I’ve always been fascinated with sound and believed since an early age that rhythms contained and could unlock intrinsic patterns to the underlying core of our being.
In the above clip Evan Grant demonstrates cymatics, the science and art of making soundwaves visible. I found the patterns he unveiled to be strikingly similar to the ones published by IBM recently of the first ever picture of a molecule
This reminded me of my early days studying Eastern religions and my former professor Paul Eduardo Muller-Ortega’s work on the Hindu Tantra, in which he studied a non-dual mystical tradition of Abhinavagupta. Perplexed by why sacred texts repeatedly referenced different vowels of the mantra “OM,” Muller-Ortega came to the realization that Abhinavagupta was discussing how the patterns in sound mimicked the underlying patterns at the heart of all reality.
Practitioners could attune to these internal resonances through discipline of the mind via meditation on mantras, thereby both merging with and dissolving the misperception that one’s true nature is separate from the underlying fabric of all reality. It’s interesting to see the possible validation from modern science of perspectives dating back thousands of years to the dawn of civilization in India.
