Healing Sounds

Join thousands throughout the planet for the 8th Annual World Sound Healing Day on Sunday, February 14, 2010.  At 12 noon Eastern Standard Time (EST—New York Time), sound forth for 5 minutes with the “AH” created and projected with the energy of compassion and love—sent as a sonic valentine to Gaia, our Mother Earth.  At that time, please go to www.templeofsacredsound.org to enhance the vibratory effect as we sound together for planetary peace and harmony.  Please visitwww.healingsounds.com for more information.

Sound coupled with consciousness creates an extraordinarily powerful vehicle for change. This topic has been covered in numerous writings including many articles on the www.healingsounds.com website. For this article, I’m going to focus on a topic that has received relatively little attention with regard to sound and consciousness—that of the subject of coherence.

Few people question why it is the “AH” sound that is suggested to be utilized on this day—especially after information is provided about the “AH” being the sound of the heart as well as being a universal sound of love and compassion. The “AH” is a sound that everyone can relate to as a sound to create together.

However, the specifics of the time being 12 noon EST seems to be more questionable. In truth, as we note in our detailed announcement, on one level it really doesn’t matter what time during Feb. 14th that sound is made. Any sacred sound created any time during that day is a good sound because any sacred sound that is ever created is always a good sound.  In addition, certain traditions consider that space and time are just be illusions of our consciousness, and time and space do not matter.

This perspective is acknowledged. Nevertheless, it seems that when creating an energy such as the  global wave of intentionalized sound we produce on World Sound Healing Day, having this sound occur at the same time throughout the planet may be a key to the optimal effect that results. Why is this?

This may be because of the vibratory phenomenon known as coherence. Scientifically, when two waves are in coherence, they are described as each having the same frequency as the other and both being in phase. The sound energy they create is multiplied. Coherence strengthens the power of the waves that are created.

Coherence occurs through nature and in particular, is most important in terms of its effect on our brain and body. In particular, if we examine the relationship of the brain and the heart, we find that when the heart and the brain are in coherence together (what sound people might call being in “resonance” together), both are locked into the same rhythms and oscillating at the same frequency. When this occurs, the electro-magnetic field created by the heart can be 5,000 times great than that of the brain and the synergistic field that is creating is extraordinary. When they’re out of sync, this does not occur and this field does not manifest to such a powerful degree.

Manifesting a coherent waveform of sound through creating the same sound at the same time—such as the AH sound at noon EST for World Sound Healing Day—really helps makes this waveform of intentionalized sound an extraordinary force of positive energy. The optimal power of this sonic wave is, no doubt, due in part to the phenomenon of coherence. When people gather together with agreement a sound to make and a time to make it, it really is more effective than when the sound is less coherent.  When different sounds at different times are made, the energy created becomes much more diffuse than the coherent waveform.

The website: www.templeofsacredsound.org was created as a Sacred Sound Temple in cyberspace which people throughout the planet can utilize in order to assist focusing their intentionalized sound. It’s been especially effect for events such as World Sound Healing Day.

There are instructions on www.templeofsacredsound.org to assist the person making the sound in achieving a personal state of coherence between their heart and their brain. This is a relatively simple process involving breath and visualization. It’s something anyone can do. This process of creating coherence within ourselves seems to strengthen the field we create, as well as the energy and the effect of the sound we’re making.

It may not possible to gather everyone throughout the planet to sound together at the same time. And. as noted, any sacred sound created at any time during that day is a good sound.  Nevertheless, the manifestation of www.templeofsacredsound.org has made it much easier for people to gather and sound together at the same time, assisting the process of Global Harmonization: creating harmony and peace on the Earth.  Thus, we ask that for optimum effect, in order to create the most focused and coherent waveform for planetary healing, that you please join us at 12 noon Eastern Standard Time at: www.templeofsacredsound.org.

The Tibetan Voice is now manifesting more and more in the West as a means of creating resonance that effect both the Celestial and the Gaia energies.   A number of Westerners, including myself, have now developed the Tibetan Deep Voice and are sharing it with others here in the West.  Women, as well as men, have been able to receive this sound through being in the sounds field.   I initially received the Tibetan Voice from the Gyume Monks by being  in their field.  This occurred after I recorded the Monks for the first time in the West during their historic visit in 1986.  I went home to listen to the recording of the Monks in my crystal grid and  fell asleep.  The next morning I awoke with the ability to create their sound.  It is an example of what I call “Harmonic Transmission”–in which the sacred knowledge and techniques of masters are transferred simply by their presence.

The Tibetan Voice, while extraordinary, is not something which can merely be taught through technique.  Many different past and present lifetime resonance are required for it to be received.  It is not for everyone.    However, here in the West, is the emergence of a new type of vocal harmonics, which nearly everyone can learn to create.  The effects of these harmonics is quite remarkable.  Within the last decade more and more people are experiencing the power and transformational abilities of these sounds.  We will discuss these “Nuevo European Vocal Harmonics” in a future post.

I hope I have not confused you too much yet–this is a very complicated subject and yet one which is extremely important to begin to understand.  It is also one of the reasons why I have difficulty with certain people who claim to work with the fundamental tone of a person’s voice.  Since the harmonics really create the uniqueness of the individuals voice, I believe they are as important (if not more important) than the fundamental tone and should be examined as well.

I have shared with you in the past about the importance of intentionality in the sound making process.  For the most part, the Mongolians and Tuvans were not aware of the sacred power of their vocal harmonics.   Or if they were, they were not discussing this with anyone.  Once again, it was purely a folk music.

The monks are actually singing an undertone–a sound that is 1/2 the frequency of the fundamental.  While this is said to be scientifically impossible, it is a reality.

Please tune in January 13th, 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 Dr. Charles Eagle..

Charles T. Eagle, Jr., Ph.D. , is a modern pioneer of Music Medicine, which he describes as “the combination and interaction of the art of medicine with the science of music”. Especially since the early 1960′s, Dr. Eagle has been involved in the transformational and therapeutic, spiritual and healing function of sound and music. This venture has resulted in an interdisciplinary study of music and sound from a variety of areas, including the “soft” and “hard” sciences, the arts, and the history of both. Dr. Eagle is Professor emeritus of Music Therapy and former University Fellow of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas U.S.A., where he was the founding Head of the Department of Music Therapy: Medicine and Health in 1975. In addition to his attaining 15 professional degrees and certifications, he also has been a member and served as an elected officer of several organizations, including the National Association for Music Therapy (NAMT) and the International Society for Music in Medicine (currently on the Scientific Committee).

Charles has been an old and dear friend–a mentor as well as a colleague who I consider to be a wisdom keeper in this tradition of Sound Healing. We will discuss many varied topics including “The Harmonic Nature of the Universe” and “The Origins of Music and Medicine”.

Please tune in January 13th for this extraordinary show. with Dr. Charles Eagle. It’s sure to be a remarkable experience that will resonate deeply within you.

In addition, please tune in for the February 10th Healing Sounds show featuring Amrita Cottrell, founder and director of The Healing Music Organization. And don’t forget our special World Sound Healing Day show on February 14th, leading up to the “Sound Heard Around the World” at 12 noon Eastern Time.

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, January 13th, at 12 noon Eastern Time to healthylife.net

Harmonically Yours,

Jonathan Goldman

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.

In this video Jonathan Goldman shares his formula for the relation of sound and healing. Frequency + Intent = Healing

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Dear Sound Friends:

These are certainly challenging times–times of great change and great opportunity. On a very personal level, I must tell you that I usually create my recordings first for myself and my family. If I find that they assist us in maintaining balance and harmony, I allow them to manifest as publicly released CDs. Yes–I use them for myself. And I must confess that I’ve been using them more and more frequently as of late. I continue to be pleased with the results.

With this in mind, it is my great pleasure to share with you a gift to help you receive these recordings, as well as an incentive to act now during this holiday season (what I refer to as the Holy Days). We’re extending a very special offer to you: Buy two CDs and receive the third free!

Simply visit our website at www.healingsounds.com, go to our Online Store and select 3 CDs. After you have added 3 CD’s to your shopping cart, enter the special code 34209 and the price of 1 CD will be deducted from your total. You will only pay for 2 CDs! See below for full instructions on how to apply the discount to what you decide to order.*

I’ve been tempted to create “Suggested Packages”, such as one that features Chakra recordings, or one that features associated Divine and Holy names. Instead, I’m going to give you the opportunity of getting whatever you think will resonate best with you during this season, as well as throughout the year.

From my perspective you can never have too much Sacred Sound in your life. This season of Holy Days is a perfect time to focus on both personal and planetary healing, frequency shifting and alignment. I trust this offering will assist you with this.

Blessings of Light & Love through Sound,

Jonathan Goldman

*How to receive the 3 CD for the price of 2 discount:

Visit our Online Store at the Healing Sounds website.
Select 3 CD’s and add them individually to your Shopping Cart. Each CD will be added one at a time. After you have added a CD, hit the “Continue Shopping” button to return to shopping.
Once your selections are made, enter the code 34209 in the “Discount Code” field.
Hit the “Update” button to apply the discount to your order. Once 3 CDs have been added, your final total will be recalculated minus the cost of 1 CD.
Please note that you may add other items to the same order, but your original total must include at least 3 CD’s for the Discount Code to activate.

This offer applies only to the purchase of CDs and is not valid for any other products.

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Jonathan Goldman talks about the Theta and Delta brain wave states of consciousness.

Be sure to watch Jonathan’s Brain Wave States Part 1

Please tune in December 9th, Wednesday, at 12 noon US Eastern Time, to www.healthylife.net when I present “The Healing Sounds Show”. This show will be a very special retrospective you won’t want to miss.

This will be the 36th episode of “The Healing Sounds Show” which began in January of 2007. We’ve had many extraordinary guests, including Gregg Braden, Rick Allen, Deva Premal, Steven Halpern, Sharry Edwards, Don Campbell, Lauren Monroe, Joshua Leeds and many many others. My first questions to each of these guests is: “How did you get started?” Their answers are always entertaining and most enlightening.

For this special 36th show, we will be featuring many of the “Best” of the “Healing Sounds Show” answering the “How did you get started?” question. For me, the replies tell so much about the paths and background of the people being interviewed. Their answers are always fascinating and insightful.

Assisting me as host for this special show will be Jay Cruz, www.healthylife.net engineer.

Please tune in for this wonderful December show. The selection of guests and their revelations about how they “got started” will be thought provoking and make for most extraordinary listening.

In addition, please tune in for the January 12th Healing Sounds Show featuring Dr. Charles Eagle, a true pioneer of Music and Medicine, who has been in this field since the 1960′s.

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, December 9th, at 12 noon Eastern Time to healthylife.net

Harmonically Yours,

Jonathan Goldman

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.

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Jonathan Goldman shares the fact the everything is in a state a vibration and everything is putting out a sound. Everything has a resonant frequency.