Yesterday for our 45th anniversary my wife gave us both something called a Zen Alarm Clock. Its triangular case is wood, with a rodlike metal chime below the face. Its ten-minute chiming cycle progresses according to golden mean or Pythagorean ratios. It chimes once, then doesn't chime again for 3 minutes and 45 seconds. The next chime follows at 2 minutes and 31 seconds, and the one after that at 1:28, and so on, diminishing to 8 seconds, after which it chimes every 4.5 seconds.
The sound of the chime is pure and clear, and it resonates for almost a minute.
This was a great present! It's a lovely way to awaken slowly into conscious awareness. I'd recommend it highly to anyone looking for a really neat Christmas present that will begin the day of special loved ones. I think the price is about $100. It comes with an instruction book that's a bit New Age-ish, but...
It's made by a company called Now and Zen, PO Box 110, Boulder, CO 80306. email is <orders@now-zen.com>.
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