The Superpower
The deep and earliest method of healing, (and sound healing) and bringing form into being is sound and tone. In the most ancient times before the world began in the origin creation stories you will hear from the Bible, Indigenous people, and others hear about a specific vibration and tone or words and sacred syllables were creation itself. You may be familiar with the saying In the beginning was the word and the word was God. Breaking this down further, previously secret, and sacred vibrational intonations and compositions are an influential language instructing through the careful resonance in the sky, Earth and within our very being. These compositions were invocational symbols carrying power and specific meaning based on the intention, frequency, pattern, sounds, and tones. These earliest sounds, now are mostly obscure, with only a few ancient traditions that have carried the sounds through time in secrecy only for the initiates who are trained in reverence with these special practices that uplevel their beings, open the heart, and connect the listener into higher levels of consciousness as they stimulate specific areas of what would be called in western science the pituitary gland and activating the crystalline structure identified by science.
Now some of these mysterious confidential reverberations are reemerging to impart their resonance in the world because it is time.
Sound Mandalas
Sound Mandalas are some of these sacred reverberations that are advanced formations with extraordinary designs. Often the form is circular, and mathematical with intricate patterns found in many cultures around the world These patterns are actually dimensional gateways that engage spiritual, emotional, and psychological formation and meaning as spiritual guidance tools for meditation, accessing non-ordinary states of consciousness, and creating sacred space. However, the mandala is not only a flat design created with material but is also created by the effect of particular sounds creating form, dimension, and pattern.
Cymatics
The work of the pioneer Hans Jenny reveals the beginning understanding of sound mandalas created by captured tonal reverberations called cymatics. Cymatics are the visible reverberations for a specific sound or tone as a frequency that creates an actual shape seen by our human eyes. In cymatics, Sounds emanating through a speaker onto a plate of sand are seen creating specific shapes and forms that capture the intention and intensity of the tone. The visible cymatic reverberations are seen because of the fine powder or sand that reveal formless matter that takes on shapes and complex patterns through sound vibration.
These simply cymatic forms are basic sounds that are created by those who are not trained in the protocols of preparation, in sacred practices or use, intention or overtones or other complexities. The absence of these elements allows us to consider and imagine how training and practice, focus and intention, and overlaying harmonization creates syncronistic tones and frequencies of exquisitely beautiful mandala effects as dynamic sacred vibrational patterns emanating codes of catalyzation and transformation. And this is not only conjecture.
Water
Masuro Emoto brought attention to the power of words with his work in the highly regarded and groundbreaking evidence in the research recorded in his video Messages from Water. In his work he reveals how ice crystals and written and spoken words change the development formation and presence of water when it is in ice form. These written or spoken words are simply spoken or written and not even paired with focus and intention or emotion, tones, or vibration. Using ice crystals with spoken and written words revealed loving words create beautiful, detailed formations like delicate and intricate snowflakes while negative words and phrases change the ice crystal into a shapeless form without definition or refinement lacking beauty as if they can no longer interface in their full ability dulled with loss of purpose.
Considering human beings are generally 70-80% water how we speak to others, the words we consume, including the sound we listen to from media and music, and how we speak internally to ourselves is a potent influential and powerful spell over ourselves and others.
The next wave of research into the mysteries of water after Masuro Emoto is by Veda Austin who reveals water as a living intelligence. If you have read any ancient references to rivers, oceans, streams, lakes, and bodies of water this theme is there. In ancient Hinduism water is the great purifier and spiritual connection, in ancient Egypt water is the source of life, in ancient Chinese Taoism water is a symbol of fluidity, and the ancient Mayans consider water to be our connection with the spirit world.
The oceans springs, rivers, and streams and the water that comes out of our tap responds to human consciousness as a mirror of our own intelligence or lack according to Austin. This response is so profound Austin considers water as an ‘intelligent web of highly advanced consciousness. And this consciousness also emanates through our body. The transformation that takes place through the vibration touches emotions, memory, our neurons, and the spaces between our cells at a deep level of our being. Besides directing us to our attention to the water we consume and how we can instill intention for our wellbeing and others, This is another example of how sound travels into us and deeply influences us.
Ancient Cultures and Sound Healing Methods
Just as ancient cultures understood the essence of water as the great spiritual connection and essence of life and a vibrant connection to the spiritual world they also understood the relationship of water vibration within the body using particular sounds, tones, frequencies, rhythms, and patterns.
Ancient cultures used sound and the components listed above for rituals and ceremony, gathering people togethering, healing, connection within and connection as a group. In Hinduism mantras are used to elevate consciousness through vibrational patterns that act as doorways allowing the participant who is either listening and or chanting to transcend their ordinary reality into heightened consciousness. Today we call this releasing our ordinary state of beta brain waves and accessing alpha brain waves, changing our heart rate and respiration with the potential to access even deeper states.
In ancient Greece Pythagoras influenced many people by his understanding of music’s potential, certain music, to harmonize the soul and the person with the Cosmos. Ancient Greeks also believed that music that travels with air will enter the body via the ears – as gate to the soul. Then the brain processes the sound, which eventually will be transmitted throughout the body with the blood. This way the effect of the music will reach each organ and finally the soul.
And the Greek philosopher Plato understood specific music is able to bypass reason and penetrate into the very center of our being causing a great impact because resonance, harmony and rhythm connect into our inner most soul in a profound way that takes hold of it and is transformative.
In Tibet and region the sounds of the Tibetan bowls have been in use for at least 2500 years. Their mystical purposes, help facilitate entering a meditative state, enhance focus and connection through the sounds with purification and spirituality. fostering peace and balance.
The didgeridoo is originally from the northern territory of North Australia mostly in Arnhem land and is at least 10000 years old and likely much older. It is used for healing and spiritual transformation. Its origins lie in the vast, untamed lands of Australia, where it was used in ancient rituals and ceremonies to invoke healing, balance, and harmony, promoting relaxation and reducing stress to improving respiratory health and breathing techniques.
A Story About the Didgeridoo
Here is a side story about the didgeridoo. Every year Tucson has the world’s largest gem show and that also means not just gems but the metaphysical side of gems as well and many other items. I was with a group of people at the gem show, and we found a didgeridoo player who was offering sessions. Our group paid him to play. He didn’t know a thing about any of us but played over one person’s in the group chest quite often during our hour session. That person had breast cancer and she did recover.
In ancient Egypt there is evidence of ancient sound frequencies used in the architecture and for healing from 10000 to 65000 years ago. The wisdom keeper Abd’el Hakim Awyan asserts sound, and its various applications were manifestation and alchemical transformational methods that were used in ancient Egypt. Their use was not only for working with the environment but also for the connection, holding consciousness in heightened states, and healing as well as creating a harmonized state within groups.
Another notable ancient text that shares the use of sound principles is the Six Healing Sounds of Taoism and Traditional Chinese Medicine Taoist internal alchemy (Neidan). This information was written down over two thousand years ago and had already been in existence before it was committed to text.
The effects of using the six-healing sounds include harmonization of the internal organs, stress and anxiety reduction, calming of the nervous system, enhancing circulation, removes excess energy accumulation, and promotion of mental balance.
Ancient Drum Rhythms Worldwide
And ancient tribal cultures worldwide have used drum rhythms in specific sound patterns to gather together their community, for healing, for releasing the ordinary and connection deeply with their spiritual selves, sometimes even gathering information from beyond for the betterment of the individuals within the community. These cultures are diverse and include the people of the Nordic region including Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Aland. Other people of the same region but predate the Norse are the Sami who lived in what we now call Norway, Swedne, Finland, And the Kola Peninsula in Russia.
The very old drums are from 3350–2700 BCE, which are related to several archaeological cultures in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland. In Mesopotamia 3000 years ago drums have been found which is in modern day Iraq. Nearly every culture in Africa has a specific drum that is included in ceremonies, healing and communication and gathering people together. In South America in the Andes drums were used 500 BCE as methods as in many cultures for shamanic practices, accessing states of consciousness that brought information, communication with their cosmology for their survival, health, and harmony. Areas of Maya of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras also have ancient drums and their rhythms are an integral component of their way of life and culture.
This is the same in North America where indigenous peoples have been using the drum and its rhythms for thousands of years for the same purposes mentioned above; gathering together and holding the energy to sustain the gathering, creating harmony and resonance within each participant and the group simultaneously, spiritual inner connection and continued development of that connection, transcending the limitations of time and space, and the medicine people used these sacred sound patterns and rhythms for healing, and accessing beyond their reality for insight, problem-solving, heightening intuition and sacred practices. We all have a drum in our ancestry!
Given the information about how profound vibration, tone, frequency, patterns, rhythms, and sound healing is in transforming us, and considering our resonance as water-based beings, the reemergence of the availability of sacred rhythms, tones, patterns, vibrations, frequencies as sound healing is a superpower. We are just beginning to remember the potent nature these influences have on us. Scientific research reveals listening to specific sound and rhythms not only allows us to shift into restorative and transformational states these states are the same ones that reduce inflammation and stress that are underlying causes of physical and mental illness!
Over the last 40 years there has been a re-introduction of some of the older practices for transformation that give us access to our own healing empowerment and beyond ,to our inner relationship with unraveling traumas, accessing content not available in our outer world, or rational mind. Out next step on the path is to apply these specific entrancing sound healing and transformative patterns and rhythms for our evolution.
Here’s a group of questions
- Why aren’t’ teachers using specific sounds in classrooms to calm the students and create harmony?
- Why aren’t the substance abuse clinics using specific sounds protocols and systems that are devised for assisting with changing brain patterns for calm and centering, releasing positive hormones for mental and emotional balance? The research is there.
- Why aren’t the outpatient surgeries and dental offices helping their patients use specific musical listening methods to help people access a relaxed state instead of being anxious? And a calm patient makes the professional’s job easier and their patient happier! The research is there.
- Why aren’t pain clinics using particular sound listening protocols for helping their patients diminish and manage pain? The research is all there.
- Why aren’t we using curated sound and music systems for healing the neurological system from trauma? The research is there.
- Why aren’t we using non-invasive and non-pharmaceutical curated sound healing systems for people including children, teens and adults to get to sleep? The research is there.
- Why aren’t’ we training people with depression and anxiety to use the systems of curated sound and music to diminish their depression and anxiety instead of pharmaceuticals?
- Why aren’t people who are using psychedelics who want to access a different level of consciousness trained to use curated sound and music systems to access other levels of consciousness regularly to help them navigate, release positive hormones, and diminish depression and anxiety, gain gentle incremental changes in the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual components of their being? The research is there.
- Why aren’t’ people who want to continue their spiritual awakening journey using curated sound and music protocols to highlight and navigate into deeper awareness, glean more understanding, and development further?
Like many things that get taken out of context curated sound healing systems are the application of protocols that are transformative. We can use the superpower of curated sound and music systems for sound healing that gently easily and succinctly transform our current paradigm in many ways.
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