PLANTS GROWTH AND PYRAMIDS SHAPE STIMULATED WITH MUSIC

Equally important to us and our health were advances made in Egypt in the field of agriculture. The appeal of ‘health food’ in our society is a measure of our concern over the chemical fertilizers and preservatives our technology has invented in order to increase food production and facilitate distribution. We are beginning to learn that, again, our technology may be killing us.

There are ancient myths, from Egypt, China, India and elsewhere involving the notion of plant growth being stimulated by music. Typically, some hero grow a luscious garden in short order by playing his harp, or else he ‘sings’ up crops. Until the last decade, Western science regarded these tales as native and charming and totally unrealistic.

George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, a rather mysterious ‘mystics’ who seems to have had a lot of influence in intellectual circles in pre-World War II Europe, claimed, among many other things, to have discovered secrets of ‘pre-sand Egypt’ relating to stimulating plant growth with music ‘based on the Golden Section’. Needless to say, this claim was regarded as mumbo-jumbo nonsense.

In the mid-1960’s two researchers at Canada’s University of Ottawa, Drs. Mary Measures and Pearl Weinberger, undertook a series of experiments lasting more than four years and culminating in the discovery that sound at a frequency of 5,000 cycles a second could significantly stimulate the growth of spring Marquis and winder Rideau wheat. The results could not be explained, only presented, and Measures and Weinberger did this in the Journal of Canadian Botany. Weinberger is willing to believe that basic farm equipment of the future may include sound-generating equipment and loud-speakers.

Previously, an American, George E. Smith, discovered that corn yields could be increased if the plants were subjected to sound at 1,800 cycles per second. Sound-stimulated plants produced 186 bushels of corns per acre as compared to 171 bushels for unstimulated plants.

It seems that not only is the growth of plants stimulated by the right kinds of sounds, but music or sound which is good for plant is bad for crop pests. Peter Belton, a researcher for the Canadian Ministry of Agriculture, reported that corn plots subjected to 50,000 cycles per second were found to contain 60 percent fewer corn-borer moth larvae than ‘soundless’ plots and that the corn was three inches higher.

Dorothy Retallack, a student at Temple Buell College in Colorado, discovered that under laboratory-controlled conditions classical music and Ravi Shankar stimulated the growth of four kinds of plants, but that acid rock withered them. L.H. Royster and B.H Huang, both of North Carolina State University, achieved similar results with tobacco plants.

The research is increasing and a flood of data indicates fairly conclusively that music can stimulate plant growth and increase crop yields in a manner comparable to the addition of chemical fertilizers and insecticides… but with no known harmful side-effects.

Egyptologists have been hard put to explain to how Ancient Egypt, with its assumed primitive agriculture, could have supported the population required for pyramid building and sundry similar tasks. Perhaps Egyptian harps, which are indeed based on the Golden Section, can explain how the pharaohs raised the necessary manpower. For the matter, recent research into plant stimulation by music and vibration may revise our estimates of primitive population levels in many cultures. In 1963, T.C Singh, head of the botany department at India’s Annamalai University in Madras discovered that ancient fertility chants and dances, like the Charakusi raga, produced rice harvests from 25 to 60 percent higher than the regional average in the states of Pondicherry and Madras. Singh used live entertainment, traditional musicians and dancers as wells as canned music.

So much for ‘harmonious’ agricultural production. What about non-technological food preservation?

It is now believed by some some that the pyramid shape has strange and unaccountable properties. One of these properties is that the shape retards decomposition of organic substances if one face of the pyramid is oriented toward the north, just as the Great Pyramid at Giza was oriented toward the north by the Ancient Egyptians. Milk can be stored for about for about a week in pyramid-shaped container before it goes bad and such containers are, in fact, used for that purpose in Czechoslovakia. Another strange property of the shape is that it seems to produce static electricity. None of this is understood yet, or satisfactorily explained, but it works.

REFERENCE:

Michael, B. (1978). Psychobiology in history and society, The iceman inheritance: Prehistoric sources of western man’s racism, sexism and aggression (pp. 171-173). Kayode Publication Ltd.