Monday, 12 May 2014

frequency

Lots of things vibrate. If we look at an atom (which, incidentally, is named that because the Ancient Greek philosophers philosophised that there might be something which is so small it cannot be divided any further, and they called it ‘an atom’ … and scientists in the last few centuries then used that term too early), apart from the whole electrons whirling round the central nucleus, a bit like a very small solar system (although quantum physics disputes the rotation bit … and maybe a few other things as well), atoms tend to get together in molecules (which are the basis of substances like oxygen, nitrogen, salt, etc) and vibrate. That vibration is registered by us as things like temperature (the faster they vibrate, the warmer the temperature; if there is no vibration, they’re at absolute zero temperature, which is QUITE a bit colder than the temperature of freezing water or alcohol), or, when the molecules are a gas, pressure … although that, really, is more the collisions from the molecules bumping into each other – but the faster they vibrate, the more they bump into each other, and the higher the pressure.
So … everything physical vibrates. On a larger scale, some people have heard of bridges being shaken to pieces by soldiers marching across them. That actually has happened a few times – the Broughton Suspension Bridge, on 12th April, 1831, the Angers Bridge in France on 16th April, 1850, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%282004_season%29#Breakstep_Bridge  - although that one may be more faulty design than actually what is called ‘mechanical resonance’ (I won’t define that one –try something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_resonance). There was a bridge in the USA which collapsed because of the dynamic effects created by wind (the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, nicknamed “Galloping Gertie”, which collapsed due to “aeroelastic flutter”, and changed engineering design), and during the rebuilding of Lisbon, Portugal after the 1755 earthquake and tsunami, potential designs were apparently tested for their earthquake resistance by having soldiers march round them. In my day job, I’ve encountered a floating structure that fell to pieces because of resonance, so I’ve a little familiarity with the whole resonance issue, which is a function of materials, shape and design details.
More than this, however, the whole of our physical reality is considered – according to metaphysics, not science   to have a fundamental rate of vibration, or ‘frequency’.
Other levels of reality, including the energies associated with them, such as the etheric and astral, are considered to have a fundamental rate of vibration, or ‘frequency’, which is higher – that is, their energy and basic vibrations are occurring at a higher rate. This leads to the term ‘higher (or lower) frequency’ – it is not directly inferring a greater or lesser moral worthiness, although many tend to ascribe that meaning to it, but, rather, it is a reference to the basic nature of reality.
For what it is worth, I consider this explanation too simplistic, and I consider the differences between levels of reality to be more akin to the differences between AM and FM radio, or digital and analogue transmissions (maybe science’s ‘string theory’ has something to say of use here?), but the concept is extremely useful in learning about psychic matters – particularly when trying to ‘tune in’.
Oh, and there’s always that film with Dennis Quaid in it, Frequency, if you want to see this sort of demonstrated … actually, that’s really different concepts, but the title is a great tie-in, and it is a god film J

As of the time this definition was written, I’ve touched on this idea in the following posts:
     Auric breathing
     Working together

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