booksaboutpeace

Have you ever walked into a clock shoppe and noticed the pendulums all swinging together in perfect rhythmic harmony? It's true, when placed together clocks with pendulums will "fall together" into rhythmic unison. It's really amazing when you think about it. Here you have these mechanical instruments, and something draws their functions into harmony. But what is that something? I honestly don't know if I could really understand it if it were explained to me. Yet having seen it, I can accept it as true. Sometimes we don't necessarily have to have proof to believe something as true. We may see it written or hear it said and just have a deep inner knowing that it is so. It resonates with us.

This phenomenon of spontaneous synchronization is called entrainment, and it exists in many different schools of thought. In physics, it is described as "the tendency for two oscillating bodies to lock into phase so that they vibrate in harmony..."   Read more...