HOCKESSIN, Del., June 16, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- The Hebrews encoded harmonics in their Tree of Life diagram, the Hindus incorporated the potent musical information in a secretive Music of the Path, and Gurdjieff enshrined it in the enneagram symbol of the Work. In the groundbreaking new book, Nearly All and Almost Everything, Mitzi DeWhitt follows unexplored and unconventional lines and brings together what, on the surface, appear to be three separate lines: Judaism, Hinduism, and the Gurdjieff Work.
Here, DeWhitt explains that the Hebrew symbol known as the Tree of Life has, for its basis, musical ratio and proportion. This musical basis connects it with at least two other lines of transmission-the Hindu Music of the Path and the Gurdjieff Work. Their link is musical harmonics, or the magical science of connection between sounds. DeWhitt presents a provocative and engaging musical picture of how these three lines work and intersect.
By persuasive explanation, Nearly All and Almost Everything not only provides a wealth of new information that will have a profound impact on modern views of music theory and its laws, but also renders far more accessible much of what, until now, has remained obscure in Gurdjieff's writings. "The science of musical vibration is the most basic of all sciences and includes not only the physical aspect of things, but also the psychological and the metaphysical. Music, in fact, can bring together the meaning and content of all and everything," says DeWhitt.
About the Author
Mitzi DeWhitt, a long time member of the Gurdjieff Foundation, brings to this work an academic and practical background. A retired concert pianist and accompanist with graduate degrees in music theory, she, for over thirty years, has been engaged in re-envisioning music, its hidden encrypted structure, and as the third force that integrates the faith of religion with the tenets of science. What began many years ago as a mystical search for truth has culminated in musical discoveries of the highest caliber. A writer by avocation, a seeker by inclination, she currently teaches piano in her private studio in the Philadelphia area.
Nearly All and Almost Everything * By Mitzi DeWhitt
The Gurdjieff Work, the Kaballah, the Indian Shrutis and the Musical
Tree of Life
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