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Shamanic Healing Work and Plants |
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"Medicine for
the Earth" workshop with Sandra Ingerman, May/June 2005.
This experiment happened while I was taking part in Sandra Ingerman's
"Medicine for the
Earth" workshop at Cluny Hill College, Findhorn Foundation in May/June
2005.
I would like to give thanks to Sandra and the whole workshop group for
giving me their support.
I recorded the plant signals during a two hour healing ceremony that was
held by Sandra and the workshop group. In the
first part of the ceremony the room and the people were smudged and we
empowered the group energy field by collective dancing and drumming. In
the following healing work one half of the group was in the middle
doing a transfiguration excercise while the surrounding people
supported them. After a phase of toning the excercise was repeated with
the other half of the group in the middle of the circle. The ceremony
was closed with a song after a silent break.
For more information about Sandra Ingerman's work, please visit her
website: http://www.shamanicvisions.com/ingerman.html
The following timesheet is giving an overview about the timeline of the
ceremony and is a good orientation when looking on the timescale of the
signal plots below. The time (h:mm) is relative to the start of the
ceremony (8:00 PM).
| Timeline of Ceremony |
| 0:00 |
Start logging data |
1:25 |
End break |
| 0:05 |
Start session |
1:28 |
Group II |
| 0:23 |
Smudging |
1:35 |
Toning |
| 0:43 |
Opening and Invocation |
1:41 |
Silent break |
| 0:51 |
Dance and drumming |
1:46 |
Circle |
| 1:05 |
Group I |
1:50 |
Song |
| 1:12 |
Toning |
1:55 |
Closing of session |
| 1:18 |
Silent break |
2:00 |
End of logging data |
Description of the signal
plots
You can click on each image to view it full size.
The upper curve in each image is an oscillogram of the signal (a
representation of it's amplitude plotted over time), while the
lower, colored area is it's spectrogram. Here the vertical (y - axis)
represents a frequency range from 0.09 Hz (bottom line) to 0.9 Hz (top
of spectrogram). The color represents the intensity of the signal at a
particular point. Darker colors mean higher intensities. The horizontal
(x - axis) is the same time scale for both oscillogram and spectrogram.
This plot is showing the signal that I recorded
during
the ceremony. An increasing number of frequencies can be
observed
after the opening of the ceremony (0:43). The break (1:18 - 1:25) is
clearly visible as a gap in the spectrogram. Then the spectrogram is
showing an increasing number of frequencies again until the ceremony
closes at 1:55. The difference between this recording and the reference and background recordings is obvious.
This is a reference
recording that I did by leaving the
plant unattended in the room over luchbreak. The disturbance on the
right side, the "blackout" in the oscillogram and the yellow area in
the spectrogram are artefacts created by myself coming into the room
and fiddling with the cables. The signal is much weaker then that from
the ceremony and there are much less variations in the spectrum.
This spectrogram shows the
background noise of the equipment used in the experiment. I connected a
4.7 Megaohm resistor as a dummyload instead of the plant. The
spectrogram is showing plain noise. The dark colors - high signal
intensity is caused by the amplification of the very weak
signal (see the oscillogram), that was necessary to create a
visible spectrogram.
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