacred Geometry 2020 by Jemma Foster.
Image by Jemma Foster
by Jemma Foster
‘Before its incarnation the soul is sound. It is for this reason that we love sound.’
- Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927), Sufi master
In 1952, composer John Cage (1912–1992) wrote a silent composition called 4’33”, which was inspired by a visit to an anechoic (echoless) chamber at Harvard University. Expecting to be deafened by silence, he was instead met with a range of sounds coming from inside his body. He could hear the popping and crackling of his nervous system and the swoosh of fluid in his glands, the beat of his heart and the pulse in his neck, a high-pitched ringing in his ears. Our biochemistry is a symphony with trillions of cells making up the orchestra. The natural world is always performing, from the jubilant birdsong of the dawn chorus to the eerie whistle of desert sand dunes and deep ocean bed murmurs.
Harmonics of a vibrating string Pythagoras came up with the idea of applying mathematics to sound after hearing the different notes that a blacksmith’s hammers made when struck. He figured out that this was due to the different weight ratios of the hammers. A hammer weighing half as much as its neighbour sounded twice as high a note – a ratio of 2:1. This is what we call an octave. Pythagoras found that plucking a string at certain points made pleasant sounds while plucking it in other places resulted in sounds that were quite jarring. He found that only whole numbers produced a harmonious sound. A ratio of 3:2 was particularly sweet on the ear and became known as the ‘perfect fifth’. This relates to the Golden Ratio, written using the Greek letter (phi). Pythagoras created a scale based on this and the octave. Examples in classical music include the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Debussy’s Dialogue du Vent et la Mer. The Golden Ratio, also known as the divine proportion, is a fundamental growth pattern in nature.
Music has always been a significant tool for ceremony and contemplation. Spiritual music has a twofold purpose. Prayers and intention float on the airwaves through music and up into the heavens. It is intended to invite beings from the celestial realms down to Earth and also to raise the spirits and awareness of humans up to the celestial realms, allowing people to come into resonance with higher spiritual principles, raising their own vibration and level of consciousness.
The ancient practice of sound healing is evident in the harmonic resonance chambers of the pyramids where it is thought that initiates would attune their vibration to each chamber as they raised their frequency, opening up new channels of information and higher levels of cosmic understanding. According to Egyptian scholar and indigenous wisdom keeper Abd’el Hakim Awyan (1926–2008), patients would lie on the stone slabs of the healing temples at Saqqara, Egypt, and the deified physician Imhotep and his successors would sit in another chamber from where they could listen to the sound of the patients as their vibrations channelled through the stone. From this, they would be able to diagnose where there was an energetic imbalance in the body which was creating a physical disturbance. We are beings of resonance and in constant vibratory exchange with our environment. Sacred vibrations and instruments such as tuning forks, singing bowls and shamanic drums are used to shift stagnant vibratory patterns causing dis-ease. To bathe in sound is to allow every cell in your body to be washed with its vibration and in doing so, attune your frequency to resonate at a desired level.
Like sound, brainwave states are measured in hertz (Hz), which indicate the number of cycles in a second. Earth’s own electromagnetic frequency, the Schumann resonance, averages at 7.83Hz, which is on the border of our theta and alpha states. When we do not resonate with this frequency, our bodies begin to weaken and become vulnerable to disease. For this reason, NASA created Schumann resonance generators in their spacecraft. Since the brain is a finely calibrated electromagnetic organ, any fluctuations in the geomagnetic activity of the Earth that alter this resonance, such as solar fl ares and lightning, also alter brain and neurohormone responses.
‘Our entire biological system – the brain and the Earth itself –work on the same frequencies.’
- Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), engineer and inventor
Sound and vibration can alter our biochemistry and, in doing so, our physiological wellbeing, causing neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin to flood the brain. A fast tempo can trigger the release of adrenaline; hypnotic tones can produce its opposite, noradrenaline. Our brain waves are altered, our mood shifts and every organ, cell and micro-organism within us responds to the call. In Western medicine, sound waves are used to break up kidney stones. When two frequencies meet and their cycles align, they create a harmonic resonance. By bringing sacred sound and shapes into our sphere of awareness, we are tuning in to their vibration. Low vibrational states include stress, disease and negative emotional patterns. By raising our frequency to align with higher rates of consciousness we widen our field of awareness and the depth of our experience.
Cymatics is a term coined by Hans Jenny (1904–1972) in his book of the same title, and refers to the demonstration of how sound waves produce geometric patterns. Chladni plates, created by Ernst Chladni in the 18th century, are connected to a machine that plays a tone. On top of the plates are grains of lycopodium powder or fine grains of sand, which come together to form shapes. The higher the frequency, the more complex the patterns produced.
Extract from Sacred Geometry 2020 by Jemma Foster.
Image by Jemma Foster
‘Before its incarnation the soul is sound. It is for this reason that we love sound.’
- Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927), Sufi master
In 1952, composer John Cage (1912–1992) wrote a silent composition called 4’33”, which was inspired by a visit to an anechoic (echoless) chamber at Harvard University. Expecting to be deafened by silence, he was instead met with a range of sounds coming from inside his body. He could hear the popping and crackling of his nervous system and the swoosh of fluid in his glands, the beat of his heart and the pulse in his neck, a high-pitched ringing in his ears. Our biochemistry is a symphony with trillions of cells making up the orchestra. The natural world is always performing, from the jubilant birdsong of the dawn chorus to the eerie whistle of desert sand dunes and deep ocean bed murmurs.
Harmonics of a vibrating string Pythagoras came up with the idea of applying mathematics to sound after hearing the different notes that a blacksmith’s hammers made when struck. He figured out that this was due to the different weight ratios of the hammers. A hammer weighing half as much as its neighbour sounded twice as high a note – a ratio of 2:1. This is what we call an octave. Pythagoras found that plucking a string at certain points made pleasant sounds while plucking it in other places resulted in sounds that were quite jarring. He found that only whole numbers produced a harmonious sound. A ratio of 3:2 was particularly sweet on the ear and became known as the ‘perfect fifth’. This relates to the Golden Ratio, written using the Greek letter (phi). Pythagoras created a scale based on this and the octave. Examples in classical music include the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Debussy’s Dialogue du Vent et la Mer. The Golden Ratio, also known as the divine proportion, is a fundamental growth pattern in nature.
Music has always been a significant tool for ceremony and contemplation. Spiritual music has a twofold purpose. Prayers and intention float on the airwaves through music and up into the heavens. It is intended to invite beings from the celestial realms down to Earth and also to raise the spirits and awareness of humans up to the celestial realms, allowing people to come into resonance with higher spiritual principles, raising their own vibration and level of consciousness.
The ancient practice of sound healing is evident in the harmonic resonance chambers of the pyramids where it is thought that initiates would attune their vibration to each chamber as they raised their frequency, opening up new channels of information and higher levels of cosmic understanding. According to Egyptian scholar and indigenous wisdom keeper Abd’el Hakim Awyan (1926–2008), patients would lie on the stone slabs of the healing temples at Saqqara, Egypt, and the deified physician Imhotep and his successors would sit in another chamber from where they could listen to the sound of the patients as their vibrations channelled through the stone. From this, they would be able to diagnose where there was an energetic imbalance in the body which was creating a physical disturbance. We are beings of resonance and in constant vibratory exchange with our environment. Sacred vibrations and instruments such as tuning forks, singing bowls and shamanic drums are used to shift stagnant vibratory patterns causing dis-ease. To bathe in sound is to allow every cell in your body to be washed with its vibration and in doing so, attune your frequency to resonate at a desired level.
Like sound, brainwave states are measured in hertz (Hz), which indicate the number of cycles in a second. Earth’s own electromagnetic frequency, the Schumann resonance, averages at 7.83Hz, which is on the border of our theta and alpha states. When we do not resonate with this frequency, our bodies begin to weaken and become vulnerable to disease. For this reason, NASA created Schumann resonance generators in their spacecraft. Since the brain is a finely calibrated electromagnetic organ, any fluctuations in the geomagnetic activity of the Earth that alter this resonance, such as solar fl ares and lightning, also alter brain and neurohormone responses.
‘Our entire biological system – the brain and the Earth itself –work on the same frequencies.’
- Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), engineer and inventor
Sound and vibration can alter our biochemistry and, in doing so, our physiological wellbeing, causing neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin to flood the brain. A fast tempo can trigger the release of adrenaline; hypnotic tones can produce its opposite, noradrenaline. Our brain waves are altered, our mood shifts and every organ, cell and micro-organism within us responds to the call. In Western medicine, sound waves are used to break up kidney stones. When two frequencies meet and their cycles align, they create a harmonic resonance. By bringing sacred sound and shapes into our sphere of awareness, we are tuning in to their vibration. Low vibrational states include stress, disease and negative emotional patterns. By raising our frequency to align with higher rates of consciousness we widen our field of awareness and the depth of our experience.
Cymatics is a term coined by Hans Jenny (1904–1972) in his book of the same title, and refers to the demonstration of how sound waves produce geometric patterns. Chladni plates, created by Ernst Chladni in the 18th century, are connected to a machine that plays a tone. On top of the plates are grains of lycopodium powder or fine grains of sand, which come together to form shapes. The higher the frequency, the more complex the patterns produced.
Extract from Sacred Geometry 2020 by Jemma Foster.
Image by Jemma Foster
by Jemma Foster
‘Before its incarnation the soul is sound. It is for this reason that we love sound.’
- Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927), Sufi master
In 1952, composer John Cage (1912–1992) wrote a silent composition called 4’33”, which was inspired by a visit to an anechoic (echoless) chamber at Harvard University. Expecting to be deafened by silence, he was instead met with a range of sounds coming from inside his body. He could hear the popping and crackling of his nervous system and the swoosh of fluid in his glands, the beat of his heart and the pulse in his neck, a high-pitched ringing in his ears. Our biochemistry is a symphony with trillions of cells making up the orchestra. The natural world is always performing, from the jubilant birdsong of the dawn chorus to the eerie whistle of desert sand dunes and deep ocean bed murmurs.
Harmonics of a vibrating string Pythagoras came up with the idea of applying mathematics to sound after hearing the different notes that a blacksmith’s hammers made when struck. He figured out that this was due to the different weight ratios of the hammers. A hammer weighing half as much as its neighbour sounded twice as high a note – a ratio of 2:1. This is what we call an octave. Pythagoras found that plucking a string at certain points made pleasant sounds while plucking it in other places resulted in sounds that were quite jarring. He found that only whole numbers produced a harmonious sound. A ratio of 3:2 was particularly sweet on the ear and became known as the ‘perfect fifth’. This relates to the Golden Ratio, written using the Greek letter (phi). Pythagoras created a scale based on this and the octave. Examples in classical music include the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Debussy’s Dialogue du Vent et la Mer. The Golden Ratio, also known as the divine proportion, is a fundamental growth pattern in nature.
Music has always been a significant tool for ceremony and contemplation. Spiritual music has a twofold purpose. Prayers and intention float on the airwaves through music and up into the heavens. It is intended to invite beings from the celestial realms down to Earth and also to raise the spirits and awareness of humans up to the celestial realms, allowing people to come into resonance with higher spiritual principles, raising their own vibration and level of consciousness.
The ancient practice of sound healing is evident in the harmonic resonance chambers of the pyramids where it is thought that initiates would attune their vibration to each chamber as they raised their frequency, opening up new channels of information and higher levels of cosmic understanding. According to Egyptian scholar and indigenous wisdom keeper Abd’el Hakim Awyan (1926–2008), patients would lie on the stone slabs of the healing temples at Saqqara, Egypt, and the deified physician Imhotep and his successors would sit in another chamber from where they could listen to the sound of the patients as their vibrations channelled through the stone. From this, they would be able to diagnose where there was an energetic imbalance in the body which was creating a physical disturbance. We are beings of resonance and in constant vibratory exchange with our environment. Sacred vibrations and instruments such as tuning forks, singing bowls and shamanic drums are used to shift stagnant vibratory patterns causing dis-ease. To bathe in sound is to allow every cell in your body to be washed with its vibration and in doing so, attune your frequency to resonate at a desired level.
Like sound, brainwave states are measured in hertz (Hz), which indicate the number of cycles in a second. Earth’s own electromagnetic frequency, the Schumann resonance, averages at 7.83Hz, which is on the border of our theta and alpha states. When we do not resonate with this frequency, our bodies begin to weaken and become vulnerable to disease. For this reason, NASA created Schumann resonance generators in their spacecraft. Since the brain is a finely calibrated electromagnetic organ, any fluctuations in the geomagnetic activity of the Earth that alter this resonance, such as solar fl ares and lightning, also alter brain and neurohormone responses.
‘Our entire biological system – the brain and the Earth itself –work on the same frequencies.’
- Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), engineer and inventor
Sound and vibration can alter our biochemistry and, in doing so, our physiological wellbeing, causing neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin to flood the brain. A fast tempo can trigger the release of adrenaline; hypnotic tones can produce its opposite, noradrenaline. Our brain waves are altered, our mood shifts and every organ, cell and micro-organism within us responds to the call. In Western medicine, sound waves are used to break up kidney stones. When two frequencies meet and their cycles align, they create a harmonic resonance. By bringing sacred sound and shapes into our sphere of awareness, we are tuning in to their vibration. Low vibrational states include stress, disease and negative emotional patterns. By raising our frequency to align with higher rates of consciousness we widen our field of awareness and the depth of our experience.
Cymatics is a term coined by Hans Jenny (1904–1972) in his book of the same title, and refers to the demonstration of how sound waves produce geometric patterns. Chladni plates, created by Ernst Chladni in the 18th century, are connected to a machine that plays a tone. On top of the plates are grains of lycopodium powder or fine grains of sand, which come together to form shapes. The higher the frequency, the more complex the patterns produced.
Extract from Sacred Geometry 2020 by Jemma Foster.
Image by Jemma Foster
‘Before its incarnation the soul is sound. It is for this reason that we love sound.’
- Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927), Sufi master
In 1952, composer John Cage (1912–1992) wrote a silent composition called 4’33”, which was inspired by a visit to an anechoic (echoless) chamber at Harvard University. Expecting to be deafened by silence, he was instead met with a range of sounds coming from inside his body. He could hear the popping and crackling of his nervous system and the swoosh of fluid in his glands, the beat of his heart and the pulse in his neck, a high-pitched ringing in his ears. Our biochemistry is a symphony with trillions of cells making up the orchestra. The natural world is always performing, from the jubilant birdsong of the dawn chorus to the eerie whistle of desert sand dunes and deep ocean bed murmurs.
Harmonics of a vibrating string Pythagoras came up with the idea of applying mathematics to sound after hearing the different notes that a blacksmith’s hammers made when struck. He figured out that this was due to the different weight ratios of the hammers. A hammer weighing half as much as its neighbour sounded twice as high a note – a ratio of 2:1. This is what we call an octave. Pythagoras found that plucking a string at certain points made pleasant sounds while plucking it in other places resulted in sounds that were quite jarring. He found that only whole numbers produced a harmonious sound. A ratio of 3:2 was particularly sweet on the ear and became known as the ‘perfect fifth’. This relates to the Golden Ratio, written using the Greek letter (phi). Pythagoras created a scale based on this and the octave. Examples in classical music include the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Debussy’s Dialogue du Vent et la Mer. The Golden Ratio, also known as the divine proportion, is a fundamental growth pattern in nature.
Music has always been a significant tool for ceremony and contemplation. Spiritual music has a twofold purpose. Prayers and intention float on the airwaves through music and up into the heavens. It is intended to invite beings from the celestial realms down to Earth and also to raise the spirits and awareness of humans up to the celestial realms, allowing people to come into resonance with higher spiritual principles, raising their own vibration and level of consciousness.
The ancient practice of sound healing is evident in the harmonic resonance chambers of the pyramids where it is thought that initiates would attune their vibration to each chamber as they raised their frequency, opening up new channels of information and higher levels of cosmic understanding. According to Egyptian scholar and indigenous wisdom keeper Abd’el Hakim Awyan (1926–2008), patients would lie on the stone slabs of the healing temples at Saqqara, Egypt, and the deified physician Imhotep and his successors would sit in another chamber from where they could listen to the sound of the patients as their vibrations channelled through the stone. From this, they would be able to diagnose where there was an energetic imbalance in the body which was creating a physical disturbance. We are beings of resonance and in constant vibratory exchange with our environment. Sacred vibrations and instruments such as tuning forks, singing bowls and shamanic drums are used to shift stagnant vibratory patterns causing dis-ease. To bathe in sound is to allow every cell in your body to be washed with its vibration and in doing so, attune your frequency to resonate at a desired level.
Like sound, brainwave states are measured in hertz (Hz), which indicate the number of cycles in a second. Earth’s own electromagnetic frequency, the Schumann resonance, averages at 7.83Hz, which is on the border of our theta and alpha states. When we do not resonate with this frequency, our bodies begin to weaken and become vulnerable to disease. For this reason, NASA created Schumann resonance generators in their spacecraft. Since the brain is a finely calibrated electromagnetic organ, any fluctuations in the geomagnetic activity of the Earth that alter this resonance, such as solar fl ares and lightning, also alter brain and neurohormone responses.
‘Our entire biological system – the brain and the Earth itself –work on the same frequencies.’
- Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), engineer and inventor
Sound and vibration can alter our biochemistry and, in doing so, our physiological wellbeing, causing neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin to flood the brain. A fast tempo can trigger the release of adrenaline; hypnotic tones can produce its opposite, noradrenaline. Our brain waves are altered, our mood shifts and every organ, cell and micro-organism within us responds to the call. In Western medicine, sound waves are used to break up kidney stones. When two frequencies meet and their cycles align, they create a harmonic resonance. By bringing sacred sound and shapes into our sphere of awareness, we are tuning in to their vibration. Low vibrational states include stress, disease and negative emotional patterns. By raising our frequency to align with higher rates of consciousness we widen our field of awareness and the depth of our experience.
Cymatics is a term coined by Hans Jenny (1904–1972) in his book of the same title, and refers to the demonstration of how sound waves produce geometric patterns. Chladni plates, created by Ernst Chladni in the 18th century, are connected to a machine that plays a tone. On top of the plates are grains of lycopodium powder or fine grains of sand, which come together to form shapes. The higher the frequency, the more complex the patterns produced.
Extract from Sacred Geometry 2020 by Jemma Foster.
Image by Jemma Foster