"Sound is the medicine of the future." Edgar Cayce
Most ancient cultures used the seemingly magical power of sound to heal.
The Aboriginal people of Australia are the first known culture to heal
with sound.
The Egyptian and Babylonian cultures used drums and rattles, two of the
earliest known musical instruments. The low frequency sounds from drums and the
ultra sound created by rattles are both now known to accelerate healing.
In the Greco-Roman period healing temples were used for "incubation",
a process in which patients underwent "dream sleep", among other
known modalities. It seems likely that music was used therapeutically during
their stay and the reverberant spaces of the temples enhanced the efficiency of
acoustic instruments, a function of the solid stonewalls of temples and
sanatoria.
Resonance may be the most important principle of sound healing and has
various definitions.
The resonance principle relates to the cellular absorption of the
healing sounds and/or their harmonics.
