A Biophilic Birthday Bash with Eileen Day McKusick & Kyle Denton (Tippecanoe Herbs)
In this enlightening equinox season, my solar return draws near, and what better way to spread the cheer than by catching up with one of the best teachers around, the great Eileen Day McKusick! Eileen is the founder of the Biofield Tuning store, creator of top-notch tuning technologies, and an all around fun human being. Joining us is Kyle Denton of Tippecanoe Herbs, a wisdom spreader and fellow initiate on the path of sound healing techniques. Don't miss this one!
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In this episode
Core themes
An Herbalist Picks Up the Tuning Forks
Kyle Denton opens by introducing himself as a community herbalist with a shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and explains how he folded Eileen McKusick's tuning forks into work he was already doing. He says he had long tested remedies by writing an herb's name on paper and holding it in a client's hand while feeling their pulse, something he can only account for through a cosmology that includes a causal etheric field. He now keeps what he calls his homunculus guy on the practitioner table, and describes carrying the field of a session into herbs he later prepares in a percolation cone.
Nested Toruses and the 144 Hertz Fork
Eileen McKusick, who says she has been at this for 28 years, describes the biofield as nested toruses, Russian dolls that extend past what Biofield Tuning calls the earth star to a further center she calls the deep earth, with each bubble's polarization reversed as it goes out. She recounts finding that the 12 bands of the biofield correspond to the 12 houses of the zodiac, and that she and an apprentice now tune people's star charts. She also traces her 144 hertz weighted fork, which she nicknames the Yang grandmother, and the unweighted 144 she shipped with a warning label after all 11 of her teachers found it alarming.
Getting Startedness and Permission to Be Messy
Asked by Chance Garton for insight on starting things, Eileen McKusick argues that perfectionism rather than ability is the block, and offers herself as what she calls a messy creative: the first draft of Tuning the Human Biofield was, by her account, terrible, and there are roughly 120 discarded fork prototypes behind the 10 she sells. She cites the Japanese idea of kaizen and a Nightingale Conant envelope that asked whether your thinking is too big and causing you to fail. Kyle Denton answers in plant lore, calling blue vervain the list maker plant and repeating his phrase, borage for courage.
Jonah, Nineveh and the April 8 Eclipse
The middle of the stream turns to the coming April 8 eclipse. Eileen McKusick, who says she will be tuning at Confluence at Sovereignty Ranch in Bandera, Texas, has been digging into its symbolism: a town called Jonah near Austin, and seven Ninevehs in or near the path, which she compares to the Salems along the 2017 track. She reads it as an invitation to repentance and plans a Sonic Sunday talk on it. Chance Garton links it to niyah, the Quranic word for intention. Kyle Denton cites Salts of Salvation and notes that sin means off the target. Eileen counters free will with what she calls free won't.
Do Plants Have a Biofield Anatomy?
For the last stretch the three turn to plants. Kyle Denton lays out the anthroposophical model he credits to Rudolf Steiner, in which roots carry a thinking quality, leaves carry rhythm and breath, and flower and fruit belong to air and fire. He describes finding the field boundary of a seven foot wide cottonwood locals call grandfather tree about 25 feet out, and a 528 fork that would not ring in that forest. Eileen McKusick says it never occurred to her to map a plant's biofield anatomy, but recounts a spider plant that screamed at her, and polygraph work in which plants registered fear in the same signature as humans.
Quotes
“Plants respond really beautifully to sound, to the vibes, because they speak the same vibrational language that we do.”
“Behind me, I have a 12 string guitar, and it's way less complicated than this one string instrument. And up here is the divine hand of God, the creator that tunes it.”
“As we develop a particular skill or knowledge base, it's akin to mining neural pathways in this collective consciousness. And some of us are up at the wall on the frontier chipping away.”
“Not have the word failure even exist in your mind, because everything for me is a science experiment. I'm like, let's try this and see what happens.”
“I call it the list maker plant. It's the plant for the person who likes to make all kinds of lists.”
“I'd feel like a tow truck driver, like I pull people out of ditches all day, help them get their rubber on the road.”
“Sin, which means off the target. So here we are living in a society that is off the target of nature.”
“There is something magical about that messy creative process, exercising your will in the world while always being mindful of how am I getting closer or further away from God's will for me?”
“We have free won't as opposed to free will, because that's where it tends to show up more, is when we exercise it in the won't.”
“This stuff doesn't work if you try anything. You can't do it if you're trying. You have to be neutral. You have to receive. You just have to report what's going on.”
“I didn't believe it was possible for a long time, then discovered it was, and discovered we are witnessed.”
“That's the kind of thing that can really level you up in life is to figure out those motivating principles and then align them to what's actually healthy for yourself.”
Eileen McKusick is the founder of Biofield Tuning, a sound-healing modality that uses tuning forks to map and clear the human energy field, and bestselling author of Tuning the Human Biofield and Electric Body, Electric Health; she has been a recurring InnerVerse guest.
See all Eileen episodes→Kyle and Serena Denton are community herbalists creating wild-crafted and organic plant medicines out of Milwaukee since 2015. I have used their teas and tinctures on an almost daily basis for years now. Kyle is a great friend of InnerVerse and has appeared on the channel more times than I can count. These products work, not in the allopathic "pharma-medicine" way, but in a terrain-support, consciousness bolstering plant-teacher sort of way.
