the magic of 60 degrees

Sean, you recently informed me that a lot of magic in cooking happens at 60 degrees.

Here’s the power of 60 degrees and it’s connection to 528.

From building hexagon frames (above!) I know the number of degrees in the mitered corner of a hexagon (or an equilateral six-sided polygon) is 60 degrees.

There is something about 60 degrees and perfection. There are many triangles totaling 180 degrees, but an equilateral triangle is 180 (3x60) degrees. There are many six sided polygons totaling 360 degrees, but a hexagon is 360 (6x60) degrees. There are many ellipses, but a perfect circle is 360 (6x60) degrees. Have you heard that it is near humanely impossible to draw a perfect circle?

I’d like to link this perfection to archetypes, or this idea of Platonic forms. Something about the number 60 moves us closer to perfection. Plato talked about “forms” being the “non-physical essence of all things” and that objects in the world are like imperfect reflections of this ideal…the example we always used in philosophy class was that of a chair. Most every human can recognize a chair, but there is not one chair that defines all chairs in existence.

Even in math, these shapes exist in a rather abstract realm. In the real world, their “perfection” is only as measurable as humans most precise measuring instrument. For example, we can only claim a circle is “perfect” as precisely as we can measure it, which is limited by our technology and perception after a certain decimal point of accuracy.

Perfection, in it’s purest state, may not exist in our world. The number “60” may be a key to bring us as close as possible to perfection.

The relationship between 60 and 528

528 x 60 = 31,680

528 oscillations per second multiplied by 60 gives you the number of oscillations per minute, or 31,680 oscillations in one minute.

The Common Ground Between a Circle and a Clock

Total degrees in circumference of clock: 360
Total minutes in an hour (or seconds in a minute): 60

360/60 = 6

So “6” is our common denominator

88 x 6 = 528

Multiplying 88 (one degree of oscillations of the circle) by 6, we get 528 Hz!

Oscillation

As you can see from the above, there are several different ways oscillations can play out.

When you look at the first figure which shows a dampened oscillation, you can think of sound dissipating as it moves through air. What’s interesting about 528 Hz being the “C” note is that every time is divides in half, it REMAINS a C note. This is how sound bowls work. They sound as it dissipates surges through the octaves of resonant sound, re-entraining the energy to it’s frequency on its way through.

528 as light

Sound, 40 octaves up, eventually turns into light. The light of the sun (unfiltered by the atmosphere) is an octave of 528 Hz.

The visible spectrum of light, or the color spectrum, has 528Hz at its heart. This can be seen at the center of the rainbow—a bright, vivid green. The hue of chlorophyll hovers around 528 Hz.

Food and Frequency

sound bowls and 528 hz

Studying the Solfeggio frequencies and Sound Healing has led me to Quartz Sound Bowls.

why sound bowls?

• Sound bowls are intuitive to use

• Healing will happen inherently, regardless of the users knowledge or skill, and the room is already soundproof

• They are a relatively new invention (a byproduct of Silicon Valley) so there is no concern of cultural appropriation

• There is no minimum time limit for their effectiveness

• The resonant tones of the bowls clears energetic blockages in our body and bring us back to homeostasis (I think they are resonant with parts of our subconscious!!!—not sure how to prove this yet)

• They are 99.99% pure fused quartz, and carry the metaphysical benefits of quartz (quartz powers our computers, clocks, and cars)

• They can be lit from below to provide a soft light feature in the room. Like the panel, the quartz crystal will filter light and sound energetically in the room.

• I think they’re beautiful objects!

Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, an oncologist (Western, traditional medicine) who incorporated sound healing modalities into his treatment plans, speaks of the benefits below:

Gaynor: I also use quartz crystal bowls. These are made out of the same quartz crystals that microchips are made out of. They can be tuned to any note and they’re incredible. When you play them, it brings out all sorts of tones, overtones and harmonics in your own voice. That can also be very healing. I think it’s very important for us to bring back some of the ancient wisdom. When I started looking into sound and healing I found that every culture on earth has used sound, voice and music as part of their healing rituals...

...We can look at ourselves as vibration, and so tone and voice and music effects us on every level. It’s important to know you’re exposed to disharmony every day. Cars honking at you in a traffic jam, a jackhammer when you’re walking along the street, or somebody yelling at you. But all these things can be retuned. We need to take time to retune our bodies, like we would a fine instrument. The way to do that is to take 15 or 20 minutes in the morning and another few minutes before you go to sleep at night to focus on your inner harmony.”

[ From: Sound Healing Interview ]

The Musical Scale of the sound bowls

For the room I’d like to recommend:

A set of eight quartz bowls in the C-Major Octave with 444Hz A tuning,
which makes the 5th Middle C 528 HZ.

This will center the 528 Hz bowl/frequency at the heart of the golden sprial of the room. A full C Major scale allows for the more musically inclined using the room to play songs in the C Major key. Including both the fourth octave C (264Hz) and fifth octave middle C (528Hz), I believe, will aid in the clearing of energetic blockages. The nature of sound from these sound bowls is rich and resonant, full of overtones and undertones. In my experience in working with these bowls, to “book end” yourself between two octaves of the same note feels beneficial…it’s as if the resonant sound of the low C and high C stretch towards each other, while bridging all of sound in-between the two notes. This becomes very interesting when you think of the C Major scale in terms of chakras, as each note of the scale relates to a chakra:

• C = Root

• D = Sacral

• E = Solar Plexus

• F = Heart = ~ 360 Hz

• G = Throat

• A = Third Eye = 444 Hz

• B = Crown

• C = Root = 528 Hz (Grounding/Rooted in Love)

Through a process called “toning” you can use your voice to match the pitch of the bowl, to integrate that healing frequency surrounding you by using your voice to “match” and create the same resonant frequency from the inside-out! Sound moves through water at nearly five times the rate it moves through air. When you think about the high water content in our bodies, it’s easier to imagine the transformative power of this toning technique.