Notable & Quotable: "Although we outwardly acknowledge the possibility of our relationship to a higher power, is it possible that over time and through the struggle to survive, we have forgotten the meaning that such a relationship implies? If we believe that our human family is the result of a 'chance' mingling of molecules that resulted in our complex and intelligent species, then there is a sense that we're alone in the cosmos, and our survival may truly be based upon the strongest and fittest. If, however, we discover that our global family has been 'created'--that we are the intentional product of a greater intelligence--then the sense of our role in creation must also change. Perhaps new clues, such as those that we find by reading human DNA as an original language, may help us better understand the nature of our evolution. Ultimately, we may find that the answer to our mystery lies at the heart of our genetic map."

2. "A New Lease on Life," by Sol Luckman

3. "The Healing Power of Sound," by Lia Scallon

More importantly, this discovery humbles us, showing us that even our top scientists know less about human DNA than they once thought. Researching DNA is a lot like researching astronomy: the more we learn, the less we realize we know. It's as if every newly discovered fact unveils the existence of ten new questions we never even knew existed.

The mainstream media, in its usual limited view, is reporting this discovery as a breakthrough that will help scientists develop new drugs to treat disease. Every "Eureka!" moment having anything to do with the genetic code seems to lead the media to the same advertiser-pleasing conclusion, but they haven't even begun to realize the big story here. The real news in this discovery, which has nothing to do with pharmaceuticals or even medical science, is larger and more profound than any of us could have possibly imagined.

It's all quite shocking and rather difficult to explain from a Western point of view in which scientists believe that DNA is like a computer program containing sequential instructions for building a physical organism. The truth is, there aren't enough genes in the human genome to even build a human being in the first place. A human has about 30,000 genes, yet an adult human has trillions of specialized cells governed by millions of different chemical reactions. How do 30,000 genes control all this?

Only a few years ago (2001), humans were believed to have 100,000 genes while all simple life forms contained far fewer. But this assumption of humans being some "advanced" life form proved utterly false. It turns out that the mustard weed contains the same number of genes as humans, and even the common mouse has nearly as many. From certain types of worms to common trees, there are many organisms on the planet that have very nearly the same number of genes as human beings--and some have more!

Even more surprising to most is the fact that human beings appear to actually be human-bacteria hybrids. We are not all human, in other words. At least 200 genes in our genetic code were mysteriously borrowed from bacteria, we now know. Nobody is sure how they got there, but we are sure they exist.

Furthermore, if we look at the composition of cells in the typical human body, and start counting them, we realize that most of these cells are not human. It's a shocking statement, but entirely true. The vast majority of cells contained in the human body are bacteria cells--about 100 trillion of them for a typical human organism.

In other words, most of the cells you walk around with you are not even you. The importance of this is in understanding that the human organism does not exist in isolation from the world around it. Regardless of what we believe, we are all closer to nature than we think. In fact, we literally live with nature inside us, permeating our cells.

Epigenetic factors are also inherited, passed from one generation to the next, meaning that if one woman suffers from chronic nutritional deficiencies when she conceives a child, the detrimental side effects of that nutritional deficiency will be passed down through multiple generations (at least four generations, according to Pottenger, but perhaps as many as seven according to others).

So DNA is not the only archive of information passed from mother to child. Even if we understood everything about DNA, we would still miss the big picture unless we also understood epigenetic factors--yet most old-school researchers and Western scientists don't even believe in epigenetic factors, adhering to the outdated point of view that genes alone control everything, and that all disease is predetermined, with environmental factors having little or no effect.

If you look at nature, where else do you notice copies of the same information? In harmonics, of course. A complex sound such as a single note on a violin is not made up of a simple square wave tone, but a highly complex harmonics which gives the violin its special tone and timbre--a sort of auditory personality. On an oscilloscope, these harmonic levels often appear as copies of the same underlying waveforms.

Such "overtones" are present throughout the human experience. Simple saying the word "we," for example, involves shaping the mouth and tongue into an arrangement that creates complex, high-frequency overtones. The "ee" sound is the highest multi-frequency overtone sound created in human speech, but every vowel sound has its own unique pattern of repeating information. From low to high, the progression is "uuu," "ooo," "aaah," "eh," "eee."

Physically, a human being is more like musical expression than a set of construction blueprints. The human body has near-perfect symmetry and economies of expression through fractal geometry that are quite evident in the structure of the circulatory system, for instance, or the nervous system. Just look at a drawing of veins and arteries and you'll notice the fractal patterns of geometry--the same patterns drawn in the underside of a leaf.

The same is also true of human hair and skin cells. Every police detective knows that the human fingerprint is made up of readily identifiable patterns that are connected through a sort of biological artistry. In any human fingerprint, notice the loops, swishes and curves that give strong clues to the underlying fractal geometry. Fingerprints aren't built with cellular bricks, they're built with repeating patterns that give us strong clues about the true structure of our DNA. (Fractal geometry is also the dominant form of physical structure in nature, by the way. In fact, it was the study of plant leaves and mollusk shells that led to the discovery of fractal geometry.)

Throughout the human body, from the lining of the cells of the stomach to the structure of the eye, we find patterns that go way beyond mere construction blueprints. The human body is a symphony, a grand musical masterpiece played out in billions of variations across the planet.

And DNA, in my view, is a holographic reflection of the whole being. The repeating patterns of genes and the symmetry of the double helix are all expressions of music. The human genome is a symphony, and it is through this symphony that we play the music of life. Combined with environmental and energetic factors (such as parental love), the symphony of human DNA creates a physical being. But it doesn't stop there. DNA also helps create the framework for an emotional being, an energetic being, and a spiritual being.

Some scientists see nothing but cold, hard construction blueprints in DNA. Others see God in the symphony, or Mother Nature directing the orchestra. I see a miracle of life, created with such masterful poetry and music that it is something to behold, to honor, and to be humbled by. It is the ultimate statement of our connection to nature, for everywhere you look, you see the same patterns we express, carried out in a range of melodies through the plants, the animals, and even the waters and skies. Closely examining ourselves, we cannot help but observe nature.

They are the music stoppers, the nature deniers ... the rationalists. They believe all things are compartmentalized and separated. There is no connection between living things, according to the rationalists, and living creatures are nothing more than players in some cruel game called Survival of the Fittest.

Yet we are all unique, creative expressions of the same universal tune. Our very blueprint--our DNA--is a symphony of expression that will never be understood until researchers start to think holographically rather than sequentially. DNA is a wonderful mystery, as is any good symphony, or novel, or collection of poetry. And just as a novel is more than the sum of its words, a human being is more than the accounting of his or her DNA. Let me give you a simple example to make this all more apparent.

In the paragraph below, each word represents a gene. What is this paragraph trying to say?

a, a, a, above, air, all, almost, alone, and, and, and, anywhere, as, breadth, brought, by, cluster, color, combining, crate, crooked, dropped, evening, fine, first-water, follow, freedom, from, glossy, greater, hair, hazy, i, i, image, in, in, in, in, it, it, it, it, it, i've, i've, i've, jewel, later, little, luster, might, moon, moon, new, of, of, of, of, on, one, one, or, ornament, over, please, pulled, put, run, seen, shining, shining, slowly, some, sorts, start, the, the, the, the, the, the, tilted, tree-and-farmhouse, trees, tried, tried, try, walking, wallow, water, with, with, wonder, you, your.

Presented as such, it seems to be nonsense. This is the Western view of the human genome, where each "word" (or gene) stands on its own, existing in some isolated way for the purpose of governing the construction of some correlated physical structure. Western scientists even use the term "words" to describe genes, and they describe the variation in the protein sequences as different "spellings" of those words. Yet they completely miss the grammar of those words: the linguistics, the music, the poetry.

Now let's take those same words (genes) and rearrange them to create music. Or poetry, in this case, courtesy of Robert Frost:

I've tried the new moon tilted in the air
Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cluster
As you might try a jewel in your hair.
I've tried it fine with little breadth of luster,
Alone, or in one ornament combining
With one first-water start almost shining.

I put it shining anywhere I please.
By walking slowly on some evening later,
I've pulled it from a crate of crooked trees,
And brought it over glossy water, greater,
And dropped it in, and seen the image wallow,
The color run, all sorts of wonder follow.

Do you see the difference? These are the same words as the nonsense paragraph shown earlier, but now suddenly they create something far more complex and intelligent than the sum of their parts! Through the arrangement of words, or the symphony of words, Robert Frost takes us on a journey that touches on the human experience, our relationship with nature, and the meaning of life itself. All this has been brought forth by a set of words that seemed meaningless when read in isolation, absent their (holographic) interrelationships.

DNA is poetry. As long as Western scientists continue to look at genes in isolation, they will only see a scramble of isolated words whose meaning remains elusive. But genuine, curious scientists who are true enough to their own hearts to take a leap of faith at believing in the symphony of nature will find something far different in human DNA. They will find poetry, symmetry, harmonics--a song of life that, if truly understood, would humble even the most brilliant among us.

Last year's discovery of widespread variability in the genetic code (and gene copies, and missing genes) is not something to be viewed as a way to sell more drugs. That view insults nature herself. This discovery is far more profound. It gives us an important clue that can help humankind remember where we came from. It reminds us that we are part of nature, not its conquerors or masters. We are, in fact, an expression of the very phenomena we are attempting to understand. If we read the poetry of DNA correctly, we will realize that life itself is not about the accumulation of wealth, or stuff, or power over others, but rather the discovery of self.

And "self" does not exist in isolation. We are, in every way imaginable, intertwined. We are all made of the same stuff, wrought from the same patterns of nature, and in fact, formulated from the same musical notes played out in five billion unique but compatible tunes. With this discovery, Western science has concluded we are all more different from each other than previously thought. Yet it is more plausible that this discovery provides evidence that we are all unique verses of the same universal poem.

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DNA Activation: electrogenetic mode of intercession capable of noninvasively stimulating a self-healing potential in the genome, specifically by way of consciously stimulating a molecular rearrangement of transposons or "jumping DNA."

In 1998 after nearly three years suffering from a mysterious chronic illness, I celebrated my thirtieth birthday by compiling a list of my thirty or so terrifying symptoms. I saved it as a memento in the event I ever found a cure for the elusive disease that had debilitated me.

The list included asthmatic chest tightness; acute chemical sensitivities; severe food allergies; Candida overgrowth; migraines and "brain fog"; fatigue and insomnia; migratory toothache and backache; muscle twitching and tremors � all of which combined to produce such emotionally devastating intangibles as hopelessness and desperation.

By the time I got around to making my list, I'd already undergone dozens of "negative" medical tests. Despite an inexplicably low white blood cell count, I apparently didn't have AIDS or leukemia. Despite my frightening neurological sensations, doctors scoffed at the idea I might be suffering from MS or Parkinson's.

The only diagnosis I ever received was as meaningless as it was frustrating: depression. Naturally, I was becoming depressed. But I knew depression was the result not the cause of whatever was degenerating my once athletic body.

Having exhausted my allopathic options, I embarked on a bewildering odyssey into the world of alternative therapies. Suspecting heavy metals, I had my amalgam fillings replaced with nonmetallic materials. I followed this protocol with twenty-eight DMPS intravenous chelation treatments in an attempt to remove toxic mercury from my tissues, while supplementing with vitamin and DMSA oral chelation.

This procedure produced only temporary results. Meanwhile, I took handfuls of nearly every supplement on the market to halt my deterioration. I experimented with ozone and infrared saunas. I tried reiki, acupuncture, homeopathy, biofeedback, magnets, "zappers." I underwent NAET, BioSET, EMDR, hypnosis, even "psychic surgery." I tried practically everything and spent thousands of dollars, but after nearly six years, I was sicker than ever and getting worse.

The word "inspiration" best conveys the intuitive process I began in 2002 that led me to consider the radical notion that if I could somehow "reset" myself at the genetic level, all my bizarre symptoms would eventually go away. I found myself on this path after reading a disturbing book by Harvard-trained Leonard Horowitz entitled Emerging Viruses. Basing his claims on meticulous research, Dr. Horowitz persuasively argues that vaccines are the real cause of a variety of autoimmune diseases, including AIDS.

This may strike anyone who accepts the official line that vaccines are safe and effective as unbelievable. But after a year spent testing Horowitz's ideas at the energetic level using kinesiology (muscle testing), I concluded belief isn't required for immune-wrecking retroviruses to penetrate the bloodstream via "immunizations" and alter one's genetic code, potentially sabotaging health under a myriad of creative diagnoses such as "fibromyalgia," "chronic fatigue" and "multiple chemical sensitivity." Even the medical establishment recently linked certain childhood vaccines to autism.

At this point I was fortunate to stumble on another book that forever changed the way I viewed medicine: The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge, by French anthropologist Jeremy Narby. Dr. Narby spent years studying the seemingly miraculous healing techniques of Amazonian shamans (medicine men), who apparently cure people using sound to stimulate a self-healing potential in human DNA.

Intrigued enough to delve into this subject, I learned that the power of sound to activate DNA had recently been documented by the Gariaev group, a Russian team that brought together geneticists and linguists. One revolutionary implication of their research is that to activate DNA, one can simply use words. While Western researchers clumsily (and dangerously) cut and splice genes, the Russian team created sophisticated devices capable of noninvasively repairing damaged chromosomes by simply applying vibration and language (i.e., words) to DNA.

When it became apparent that my illness resulted from a series of hepatitis and yellow fever vaccines I received in 1995, I realized the only way I would ever get well was to activate my DNA's own self-healing potential. I also knew this could only be accomplished by using sound. I theorized that the correct combination of sounds, intentionally geared to the body's electromagnetics, could erase vaccination damage by "resetting" the human bioenergy field.

With the assistance of my partner Leigh, I set out to prove this theory, believing if I could heal myself, I could help others. Our research took us to South America, where we succeeded in developing a technique for DNA activation and electromagnetic repatterning we called Potentiation.

Three and a half years later, having "potentiated" ourselves and hundreds more, Leigh's asthma and allergies to pollen and cats have completely disappeared, and I'm visibly a new man. I can swim two miles at top speed. I can eat and drink whatever I please. Smoke and perfume no longer bother me. I sleep well, my pain is gone, joy has replaced my "depression," and the only lists I make these days are of all the exciting things I plan to do with my new lease on life.

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was ... a sound--the very breath of God. In Sanskrit, "Nada Brahma" means, "The world is sound." As in the Bible, so too ancient Hindu scholars claimed that the universe arose first out of sound, which gave rise to light, which then became matter. Modern science seems inclined to concur. The controversial theory of the Big Bang proposes that our universe exploded into being out of one great sound. The Hindu belief is that the "soundless sound" is the subtlest element. It is beyond the speed of light, contains all universal knowledge, and is the cohesive Source of all that is.

Every planet, indeed every layer of life, vibrates to sound. Many living organisms, in addition to human beings, communicate so richly through sound that it is hard to imagine their survival without it. Bird song and the songs of whales, for example, are bewilderingly complex, and decidedly musical.

So sensitive are we humans to sound that noise pollution has been called the most common modern health hazard. High levels of unpleasant sounds cause blood vessels to constrict; blood pressure, pulse and respiratory rates to increase; extra fats to be released into the bloodstream; and the blood's magnesium levels to fall. People are adversely affected not only by loud sounds but also by those that are dissonant or inharmonic.

For thousands of years, cultures throughout the world have used music to heal the body, mind, and spirit. Only recently, however, has the field of sound healing emerged into full-scale public awareness. Studies have shown that music can reduce stress, enhance immune system function, slow down and balance brainwave activity, reduce muscle tension, increase endorphin levels, and evoke feelings of love and inner peace.

Sound can also mean something to us that is not adequately explained just by analysis of the physical changes it causes. Sound vibration can open doorways to other dimensions by altering the vibrational reality. For millennia, many great spiritual traditions have prescribed the repetition of certain sounds to promote the experience of transcendent realities. The ritualistic use of specific chants, prayers, incantations, affirmations and holy words is truly worldwide.

Ancient civilizations believed that each soul held its own musical frequency, a sort of individual soundprint throughout every cell of the body. In ancient Atlantis, it is believed, this soundprint was referred to as the "wam," or the soul's music. In the crystalline caves of Atlantis, the healing priestesses would attune the wam simply by striking the appropriate crystal matrix and creating a resonant tone that would bring the individual back into harmony.The first Tibetan masters developed a way to reproduce and preserve the wam by creating sacred tools which include the dorje, the bell, and the Tibetan "singing" bowl.

Today, we have seen the emergence of quartz crystal singing bowls that have evolved from the computer industry, which uses their intense energy field to grow quartz silicon chips. Each crystal bowl is digitally attuned to the diatonic musical scale--C, D, E, F, G, A, B--which is vibrationally connected with the chakra system. The bigger the bowl, the deeper the sound and the more it resonates with the physical. The smaller the bowl, the higher the sound and the more it resonates with the spiritual. The sound emitted by playing the crystal bowls as musical instruments is considered one of the purest tones in the world.

Crystals are rainbow channels of light and can be programmed for healing. The sound produced by the bowls intensifies the seven rainbow lights of the crystals. When we enter into the sound of the crystal bowls their seven rainbow tones activate different states of consciousness.The vibrational frequencies of the bowls resonate with the physical body and the subtle energy field around the body, facilitating the harmonization of the heart and the mind, the physical with the spiritual.

Certain meditation practices that emphasize repetitious chanting of special sounds, or mantras, are associated with demonstrable health benefits. Sound expert James D'Angelo believes that sounds sung or words spoken by a person have the strongest impact upon the individual's chemical changes, especially mantras repeated regularly, which can bring about very decisive changes.

In his book Healing with the Voice D'Angelo writes that "the subtle and powerful vibrations produced by the human voice purify and balance energies within the body to help promote total wellbeing." He believes toning--the repetition of single vowel sounds or syllables--and chanting are the highest forms of healing vibration using the voice. The repetition of the sound penetrates deep into the psyche and can calm the mind or boost energy levels. Different sounds can be directed to specific areas of the body to enhance wellbeing.

Sound has tremendous power. The ancients understood that a simple sound could reorganize the body's structure. Specific tones correspond to specific areas of the body. Each chakra can be balanced by a specific tone. In fact, sounds can affect all the various senses and organs of the body and can stimulate the deterioration or regeneration of these systems. Sounds that are harmonious can activate the body and create healing.

We are coming closer to a full understanding of how music can heal us. Music affects us physically, psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually. We can now say with certainty that our responses to music are far more complex, subtle and far-reaching than we previously imagined. Many experts now recognize the existence of the "energy anatomy" which underlies the physical anatomy and is every bit as real as the body.

There has been some remarkable work done on the effects of sound--in particular music--on the fetus within the womb. French physician Alfred Tomatis understood that the ear is the first organ to hook up to the brain's developing neural systems and that the foetus begins to hear by the second trimester in the womb. Dr. Tomatis realized that interference with hearing in utero and the first years of life could lead to listening, learning, and emotional disabilities later on.

He discovered that the only sounds that penetrated the womb were high-frequency sounds. After extensive research he found that the two most positive sound experiences for the fetus were the mother's voice, filtered through a special device to omit all but high-frequency sounds, and the music of Mozart. Music, rhythm, tone and the vibration of sound serve to organize matter--to create structure in space and time. These effects are clear and measurable. The high frequencies of Mozart, in particular, stimulate and charge the creative and motivational regions of the brain.

Don Campbell, in his two books on the "Mozart effect," has also shown what an effective tool music is for assisting brain development in infants. Music can play a crucial part in the wiring of a young child's brain. Many studies have demonstrated that newborns clearly recognize and prefer music that their mothers listened to or sang during pregnancy. This applies equally to stories read to babies in utero.

Tomatis also found that different frequencies and rhythms of sound had remarkably different effects on his patients' state of being. High-frequency sounds increased energy levels and created feelings of calm, while low-frequency sounds often proved disorienting.

Unfortunately, we are surrounded by low-frequency sound in modern life--the constant hum of computers, fridges, microwaves, buses, jackhammers, etc. This creates body imbalance which, when severe enough, develops into a state of "dis-ease." The more we expose ourselves to the high-vibration sounds found in the symphony of nature, to redress the balance, the better. Birdsong, the gentle sound of a breeze, cascading waterfalls and streams and the rhythm of waves breaking on the shore--these are all healing for the body and soothing for the soul.

The pioneering studies of Dr. Marcel Vogel and Irzhak Bentov revealed that, in a state of deep relaxation or meditation, the electromagnetic field surrounding our head literally attunes to the basic electromagnetic field of the earth itself! The earth's harmonic resonance has been measured at approximately 8 cycles per second, or 8 Hertz (Hz). The frequency range of the electrical activity of the brain that we access, in states of deep relaxation, is also around 8 Hz. Is this correspondence just a coincidence? Perhaps this explains why we feel so rejuvenated when surrounded by a forest, mountains, or water. Perhaps this is also a key to understanding how our inner and outer environments can be orchestrated to a higher level of harmony.

Music is a universal language. Its gifts are the feelings, memories, enjoyment, and tears it creates. Music creates emotion and emotion produces actual chemical reactions in the bloodstream (neuropeptides are released) which affect organs and systems. Harmonic sound equals harmonic emotion equals harmonic body.

The human body itself is intrinsically musical, right down to the DNA that makes up our genes. Even our DNA has its own melody. The idea that DNA and music might be connected is seen in the work of geneticist Susumu Ohno. In order to understand Dr. Ohno's insights, we need to grasp that every organism's genes are composed of strands of DNA, which in turn are made up of four so-called nucleotides. In an imaginative leap, Dr. Ohno assigned musical notes to these four substances The result was a melodic composition that was finally fleshed out with harmonies by his wife, Midori, a musician. Transcribed, the scores were then performed by professional musicians on instruments such as piano, organ, violin, and viola.

Dr. Ohno has so far notated over fifteen "songs of the DNA" in a variety of living organisms. He finds that the more evolved an organism, the more complicated its music. To listeners knowledgeable of classical music, these DNA-based compositions have been taken variously for the music of Bach, Brahms, Chopin, and other great composers. These melodies are majestic and inspiring. Many hearing them for the first time are moved to tears; they cannot believe that their bodies, which they thought to be mere collections of chemicals, contain such uplifting, inspiring harmonies.

Sound can also produce form. This relates directly to sacred geometry. Sacred geometry originates in nature. Budda's lesson on sacred geometry was to silently hold up a flower. The incredible symmetry and patterning within a flower produces an overwhelming sense of awe. The human body is also a reflection of such sacred geometry. The exact proportions of individual parts of the body to each other create a set of harmonics that mirror the harmonics in all life.

Concert pianist Lorin Hollander has described the rich visual imagery he has experienced, all his life, while playing the works of the great composers. Hollander was astonished when he later discovered that these forms, which he had visualized since childhood, were practically identical to many of the beautiful tile designs on Islamic mosques scattered throughout the Middle East. These images, he states, often take the form of highly complex geometric designs. His experience affirms Pythagoras's assertion: "There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacings of the spheres."

For more than two hundred years, modern researchers have been validating this connection of sound and vibrations to physical form. The first to make the connection was the German Ernst Chaldni, who in 1787 detailed his research in Discoveries Concerning the Theory of Music. In that pioneering work, he explained ways to make sound waves generate visible structures. He detailed how a violin bow, drawn at a right angle across a flat plate covered with sand, produces patterns and shapes. Today, those patterns and shapes are called Chaldni figures.

The study of wave phenomena--that is, the ability of sound to organize and repattern matter--is called cymatics. Sound-forms can be seen by subjecting mediums such as sand, water or clay to a continuous sound vibration. Cymatic photos taken by Dr. Hans Jenny represent sound-forms. They were obtained by placing various mediums on a steel plate with a crystal sound oscillator attached to the bottom. The oscillator creates a pulse, which vibrates the steel plate. The forms on the plate are examples of sound organizing matter.

Then there are Japanese researcher Masaru Emoto's experiments with water. Dr. Emoto's research into the nature or water reveals a vast array of form and structure, as reflected in the crystalline shapes that result when water is exposed to subtle energies. One experiment had a group of people projecting love and gratitude to water samples. When the water was crystallized by freezing it, and then photographed, the water specimens revealed stunningly beautiful forms and shapes. Other water samples exposed to negative words or thoughts reflected ugly forms, colours, and shapes.

Music was shown to have a similar effect on water as words and thoughts. The music of Mozart produced beautiful, hexagonal crystalline shapes while those exposed to heavy metal were distinctly dull, formless, and ugly. Dr. Emoto's research is based on the premise that everything in the universe vibrates with what he calls "hado," a vibrational frequency or resonance wave that is the true source of all living forms in the universe. He has concluded that anything in tune with Mother Nature manifests as beautiful, hexagonal crystal structures. Since our bodies are over seventy percent water, we have to assume that everything we hear, think and say affects our overall body structure as well as those with whom we interact.

Poet Cathie Guzetta summarized this science best when she wrote, "The forms of snowflakes and faces of flowers may take on their shape because they are responding to some sound in nature. Likewise, it is possible that crystals, plants, and human beings may be, in some way, music that has taken on visible form." Pythagoras anticipated such a view when he said, many thousands of years ago: "A stone is frozen music."

Another fascinating finding by Hans Jenny was his observation that, when the vowels of ancient languages like Hebrew and Sanskrit were pronounced, the sand took the shape of the written symbols for those vowels. Contemporary languages, including English, did not generate similar patterns.

Dr. Jenny concluded that all natural phenomena were ultimately dependent on, if not entirely determined by, frequencies of vibration. "Every cell pulsates, reflects and interacts with acoustic oscillations," he observed. Even the earth and sun vibrate in unison. As a result, Jenny argued that physical healing could be aided or hindered by tones. He claimed that different frequencies influenced different genes, cells, and various structures in the body.

We can safely assume that sounds affect both our physical and spiritual wellbeing. The body is a self-healing instrument, genetically pre-programmed to heal itself. Certain types of music can heal us by assisting the body to come into its natural state of balance and harmony. As we acknowledge the potent properties of sound, let us seize this powerful tool and use it to bring harmony and healing into our lives.

Copyright (c) 2007 by Lia Scallon. All Rights Reserved.

[Lia Scallon is an internationally acclaimed recording artist, healer and channel for "The Sounds of Sirius," She has released five beautiful meditation CDs of her work--a unique healing therapy that uses sound vibration to effect profound physical, emotional and spiritual healing. To learn more about Lia's work or to purchase Lia's CDs, click here.]