The back cover design of BREAKING FREE Album has been developed in partnership with mathematical logician Chris Glynn and his theory regarding the tree of life together with M theory and their relationship to musical vibrations. In the tree of life there are eleven dimensions which is also the case in M theory (super gravity). M theory is a quantum theory of gravity. In this theory everything in existence is composed of minuscule strings and higher dimensional membranes that vibrate at different frequencies. This can be seen as an allegory for the way each sound or note in music has a different vibration field.

32 vibrations, 32 paths, 32 fields, 32 sounds.

To find out more here is Chris Glynn’s further explanation about The Tree of Life and the Sounds of the Universe:

The Cabbalistic Tree of Life, M-Theory and the Music of the Universe

The so-called “Tree of Life” is a graph representing the “structure of the universe” as described in the ancient text the Sepher Yetzirah (Book of Creation). It was devised in the 13th and 14th centuries by Spanish Cabalists and drawn with ten sephiroth (usually depicted as circles) and 22 “paths” or “ways”.

The 22 paths represent the 22 characters (or sounds, vibrations) of the Hebrew alphabet and connect the sephiroth by lines drawn between them – hence 22 lines or paths. There is in addition an eleventh sephirah which is never shown but implicit in the graph. However, the Sepher Yetzirah clearly states that there are 11 sephirah and 32 paths. It seems that these cabbalists have never read or understood the sepher. The reason is that the 22 Hebrew letters consist of 10 double letters (double sounds) and 12 single letters: Thus making 32 sounds. It is the sounds or vibrations that represent the structure of the universe. All the World is sound! Consequently, if we show the 11th sephiroth explicitly (dotted circle) and make the corresponding connections we obtain the graph depicted here. It now has 32 paths or “ways”, as indeed it should. This is the correct rendition of the Tree of Life according to the Sepher Yetzirah. That may displease some cabbalists who feel that their long-held beliefs are challenged, but there is no escaping the facts.

Now we come to string theory and M-theory in modern physics (11-dimensional supergravity). The best candidate for a “theory of everything” is superstring theory and its extension: M-Theory (membrane theory). A “string” is a one-dimensional object that replaces the “point-particles” of classical physics and quantum field theory. It includes gravity and thus unifies the four fundamental “forces” of Nature. It is therefore a quantum theory of gravity. Now superstrings vibrate, just as a guitar or violin string does. But strings are one-dimensional. In M-theory, however, there are two, three and higher dimensional objects, called “membranes” – strings being just one-dimensional membranes. These also vibrate. For example, one may liken a two-dimensional membrane to the vibrating surface of a drum – a percussion instrument. All the Universe is music! Both superstring theory and M-Theory are quantum field theories.

A field is just the arena in which a given variable assumes a different (or the same) value at a different place. A simple example is temperature – the temperature is lower at the top of a mountain than it is at sea-level. M-Theory has 32 fields just as the Sepher Yetzirah has 32 paths and M-theory needs 11 dimensions in order to work, just as the Sepher Yetzirah has 11 sephiroth. However, we appear to live in only four dimensions; three of space and one of time. Where are the remaining seven dimensions? The answer is “everywhere”. They are tiny, curled-up or “compactified” dimensions and we cannot see them from our macroscopic viewpoint. Similarly, the Sepher Yetzirah tells us that seven of the sephiroth are “hidden” from us and we can only directly experience the first four which form an inverted pyramid at the base of our graph of the Tree of Life. There is also a pyramid immediately above this which shares the same base. No wonder the ancient Egyptians were obsessed with pyramids!

It is not known who wrote the Sepher Yetzirah or where it came from for it is very ancient and its origins are lost in pre-history. Certainly, the Egyptians would have been familiar with it and doubtless one of the “Princes of Egypt” – namely Moses. It is said that Noah carried it on the Ark. Perhaps we would know more if Alexander the Great had not committed the most egregious crime in history and burned the great library at Alexandria!