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:
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