Science and Vedic Sound
By Steele Belok, M.D.
Chronic disease affects 45 percent of working age adults
according to a study by Catherine Hoffman published in the
Journal of the American Medical Association in 1996. While the
modern biomedical approach has been somewhat effective in
managing acute illness, the management of chronic disease has
not been as successful.
Individuals suffering from chronic disorders continue to
require medications and to experience symptoms of their disease
for many years or decades. This indicates that modern
medicine’s approach to chronic disease is incomplete, and
inadequate to restore health to these individuals. Maharishi's
Vedic Vibration Technology (MVVT) seeks to address their
chronic disorders.
The MVVT program is one aspect of Maharishi's Vedic Medicine,
which is both an ancient and ultramodern system of medicine. It
combines the wisdom of Veda and the Vedic Literature (described
by the Encyclopedia Britannica as the oldest system of knowledge
in the world), with a quantum mechanical understanding of the
human body.
From the perspective of quantum field theory, all matter is
ultimately vibration. The body is understood to be a complex
waveform, the sum total of many smaller waves or vibrations.
These fundamental frequencies are excitations of universal
fields. All of these fields are in turn the expression of a
single underlying field, called a superstring field, or unified
field in modern quantum field theory.
Similarly, for thousands of years, Vedic Science has also
held that all life forms are vibrations of an underlying field
of Yoga -- which means unity. From both viewpoints, health is
the integrated and balanced state of all the vibrations which
make up the individual, while disease is seen as some lack of
balance of the fundamental frequencies that constitute the body.
If the body is ultimately a complex waveform, made of many
subtler vibrations, the possibility arises that the appropriate
vibratory frequencies might be used to restore normal
functioning in chronic disorders. What has blocked the practical
application of this quantum mechanical understanding in health
care has been the lack of knowledge of these fundamental
frequencies.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has explained that the Vedic sounds
described in Veda and the Vedic Literature are the fundamental
frequencies in their subtlest forms which emerge from the
Unified Field, and which structure the individual and the
universe. This concept from Vedic Science was explored by
Professor Tony Nader, M.D., Ph.D. Professor Nader is a
neuroscientist who, working closely with Maharishi, found an
exact correlation between the structure of the 40 branches of
Veda and the Vedic Literature and human anatomic structure and
functioning. He concluded that the only way for this precise
correspondence to occur would be if the Vedic sounds were the
actual structuring dynamics of the human body.
Professor Nader described the details of this correlation in
his book Human Physiology: Expression of Veda and the Vedic
Literature. This discovery placed the utilization of Vedic
Sound on a firm scientific basis. It opens the door to the
possibility of establishing medical treatment on a quantum
mechanical basis and bringing medicine into the modern era.
Professor Nader went on to do the first research on the
application of Vedic sound with MVVT. In a study conducted in
Berlin, Paris, and Valkenburg, he tested the effectiveness of a
single session of MVVT in individuals with arthritis, asthma,
headache, skin disorders, and gastrointestinal disorders.
In this study,
176
patients were evaluated with arthritis, including peripheral
joint disease, spinal disease and rheumatoid arthritis. In the
group receiving the Vedic sound for arthritis including all
these three types, one third of the patients had 100 percent
relief of pain, one third had greater than 60 percent relief,
and one third reported less than 60 percent relief.
Professor Nader also assessed range of motion, and found that
four of 24 (16%) of the patients with limited range of motion
had complete return to normal range of motion, while 13 patients
(54%) had greater than 60 percent improvement in range of
motion. This level of immediate improvement in range of motion
would not be expected with our current medical therapies for
arthritis.
In North America, David Scharf, Ph.D. described an
uncontrolled study of 1,495 patients who had a total of 26
categories of chronic disorders addressed by the MVVT program.
The average improvement for all disorders was 42.3 percent.
Significant improvement, defined in the study as greater than 25
percent relief, occurred in two third of cases. In 83 cases, 100
percent relief was found.
Chaos Theory and Quantum Field Theory have been proposed to
explain from a modern scientific perspective how a subtle,
whispered Vedic sound might have this profound effect on
illnesses which had been present for an average of 13.8 years
(in Dr. Scharf’s study), and which in most cases were
resistant to modern medical therapies.
Chaos Theory describes how complex systems have an innate
organizing ability which can undergo rapid phase transitions or
bifurcations from disorderly to orderly functioning in response
to minimal inputs to a system. The so-called “Butterfly
Effect” is one famous example, where a butterfly fluttering
over Rio de Janeiro has been postulated to be able to change the
weather in Chicago, since weather is a complex system which
abides by the rules of Chaos Theory. The human physiology is
another complex system that has been proposed to follow the
rules of chaos theory.
Thus the preconditions for Vedic sound to produce profound
physiologic changes have been established on a modern
theoretical basis. What is needed however, is a way to get the
minimal input of a whispered Vedic sound to the appropriate area
of the physiology. The four known fundamental forces --
electro-magnetism, the strong force, the weak force, and gravity
-- are incapable of mediating this type of long-range input.
Quantum field theory can provide a basis to understand
long-range input based on consciousness.
The Unified Field is a self-interacting field. It is awake to
itself because it responds dynamically to its own presence. It
therefore has the most basic quality of consciousness -- knowing
itself. In addition, quantum cosmologists suggested the
necessity for an observer, or consciousness, in the quantum
evolution of the universe. Thus consciousness may be at a more
fundamental level of nature’s functioning than has usually
been considered in the cognitive sciences. Long range force
fields, near the super-unified level of the Planck Scale, have
recently been postulated to exist. Access to this Unified Field
of Consciousness is easily available through the Transcendental
Meditation technique, according to Maharishi's Vedic Science.
Administrators in MVVT, projecting these Vedic sounds from
the level of the Unified Field of their own consciousness, thus
have the potential to produce dramatic, concrete effects.
Maharishi's Vedic Vibration Technology can be understood from
the modern scientific point of view by considering the high
sensitivity of chaotic physical systems like the human body to
subtle impulses. These impulses produce phase transitions from
disorderly to orderly normal functioning, mediated by long range
field components existing at more unified levels of quantum
field theory.
The dramatic improvements in chronic disorders noted by
patients participating in the MVVT program suggest that the
age-old wisdom of Maharishi's Vedic Medicine can be applied to the
100 million Americans that Catherine Hoffman calculated suffer
with chronic disease. It raises the possibility of bringing them
relief without the side effects of modern medicines. If the
initial research findings are confirmed by studies we are
currently undertaking, it holds the promise of achieving a level
of effectiveness which may obsolete much of the current
biomedical approach.
Steele Belok, M.D. is Clinical Instructor of Medicine,
Harvard University Medical School, and Staff Physician at Mt.
Auburn Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
