Kymatik Cymatics The Structure and Dynamics of Waves and Vibrations. Two volumes

by Hans Jenny

This is a book that can profoundly alter how you see your world. For decades, students of sacred geometry, mandalas, new science, metaphysics, and sound healing have prized these hard-to-find volumes. This newly republished, deluxe edition contains the complete text and photographs from the previous two volumes of Dr. Hans Jenny's groundbreaking books — Cymatics and Cymatics, Vol. II — which vividly depict how audible sound structures matter. This comprehensive edition also features a new introduction by Christiaan Stuten, who assisted Jenny for fourteen years, photographing many of the stunning images in the book, and a new commentary on cymatics by John Beaulieu, the author of Music and Sound in the Healing Arts. More than 350 photos, including 16 full-page color images, portray Dr. Jenny 's fascinating and meticulous scientific experiments in which audible sounds excite powders, pastes, and liquids into lifelike, flowing forms that reflect a variety of patterns found throughout nature, art, and architecture. Author Hans Jenny (1904 1972) was a Swiss medical doctor, artist, teacher, and research scientist, who pioneered the study of wave phenomena known as Cymatics. Out of his broad knowledge of science and philosophy, he explored the vast diversity of life forms, always with an eye toward the wholeness of nature. Firmly rooted in phenomenology, he was, at the same time, on the leading edge of "systems thinking."

Genres: Science, Art, Philosophy, Music, Mathematics

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1967

Reviews

[Meara · Rating 5 out of 5]

If I had a school, this would be required reading, grades K-8.

[Jeremy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really cool, however much of the written information is repetitive.

[Kitap · Rating 4 out of 5]

In attempting to leave the cymatic phenomenon intact and unharmed in our intuitive vision, we can derive from it the following spectrum with form at one end and movement at the other. figurate, patterned and textural on the one hand, turbulent, circulating, kinetic and dynamic on the other, and in the centre, acting in either direction, creating and forming everything, the wave field, and thus as causa prima, creating and sustaining the whole, the causa prima creans of all: vibration. (pp. 148, 151)

[W]e cannot say that we have a morphology and a dynamics generated by vibration, or more broadly by periodicity, but that all these exist together in a true unitariness....It is therefore warrantable to speak of a basic or primal phenomenon which exhibits this threefold mode of appearance. It must be stressed that this is an inference made from appearances. The basic threefold or triadic phenomenon is not a preconceived conceptual form which is forced on the nature of things: these things themselves are the basic triadic phenomenon. (pp. 176–7)