We Are Created by Song

Since we only hear a tiny range of sound frequencies, do you suppose there exists music we cannot hear? If so, who or what is creating it?

In response to this question the other night, my friend Jason spoke of the “music of the spheres.”

Originally postulated by Pythagoras in the sixth century B.C., the term refers to the movement of celestial bodies, including the sun, moon, stars, and planets. The basic concept (stripped of MANY nuances and subtleties) is that all of these heavenly entities emit sounds or “hums” as they orbit each other, interacting in a vast cosmic dance across lightyears of space.

Though this exquisitely synchronized, ineffably harmonic music is not perceptible to our ears, it has profound impacts on our perceptions and moods, and indeed the unfolding of our lives, and of human history.