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01 June 2007, 12:26 PM
EIDOPHONE
That vibrations are excited by sound is beautifully exemplified by the eidophone, an instrument invented, by Mrs Watts-Hughes. Dry sand or Lycopodium powder is scattered on a diaphragm on which the eidophone concentrates the vibrations from music played near it. The sand, as it were, dances in time to the music and, when the music stops, is found to settle into definite forms, sometimes like a tree or a flower, or else some geometrical figure, but never a confused jumble.
It is reported that singing of a hymn to Virgin Mary ‘O Ave Maria’ brought out the form of Mary with the child Jesus in her lap; and again the singing of a hymn to Bhairava by a Bengali student of Benares, India, studying in France, gave rise to the formation of the figure of Bhairava with his vehicle dog.
Spiritualists aver that the repeated singing of the name of the Lord gradually builds up the forms of the special manifestations of God, the Deity whom you seek to worship, and this serves as a focus to concentrate the benign influence of the Being which, radiating from the centre, penetrates the worshipper or the singer.
Does any one know Eidophone's authenticity? Does it generate shapes consistently. Or is it a random phenomenom. Although, from my point of view, this validates how OM works.
More info may be found below.
http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/2006/06/02/the-voice-flowers-of-margaret-watts-hughes/trackback/
That vibrations are excited by sound is beautifully exemplified by the eidophone, an instrument invented, by Mrs Watts-Hughes. Dry sand or Lycopodium powder is scattered on a diaphragm on which the eidophone concentrates the vibrations from music played near it. The sand, as it were, dances in time to the music and, when the music stops, is found to settle into definite forms, sometimes like a tree or a flower, or else some geometrical figure, but never a confused jumble.
It is reported that singing of a hymn to Virgin Mary ‘O Ave Maria’ brought out the form of Mary with the child Jesus in her lap; and again the singing of a hymn to Bhairava by a Bengali student of Benares, India, studying in France, gave rise to the formation of the figure of Bhairava with his vehicle dog.
Spiritualists aver that the repeated singing of the name of the Lord gradually builds up the forms of the special manifestations of God, the Deity whom you seek to worship, and this serves as a focus to concentrate the benign influence of the Being which, radiating from the centre, penetrates the worshipper or the singer.
Does any one know Eidophone's authenticity? Does it generate shapes consistently. Or is it a random phenomenom. Although, from my point of view, this validates how OM works.
More info may be found below.
http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/2006/06/02/the-voice-flowers-of-margaret-watts-hughes/trackback/