posted June 24, 2003 04:47 PM            

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posted June 25, 2003 01:07 AM              

Chapter 7--Forgotten Melodies, page 265

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More evidence of the power of sound is birdsong. Assuming you don't live full time in the city, have you noticed the chorus of birdsong, like a thousand elfin choirs, all day long in the spring?

Have you also noticed that the birdsong ceases during the summer months, except at dawn and twilight ? When you're having a picnic in the woods or your back yard on a summer afternoon you'll hear only an occasional, faint chirp from the top of the tallest trees. Have you ever wondered why?
There's a magical reason for this little-known phenomenon of Nature. The singing of the birds sets up a particular sound vibration that promotes the growth of the young leaves of trees, plants and flowers, so the birdsong is fairly constant all day long in the spring, while the new growth is occurring.

In summer, the birdsong ceases, except at dawn and twilight -- and sometimes, if not quite all of the leaves are full, also during the early morning hours of summer. After the leaves are full the chemical activities of the trees, grass, plants and flowers change every day in the summer -- at dawn and at twilight. At night, all plant life breathes in carbon dioxide. At dawn and early morning, in the summer, they breathe out pure oxygen. The times of the changeover are heralded by the birds; are actually stimulated by the birdsong, but the sterile rules of biology recognize only the synchronicity of it, typically ignoring the clear evidence of cause and effect, unable to explain any other reason for Nature's precise timing of the seasonal and daily fluctuations of birdsong. In winter months, of course, St. Francis' beloved feathered friends fly south, to where other green miracles need the growth signals of the sound of their singing.

Isn't it lovely to know that the birds tell the grass, plants, trees and flowers when to grow, by setting up the sounds necessary to their chemical activity by singing -- all day long in the spring, and at dawn and twilight in the summer ? How can anyone think that birds lead useless, lazy lives? There's a reason for their singing ! I'm sure that Francesco Bernadone knew all about this truth of Nature.

How superbly logical, then, for the word NATURE to contain the word TUNE, since NATURE herself creates the miracle of the song or the TUNE of the birds causing the growth of Her green trees, grass, plants and colorful flowers. I couldn't suppress this mini-Lexigram until the next chapter; it's important that you meditate on it now. Nature does, indeed, consist of many chords of music, many sounds, including the "tunes" sung by the birds. Think about this wonderfur (full of wonder) proof of the way sound impresses itself on the ethers to manifest the physical "mattering" of the "matter" of all growing things. The birdsong is necessary to Nature outdoors because various unseasonal and unexpected climatic conditions would otherwise frequently halt growth -- and greenhouse plants, artificially grown, would thrive more luxuriantly if recorded birdsong were played to them.

Why aren't children taught this natural magic in school?

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posted July 25, 2003 06:00 AM            

I also believe that birds' singing stimulates nature to grow since all things are connected