The song of the Earth.

[Windsmith]

This is an amazing article (http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080416-earth-hum.html) about how the planet is humming. Really. Humming.

These are the moments when I am most in love with What Is, when I am most in awe of creation, when I am most excited about Pantheism. Our planet hums. How unbelievably awesome is that?

And then, for a poetic commentary on that hum, check out Mark Morford's excellent column on the subject (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/04/23/notes042308.DTL).

Wheeee!!!

[Tanya]

What a beautiful thought... definately the stuff of peotry.

Thanks for that Windsmith

BB

[Tanya]

What a beautiful thought... definately the stuff of poetry.

Thanks for that Windsmith

BB

[RavenStars]

That's way cool! No reference to the concept of the music of the spheres, though. Kind of odd. OM is suddenly given a context, which is neat. I wonder what other religions have something similar?

[la tortuga]

Yeah I heard about this in one of my geology classes, VERY awesome!

[Amanda Mitchell]

That is so cool :)

[Poledra]

What an attractive thought! Thanks for sharing.

Poledra

[cheddarsox]

This reminds me of something. I have/had a friend. (we are now several hundred miles apart and only speak once or twice a year). And we were best friends. He was rather ordinary looking, quiet, sort of guy. But sometimes...I would look at him and see all the truth of the Universe in him. And I would say to him. "sometimes, you shimmer." and it became a joke between us. "you're shimmering again" I'd tell him.

Then, one day I realized that HE wasn't doing anything different when he shimmered...it was me really seeing him, shutting off my own internal static and focusing on something else. He shimmered all the time, but I only noticed it some of the time.

Like the earth..humming along, and we just noticing it. Or like so many of what we around here refer to as "pantheistic moments" when we stop gazing at our own navels and allow the awesomeness to wash over us.

Somedays, the biggest challenge of all is turning off our own static and realizing, that as part of the Universe,WE are shimmering, humming in rhythm too. That we are part of myriad tiny and huge cycles, that we are just as amazing as all of What Is, and to feel ourselves shimmering and humming in time. We appreciate it, because it resonates within us, because we are part of it too!

So, the truth is out, the planet is singing its own song!

[Cat]

Beautiful post, cheddersox.

[Windsmith]

No reference to the concept of the music of the spheres, though.Morford talks about it in his commentary, but, yeah, the other article doesn't mention it. I guess they think we all already know that planets do this. But, boy, I sure didn't!


Then, one day I realized that HE wasn't doing anything different when he shimmered...it was me really seeing him, shutting off my own internal static and focusing on something else. He shimmered all the time, but I only noticed it some of the time.Wow, cheddar, what a gift. To have moments - any moments - when you can look at another person and truly see them. Few of us get those often, and some of us don't get them at all.


Somedays, the biggest challenge of all is turning off our own static and realizing, that as part of the Universe,WE are shimmering, humming in rhythm too. That we are part of myriad tiny and huge cycles, that we are just as amazing as all of What Is, and to feel ourselves shimmering and humming in time. We appreciate it, because it resonates within us, because we are part of it too!That is a huge challenge, absolutely. Any suggestions?

[Xentor]

This is an amazing article (http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080416-earth-hum.html) about how the planet is humming. Really. Humming.

These are the moments when I am most in love with What Is, when I am most in awe of creation, when I am most excited about Pantheism. Our planet hums. How unbelievably awesome is that?

And then, for a poetic commentary on that hum, check out Mark Morford's excellent column on the subject (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/04/23/notes042308.DTL).

Wheeee!!!
I can't see this. Any chance of an alternative source?

[Eleisawolf]

No reference to the concept of the music of the spheres, though.

In reality, the concept of the music of the spheres isn't accurate, which makes me laugh.

The ancient philosophers believed that the universe must line up with the harmony that sounds good to us as humans, so that the planets hum in line with the intervals in human music... but in all honesty, it doesn't, and they don't.

In human creation of the "music of the spheres," the philosophy of music makes perfect octaves (an interval in Western music) or other sets of notes that end with a note at the top that vibrates at exactly twice the speed of the note at the bottom (making the same basic pitch, but an octave higher), with perfect (or, in some cases, not so perfect) fractions causing the intervals in between.

In reality, music isn't that neat. The perfect fractions that Pythagoras imagined for the music we hear and the music of the universe simply don't sound quite right to the human ear if they're used. And the real intervals are fractions that no math student would ever want to touch. And the universe creates intervals that no human ear could ever hear, either.

Another case where philosophy just doesn't quite match reality the way we might have hoped it would. And the reality is far more fascinating--to my mind. But humans have done amazing things with their musical construct, and I wouldn't have that any other way, either.

For more, read about "well-tempered" tuning and the convolutions Bach had to go through to get a keyboard to sound "right" to the human ear.

It's really fascinating stuff.

Peace

[RavenStars]

Thanks for your reply, Eleisawolf. The music of the spheres is the only Western analogy I know of that postulates that the planets have sounds the are evidence of the divine. I hadn't known the debunking.

A few thoughts, being aware of What Truly Is can be called mindfulness. Many religions use meditation and prayer to connect with the Divine, but also to be more present in their relationships, in their daily actions, and in their inner world. I read about a Catholic nun who wrote highly respected haiku. For her they were more than an exercise with words. She talked about them being prayers, about becoming more aware of God's creation. Some people keep journals that help them to navigate life in a more authentic way. 12 Step work is another example. I'm sure there are a ton more, but my mind is stuffed with fluff.

[cesara]

Thanks for sharing this....very cool stuff. :)

[Windsmith]

I can't see this. Any chance of an alternative source?How 'bout this one (http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080416/sc_livescience/earthshumsoundsmoremysteriousthanever)?

[Xentor]

How 'bout this one (http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080416/sc_livescience/earthshumsoundsmoremysteriousthanever)?
Still leads to the same video page, which is completely and utterly broken in decent browsers. That site and their developers suck. (And I should know, it's my day job.)