Frequency & Electromagnetic Spectrum
Frequency is defined as “rate of vibration,” a cyclical fluctuation of energy, over time, between certain values. The greater the rate of vibration, the higher the frequency. (The higher the frequency, the denser the particle and the less the heat, as heat is associated with the longer waves nearer the red end of the spectrum; this principle is applicable to everything in the created universe). Dutch physician Dr. J. Postma has noted that, since
Associated with frequency are the forces of nature, and there are four forces popularly recognized by contemporary physics. In their descending order of strength they are: Nuclear Forces; Electromagnetic Forces, which are one hundred times weaker than nuclear forces; Weak-Interactions Forces, which are one hundred million times weaker than nuclear forces; and Gravitational Forces, which are the weakest of all. Physical substance can be analyzed with respect to all, or any of the above forces. For purposes of the current discussion, our perspective is an electromagnetic one.
According to the latest measurements of physicists, what is normally regarded as the electromagnetic spectrum begins at one end with radio waves of very great wavelengths and continues through infra-red rays, visible light, ultraviolet light, until it reaches the other extremity of X-rays, gamma rays, and cosmic rays, where the wavelengths become exceedingly short. This comprises some 60 to 80 octaves. All this energy travels at about 186,000 miles per second. However, when we pursue the matter further, we find that the popularly defined electromagnetic spectrum is, in reality, only a section of a much longer energy continuum — one which probably extends, on its high end, into infinity.
Most physicists will agree that all matter in which charges oscillate should radiate magnetic waves, and since all matter contains electrons in motion, i.e. moving charges, no substance known to science should be excepted. Thus, once charges are set in motion, they can radiate electromagnetic energy, wherein the electrons are said to exhibit a wave-like behavior. Some matter, then, demonstrates a low frequency of electromagnetic waves because of the low oscillation rates of the charges constituting that particular form of matter. Such a slow rate of movement may produce a low frequency wave, not easily measured because of its relatively weak vibratory pattern. But, however weak and unmeasurable by scientific means, the radiation should still be there. An “inert” boulder, outwardly manifesting no signs of life has its own electromagnetic rate of vibration, just as does a vigorous young calf, obviously pulsating with life. Consequently, if all matter is placed along a continuum, and considered with respect to its electromagnetic frequency, we will discover numerous objects with wavelengths much longer than those of radio waves. This would greatly extend the lower end of the electromagnetic spectrum as viewed by science. Seen from this perspective, a single electromagnetic continuum would include rocks, plants, cows, and man’s physical body, each differing from the other only by its relative electromagnetic frequency. Hence, we can conceive of a vast array of electromagnetic energies, ranging from atoms to stars.
Physics teaches that all magnetic materials must have a bipolar configuration, i.e. they must have a north pole, as well as a south pole. It is evident that if two opposite poles are facing each other attraction occurs, whereas repulsion is the result when two similar poles face each other. One British researcher, however, Dr. H. Tomlinson, claims that there are polar fields developed in all directions around a magnet. These fields, he asserts, may extend several feet, fading as distance from the magnet increases. Tomlinson speaks of the total field surrounding a magnet as being comprised of various “rays” each of which can be detected in a specific area around the magnet — if Tomlinson’s assessment is correct, it would appear that the detailed composition of a magnetic field is more complex than the simple bipolar structure as popularly understood in physics.
According to our previous discussion, all matter is understood to have a rate of vibration which is peculiar to itself, notwithstanding that it may be imperceptible to normal human faculties, or to detection by scientific instrumentation. To have a rate of vibration is to have a rhythmical pattern of recurring periods wherein the energy of the vibration changes from one value to another. In such a situation, the frequency of a system is said to oscillate, or exhibit rhythmic variations between certain maximum values. All matter, all freely vibrating systems, then, are conceived as having their own natural frequencies or periods of free oscillation; this constitutes a system’s native vibration in an unobstructed state, i.e. without the influence of an outside compelling vibratory force. Resonance is said to occur when the respective periods of free oscillation of two or more different systems coincide with each other.
Resonance, necessarily, involves an exchange between systems, a kind of mutual “sensing.” In most cases two vibrating systems interact, one becomes dominant, and the other moves to the frequency of the dominant one. But once resonance is achieved, there is continual and maximum energy exchange between the two systems. Professor Oliver Reiser, in his book, Cosmic Humanism, refers to the British investigator, Ninian Marshall, who has postulated a theory of “Holistic Resonance.”
Mr. Marshall asserts that any two structures exert a mutual vibratory influence upon each other which tends to make them become more alike. He further states that “the strength of this influence increases with the product of their complexities and decreases with the differences between their patterns”.
A group of researchers in “Radiational Physics” maintain that all vibrating matter with a wavelength (and that includes all matter) is like an antenna which moves back and forth in resonance with the gyratory forces of nature around it. These investigators have found that all vibrating bodies have around them a pattern of specific points — nodal points — at which resonance with other systems can occur. They further suggest that resonance between different octaves or realms of matter is possible. “All quanta,” they explain, “depend on the frequencies of radiation.” A feeble radiation of very high frequency can cause the materialization of that frequency in a large number of atoms when in resonance, while intense radiation of a low frequency may not materialize at all if there is no resonance.
We broaden our concept of resonance by the use of the term “complementary.” Two or more fields are considered to be complementary if when brought together their individual phase and frequency result in an amplified, increased effect. Two combined fields may show a complementary relation in some aspects, but destructive in others. Thus, with combined fields, one must consider relative degrees of “complementariness” (or relative degrees of resonance) as such frequencies in combination with each other can manifest varying aspects of additive or destructive interaction, depending on their points of intersection.
The state of resonance between two interacting magnetic fields involves more than the association of simple frequencies. As explained earlier, all naturally occurring waveforms are complex, having several component features. And one of the factors contributing to the complexity of frequency composition is the phenomenon of “harmonics.” Every vibration has what is known as a fundamental frequency, plus its accompanying harmonics. The “fundamental” (sometimes referred to as the first harmonic) is the first and the lowest frequency and has the longest wavelength. A harmonic is a mirror image of the fundamental. Together with the fundamental frequency, there is an infinite series of harmonics, all vibrating at different amplitudes, but all reflections of the original frequency. The frequencies of the harmonics are all integral multiples of the fundamental frequency. The first harmonic, following the fundamental, is double the fundamental, the next is treble the fundamental, and so on. Investigations of harmonic behavior reveal that amplitude and intensity decrease with an increase in frequency. And it is generally known that magnetic fields, and consequently their harmonic vibrations, interact with each other in varying degrees of attraction and repulsion, varying degrees of “in-phaseness” or “out-of-phaseness” with each other. The harmonic of a physical body is seen to be intermeshed with the body itself, but also extending beyond it.
Thus, the summation of a number of frequencies harmonically related gives rise to a complex “periodic waveform”. Nor is the phenomenon of harmonics constrained by physical dimensions; it ranges the continuum from micro to macro manifestations. Nuclear physicists have found that all atoms have a fundamental vibration, along with its series of harmonic reflections.
Summarily, then, we see that naturally occurring waveforms, i.e. waveforms emanating from freely oscillating, uncontrived sources, are complex in their composition. This includes all waveforms in nature, leaving the production of “pure” frequencies to be attempted only in experimental laboratory situations. Waveforms are generally complex for at least two major reasons:
- Each vibration has its fundamental frequency plus associated harmonics, which together produce a complex frequency.
- Any given waveform is invariably a mixture being comprised of more than one distinct frequency, thus resulting in another degree of complexity.
Several years ago, the De La Warr researchers, using specially devised equipment, found that all matter, that all human beings, emit a distinct frequency vibration which is an integral feature of physical existence. It was further discovered that some aspect of man’s somatic vibrations translates as audible sound frequencies. Dr. Von H. Rohracher of the Psychological Institute of Vienna University has recorded sonic micro-vibrations emitted by the skin of humans and animals. These emissions are complex sound waves which differ with each individual, as indicated on recorded graphs made by Rohracher.
Recalling our previous discussion of harmonics, it was seen that any given oscillation has a fundamental frequency plus its associated harmonics, that the propagation, and the interaction of fundamental and harmonic frequencies in three dimensional space are such that an infinite number of frequency combinations, and resonance between separate frequencies are possible. This concept is meant to embrace all vibrations — including those emitted by human beings. Thus, each man, somatically speaking, is seen to generate a fundamental frequency peculiar to himself, which, in turn, propagates into space an infinite series of harmonics, all bearing an integral relationship to the original fundamental frequency. Based on a series of experiments which he conducted in Holland, Dr. H. Philippi discovered that every living entity has a vibratory pattern which is typical of the species which the entity represents.
We conceive, then, of each living organism as radiating out into space, a frequency identifying other aspects of its physiological (and no doubt psychological) existence.
We know that resonance occurs if the oscillatory sequences of two or more independent systems coincide, thereby producing a sympathetic vibratory unison of their respective frequency patterns. Such a situation establishes a complementary relationship between independently vibrating sources.
Also associated with resonance and harmonics is the previously mentioned phenomenon of nodal points. The De La Warr group has found that around every human being is a “magnetic” force-field with a pattern of nodal points, vortices of energy, similar to that of a bar magnet. Each of these points, they explain, is in contact with the person to whom they belong. Consequently, to be in resonance with any one of these points is to be in resonance with the individual. Other investigators maintain that nodal points are resonance bonds which function to bind man, and all things, to the creative force-field of the universe. Phil Allen in Energy, Matter and Form explains how these nodal points occur inside the body as acupoints; the high energy bonds at the acupuncture meridian systems.
Closely related to, and practically synonymous with, the phenomenon of resonance is the concept of “rapport” about which researchers still have much to learn. The term rapport, within the context of biomagnetics, may be taken to express a psychophysical relationship between two persons, or between an object and a person, in space and time. However, in 1852, a Frenchman named M. Benoit used snails in his experiments, as he felt certain that a form of rapport was operative in the animal kingdom. First, the researcher paired off 52 snails and allowed them to become well acquainted by living together in separate pairs. Then on each pair, he wrote a letter of the alphabet, two A’s, two B’s, and so on. One set of alphabet-labeled snails were sent to America, and the other retained in Paris. At a predetermined time, in Paris, an electric shock was applied to a snail, say snail E. Simultaneously snail E in America reacted in sympathy, exhibiting a kind of erratic behavior. Several other snails were shocked, and it was possible to transmit a simple message by “snail telegraph”.
In 1965, a modern day corollary to Benoit’s experiment was conducted at De La Warr laboratories in Oxford, England. But the unique feature of this endeavor was to show that rapport exists between a physical object and a photograph of that object. A photograph was taken of a snail and sent to the town of Evesham, 40 miles away. In Oxford, the animal was placed in an apparatus whereby histogram (histogram is a device used to record and measure amounts of energy transmitted through particular parts of the body; it registers physiological reflex actions resulting from such changes) readings could be taken. In Evesham, which was linked to Oxford by telephone, the snail’s photograph was intermittently exposed to certain light energies which were successful in producing responses registered by the histogram in the Oxford laboratory. Similar experiments were carried out with human subjects and their photographs; several energy stimuli were utilized: light, sound, color, ultraviolet and infra-red radiations, and magnetism.
In each instance histogram readings indicated that a state of rapport existed between the subject and his photographic image. Other De La Warr tests suggest that rapport holds, over great distances, between an individual and his blood or hair specimens. Apparently, some mechanism involving resonance and/or harmonic relationships is responsible for maintaining a lasting bond between an individual and certain objects related to that individual, even when individual and object are separated by space and time.
Like rapport between an individual and an object, “magnetic” rapport between two individuals has also been demonstrated at the De La Warr facilities. A subject was made to relax for thirty minutes in a reclined position until a regular pattern indicating his relaxed state began to register on the histogram. Some 100 yards away, in another building, a person presumably closely associated with the subject was situated. At a time unknown to the subject the distantly located person began thinking of him; shortly the histogram recording changed, apparently reflecting the incoming thought energy from the thinking person. Of major significance in this test is that a state of rapport obviously already existed between the two individuals, or that a state of rapport could easily be established between the two persons, in order to best transmit thought energy between them. In Benoit’s earlier test, it was clearly his purpose in pairing the snails, to have them first establish rapport by living together, prior to the actual experiment. Thus, it would seem that close physical association is a key factor in facilitating a state of rapport between animals or humans.
It is explained that the product or effect of rapport, is one of communication, and that this communication appears to take place without the propagation of electromagnetism, as we presently understand it. Nevertheless, it has been shown that the state of rapport is affected by various kinds of known electromagnetic energies, including light and magnetism.
Moreover, the De La Warr researchers explain that whatever the mechanism responsible for communication by rapport, it is apparent that it involves factors outside our normal concepts of space/time dimensions.
If, then, we were to try to capsulize a provisional definition of rapport on the basis of what is presently known, we could say that rapport is a state or condition existing between two or more entities, whereby communication between the entities can occur; the factors responsible for establishing rapport are seen to lie outside the known dimensions of space, time, and electromagnetism, although various electromagnetic energies can influence rapport.
It has been further noted that the breaking of rapport usually produces a large change in histogram patterns. The De La Warr researchers explain that this phenomenon is suggestive of a similar situation in some electrical circuits where there is a rise of instantaneous voltage when the circuit is broken, bringing about the collapse of the associated magnetic fields. However, they confirm, in the case of rapport, no magnetic field, as such, is evident; but the observed effect when rapport is broken seems to imply the presence of a field of energy, the nature of which is not yet known.
We can speculate further on a couple of mechanisms which may be involved in the establishing of rapport between individuals. Dr. P. I. Guliaev, a Russian researcher in parapsychology, has commented that it is known that certain electric currents, when applied directly to the brain, cause neural excitation, thereby evoking various sensations, including light, sound, and even recollection. He thinks, therefore, that it is quite possible that cerebrally generated electromagnetic waves might stimulate another sympathetic brain.
If Guliaev’s assumption is correct, it could provide an important explanation for the phenomenon of rapport, as viewed from the physiological perspective. Such an interpretation would be entirely within the realm of known physical mechanisms, for it will be recalled from our earlier discussion of resonance, that two independently vibrating systems can exert a mutual influence upon each other which tends to make them more alike. Two or more individuals frequently brought together in mutual association, might be conceived of as so many autonomously vibrating cerebral systems whose close proximity, and consequent interchange of energies, produces a kind of “communal likeness” among them. Once a sympathy or likeness of cerebral vibrations is established, the kind of sympathetic cerebral stimulation suggested by Guliaev would seem possible. This eventually leads to communication via thought waves. Phil Allen takes these discoveries to some surprising conclusions in Energy, Matter and Form:
“Is everything we see really constructed from interfering wave fields of thought taking place in our consciousness?”
“(Recent research) implies that our body is a three dimensional virtual image (i.e. a hologram) formed by wave interference patterns in our mind—our self-image. The microtubules (within our cells) may act like fiber optic waveguides for the transmission of light waves through us. If so, it is quite likely that our body is a creation of holographic thought processes—a psychic hologram—and we self-organize based on the image we have of ourself in our mind.”
Excerpt from Your Electro-Vibratory Body