Resonance over scale

One set of people at one moment in time might consciously agree to such a story, but it goes on to have a life of its own over subsequent generations, informing and inflecting not just our individual lives, but also organisations and institutions, and ultimately, our entire culture and society.

‘The driving cultural force of that form of life we call “modern” is the idea, the hope and desire, that we can make the world controllable,’ writes Hartmut Rosa, the German social theorist we met in the introduction. In his magnum opus Resonance, and a follow-up work, The Uncontrollability of the World, Rosa shows how all kinds of disparate human

If you tap into an object’s natural rate of vibration, or resonant frequency, it will move: It may vibrate, shudder, or even play a sympathetic musical note—think tuning forks. The same is true, metaphorically, when you present to an audience. If you tap into the group’s resonant frequency, you can move the people listening to you.

“And as we’ve discussed before, everyone’s energy vibrates, or resonates, at a different rate. A person’s energetic resonating rate is directly related to the individual’s level of consciousness. The more conscious a person is, the closer to their potential that person lives, and the more positive energy he or she has available to use.