The Silencing of the Bells | The Great Forgetting

[00:00:00]For thousands of years, town and church bells united entire communities. But then during World War II, the bells were taken down, melted, and used for weapons. What else did we lose besides the metal?

[00:00:13]Welcome back to The Great Forgetting, a series where we're retracing the steps that led to us having this mass amnesia, this great forgetting of who we really are. To Earth, to each other, and to ourselves. And how now, with the approaching flash, we are being called to remember. A lot of people in the spiritual community are calling this time the great awakening, but to me, I actually see it as the great remembering. We are remembering what we always knew, but we forgot. And what our ancestors knew.

[00:00:45]So, we're retracing our steps back to what our ancestors knew, so that we can remember ourselves and heal. Heal ourselves, heal the planet, heal each other.

[00:00:55]So, let's go back to the bells.

[00:00:57]Town bells were not just, you know, uh pretty looking and something that you had on top of a church or in a town square. They really unified the entire community. They were the heartbeat of the community. They were the anchors.

[00:01:10]So, you have to imagine, to understand the importance of the clocks, you have to imagine a time before cell phones, before when we could always check the time and we always knew what was going on, before you, you know, had laptops and even probably wristwatches. I don't know how far back it goes. Maybe there were wristwatches. But, not everybody had access to the time or access to what was going on. You had to go to the town center to understand what's happening. And so, the church bells would would ring on the hour. They would ring to announce births. They would ring to announce deaths. They would announce approaching storms or if they're being attacked. Uh any kind of gathering. Weddings, I forgot weddings. But also, the bell, when it's rung, it produced a frequency that people felt. This low-frequency vibration would go through the air, it would go through the ground, and go through people's bodies, and it would create a coherent field, and everybody would be connected because of that field. It actually held the community in resonance.

[00:02:12]Bells produce a broad spectrum of sound, and also, especially large bronze bells produce a sound in the frequency of 80 to 100 h. And if you saw the other videos in this series, you know that that is in the same ran- range as the resonance chambers, like the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid, like the um I forgot the name. Hypogeum in Malta.

[00:02:41]There are so many resonance chambers that our ancient ancestors built all over the world because they knew the importance of sound and how it would heal us, how it would help us uh transcend when we were meditating, astral traveling, when we were actually probably dying, help us leave the body, but also help us uh achieve a higher level of consciousness. So, why is this range so important? 80 to 120 h. Because that is associated with the theta brain waves, and that is deep meditation and insight.

[00:03:14]That's the state that you have to get in or that you get into when you're in that state. So, it is the vagus nerve stimulation, activating the nervous system's rest and digest mode, and it's also heart-brain coherence, when the heart and mind are in alignment. So, when the bell rings, and when a community listens, the sound does not just inform the mind, it actually tunes the body. It synchronizes the group, and it creates a shared frequency that holds the community together, not through force, like, "Everybody get over here!"

[00:03:45]but through just resonance, through a feeling. We're all connected because of that. And actually, this happened a lot in Germany, France, the UK, you know, all over Europe, and I'm sure it happened in many other places. And in Germany, before they melted the bells down, they would keep them in these large, like, areas, and people actually called it the Glockenfriedhofe Glockenfriedhofe, which is the bell cemetery.

[00:04:11]And they were saying it was a necessity for war. Not all of them were melted down. Many were. Many were returned back to the churches, but, you know, it's like once those bells left the town, imagine the towns that used to be united through this, you know, hourly bell, through the certain chimes that would happen when there was a wedding or a birth or a death, and now it's silent.

[00:04:31]And now you just have to ask people and hope that they're telling you the truth or something. And it's just like this weird disconnect.

[00:04:38]No morning call, no more evening gathering, no more shared vibration to hold the people together. And in that silence, the pattern of isolation that the modern world would later amplify, which is what a lot of us are living in now, or all of us are living in now, that's when it began. That was the first step in the human consciousness hijacking was through sound.

[00:05:00]But World War II wasn't the only time that the bells were silenced.

[00:05:04]In the centuries before, during the Protestant Reformation, many bells were removed from churches because they were seen as too Catholic.

[00:05:13]During the French Revolution, bells were melted down to make cannons.

[00:05:17]And in more recent decades, even where bells remain, they remain silent.

[00:05:22]Replaced by loudspeakers, sirens, and digital alerts.

[00:05:27]Replaced by the constant sound of industry, traffic, that hum. And the sound of modern industry is not resonance. It's noise. And noise is not frequency. It's fragmentation. And so, without that shared resonance that the community could gather around and share in communion with each other, the isolation began. And then that knowledge of knowing that sound connected us, that sound elevated our consciousness and healed and did so much, was also forgotten.

[00:06:01]What if the tuning for modern music was not chosen for harmony, but for control?

[00:06:05]Join me in the next video, The Great Forgetting 440 Hz. The answer takes us through history, science, and a quiet suppression of frequency.

[00:06:15]And reveals how sound was shifted intentionally from a tool for resonance to a mechanism of control. I'll see you in the next video.