Episode 13: The Low Frequency Truth of Vibrations

The terms frequency and vibration are thrown around a lot in the witchcraft community, especially amongst New Age practitioners, to describe people in certain states, explain the magical properties of crystals, and suggest that by controlling these frequencies we can reach our highest self. The hosts take on this topic and attempt to explain what these terms actually are, how we empirically measure them, and address their misconceptions in magic. This is going to be a fun one, so grab a wine glass and bring it to the lab where we'll try to break it with the resonant frequency! ;)

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Resources/Additional Material:

Basic Understanding of Frequencies and Vibrations: http://w3.ric.edu/faculty/PSCI103/waves/waves_notes.pdf

https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/waves (this is a really good introduction to this topic from a physics point of view)

History of FRET: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0898656820302461

Binaural Beat: A Failure to Enhance EEG Power and Emotional Arousal: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5694826/

Efficacy of binaural auditory beats in cognition, anxiety, and pain perception: a meta-analysis: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-018-1066-8

Musica Universalis image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis#/media/File:The_music_of_the_spheres.jpg

Musical Modes and their mystical meanings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(music)#Use

Books:

The Black Arts by Richard Cavendish (mentions pneuma, a concept historically related to this discussion)

Early Music Songs that Make Felicity Cry:

Fortuna Desperata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCS9I8NLvuA

Stella Splendens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x25mD35ZDm0

Miserere mei: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3v9unphfi0

A chantar m'er: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiv3_nW-2M8

Dido's Lament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOIAi2XwuWo (song that makes Astra cry)