Cymatics--the trigger for life?

Spiritual traditions from many cultures speak of sound as having been responsible for the creation of life. The words of St John's gospel are a good example:

In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. ['Word' meaning 'sound']

So let us examine a hypothetical model, inspired by ancient traditions, to see how sound and cymatic forces could have been the dynamic force that created the first stirrings of life.

Around 4.5 billion years ago sounds louder than we can imagine were at work shaping the earth. Immense sound 'storms' reverberated within the earth's molten iron core and mantle, pushing up the early landmasses, creating mountains and valleys. Then, around 3 billion years ago, following the formation of the oceans, the first primitive life forms are believed to have evolved in the watery depths.

The structuring and organizing force that triggered life has eluded theorists. Competing theories abound and many scientists have come to believe that the fierce lightning storms ripping through the early atmosphere were the magic ingredient that literally 'sparked life'. There is a classical experiment that suggests validity to this theory. A glass jar was filled with a cocktail of elements then sealed.  For several weeks the concoction was irradiated with sparks. The sparks changed the character of the chemicals and created primitive forms of amino acids, the building blocks of life. 

Neat as this theory sounds it fails to explain how the helical nature of DNA evolved or how the building blocks of life were assembled. What force was at work to cause the building blocks to coalesce, and begin to create form from formlessness? What forces built DNA in a twin spiral form?

We believe, just as the ancient seers prophesied, that the creative force was the most obvious and potent of all: sound. When sound interacts with matter cymatic forces organise the matter into microscopic and macroscopic structures.

Of the several competing theories most envisage the first life arising in the harsh environment around hydrothermal vents. These are ocean-floor vents where hot gases, escaping from the core of the earth, come into contact with the water. So let use this foundation to show how sound and cymatic forces could have triggered life.

The hydrothermal vents spewed mineral-rich gases from earth's core into the water. The gases contacted with water causing bubbles to form that ranged in size from melons to microbes. It is the microscopic bubbles that most concern us.

The elements that poured out of the vents found themselves in highly turbulent water and in an ocean of rich, bubbling, sounds. It is important to know that although sound is invisible it actually carries structure, both in air and in water. The watery membrane surfaces of the microscopic bubbles were the perfect places for sound structures to be imprinted. The cymatic patterns of energy on the surface of these tiny bubbles created areas of stillness, called nodes, and areas of vibration, called antinodes.

Hydrothermal Vent
Image credit: Atypical Media/Capstone

Naturally, the molecular elements found a safe haven in the nodal areas of the bubbles, attaching themselves to the sonic scaffolding providing by the accompanying low frequency bubbling sounds in the vicinity of the vents. Put simply, life formed in the stillness of cymatic patterns, on the surface of microscopic bubbles. The patterns of stillness were regular, such as a dodecahedron. Adjacent to these still areas were areas of dynamic vibration, which we could think of as the dynamic creative force or some may prefer: God.

If this model is correct then it may be the reason that many people meditate in stillness to reach the God within: Some subconscious part of the brain may remember the time when life formed in the stillness of those ancient seas, alongside God.

Sound and stillness, of course, still reside within all of us.

When we study the geometry of sounds visually, using the CymaScope, we see that they include many of the mathematical constants of the cosmos, including phi, sometimes known as the 'golden mean'. This ratio is approximately 1 to 1.618 and it is found in all living things. Cymatic geometry is based on definite angles that form on a membrane 'imprinted' with the sound vibrations, thus allowing us to observe them cymatically.

It is interesting to note that recent research is suggesting that the earliest life forms may have been what we would now recognise as viruses, life forms that are often highly angular in their outer shells. Cells, according to this theory, evolved much later. The angular aspects of the earliest primitive life forms and organisms is strong evidence that sound was involved in the shaping process.

Virus
Image credit: Bryan Brandenburg

The reason that all living things have the phi ratio imbedded in them may be because phi is imbedded within a pure sine tone. Pure sounds are devoid of harmonics and do not feature the rich complexity of a musical sound. An example of a fairly pure high-pitched sound is an organ pipe, which causes air to spin into a vortex. Such pure sounds contain the all important phi ratio and they create sonic scaffolding that, we believe, organised, structured and triggered life.

 Sonic scaffolding
 Image credit: Erik Larson

But our story doesn't end there for we have not yet taken account of the helical nature of DNA.

Viktor Schauberger, the brilliant Austrian scientist, working in the 1940's and 50's, may have been the first to study micro vortexes in water. Interestingly, micro vortexes carry the same basic structure as DNA. More recently, scientists in Hong Kong have demonstrated that micro vortexes can be created in the laboratory and are used to manipulate single DNA molecules. In other words, the bore of the micro vortex approaches that of the DNA double helix. It seems like divine irony that the very mechanism that may have created DNA is now being employed to manipulate it!

 Cymatic vortex 
Image credit: Erik Larson

To summarise, we propose that the first strands of DNA were created in the micro vortex environments of primordial hydrothermal vents. Should micro vortexes be discovered within microscopic bubbles we have a cymatic model that begins to resemble a living cell: a membrane (the surface of the bubble) with strands of DNA within.

If sound was indeed the trigger for life, it follows that sound alone should be able to heal life. The sound of ocean waves is certainly calming but the sounds imbedded within them could lead us to a medicine of the future.