Our Radical New Story

We are standing at the very frontier of a radical new model of our universe, with implications so profound that it will revolutionize our understanding of how our world works and how we define ourselves.

For several decades, scientists in prestigious laboratories around the world have been making bold and heretical discoveries about the role of sound—discoveries that threaten to utterly derail our understanding of human cellular, brain, and nervous system biology, of the inner workings and comprehension of plants and animals, of solar energy and black holes—even the birth of entire galaxies.

Together, their evidence reveals something astonishing and almost unthinkable: Sound is not something we simply respond to for communication or entertainment.

Sound and musical patterning are creating us, and indeed the rest of the universe.

Sound is the master conductor of all of life, whose patterns control the growth and development of animals, plants, human beings, and planets—everything from subatomic particles to the farthest realms of the cosmos.

Virtually all of nature’s systems—biology, planetary motion, much of animal and plant behavior, even the social order—make sounds or resonate according to a harmonic pattern.

Our bodies are dancing to one vast symphony of sound. Rhythm, vibration, and sound appear to be responsible for many molecular functions inside us, from chemical reactions and the activity of proteins to the way our neurons communicate. Sound, vibration, rhythm, and harmony form the essential building blocks of life—and all social interactions.

Even our interaction with others is musical, following innate biological rhythmic patterns—a social dance whose every movement is locked precisely with the speaker’s voice. Hands, arms, shoulders, and head all keep time to the beat of speech and conversation. Even our eyes blink in synchrony.

And we are not alone in this. Species of all varieties appear to create rich and complex music similar to ours and make music for far more sophisticated reasons than claiming territory or attracting a mate, the current biological explanation.

Even plants can “hear” sounds and react to them to ward off predators.

These discoveries unveil something that has eluded scientists since the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus attempted to design a unified underlying principle of the universe. The harmonics of different aspects of our universe are deeply interrelated; our “notes” echo the harmonic rhythms of the earth, the sun, and the planets; and our “music” is deeply affected by theirs.

Sound isn’t just an adjunct to our being; sound is our being. Sound and musical patterning are in good part responsible for our existence and indeed that of the rest of the universe.

This breathtaking notion is hardly news to New Age seekers, sound healers, and practitioners of yogic and other ancient spiritual traditions. In the Nada Yogic culture in India, Nada Brahma refers to the idea that God (Brahma) is the ultimate sound or vibration (Nada) from which all of creation arises and ultimately returns. Everything in the universe is, at its essence, sound, and when we die, we return to the giant om of creation.

But now this theory of sound as creator is no longer just some fanciful New Age notion or bit of ancient esoterica. It is being proven by science, and not by mavericks, but by orthodox engineers, biologists, and astrophysicists, working at leading universities: Oxford, Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UCLA.

Each of them has stumbled upon a tiny piece of evidence of what compounds into a radically different perception of the world.

What’s more, the sounds from these different quarters aren’t random. The harmonics of different aspects of our universe are deeply interrelated; our notes echo the harmonic rhythms of the earth, the sun, and the planets, and our own “music” is deeply affected by theirs.

Taken together, these discoveries reveal a universe comprised of one vast, interlocking pattern of sound and rhythm, from the vibration of the tiniest of molecules to the creation of vast and distant galaxies.

They constitute, in effect, a theory of everything.