Secret Sounds ~ Ultimate Healing

Your Personal Guide to a Better Life using Sharry Edwards’ Revolutionary “Secret Sounds”

© 2011

by Wings of Light

Oil City, PA 16301

Second printing 2011

Ebook ISBN: 9780982281437

Disclaimer

Please know that this book is not intended to serve as medical advice or to make any recommendations or prescriptions for medical treatment. Anyone reading this book should consult a licensed medical doctor before making any decisions regarding their personal health care. Any action taken based on what is presented here is solely, the reader’s responsibility.

The book is written for educational and informational purposes only. It is an expression of my opinion and I believe that there is valuable information contained in this volume. I have endeavored to insure, to the best of my ability, that everything in this book is true and accurate. If there are errors they are my responsibility – I did my best.

 Thank you.  Jill Mattson

Overture

Through the years many top notch, professional journalists have approached me about writing articles about my pioneering work, Human BioAcoustics.  Invariably we would meet; sometimes, multi-hour interviews were requested.  Months would go by until eventually the authors would come back to me explaining that they could not get their mind around the incredible work we were doing.  The implications were too vast, the outcomes too extraordinary.  The genre had much ancient history; and too much of mankind’s future at stake for them to be able to create any meaningful composition.  The idea that sounds, without accompanying music, have potential to be an efficient healing modality was more than they could comprehend.  The concept that frequency could have created our universe and could be used to allow dominion over our biology and our DNA was a notion far afield from their reality.

I was far less than cautiously hopeful when Jill Mattson approached me to write a book about our work with sound and frequency-based biomarkers.  I had read Jill’s previous book about healing and knew that she had a depth of knowledge about the history of ancient sound.  We met to discuss some ideas but I had little faith that anything would ever come from our exchange.

I was astonished, shortly thereafter, when Jill delivered a 400 page manuscript that encompassed my early life and history. It included a narrative of the initial development of the processes of Vocal Profiling right through to our most advanced data and strategies dealing with the effects of sound on human physiology and psychology.  I was overwhelmed with appreciation that finally someone understood our efforts.  Jill understood our work from an outsider’s perspective, and as well as any insider who had been working with us for the last twenty years.

I was stunned at how she had originally woven all of our information into a compelling story about future medicine while simultaneously lacing it with ancient mystery school philosophies.

Jill, as an amateur writer, has brought together a unique awareness of Human BioAcoustics that professionals could not manage. Perhaps, it is her perspective as a violin performance aficionado that provides her with such an uninhibited view of what it takes to allow the soul to perceive sound as both pleasure and wellness.  Now through Jill’s publication about our work with BioAcoustic Biology, the rest of the world may benefit from what we have known for the past few decades.

Sharry Edwards

Getting started:
A little bit about the book

I first met Sharry Edwards in the fall of 2008 in Columbus, Ohio. She was soft-spoken and reserved, but the power of her presence and the feeling of quiet strength she radiated immediately struck me. I knew of Sharry’s reputation from my years of study on the healing ability of sound. After meeting Sharry in person, I immediately wanted to include a chapter on her in an upcoming book. But after I began to digest the wealth of information I uncovered during my research, it became clear I could write several books on her alone. Since the realities in my life do not permit me the time for several books, I tried to condense the information into this one.

This book is organized into three parts. The book can be read cover to cover in the order it is presented, however that may not be for everyone. Part One: Sharry’s Story, is aimed at the general reader. This section gives a brief biography of Sharry and presents her basic work and accomplishments in a nontechnical presentation. We see important events that affected her early development and the foundations of BioAcoustics. Part Two: Technical Details, continues where Part One left off but contains more challenging technical content. This part of the book can be read selectively depending upon the reader’s background and interest level (It could be a reference source for more advanced sound enthusiasts). Finally, Part Three: Applications, focuses on how one can learn more about Sharry’s pioneering work and start to apply her methods. Here I explore free beneficial applications of using sound in your voice that fit compatibly with Sharry’s teachings. This section is intended for those interested in immediately starting with their own explorations of the benefits of BioAcoustics,{1} and better health through sound.

Finally, I want to thank Sharry and her gracious colleagues, workers, family and friends for their time, openness and indispensable help in writing this book. Special thanks also go to Steven Flinchbaugh, Rebecca Gonzalez, Robert Schrichte, Barbara Schroeder, Neil Flinchbaugh, Jesse Near and Vamshi Krishna.

Contents

Overture

Getting started: A little bit about the book

Introduction

PART ONE SHARRY’S STORY

Chapter One  How it Began

Chapter Two  Receiving Sharry’s Gifts

Chapter Three  Sharry’s Legend Grows

PART TWO TECHNICAL DETAILS

Introduction

Chapter One  The Frequency Transport System

Chapter Two  The Voiceprint

Chapter Three  Music in the Body

Chapter Four  Processing Frequencies

Chapter Five  More Body Math

Chapter Six  Pursuit of Scientific Development

Chapter Seven  Musical Scales

Chapter Eight  Rhythm in the Body

Chapter Nine  Frequency Interactions

Chapter Ten  Musical Astrology

PART THREE

Introduction to Applications

Chapter One  Sound Health Services

Chapter Two  The nanoVoice

Chapter Three  Emotionally Healing Music

Chapter Four  Toning

Chapter Five  The Sounds of Silence

Chapter Six  Changing your Voice

Chapter Seven  Conclusion

Appendix A  The Healing Flower Symphonies

Appendix B The Suppression of Ancient Harmonic Science

About the Author

Introduction

What do Newton, Shakespeare, Einstein, Lincoln, Mozart, Ghandi and Marx have in common?  These extraordinary people, at the most basic level, saw the world differently than anyone before them. True genius is rare. Through their insights and their lives they changed the world forever.

In similar fashion, Sharry Edwards is currently making unparalleled insights into the nature of healing and the role of sound to accomplish near miraculous results. Sharry is making contributions in this world that will have lasting, beneficial impacts on mankind.

It has been my privilege to speak at length with Sharry and to learn firsthand about her groundbreaking achievements and the new science she is exploring, time for which I am deeply grateful. Her vision, dedication and desire to learn more about the powerful sounds contained in our voices inspire me. I appreciate her willingness to share her gifts and ideas; this has expanded my thinking to consider a bigger reality than the one that I see and hear with only my eyes and ears.

Sharry is the recognized leader in the emerging field of human BioAcoustics, literally meaning “life sounds.” This field encompasses the study of sound and its effects on living organisms. She pioneered sound-based therapies for health care professionals and created self-discovery tools with astounding results. Sharry received the New Scientist of the Year Award from the International Association of New Science in 2001 and was also a recipient of the prestigious O. Spurgeon English Humanitarian Award from the city of Philadelphia at Temple University in 2002.

Sharry devised a Vocal Profiling system based on the analysis of patterns hidden within the tones of a person’s voice. Our brain combines thousands of different frequencies to create our speaking voice with the net result that we perceive the human voice as one “soundtrack.” Fast Fourier Transformers graph the frequencies and volume of the voice. These graphs reflect complicated frequency interactions within the body, yielding simple and unique shapes. Sharry calls the resulting characteristic shapes the voice’s “architecture.”

This voice architecture holds critical information about the speaker. When we are ill individual pitches in our voice stretch outside of our normal architecture. The nature of these anomalous frequencies holds important clues to the underlying causes. So much information can be found within our voices, a holographic representation of ourselves.

Sharry reads and interprets “vocal codes.” Balancing tones harmonize the “stressed” frequencies, returning them to healthy coherence, producing tangible improvements to our well-being. These discoveries rock our belief systems regarding health and wellness. Sharry has often shown remarkable results in helping people who have exhausted conventional remedies. She has established a new approach that offers exciting information and hope for people with a wide array of health issues.

Sharry’s methods have shown many documented results, and much of this book attempts to explain her theories and observations and encourage others to conduct research to explore and verify them. My objectives include discussing elemental principals of how the body uses frequencies, vibrations and mathematics, and to present some applications of musical principals within the body’s daily operations. I relate Sharry’s profound discoveries to other modalities such as color healing and astrology, and conclude by suggesting new creative applications for using Sharry’s profound discoveries for wellness and deep personal transformation.

PART ONE
SHARRY’S STORY

Chapter One
 
How it Began

I got up extra early on a cold Saturday morning and dressed quickly. That in itself is quite an event - I normally hate getting out of bed. The reason for my uncharacteristic behavior was excitement over what I had learned during a recent visit to southeast Ohio. I had just returned home after a few days spent at Sharry Edwards’ Sound Health facility in Albany, Ohio. At Sharry’s special invitation, I attended the opening portion of her week-long introductory training course.

I enjoyed a few hours of one-on-one time with Sharry to better get to know her and to ask intimate questions on her work and her life. The new opportunities to learn about the power of sound to heal the human body, mind and spirit and the power of Sharry Edwards’ personality and presence had me floating. My mind was buzzing.

Upon arriving home late from Sharry’s offices, I had learned so many new concepts that my thoughts were overflowing like a flooded stream. I sat down at my computer in my loft office and I worked furiously for over two hours. About this time, my bored German shorthair tried to climb into my lap. This may seem like an innocent matter to dog lovers – but Danke weighs over 90 pounds. She wanted attention and she wanted to go outside – NOW.

I took my coat and my notebook to the backyard with the dog. After the mandatory short walk, I settled into my usual spot next to a grand old oak tree. Back to work.

Sharry is discovering things about sound and healing that seem miraculous. She is practicing a new science! I wondered how she ever got so far.

Pondering on Sharry’s work, I slumped back, leaning against the tree. My vision blurred and I drifted into a state of deep relaxation – like falling asleep. In my mind’s eye I perceived a giant, clear, rubbery bubble. Next thing, I was floating inside the bubble. It was like being inside a dream. I felt safe, secure, loved and cherished. I never wanted to wake up or leave that bubble.

The bubble transported me up into the sky – my own “magic carpet,” but more like a magic balloon. I found I could go wherever I wanted, whenever I wanted. I traveled into the past and hovered in front of a humble farmhouse where I spied Sharry Edwards as a young child, living in a pristine Appalachian setting. I could look into Sharry’s being from my bubble perch. She was born with extraordinary gifts, particularly her hearing.

As I got closer I saw that it was not a farmhouse but an out building that looked like a corncrib. A corncrib has spaces in between the boards to let the corn breathe. Sharry’s family had lined the siding slots with cardboard to protect themselves from the elements.

The outbuilding where Sharry lived as a young child

The bubble glistened as it turned and I saw Sharry as a child of about three. In the front of the corncrib, there were little steps and a few boards were aligned to create a loft. The only window in the corncrib was in the front, near the loft. This was where Sharry and her brother slept. Boards were attached to the walls and served as shelves for canned goods. Sharry's mother used old cotton feedbags as curtains in front of these shelves. I saw little Sharry pull aside the curtain to get something to eat. Coming eye to eye with a large snake which must have been looking for food, she let out a huge scream!

Sharry’s environment was not contaminated with electromagnetic radiation and frequencies that are prevalent in the air today. The space was more acoustically pure without TVs, microwaves, cell phones, electronics, radio and computer energies. It is speculated that this setting contributed to Sharry’s remarkable hearing abilities. It was clear Sharry’s family thrived on this farm eating only fresh, natural whole foods – without toxins and food additives tainting their bodies.

My bubble moved me ahead in time to a deep stream on the same farm. I glimpsed a five-year-old Sharry lying on the ground, soaking wet and exhausted. I somehow knew that she had almost drowned in that nearby creek. I have heard documented reports of people spontaneously acquiring extraordinary abilities or senses after experiencing a near-death encounter. This event greatly enhanced Sharry’s already remarkable hearing abilities. After this incident she began to hear many “extrasensory” sounds – from unusual sources – that most do not hear.

Human ears have a nearly dormant mechanism called the sacculus.{2} This organ was used in our evolutionary past. The sacculus is a sonar-sensing device that is highly developed in dolphins, but humans do not use it in this manner. We use the sacculus to help our equilibrium and to tell us which way is up or down when underwater. Sharry’s sacculus was affected by the near drowning experience and she gained sonar-like sensing capabilities to complement her acute hearing. Sharry did pay the price of having her sense of equilibrium distorted with the changes.

Dolphins have highly evolved sonar-sensing capabilities. They transmit sonar waves, which reflect off of objects in their path. They can interpret the returned waves just as a ship’s sonar does. This gives them another sense, another window-on-the-world to receive additional information.

Dolphins also have an extraordinary hearing range compared to humans. While the average adult hears sounds that vibrate at 20 cycles per second to about 20,000 cycles per second, dolphins hear and utilize sounds that vibrate up to 180,000 cycles per second. They hear and understand more frequencies than we do. These mammals can also voice numerous complex and haunting sounds that can travel impressive distances underwater. It is interesting that Sharry shares many of the remarkable abilities to use sound similar to a dolphin.

My clear bubble rolled forward in time and I observed a young Sharry, who now lived with her family in a small farmhouse. She regularly heard unusual sounds emanating from her grandmother, who had diabetes. When her aunt started emitting the same sounds, Sharry told the aunt that she might have diabetes. When the aunt heard this, she yelled at Sharry, calling her a “little witch.” What a disturbing event for a young girl. Perhaps the aunt felt that her privacy was invaded or did not want to hear such a diagnosis. Later the aunt tested positive for diabetes.

As a child, Sharry believed everyone heard things as she did. I observed Sharry repeating what one of her aunts had said. The aunt replied that she did not say what Sharry attributed to her. She only thought the comment. Rather than marvel at this, the aunt branded Sharry’s perceptions as something paranormal. The event would be confusing on its own, but add in the negative reaction from family and difficulties in Sharry’s childhood become apparent.

I witnessed a young Sharry becoming reticent to share what she heard to avoid painful situations of being singled out for her hearing abilities. It was as if she tried to ignore her gift so that she would fit in with others and be more “normal.”

I understood that Sharry had many painful moments, because she was different. At an early age she did not understand that she possessed a beautiful gift. After all, many people distance themselves from those who are “different.”

When Sharry was still quite young, she played in the woods with her cousin. The two little girls found a shiny tall tube with a pattern of three interlocking triangles on its side. Sharry and her cousin had never seen anything like this. The event influenced Sharry and she believed it helped shape her outlook on life. The symbol retained special meaning throughout her life and now serves as a logo that grace CD covers and booklets for her company.

Sharry had the shape of the three triangles made into a sculpture. From one view, it resembles the three interlocking triangles which create a tiny triangle in the middle. From another view it resembles this picture which has likeness to the Templar cross. Sharry now uses this design in one of her logos, see below.

The shadow of the replica of the design that Sharry found

Although there were many painful moments in Sharry’s childhood, several people foreshadowed the contributions that Sharry would make to the human race. A palm reader noted a shape of a beehive on Sharry’s palm, relaying that this meant she had extraordinary musical ability and would heal others with her voice. Sharry sent a postcard to Ruth Montgomery, an intuitive, prophet and author. She asked her a question regarding a book that Ruth had published. Ruth wrote back and referenced the “cigar” shaped object with the three triangles that the girls had found in the woods and the unique energy that came from it. The object did have a cigar shape, but Sharry had not shared that information with her. Ruth’s mention of the shiny object found in the woods shook Sharry up and scared her. Ruth explained that Sharry’s life’s purpose was to use sound to heal people. These fortune-telling incidents confirmed what Sharry already knew deep down - for better or worse, she possessed abilities far exceeding those possessed by the average person.

To accept our differences as gifts and pursue the understanding and perfection of them amidst innumerable obstacles is the test of true character. Sharry had many such tests, each making her grow stronger and ever more resolved in her purpose.

Sharry’s remarkable hearing abilities proved to be the catalyst for her lifelong journey of sound healing discoveries. With her unique hearing abilities she has identified common sounds that signal physical maladies. She also hears thoughts, emotions and even information from people’s subconscious minds. Sharry hears sounds coming from both living and inanimate objects. She sometimes hears tones from the ground, rocks, trees and plants, shapes, medicines and more. She uses this information to come up with unconventional conclusions holding an astonishing number of varied uses.

Giving voice to the sounds she hears, Sharry produces tones to affect blood pressure, eliminate headaches, scramble recorded information on tapes, affect the preservation of foods and endless diverse and amazing applications.

From my bubble, I wondered what the special sounds that Sharry produced were like. Looking down, I saw her get very still and then make a ringing sound with her voice, like someone rubbing their finger on a crystal glass to produce a high pitch that was rich with harmonics. It was as if she heard my thought and produced my sound. The sounds that she hears are often above our hearing range. When she sings them, she is taking then down octaves into her vocal range.  I had never heard a person make a sound like that before!

The act of hearing plays a crucial role in developing our ability to speak or verbalize sounds. Deaf people struggle in learning to speak mainly because they cannot hear and learn by imitation. Dr. Alfred Tomatis{3} discovered that we must hear a sound in order to accurately duplicate the same sound with our voices. Not surprisingly, Sharry hears sounds that are beyond the abilities of other people and she can similarly voice sounds that others cannot.

I watched while Sharry continued to make my “sound.” She can hear the pitch as well as the rhythm of the sound. Next she drew a picture on a piece of paper - she was drawing my sound. The drawing looked like the edge of a circular saw blade. The notches in the saw represented the periodic changes in volume, representing the rhythm. Often sounds have a periodic rhythm pattern. I wondered about the mystery of what this shape, rhythm and sound meant.

I wished that I could have been given this gift like Sharry had. She deciphered many mysteries from the unique sounds that only she heard. With this information she created a seemingly miraculous system to benefit people. Miracles can be science that we do not yet understand.

Sharry’s hearing gift presented her with opportunities to explore and uncover secrets about sound healing that are beginning to be verified by science and are what she calls the “sonistry” of tomorrow. In the book, The Sleeping Prophet, Edgar Casey predicted that the medicine of the future would utilize frequencies. When he made the prediction it sounded crazy, today this seems like destiny.

My bubble wobbled, jarring me. The interruption caused me to drop these thoughts. I looked in on Sharry listening to the sounds emanating from trees, rocks, flowers and the ground. Sharry can even hear sounds that she perceives stemming from the side of people’s heads, near their ears. With this magical bubble I was able to hear a rock sound as Sharry heard it. What Sharry heard was a low rumbling noise. Pythagoras called a stone’s sound “frozen music.” Pythagoras also heard sounds of harmonics coming from objects, much like the sounds that Sharry describes. I listened to Sharry whispering that rocks have consciousness. Perhaps consciousness makes some sort of sound and that is what she is hearing.

Moving on, I saw Sharry listening to a crowd of people. Some people had screeches in their voices while others made pleasant sounds. Some of the sounds were pleasing, blending together, while others stuck out like a screeching chalk on a blackboard. The noises from a crowd are overwhelming and chaotic. There is so much more going on acoustically than most of us realize.

I thought about the shrieks and jarring sounds that Sharry perceived coming from people. What do these discordant sounds mean? Sharry’s gets information about a person’s physical, mental and emotional states from her special hearing. She can ascertain when a person is being untruthful, based only on their voice.

Sharry Edwards

People inevitably like the comfort of their “secrets” and resent another who can expose their lies. This made me think about how much I value my privacy. How much would our lives change if we knew people’s thoughts, feelings and real opinions? If our lies were immediately exposed, what effect would that have on our governments? Divorce rate? The sales industry? Stock market exchange? Business? Many people hide self-serving interests and fears behind dishonesty. I concluded that as a population we do not want complete honesty. Instead of envying Sharry’s gift I felt compassion for her; having such a gift wasn’t easy.

Peering out of the bubble, I saw Sharry doing chores on the family farm and as a result she missed school frequently. She was the only adopted child of this farming couple and was teased about being their “son” because of the heavy manual labor she performed. Farming requires many laborious hours and her parents needed help. She was a good daughter and worked hard. I saw her dreaming of going to college but not, believing that she would ever have the chance.

My bubble moved on forward in time. She was shopping with her husband and he asked her to pick out a good grapefruit. She chose one, mentioning that it sounded good. He responded that she may not want to let everyone know that she listens to grapefruits. She had long been aware of how unique her hearing was: her awareness that other people were not ready to accept it concerned her greatly.

As this scene faded out, I saw Sharry deep in thought, her fingers dancing at the typewriter. She was typing a paper about tinnitus{4} and becoming excited – could this concept explain the sounds that she heard? She scheduled a hearing test at a free clinic.

I moved out of that scene and into the audiologist’s office. When the tests for tinnitus were normal, the audiologist asked Sharry to make sounds like the ones that she heard. When she did, he nearly collapsed. He had high blood pressure and her vocalizations drastically and quickly seemed to lower his blood pressure. This sudden change - which was brought on with her voice - caused his near lapse of consciousness.

The audiologist was a martial arts student and he recalled that sounds similar to Sharry’s were used by the ancient Samurai to disable their opponents. This man was beginning to understand Sharry’s hearing gifts! Research results later revealed that the sounds she voiced could alter one’s blood pressure as much as 30 points. A drop in blood pressure of this magnitude is significant; in fact, a sudden fall of 30 points is enough to severely disable a person. Sharry learned that not only could she hear more than other people but, her voice could make significant changes in a key aspect of a person’s physiology.

After this experience Sharry began an earnest, thirty-year exploration of the unique sounds that she could hear and reproduce. She was destined to be a pioneer in BioAcoustics, which is defined as a branch of science concerned with the production of sound and its effects on living systems. She participated in a double blind experimental study with Ohio University’s school of nursing in a scientific investigation that examined her ability to alter people’s blood pressure. The results were astounding and showed that she possessed the ability to alter blood pressure with high statistical significance. So much so, that it made some scientists raise their eyebrows and muse if the results were contrived. The study could not be replicated with any other person because Sharry was the only known person at that time to possess such hearing and vocal talents. Since then, sound has been shown to influence blood pressure.

I watched Sharry undergo two more hearing evaluations that also validated her unique abilities. It was speculated that the cochlea in her ear was wound tighter than most, enabling her to hear sounds that others could not. In addition, she had the ability to voice extraordinary sounds, including a perfect sine wave.

I did not know what a simple sine wave sounded like but from my bubble, I saw Sharry’s audiologist explain that our voices have a complex wave structure.{5} If graphed, it looks like a ragged, highly irregular shape. A sine wave in contrast looks like a textbook picture of a sound wave - symmetrical -and absolutely perfect. Her sine wave sound reminded me of a something made by a machine.

Sharry’s curiosity drove her to scientifically investigate what she perceived with her extrasensory hearing. There was no research in this area to review. Rather than start with a theory and then attempt to prove it, Sharry observed the effects of sounds and then took a causal, trial-and-error approach to learning. She knew that her sounds had the ability to influence physical issues. Why did this work? What was she hearing and how did these sounds affect people? Sharry observed incredible results regarding the impact of frequencies on people. In her relentless process of answering these questions, a whole new field of healing and deeper understanding of the body was unveiled.

A World of Frequencies

Some thinkers have long held a fundamental model of the universe that is based on frequencies. Our world is in a state of constant oscillation at many levels. Our cells, organs, DNA, heartbeats, thoughts, feelings and environments all vibrate, creating their own waves.

Dr. William Tiller, Ph.D.,{6} Chairman of Stanford’s Materials Science Department, conducted extensive research to understand the vibrational signals of the body. He writes, “Each atom and molecule, cell and gland in our body has a characteristic frequency at which it will both absorb and emit radiation. Each cell generates its own minute vibrational signals from within that must stay in resonance with every other cell for the body to remain healthy.”{7}

James Oschman offers this explanation about the vibrations of hormones: “At an atomic scale, physical contact between two molecules has less meaning than the way they interact energetically. As a hormone approaches the receptor, the electronic structures of both molecules begin to change. Bonds bend, twist and stretch: parts rotate and wiggle. The orientation and shape of the molecules change so that the active site of the hormone can approach the active site of the receptor. The recognition of a specific hormone by a receptor depends on resonant vibratory interactions, comparable to the interactions of tuning forks.”{8}

Waves interact and change each other. For example, when the crests of two sound waves overlap or interfere constructively they combine into a new wave that is the sum of the heights of both waves. When the trough of one wave and the crest of another wave coincide, they combine and cancel each other out. Therefore, any sound wave can be affected by another sound wave.

Although we do not understand all of the details of the science of sound interactions in our complex bodies, Sharry is definitely onto something significant. Using sound as her medicine, she is harnessing a great power for our advantage. Being open to a world of unimagined new ideas, Sharry learns from watching sound transform people’s bodies and observing sound in her world.

Sounds have the ability to prickle our skin, make our knees weak, increase perspiration, stimulate irregular heartbeats, create loss of bladder control or cause emotional reactions. Sounds can accelerate bones healing and break up kidney stones. Sounds can be used as weapons and they can influence people’s brainwaves. In trained hands, sound is a powerful force.

This relationship also works in reverse. Changing body chemistry creates different sounds. For example, a young man’s hormonal change during puberty affects his voice, lowering his voice tones. In another example, our voice changes when we get sick.

When the eye perceives vibrations of light, it converts these signals into electro-chemical energy. These impulses are passed to the brain where they are interpreted as visual data. When we hear sound, the frequencies are translated into electro-chemical impulses and interpreted in another region of the brain. The same sequence of events takes place when we are exposed to aromas, tactile stimulation, emotional situations, and so on. We interpret these vibrations after they reach the appropriate area of the brain.

The body does more than just interpret frequencies. Frequencies are also sent to various parts of our body via our neural network - another “body energy transport” system. The importance of processing frequencies goes beyond the sensual aspects such as hearing, seeing and feeling. We incorporate our sound environment and other vibrations into our total body energy. Sharry believes this is one reason why she gets impressive results by utilizing sounds that positively influence the body.

As we continue to gain greater understanding of the relationships between sound and our bodies, we can use sound as an effective alternative to expensive medicine modalities that often bring negative side effects. Perhaps vocal analysis could be used in conjunction with conventional treatments by our medical professionals, giving them better information about what is going on within the body, but at a significantly reduced cost. There is enormous potential for the creative applications of the power of sound, if properly harnessed.

Our Fundamental Frequencies

Our body has two sound receivers: our ears. They are about four to five inches apart yet, we do not hear separate sounds coming into each ear. If we did, it would be very distracting. We hear one uniform sound when a person talks. Our brain automatically combines sounds coming into our right and left ears. Similarly, all of the pitches in our voice are combined into the one tone that we hear.

Each pitch component has its own volume and phase relationships with other sounds.{9} Our overall fundamental frequency is more like a signature chord.

Some people increase their intellectual capacities by utilizing their brain’s ability to combine tones. When the brain hears a different frequency in each ear at close proximity and below 30 hertz, it averages the two frequencies so we only hear one averaged frequency, which is called a “binaural beat.” This is purposely done to engage both the right and left hemisphere of our brain, producing whole brain functioning, rather than operating in either right or left-brain mode. In this way, we can use the strengths of both brain hemispheres simultaneously, a powerful mental place to operate from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats

Using special software, Sharry can isolate and identify the pitches present in our voice. Through careful observation and trial-and-error testing, Sharry has been able to isolate and assign the frequencies correlated to each muscle and organ.

An analogy can be made between the voice and white light. White light is the combination of all colors of light. When white light is passed through a prism, we can see the breakout of the component frequencies as the colors of the rainbow.

The human voice is like a musical orchestra – all the instruments combine to produce one sound that can be beautiful and uplifting –we know that every instrument has contributed to the overall effect. The voice can even mimic the sound of an orchestra with the amazing abilities of our body’s instruments.  The vocal chords, the larynx, the diaphragm, the throat, the tongue, the mouth and teeth - together play the song that is the human voice.

A Sample Voiceprint

The vertical axis measures energy in decibels. The horizontal axis measures frequency in hertz.{10}

Sharrry uses many analogies to understand the depth and complexities of information contained in our voice. She has likened our voice to an aura, which is perceived by some as only one thing although it contains many complex types and categories of information. Like our aura, our voice has different layers. There are frequencies representing layers of brain waves as well as bioelectrical, bio-magnetic, and bio-chemical frequencies from other functions in our body. All the frequencies generated by our thoughts, emotions and bodies interact with the “vocal system” to create our unique voice which is literally a reflection of all that we are.

Energies and frequencies in the voice reflect the effects of emotions from our past, future, negative thinking and feelings, such as guilt or worries. Another source of dissonance in our voice is created when we are untruthful. Negative emotions in our voice distort the normal frequencies which many believe can result in health issues.

Dorinne Davis, author of Sound Bodies through Sound Therapy, advances this idea even further. She says that, not only do negative emotions alter other tones in our voices but they also create vibrations of their own. Fear and negative emotions produce harmful sounds. “A breakdown in the mind’s vibrational energy occurs when the mind creates its own noise or disturbances or when fear is introduced. Fear changes the mind’s responses and it also affects auditory processing.”{11}

Listening to the right pattern of frequencies can repair the dissonance that we create with our negative thinking and emotions. This can reverse the impact of negative emotions and “dis-ease.” It can dissipate undesirable developments, while stimulating new growth.

Some parts of our bodies have universal frequencies but each person’s overall combination of sounds, their voice, is unique. Our universal notes (such as the frequencies of the muscles) are combined with our own unique thoughts, actions and feelings, which have their own vibrations. There are many dazzling sounds coming from our bodies and they all interact in a unique way, creating a cellular tango - a complex sound matrix. Just as individual singers of a chorus create beautiful harmony, cells in our bodies and other vibrational influences can create intricate and elegant harmonies that affect each other in the dance of life. As a result, our composite frequencies are as unique as our fingerprints – our fundamental frequencies.

Otoacoustic Emissions

People attributed Sharry’s gift as clairaudience, a spiritual gift of extraordinary hearing, but gave no credence to it being a measurable physical phenomenon. Sharry wanted objective, concrete knowledge regarding her extraordinary ability. Yet, she found no scientific explanations. Finally, Sharry learned a partial explanation for the sounds that she heard in close proximity to people’s heads. In 1978 Dr. David Kemp,{12} who wrote Understanding Otoacoustic Emissions, reported that the ear emits sounds entitled otoacoustic emissions (OEs), “which are small sounds caused by the motion of the eardrum in response to vibrations deep within the cochlea.” The cochlea does more than receive sound. It also produces low intensity sounds called otoacoustic emissions. Dr. Kemp confirmed the existence of these tiny sounds when ultralow-noise microphones were developed. Sharry picks up these tiny sounds with her unaided ear.

Researchers have documented that otoacoustic emission sounds are created by various mechanisms within the inner ear. These sounds are related to the amplification function of the cochlea, within the ear. With no external stimulation, the cochlear mechanism amplifies and produces sound.

Several lines of evidence suggest that outer hair cells enhance cochlear sensitivity allowing frequency selectivity and acting as the energy sources for this amplification. Another explanation is, that the sounds are produced by the cochlear outer hair cells as they expand and contract. Yet, another idea suggests that increased inner cochlea fluid motion excites inner ear hair cells, which then vibrate and produce the tiny sounds.{13}

Some believe that healthy ears produce sounds spontaneously when internal sounds are processed and amplified.{14} “Hearing is an active process – the ear actually puts energy into the incoming sound waves to replace energy lost as sound is absorbed by the ear’s structure”, says Stephen Beeby, an engineer at the University of Southhampton, United Kingdom. “This process helps us hear things we otherwise would not, but as a result some of the energy added by the hair cells escapes, as otoacoustic emissions.”{15}

The study of otoacoustic emissions has expanded to include how selective pitches are formed within the ear. Johns Hopkins University research reveals that one of the otoacoustic emissions is produced by the pineal gland and is amplified by the stapedius muscle of the inner ear.

James Cowan{16}, in his book Environmental Acoustics: Industrial Health and Safety, says that due to its shape, the ear canal can only create the pitches of the notes F, F#, G, G#, and A. Cowan writes, “The ear canal is, on average, a tube about 1.2 inches in length depending on age and physiology. The ear canal, which is open on one end and closed by the ear drum on the other, actually resembles a pipe organ and can resonate between 2700 and 3500 hertz (equating to the notes F through A).”{17}

Additional otoacoustic pitches (other than the notes F through A) are recorded coming from the ear. Sharry hypothesizes that the brain creates these frequencies, which are then amplified through the brain fluids (liquids are a highly efficient conductor of sounds), causing the otoacoustic pitches.

Renato Nobili, an Italian physicist who proved that electromagnetic frequencies occur in animal tissues, concurs that currents and wave patterns are found in body fluids. Nobili “found that the fluid in cells holds currents and wave patterns and that these correspond with wave patterns picked up by electroencephalogram (EEC) readings in the brain and scalp.”{18}

Scientists have hints about how these additional otoacoustic tones are relayed to the ear, but no one knows for sure how they are transmitted. Since we can record them outside of the ear, we know they get there somehow.

Dr. Tomatis, a French ear, nose and throat specialist, documents the flow of information from the ear to the brain. He states, “the cochlea of the ear breaks sound into its various elements and sends its analysis to the brain… The brain begins its process of differentiating frequencies and sending them to pitch receptors. Then after gathering in the temporal cortex of the brain they are distributed throughout the brain.”{19} Dr. Tomatis confirms that information goes from the ear to the brain.

Dr. Tomatis studied the path of the voice within our bodies and its travels along a skeleton. Tomatis believed that the bones of the skull conduct sound waves. To offer a simplistic proof, he suggested that if one hums and allows the sound to reverberate throughout his body, rather than project the humming sound in front of his face, he will feel the voice vibrating his skull.{20}

It has been postulated that through bone conduction via the skull, the ear receives brain wave frequencies and amplifies them. This may be why some otoacoustic emissions are different frequencies than the ones our ear hairs produce.

Otoacoustic emissions are produced even while we are comatose or asleep. Testing otoacoustic emissions is a standard method to determine hearing functions in newborn infants. “Anecdotally, audiologists say they can tell different people apart – men, women, even people of different ethnic origins – by the profile of widely varying types of otoacoustic emissions.”{21} Scientists are attempting to figure out if otoacoutics emissions can be used like biometry, iris scans or finger prints.”{22}

Dorinne Davis, audiologist from the Davis Center, concluded after an experiment that 100% of subjects had an otoacoustic emission that matched a BioAcoustic frequency in their voice that was stressed or unharmonious.{23}

“A myriad of publications on PubMed indicate that disease states can be verified through evaluation of otoacoustic emissions.”{24} A John Hopkins University’s researcher, Wendell Brown, substantiated that the ear emits sounds that can be used to diagnose disease. There are numerous studies now relating otoacoustic emissions to specific diseases. This link between otoacoustic emissions and disease may help explain why Sharry can “hear” that an individual may be prone to or suffering from a certain disease.

Guy Berard, MD, reported that “the ear has a full range of frequencies, which can be monitored, recorded and retrained: with the effect being the reversal of diseases such as autistic disorder. According to the research reports, the idea is simple and effective: Change the frequency and the body responds by eliminating the disease.”{25}

The body has a feedback loop to diagnose and provide a set of healing and prescriptive frequencies. The loop consists of our voice, which produces sound and our ear that perceives it. The voice emits the composite sounds of our physical, emotional and mental health, signaling when help is needed. This immediately alerts our body to specific health problems. Our bodies instinctively know how to fight an infection, heal a wound or release negative emotion (crying, for example).  Perhaps part of the inter-body communication includes otoacoutic emissions.

Sharry believes that our ears transmit otoacoustic emissions as stabilizing sounds, which constantly provide healing and stabilize frequencies to the body. This subtle sound energy playing in the background could be part of the body’s self-diagnosis and self-repair mechanisms. Together hearing and voicing of sound create an intra-body communication system on a deeper level. The voice reflects what frequencies are in our bodies and the ears radiate what frequencies we need.

Dr. Tomatis’s work demonstrates that the sound based communication system in the body affects more than our health. Correcting people’s hearing also results in improvements in their learning and emotional problems.{26}

Sharry hears frequencies near the sides of people’s heads that she correlates to emotions, thoughts and health. Not surprisingly, Sharry suspects a link between otoacoustic emissions and our psychological makeup. If our body is aware of otoacoustic emissions on a subconscious level, this could offer an explanation of how people intuitively “sense” other’s emotions and thoughts. At times people sense a strong feeling, without an outward explanation for it. For example, we go into a room and feel that we can “cut the air with a knife.” Our eyes tell us that everything is fine, but we sense something else. At times we accurately feel people’s underlying emotions and thoughts. Are people’s emotions and thoughts reflected in tiny sounds emitted from their ears? Can we, on a deep level receive this communication and interpret it?

The human mind has the ability to select what information it processes consciously. We can focus on one thing, and block out attention paid to something else. For example, we can listen to the teacher lecturing in the classroom or the whispers of the girl sitting next to us. We choose which information is more important and push the other information into the background. We constantly make choices about what is important to us, and the body focuses on the information we deem to be important.

Dr. Tomatis categorizes focusing on sound as “listening,” while he classifies “hearing” as the absence of paying attention to sound. “Hearing is a superficial use of one’s ear, while listening implies an act of will to connect with the sonic environment and learn what must be known. Listening is paying attention to sound and becoming actively involved in it… The psyche and openness to the outside world interact through the ear. In truth this phenomenon applies to all the sensory organs, but with audition the impact is most remarkable.”{27} Tomatis sums up the process of listening, “The mind impacts audition and the ear impacts the mind.”{28} What sounds we focus on are affected by our psyche and hence affect us mentally, emotionally and physically.

The human mind regularly gives dominance to information coming from our sense of sight, dismissing our feelings and sounds. The cliché is that “seeing is believing.” People agree that if we all look at a red dress, that it is unquestionably red. In truth, red is the only thing it isn’t. The dye in the dress does not absorb the color wavelengths of red, and hence the red color wavelengths are reflected back to our eyes. Information from our eyesight does not reveal all the available information, but we think it does.

As we develop our visual sense becomes increasingly dominant. If we think about where the essence of “ourselves” is, most people say “it” is behind their eye as opposed to their ears, heart or brain. This reflects our priority of believing visual information rather than other sensory data. It is normal that humans assign less credibility to their feelings and intuition as information from these sources seem fleeting. We can see something and verify its permanence, but sounds and feelings are here then gone. The more we believe only what we see, the more we diminish our intuitive and hearing abilities. Sharry is a living example that the sense of hearing can lead to a highly evolved ability to understand the world around us. The sense of hearing adds depth and dimension to our reality.

Back to the Bubble

This image blurred. From my bubble I saw that Sharry received her undergraduate degree over a twelve year period while she raised three children and then she pursued her master’s degree. She was the first person in her family to get a high school degree, much less, a college degree.