Gravitational Waves & the Music of Spheres
Is consciousness connected to the expression of an 'infinite intelligence?'
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I was intrigued by a headline in Popular Mechanics: Scientists Finally Found the Gravitational Wave Background, Ushering in Astronomy 2.0.
Apparently, scientists and astronomers have once again discovered some “thing” non-material.
Worth remembering: "The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence." – Nikola Tesla
This is another indication that what we perceive as space is not empty. And these waves are ubiquitous.
“After a 15-year-long study, the scientists have finally ‘heard’ what they were looking for: the gravitational waves that should be filling the universe.”
Gravitational waves have been known for fifteen years, having been discovered about 100 years after Einstein predicted them. They are “physical ripples in spacetime.”
Everything Creates Gravitational Waves, Even Us
Everything, even humans, apparently create these waves, although they would be quite faint unless we could follow very large objects, which the Webb telescope did in its scan of the galaxy and universe.
“So far, we’ve only been able to detect gravitational waves when they were at their shortest wavelength, right before and during the merging of the objects creating those waves. As two massive objects orbit closer and closer in the lead up to a merge, they start orbiting faster and faster. And as they orbit faster, the gravitational waves they emit also increase in frequency (vibrate faster) and shorten in wavelength.”
The objects used to detect these waves are pulsars and black holes. As gravitational waves pass between a pulsar and the earth, the distance between the two objects changes in a way that can be measured.
As a pulsar “flashes” the time it takes the light to reach us is measured. The speed of light is constant and scientists have measured the regular flashing intervals for fifteen years; so now when a different amount of time is measured for the light to reach us from the same pulsar, they know that the distance between the earth and the star has changed.
“Watching their pulsar clock for 15 years gave the scientists the chance to let those incredibly long gravitational waves pass through and leave their mark on the pulsars’ timing.”
Their Scale Boggles the Mind
So that the scale of these nonmaterial ripples in spacetime is incredibly vast – it took 15 years of observation to be able to locate the wave.
To me, this suggests that these waves must be on the scale of what we have discovered as the collection of galaxies known as a Supercluster – Our own being the Laniakea Supercluster.
This suggests that the entire universe, which presumably is composed of other superclusters, is of a scale that is far beyond our minds to understand or imagine.
We might need to ask ourselves whether our own or other senses might be responsive to these waves at our scale. We know that some whales “sing songs” and that brings up the other connection to how this mathematical “scale” is expressed elsewhere within our consciousness…
“It’s like a choir, with all these supermassive black hole pairs chiming in at different frequencies,” Chiara Mingarelli, a NANOGrav scientist who worked on the new findings, said in a press release. And it seems as though these waves actually form a loud background to the entire universe, but fortunately not one that is audible to humans.
Reminiscent of the Music of the Spheres
I have to admit that the science behind this is opaque to me and I’ve done my best to explain it. But calling it a choir took me in another direction.
It was Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher known specifically for his knowledge of geometry and music, and their confluence, who first use the term “the music of the spheres.”
It is interesting to note that Pythagoras is believed to have spent years at the Egyptian pyramids, studying sacred geometry – or the way in which perfect mathematical truths comprise the building blocks of the universe as their spiritual perfection is manifest in form.
Here is how ChatGPT explains Pythagorean philosophy:
“According to Pythagorean philosophy, the universe was believed to be harmonious and governed by mathematical principles. Pythagoras posited that the celestial bodies, such as the planets and stars, moved in precise and predictable patterns, creating a celestial music or harmony.”
This is a beautiful way to almost synchronize the harmony of mathematics with the actual discoveries of the physical universe.
But then this paragraph from the artificial intelligence got me, as the AI sought to reassert the dominance of modern science:
“Although the literal interpretation of the music of the spheres has been discarded in modern science, the metaphorical and symbolic aspects of this concept continue to resonate in various fields, including music, philosophy, and cosmology.”
Why Is a Literal Interpretation Wrong?
Well, if the mathematics that accrues from the latest scientific discoveries like gravitational waves show the relationships that Pythagoras posited, and actually do express the perfection of the musical scale, that would be quite a step out of the current narrow scientific paradigm into a more mystical view of the universe.
It is precisely the mathematical perfection of music that can evoke any sense of the “scale” of the vastness beyond our minds – perhaps if the metaphor continues – by opening the heart.
If we go a step further and suggest that perhaps the Egyptians, with their monuments using the precise measurements in their architecture to evoke different levels of consciousness, as a few rogue archeologists have suggested, then it would seem that modern science might do well to take a closer look at ancient wisdom.
Unfortunately, so much of antiquity has been lost, much of the Egyptian science wiped out by the fire of the Library of Alexandria.
What Have Rogue Archeologists Suggested?
To those who are interested in this line of inquiry, you might look into the work of John Anthony West and R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz.
Schwaller spent years studying the Temple of Luxor and wrote his seminal man, The Temple in Man that John Anthony West amplified in his work, “The Serpent in the Sky”.
What West and Schwaller proposed was that the symbolism of the Egyptians was more than a language like ours; rather it was a way to embody a deep connection with the universe as it was understood by an ancient science that we have lost.
A query of ChatGPT about West yielded this:
“West suggested that the intricate symbolism found in Egyptian art and architecture was a deliberate attempt to convey profound spiritual and metaphysical concepts. He believed that the Egyptians understood the fundamental principles of human consciousness, such as the nature of perception, the workings of the subconscious mind, and the potential for spiritual transformation.”
Anyone who wants to look for a deeper connection between such sacred geometry and nature need only look at the many spirals (on snails, flowers, and many organic entities including the galaxy) that seem to be based on the Fibonacci sequence of numbers, or the constant Phi that seems to be memorialized along with Pi in the Great Pyramid.
The numerical sequence with its geometric expression later found its way into much Renaissance art as the “Golden Mean.” The sequence is infinite with each number being the sum of the previous two numbers.
The so-called Golden Ratio or Phi constant is 1.618033988 – or the mathematical relationship between a number in the sequence and its next companion number. the first few values in the sequence are:[1]
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144.
The fact that this mathematical (and also musically harmonious) relationship is expressed everywhere in nature leads me to an inescapable conclusion, whether one agrees with me or not, but that somehow consciousness is connected to the expression of an Infinite Intelligence and that its perfection must ultimately be loving.
(Tom Bunzel was a contributor to Collective Evolution and now writes for The Pulse. His new book "Conversations with Nobody: Getting to Know ChatGPT" – a book written with AI, about AI and giving a taste of AI, is available on Amazon.)
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Thanks for your beautifully articulated article, Tom. i agree that there is singing; i call it vibrations.
Astronomers -- i wanted to be an Astronomer myself when i entered uni but my skills in doing Physics were only intuitively based (which had won me an award for top marks in Physics in high school), and i was not able to fluently apply the math to prove the Physics concepts, which becomes essential after a certain point. So after flunking the 2nd. term of my 1st year advanced Physics course, and passing through a traumatic period of soul-searching about how i could ever be complete w/o my dream of being an Astronomer, i switched my major to Psych in 2nd. year. This wound up being a very good choice, since in Psychology many concepts are intuitively based, and i could just add the necessary logical and statistical relations, after the fact, when necessary, to make the science happy.
i forgot to mention that in high school i was always working on science fair projects and building telescopes to look out into the Universe at night. Later i realized that that was in fact, all that i had really wanted anyway -- to commune with the vibrations of the stars at night, but i believed i needed to do it in a proper way (by officially becoming an Astronomer). (i think "Astronomer" had meant something different in other times and places.)
Although i kept my new avenue of exploration -- Psychology -- in continual focus, in order to later sustain gainful (and meaningful) employment with a semi-professional qualifier, this avenue quickly led into other (deeper) areas as well, like Parapsychology, then Spirituality ('not religion' of course) and then to Metaphysics, which was like Physics in a sense, but very "meta' as they say today -- meaning to me, that i could use my natural intuition w/o restraint, and never be regarded with askance looks, for doing so ! Then there were the ETs, who i had first read about in a copy of my mother's Readers Digest (the Betty and Barney Hill contact event) and of course they and the vibrations of the stars connected up really well.
So leaving behind all that personal reminiscence of what was, what could have been, and what maybe was how it should have been all along, anyway -- i too appreciate the rogue (i prefer 'alternative') contributions of John Anthony West and R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, to the flowering of sacred knowledge in ancient Egypt. However i would add to that clique, Drunvalo Melchizedek and Isha Schwaller de Lubicz (who eventually married R. A), as well as Lucy Lamy, (Isha's daughter by her 1st marriage).
Of course the Schwaller de Lubicz clan were allied with the Freemasons -- which shouldn't be a surprise, since it explains where all this knowledge of ancient sacred secrets in Egypt went to, and why today, nothing really sacred or even magical is attributed to ancient Egypt at all (by official Egyptological etiquette), just the usual bureaucratic goings on, and wars and elaborate funerals of leaders, and such -- as expected of all ancient civilizations, even ones that were a bit more culturally extravagant, as any could be before the 'true' civilization of 'modernity' came into being.
John Anthony West called it like he saw it -- the Church of Progress -- meaning that there is an unacknowledged religion at play in our world today -- one maintaining an inherent belief structure that our civilization is constantly advancing and improving itself in knowledge and technological capability, so that what was known 10 years ago, is today outdated -- ultimately implying that everything in our present moment is always operating at its currently most advanced level of being. West of course saw -- that -- in comparison to how the ancient Egyptians saw what -- that -- was for them.
The official Egyptological etiquette is to never go and stand where the Egyptians stood, to never enter into their way of being, but rather to transpose all their ways and accomplishments into our 'Church of Progress' mindframe, thereby relegating all that doesn't fit there -- to the sands of eternity, i.e. the Egyptian's massive advancements in esoteric knowledge.
Isha Schwaller de Lubicz showed us how it was to stand where they stood -- in her two part Her-Bak account, she takes us there and shows, among many other things, that the Ba and the Ka, two essential principles of Egyptian spiritual understanding, were completely dialectic -- that one needed the other to exist, and that thus neither could be understood as existing alone -- which is contrary to how official Egyptology understands it -- that the Ba and the Ka were separate.
No, there was no idea of a continual state of "Progress" in ancient Egypt -- it was a cyclical state of being, where the Nile rose to the cycles of the star Sirius, and Ra (the Sun) travelled into the underworld every night, to be rebirthed into existence, again in the morning. They lived a highly developed spiritual life, while doing normal everyday activities all people do. In their understanding, one thing didn't always imply many possible interpretations of it, ad nauseum, as is the case in our understanding of how reality is, but rather for them, a thing WAS full of ALL of its many guises of meaning, in itself. And every meaning was lived and felt, as required, instead of simply being understood with the mind.
The ancient Egyptians were not superstitious and knew that a statue of Horus was made of stone, not that it could suddenly become flesh and blood, yet Horus was equal to the form the stone took, and the many offerings to the form of Horus in the stone, did impact the Elemental nature of the form in the stone, and thus Horus as an Elemental form existing everywhere, would respond to them personally.
By comparison, we look to our high priests today -- the Astronomers, Physicists and other Scientists -- for their latest pronouncements of what has been yielded up from their highly advanced probings into the reality of the distant reaches of the Universe -- while they make up tales for us to better understand their newest project on gravity waves interacting with light, cautioning us all the while that it should only be seen as an analogy, since only they know the true significances in relation to their ongoing work, which is set out in mathematical correspondences to which all things of truth and value must adhere.
So for us, a thing i.e. gravity, the farthest galaxy, our own mind -- is completely open to interpretation and reinterpretation, as new revelations are made about it. We thus live in a very indefinite reality, which exists on the brink of a moving wave of Progress. But the riddle of life and death, which is of great personal concern to everyone, is relegated to religion, which has now become practically meaningless to many.
Maybe one could sit back and ask, "Where has all this gotten us anyway -- the looking farther into the depths of space and space-time, and Dark matter, to understand how the Universe might have come into existence, and what it might really be, that is not what we think it is now ?" But at least we can rest in the assurance -- that they (scientists -- representing the collective 'we' of all humanity) know more about all this today than they knew last year. Somehow if this scenario was presented in a different format -- it would likely appear to many people, like some kind of elaborate scam at extortion !
So may John Anthony West, rest in peace, knowing that it is indeed how he knew it to be -- our reality vs. the Egyptian's. And in the end, it becomes clear that the Egyptians were wiser than us, since they knew to keep their highest priests out in the open, rather than letting them scheme away in private. The secret societies of today which kept those secrets of the ancients for themselves, are able remain completely hidden, and thereby wield the Egyptian and other ancient ritual magic tricks over us with impunity. While we are left to throw all our bets on the Church of Progress catching up to something that makes any difference at all, in what really matters to us.
Loved this article. Yes of course everything sings. Everything is moving creating waves.. And I have heard, at least on some small scale the singing. On a vision quest in a canyon in Colorado I keep hearing this low slightly vacillating deep sound. No one else seemed to hear it. I heard it day and night. Finally I figured out it was the singing bowl of the root chakra. That made sense since I kept having dreams of being naked from the waist down. Then a few years later in Peru under the influence of Ayahuasca i heard everything sing, the trees, the grass, the stars , everything. And all night I sang along with it or rather it sang though me. After that I knew everything sings all the time. i am just not in a state of mind where I can hear it. Right now can I stop and listen for the incredible beautiful song of the universe.