Healing Sounds

Please tune in April 14th, Wednesday, at 12 noon US Eastern Time, to www.healthylife.net when I present “The Healing Sounds Show”. My guest for this show will be Russill Paul.

Russill Paul has been educating and entertaining the American yoga community for more than twenty years. The author of THE YOGA OF SOUND: Tapping the Hidden Power of Sound and Music, he is also the producer of many well received music chant CDs including “Shakti: Tantric Embrace” . Having lived the unusual combination of a being both a Benedictine monk and a yogi under the direction of the renowned sage and mystic, BedeGriffiths in India, Russill is dedicated to interspirituality: the dynamic integration of spiritual traditions. His recent book is JESUS IN THE LOTUS: The Mystical Doorway between Christianity and Yogic Spirituality. He directs The Mystic Heart School of Transformation, an online yogic mystery school, teaches widely across North America and facilitates an interspiritual chanting pilgrimage in India each January. His website is: www.russillpaul.com

Russill is a remarkable musician and teacher. I know this show will truly be a sonic journey into the arena of the mysticism of sound. Please tune in April 14th for this very special show

In addition, please tune in for the May 12th Healing Sounds Show featuring Richard Shulman, renowned composer and musician.

Our June 9th show will feature sound healing pioneer Dr. John Beaulieu as our guest.

If you have a question and would like to be “live” on the air with us on the Healing Sounds show, here’s the audience call in telephone number: 800 – 555 – 5453

Please tune in to this Internet Radio Show Wednesday, April 14th, at 12 noon Eastern Time to healthylife.net

Harmonically Yours,

Jonathan Goldman

1. Sitting quietly before sounding: attempting to get centered.	2. I begin to vocalize the Divine Name and white light begins to appear.

3. I continue to intone the Divine Name as the white light grows.	4. The more I sound, the more the white light continues to envelop me

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 had booths displaying their works or others such as myself, who did 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.

The following day my wife Andi & 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 Imaging” photography.

The study of photographing the aura has been around since the 1930′s, when two Russian scientists, Valerie and Semyon 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 electro-magnetic field. This work has progressed over many years until there are now sophisticated cameras available that seem to be able to record different colors of the aura relating to moods and other factors of people who are being photographed. There’s much skepticism about the validity of these cameras, though the photographs can be fascinating to observe.

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, however, 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 do sound the Divine Name again. This time, the results were recorded.

What I present now are photographs taken from a brief 20-second video made while I intoned the Divine Name. It is not my purpose to validate aura photography or equate any particular meaning to what you’ll see. I simply make these photos available for your perusal. Most aura photography shows one or two predominant colors that are seen swirling around a person. With these photos below, there was an initial slight bluish purple that was visible before I began to vocalize the Divine Name. This bluish purple hue is not visible in the first of these black and white photos. However, as you’ll see, in the next pictures that follow the first, a pure white light almost immediately begins to emerge and then envelope me as I vocalized the Divine Name.

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. I present these photos to you now with no agenda. They may well show one aspect of the power of the Divine Name to initiate Light & Love through Sound. Or they may indicate something else. I trust you’ll find them of interest.

From THE DIVINE NAME ©2010 by Jonathan Goldman, Published by HayHouse

It’s my great honor to let you know that my latest book THE DIVINE NAME, published by Hay House, is now available. I consider the THE DIVINE NAME to be the culmination of my work of over 30 years as a pioneer in the field of Sound and Vibration.

THE DIVINE NAME is about a discovery I made over 15 years ago of a universal sound that has the potential of not only creating wellness on a personal level, but of helping to shift consciousness on a global level. This discovery is a universal sound—what many consider to be the lost sound of God—that has the potential of creating health and harmony within us and assisting all of human kind.

THE DIVINE NAME features a foreword by esteemed Hay House author, Gregg Braden, and includes a free hour long interactive Instructional CD that assists readers in creating and experiencing the power of this extraordinary sound. I invite you to bring THE DIVINE NAME into your life. If you learn to experience this extraordinary sound, it will change you and your world—it’s as simple and powerful and as important as that.

Here’s a link to some very amazing aura imaging that occurred when I intoned THE DIVINE NAME.  Please check it out–I think you will find it most interesting.

The first sense to arrive is that of hearing.  And hearing is you last sense to depart.  Even scientists will tell you that for those revived from the near death experience the last sense that they were aware of on the physical plane was sound.   These scientists will also tell you that certain studies about  near death experiences reveal  that the most frequently experienced sound that was heard by people going through what you call “the tunnel” to the other side, was that of choral music deep in vocal harmonics.   From an inter-dimensional standpoint, I can tell you that this is true.  Vocal harmonics come as close as you can to create to the singing of angels.

Hearing is an extraordinary sense–it really helps define reality.  You can shut your eyes to block sight and not breath through your nose to block smell, but it really is very difficult to block sound.  Sound is all around and through our sense of hearing our reality is helped to be created.   I would like to take this understanding one step further and tell you that  hearing is a passive activity.  Hearing is a passive activity, because many times you are not aware of the sounds which are affecting you.  The sounds may be vibrating your bodies and going into your ears and into your brain, but frequently, you are not aware of them.   Listening is a conscious activity.   Listening is an active activity.  Through learning to listen we can heighten our awareness of reality and our consciousness.

Take a moment now, after you had read this next paragraph, and close your eyes.  Close your eyes and listen to the sounds that are all around you.  What are you aware of?  Listen as alertly as you can?   Are you aware of the sounds of machines in the room or in a neighboring room.  Or from the outside.  Is there music playing?  Or birds calling?  Is the wind blowing?  Are there people talking nearby?  Are there street sounds such as cars going by?  What are you listening to?  Are you aware of  the sound of your own breathing or of your own heart beating?  Are you aware of the sound  the blood rushing through your veins or impulses moving through your nervous system?  What are the sounds you are listening to?  Take a moment and listen.  And when you have finished, take some time to note to yourself any differences you may have experienced before and after you took the time to listen.  For many people the experience of active listening opens up new realms of sound.

Simply by learning to listen,  we can dramatically heighten our perception of the world and alter our consciousness.  There are many meditation groups and spiritual paths which use sound as a means of entering the Divine.   Listening to the “Shabd”,  the Sound Current, is an extraordinary yogic discipline.    For many of these groups, the inner sounds experienced by deep listening, are among the most profound ways of traveling to higher planes.    Some spiritual masters have even charted the sounds of different planes, from the sounds of bells ringing to the sounds of ocean to the sounds of the humming of bees.  These are inner sound listening  and they are very powerful indeed.   as are the experiences of listening to outer sounds.  And then there are harmonics, which may be the bridge between the inner and the outer sounds.

My first introduction to hearing vocal harmonics came from listening to recordings  many years ago.  I heard the harmonic sounds and tried to duplicate them.  Later on, I studied with masters of the harmonic voice from many different traditions.  Yet, there are now many individuals who hear and consciously create vocal harmonics quite naturally within their own sounds during sacred sounding.  The question is why?

Harmonics, as we discussed last time, have always been around, for they are simply an aspect of the physics of vibration.  Vocal harmonics have also always occurred–particularly when individuals would sound elongated vowel sounds.  However, the awareness of these sounds is new.  They have always existed, but people have not been able to hear them until now.   Once again, we ask you why?

An answer is that harmonics are very much like the aura of a sound.  It is not a totally correct analogy, but it will do for the moment.  Auras have always existed around the physical body of individuals, yet knowledge of these auras, let alone the ability to see them, was restricted to a very select group of individuals.  Until now.   Now, it is not uncommon for people to begin to develop the ability to see auras on their own, or to learn techniques to develop this ability through reading a book or taking a workshop.  In the same way, awareness and development of the ability to create vocal harmonics is occurring.  It all has to do with the shifts in consciousness and in the vibratory rate of the planet and its occupants.

To begin with, when one develops the ability to hear vocal harmonics, it is though new connections in the brain have occurred and this is exactly what does happens.    As  one develops this ability to become aware of and hear vocal harmonics,  and then consciously learn to create them,  astounding things are experienced.

The sense of hearing is one of the most extraordinary on the planet.  One begins to develop this sense of hearing and to become aware of sound while still in utero.  In fact, the sense of hearing begins somewhere around the third month of the fetus.  Think about this.   All you who have delivered children or are thinking about it, become aware that the little being inside of you is sensitive and picking up the vibrations of  the sound around you, including your own voice.   Be aware of  what you say and how you say it, especially if you are with child.

Please tune in March 10th, Wednesday, at 12 noon US Eastern Time, to www.healthylife.net when I present “The Healing Sounds Show”. My guest for this show will be me Jonathan Goldman. For this very special show, I’ll be interviewed by Andi Goldman, sound healer, psychotherapist, and my wife and partner.

The focus of this show will be dedicated to my latest book, THE DIVINE NAME: The Sound That Can Change the World, which will be released on March 15th from Hay House. Those of you who know me are aware of how very pleased and excited I am about the release of this book. For me, it represents the culmination of my over 30 year’s work in the field of sound healing. The Divine Name is a discovery I made 15 years ago, of a universal sound that was composed of vowels which when vocalized sounded amazingly like the Tetragrammaton: the ancient, personal name of God from the Old Testament. From my experiences working and teaching this sound, I’ve found that this name seems to have the ability to resonate both the physical body and subtle energy fields of anyone who intones it, irrespective of religion, tradition or belief.

I’ll be sharing the story of this discovery and its validation through scholarly research as well as discussing how THE DIVINE NAME has the power to issue in a new era of human consciousness, uniting us in healing, peace and oneness. For more information, please click on THE DIVINE NAME.

Please tune in March 10th and join Andi & I for this very special show as we explore the secrets of THE DIVINE NAME. The information and material has the potential of being life changing!

In addition, please tune in for the April 14th Healing Sounds Show featuring Russill Paul, renowned musician and author of THE YOGA OF SOUND.

If you have a question and would like to be “live” on the air with us on the Healing Sounds show, here’s the audience call in telephone number: 800 – 555 – 5453

Please tune in to this Internet Radio Show Wednesday, March 10th, at 12 noon Eastern Time to healthylife.net

Harmonically Yours,

Jonathan Goldman

In our last conversation, we began the discussion of harmonics.  We talked about the actual physics of harmonics–their relationships as geometric multiples of vibrating strings.  We also discussed some of their uses in the esoteric traditions such as the Tibetan “Deep Voice” chanting style.  I would now like to discuss Nouvo-European Vocal Harmonics.

When I first began to study the phenomenon of vocal harmonics, I listened to many different styles of creating these sounds, including the Tibetan “One Deep” Voice and Mongolian “Hoomi”  throat singing style.   After many years of listening  to and then learning these different vocal styles, I realized there was an extraordinary difference, not only in the actual sounds of these Eastern vocal harmonics, but also in their creation and  what I and many other American and European harmonic singers were teaching.  I call the technique that I and other Westerners teach “Nouveau-European Vocal Harmonics”.

In many of the traditional styles of vocal harmonics from the East: the Tibetan “Deep Voice” and  Mongolian “Hoomi”, it takes many years of exceptional training in order to develop the voice.   The Tibetan “Deep Voice” is not one which can simply be picked up–frequently, if one tries to duplicate it the results can be disastrous–everything from strained vocal cords to loss of the voice can result.  With the Mongolian “Hoomi” techniques, the results can be equally bad.  There is a great strain on the vocal apparatus in these traditions.  Astounding harmonics are created as a result of this,  but at what price?

From an inter dimensional viewpoint, It became important to implement a different style of vocal harmonics onto the planet which could be learned easily and used as a tool for frequency shifting.   The reason for this was that the vibrational level of the Earth plane had evolved to the point where it was possible for humans to begin to develop the ability to create vocal harmonics without years of discipline and strain to the 5th seal, or chakra.  The time had come where the creation and use of harmonics as tools for self-transformation and healing could be brought to the mainstream of consciousness as opposed to being restricted to purely esoteric traditions and techniques.  And this has occurred.

One way of creating vocal harmonics through the Nouvo-European technique is simply to gently sing the vowel sounds “oo” to “oh” to “ah” to “eye” to “aye” to “eee”.   (Specific instruction as to how to create vocal harmonics through these and other sounds are found in my book book HEALING SOUNDS from Element Books  and the accompanying “Healing Sound” instructional audio from Spirit Music). These vowels sounds, interestingly enough are also  the vowel sounds that when coupled with specific pitches will indeed resonate the 2nd through 7th chakras.  The vocal harmonics that are created by singing these vowel sounds together are beautiful and ghost like and they sound like an angelic voice that is singing along with an individual.

Jonathan Goldman shares how sound has the ability to affect physical matter through a series of photographs.

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In order to clarify the Feb. 14th time and activities of World Sound Healing Day here is a summary of the event. For more information you can always go to www.healingsounds.com

1). On Feb. 14th, at 11 AM EST, we invite you to come to healthylife.net for a very special World Sound Healing Day presentation with Jonathan Goldman & Andi Goldman.

2). Then, on Feb. 14 at 12 noon, EST (U.S. Eastern Standard Time / New York Time) , please go to Temple of Sacred Sound to tone the heart sound “Ah” as a Sonic Valentine for Mother Earth for 5 minutes or more, joining thousands of others throughout the planet on this award winning interactive website.

3). If you are not near a computer or can not join us at the 12 noon event, please know that on Feb. 14th, anytime, anywhere (wherever you are, whatever time it is), take at least 5 minutes out of your day and project the heart sound “Ah” filled with Light & Love to Mother Earth, as a Sonic Valentine for Global Harmonization. If possible, please gather with others in a group to collectively tone together for this event.

We trust this is helpful. We’re really looking forward to resonating together with you this Feb. 14 for World Sound Healing Day!

Blessings of Light & Love through Sound

Jonathan Goldman & Andi Goldman
Sound Healers Association

Please tune in February 10th, Wednesday, at 12 noon US Eastern Time, to www.healthylife.net when I present “The Healing Sounds Show”. My guest for this show will be Amrita Cottrell.

Amrita Cottrell is the Founding Director of The Healing Music Organization and the Co-Director of The Crystal Sound Institute. Her work in sound and healing music came from her own amazing recovery from a life threatening illness in 1999 using her own sounds.

Amrita has a degree in the Health Arts and Sciences and is an inspiring teacher and public speaker. She is an accomplished musician and singer. Her music artfully blends her playing of crystal singing bowls with her high, clear singing. She has shared her healing story and her work with the crystal bowls at the United Nations, as well as the NY Times and CBS News.

Amrita publishes a bi-weekly online subscription newsletter called the Sound News Chronicle. She monitors the news media and compiles news articles, scientific research, recent publications, recordings and events in the field of sound healing and music therapy into an easy access newsletter. She is founder and director of The Healing Music Organization.

A truly heart felt person, who is very knowledgeable in the arena of sound healing, Amrita will share numerous areas of interest with us. Please tune in February 10th for this extraordinary show. It’s sure to be a wonderful and deeply resonating experience.

In addition, please tune in to www.healthylife.net for our special World Sound Healing Day show at 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (EST–New York Time) on February 14th. This show will be leading up to the “Sound Heard Around the World” at 12 noon EST when people throughout the world will meet at the Temple of Sacred Sound in order to send a sonic Valentine to Gaia, our Mother Earth. This show will be co-hosted by my wife, Andi Goldman, a noted psycho-therapist and sound healer.

If you have a question and would like to be “live” on the air with us on the Healing Sounds show, here’s the audience call in telephone number: 800 – 555 – 5453

Please tune in to this Internet Radio Show Wednesday, February 10th, at 12 noon Eastern Time to healthylife.net

Harmonically Yours,

Jonathan Goldman