There's Music in those Rocks

The Rainbow Bridge isn't simply a metaphor for death and scientists studied the real one to discover how it vibrates.  What kind of vibration one can find in a three-hundred-foot stone bridge is hard to imagine but the scientists went to listen for it.  (Science Daily:  Resonance in Rainbow Bridge)

Over two days of seismic monitoring in March 2015, the team identified eight major modes of resonant vibration -- some forward and back, some up and down, and some twisting. Overall vibration of the bridge was a combination of those modes. Most of the time the bridge just shivered at a low hum.

- Science Daily

So there's a root note and seven harmonics?

Read the article for more detail on the geology but the interest in the Rainbow Bridge here at the Rockhouse is much more kozmik.  It's not so much the science but the Rainbow Bridge National Monument which vindicates the belief the Rainbow Bridge was never the Angel of Death as some portrayed it.  That death metaphor does exist but the actual bridge confirms more ethereal thinking existed long before.

That's the actual Rainbow Bridge on the extreme South side of Utah and you can get the scale of it by looking for the teeny tiny people almost underneath.  Indians ask people not to walk underneath it for spiritual reasons but maybe the photograph compresses the image and the people are not as close as they seem.

In terms of general hippie splendor, this revelation is right up there with the Kumbaya from finding all humans came out of Africa.  There has been a lifetime love of Hendrix' Rainbow Bridge but the associations for it kept coming back to death.  I knew that wasn't the Hendrix message so there was an empty unresolved vibe from it until discovering the actual Rainbow Bridge in Utah.  That happened this morning and, hence, the article.