For centuries, man has used music and sound to create well-being. Walker^[1] credits Roland Hunt, who pioneered the use of combined music and light to heal people suffering from neurotic and mental diseases in the early part of the twentieth century.

As a death-related counselor in Florida, USA, Helen Baker^[2], a light therapist, collaborates with people in grief. She integrates music and light into the counseling of bereaved persons. She says that light waves in the form of colors correspond to the tonal frequencies of sound; also, using light and sound as pure vibrations has enormous potential in psychotherapy, physical healing, and personal and cultural consciousness changes. Baker says that using music and light helps troubled people work through grief or a recovery resulting from a difficult diagnosis. However, this area has yet to be explored to its full potential. Baker relates the seven colors of the spectrum to the seven tones on the diatonic scale and then to the seven large glands in the physical body. She explains that the body functions as a receiving station for energy. When incoming vibrations are similar to the related vibration of a body part, they resonate. When this is not the case, disharmony is the result. When powerful, non-productive thoughts or emotions are experienced, such as in the case of a bereaved person, the vibrations cannot flow freely throughout the body, resulting in blockages. The disease occurs from the vibrational activity of a specific organ when departing from its reasonable condition, either by being blocked or overstimulated.

Halpen & Savary^[3] present a system of correlation of the spectral colors and tones of the major musical scale. They say that the effects of combined colors and tones are remarkable. The listeners will come down from their excitement if you show overly stimulated people colors while playing music based on the corresponding keynotes. They experience substituted states of relaxation and physiological balance. Their breathing becomes more profound and more regular. Their pulse slows down, and the hemispheres of their brain become synchronized.

Sir Isaac Newton^[4] made several observations on light in the early eighteenth century. In one of his observations, he concludes that the seven colors of light (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet) correlate to the seven musical tones or intervals of the eight tones (sol, la, fa, sol, la mi, fa, and sol).

Anderson^[5] means seven colors correspond with the seven chakras and the musical scale. Her correlation of tones and colors are as follows: D flat = red, D = blue, E flat = green, E = deep red, F sharp = yellow, F = purple, G sharp = silver, G = black, A sharp = gold, A = blue, C = brown, B = violet.

Retallack^[6] presents a combination of tones and colors. In her system, she refers to A as red-orange, B as yellow, C as yellow-green, D as green-blue, E as blue-violet, F as violet, and G as deep-red.

Ghadiali^[7] presents yet another combination of tones and colors. He bases his correlations on the equivalence of base sound frequency to each color. For example, he says that the fundamental frequency for his Spectro-Chrome red is 436,803,079,680,000 cycles per second, and to arrive at a frequency in the audible range, he divides the figure by two 40 times. In other words, Ghadiali scales the tone’s frequency by 40 octaves. This operation gives him the frequency in sound for red as 397.27Hz. Ghadiali says this frequency is the closest to the tone G (g’ in the one-line octave).

The musician and acupuncturist Fabian Maman and the biologist Helene Grimal introduced sound therapy at the Cancer Help Centre in Bristol, England. The treatment originated in ancient Japan and has been practiced there for centuries. Maman and Grimal worked with cancer patients at the Center and observed its effects.

Maman experimented with imparting precise sound frequencies instead of needles when treating his patients with acupuncture. He found that the results were just as effective. It gave him a reason to start experimenting scientifically. Together with Grimal, he examined sound effects on the blood cells in the body microscopically. They photographed the cells using Kirlian photography while they struck the notes from the chromatic scale. To their surprise, the photographs showed color suffused into the examining blood cells when they hit a particular musical note. They noticed that the shape of the cells changed according to the note struck.

Maman and Grimal deduced that they observed a direct affinity between the cell’s form and color, the power of its biofield, and the frequency of the note struck. They also noticed that the effects could be reproduced, though never precisely, so each living cell had its individual quality. The reproduction results depended on several factors, such as the vitality and the state of the human being whose blood cells they examined. For example, when they experimented with blood cells from cancer patients, they had different results from those without cancer. In these patients noticed systematic disorganization of cellular material as they progressed up the scale until they reached between a’ (440Hz) and b’ (494Hz) when the cells frequently exploded^[8].

Sound frequencies can be used with the same results as light, restoring the individual’s health ^[2][3]. These low “beat frequencies” have the same therapeutic effects as light^[9]. When one or more chosen sound vibrations are projected onto an individual’s physical body, it creates reactions inside the body’s cells, thus destroying the diseased blood cells^[8].

Using Kirlian technology, an Indian researcher, J. M. Shah, took pictures of the electromagnetic energy glow around the human body. He discovered that actual disease appears first in the aura and is then transferred to the physical body. The illness can reach the physical body in six to eight months. Thus, he established that color therapy could be used preventively^[10].