On the Golden Ratio
Toward a New Harmonic Framework
First published in The View Beyond, 2011
There was a time when most people believed the universe and everything in it was made of music. The early Hindus were perhaps first to embrace this concept in their musical philosophy of Shabda, a Sanskrit word meaning “sound” or “speech.” Their Vedic texts, written in the form of sacred hymns, were said to embody the divine knowledge of sruti or “what is heard,”... Read More...
Indigenously Indigo
So, what is it about the color Indigo that is so spiritual? Does it trigger something in our psyche or was it simply a matter of happenstance due to the availablity of indigo plants?
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The Harmonic Messiah
I should begin by saying I never intended to write what you are about to read. I'm not in the habit of writing about messiahs. It just came as a result of an innocent curiosity concerning the widespread phenomena of 'seeing elevens,' of which I too seem to be experiencing.
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Llull's Theatre of the Mind
Long before there were typewriters and computers – before there was mass publishing and the Gutenberg printing press – people had to rely on their memory to recall what they learned. In fact, a good memory was so important in those days that it was considered a prerequisite for all learning and a primary measure of intelligence. Read More...
The Suppression of Ancient Harmonic Science
(Appeared in the Feb-Mar 2009 issue of NEXUS magazine.)
Three years ago I decided to return to a research project in music perception that I had postponed nearly thirty years earlier. It seems time had not diminished my curiosity about how we are able to organically measure the degree of dissonance and mentally anticipate the direction of resolution in music harmony.
Read More...Unwinding the Cosmos
At present there is a great deal of interest (and confusion) around a new field of science generally referred to as torsion physics. The Einstein-Cartan theory upon which it is based describes magnetism and gravity as two sides of the same coin - the curvature and twisting of spacetime. It may well give us the missing link needed to solve the world’s energy and ecological crises while offering the ultimate “Theory of Everything”. Read More...
Music of the Quantum Lattice
In the field of high-energy physics, a rapidly rising theory called Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (Lattice QCD) proposes an invisible all-pervasive field beneath atomic structure. As a long overdue replacement for Einstein’s vacuous space-time continuum, we are now poised for a return to the ancient Pythagorean worldview of musica universalis. Read More...
Breaking the Speed of (Light) Thought
An announcement a couple of weeks ago claimed that the speed of light had been broken. A pair of German physicists, Dr. Gunter Nimtz and Dr. Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, claimed that they measured microwave photons – energetic packets of light – traveling “instantaneously” between a pair of prisms. If true, this discovery clearly violates Einsteins’s theory of special relativity while raising the possibility of supraluminal (faster than the speed of light) travel. Read More...
The Frozen Music of Rosslyn Chapel
"I call architecture frozen music."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, scientist, color theorist and Freemason
In a case of art imitating art, a press release earlier this year announced that “frozen music” had been found hidden in the architecture of the 15th century Rosslyn Chapel - the same chapel popularized at the end of Dan Brown’s book The Da Vinci Code. The chapel’s puzzling architecture remained unexplained for well over 450 years until it was decyphered by Thomas Mitchell and his son Stuart Mitchell earlier this year. Read More...
Rediscovering Duality
Prior to The Age of Reason in the latter half of the 18th century, the principles of music harmony were used to explain the dualities found in Nature. Philolaus, a “most ancient” follower of Pythagoras, referred to this in the opening of his book Peri physeos, or On Nature:
“Nature in the cosmos is composed of a harmonia between the unlimited and the limited and so too is the whole cosmos and everything in it.” Read More...
The Forgotten Science: Zero-Point Energy
For the past century, mainstream science has marched to the drum of modern convenience, producing a dazzling array of inventions to make our lives more comfortable, more entertaining and more productive. This Disneyland vision has unfortunately led us away from a path of economic and ecological sustainability into a dead end world powered by fossil fuels. What can possibly change this situation? Read More...