Is Your Fork In Tune?
The Search for ResonanceBy Hayley WeatherburnBALBOA PRESS
Copyright © 2012 Hayley Weatherburn
All right reserved.ISBN: 978-1-4525-5028-2Contents
List of Illustrations.........................................................ixPreface.......................................................................xAcknowledgments...............................................................xiChapter 1: So Many Questions..................................................1Introduction..................................................................1Unexplained Connections.......................................................6Strange Animal Behavior.......................................................10Paranormal Activity...........................................................13Mind Over Matter..............................................................17Religion Versus Science.......................................................22Are You Ready?................................................................25Chapter 2: An Answer..........................................................26My Theory Of Everything.......................................................26Part One: Understanding the Basic Building Blocks of Life.....................27Part Two: A Unique Characteristic—Frequency.............................33Part Three: Bizarre Behaviors.................................................42Part Four: The Observer.......................................................51Chapter 3: Explaining the Unexplained.........................................60Explained Connections.........................................................60Common Animal Behavior........................................................71Normal Activity...............................................................76Mind Influencing Matter.......................................................89Religion And Science..........................................................99Chapter 4: The Search for Resonance...........................................105Is Your Fork In Tune?.........................................................105What Is Your Ultimate Frequency?..............................................110Reality Check—What Causes Dissonance?...................................115Resource Options—The Ultimate Frequency Tool Kit........................122The Search for Resonance......................................................133Chapter 5: From Planck Size to Beyond Dimensions..............................134Planck → Individual Views................................................134Individual → Global Consciousness........................................135Global → Multidimensional................................................138Afterword.....................................................................140Endnotes......................................................................141Glossary......................................................................149Bibliography..................................................................160Index.........................................................................165About the Author..............................................................170
Chapter One
So Many Questions
INTRODUCTION
Life is like a tuning fork, and the answer to everything is energy. The end.
I hope you enjoyed the book. I really don't need to go on. I've given you all the revolutionary answers you need to know to change your life and bedazzle your friends and family. I imagine you feel inspired, revived, and satisfied with knowing the answers to all those unexplained phenomena you've always wondered about, including the meaning of your life. You are seeing the world through different eyes.
For those of you who prefer a bit more information to back up this amazing find, I guess you could choose to read on. Perhaps you'd prefer a few real-life stories to add interest, or maybe a bit of fascinating science to add substance, or even some interesting research thrown in for good measure.
So choose to read or not to read: it's up to you. However, I recommend that you read further—and don't just believe the first thing you read.
Let me start from the beginning. Why did I even begin to search for answers to questions that, until recently, have vexed me for most of my life?
As a curious young thing, I was always asking why. As a kid, much to my parents' frustration, I would follow any comment with an inquisitive "Why?" over and over again. A simple conversation could go like this:
Mum: "Hayley, pop in the car. We are going to the shops."
Me: "Why?"
Mum: "We need some food."
Me: "Why?"
Mum: "Because we need to eat."
Me: "Why?"
Mum: "If you don't eat, you get sick."
Me: "Why?"
Mum: "That is just how the body works."
Me: "Why?"
Mum: "Just because! Now please stop asking questions and get in the car."
I am surprised my parents didn't literally strangle me during one of these conversations. A simple statement about putting on my socks could elicit all kinds of questions about the meaning of the universe!
Throughout my life, this curiosity and thirst for answers has never stopped.
At school, we were taught a vast array of subjects, some of which were contradictory. Take science and religion, for example. My favorite subjects were science and math. Why? Because there were only right or wrong answers. It seemed simple enough to learn these facts—until I went to religion class and was told different ones.
This completely confused me. How could one subject tell us one thing—that the universe began with a Big Bang—and then another tell us that God created the universe and everything in it? How could teachers and parents (at that time, the authority figures in my life) teach us two completely contradictory answers? How could they both be right? And if they couldn't, then which one should I believe? Science, which had the facts, or religion, which asked you to rely on faith? I certainly hated being wrong, so what could I do? So throughout my time in school, I decided to accept both tentatively and work out later which was right. This conflict remained in my subconscious, keeping me intrigued by these areas of questioning until I eventually decided to become a little more proactive about it all.
In the meantime, there were other issues that caught my attention.
At school, I don't think I ever really had a sick day. I often heard my mum say to other parents, "Hayley never gets sick." And I didn't. Then there were other kids who always got sick. I thought I was just lucky. Growing up, I learned about the "placebo effect". This is when a doctor gives you a tablet or other type of medicine that actually has no drug in it at all, but the doctor tells you it fixes your ailment. Surprisingly, it still often works and can heal without any medicine involved. This concept of miracle healing intrigued me. I heard of people becoming better overnight—which baffled me—or worse, becoming intensely ill overnight. Could the mind heal or destroy matter? This phenomenon lodged in my subconscious next to my previous unresolved conflict, both awaiting some kind of answer. Only instead of finding solutions, I continued to add to the ever-growing list of questions I had filed away in my mind.
From the time I was six years old, my parents took me traveling. By age twelve, I had been to Los Angeles, Mexico, Singapore, Hawaii, Malaysia, and Hong Kong, and I had even lived on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean for two years. In the process, I was introduced to many different cultures with all their interesting beliefs and superstitions. Christmas Island was mostly populated by Chinese and Malaysians. We celebrated the Chinese New Year, and I remember getting red envelopes with money in them. Red meant good luck, and the money was supposed to bring you prosperity—at least, that's what I remember understanding as a child. Down in the Malay kampong, or village, I also remember hearing Muslim prayers continually being announced over a loudspeaker and watching Muslim worshippers praying on mats that faced east.
These different influences opened my eyes to new cultures, beliefs, and superstitions, adding to my questions about religion. Not only was I now asking which was right—science or religion—but also which religion was the right one. They seemed to have similarities in that they all had a God or gods, but they also had a lot of differences in their beliefs and superstitions. Later, I discovered that even some of the sciences conflicted with each other. The whole ordeal bothered me, but at this stage it wasn't yet enough for me to do something about it. I could still live life well enough without resolving these issues.
At the age of twenty-one, I was well on my way to achieving what was expected or appropriate in my society. I had graduated from university, found a full-time job, bought a car, and was running an internet business on the side in an effort to build my income for an early retirement. Although by all accounts I should have felt satisfied, instead I felt hollow, empty, and directionless. Based on a brilliant suggestion from my mother, I made the decision to travel overseas for a year, and within three months, I had packed my bags and left. What was to be one year turned into five years of traveling throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America. On the way, I had many amazing experiences and met a number of unique individuals who shared their experiences with me. During this time, I accumulated more and more unresolved questions to store in my to-be-answered-later file.
One great paradigm-shifting experience happened to me in France. While staying in an old chateau, a friend and I both experienced a haunting. I'll speak of this in detail later in the chapter; for now, I just wanted to bring it up to explain the conflict I was feeling at the time. There I was, with more of a mind for science than for what I felt was fiction, being haunted. It didn't make sense to me, so I added it to my ever-growing file and continued on my journey. Talking about this experience to others only made me aware of more unexplained phenomena: stories of animals seeing ghosts, of people randomly thinking of their friends back home and then bumping into them in a different country not long afterward, of psychics who could talk to people who had passed away or even predict the future. I crammed all this into my now overflowing file.
At the age of twenty-six I decided to come home. I was feeling the urge to build a life that would allow me to travel anywhere, anytime without worrying about money. I also wanted eventually to have my own family and didn't think I would find someone to do this with me while I was traveling and leading a very unpredictable life. This decision finally led me to do something about all the unanswered questions that had plagued me for so long.
During my time in sales, I read many books about the power of the mind. These were books that inspired you to do better, that tapped into the power of the human brain, and the ideas in these books fueled my interest in the potential that belongs to all of us. Considering that it had been two years since I had come back home and that I still hadn't found a job that really ignited my passion, I decided to start looking into all those unanswered questions. I was curious. I earned a life coaching certificate and started a part-time business. This only enhanced my interest in human potential, and it was during this time of part-time work and part-time coaching that I found the time to start researching, reading, taking courses and seminars, and watching documentaries. Ideas and even some answers started to trickle in. Each idea developed over time and grew like a flower blossoming in a field of potential answers. In 2007, I started to write these ideas down, essentially to work out what I believed in. What, I wondered, were my answers to these questions?
Over four years, this journey that started off as a quest to answer a nagging file of questions turned into something that, to me, is pretty exciting—an answer or theory that responds to a number of intriguing questions of varying depth and scope. How is it that people often randomly think of someone just before that person calls? How can religion and science both be right? How can a superstition or belief be meaningful to one person while the opposite belief is true in another person's experience? In other words, how can evidence exist for opposite beliefs?
I now feel I can answer these and other questions. I am excited about what I have discovered and am even more excited to share it with so many people. I honestly believe that there is something in this theory of mine. I feel it right down to the core of my being. It could very well contain some ideas that are wrong, but I feel that the reality that it's uncovered for me fits who I am. It is my box, and though it may not fit you, if it helps you to discover your own answers along the way, then I will be happy.
For the rest of this chapter, I'll be elaborating on the different topics that pertain to the questions I have been grappling with, and I'll give some examples so that you can understand where I am coming from. The second chapter will delve into the answer, the theory that resulted from researching different areas of science. Although I deal with the realm of quantum physics, don't be concerned if you're not a scientist, as I've broken it down into simple explanations to help clarify the complete theory. Don't worry if you don't understand each part fully at first, because in the third chapter, I'll illustrate and explain the theory through real-life examples. The fourth chapter will help you to use this concept to your advantage in daily life. Finally, in the last chapter, I will take the theory even further into deeper levels.
Let's start by elaborating on those questions I had rolling around in my subconscious. I have separated them into subheadings to explain my experiences with each one. I won't yet go into the research in this chapter; rather, I'll concentrate on the experiences, stories, and influences that caused me to start looking into these areas in the first place.
Let's start with something simple and interesting, something that I believe most people have experienced at some time in their lives. Let's explore unexplained connections.
UNEXPLAINED CONNECTIONS
Random Coincidences with People
Have you ever randomly thought of someone you haven't seen in years, only to have them call you five minutes later? This kind of thing happens to me quite a bit. At the Caxton Street Seafood and Wine Festival in Brisbane, Queensland, in 2010, I was walking down the street among a crowd of thousands. I had this strange thought of an old colleague I had worked with in Newcastle, NSW (a town over eight hours' drive away), whom I hadn't seen in over a year. Literally ten minutes later, I bumped into her among the thousands of people there! You don't normally find friends you are supposed to catch up with in those crowds, let alone someone from another town you just randomly thought of. It was uncanny. I have had friends tell me similar stories, so I know I'm not the only one who has experienced this kind of thing.
Another interesting phenomenon of a similar nature is the connection twins have to each other. I met one girl, Cynthia, who told me a story about how she was hanging out with one of her friends who was a twin. The twin was complaining about her left ankle hurting, that there were really sharp stabs of pain all over her foot and ankle. Cynthia later found out that the other twin had smashed her foot through glass and had glass shards in her foot and ankle. Although this story may have been hearsay, I have heard enough of these stories to pique my interest in the subject, and as a result, I decided to look into it. There must be something, I thought, that could explain this.
These connections don't just happen to twins—they can happen between parents and their children as well. Have you ever heard of a mother suddenly feeling the need to call her child because she knows something is wrong? There are probably more stories of mothers worrying when nothing is wrong, but again, there seem to be enough stories of the other variety to validate looking into the subject. In fact, I have actually experienced this myself.
As I mentioned before, when I was about eight, I lived on Christmas Island in a really awesome, massive house. My room was at the front of the house a little apart from any other area. You wouldn't really walk past it ordinarily. You would only come my way if you actually decided to come and see me. Well, one day I was being my usual curious self and had my bedside lamp in my hands. It was still plugged in, and I decided I wanted to see how it was put together, so I unscrewed the lightbulb. I saw the two prongs at the bottom and thought I would touch them. Just as my finger neared the electrified prongs, my dad came into the room. In an instant, he saw what I was about to do and screamed at me to stop. He told me what would have happened, and I was in a bit of a state of shock. I asked Dad why he had even come into my room to see me. He said he didn't know but that he had just felt a need to come and see me. Coincidence or not, this incident fueled my curiosity about these types of events.
Long-term partners also experience this. I have friends who are couples and who often tell me of instances when they have texted each other at the same time asking the exact same question. Are there enough experiences of this kind to convince us that this is at least worth looking into? I think so.
Energetic Connections
A different type of connection involves the different relationships we have with other people. These are the energetic connections we all feel. Have you ever been with a friend and just felt drained while you were with the person? Subconsciously, you even try to avoid such people, because you know you will be tired afterward. What about the other end of the scale? Have you ever been with someone who made you feel energized, pumped up, and just really motivated or positive? The time you spend with that person seems to fly, and you feel so connected you even forget about the outside world. These types of energetic connections made me wonder what might be going on for this to happen. I mean, how can you talk to someone for ten minutes and be tired afterward when talking to someone else for thirty minutes leaves you with more energy than you had before? The sleuth in me wondered if there was more to this than met the eye.
Then there is the love connection. What makes you love one person so much that you would risk your life for them? Sometimes this connection is completely irrational: the person you love isn't the normal stereotype of who you're attracted to and doesn't have similar likes or dislikes, yet this love connection seems to hypnotize you. This type of connection can be for an animal or an inanimate object, like a photo or a car. It could even be for a sports team. I have seen the toughest, most unemotional men cry out of happiness when their team won the championship game, yet when these men broke up with their longtime girlfriends, they shed no tears.
This love connection can make people do silly things—it can even make people change who they are. I wondered what was going on to make this happen. I have been on both ends of the scale in different relationships. In one relationship, I liked the guy, but my connection to him was not as strong as his was to me. He seemed to change. He wasn't the individual I was originally attracted to: sporty, funny, with his own agenda and personality. He eventually just wanted to do whatever I was doing. He never really had any ideas of his own, and he would do whatever made me happy. I couldn't even provoke him into arguing so he could demonstrate some of his individuality. It was frustrating.
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