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This Month's Music Review
by Greg Ozimek

Golden Ratios –
Pythagorean Harmonic Healing 1
Dr. James Hopkins
www.drjameshopkins.com

After being enthralled and listening to Father Andrew Rogers’ CDs (www.andrewrogers.us) the past several months I thought it would be nearly impossible to listen to a CD that came close. I waited and in New Agey fashion, I picked up this CD, Golden Ratios – Pythagorean Harmonic Healing 1.

What a listen it is! It is truly a refined experience which both enlivens and engages one at all levels of experience, dealing possibly with the most important energies per session.

As I lay in bed listening to Dr. James Hopkins’ Golden Ratios healing CD at first I thought, “What is all this noise?” Within mere seconds I noticed my face was smiling. Smiling. Now there’s an autonomic response for you – the beginning of many.

Hopkins, who has spent most of his 50 years in dedicated pursuit of healing and helping others (he is a chiropractor to the stars and world celebrities, based near L.A., California) has invested himself, time and much money, he says, to create the most unusual instrument.

He calls the instrument the Pythagorean Monochord. It has 117 strings, each 7 feet long and all tuned to either of two notes, D or A. Ideally, each healing treatment has a patient lying on top of this Monochord while it is played. Thankfully, we can listen at home via our CD players or rips via iTunes to our iPods. Ah, technology.

It is likely that the CD experience is not as immersive as the live “Me being on top of the Monochord while it is played” but my experience is profoundly significant. I’m eager for you to try it.

As Dr. Hopkins says, “It works due to the law of physics. Resonance, entrainment and brain wave synchronization are phenomena that enable the process to occur naturally and effortless.”

“Imagine lying on top of a massive cello with hundreds of strings. Every string is precisely tuned to exact frequencies that generate infinite ranges of exquisite harmonic overtones. These emanations unfold like audible fractals.

“It is hard to believe this CD is entirely acoustic. There are no synthesizers, no computer generated effects, etc. I use only my fingers on the strings which are attached to a wooden acoustic resonant chamber (like a giant guitar body or a massive cello).

“The frequencies turn off the “disquieting mind” aligning your mind, body & spirit to the higher order of harmonics.” Hopkins says, as Pythagoras put it, “To effortlessly connect an individual with their Divine Nature.”

“Its healing effects occur on the deepest levels of our being.

“I play the strings from underneath like a cosmic harp. By sustaining it long enough, You have to sync up with the harmonic frequencies. It’s simply a law of physics and since your entire body is physically connected to the resonant sound chamber of the instrument you not only “hear” them, but you actually “feel” these harmonic frequencies throughout your entire body.”

...And also in my bed, lying comfortably with my pillows and Golden Ratios playing on my CD player.

Hopkins continues, “Pythagoras used various intervals of harmonic ratios as a “medicine” for diseases of the body, mind & soul. He aligned souls to their Divine Nature.” Through music, Pythagoras performed what he called “soul-adjustments.”

“His concept of ‘The Divine’ referred to the observable & measurable fact that there is Absolute Order pervasive throughout the entire Universe (everywhere-all the time) and that this Order has Intelligence. He taught that this Order, with Universal Intelligence streaming through it, could be accessed and realized through numbers.”

Golden Ratios is the first in a series of five CDs that will be released by Dr. James Hopkins through his Harmonix Healing. I am eagerly awaiting each next CD.

The highest goal of music is to connect one’s soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment. Pythagoras (569- 475 BC)

I strongly recommend reading every word on Hopkins’ website. It is an education on subjects ranging from “planetary tuned gongs’ to Pythagoras to cosmological vibrations. All brilliant and totally cool stuff presented in rather easy to understand text.