The Complete 3-6-9 Research Project
Why This Research Exists
If you're reading this, there is a good chance you found me through one of my videos about Nikola Tesla, the so-called 3-6-9 method, Solfeggio frequencies, or the research that eventually became The Chain Creation Theory™ and Desmore Frequency™. What started as one question about music turned into several years of research, experiments, corrections, discoveries, and enough rabbit holes to make me seriously question my ability to leave well enough alone.
This page documents that journey as honestly as I can. Some of what you are about to read is documented history. Some involves ideas that are commonly repeated but poorly sourced. Some comes from existing research on sound, music, stress, and the nervous system. Other parts are my observations, pattern recognition, experiments, and developing hypotheses. Those are not the same things, and I don't intend to pretend they are.
I am not asking anyone to believe something simply because I discovered a pattern. I am documenting what I found, explaining how I got there, and continuing to test the ideas as new information becomes available. I have already changed parts of this research when I found better information, and I fully expect that process to continue. That is what research is supposed to do.
Where This Entire Journey Began
Ironically, none of this started with Nikola Tesla. It started because I was writing music.
In 2022, while composing, I started wondering why certain sounds seemed to affect how people felt differently. I have played piano and guitar for decades, written more than 2,000 songs, received recognition for my songwriting, and spent ten years owning an entertainment company. Music wasn't something I had recently discovered on YouTube. I already understood how dramatically changing a key, chord, tempo, arrangement, or tone could change the experience of the exact same piece of music. That led me to a simple question: what exactly is sound doing to us?
During that search, I came across Solfeggio frequencies. Everywhere I looked, people were assigning specific emotional, physical, and spiritual effects to individual frequencies. Some claimed certain frequencies reduced stress or discomfort. Others associated them with emotional healing, awareness, intuition, relationships, or even physical repair.
I wasn't interested in repeating the claims simply because they sounded interesting. I wanted to know where they came from.
That curiosity also led me to historical uses of bells and resonant sound. Bells have been used for centuries to signal communities, accompany religious ceremonies, mark time, warn of danger, and create sound capable of traveling across large areas. Modern claims sometimes go much further and suggest that historical bells were intentionally tuned to specific healing frequencies. I have not found enough historical evidence to present those healing claims as established fact, so I don't.
Still, the broader question remained. Sound clearly interacts with the human body and brain. Music can change our emotional state, attention, arousal, and perception. So I kept digging.
What Are Solfeggio Frequencies?
This is where the history and the modern story need to be separated.
Historically, Solfeggio refers to a system of teaching music through syllables. Guido d'Arezzo, an 11th-century Benedictine monk and music theorist, developed a system using Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, and La to help singers learn musical intervals and melodies. Ut was eventually replaced by Do, and the seventh syllable, Si, later called Ti in English-speaking systems, was added centuries afterward. That history is real.
The modern story about “Solfeggio frequencies” is something different. Alternative-health literature eventually connected six specific frequencies to ancient sacred music and attributed their rediscovery to Dr. Joseph Puleo in the 20th century through his interpretation of numerical patterns in the biblical Book of Numbers.
The six frequencies commonly presented in that system are 396 Hz, 417 Hz, 528 Hz, 639 Hz, 741 Hz, and 852 Hz. Three additional frequencies, 174 Hz, 285 Hz, and 963 Hz, later became commonly included, creating the nine-frequency sequence most people now recognize as the Solfeggio frequencies.
I have not found historical evidence demonstrating that medieval monks intentionally tuned Gregorian chants to those exact modern Hertz values. I also have not found scientific evidence establishing all of the specific healing properties routinely assigned to each frequency online.
That doesn't make the frequencies useless to investigate. It simply means we need to stop mixing history, internet folklore, personal experience, and scientific evidence together and calling the whole thing proven. I was interested in the pattern.
Then Tesla Walked Into My Research
While I was researching Solfeggio frequencies, someone told me they were connected to Nikola Tesla and his famous “3-6-9 method.” There was only one little problem. I had never heard of Tesla having a 3-6-9 manifestation method. So, naturally, down the rabbit hole I went.
The internet was filled with instructions claiming Tesla used a manifestation technique involving writing an intention three times in the morning, six times during the day, and nine times at night. The practice had been repeated so many times that it was routinely presented as something Tesla actually did. I started looking for the original source.
I searched available Tesla writings, lectures, patents, interviews, historical records, and archival material looking for evidence that Tesla created or practiced this manifestation method. I couldn't establish a credible historical source connecting him to it. As far as I have been able to determine, there is no reliable documentation showing that Nikola Tesla created the popular 3-6-9 manifestation technique attributed to him. That should have ended my Tesla investigation. Obviously, it did not.
The Famous 3-6-9 Quote
The next claim was the famous statement attributed to Tesla: “If you only knew the magnificence of the numbers 3, 6 and 9, then you would have a key to the universe.” At first, I assumed that although the manifestation method appeared to be falsely attributed to him, perhaps the quote itself was legitimate. So I went looking for that source too. Again, I could not establish a reliable primary source showing that Tesla said or wrote it. The quote has circulated widely online, but repetition is not documentation. A million websites repeating the same sentence does not magically create an original source. That left me in a strange position. The man who supposedly inspired the entire investigation might not have said the thing that inspired everybody to investigate it. But by then, I had already noticed something else.
The 3-6-9 Pattern in the Frequencies
When I reduced the digits of the nine commonly used Solfeggio frequencies using digital-root mathematics, every frequency reduced to 3, 6, or 9.
174 becomes 1 + 7 + 4 = 12, and 1 + 2 = 3. The frequency 285 becomes 2 + 8 + 5 = 15, and 1 + 5 = 6. The frequency 396 becomes 3 + 9 + 6 = 18, and 1 + 8 = 9.
Then the sequence repeats.
417 becomes 4 + 1 + 7 = 12, which reduces to 3. The frequency 528 becomes 5 + 2 + 8 = 15, which reduces to 6. The frequency 639 becomes 6 + 3 + 9 = 18, which reduces to 9.
Then it happens a third time.
741 becomes 7 + 4 + 1 = 12, which reduces to 3. The frequency 852 becomes 8 + 5 + 2 = 15, which reduces to 6. The frequency 963 becomes 9 + 6 + 3 = 18, which reduces to 9.
That gave me three complete 3-6-9 sequences.
I wasn't claiming I had found Tesla's secret code to the universe. I had already discovered that I couldn't even verify the quote. I was simply looking at a mathematical pattern sitting directly in front of me and wondering whether the organization of the frequencies could be useful. That question changed the direction of my research.
The First 3-6-9 Sequence: Body
I began looking at the commonly claimed purposes associated with each frequency, while keeping in mind that those purposes are not established medical facts. The first sequence is 174 Hz, 285 Hz, and 396 Hz. Their digital roots are 3, 6, and 9.
The frequency 174 Hz is commonly associated with physical comfort, relaxation, grounding, and relief from discomfort. The frequency 285 Hz is commonly associated with restoration and tissue repair. The frequency 396 Hz is commonly associated with fear and guilt.
I began thinking of this first group as the Body sequence. My interpretation was not that three frequencies magically repair the human body. I saw a progression worth exploring: settle the physical system, support restoration, and then address emotional burdens connected to survival. That interpretation eventually became far more interesting once my research into chronic survival mode began.
The Second 3-6-9 Sequence: Energy
The second sequence is 417 Hz, 528 Hz, and 639 Hz. Again, their digital roots are 3, 6, and 9. The frequency 417 Hz is commonly associated with change and releasing old patterns. The frequency 528 Hz is associated with renewal and transformation and is frequently called the “DNA frequency,” although claims that listening to 528 Hz literally repairs human DNA should not be treated as established scientific fact. The frequency 639 Hz is commonly associated with relationships, communication, connection, and love.
I began referring to this group as the Energy sequence. After physical stabilization, I wondered whether the next stage could involve the patterns influencing how we respond, connect, and interact with the world around us.
Again, I wasn't declaring that the frequencies themselves proved the sequence. I was building a framework from a pattern and asking whether that framework could be tested.
The Third 3-6-9 Sequence: Consciousness
The final sequence is 741 Hz, 852 Hz, and 963 Hz. Their digital roots are once again 3, 6, and 9.
The frequency 741 Hz is commonly associated with clarity, problem-solving, and what alternative-frequency communities often call detoxification. The frequency 852 Hz is commonly associated with intuition and inner awareness. The frequency 963 Hz is associated with expanded consciousness, unity, and spiritual awareness. I refer to this group as the Consciousness sequence.
The order interested me because it suggested something very different from jumping straight into “higher consciousness” while the body is still behaving as though a tiger is chasing it through the kitchen. My interpretation became Body, Energy, and Consciousness, with each level containing its own complete 3-6-9 sequence.
Then The Chain Creation Theory™ Changed the Research
While the frequency research was developing, so was my work on The Chain Creation Theory™.
TCCT grew from my observation that many behaviors and struggles we treat separately may sometimes be connected through chronic survival patterns. Anxiety, chronic overwhelm, perfectionism, people-pleasing, fear, isolation, overthinking, and lack of purpose can look completely different on the surface, but I began asking whether some could represent different adaptations of a nervous system that learned how to survive.
My research eventually expanded into the possibility that these patterns can begin much earlier than the point where symptoms become obvious. I began exploring childhood stress and the hypothesis that prolonged maternal stress during pregnancy could potentially influence the developing nervous system before birth. That changed the question I was asking about frequency.
I was no longer simply wondering whether certain sounds could make someone feel relaxed. I wanted to know whether sound could potentially be used alongside a larger process designed to help a nervous system experience something other than chronic survival. That is where The Chain Creation Theory™, Safe Freedom™, the 3-6-9 Meditation Method™, and eventually Desmore Frequency™ began intersecting.
Safe Freedom™
One of the things I kept noticing while developing TCCT was how strange our approach to change can be. We recognize that a person has spent years adapting to an environment, and then we expect them to change the adaptation immediately because somebody explained it to them. Knowing why you do something and teaching your nervous system something different are not necessarily the same process. That led me to develop Safe Freedom™.
Safe Freedom™ uses small, manageable experiences to allow the brain and nervous system to collect evidence that something different can happen without automatically creating another threat. Instead of demanding an enormous leap, the process stays inside what I call the green and gradually expands from there.
That framework gave me another way to think about the frequency research. Perhaps sound wasn't the entire intervention. Perhaps it could become one part of the environment in which restoration is practiced. Then I noticed something about the music itself.
The Discovery That Became Desmore Frequency™
This was the point where my background in music became impossible to ignore. A frequency does not exist in music by itself. Music has keys, intervals, chords, rhythm, harmony, tempo, and resonance. If I was going to investigate how frequency affected the experience of music, why was I treating the frequency as though the rest of the music didn't exist?
I began experimenting with combining individual Solfeggio frequencies with musical keys that appeared to complement them. One combination in particular caught my attention: 285 Hz with music in C♯/D♭ Major. The experience was noticeably different enough that I began experimenting with other combinations. That eventually became Desmore Frequency™.
My current Desmore Frequency™ framework pairs 174 Hz with F Major, 285 Hz with C♯/D♭ Major, 396 Hz with G Major, 417 Hz with A♭ Major, 528 Hz with B♭ Major, 639 Hz with E♭ Major, 741 Hz with F♯ Minor, 852 Hz with A♭ Major, and 963 Hz with B Major.
The hypothesis is not that a musical key suddenly turns a Solfeggio frequency into medicine. I am investigating whether combining a sustained frequency with a complementary musical key creates a different listening experience than using the frequency or music independently, and whether that combination may be useful during nervous-system restoration practices. I have since used these combinations in meditation recordings and collected responses from listeners describing their experiences. Those reports are observations, not clinical proof, but they give me information I can document and use to determine what deserves further investigation. The research is still developing.
Tesla Came Back One More Time
Apparently, Tesla wasn't finished with me yet. Another quote commonly attributed to him says, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” Considering where my research had gone, you can imagine why that sentence caught my attention. So I did what had already ruined several perfectly good afternoons. I checked.
My investigation led through Tesla material, archival records, FBI documents, later publications, and claims involving Ralph Bergstresser. Once again, I could not establish reliable evidence that Tesla actually said the famous sentence in the form repeatedly attributed to him. At that point, I had to laugh. Two Tesla quotes had helped send me into years of research, and I couldn't reliably establish that Tesla said either one.
Thanks anyway, Nikola.
The irony is that discovering the attribution problems didn't destroy my research. It separated my work from Tesla completely. I don't need Tesla to have said anything about 3, 6, 9, frequency, energy, or vibration for the patterns I observed to exist. Tesla became part of the road that brought me here. He is not the evidence supporting where the research went.
Where The 3-6-9 Meditation Method™ Stands Today
The 3-6-9 Meditation Method™ now sits inside a much larger framework than when I first began this project. The nine frequencies form three mathematical 3-6-9 sequences in my framework: Body uses 174 Hz, 285 Hz, and 396 Hz; Energy uses 417 Hz, 528 Hz, and 639 Hz; and Consciousness uses 741 Hz, 852 Hz, and 963 Hz.
The Chain Creation Theory™ provides the larger hypothesis about how chronic survival patterns may develop and repeat. Safe Freedom™ provides a framework for introducing manageable experiences outside those patterns. The 3-6-9 Meditation Method™ organizes the frequency work into a structured sequence. Desmore Frequency™ explores what happens when those frequencies are combined with selected musical keys. These ideas are connected, but I don't treat that connection as proof. I treat it as a research direction.
What I Am Claiming and What I Am Not
I am not claiming that Nikola Tesla created the 3-6-9 Meditation Method™. He didn't. I am not claiming that Tesla created the manifestation technique circulating under his name. I have found no credible evidence that he did. I am not claiming that Tesla's famous 3-6-9 or energy-frequency-vibration quotations are authenticated statements from him. My research has not established reliable primary sources for either attribution. I am not claiming that Solfeggio frequencies cure diseases, repair DNA, eliminate trauma, or replace medical or psychological treatment. I am also not going to pretend that the absence of an answer means we should stop asking the question.
I observed a mathematical pattern. I developed a framework from it. My research into chronic survival mode gave that framework another context. My background in music led me to investigate frequency and musical key together. Listener experiences gave me additional observations. Each discovery changed the next question. That is where the research stands today.
The Research Continues
What began in 2022 as a musician wondering why certain sounds affected people differently eventually became research involving music, mathematics, nervous-system adaptation, chronic survival mode, prenatal stress, behavioral patterns, meditation, frequency, and musical key. I certainly didn't sit down one morning and plan that.
The Chain Creation Theory™, Safe Freedom™, the 3-6-9 Meditation Method™, and Desmore Frequency™ developed because one question kept creating another. Sometimes the information supported what I suspected. Sometimes it made me change direction. Sometimes I discovered that something millions of people repeated as fact couldn't be traced back to a reliable source. I consider all of those discoveries useful. Research isn't supposed to protect your original idea. It is supposed to make you willing to change your idea when the information changes. So, this page will continue to change too.
I am still observing. I am still experimenting. I am still documenting what happens. I am still separating what I can demonstrate from what I suspect, and I am still perfectly willing to follow another rabbit hole when something doesn't add up.
Considering how this whole thing started, I think we can safely assume there will be another one.
