Dear Sound Friends:

It is my great honor to tell you that at the 2011 COVR Visionary

Awards my book THE DIVINE NAME: The Sound That

Can Change the World (Hay House) was the Winner of

Best Alternative Health / Healing Book of the Year!

I am so very grateful to receive such a prestigious award. It is an affirmation and confirmation about the importance of this most extraordinary work—the book, the teaching and the manifestation of a sacred sound which I believe has the potential of helping to bring peace and harmony to our planet.

For those of you who would like more information about this book,
Here’s a link for you: www.thedivinename.com

Here’s a picture from the Award Ceremony at the COVR Awards Banquet which was held on Saturday night, June 25th,  at the International New Age Trade Show in Denver, Colorado.

Thanks for letting me share this with you!

Blessings Of Light & Love Through Sound!

Jonathan Goldman

Jonathan Goldman is unique in the field of sound healing. He makes sounds, embodies those sounds, follows them into alternate realities, and then makes them available to us. He says in The Divine Name: “sacred sound occurs when a sound is encoded with the intention of a positive outcome and beneficial results, such as healing”. I believe that Jonathan has the special gift of focusing his intention, journeying on sounds, and discovering the essence of the mystical.

I have watched him do this for many years. I am always amazed and humbled by his talent. His new book The Divine Name is the result of his latest journey. He tells us his journey started when he was a child in synagogue on high holy day awed by “the secret name of God”. Thus began his “seeking” and in this context I think all of his work or “sound journeys” that he has shared with us are resonant soundings of his seeking the Divine Name.

However for Jonathan he wants to sound it even more clearly, to instruct us all so we can sound together. His new book, The Divine Name, gives us precise instructions on how to sound. It is an amazing work. It is like a “novel of sound”. Your eyes see words and your ears do the reading. The story goes through sounds within sounds as the Divine Name seeks to reveal itself.  Only Jonathan, with his accomplished writing style, which we writers like to call “our voice”, can bring the sound journey into such a high level of focus.

Quite simply the Divine Name has to be sounded. Jonathan tells us how to sound in every way possible. He even includes an instructional CD. The word healing means “to make whole and complete, and “to be of sound mind and body”. The journey to wholeness and completion for Jonathan Goldman is through sound resulting in resonance with the Divine Name. In the presence of the divine,  mind and body become sound. The sounder becomes the sounded.  YHVH

Dr. John Beaulieu, N.D., Ph.D., author MUSIC & SOUND IN THE HEALING ARTS

I had just sent out the completed manuscript of The Divine Name to my editor. I was done with the book. It was the best I could do. I was content.

The next day I attended INATS, the International New Age Trade Show—a yearly event in Denver where authors, musicians, artisans, and many others speak, perform, or have booths displaying their works. Others, such as myself, do signings for those in attendance. The first day had been extremely busy for me, ending that night with my receiving two Visionary Awards, one for “Best Healing/Meditation Album,” which my CD 2012: Ascension Harmonics won, and another for “Best Web Site,” which the Temple of Sacred Sound won. This was a great surprise to me, as well as quite an honor.

My wife, Andi, and I arrived quite late at the show in order to spend a couple of hours looking around at what we had missed previously due to our busy schedule of activities the day before. As the show was just about to close down, I passed by a booth that had “aura photography.”

The study of photographing the aura has been around since the 1930s, when two Russian scientists, Valentina and Semën Kirlian, accidentally discovered that by passing a slight electric current through a plate that contained living matter, they were able to observe some sort of color “discharge” that extended beyond the physical material—what has become known as the aura or the electromagnetic field. This work has progressed over many years until there are now cameras available that seem to be able to record different aura colors relating to the moods and other factors of the people who are being photographed. There’s much skepticism about the validity of these cameras, although the photographs can be fascinating to look at.

At this booth, there was a monitor that displayed the real-time effects of people using the equipment. I was asked to sit down and try it. However, I was tired and ready to leave the show—not particularly interested in having my aura photographed. But for some reason, I was guided to sit down, and as an experiment, see if any changes would occur in my aura while intoning the Divine Name. Apparently, when I did this, the results were quite startling to everyone around the booth, including the aura-camera operator. I had missed whatever had occurred, since my eyes were closed. I was asked to sound the Divine Name again. This time the results were recorded.

It is not my purpose to validate aura photography. Most aura photography shows one or two predominant colors that are seen swirling around a person. When I viewed the photos of me, there was an initial slight bluish purple before I began to vocalize the Divine Name. The next set of photos showed a pure white light that began to emerge and then envelop me.

No claims are made about what these pictures represent. I do find it most interesting that rather than the traditional change in the color of the photograph, which is usual when people try to affect their aura, these pictures demonstrate something quite different: As I started to sound the Divine Name, white light immediately began to manifest. I’d never seen that before. I don’t believe anyone else had either.

The photos may well show one aspect of the power of the Divine Name to initiate light and love through sound. Or they may indicate something else.

A student of Kabbalah, Jonathan has been working for many years on the relationship between the Hebrew consonants of the Tetragrammaton and vowel sounds.