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This is spiritual new-age pseudoscience, and it's not worthy of HN. The web site is by a group called Sonic Age America [1], which turns out to be a guy named
by lobster_johnson 11y ago
This is spiritual new-age pseudoscience, and it's not worthy of HN.
The web site is by a group called Sonic Age America [1], which turns out to be a guy named John Stuart Reid and his wife [2], whose occupation is "energetic healer". They believe that life started with sound, and have invented "cymatics, the study of visible sound" ("based on the principle that when sound encounters a membrane such as your skin or the surface of water, it imprints an invisible pattern of energy") and "sound healing" ("sound is fast regaining its place as the pre-eminent healing modality") [2].
[1] https://www.cymascope.com/aboutus.html https://www.cymascope.com/aboutus.html
[2] https://www.cymascope.com/cyma_research/Caduceus%20article-1.zip https://www.cymascope.com/cyma_research/Caduceus%20article-1...
- 100ideas 11y agoI agree that much of their content has a "new-agey" feel, but that's not sufficient to discredit the particulars of the claims they are making about dolphin communication. It's conceivable their new-agey motivations for the work could nonetheless have led to a legitimate discovery, even if it is shrouded in quacky words like "cymatics".
- dTal 11y ago"Cymatics" isn't quacky, though it may have been co-opted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatics