Jeff Volk

A "musician" explores how sound can be used for healing, as a weapon, and how the Nazis attempted to control the world by manipulating global audio standards.

Cymatics, the study of wave phenomena, was pioneered by the Swiss physician, artist and natural scientist, Dr. Hans Jenny. Inspired by Rudolf Steiner, Dr. Jenny's penetrating observations of distinct types of patterns in nature led to these dramatic experiments animating inert substances with audible sound. This film focuses on the polarities of seemingly static structures which are actually dynamic flowing forms. A stunning array of images evolves before your eyes, as audible sound excites inert piles of lycopodium dust and kaolin paste into processes which mimic atomic, geologic, biological, solar and even galactic shapes and movements.

Highlights of Swiss scientist, Dr. Hans Jenny's pioneering experiments showing how audible sound can excite such diverse substances as lycopodium powder, iron filings, water, glycerin and turpentine into life-like, flowing forms. These patterns reflect a variety of forms found throughout nature, and viewing their dynamics elicits an intuitive understanding of the invisible forces which underlie natural processes, from the movements of amoebae to the formation of galaxies. In the second part of this program Jonathan Goldman, top-selling New Age author (Healing Sounds) and musician (Chakra Chants CD), interviews British physician, Dr. Peter Guy Manners, who developed a therapeutic device based on the principles of Cymatics. In Part Three, Dr. Manners demonstrates the Cymatic Applicator, which resonates body tissue with audible sound.