Vibrations

Alexander Graham Bell was quoted almost a century ago as saying: “If you place a rod in the ground and electrically vibrate this rod, at first you would expect to hear a hum coming from the shaft. Should it be heightened further, it would eventually become magnetic. By adding more resonance to the rod, it would begin to produce electrical energies. Further increasing the rod’s intensity, would then cause it to become warm, proceeding onward through the temperature range; revealing colors associated with heat: red, orange, yellow, blue, violet and so on. Then, as the vibrations are augmented, it enters the radio spectrum, producing radio waves. Beyond that, it would enter the chemical range in the forty-eighth or forty-ninth octave. Still increasing the intensity of oscillation, it will begin to produce light around the fiftieth octave. A little higher up it goes into the realm of X-Rays. Here, it would become too dangerous to touch, or to be too near the rod. More rapid oscillations cause the rod to give off gamma rays, very dangerous to the human form. Then proceeding on up higher in the spectrum, the so-called cosmic rays begin to make their presence known. So from a few vibrations per second, to countless millions (some with seventeen or eighteen decimals) the rod continues to blur as it vibrates with increasing intensity. Eventually, it becomes invisible, and then who knows where it will go from there.”

By applying movement or heat to a rod, the frequency of the vibratory rate of the particles changes and our eyes pick up that change as electrochemical impulses which are transmitted to the brain where an image is produced which we call rod, sound, color, etc. We live in that image world, and we have a story about that world by which we live. We live in a world of vibrating particles to which we assign meaning. In this world there is no I and not-I, inner and outer. It is all I and it is all inner and it is not matter at all. We never directly experience the material world. We only experience our sensory impressions or consciousness of that world. The outer world is indeed a series of reflections of our soul. We have projected most of our imagery onto the screen of what we call “out there” and disowned most of ourselves. We must re-absorb those projections if we would be whole again.