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Goose Bumps and Sonic Bloom
(Fall, 1995)

It’s not original. Sonic Bloom refers to an organic spray of 55 trace minerals
and amino acids now being used in 30 states and seven countries. 107 Used
in conjunction with oscillating high-frequency sound, the Sonic Bloom spray
produces astonishing yields, as high as 60% greater than normal yields.
The essence of the system is that certain sounds in the same range as
birdsong, piped into the garden, stimulate plants to absorb more nutrients.
Plant metabolism is accelerated by sound as the spray is applied. It seems
the plant’s stomata “open up” to receive nutrients when they hear the sound
of birds.

The great 19 century mystic, Rudolph Steiner, understood why this is so.
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“Plants,” said Steiner, “can only be understood when considered in
connection with all that is circling, weaving, and living around them. In
spring and autumn, when swallows produce vibrations as they flock in a
body of air, causing currents with their wing beats, these and birdsong have
a powerful effect on the flowering and fruiting of plants.” 108 One can easily
conclude that trees need birds as much as birds need trees. Me too.

Doctors who prescribe exercise believe it’s more beneficial when performed
outdoors. Is it the fresh air? Seeing the beauties of nature? I hypothesize
it has something to do with our often overwhelmed sense of hearing. It’s
what we hear when we’re outdoors that stimulates our metabolism to get
the most benefit from our exercise. As with the plants, the human body
responds to these sounds of nature in an unconscious intercommunion.

I remember the first warm day last spring – how healing it was to work
outdoors all day, how it transformed me. From time to time, between
pulling weeds eager to get a head start and snuggling lettuce starts into
their new homes, I stopped and just listened. Breathing deeply, I opened to
the sounds of spring. “Goose bumps” coursed through my body – not the
kind of goose bumps you get when you’re scared, not the kind caused by
adrenalin. These were goose bumps of a different sort, and as I try to
analyze this phenomenon, it seems apparent to me that any day in which
I’ve experienced this “other” kind of goose bumps is a “good” day, a “happy”

107 Smith, Roert T., “Dan Carlson’s Sonic Gloom Sends Plants, Crops Soaring, (Nov., 1986 Grit).

108 Thompkins, Peter, and Bird, Christopher, Secrets of the Soil, (Harper and Row, New York, N.Y., 1987, p.
128).

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