Healing Sounds

The use of vocal harmonics as a sacred and transformation tool all but vanished here in the West.  In some of the Mystery Schools that survived, there has been continued knowledge of the power of vowel sounds.  These vowel sounds have been understood to convey great energy and some realize that many of your Divine Names may be encoded as vowel sounds.  We will add one more key to this puzzle.  Inherent in each of the vowel sounds are particular harmonics.  So that if an individual were able to properly intone the vowel sound name of a deity so that the specific harmonic resonated, what you would have would be a melody.  In other words, when correctly intoned, these Divine Names as vowels would actually be sonic formulas that would resonate to the frequency of a particular deity.

All of this, has, for the most part, been forgotten in the Western traditions.  The use of vocal harmonics maintained itself in secret in certain Tibetan Monasteries, where the Tantric Colleges would stress specific harmonics in their chanting that was resonant with the particular deity they were working with.  In Mongolia and Tuva, overtone singing is known as “Hoomi” and became a powerful technique where the singers could easily create two or more notes at the same time.  The Tuvans and Mongolians were able to sing specific melodies with harmonics in this manner.  However, the sacred and shamanic knowledge of the uses of overtones became lost to these people (it was perhaps wiped from their memory during the time of Genghis Khan).  “Hoomi” became a folk art rather than a sacred art.  The esoteric uses of vocal harmonics disappeared and only the exoteric, or external folk music remained.

The Tibetans on the other hand seemed to be quite aware of the power of their sound as a sacred tool for manifesting energy.  When the Chinese invaded Tibet, (an abominable massacre of high consciousness), those Tibetan Buddhists who managed to escape began to make public some of the more arcane and hidden of their practices such as their “Deep Voice” chanting.    The Tibetans, incidentally, work with vocal harmonics in a very unusual way.  As we have said, there is an inter-relationship between the vowel sounds and harmonics.  One can simply begin to chant the vowel sounds in a specific way (this is related in detail in my book HEALING SOUNDS) and certain harmonics will evolve.

The Tibetan voice is very different.  It is an extremely deep, guttural sound that is as low as is humanly possibly.  For those of you who know the Australian Aboriginal Didjeridu, the Tibetan Deep Voice sounds much like that.  Now, this sound of the Tibetans creates a chord–that very deep undertone, plus very distinct harmonics, so that it often sounds like a children’s choir singing along with these impossibly deep bass voices.  This chord created by Tibetan chanting is monumental.  It invokes dieties.   And it can create Merkabhas.    As a friend of ours, Sean (as channeled through Kaimora) remarked, “It is a voice that can summon the ships”.   The  Tibetan Deep Voice can create  inter-dimensional fields through which beings can travel.  The Tibetan sound is a very “off world” sound, from an ancient celestial source.  It was given to a high Tibetan lama many centuries ago in dreamtime.   Along with its extraterrestial and multi-dimensional focus,   the  Tibetan Deep Voice is  also an aspect of the creational tone–the embodiment of the low frequency sounds that manifested the physical plane.   The Didjeridu creates a similar sound.  So do certain whale sounds.  It is one of the most powerful tones for resonating with the energies of Gaia.

With harmonics of the voice, we are usually talking about overtones that are anywhere from twice the frequency of the fundamental, up to 15 times the fundamental.  While it is possible that harmonics can conceptually represent sound turning into light (because when a sonic frequency is multiplied by 40 octaves it turns into the electromagnetic spectrum which we call light), the harmonics produced by the human voice are well within the audible spectrum.  Yet, they have profound effects.

The use of vocal harmonics date back to before your recorded history.  They were utilized in Atlantis and Lemuria, and then later on in Ancient Egypt and your other Mystery Schools.  They were utilized by the priests and shaman of these traditions for any number of different purposes:  to resonate the physical body, the etheric fields and the brain.  They were used for healing, for consciousness expansion, for divine and extraterrestials communication, for the creation of inter-dimensional fields and many other activities. At the ancient healing temples in Atlantis they worked with crystals and harmonics in a specific geometric form as a group with an individual lying in the center.  Limbs and organs could be regenerated in this manner.  It was truly wondrous.

I am most interested in using vocal harmonics to activate certain portions of the brain.  I believe that the brain is basically a transmitter and receiver of information.  It is much like a radio that can be tuned to different frequencies and access multi-dimensional energies.  I have found that by creating specific harmonics and then directing them to particular portions of the brain such as the pineal gland, that it is possible to activate these portions of the brain and actually cause a frequency shift which re-tunes the brain.  It is very exciting.

This, of course, is just one of the areas in which harmonics may be used.  The creation of inter-dimensional fields using specific intervals and harmonics is another that will be receiving some rather dramatic attention in the near future.  Those of you who are familiar with the term “Merkabah” may realize that this vehicle of light is really just an inter-dimensional field generator and may be created by using specific harmonics with color and geometry.

Thus far, we have discussed various aspects of sound, including concepts such as “frequency”, “intent”, “vibrational resonance”, “visualization”, “vocalization” and other aspects of using sound to shift frequency.   Last issue, we mentioned the idea of a “harmonic language”.  It is time now to begin to deal with the subject of harmonics, or overtones, as they are also known.

You have heard the term “harmonics” used in many different areas–from the Harmonic Convergence to many sacred science writings.  I particularly like the reference to shifting the harmonic resonance of the Enterprises’s shield on “Star Trek: Next Generation”.  Yet how many of you really known what “harmonics” are?

Very simply put, harmonics are geometric multiples created by the singular vibrations of an object.  For example, if you set a string into motion–let us say that it resonates at a frequency of 440 hertz, that is, it vibrates up and down 440 times a second–this is known as it’s fundamental frequency.

Now, this fundamental frequency is what people pay most of their attention to.  If you were to hit this note of 440 hertz on a piano (or any instrument for the matter), you could call this note an “A”, and you would put most of your awareness on hearing this “A” note as it vibrated.

But in reality, this string that  produces a fundamental vibration of 440 hertz, is also producing many other tones, or overtones.  These harmonics are actually the result of other vibrations within the string created by that fundamental note–vibration that are quantum in nature and are geometric multiples of the fundamental note.

That “A” note of 440 hertz produces the first overtone by vibrating at a frequency that is twice as fast as the fundamental–at 880 hertz.  And this is what you call an octave.  The second overtones vibrates 3 times as fast as the fundamental, at 1,320 hertz.  And the next overtones vibrates 4 times as fast.  The next overtone vibrates 5 times as fast and so on.  Until–at least conceptually–infinity.   So you see that while what you may be perceiving as merely that “A” note vibrating at 440 hertz is actually a complex composite of that fundamental note and overtones, all vibrating together.

In reality, almost every sound that you hear (unless it is created by some electronic laboratory instrument) produces these complex tones–these harmonics.  They are, infact, responsible for creating the different sounds that we hear.  Harmonics contribute to what is called the “timbre” or tone color of an instrument.  When, in an electronics laboratory, the harmonics were removed from recordings of three different instruments, listeners could not tell them apart, yet in real life, it is easy to distinguish between a violin, a trumpet and a flute.  This is also true about the human voice–every voice is different, because every voice has a different harmonics pattern.  While harmonics always sound as geometric multiples of a fundamental tone, different harmonics will be more amplified in different instruments and in different people.

On a metaphoric level (still working within the guidelines of the physics of sound), when one talks about a harmonic of something, that person is talking about a higher frequency that is a geometric multiple.  A geometric multiple is simply a whole number (as opposed to a fraction), which therefore means that harmonics are quantum.    So, a harmonic of say 100  cycles per second (or hertz) can simply be that 100 hertz multiplied by any number (from 1 to infinity).   It could be 200 or 500 or 5,000.

Even if one has developed to a high degree, the ability of telepathy, sound is still utilized.  Because it is a powerful energy that is much more than pure thought.  It is a physical frequency–a third dimensional energy.     Remember,  in your development with sound, that the carrier of the consciousness, of the thoughts you send, will still be sound.  It is an easier and more efficient means of communication–at least here on the third dimension.

Someday, in the not too distant future, we will learn to communicate with others through a harmonic language.  It will be a language of tone and melody, without words.  This once was.  Then as the bible literally illustrates, languages developed and all forms of havoc were created.  Global communication ceased.   Language became used for communication and music became music.  The musical language that once was disappeared.

Do you recall the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”?  Do you recall how the extraterrestials communicated in that movie?  They did it through a tonal language.  As the entity Shadonai (channeled through Karen Anderson) once shared with me, these beings were searching the universe for another species with which they could communicate.  They were looking for another world which had developed its own melodic language  When they played their melody to us, we were wise enough to mimic what they said using sophisticated computers and the like.  But we did not have our own tonal language with which to truly communicate.  This gave those in the Mothership the awareness of our level of development.  And ultimately, they left, searching again for a species that could communicate on their level.  What was this level?  A tonal language.

This tonal language existed eons ago, and it will exist again.   It will utilize the energy of harmonics and it’s users will work with the understanding of Vocalization + Visualization = Manifestation.  The cutting edge of humankind is already beginning to realize the possibilities inherent in this and to experiment with this.  Why not?  The dolphins and other beings are assisting us on many levels in order to achieve this.  It is a much purer form of communication than we have and when it is done successfully, it must come from both the heart and the mind.  Not just the heart.  Not just the mind.  But a balance between the two.  And such radiant energy it is.

In the meanwhile, remember the importance of intention and visualization in whatever sounds you create.  And remember, to always sound with the energy of love.  This is something that the dolphins always do.  You would do well to follow their example.

Guest Article by Buryl Payne, Ph.D.

Although the word ‘frequency’ is used for both sound and light, it
may be misleading our thinking. A pound of feathers is not related
to a pound of gold, nor is a cup of hot coffee related to a cup of
flour, even though we can stretch for some relationship if we try.

Furthermore, if one looks closely at light, as a wave, the
visualization of electric and magnetic components smoothly
propagating as orthogonal sine waves was made up years ago for
simplifying the equations. The word ‘magnetic’ comes from the
name of the place where lodestones were found in ancient Greece. It
has no intrinsic meaning, that is, no connection with anything
physical. Its continued use, as if it were a real ‘thing’ has, and still,
confuses the thinking of many. It’s time to discard the term
‘magnetism’ and replace with tone that describes the physical
structure of matter, as it is now thought to be. Lodestones were
formed by some electrons in iron ore spin-aligning with the great
spin of Earth.

It was found centuries later that electrons moving in a wire created
a spin force around the wire, also an effect like that observed in iron
ore that has been soaked in Earth’s spin force. This leads to the
inference that electrons moving in wires (current) may be spin-
aligned.

But electrons are names made up (also from Greek). No one has
ever seen an electron. They are NOT little spinning round balls with
a covering of electric charge. The property which was called
electricity was found to appear in discrete amounts. These ‘chunks’
were called ‘electrons’ and were assumed to be things, since things
or nouns fit in our grammar. Later when those ‘things’ called
electrons were found to behave in some experiments like waves it
baffled many people (and still does!) For how can a thing be a wave?

Physics is a net of words strung together following the rules of
grammar, which are akin to the rules of logic as people using the
western and European languages have developed them. The made
up rules of grammar think for most people unless they are very
careful and critics to think about what is structurally, rather than
grammatically.

So what is to be done to clarify thinking about the relationship, if
there is one, between sound and light?

What’s going on? Eyes are for seeing light, ears for sound, and some
cells of the body sense both energy impingements. People often say
sound waves are ‘like water waves’. But are they really? Or is this
just a visual picture? Are they sinusoidal in shape? Are light waves
sinusoidal or is that a handy model requiring less mental energy to
comprehend? What’s happening compared with our verbal models
of what’s happening?

I don’t have the tools or knowledge to find out.

Consider this from another angle. What about the psycho
physiological effects of sound versus light?
The patterns of light as in ‘artistic’ drawings, and the patterns of
sounds as in music. Or the learned meanings of sound as in words,
or light as in written words or symbols.

Humans have very sensitive receptors. We can almost hear
individual molecules and almost see individual wavetrains called
photons. Frank Brown, a biologist who helped found Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute on Cape Cod, believed every cell of the
body could detect variations in Earth’s magnetic field.

And then there are the psychological meanings and interpretation…
One way out of this complex situation is to use applied kinesiology
or muscle testing to evaluate the effect on a human of a particular
sound or light pulse or musical pattern or design.

Over the years I have found this to be accurate and have recently
designed an electronic muscle tester which is slightly more accurate
and can be used for self testing (See www.buryl.com). So a
particular musical pattern that is healing, or a particular light color
or mixture of colors or designs, can be determined.

Theories are linguistic or mathematical mode.

Image by CW Ye via Flickr

Many frequently ask about dolphins and dolphin sounds. Dolphins have the ability to send and receive sonic frequencies of 180,00 cycles per second. That is 10 times faster than humans can perceive–human hearing ends at about 16,000 cycles per second. Dolphins have the ability to project multi-dimensional holographic images on their sounds. In a series of clicks, a dolphin can encode encyclopedic information upon sound. And another dolphin can receive and understand this information. What is the difference between these sounds and telepathy? The difference is that one is physical plane sound encoded with thought forms. The other is pure thought form. Can they convey the same information? Possibly, depending upon the receiver. Do they have the same effect? Possibly. What is the difference? You tell us. Next time you want to greet someone, think “Hello”. And then with the warmest of depth and intention say “Hello” and judge for yourself. Even if the person is a fine psychic, they will no doubt appreciate the physical plane greeting.

The same is true about prayer. Silent prayer is wonderful. Audible prayer may even be better. It is not that the deities on the higher planes can not hear the silent prayer, they just appreciate the audible as more of an offering or honoring. It is a matter of preference. Besides, most humans are so neophyte in our ability to telepathically transmit and decode information. Certain of your traditions in Australia have developed a degree of telepathy which they use over long distances. However, many of what you call the “Aboriginal Tribes” do not do use telepathy in close proximity. They still speak to each other when it is practical. And these traditions continue to use sound primarily as either a healing modality or as a sacred modality to invoke and honor deities and energies. Bones can be knit together with sound. And ancestral energies brought in to gatherings through sound.

Image by jasoneppink via Flickr

The harmonics, which I am found of using and sharing, are an aspect of sound which bridges the different dimensions.  I believe that these vocal harmonics also represent the new mantras of the 2lst Century and that these sounds will be a form of non-verbal communication we are in the process of receiving.  In the very near future, I will discuss with you this work with harmonics.  Be aware that sound is a very gross energy.  It is a very slow moving energy.  And it is a very physical energy.  It has the ability to rearrange molecules and actually change 3rd dimensional matter.  That is a great power.

Most commonly,  for  an audible sound to exist, it must take on third dimensional aspects.  In order for an audible sound, particularly a self-created sound, to occur, there must be certain physical plane counterparts.  A breath must be taken and then sent out, the larynx must be set in motion, the tongue and other vocal apparatus must create specific forms in order for specific sounds to occur.  It is all very mundane and 3-D.  And it, of course, is miraculous.   For this 3-D quality is what allows sound to have so much power.  It is what has the power to shake the walls of Jericho.  It is an actual physical resonance that occurs.

Image by mailumes via Flickr

Mantras (or the “frequencies”) by themselves may not be as powerful and effective as when they are coupled with visualization (or the “intent” if you like).   This is not saying that they will not work by themselves, but only that they work better when a specific visualization is added.   Awareness of this may alleviate some of the worry about the uninitiated using specific mantras and the dangers inherent in this.  It is relatively simple for an individual to create a certain sound.   One can pick up a book and find a mantra or hear such a sound on a tape and repeat it.  However,  it requires some discipline and concentration to add a coherent thought form to that visualization.  It has been found that when an individual is at the level of being able to effectively unify the energies of sound with specific thought forms they are also at a high enough level of consciousness to be able to handle the fields they are invoking.

This formula of “Vocalization + Visualization = Manifestation” is found in all of the magical and sacred traditions, including Hinduism, Kaballah, shamanism and almost anything else on your planet.   It is something which the ancient and modern priests of many of these different traditions may not want to share, but it is now time to disseminate this knowledge.  It is a key to adding power to sound.  The visualization, or thought form comes from a different plane–some would call it fifth dimensional or ninth dimension–whatever.   Let us just say it is from another level of existence than our third dimension.  When  the appropriate sound is added to this thought form, what occurs is that you create a third-dimensionalization of this thought form.  It becomes, empowered with the physical plane manifestation of sound.

Sound, incidentally, is not specifically third dimensional in nature.   There are certainly sounds from other dimensions that never assume 3-D qualities.  These sounds however, often are resonating at a very high frequency  level which may be perceived by the brains and ears of only very highly attuned individual, but which do not really resonate here on the Earth plane.   These are powerful sounds, but they are not necessarily physical nor can they necessarily affect physical structure.  Audible sound, that is sounds which we are able to create and hear, are able to resonant on both the 3rd dimensional level as well as many other levels.

In my previous blogs we discussed the concepts of “frequency” and “intent”.  “Frequency” is the rate at which an object vibrated and is also a way of measuring sound.   “Intent” is the energy behind any created sound.  Together, these two elements create how a sound may be used–it’s effect for healing, transformation or whatever.   In other blogs we discussed the concept  that we are all unique vibratory beings and that the frequency (or frequencies) for one individual would be very different than the frequencies for another individual. I would now like to return to return to the concept of “Frequency + Intent = Healing”.

Another aspect of this equation and one which I particularly like is this: “Vocalization” + “Visualization” = “Manifestation”.  This may be viewed as a different way of understanding the first equation.  It is essentially the same.   You may substitute the word “Frequency” for “Vocalization, “Intent” for “Visualization” and “Healing” for Manifestation.   This formula does have broader aspects than that purely used for healing and thus I bring it to your attention.

When I first discovered this equation through contemplation of the creation myth as described in book known as “The Old Testament”, I thought I was quite clever.  In the Old Testament, the creator being thought of an object (“Visualized” it) then said its name (“Vocalized” it) and brought it into being (“Manifested” it).   “And the Lord said ‘Let there be light!’”.   After I had created this equation,  I realized that it is an inherent part of the magical and sacred traditions throughout the planet and not very original at all.  It was, however, a nice consolidation of ancient wisdom.  In ancient Egypt for example, the God Thot (another aspect of the magical “Hermes” would think of an object, say the name for the object and bring it into being.

In Tibet (and now, unfortunately, due to their exodus, India), when Tibetan Monks chant their “mantras“, they are not only vocalizing a particular sound (which, incidentally is very much like a sonic formula for the vibrational frequency of a deity or a particular ability), they are also doing intense visualizations.  These monks are masters at visualization  and they have spent many hours each day building “mandalas” which are complex thought forms.  When coupled with their chanting, they are able to produce amazing manifestations of the various deities they are working with.  They are also, of course, able to produce seeming “miracles” by using this process of “Vocalization” + “Visualization”.

Image by Paul Garland via Flickr

I would like to suggest that there may be some significant differences in people, from the vibrations of their physical body parts to the vibrations of their etheric fields. And I would like you to contemplate the importance of this as we delve more and more into the world of sound. Be aware that it is also possible to encode other frequencies onto the body and that it is possible for a person with the best intention, to encode a frequency of a certain rate that they deem correct and healing on to another person. And if those frequencies do not resonate with the person, it is possible for that person to be put into a state of imbalance by these frequencies. I have seen this happen.

A musician friend wanted to experience one of these sound treatments from a machine that are becoming so popular. They visited a practitioner who diagnosed them and found imbalances which would be treated by listening to certain frequencies. This friend had been perfectly fine. Then they listened to the frequencies and they got sick. They had to be vibrationally readjusted. They did this by listening to one of my tapes that worked very well for them. Then they called me.

“What should I do?” they asked. “I called and told the practitioner what happened to me after I listened to their sounds and I was told to come back and receive a different frequency.”

“Don’t go back” I told them. “Their frequencies weren’t correct for you. Maybe they work for someone else, but not you. Go on working with your dolphin sounds and other sounds that make you feel good.”

The friend promised they would take my advice. But, one week later there was another phone call. This person had gone back and received a different sound from the practitioner and had become even more imbalanced.

I tell that story merely to suggest to you the old adage of “let the buyer beware”. If a “sound medicine” is resonating with you in a positive manner, you will know it. You will feel healthy and aligned. If it isn’t, you will also know it. And if it is not, do not repeat your error. You must use you own discrimination when dealing with those who claim to have the correct resonant frequency for you. It may be correct. It may not be. Only you can know for sure.