Legacy of the Ancients: Using Sound To Move Objects

Sound can move objects through a phenomenon known as acoustic levitation or acoustic manipulation, which harnesses the physical force of sound waves. Here’s how it works in different contexts:

Sound Waves Carry Energy and Force

Sound is a mechanical wave - essentially pressure fluctuations in a medium (like air, water, or solid materials). When these waves are intense enough, they can exert force on objects. This is the core idea behind using sound to move things.

Acoustic Levitation

In this method, high-frequency sound waves (ultrasound) are used to create standing waves - regions where pressure variations form stable patterns.

Standing Waves: When two sound waves of the same frequency travel in opposite directions (e.g. from two speakers facing each other), they can interfere to form nodes (points of no movement) and antinodes (points of maximum pressure).

Levitation Zones: Small objects can be trapped at the nodes, where the pressure from above and below balances out gravity.

This works best with very small, lightweight objects, and is often done with ultrasound (frequencies above human hearing, usually 20 kHz–100 kHz).

Acoustic Tweezers

Similar to optical tweezers (which use lasers), acoustic tweezers use focused sound beams to trap and move particles in liquids or air.

They can manipulate cells, droplets, or microparticles without physically touching them.

The technology has potential for biomedical applications, such as moving stem cells or assembling tissue.

Sound Pressure to Move Larger Objects

Extremely loud sounds (think above 160 dB, which is dangerously loud) can create shock waves or vibrations that move or even damage physical objects:

Explosive blasts or sonic booms can shatter windows or knock over objects.

This inspires concepts like "sonic weapons" or "sound cannons."

Resonance Effects

Sound can make objects vibrate if it matches their natural frequency (resonance). This can move or even destroy them:

The famous example is resonance shattering a wine glass with a sustained musical note.

In engineering, resonance is both a tool and a hazard (e.g., bridges collapsing if wind or vibrations match their natural frequency).

Real-World Uses and Experimental Setups

Acoustic levitation labs use arrays of ultrasound transducers to levitate and move objects in 3D space.

NASA and other agencies explore acoustic levitation for studying materials in microgravity.

Acoustic holograms are used to shape sound fields precisely to manipulate particles in mid-air.

At a precision acoustics lab in Denmark, researchers have engineered an invisible tractor beam made entirely of sound waves. It allows them to levitate, rotate, and steer small solid objects through mid-air without any wires, magnets, or contact. What’s even more astonishing is that the system works silently, operating below the human hearing threshold.

The beam works by generating complex 3D acoustic fields using phased arrays of ultrasonic speakers. These waves interfere in specific patterns, forming pressure pockets that act like invisible “hands” in space. The object - be it a droplet, a piece of metal, or a micro-sensor - is trapped inside and gently moved by adjusting the wave field.

Traditional acoustic levitation is limited to simple up-and-down hovering. But this new design creates dynamic vortexes and knots in the air, allowing researchers to move objects around corners, rotate them in 3D, and even stack them - all in complete silence. The system is precise down to millimetres and works with solid, liquid, or even some gel-like materials.

This technology could revolutionize sterile environments where touch is dangerous: handling fragile cells in biomedical labs, assembling microchips without contamination, or even manufacturing in space, where gravity complicates handling. Since it's non-contact and uses no magnetic or optical components, it’s safe for delicate biological systems.

In future versions, multiple beams could work in concert like fingers, allowing true mid-air manipulation of tools or tissues. A no-contact robotic hand - built from sound and physics.

Philosophical/Esoteric Note

In esoteric traditions or speculative thought, sound is often considered a primordial force - "In the beginning was the Word." While not literal physics, this metaphor aligns interestingly with the real-world ability of sound to shape and move matter.

Everything is vibrating at different levels and when we match the vibrations of something we can influence or interact with it. During ceremonies we vibrate the words through our bodies, rather than just speaking them. Different vibrations work on our different chakras, healing them or activating them, depending on the purpose of the ritual.

The Concept of "Vibrating" Words

To "vibrate" a word or divine name in ceremonial magick means to intonate it with prolonged sound, resonance, and deep focus, often accompanied by visualisation, breath control, and body posture.

It's not singing, shouting, or normal speaking—but a kind of ritualised chanting that aims to resonate on multiple levels:

Physically – causing sound to vibrate through the chest, throat, or head.

Energetically – affecting the body’s subtle or spiritual energy fields.

Magickally – calling forth the power or presence of the deity or force being invoked.

Why Is Vibration Used?

Activating Energy:

In ceremonial magick, names are not just labels—they are considered keys to specific powers, forces, or divine aspects. Vibrating a name is thought to "tune" the magician’s energy to the frequency of that force.

Amplification of Intention:

Vibrating words with breath, tone, and focus strengthens the will, which is central to magickal efficacy.

Purification and Transformation:

Many ceremonies begin with vibrated names to clear space, raise consciousness, and shift the practitioner’s awareness into a magickal state.

Aligning with the Divine:

Vibrating sacred names—like IAO, YHVH, Adonai, or Ehyeh—is often a devotional act, meant to resonate the human microcosm with the divine macrocosm, a key Gnosstic principle.

Examples of Vibrated Words in Ritual

YHVH (Tetragrammaton) – The unpronounceable name of God in Hebrew.

Adonai – "My Lord."

Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh – "I Am That I Am."

IAO – A Gnostic formula invoking life-death-rebirth.

Ateh, Malkuth, ve-Geburah, ve-Gedulah, le-Olam, Amen – From the Qabalistic Cross, often vibrated slowly with intense focus.

Ancient Technology

When we explore how sound can influence and move objects, it's intriguing to consider that our ancient ancestors may have employed similar techniques to shift enormous stones. This could offer a clue as to how the pyramids and other monumental ancient structures were constructed. Indeed, some of these methods are described in ancient texts passed down through the Serpent Bloodline.

In the parts I have managed to translate they describe large horns being used that are so loud the people are force to block their ears and they detail the dangers caused by getting it wrong. The Serpent Bloodline were well aware of the dangers of these ideas getting into the wrong claws, and so like many other techniques these were hidden when the Eagles took over. 

The Tanakh describes the fall of one of the oldest Serpent Bloodline cities, Jericho, when the Israelites used our own technology against us. They are said to have circled the city for 7 days, with 7 Priests blowing 7 horns, which brough the walls of the city down so they could take over. But in reality this is an allegory, because they never had the technology and didn't know how it worked. The 7s represent the 7 chakras and how their modern religions and God worship intended on bringing down the teachings the that would lead to illumination and free the people they so desperately wanted control over.

The texts describe the horns being used on either side of large objects and when the sounds match the object moves. They also describe how the horns were passed through barriers so they could be used safely. The sound could be directed so precisely they could even use it to cut and shape stone, as well as levitate large blocks.

If you found this article interesting you can find out even more in my Cymatics article.