Sounds Shape Matter
Posted on May 17, 2004 in misc.
He's a nuclear physicist turned carpenter, a vegan activist totally focused on cultivating his spiritual path. Shawn Berry, aka Shanti Deva, hosts Monday night meditations in SF and last night ...
I heard Alex Theory talk about the impact of sound on our body. Stripping out all the new-agey stuff, he focused on the science of sound -- how specific frequencies shape matter in a very concrete, predictable and repeatable pattern. Alex thinks that in another decade, instead of doctors prescribing drugs as medicine, they will give you a CD of sounds to listen to. The vibrations of those sounds will destroy the dis-harmonious patterns of matter that we generally call disease.
The most amazing fact was that in Sanskrit, things aren't named by convention but rather by the sound frequency that the shape of the matter resembles. Aum, in particular, is a very interesting case study.