| The easiest, most exciting adventure in | | | | circuits, step our energy up or down. |
| consciousness follows the lamplit guidance of the | | | | You can feel this happen during meditation, and |
| still, small voice in each of us. In the quiet of | | | | the longer you meditate, the more sensitive you |
| meditation, we listen to our souls and hear what is | | | | become to these subtle energies, which carry us |
| most needed in our lives and how best to obtain | | | | into the Oneness. I experience this oneness not |
| it. This wise, kindly voice never fails us and never | | | | only as a sense of love for and connection with |
| falters. | | | | others, but also as oneness with my highest |
| There is no substitute for inner listening. But in our | | | | mental clarity, creativity and intuition. After 16 |
| travels, these four pathways emerge to enhance | | | | years of regular practice, I emerge from every |
| our joy and draw us into the Oneness. | | | | meditation, brief or lengthy, feeling more |
| See which of these harmonic pathways resonates | | | | centered, grounded and in attunement with my |
| best with you: thought and word, self-knowledge, | | | | true self. Going within kindles the divine spark in us |
| inner peace, or chanting and toning. All work | | | | so that we may know and speak the truth of |
| together, as individual notes or as a chord, to | | | | who we are-and, in this, reach out to others in |
| transport us into the beauty and music of higher | | | | love, compassion and service. |
| consciousness--the light and sound of Universal | | | | A calm, peaceful sense of oneness is critical to |
| Mind, or God. | | | | our evolution; otherwise, we volley back and forth |
| 1. The power of thought and word. When our | | | | from one state of consciousness to another |
| ideal is peace, healing or prosperity, and we say | | | | without ever really knowing what is real and what |
| or do something out of alignment with this, we | | | | is not. I experience this shifting consciousness |
| sense, feel or know it. The discord itself keeps us | | | | when I don't meditate every day. The slippage is |
| on track and guides us back into oneness with | | | | all too apparent to me, and unfortunately, to |
| ourselves, others and Spirit. The great | | | | others around me as well. |
| psychic-healer Edgar Cayce, who said that | | | | When I do return to meditation, I am amazed at |
| "Thoughts are crimes or miracles," lovingly advised | | | | the consistently gentle, loving voice of my heart, |
| everyone to create an ideal by which to live. This | | | | which does not complain when I skip my |
| is best done in meditation, so that the soul voice | | | | contemplative time, but waits patiently for me to |
| may show us what is needed most. For you, is it | | | | return. Recently, while in deep meditation, I heard |
| peace, joy, self-discipline, will, oneness or | | | | a quiet little voice say, "I am too hurried." Upon |
| something else altogether? | | | | engaging in a pen-and-paper dialogue with my |
| If a single word floats up when you ask this | | | | heart and mind, I learned that both want and |
| question, create with this word an affirmative | | | | need the restful peace of meditation. |
| phrase or sentence, then go back into the silence | | | | This makes sense, doesn't it? It is in the Oneness |
| to see if it is good and right for you. When it is, | | | | that both are energized and made more vibrant |
| post your ideal somewhere and, during meditation, | | | | and whole. In this blissful state, these three notes |
| use it as a mantra to draw your busy mind back | | | | organize themselves into a chord made of the |
| into the silence. This will build your ideal into your | | | | proper co-creative partnership: mind serving heart, |
| life. When the words of your ideal no longer have | | | | heart serving soul, and soul serving what I call the |
| a "shine," or "go dead" for you, you have | | | | Divine Harmonic. |
| incorporated this quality and it's time to return to | | | | 4. The power of chanting and toning. To |
| meditation for a fresh ideal. | | | | comprehend the potential of sound, we have only |
| Every time you think or speak your ideal, you are | | | | to read the Hebrew Bible, which tells us how the |
| physically attuning your body-mind to it, so be | | | | powerful vibration of trumpets and the drumbeat |
| sure it's a spiritual intention that will uplift you! | | | | of marching feet toppled the walls of Jericho. In |
| Ideals are blueprints with which we build our lives, | | | | modern times, we have seen this same harmonic |
| whether we know it or not! If you aren't | | | | phenomenon in a California bridge undulating in |
| convinced that your thoughts, words and | | | | resonance with the frequency of wind blowing all |
| emotions influence the physical world around you, | | | | around it. The bridge eventually shattered. Equally |
| you might find these stories very interesting. | | | | unpleasant to many of us is the deep, rumbling |
| Last November I attended an historic conference | | | | bass of automobile speakers passing by and |
| in Virginia Beach that featured the physicists and | | | | thumping our beating hearts into palpitations. |
| U.S. military personnel at the center of America's | | | | Such "entrainment" sensations can be reversed |
| research on remote viewing, termed "anomalous | | | | by a meditative thought, word or rhythmic sound, |
| perception" or "anomalous perturbation" (psychic | | | | all of which will rapidly shift any frequency pattern. |
| receiving or influencing) by these methodical | | | | People have always used chanting and toning to |
| thinkers. One of the presenters was the famous | | | | evoke altered states of consciousness and heal |
| remote viewer and artist Ingo Swann, who | | | | with the power of sound. |
| reminded us that thoughts, as vibrations, are | | | | I've recently read, but have not yet verified, that |
| heard and felt by all sentient beings, including | | | | Egyptian hieroglyphics show adepts using the |
| house plants! | | | | vibrations of their voices to heal their patients' |
| At a party in New York City, Swann met Cleve | | | | energy fields. It makes sense intuitively that if we |
| Baxter, who later authored the classic book, The | | | | fully understood the capabilities of frequency and |
| Secret Life of Plants, and visited Baxter's home | | | | vibration, we would be able to heal anything. |
| to participate in experiments. Baxter had hooked | | | | The racial memory of these abilities, lost through |
| up lie detector electrodes to the leaves of | | | | the ages, has been restored to us by Cayce and |
| ordinary house plants, and every time Swann | | | | others. Researchers reading of Cayce's glimpses |
| struck a match, the readout jumped sharply in | | | | into the distant past believe that the mastery of |
| reaction. After awhile, the reactions stopped and | | | | sound technology is how the Mayans, Aztecs and |
| Swann asked why. "The plant knows you're | | | | Egyptians moved 100-ton boulders hundreds of |
| bluffing!" Baxter told him. And so it did, as | | | | miles and up mountainsides to build megalithic |
| illustrated time and again in Baxter's landmark | | | | temples and pyramids. |
| book. | | | | David Elkington's meticulously researched book, In |
| In other experiments, Baxter and Swann took | | | | the Name of the Gods, claims that Egypt's |
| skin scrapings and drops of blood from a man and | | | | pyramids were not meant to be burial chambers, |
| put them in a vial hooked up to the same | | | | but were frequency modulators for spiritual |
| electrodes. The readouts consistently jumped | | | | ascension and for quickening the mummified dead. |
| when the man was poked with a pin, even when | | | | Like sacred cairns and stone circles, pyramidal |
| he was five blocks away! (See the second edition | | | | structures amplify the resonance of chanting |
| of my e-zine, OneWorld, for a series of | | | | voices and may have been used to raise the |
| eye-opening articles and interviews from this | | | | frequencies of the crystalline human body into |
| amazing conference.) | | | | harmony with the crystalline healing frequencies of |
| That we are all one body, one mind is indisputable. | | | | the Earth. We know today that this frequency, |
| Yet we so easily forget and doubt how our | | | | 7.8 hertz, is a fundamental brain wave frequency |
| thoughts and words affect everyone-and | | | | of meditation and spontaneous healing by |
| everything-else, including our own bodies and | | | | hands-on practitioners. |
| minds. | | | | Hindus, Buddhists and many Westerners |
| 2. The power of self-knowledge. My still, small | | | | harmonize the body-mind by chanting the familiar |
| voice has said for the past 16 years that releasing | | | | "Om" or singing the word "Hu," the Sufi and |
| darkness enables us to attract and hold more | | | | Eckankar seed sound for God. (Eckankar is the |
| light, and recently, DNA experiments carried out | | | | present-day Religion of the Light and Sound of |
| by a Russian scientist proved definitively that this | | | | God.) The vowel sounds in these words move |
| is true. It's intuitively verifiable as well, and a | | | | energy through the abdominal, cardio-pulmonary |
| phenomenon that we can physically feel as it | | | | and cranial cavities of the body when we focus |
| takes place. | | | | on feeling this movement of loving, divine energy, |
| Here's how to bypass your ego, which I call a | | | | rather than how we sound to others. The key to |
| "hero in its own mind," and awaken to what you | | | | chanting and toning is being present to it. |
| need to know about yourself. Every time you find | | | | Here's a powerful chant from ancient Egypt, |
| yourself angry, frustrated or in conflict with | | | | resurrected in trance by Edgar Cayce and |
| someone else, "Stand back and watch yourself go | | | | explained in a little book, Music as the Bridge, |
| by," as Cayce so vividly advised. "Know Thyself," | | | | published by Cayce's Association of Research and |
| emblazoned on the temples of Greek mystery | | | | Enlightenment (edgarcayce.org) in Virginia Beach. |
| schools, is the key to conscious evolution. If we | | | | I've asked people, during my talks and |
| do not undertake this journey, we are not really | | | | workshops, to sing this chant and always hear |
| conscious at all. | | | | beautiful harmonic overtones that carry the |
| I was taught this by my meditative writings, and | | | | singers into deep meditative states. Cayce said |
| as I traced my discordant words and actions | | | | this particular chant awakens our ability to draw |
| back to their source-fear of inadequacy and a | | | | ourselves into the divine and the divine into us. |
| crippling lack of self-love-I was able to see and | | | | See if it works for you! |
| correct the destructive patterns of behavior that | | | | Surrounding yourself with a sacred circle of love, |
| drove me to addictive decisions and ways of life. I | | | | chant the word ar-ar-r-r--e-e-e--o-o-o--mmm. Fill |
| could actually feel my burdens growing lighter, as | | | | your pelvis and navel with this rich, resonant |
| my pain, sorrow and yearning gave way to | | | | "ar-ar-r-r" (as in ah-r) and with your whole body |
| increased amounts of light in my body-mind. | | | | sound the "eeeeee" (as in eat) in your solar |
| What fascinated me most was the correlation of | | | | plexus, moving the breath upward and directing |
| this "en-lightenment" to sound: with each stride | | | | the "oooooo" (as in oh) to the heart and throat, |
| forward, I could hear my singing voice becoming | | | | then the uuuuuu (as in blue) to the base and |
| ever more resonant and beautiful! I can still hear | | | | center of the brain, and the "mmmmm" (as in |
| the difference in my voice, in shifting from one | | | | room) to the forehead and frontal lobe of your |
| state of consciousness to another, and especially | | | | brain. You will feel this last sound vibrating the |
| in singing with other spiritual seekers, wherein | | | | very bones of your head. |
| everyone's voice grows more harmonious, | | | | If you sit with this chant for awhile, you'll feel the |
| resonant and beautiful. I concluded that the high | | | | currents of spiritual love coursing through your |
| frequencies of love bring us into our blossoming | | | | body-mind, and a river of peace will carry you |
| literally and in response to our deepest desires. | | | | into the Oneness of perfect love. Share your |
| 3. The power of inner peace. Silent meditation, by | | | | peace and healing by visualizing your loved ones |
| building up the divine currents of energy within us, | | | | and Earth's people basking in joy. |
| is the single most effective way to heal and | | | | Joy is the natural outcome of these pathways |
| transform the body-mind. These currents, | | | | into the Oneness, for here we feel the perfection |
| containing the light and sound of God, tune up our | | | | in all things and know ourselves to be one with |
| bodies through the chakra system, or "wheels of | | | | the Divine. All pain, loss and sorrow fall away in |
| energy," as Cayce called them. He said, and | | | | this journey toward the Light and Sound of God. |
| virtually all medical intuitives have seen, that these | | | | In the beautiful music of this illuminated Oneness, |
| seven energy centers connect the spiritual | | | | we soar on wings of freedom and joy, at home |
| dimensions with our endocrine glands, located at | | | | in our place of true belonging, forever. |
| major nerve centers. The chakras, powered-up | | | | (c)2004, Judith Pennington. All rights in all media |
| like frequency transformers with multi-level | | | | reserved. |