Pythagoras - viewed sound and color/light as interconnected as they were based on the same mathematical principles regarding vibration (Music of the Spheres) from which he employed for curative purposes.

newton

afanasyev

color-sound connection

It has been a common belief throughout ancient societies and Western New-Age esoteric circles that the body is made of vibrational energy of which color and sound are made as well.

Emotional, psychological or physical ailments were thought to be “energetic blocks”, and thus receiving visual or audio vibrations from sound or color that is aimed at the block in the body (or energetic mind-body), the symptoms could then be alleviated or cured.

newton's theory:

Opticks: or, A Treaty of Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, & Colors of Light (1704) Newton hypothesized that color stimuli were conveyed to the brain by vibrations in the optic nerve, claiming that division of the spectrum into seven colors is analogous to the seven major keys in the diatonic scale of music, finding correlation between harmonies of sounds and harmonies of colors (Hawkins, 2022). With respect to Newton’s scale, the ideas behind Spectrasomatics connects:

• Red with the Key of D

• Orange with the Key of E

• Yellow with the Key of F

• Green with the Key of G

• Blue with the Key of A

• Indigo with the Key of B

• Purple with the Key of C

Synathesia Artists:

hilma af klint

kandinksy

afanasyev

Connecting the color wheel and keys of the musical scale with the system of the chakras makes visible the connections to specific body regions, which then informs different movements to practice in the methodology of Spectrasomatics.

What happens when we intentionally move a part of the body in alignment to its connected color and sound?