Song Of The Spine [Paperback]

Dr. June Leslie Wieder (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 27, 2004

The human spine with its primary and secondary curves looks like a standing wave. Is it possible, asks the author, that energy echoes like a standing wave between these curves in order to maintain the structural and neural integrity of the spine and nervous system? That question led Dr. Wieder into research on the resonance of the spine. Her studies reveal that each bone of the spine has its own tone and frequency, and that applying specific vibrational frequencies directly to the vertebrae generates a sympathetic response that activates the embedded harmonics that help maintain healthy functioning. This book provides an overview of the history of harmonic healing from ancient times to the present, and chapters on how sound creates form and the neurobiological basis of vibrational healing. But the core of the book is about a vibrational therapy called bone toning, how it was developed and how it can be applied.

Product Details

• Paperback: 138 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (May 27, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594574707
• ISBN-13: 978-1594574702
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,479 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #85 in Books > Medical Books > Research

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51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A whirlwind tour of attunement, October 8, 2004

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Kathleen Goss "writer" (Darwin, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Song Of The Spine (Paperback)

In the beginning, there was sound. As above, so below. Everything is vibration.

Every now and then a new voice comes along that breathes vitality and clarity into these new age clichés. June Leslie Wieder, in her book THE SONG OF THE SPINE, succeeds in transmitting this rare state of illumination. Dr. Wieder, a chiropractor, has developed a healing technique called bone toning, which uses pure musical tones to bring the spinal vertebrae, as well as the subtler energy systems of the body, into attunement and alignment.

Astonishingly, Dr. Wieder has discovered that the spinal vertebrae are individually tuned to the notes of the diatonic scale in C, including the "black keys" of the piano for the reverse curves of the cervical and lumbar segments of the spine. How can the human body be tuned to an arbitrary scale, the chromatic scale in C?

How, we might rather ask, can it not? True to the hermetic principle of "As above, so below," we humans evolved in the context of our planet Earth, the solar system, the galaxy, the cosmos. The song of the spine is the Pythagorean music of the spheres. We are all connected through the shared sea of vibration from which we emerged, and in which we still swim.

Through empirical clinical research, the author arrived at her discovery of the therapeutic benefit of stimulating a misaligned vertebra with a vibrating tuning fork appropriate to its particular frequency. The way was prepared, however, by ancient esoteric teachings and the traditions of energy medicine dating from early peoples up to the present. Today even orthodox medicine employs vibratory frequencies in diagnosis and treatment, as in sonograms, x-rays, laser therapy, and electrical stimulation.

In a brief 129 pages, Dr. Wieder lays out a rich and complex history of healing traditions and innovations utilizing sound, music, light, electricity, and other vibratory modalities. She describes manipulative therapies that aim to restore balance in the skeleton, muscles, nerves, cells, mind, and spirit, through properly applied frequencies of energy or touch. She shows how sound manifests as form, as revealed in the science of Cymatics, and how we can access the unconscious wisdom of the organism through muscle testing, or applied kinesiology.

Amidst this dizzying array of energy techniques, manipulative therapies, scientific research, and occult philosophy, I often wished for a footnote to point me toward a fuller exposition of an intriguing point. The suggested readings and websites listed at the end of the book help to fill this one noticeable deficit (besides the need for an index), and represent a stellar selection of resources on energy medicine, sound, music, and acoustics.

This book is overtly addressed to health practitioners who might be interested in exploring the bone toning technique. More broadly, it is for anyone who can appreciate a seamlessly holistic view of the place of humans in the larger scheme of things, and of healing as a process of attunement. It is rare for a writer to "get it" as completely and succinctly as Dr. Wieder does.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, August 15, 2011

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This review is from: Song Of The Spine (Paperback)

I am enjoyed read Song of the Spine. It gives a good general introduction to sound healing.

I would have liked more information on the author's own discoveries on the musical notes for the spine.

I was disappointed that the author didn't include references in her book as this gives sound healing more credibility in the eyes of the scientific community.

The printing was not very good on some of the right hand pages although I could still read them.

Simon Heather (College of Sound Healing - UK)