One night while staying in a hotel in Johannesburg in early 2016, I had thought during dinner of playing some ultra low frequencies on a tone-generator app I had on my iPhone through the new Bluetooth headphones my sister had given me for Christmas – just out of a perverse desire to hear something weird and fundamental.
What was revealed was something deeply fundamental about the fabric of space-time.
As I was dialing through these low frequencies, I noticed something strange – a whooshing-thumping sound that was speeding up as I slowed the frequencies, until I reached precisely 10.8 Hz, where the whooshing slowed to a stop – and just sort of hovered there.
Then, turning the dial further down into infra-sound – I noticed that the whooshing was again speeding up – and, as before, it slowed to a stop, this time at precisely 7.2 Hz. “That’s curious” – thought I.
I lowered the frequency further still – and again, the whooshing sped up, until it slowed to a stop, now at precisely 5.4 Hz.
Harmonic Interference
I quickly realized that 5.4 Hz is half of 10.8 Hz – that is, an octave relationship (the same “note” at double the frequency): this phenomena was occurring at two octaves of the same note, an F.
After a bit of calculation, I then also realized that that 7.2 Hz happens to be exactly the musical “fifth” below 10.8 Hz: (7.2 Hz x 3/2 = 10.8 Hz).
Intersection with Music Theory
The closest notes in normal tuning to these two frequencies (5.4 and 7.2 Hz) are very low octaves of the notes F and B-flat. It turned out that the famous and popular A 432 Hz is precisely, mathematically and harmonically, the “major third” (AKA 5th harmonic) of the F 10.8 Hz frequency. (10.8 Hz x 5 = 108 Hz. 104 Hz is a low octave of A 432 Hz.
This insight lent extra significance to the Earth pulse I was detecting – and also corroborates the popular theory that A 432 Hz is somehow a natural energy.
What is the foundational frequency?
Interestingly, despite then looking for this “pulsing” phenomenon to occur at octaves of A 432 Hz, (e.g 13.5 Hz, 6.75 Hz) – it didn’t. The subtlety of this energy only seems to peek out of the aethers at precisely 5.4, 7.2 and 10.8 Hz. So, this to me indicates, either:
- My equipment was pre-disposed to resonate with these frequencies
- Or, there is something uniquely powerful and fundamental in Nature about these B-flat and F frequencies
natural vibration
Well, let’s start with the cosmos then. NASA tells us that the vibration detected from black-holes in deep space (and time) resonates at a B-flat, 57 octaves below what we can hear.
Well, our 7.2 Hz frequency is a B-flat. So, maybe we’re on to something here.
Meanwhile, there’s lot’s of talk about the space-weather resonance of the Schumann resonance, (between 6.5 Hz to 7.83 Hz – well, which is it?). But it so happens that 7.8 Hz is the 13th harmonic of the B-flat 7.2 Hz.
Then, there’s lots of talk about the Solfeggio frequencies. Well it turns out that one of them (528) is the 11th harmonic of the B-flat 7.2 Hz frequency. And another (396) is the precise 11th harmonic of the 10.8 Hz frequency that I found. So, again, I seem to have stumbled into something essential here.
Spiritual Numbers
I shared my findings with my friend, Susan Alexjander – who has done importand and inspirational research in this area, including measuring the resonant infrared frequencies returned by DNA – and has created her own music based on this, (and a wonderful piece which coincidentally combines the resonance of a black hole with a pulsar). Her response was immediate, “54, 72, 108 – these are sacred numbers!” I had not noticed this – but indeed, 5.4 Hz, 7.2 Hz, 10.8 Hz – if you remove the decimal places – are sacred numbers mentioned in ancient Hindu texts and elsewhere in Numerology. Another interesting coincidence.
Ancient Instruments
I then Googled ancient musical instruments that don’t change over time such as bells, horns and flutes. I found these cast bronze bells exhumed from ancient China:
Raising the F vibration (10.8 Hz) by a few octaves (multiply by 2 a few times) to 345.6 Hz – we now have a frequency within the range of normal music. It’s still an F – it’s just an F we can make music with. As it turns out, these three-thousand year old Chinese bells are based on a central tone of 345 Hz – our “F”.
As were these flutes from ancient Egypt:
Along the top of the chart above, I’ve put the frequencies of a harmonic scale based on the B-flat (7.2 Hz) and F (5.4 and 10.8 Hz) frequencies I discovered. The four rows below this are the measured frequencies from each of the four flutes. And I’ve highlighted in red those flute frequencies that closely match the expected frequencies of a harmonic series based on our B-flat, 7.2 Hz fundamental frequency. That’s pretty close matches, across the four flutes, for F, G, B-flat, C and G-sharp – and all notes within a harmonic scale based on B-flat.
Just the fact that the first note of the first flute is just 0.1 Hz from our 345.6 Hz “discovered” frequency for F is pretty amazing. It suggests that this flute maker knew this frequency, strove to match it in his/her flute making, and had a pretty amazing means for checking the instrument’s alignment with this frequency – presumably not a digital tuner!
The audible difference between 345 Hz and 346 Hz for example, is barely perceptible consciously – and yet this ancient flute-maker matched that tone not by 1 vibration per second, but by 0.1 vibrations per second! The other flute is still only 2 Hz off, at 343 Hz.
And if we raise 345.6 by another octave to 691.2 Hz, we see that this note is also very closely approximated as the “high” F, in the other two flutes.
Also, three of the flutes are extremely closely aligned to each other on the B-flat note – indicating it was considered to be very important to get this note correct – perhaps there was a reference pitch for this note which they used when making these flutes. And we see similar close matching across flutes at the notes, G, G-sharp, C – all essential notes of the B-flat harmonic series.
- The fact that the F note is the fundamental note on two of the four flutes indicates that the Egyptians felt F to be fundamental, not A. And in fact, of the four flutes, only one has even a remote approximation of the note A
- And also, in all four flutes – from different times and places in ancient Egypt – the F frequency is in close proximity to the “still point” frequency I found on my tone-generator.
hiding in plain sight
So, there we were, trawling the depths of ancient history for flutes and bells that might be tuned to our “magic keys” of B-flat mixolydian and F mixolydian – and it turns out that just about every modern horn or brass instrument is built with these keys as its fundamental resonance:
- Most modern flutes are in B-flat – plus C and G. All keys aligned with B-flat and F.
- A quick check on Wikipedia reveals that the modern Trumpet is also in Bb. Also, the Cornet, Baritone Horn, Flugel Horn, Euphonium.
- Tubas and saxophones are in Bb, F, C or Eb – all three of the “magic” myxolydian keys – and Eb is mostly an extension of that.
- French horns are F or Bb.
- The Mellophone (whatever that is) is in F.
(Although the point at which these horns intersect with the A note is designed to be A=440 Hz in modern instruments. You can counter this by pulling the mouth-piece out a little so that A=432Hz, and B-flat=460.8 Hz).
mass of evidence
Through luck, I discovered two “fundamental” notes that seem to be “the still point of the turning World” – to quote T.S. Eliot. These infrasonic vibrations, at the sub-audio level of 5.4 and 7.2 Hz, reveal an unacknowledged, hidden resonance – “beating” with any frequency nearby. This resonance is there all the time.
Like strands of DNA spiraling harmonically through time and space, we have a resonant template, creating harmonic content as it goes – a foundation for music, science, consciousness, existence.
Coincidences with Nature’s harmonic series:
- NASA’s detecting a B-flat resonance escaping from black-holes
- Appearance of the numbers 54, 108 and 72 as ancient sacred numbers
- Ancient musical instruments constructed around these frequencies
- Bees beating their wings 230 times a second (the Earth’s B-flat is 230.4 Hz – the bee is slightly flat!)
- Every tone in our “magic” harmonic scale has a Gematria value of 9 (considered the sacred number of completion and balance).
- This harmonic series encapsulates the frequencies of 432, 540, 360 and 144 which all feature in geometry as the sum of angles in platonic solids, or the size of the sun in relation to the moon, etc.
- Macro/Micro
- The “cosmic year” is 25,920 years
- There are 25,920 Heleks in a day.
- Earth-C is 259.2 Hz
- Fibonacci number 1.61 squared = 2.592