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Travelling the Sacred Sound Current:
Keys For Conscious Evolution©
By Deborah Van Dyke
Sacred sound offers profound tools for expanding
our inner awareness, raising our vibratory field, as well as
assisting in:
~ Calming the mind and clearing of sensory
overload from television and computers which clutter our
consciousness and suppress our natural creativity.
~ Purification of our energy fields.
~ Conscious, intentional visioning of new
potentials for ourselves and our world.
Sound creates a bridge that reaches the Highest
Realms. The joyful, transformative power of sound, made with
intention, offers a natural way of shifting our frequency to the ever-expanding
energies of Creation that are an inherent part of us. This higher
creational work requires a balance of both silence and sound, for it
is within the Silence that the Great Sound is heard.
We live in a Harmonic Universe. Not only is our
world comprised of sound, even the vacuum of space is full of sound
which exists as electromagnetic vibrations: the solar winds
interacting with the planets, the droning of pulsating stars. Every
dimension of existence is an interplay of the frequencies of sound,
light and geometry. Frequency or vibration are the keys which open
the gates of higher consciousness.
The shifts that I have experienced in my own
consciousness and the breakthroughs that have occurred as a result of
my continuing explorations with sound, have lit an inextinguishable
fire within. In fact sound is fiery in nature. When
one begins to work with the sacred science of sound, a powerful force
is invoked. As we elevate our vibration though sound, the
spiritual fire in our body rises. This fiery stimulation
loosens and dislodges energies of a denser nature, causing them to surface.
So in conjunction with this work, a personal
willingness to release the old energies that will emerge is
essential. The work of inner purification is ongoing and of
outmost importance as we continue to refine our energies and
integrate soul consciousness into our daily life.
Sound has opened gateways within me that had previously remained
dormant. It has provided me with the means for accessing higher
octaves of consciousness. When we travel the sound current, we
are not travelling anywhere outside ourself – we are travelling
within, as the body is the gateway to All That Is. Sound offers us a
key to the kingdoms within. It assists us in restoring
inner harmony and reconnecting with our divine self.
When I first began working with sound as a
therapeutic tool for healing, I was struck by what an incredibly
efficient tool it was for moving blocked or stagnant energy within
the body. The beauty of sound and its wide appeal lies in
part with the fact that it is based on physical laws of the universe
and therefore it doesn’t require a giant leap of consciousness
for people to experience and accept its benefits. A
demonstration I love to give which powerfully displays sound’s
ability to move matter, is the making of structured water with a
crystal singing bowl. This is the simple act of filling a
crystal bowl about half full with water and proceeding to play the
outer rim of the bowl with a rubber mallet. At first a
herringbone pattern appears on the water’s surface, then
effervescent bubbles begin to well up and finally, as a certain speed
and pressure with the mallet is reached, the water begins to dance up
about six to twelve inches out of the bowl in a cascading fountain,
forming a beautiful symmetrical pattern. This provides a very
visual way of understanding the power of sound to alter physical
form. Our bodies are composed of approximately 80% water,
making them perfect conduits for sound, as sound waves travel close
to five times faster through water than air. In the same way
that the sound arranges the water in the crystal bowl, so can it
re-organize the water and crystalline components of the tissue,
cells, and organs of our body into a harmonious tuned formation.
This “inner body sound massage” functions like a divine
tuning fork, bringing us back into a state of harmony and attunement.
My book Travelling The Sacred Sound Current
offers sound tools for the reharmonization of ourselves and our
earth. It is for anyone drawn to exploring sound as a path for
awakening, self-healing and accessing higher levels of
consciousness. Whether their interest in sound is
primarily therapeutic, or whether they have a more spiritual focus,
my intention is to provide a solid, ground level foundation of
knowledge as well as to inspire people to further study and
exploration of the magical work of the soul with sound.
My research for the book has been a combination of my own
experiential work with sound as well as a gathering of ancient wisdom
teachings and spiritual sound practices from many masters of sound
and various cultures throughout the ages.
These ancient “sciences of sound”
contain vital keys for the restoration of harmony for humankind and
our continued evolution of consciousness. In a sense we are
simply relearning what the ancients knew; that sound is a fundamental
means of re-connecting with the Divine and it offers us a means for
transcendent experience, a way to access realms of consciousness
beyond that of our 3rd dimensional experience. Thus sound
becomes our ticket for higher spiritual travel.
Why does sound affect us so profoundly?
Sound evokes a remembering within, it speaks to our soul in a way
that nothing else does. It is intimate, it is visceral, it
elicits feelings. The secret to its power is its ability to
penetrate through all of our bodies – physical, mental,
emotional, spiritual – where it touches our innermost
being. Before, during and after our physical experience
of life here on earth, our soul exists as sound and light. Pure
sounds – like those heard in nature - remind us of our true
origin. “All things being derived from and formed of
vibrations have sound hidden within them, and each atom in the
Universe confesses by its tone, ‘My sole origin is sound’.”
(Sufi Master Hazrat Inayat Khan) Nature contains the language
of pure vibration, it contains “sound codes” that stir our
awakening consciousness. The sound of the wind blowing through
the trees creates natural harmonics, the soft rhythm of falling rain
drops, the continual pulse of ocean waves on the shore, the sound
codings contained in birdsong and cricket song; this is the original
language and by simply allowing ourselves the time and space to
become quiet and listen, we begin to awaken to a primal language that
our soul instinctively understands on a deep level. As Light
and Sound Master, Tulsi Sahib wrote, “Listen, a Sound
is coming from the Eternal Abode to call you back”.
The nature of sound is a vibratory wave that
penetrates deep into the energy field of the listener. Of
course the vibration carried by a particular piece of music depends
on the intention (or lack of) of the musician and singer. If we
realized just how great an influence sound exerts on our subtle
bodies, we would be much more selective in terms of what we allowed
to come into our field. Music created from varying levels
of consciousness will exert different effects on the listener.
Think of a song recorded by a rock band high on drugs. What was
the state of consciousness of the singer? What type of energy
pollution might you be bombarded with as you listen to this
music? This example represents one end of the spectrum, while
music created with a sacred intention is at the opposite end.
The chants and mantras I sing on Travelling
the Sacred Sound Current were recorded in my healing
sanctuary set in a natural wilderness location, far removed from the
chaotic energies of a city. They were sung in sacred ceremony
with very specific healing intentions of the chants transmitted
through the sound. The Gayatri mantra for instance was recorded
at the exact time of the summer solstice when the solar power of the
sun is at its peak for the year, with the full light of the sun
bathing my face I as sung it. This is an ancient Sanskrit
prayer and sound formula evoking the Divine Sun of Life to enfold us
with universal protection, purification, and enlightenment. The
opening harmonies to this chant were an invocation to the great
Seraphim who are the Carriers of the Holy Fire and assist one’s
travel to the higher realms. The mantra was accompanied by the
pure tones of a crystal singing bowl.
When people listen to this music, they describe
that they feel transported to a higher state of consciousness because
the vibration of the chant creates a direct channel of communication
between the chanter, the listener of the chant and the energies
invoked through the chant. Another beautiful healing
chant on the CD is Om Mani Padme Hum which embodies a tremendous
energy field of compassion and love. Prior to recording this
song with my son Matt who is a master drummer, we linked our
intention and went into meditation. We connected with a vision
of the Mother of the World, sitting high on a Himalayan mountaintop
by an ancient temple, singing her prayers from her heart of
compassion to the world. With this focus, the music, rhythm and
melody for the chant emerged. The CD also provides a powerful
crystal bowl meditation and offers a sampling of the other-wordly
sounds of ancient Peruvian whistling vessels which are phenomenal
psycho-acoustic tools. For those wishing to experience a "shift
in consciousness", the CD offers a treasure of sacred
intentional sound with which listeners can travel the sound current
of spiritual healing.
Most importantly, I hope people will be inspired
to sing along with the chants so that they can experience first-hand,
the power of their own self-generated sound. When enough of us are
singing from our hearts with the voice of our Soul, a new song will
unfold in our world thirsting for harmony.
Deborah Van Dyke is the author and artist of the
newly released book, TRAVELLING THE SACRED SOUND CURRENT:
Keys for Conscious Evolution and the companion CD, TRAVELLING
THE SACRED SOUND CURRENT: Divine Chants & Sacred Tones For
Healing & Meditation. She is also the creator of CRYSTAL
VOICES and SOUNDS OF LIGHT crystal bowl
meditation CDs, definitive healing tools in the field of therapeutic
sound. She holds ceremonial concerts of Sound and Light
at the Vancouver Planetarium Star Dome and teaches Sacred Sound
Intensives. For more information you can call toll free
1-877-777-6863, or visit her website at
www.soundcurrent.net Her book and CDs are also available
at Amazon.com, Borders stores, or your local bookstore. |
