One day, experimenting with a device to measure sound vibrations, known as a Koenig photometer Ron stumbled upon a discovery of major philosophic significance.
Essentially he found that when a student read a section of poetry on the photometer the device identified the speech as poetry regardless of language. Thus when haiku was read in the original Japanese, for example, the wavelengths produced by the Koenig photometer were precisely the same as those it produced when English verse was read.
"I was suddenly struck by the fact that a japanese poem and a poem in English both gave the same rhythm patterns and obviously seemed to be striking the same chords in the mind, so that what the Japanese recognize as poetry in Japanese registered the same way in English when deprived of the significances."
Ron had made a significant discovery common to all men. But he found that his findings were falling on deaf ears.
"Here were two races which were worlds apart which yet responded identically to the same stimuli even though they were in different languages. I took this to the Psychology Department of the University and they didn’t know what I was talking about, and on interrogation I found out that they did not have any inkling of Eastern know-how in the field of the mind, that they were not interested in research, that they did not think mental responses had any application to their field and a lot of other amazing things which brought me to the immediate conclusion that there was a hole in our culture which it would be very worthwhile to fill."
