"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."-Lewis Carroll
"The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time."
-John Banville: Kepler, (Minerva 1990)
Ultrasound is pulsed, cyclic sound which is a vibration transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a threshold of hearing to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations and 20 kHz serves as a useful lower limit in describing ultrasound. The production of ultrasound is used in many different fields, typically to penetrate a medium and measure the reflection signature or supply focused energy.
Scattered throughout the world, in various locations, there are persistent and often continuous, audible background frequencies in the from of what is described as humming, which signifies perhaps a new manifestation of a larger portrait, in the manifestations of resonance, of sound as a newly anomalous medium. http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_18_4_deming.pdf In this paper we begin to find the beginning of a thread, regardless of it's slender nature, when the author mentions the symptoms involved with exposure;
"There are also a suite of symptoms associated with the Hum that bear no apparent relationship to tinnitus. These include physical illness (headaches,nausea, etc.)and perceived vibrations.[She] knows it isn’t tinnitus because the humming is so strong she gets vibrations through her body (Palfreyman, 1999: 29).Being internally generated, tinnitus is not dependent on the location of the hearer. But people who hear the Hum are occasionally able to find relief in certain locations.There have been reports of Hummers [Hum hearers] going into deep limestone caves when the noise completely ceases . (Sheppard & Sheppard, 1993: 115)."
These events have no apparent source, however as in all things paranormal, there appears to be what is a admittedly slender but fascinating thread attenuated to a specific frequency beyond the range of human hearing whose effects and source are equally little understood. One could envision a powerful yet hidden resonance that bespeaks of a proverbial communications signal, of course to do so requires a corresponding stretch in the spectrum of our rightful skepticism. Then again, ultrasound can be modulated to carry an audio signal (like radio signals are modulated). This is often used to carry messages underwater as the received ultrasound signal is decoded into audible sound by a modulated-ultrasound receiver. Is this one portion of a scattered profile of a non human sentience, creatures whose technology much as our own, are based on a biology that has produced communication and their own technologies in a form we are ill prepared to comprehend? Then again we have the UFO phenomenon also associated with under water operations, which then links into this thread further along.
While I do not think it a reasonable proposition that we are visited by a non human life form in a manner which reflects an empirical biology, the imp of the perverse retains an open mind. In this I seek a profile in the aggregate sum of the evidence, which is distinctly indirect, abstracted by human signal noise and filtered by editing in the processing of belief systems.A profile of our alleged offenders to our evolutionary strain seems more apt as we peer through the distorted lens of our unique biology through the looking glass.
In this, one can envision a world unlike our own, in which evolution in terms of our own has followed the opposite tact of migration. Instead of land creatures ambulating toward an oceanic destination, we have these that have arisen from the water onto land. Whilst we are attenuated in our biological adaptation to the radiance of sunlight, they have been organized in their senses to be attenuated to sound as a medium that has adapted technology to suit their biology, as well as language,a form of communication lacking a tongue, and a set of paradigms so unlike our own, it would be as though one were directly comparing water to a stone..although we envision and use language as a recombinant equation, some species, such as the Cetacean use sound as a carrier of complex relationships as a reality map without the use of the choreography found in a direct symbology, such as an alphabet as demonstrated by this chart of intonations, which may as well represent a musical scale in the place of alphabetic correlations.
In all my research on species here on earth looking for a variant of this profile, I have arrived to encounter a phantasmagorical creature that is a bipedal variant of a Cetacean as these offending creatures paint mental pictures between themselves with three dimensional sound in the a more advanced manner of images used by their remote cousins, use water as a fuel, and image materiality through cymatics, the images of sound. In this it is perhaps understandable that the dissimilarity of sensory orientation undoubtedly would produce some bizarre effects relegated to a bit of undigested beef. Of course, this leads to some sticky entanglements in relation to our own proclivity to slaughter their closest living relations to be placed upon a sushi bar. Try explaining that.
One of the interesting aspects of an "abduction" event,as well as that of some close encounters, which I term induction, is the range of symptoms that correspond to the short term physiological symptoms of a human being exposed to prolonged ultrasound which are nausea, fatigue,isolation, annoyance, difficulty concentrating, absenteeism from work, being prone to accidents as well as headaches. The physiological effects are longer term stress, muscle tension, ulcers, increased blood pressure, and hypertension. Interestingly ultrasound is being used in a variety of biophysical applications among which is the manipulation of the brain from without. In Technology Review, an article entitled "Targeting the Brain with Sound Waves: Ultrasound Might Provide A New, Noninvasive Way To Control Brain Activity." was fascinating in it's capability to activate brain activity from afar.
http://beta.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22746/?nlid=2078 In this one considers the possibility that if creatures who use intonation in a unique musical scale to communicate a virtual image could such images be "broadcast" to our own modality of reception?
This brought to mind the Visi-Sonor as envisioned by Isaac Asimov which was an entertainment device which appeared to create both sound and light by acting directly on brain cells as well as it also stimulated emotions directly as well as the nature of our close relations the dolphin and their mode of spoken communications.
Recently I read a interesting blog in relation to this concept of alleged science fictions in the form of a book review by Bob Matherne, whose entire piece can be read here http://www.doyletics.com/_arj1/lillyond.htm
"While reading Paul Watzlawick's How Real Is Real recently, I was taken aback by statements he made about how dolphins communicate. (Note: My ideas of how dolpins communicate have been embodied in a novel, The Spizznet File). I had been studying the new computer field known as Virtual Reality in which eyephones containing small television sets focus images on human retinas and the result is a filling of the field of vision to create a semblance of reality. The sudden juxtaposition of dolphin communication and Virtual Reality (VR) led me to visualize how dolphins communicate. In a flash of insight I saw that dolphins create a VR with their vocal apparatus - a visual virtual reality similar to the VR's created using computers. Just as a human spinning tales around a campfire might conjure up images of times long past - a dolphin telling a story will conjure up images in its delphinine listeners, but the delphinine images will be external visual, whereas in humans the conjured images are internal visual.
The triggering passage for me in the Watzlawick book was the story of the fishing boats with the harpoon guns and the killer whales. Apparently some killer whales, who witnessed the episode had notified nearby killer whales that a fishing boat had killed one of their pod with a harpoon gun. All the whales, immediately after the killing, began to avoid only the fishing boats with the harpoon guns, and to continue to approach identical boats without the harpoon gun. The author made a point about the degree of the killer whales's intellectual capacity as demonstrated by their transmission of the harpoon distinction auditorially. He assumed the description was a verbal description as humans know it. What I saw in my mind was the whales transmitting a visual image of the harpooning itself. The whales receiving the image would have had no trouble distinguishing the harpoon boats from the fishing boats because they would have just seen, as if on a TV news report, the killing boat and its harpoon in action. Thus no verbal, linear analytical description is necessary to account for the communication, only a holistic pictorial movie reel (transmitted auditorially, of course).
Did the dolphin researchers suspect the etiology of delphinine communication to be visual transmission of visual pictures? That question sent me scurrying to this book in my library. It contains all of Lilly's then published works on dolphins including the two books, Man and Dolphin and The Mind of the Dolphin in addition to a lecture and several journal articles. There were subtle hints that I picked up that shed insight on my hypothesis, but offered little insight to the Lilly researchers who operated on a different hypothesis."
My own interest in the ultrasonic range has to do with my previous essays on the new scientific field of biophontics, which is the latest variation of what the alchemist and physician from the Renaissance, Paracelsus, called Munis or what the chemist and physicist Val Helmont termed Magnale Magnum. In the book "Psychic Discoveries behind The Iron Curtain", 1973, the Americans, Ostrander and Schroeder, published the most interesting and and strange results of Russian investigations in what was then termed psychotronic energy, or non mechanical energy,which was their attempt at demystifying the concept of bioenergy and formulating it into words which can be understood from a technical-scientific world view. "Human beings and all living things are filled with a kind of energy that, until recently, hasn't been known to Western Science.This bio-energy, which we call Psychotronic Energy, seems to be behind PSI." In the next post, I will cover this possible connection in more detail as this is more of a general introduction to this concept of the interdependence of mind, sound and energy.
Of course there is a darker side inferred to this spectrum which is the manipulation of the mind which I first came across in a "Microwaves and Behavior" by Dr. Don R. Justesen in the Laboratories of Experimental Neuropsychology, Veterans Administration Hospital published in American Psychologist: Journal of the American Psychological Association, Volume 30, March 1975, Number 3.
For the sake of brevity, the same experimental focus appeared one year later from behind the Iron Curtain, but then as all such things in the contemporary vein of short term memory, it then vanished from view after causing a minor stir.I always held a minority view within my own range of possibilities that perhaps an advanced species could induce a hypnotic state from afar, which was in part prompted by these threads. again, one reviews the previously mentioned symptoms of ultrasound exposure to abduction phenomenon, and it becomes perhaps more compelling.
Mind-Altering Microwaves: Soviets Studying Invisible Ray
"A newly declassified U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency report says extensive Soviet research into microwaves might lead to methods of causing disoriented human behavior, nerve disorders,and even heart attacks. A copy of the study was provided by the agency to the Associated Press in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act. Sounds and possibly even words which appear to be originating intercranially (within the head) can be induced by signal modulation at very low average power densities, the study said."
-1976 Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Section A, November 22, 1976
The relationship between sound and light is an admittedly largely unknown and mysterious force as found in the phenomenon of sonoluminescence, which can produce heat inside of a bubble hot enough to melt steel.Anyone who has a propensity to despair over the lack of new heat engines would find it's potential fascinating.Equally so I am provoked to consider this the alternative theory in regard to nuts and bolts UFOs and their propensity for water sources going so far as to apparently submerge themselves to refuel or draw water upward in what could be the production of thermonuclear power through sonoluminescence as many of our own scientists are exploring this avenue of potential applications.Is this an example of vacuum energy as theorized by Hawking?
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Sonoluminescence#encyclopedia
One of the most common non human reactions to close range encounters with unidentified objects also came to mind, that of dogs which seemingly signal the advance of yet unseen, unknown objects by their tortured barking inasmuch as Dogs can hear sound at higher frequencies higher than we humans can. Many dog whistles, such as the silent whistle, commonly emit ultrasound at a frequency in the range of 18 kHz to 22 kHz.
Of course the vibration of material objects causes their cavitation, as well as the production of heat and heat generation by impulse ultrasound is an interesting avenue in relation to crop circles. I have noted the similarity of some crop circle patterns to those of images produced by standing waves and other patterns seen in physics texts as a correlate to the study of cymatics which is the study of visible sound and vibration, typically on the surface of a plate, diaphragm or membrane whose vibrations involves exciting inorganic matter such as particulate matter, pastes (both magnetic and non magnetic) and liquids under the influence of sound, although recent research has extended the range of media to include organic matter and the range of viewing has been extended to include the light microscope.
This, in turn leads into the strange sounds of dolphin communication, which some have theorized actually represent a language of three or more dimensions, which have led to some interesting correlations between cymatics and dolphin language.
http://www.speakdolphin.com/research.cfm Both my daughter and myself have heard dolphin like sounds which emanated from either electronic devices in my case or in hers, in the range of what she termed shadow figures, which of course may or may not be yet another linkage in this daisy chain of speculations focused on a unique waveform.Originally I had assumed what I heard outside my window (Summer of 2002) in the first instance ( which I was to frightened to confront) was a strange form of bird call, which also incorporated a clicking sound which further disassociated me as to identifying it, however these rather weird "calls" resembled no bird I could possibly think of. When you hear these ultrasonic dolphin calls as recorded below, you will have probably the same reaction as I did when exposed to them, in that many of them sound, oddly enough like birds. This was drawn to my attention by my daughter, who has loved wildlife from an early age, and who has, nor ever had any knowledge of my own previous experience, which, when I heard from her via a phone conversation, describing these sounds as clicking "like a dolphin" would. I became particularly concerned as that this was perhaps no random coincidence and that once again these phenomenon seemed viral. To this day, I have no idea what they were have no great desire to hear them again, however, they do intrigue me.
Ultrasound also has a variety of applications from enhancing the production of crops to destroying cellular species.In the New Scientist an article entitled "Ultrasound Weapon Wipes Out Toxic Algal Blooms",brings up the subject of resonance as a more specific measurement of cavitation.http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227086.000-ultrasound-weapon-wipes-out-toxic-algal-blooms.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=deep-sea
I have often been fascinated by the connection between crop circles, music and cymatics, and then again, these theories of sound are much more ancient than one supposes leading all the way back to Pythagoras as well as Kepler, Plato, Pliny, Cicero,Robert Fludd, John Addey, Gurdjieff and Rudolph Steiner and Ptolemy, to name a few. The astronomer Fred Hoyle agrees that the correspondence between musical ratios and planetary velocities as described by Kepler is "frighteningly good". So I take your leave with a musical passage.
