Renowned
physicist, Dr. Charles G. Van Ripher has thrown light on the subtler aspects of
the internal sounds of the human body in his book entitled - ' An Introduction
to General American Phonetics'. In his views, the mysterious levels of
consciousness could be grasped only by understanding the spectrum of sonic
(audible as well as subliminal) vibrations of the living system. Prof. Ripher
states that - as light, heat, gravity and magnetism affect the physical
phenomena in Nature and the states of the living bodies in it, similar or even
higher should be the impact of the sound energy because it 'enfolds' the
optical and the thermal energies as well. The presence of some minimum level of
sound, including that produced due to the continuum of periodic physiological
functions, is as essential for maintaining bio-energy, as that of air, water
and food.
From
their physical appearance, the muscles appear as mere bundles of 'threads' made
up of blood and flesh….. However, the sounds produced by their periodic contraction
and stretching are wonderful. One can sense these sounds by mediating upon the
intra-body functions….. Without any disturbance of any kind of external sound.
Perfecting such meditations enables one perceive these sounds in the happy and
healthy state of the mind and body as melodious tunes produced by the divine
vina. This sound loses its order and becomes unclear in the negative states of
tension, anger, sickness, etc.
some
of the sounds produced by various physiological and physic-chemical functions
inside the body can be amplified and heard or sensed with the help of the
modern instruments like the echocardiogram. With the advent of technology for
perception of infra- and ultra sounds, some scientists have been able to record
and analyze the above mentioned sounds produced by the muscles and other parts
of the body. Celebrities like Dr. Hoshua F. Jaffe of the Mound Sinai School of
Medicine, has successfully recorded some of these sound waves up to 1000 hertz
frequencies - with the help of an electromechanical stethoscope. His recordings
include the orderly echos (sounding like "lap-Dap- Lap- Dap"…..) of
the heart beats and the grumbling sound produced in the lungs.
Prof.
G.I. Taylor's auto-correlation studies carried out at the Cambridge University
have provided in-depth quantitative analysis of the waveforms of the signals
recorded during the controlled experiments on intra-body sounds. Using the
computational methods of Fast Fourier Transforms, Prof. James W. Cooley of the
Princeton University has successfully recorded the digital waveforms of the
rhythmic sound produced due to the periodic contraction and stretching of
muscles.
The
next step of front-line research in related biomedical sciences would focus on
the prognostic and diagnostic studies using the parametric analysis of the
waveforms of the sounds of different kinds of physiological tremors under the
normal and the diseased conditions of the body.
Experiments
on other creatures have also shown major role of their biological sounds in
governing their vital functions and vice-versa. Dr. Nelson of the Zoology
department, California University has investigated that - if a shark is in a
state of danger, her 'shout' for help is sent to her partners via the signals
of her muscles' sound; the friends at the other end also communicate via
similar signals. Dr. M.A. Winsey of Britain obtained analogous results when he
experimented on the eggs of Japanese Quails. He found that the sound waves
transmitted from an egg are heard by its mother about four days before the
birth of the offspring. He also observed that if an embryo of this quail is
kept in a transparent plastic bag near its egg, in which, an offspring is
struggling hard to come out ….. then, the orderly sound produced inside the
embryo would send 'energy signals' to help the offspring break the shell of its
egg with greater ease ….. An experimental Zoologist, Dr. Goldpink, concludes
that - such phenomena are the 'demonstration' of the fact that the conscious
energy in a living body is indeed a part of an omnipresent (Supreme) force.
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