One lazy afternoon in the 1890s,
legendary inventor Nikola
Tesla was lounging around
his laboratory with his
good friend Samuel Clemens,
also known as the famed writer Mark Twain.
The two had a longstanding
relationship, and Twain,
who was notoriously fascinated
with science and technology,
was a regular visitor
at Tesla's laboratory.
By this point in his life,
Twain was, as Tesla described,
"in the worst shape, suffering
from a variety of distressing
and dangerous ailments."
Thus, on this particular afternoon,
Tesla suggested that Twain
try out a new invention
he'd been working on,
a mechanical oscillator
which sent vibrations
through the body at various frequencies.
Twain agreed and stepped
onto Tesla's machine.
At the end of the process,
Twain suddenly leaped up and rushed
to the toilet with terrible diarrhea.
Despite this,
Twain would continue to
use the machine daily
for almost two months,
at the end of which he
had, in the words of Tesla,
"regained his old vigor and
ability of enjoying life
to the fullest extent."
This was, in fact, exactly
what Tesla had expected,
the same results Tesla and his assistants
had achieved during their experimentation
with the invention.
As Tesla described in his records:
"I stepped on the platform and
the vibrations imparted to it
by the machine were
transmitted to my body.
The sensation experienced
was as strange as agreeable,
and I asked my assistants to try.
They did so and were mystified
and pleased like myself.
But a few minutes later some of us,
who had stayed longer on the platform,
felt an unspeakable and pressing necessity
which had to be promptly satisfied,
and then the stupendous
truth dawned upon me."
"When I began to practice
with my assistants mechanical therapy,
we used to finish our meals quickly
and rush back to the laboratory.
We suffered from dyspepsia
and various stomach troubles,
biliousness, constipation,
flatulence and other disturbances,
all natural results of
such irregular habit.
But only after a week of application,
during which I improved the technique
and my assistants learned
how to take the treatment
to their best advantage,
all these forms of sickness disappeared
as by enchantment and
for nearly four years,
while the machine was in use,
we were all in excellent health."
Tesla described this
discovery and invention
as his greatest contribution
to human well-being,
a bold statement for an inventor
on the level of Nikola Tesla.
Throughout the rest of his life,
he would use his oscillation
machine to treat people
with a wide variety of health problems;
from constipation to
cardiovascular disease,
injuries and infections, sleep disorders,
and hormonal imbalances.
But exactly what was it
that he had discovered?
As Tesla himself said:
"If you want to find the
secrets of the universe,
think in terms of energy,
frequency and vibration."
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- [Narrator] Over 2500 years ago,
legendary Greek thinker Pythagoras;
the professed father of
mathematics and geometry,
as well as the first person
to use the term "philosophy"
was waking past a blacksmith's shop,
when he heard the sounds
of hammers pounding
on iron emanating from within.
He stopped,
noticing the hammers were
producing curious harmonies.
Intrigued, he ran inside to investigate.
After some examination,
Pythagoras found that those hammers
which were harmonious with each other
had a simple mathematical relationship,
namely that their masses were ratios
or fractions of each other.
This sent his mind racing,
as he began to experiment,
investigating and testing
with liquids in glass,
various pipes,
and various lengths of stringed
instruments he had created.
The results of these
experiments led Pythagoras
to a stunning conclusion;
that music was not only an
expression of 'sacred geometry,'
but that it was, in fact, medicine.
He began to use the instruments
he had created to perform what
he called 'soul adjustments,'
teaching that these adjustments
would not only bring
the soul into harmony.
but purify the mind and heal the body.
As 3rd-century Syrian
philosopher Iamblichus noted,
"Pythagoras devised musical
medicines calculated
to repress and cure diseases
of both bodies and souls."
In other words,
Pythagoras was using vibrational medicine
to treat a wide variety
of illnesses and injuries,
just as Tesla would
thousands of years later.
Led by Pythagoras,
the ancient Greeks became proficient
with vibrational medicine.
They would treat their
soldiers by plucking strings
of a bow-like instrument over injuries,
creating vibrations which
were shown to allow pus
to drain more freely, and
wounds to heal much faster.
Further, they used healing
chambers for "dream sleep,"
where reverberant spaces inside temples
would allow practitioners to, in effect,
bathe in sound and
vibration while they slept.
Of course, the Greeks were not the only,
nor even the first, ancient culture
to use vibrational medicine.
It is interesting to note that Pythagoras
was the first Greek educated
in the Egyptian secrets
of science, medicine, math, and astronomy;
this, during a 20-plus year
stint he spent in the country.
Notably, a fundamental part
of this secret Egyptian knowledge,
which Pythagoras must
surely have been exposed to,
was a belief that sound and
vibration had healing abilities.
Consider the Egyptians used
certain resonant vowel sounds
in their ancient rituals;
these vowels were considered so sacred
that they were banned
from everyday language
and did not appear in the written
language of hieroglyphics.
Further, Egyptians used an
instrument called a 'sistrum'
during ceremonies, a rattle
with metal disks attached to it,
which has been shown
to create exceptionally
high levels of ultrasound.
There are some,
such as Egyptian archaeologist
Dr. Abd' el Hakim Awyan,
who believe that the pyramids themselves
were used for sound healing.
Dr. Abd' el suggests that
the large granite sarcophagi
which have been found
inside various pyramids
were not sarcophagi at all,
but rather conducive
platforms for people to lie on
and absorb sound vibrations
resonating through the chambers.
As he explains,
"Every chamber within the pyramid
has a specific harmonic replicating
the harmonics of the
cavities of the human body.
Sound healing techniques were then used
to restore the patient's body
to the correct harmonics."
When considering whether
the pyramids of Egypt
were used in sound healing,
it should be mentioned that a similar,
much older temple was found
on the island of Malta
in the early 1900s,
a Neolithic underground complex
which displayed "exceptional
sound behavior."
Archaeologist Fernando
Coimbra described how,
when within the complex,
"he felt the sound crossing
his body at high speed,
leaving a sensation of relaxation.
When it was repeated,
the sensation returned,
and he also had the
illusion that the sound
was reflected from his body
to the ancient red ochre
paintings on the walls."
Could this be the same effect Abd' el
is describing in Egyptian pyramids?
Crucially, Coimbra and his team noted
that all of the
underground rooms resonated
at the same frequency; exactly 111 Hz.
This is significant,
not only because 111 Hz
has been called the "holy frequency,"
but because when Pythagoras
created a musical scale
during the experiments which
followed his experience
with the blacksmith's hammers,
it started with an A note,
which resonated at, yes, 111 Hz.
Yet, vibrational medicine
goes back further
and stretches across the
cultures of humanity;
it is not just the
arena of the Middle East
and the Mediterranean.
40,000 years ago in Australia,
the world's oldest wind
instrument, the 'yidaki'
now known as the 'didgeridoo'
was used to heal broken bones,
muscle tears, and illnesses.
Native American pow wows,
with drumming, chanting, and singing,
have been used to treat
mental and physical illness
for many thousands of years.
The Buddhist monks of Tibet
have long incorporated
the vibrations of singing bowls and gongs
into their ceremonies and meditations.
The list could go on, but
the point seems clear.
Ancient cultures appear to
have possessed knowledge
about the healing powers
of sound and vibration,
a knowledge rediscovered by Tesla
at the end of the 20th century.
But are these secrets
of sound just fantasy,
the irrelevant ramblings
of generations passed?
Or something more?
Perhaps it is not a myth, but science.
In the early 1900s,
a curious article appeared
in The World Today magazine,
detailing the alleged
adventures of one Nikola Tesla
on a day out in New York City. It read:
"He put his little
vibrator in his coat-pocket
and went out to hunt a
half-erected steel building.
Down in the Wall Street district,
he found one, 10 stories
of steel framework
without a brick or a stone laid around it.
He clamped the vibrator
to one of the beams
and fussed with the
adjustment until he got it.
In Tesla's own words,
"Finally, the structure
began to creak and weave,
and the steel-workers came
to the ground panic-stricken,
believing that there
had been an earthquake.
Rumors spread that the
building was about to fall,
and the police reserves were called out.
Before anything serious happened,
I took off the the vibrator,
put in my pocket and went away.
But if I had kept on 10 minutes more,
I could have laid that
building flat in the street.
And, with the same vibrator,
I could have dropped the Brooklyn Bridge
into the East River in less than an hour."
What Tesla understood,
what served as the backdrop
not only to this story,
but to the creation of his
oscillator and experiments
with vibrational medicine,
was, quite simply,
that everything is made up of atoms
in a constant state of motion.
Depending on the speed of this motion,
things will appear as a
solid, a liquid, or a gas.
That is to say,
even something as presumably
solid as a building
is really more space between
atoms than anything else.
What Tesla did to the
building was what he,
and ancient cultures believed,
could be done to the human body;
that is, he used vibration to
reorganize its very structure.
In the words of acclaimed doctor
and chiropractor June Leslie Weider,
"Vibrational medicine works
at a deep, cellular level
where molecular properties are
being changed by vibrations."
String Theory explains that
everything in the universe
is constantly vibrating,
each with its own unique frequency;
just as electrons vibrate while revolving
around the nucleus of an atom,
so too do planets vibrate
as they circle suns.
As Einstein put it, "Everything
in life is a vibration."
Accordingly, human beings
have an optimal frequency,
that is, a state where each
of the cells in the human body
are vibrating as they were designed to.
During the early 1990s,
quantum physicist Bruce
Tainio conducted experiments
which showed that a healthy
human body resonates
at between 62 and 70 MHz.
Further, he found that when
that frequency drops below 58Hz,
the immune system becomes
compromised, and disease starts.
In other words,
a person's health is directly impacted
by the frequency their
body is vibrating at.
Optimal frequency can
be lowered by chemical,
physical, mental, or emotional stimuli.
For example, Tainio found that viruses
have their own, very low frequencies.
At around the same time,
an osteopath named Dr. Peter Guy Manners
was also studying the
relationship between sound,
vibration, and healing. He concluded:
"A healthy organ will have
its molecules working together
in a harmonious
relationship with each other
and will be of the same pattern.
If different sound patterns
enter into the organ,
the harmonious relationship
could be upset,
they may establish their
disharmonious pattern
in the organ, bone tissue, etc.,
and this is what we call disease."
Vibrational medicine is an attempt
to use vibrations to put
a body's frequency back
into an optimal place,
to reconstruct the
"harmonious relationship"
of "molecules working together."
This is what Pythagoras
described as bringing
"order to chaos and discord"
through his 'soul adjustments,'
the concept which led Tesla to surmise,
"If you could eliminate
certain outside frequencies
that interfered in our bodies,
we would have greater
resistance toward disease."
Here, the question must be asked:
If vibrational medicine is, in fact,
based on the fundamental biology
and quantum physics principles upon
which the universe is constructed,
then what might be possible?
What powers might
vibrational medicine hold?
In 1981, a biologist named
Helene Grimal came together
with a composer named Fabien Maman
to undertake a groundbreaking study
on the effects of sound
waves on living cells,
most specifically, cancer cells.
For 18 months, they worked, using gongs,
xylophones, stringed instruments,
and the human singing voice,
recording what happened to
the cells when they did.
Stunningly, they found that using
a nine-note Ionian scale
caused the cancer cells
to lose structural integrity
and explode in minutes.
Think of a wine glass shattering
when an opera singer hits the high note.
As Maman described:
"Cancer cells cannot
maintain their structure
when specific sound
wave frequencies attack
the cytoplasmic and nuclear membranes.
When the vibratory rate increases,
the cells cannot adapt
or stabilize themselves
and die by disintegrating and exploding."
Wondering about the implications
of such a shocking discovery,
the pair began to work with two women
who had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Both women were instructed
to sing the scale
for 3.5 hours per day for one month.
At the end of this period,
one woman's tumor had become undetectable,
while the other's had simply "dried up."
Since then, further
studies have been conducted
on the effects of
vibration on cancer cells,
including one early in 2020,
which suggested that ultrasound
can destroy cancer cells while
leaving other cells intact.
These types of results have
scientists thinking big.
As Anthony Holland,
a musical scientist recently
said during a TEDx talk:
"I now believe that the
future cancer treatment rooms
for children will be a
very different place.
It will be a pleasant
place where children gather
and make new friends.
They probably won't
even know they're sick.
They'll draw pictures,
color in their books,
play with their toys,
all the while unaware
that above them beautiful
blue-pinking plasma lights
are emanating healing,
pulsing electric fields,
shattering their cancer painlessly
and non-toxically one cell at a time."
"Cure cancer" has become something
of a cultural euphemism in modern times
This product can do
everything but cure cancer,
an advertiser might say,
while a proud parent might proclaim,
"My child is going to
grow up and cure cancer."
Is it possible that
moving beyond euphemism,
vibrational medicine might
actually be able to do this?
Incredibly, its effects on cancer cells
are only the start of the
powers of vibrational medicine,
which science is now recording.
Studies have shown that the
practice of sound bathing,
that is, exposure to vibrational medicine,
directly reduces anxiety and depression.
According to one study,
"Sixty-two women and men
with an average age of 50
reported significantly less
tension, anger, fatigue,
and depressed mood after sound sessions."
A study in the Journal of
Athletic Training described
how vibration therapy
can help muscle soreness after exercise,
while other studies have
shown vibrational medicine
to help with arthritis, menstrual pain,
post-operative pain, and chronic pain.
Vibrational therapy has been used
by the Russian space
program since the 1960s,
and is used by NASA today,
to increase the bone
density of astronauts,
something which is now
being applied to patients
with osteoporosis and
spinal cord injuries.
Elsewhere, a study published
in the Journal of Diabetes
Science and Technology
showed vibration therapy
to improve blood flow
and help with the neurovascular
complications of diabetes.
But it goes even further,
a recent study reported
in Neurorehabilitation Journal suggested
that vibration therapy can
decrease muscle tremors
and rigidity in people
with Parkinson's disease.
While a 2014 study published
in the Egyptian Journal
of Medical Human Genetics
found that vibration therapy
can help children with cerebral palsy
increase muscle strength
and decrease spasticity.
Additionally, research has
shown that vibration therapy
can help Alzheimer's patients
with thinking and memory.
Take a step back.
What is being described here
is some sort of miracle drug,
a treatment for everything
from pain and injury,
to mental health, to serious illnesses,
even those, like cancer and Alzheimer's,
thus far deemed incurable
by mainstream medicine.
Vibrational medicine,
its secrets based on the
foundational principles
of biology and quantum physics,
known to the ancients and
rediscovered by Tesla,
must surely have the power to change
the way medicine is practiced,
and the way human health is approached."
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