If you think about it, our bodies are constantly in motion even while we sit or sleep; hearts beat, blood circulates, peristalsis drives waste matter through the gut, molecules penetrate cell membranes, every cell, & even our very DNA, is constantly dividing
Movement means vibration. Vibration can certainly damage structures - think only of the effects of heavy traffic on our roads. How much can changes in bodily movement or vibration cause illness?
Bowel cancer might be connected to the amount of fibre in our diets - but might it not also be related to the ease with which we can empty our bowels whenever we feel the urge? Nowadays we in the West do not generally need to wait hours before we can find a toilet, nor sit in an ice cold privy at the end of the garden. Might not the apparent link between fibre in the African diet & lack of bowel cancer in fact be a link between socially determined ease of evacuation & lack of cancer?
We also feel the need for underwear to control the movement of our bodies; could breast cancer be caused by the restriction of the brassiere - particularly because so many women seem to feel the need to wear one that is several sizes too small?
More fancifully still, how much might we be aware of, respond to, other peoples vibrations? True, we are generally not aware even of our own vibrations, except when something goes wrong & we have palpitations or indigestion. But how much is our skin a membrane designed to damp down vibrations, unlike the skin of a drum which is designed to transmit them?
Might vibrations even decide our love or lust for other people? For what else might transmit these special messages? We are told that it is hormones - but how do these communicate our desires & feelings? Lust in particular is transient
In my schooldays the concepts of highest common factor or lowest common multiple were an important part of arithmetic - common problems required us to calculate when bells in a peal would next chime together. Perhaps then, lust is caused by 2 peoples vibrations moving in to sync, & disappears when their different frequencies, however minute the difference, means that they inevitably move out of tune. Perhaps the kind of enduring love, which some are lucky enough to find replaces lust, is simply a consequence of lower level, more permanent vibrations, in constant harmony
Vibrations after all are known to have important effects on the human body & psyche. Drumming can drive people wild, as can very low frequency hums, which many people cannot even hear, but to which others are hyper-sensitive. The problems with the millennium bridge over the Thames have been attributed to people automatically moving into synchronisation with the sway
This theory of vibrations might also explain how acupuncture works - the insertion of needles ought to damp down the vibration of nerves or muscles (rather like changing the fingering while playing a violin?). After all modern anaesthesia depends in part on the use of muscle relaxants, presumably to damp down all motion or vibration in the muscles, & hence to avert the patients experience of pain
I have just come across a note about something I heard on the radio [in 1999?] about the excess numbers of death from heart failure following the earth tremors in California; in some cases these deaths were attributed to fear, leading to a flood of calcium to the heart, which was then literally turned to stone. But how much might it be the body going out of sync because of the unusual vibration?
Travelling to an even wilder shore, could these kinds of vibration explain morphic resonance?
