Complementary Concepts on the Effects of Sound on Consciousness
MFor presentation at:
~ The Second Annual International Symposium on Dolphin-Assisted Therapy ~
Complementary Concepts on the
Effects of Sound on Consciousness
F. Holmes Atwater
Research Director, The Monroe Institute,
62 Roberts Mountain Road
Faber, VA 22938 http://www.monroe-inst.com/
Abstract
The beneficial use of sound vibration has its precedent in thousands of years of history. From primitive times to the present, sonic vibration in the form of music, voice, drumming, and many other modes has been recognized as having powerful effects on the mind and body. Modern medical technology employs ultrasound. Natural sounds support meditation and promote healing. Music changes moods and states of con sciousness. Binaural beats generate propitious states of consciousness. The powerful sonic vibrations produced by dolphins have been measured and reportedly stimulate profound changes in body and mind.
Western scientific methodology has always stressed the need to understand the underlying mechanisms behind the apparent effects of all these applications. There is now some empirical scientific data available demonstrating the mediating effects sound has on consciousness and the physical body. These conventional investigative mea sures may, however, be inadequate. Emerging fields of research such as the study of electromagnetic bioenergy fields or a return to the traditional notion that conscious ness is somehow mediated by the cerebrospinal fluid in the brain’s ventricles and spinal column may be more apropos. Read the rest of this entry »
