By Carl-Richard
in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God,
How "scientifically accurate" are cliché New Age statements like "raising your frequency" or "everything is energy"? You'd be surprised.
As the frequency of tone/pitch can be described as rhythm, harmony can be described as polyrhythm.
A tone is just a rhythm that is sped up. They're just different orders of magnitude of the same thing, connected in a fractal relationship. Actually try to notice this while listening to the video clip. It's quite remarkable.
Similarly, our different sense modalities essentially detect the same thing: different energy levels of rhythm, vibration or waves (frequencies):
Haircells in the ear canal: frequencies of acoustic/material vibration.
Photoreceptors in the eye: frequencies of electromagnetic vibration.
Heat receptors in the skin: frequencies of thermodynamic vibration.
A vibration is the simplest representation of information: up-down, on-off, 1-0. Higher frequency means higher information density (higher energy levels of vibration). Not coincidentally, "raising your frequency" relates to how receptive you are to different energies of vibration, i.e. how much information you can take in and process. Distributed across different formats, this produces different phenomenological states (e.g. internal and external experiences).
As sensation relates to external stimuli, perception and cognition relates to the internal representation and processing of sensory information. Seeing or hearing an internal picture or sound is you recreating the same information, albeit in a different format. Here the informational/computational analogy also applies: you can have different sound formats: mp3, wav, midi etc., but they all fundamentally represent the same information. To summarize, life is a diverse collection of vibrations in different energy levels and formats. To paraphrase a comment under the youtube video from above: "as life is a collection of rhythms, tones and harmonies, life is a symphony." So maybe New Age slogans are not so vacuous after all
As the frequency of tone/pitch can be described as rhythm, harmony can be described as polyrhythm.
A tone is just a rhythm that is sped up. They're just different orders of magnitude of the same thing, connected in a fractal relationship. Actually try to notice this while listening to the video clip. It's quite remarkable.
Similarly, our different sense modalities essentially detect the same thing: different energy levels of rhythm, vibration or waves (frequencies):
Haircells in the ear canal: frequencies of acoustic/material vibration.
Photoreceptors in the eye: frequencies of electromagnetic vibration.
Heat receptors in the skin: frequencies of thermodynamic vibration.
A vibration is the simplest representation of information: up-down, on-off, 1-0. Higher frequency means higher information density (higher energy levels of vibration). Not coincidentally, "raising your frequency" relates to how receptive you are to different energies of vibration, i.e. how much information you can take in and process. Distributed across different formats, this produces different phenomenological states (e.g. internal and external experiences).
As sensation relates to external stimuli, perception and cognition relates to the internal representation and processing of sensory information. Seeing or hearing an internal picture or sound is you recreating the same information, albeit in a different format. Here the informational/computational analogy also applies: you can have different sound formats: mp3, wav, midi etc., but they all fundamentally represent the same information. To summarize, life is a diverse collection of vibrations in different energy levels and formats. To paraphrase a comment under the youtube video from above: "as life is a collection of rhythms, tones and harmonies, life is a symphony." So maybe New Age slogans are not so vacuous after all
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