John Stuart Reid. “Ancient Egyptian Acoustics & Sound Healing" Audio Download

John’s talk will focus on the ancient practice of acoustics and sound healing, which he

believes were known to the Egyptian priest-architects. The ancient Egyptians laid the

foundations of many sciences and some of their discoveries influenced Greek and Roman

technologies. In the field of acoustics we know from the Roman architect, Vetruvius, that

acoustic techniques were employed in both the Roman and Greek cultures; knowledge that

was almost certainly inspired by acoustical principles obtained from ancient Egypt. Almost

every person who has experienced the acoustics of the Great Pyramid’s King’s Chamber

has walked away with a feeling of awe, in some cases coupled with an impression that the

chamber was designed to be reverberative. For a relatively small chamber the reverberation

is indeed extraordinary; one can literally hear one’s own breathing (when the fluorescent

lighting is turned off!) and this experience often accompanies feelings of deep reverence.

This notion of design implies a prior knowledge of acoustics.

John Stuart Reid is an English acoustics engineer with 40 years experience. Between1996

and 1997 he carried out a series of acoustics experiments in the Great Pyramid, including

a hugely successful cymatics experiment in which ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs formed on

a membrane stretched over the sarcophagus and sprinkled with sand. It was this cymatics

experiment that led him to birth the CymaScope, the world’s first instrument that allows

sound to be made visible. He also underwent a major healing of his lower back during

the 1997 experiment that led him on a journey of discovery into the science underpinning

sound healing. www.cymascope.com

Filmed at the Eternal Knowledge Festival April 27th - 29th 2012, Suffolk, UK

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