Healing Tones

The Andromeda Galaxy

What Began With Light

by Don Hynes

Cloud breaks reveal the moon
as light spills across the water,
rousing the quiet land.
Old roots stir, ancient trees
and stone canyons
find their voices.
Island folk emerge
from shelter
as whale song fills
the saltwater evening.
What began with light
is renewed in radiance,
and from sea depth and cavern
rise the breath of earth’s joy.

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HOW DOES IT ALL FLOW TOGETHER SO SMOOTHLY AND SO QUIETLY ?

I AWOKE ONE MORING last week to the image of a Galaxy in my mind spinning around ever so quietly and ever so massively, such that it gave me pause. I mused, “How does it do that? What makes the Universe go round so peacefully? By what principle or law are its movements governed?”

This wasn’t the first time I have been entertained by the same sort of image and the same curious query. Then I remembered that I had written about this same cosmic wonder in my book, ATTUNEMENT WITH SACRED SOUND. So, I reasoned, I’ll just share what I wrote in today’s post. After all, this grand cosmic theater is still featuring the same phenomenal drama, and I think you will not be put upon imaging it with me today.

The Working of the “Law of One“

The word “Uni-verse” means turns as One. In his monumental tome THE UNIVRSAL ONE, “illumined” genius Walter Russell (1871-1963), celebrated by biographer Glenn Clark as “the man who tapped the secrets of the Universe,” elucidates the explicate workings of “The Law of One.”

During the same era, contemporary spiritual explorer and enlightened teacher Lloyd Arthur Meeker (Uranda 1907-1954) called this principle “The One Law” because it governs all of life, from the tiniest atom to the spiraling galaxies of the cosmos.

MAGNETIC DESIGN AND CONTROL

In the atom, negative (-) electrons orbit around a positive (+) nucleus made up of positive (+) protons and neutral (o) neutrons.  Planets orbit around a central sun, and satellite moons around their planets.  Solar systems orbit in response to the positive galactic centers that gave them birth. This is what Isaac Newton called the “Law of Gravity,” only the apple didn’t “fall” to the earth; it was drawn to it by this magnetic principle of positive action and negative response. All of creation responds lovingly and gladly to the Creator, and the Creator abides at the core of every part of His creation.  This is the Law of Love. It is Love, then, that makes the Universe go round.

This law contains principles that govern coordinated movement throughout the explicate order of the cosmos.  Uranda saw these principles in a spiritual context as “positive” and “negative” forces or energies. His formulated principle states: Positive radiation — negative response — attraction — union — unified radiation. In this expression of the One Law, the following principle may be stated:

“A positive and a negative are attracted toward one another.  Two positives repel one another.  Two negatives have no affinity toward one another.

This is one perspective of this principle and the one that is commonly agreed upon. Walter Russell presents a scientific perspective and a radically different understanding based on the dynamic interface and interaction between positive and negative electrical currents. This is an electric Universe, as has been discovered exploring the sun itself. Long thought to be a massive ball of fire, the sun is now understood to be a six-layered furnace of nuclear fusion that fuses hydrogen atoms to create helium, releasing a tremendous amount of electromagnetic energy . . . which, through modern technology, can be converted to electricity via solar panels. As I say, we live in an electric Universe.

RUSSELL’S UNIVERSE

At the risk of alienating some of my Emissary friends who were “baptized” by the waters of Uranda’s inspired and insightful vision . . . and who hold fast to his teachings . . . I venture into scientific waters . . . stirred and disturbed by Walter Russell. Whereas Uranda was an inspired and illumined modern day prophet, he was no scientist. He was a profoundly insightful visionary and spiritual teacher; a great being incarnate in a guileless and passionate soul whose divinely ordained commission was to articulate the truth of life as it relates to the Divine Design of Man. Walter Russell’s bestowed commission was to rectify inaccurate scientific pronouncements in order to clarify human understanding of the laws and principles of science and the Universe. Russell’s formula of THE LAW OF ONE states:

Two positive charges are attracted toward one another. A positive charge and a negative charge repel one another. Two negative charges repel one another.

In the cosmos, all heavenly orbiting bodies have a positive radiant and magnetic core that draws the material of their bodies together, by design in the shape of a sphere.  This “masculine energy” is how they hold together.  Also by design, they are constantly being attracted toward and repelled from one another, the amount and intensity of their radiation determining their proximity and orbital paths.  Russell calls this the function of the feminine principle. Positive masculine charge is magnetic and integrates form. Feminine charge is radiant and expressive, disintegrating form by releasing the masculine positive energy holding form together. They work in absolute harmony as partners in creation.

For example, our sun is attracted toward and repelled from its greater Sun at the core of the Milky Way Galaxy. Further, due to their positive cores, suns are attracted toward one another.  What holds them apart and from colliding with one another is the intensity of their radiation, a negatively charged energy which repels negatively charged energy as well as positively charged energy.

The entire cosmos is thus held in a dynamic state of balance and harmony by the principle of resonance between lesser charged core energy (planets) and greater charged core energy (suns), the lesser charged cores seeking their full potential by drawing near to greater charged cores until they reach their full propensity of radiant energy; at which point they release their energy as light, often in explosive manner. One can easily see this creating principle as the basis for harmonious co-creative function in human relationships.

Our planet will in season become a star like the sun, as will all the planets orbiting our sun.  It’s the inevitable and natural working of the Law of One, as Walter Russell refers to the One Law in THE UNIVERSAL ONE in which he states “All things come from the ONE and return to the ONE.” All planets come from their sun and return to their sun. The implications in this procession of cycles are profound.

What moves this massive Universe of visible tangible matter in a coordinated control and design is an omnipotent, omnipresent and penetrating invisible electromagnetic power that holds inviolate unalterable Divine Law orchestrating and governing this vast and infinite Universe. As a curious young novice, I often asked “Where is the Universe? Where is it located? Where does it begin and where does it end? Is it just going in circles? If so, around what?” Oh, I wanted to know the secrets of this Universe into which I was born.

There’s an ancient proverb that says “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” Decades later I apparently was ready to hear and appreciate the answers to my quests as teachers, in the flesh and in books, began to appear, and I consumed their words and teachings ravenously for several years. The book that answered all my questions about the Universe came into my hands spontaneously through a friend during an Attunement With Sacred Sound workshop I was presenting at a retreat center he and his circle of friends managed and hosted. That book is Walter Russell’s signature work THE UNIVERSAL ONE, in which he shares generously his inspired knowledge of and insight into the secrets of the Universe. I learned the meaning of the Biblical passage, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Matt 7:7)

What makes the Universe go round? The Radiant Light shining through the Creative Principle at work: Positive Action – Negative Reaction – Attraction – Union – Unified Radiation. Glorious Light. The Light out of which the entire Universe is created . . . and hidden in the Light is the Image of God the Father and Creator in which we are made co-creators. The secrets of the Universe are hidden in the Light. Look up into a cloudless starlit sky and all you see are countless stars of light . . . the first creation of the Great Creator . . . and their light is a radiant shout for JOY! If you listen in the silence of your heart you can even hear them singing. The earth and all of Nature resounds in joyful celebration. How can we not join in the chorus and sing our parts?!

“What began with light
is renewed in radiance,
and from sea depth and cavern
rise the breath of earth’s joy.“

Thank you beloved poet. Until my next post,

Be Light. Be Delightful

Anthony

Email: tpal70@gmail.com

CREDITS: Poem by Don Hynes, author of Something Will Change Me – Poems of Soul and Spirit”

“When you understand yourselves you will be understood. And you will realize that you are Sons of the living Father. If you do not know yourselves, then you exist in poverty and you are that poverty.” —Jesus, from The Gospel of Thomas

APOTHEOSIS OF WASHINGTON

“The Apotheosis of Washington is the fresco painted by Greek-Italian artist Constantino Brumidi in 1865 and visible through the oculus of the dome in the rotunda of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. The fresco is suspended 180 feet above the rotunda floor and covers an area of 4,664 square feet.” Wikipedia

APOTHEOSIS simply refers to the state of being one’s fullest, highest and truest essence of Self, in form and expression, ultimately as Divine Being incarnate. It also refers to the process of becoming divine: deification. “I Am that I Am” . . . the unspeakable Name of God, as Moses himself realized during his transformational experience as a burning bush during which his own Inner Divine Self spoke to his outer inquiring mind that asked “Who shall I say has sent me?”

There’s much implied in this biblical story. Moses had ascended to a high place, Mount Sinai—symbolic of the high place in consciousness where one can receive answers to life’s often troubling and imprisoning questions—seeking an answer to his quandary over an inner calling to do something about freeing the Israelites and leading them out of bondage in Egypt, from which he had just been freed. He didn’t just “see” a bush burning but not being consumed. He was that burning bush himself!

Have you ever had a burning-bush experience? Surely you have. I have, and the fire of passionate desire to know the truth and to find out who and what I Am didn’t stop burning until someone came along and awakened me out of my forgetfulness. He simply said “You are not a Catholic! You are a Human Being made in the image and likeness of God. You are not merely human, you are being! Wake up and stop being who and what you are not! Be your Self!” What a rush of cold North wind he was! Literally. He was from up North come to the warm and lazy South to awaken sleeping souls to their true identity. “You are gods!”

Leaders of nations and Pharaohs were once deified in the eyes of their subjects . . . and, at a level higher than that of their human personage, they were more correct than they most likely realized.

(I published this post in October of 2023 and it moves me so profoundly that I want to bring it forward now and share it anew.)

“YOU ARE GODS“

In John’s Gospel (10:34), the Jews were ready to stone Jesus for his claim to divinity, to which Jesus responded: “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’ [Psalm 82:6]. If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken, say ye to him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world ‘Thou blasphemest’ because I said, I am the Son of God?”

I realize this is a sensitive time to be referring to the Jews, even in biblical texts, so I will keep my comments limited to the issue of our divinity as “sons of the Most High,” as the psalmist proclaimed in song.

CATHOLICS DIDN’T STUDY THE BIBLE

Did I miss something during my seven years in seminary, or was I perhaps asleep when this Psalm and Jesus’s words in John’s Gospel were discussed in theology class . . .or preached from the pulpit ?

Actually, we didn’t even study the Bible in Catholic seminary, and, except for passages from Paul’s epistles and excerpts from the Four Gospels inserted into the liturgy and used in homilies, in my Catholic upbringing, the Bible was not really studied, or even read. These words were shoved to the back of the theology section and shrouded by a cloud of dogmatic and religious interpretation — and “priestly lore,” to borrow a phrase from the Gita. If we are truly divine, then what purpose does religion serve in our intimate relationship with our Creator . . . other than its own agenda and existence.

“YOU ARE GODS!!!” Shout it from the pulpit! Shout it from the housetop! “You are not sinners! You are not merely human! You are divine beings! You are the sons and daughters of the Most High! You are God, the Living Word, incarnate in flesh, blood, and bone!”

HOW SHALL WE GIVE GOD GLORY?

My dearest friend and colleague “angel of sound,” PenDell Pittman, offered a song of worship and praise several decades ago that lifted my heart in praise to the One with Whom we all share our very being and divine presence. The lyrics were written by another dear friend and angelic colleague, Hugh Malafry, inspiring author of “BLUE SHAMAN trilogy. With PenDell’s permission, I will close this post by sharing his beautiful and heartful offering upward. It celebrates the Incarnate Living Word in our Humanity. Enjoy and receive his gift of blessing.

“How Shall We Give Thee Glory?” Soundtrack Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_JuLJ4ZU1I 

How Shall We Give Thee Glory, Who art the Living God? Power – Who art the very Flame of Love? Kingdom – When the Universe of Stars is but a Cloak to Thee?

Thou art All Things, All Things Come from Thee, Return Again unto Thee, and Abide Always in Thee.

We are Thy Kingdom, Power, Thy Glory Shining, We are Thy Bone, Thy Blood, Thy Flesh Singing Praises unto Thee.

To Know Thee as Thou Art: Almighty God and Living Word Made Flesh.

We give God glory by providing Him a Body, drawn together by His Love for us, here in the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. I invite you to join me and hundreds more in extending your arms and opening your hands for several minutes every morning to let your love, which is God’s love, flow through you and out to embrace and to bless the world He loves so much. We do this as God Beings incarnate. Until my next post,

Be love. Be loved.

Anthony

tpal70gmail.com

WE BECOME THAT WHICH WE LOVE

INVARIABLY, after writing and publishing a post, I have afterthoughts that flow in its wake. Implications arise from the topic considered. This afterthought arose from the opening words of a recent post; Love is an irresistible force that draws us into oneness with what we love. What, or Who, do you love most? Your spouse? Your children? Your career or job? Perhaps your new car. Some love money and wealth. Others love poverty and even take a “vow” of poverty, such as a monk or priest. Even the Pope, living and serving in a gold-plated world, takes a vow of poverty.

We become that which you love, and that which you love becomes you. It’s simply the nature and power of love.

Many identify with their jobs or careers. But you are not your job nor your career. You are the One who has a job or a career. To say one is a teacher, for example, or a salesman, or a doctor perhaps, or even the Pope, is simply not the truth of one’s identity. One is the One who lived before taking on a job or a career or high position in the world; the nameless One before a name was bestowed upon the infant form; the One who took possession of the infant form and was born out of “nowhere” into “now-here”. . . out of the invisible Realms of Light and into the visible world of humus flesh.

In truth, I am the One who IS the image and likeness of God and who created my incarnating capacities in the image and after the likeness of the Divine Creator Being I Am, in order to facilitate my mission and purpose here in this world . . . why I incarnated. In a word, I Am Spirit not form. My form has a name, but it is not who I Am. My mind is busy channeling and thinking thoughts and ideas, but I am not my mind. My heart is constantly feeling and emoting, but I am not my heart nor my feelings. One may say “My feelings are hurt” and yet truthfully say “But I am fine.” The One I Am and you are cannot be hurt or become confused or get sick. I Am the soothing balm of my hurt feelings, the clear light of my oft confused mind, and the healing balm for my ill body. This is what I Am: Spirit not form. I am the life animating my body, the light shining through my mind, and the love glowing in my heart.

This utterly confounds one who dwells in a state of darkness wherein one is ignorant of the Truth of one’s Self. Such a one cannot comprehend the Light of truth and reality. I know because I’ve been there . . . and I’ve seen others who are there . . . just recently, while offering guidance to a young person seeking wisdom in the throes of a failed relationship. Seeking wisdom in his particular situation was in itself a wise move. His blank expression, however, let me know that he had absolutely no comprehension of what I was offering him. “What do you mean I am not who I think I am?” Identifying with our outer form can stand as a barrier to discovering who we truly are. Wisdom comes with such discovery . . . and as we live and express out of our true identity.

The call in our day is to come out of the darkness of ignorance and into the Light of knowing who and what we truly are: “Bearers of the Sun,” as my late friend and fellow author Christopher Foster wrote about in his beautiful and uplifting book by the same name. Some love the darkness even as they are perishing in it. It’s peculiarly comfortable not having to think and question what we’ve been programed to believe.

Love the Light and become the light of your world. This is why we came here to this planet. Why we incarnated. We came here to shine our unique light into the world. SO, SHINE ON . . . AND THRIVE! It’s a delightful experience! Until my next post,

Be love. Be loved.

Anthony

Email: tpal70@gmail.com

STILLNESS SPEAKS

SHIFTING GEARS A BIT — or a whole lot — I have been pondering a Biblical event foretold by the prophet Ezekiel in chapter 38 of his book in the Old Testament. He speaks plainly of a show down between God and Satan, and between good and evil, in the last day, when the enemies of God shall be destroyed and sin will be forever ended. Now, this is a colossal and controversial topic . . . and I may get in over my head in my interpretation and application to current world events.

(Before I get into the history of the phrase “Gog and Magog,” bear in mind that the only place in the Bible where the two names are mentioned together is in Revelation 20:7-9.)

Ezekiel, a prophet and priest in Solomon’s temple, records the greater part of the story; Genesis and Chronicles record its origins; John of Revelation brings the saga to a dramatic climax, the likes of which film director and producer Cecil B. DeMille would have enjoyed dramatizing on the big screen.

I would invite you to read Ezekiel’s entire chapter 38 and into a bit of 39, along with John’s chapter 20, having in the background of your mind current events in the Middle East. Of course the characters and peoples in this story have been waring since the beginning of their journey through the Old Testament when Cain killed his brother Abel. Upon a bit of research on the internet, I found this:

Gog and Magog are figures mentioned in the Bible and the Qur’an, often associated with apocalyptic prophecies and eschatological themes.

“Gog and Magog are mentioned in four books of the Bible—Genesis, 1 Chronicles, and Ezekiel in the Old Testament and the Book of Revelation in the New Testament. They have become linked in our minds so that we actually think of them together as an inseparable pair—or at least individually who lived at the same time. But a careful look at the verses in which they appear indicates otherwise.”

The first mention of one of these characters is in the Book of Genesis where Magog is mentioned as one of Noah’s grandsons. There’s no mention of Gog.

“Now this is the generation of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood. The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.” (Genesis 10: 1, 2) So, Magog was a real person, born after the flood to Noah’s son, Japheth.

1 Chronicles 1:5 simply repeats what Genesis says word-for-word. That is the last we hear of Magog until he appears again in the Book of Ezekiel and later on in the Book of Revelation.

Gog’s name appears a few chapters later in in a detailed genealogy of Jacob’s sons—the forefathers of the twelve tribes of Israel. Listing the families of Reuben, 1 Chronicles 5:4 says: “The sons of Joel were Shemiah his son, Gog his son Shimei his son. . . .” So, according to this verse, Gog was the grandson of someone named Joel, who was a descendant of Reuben, the son of Jacob.

Gog and Magog: Hundreds of Years Apart

Now Jacob and his twelve sons lived a long time after the flood—centuries later, in fact (see Genesis 11). So Gog, a descendant of Reuben, would have been born later. Therefore, Gog could not have been living at the same time as Noah’s grandson, Magog; they were separated by hundreds of years. So how did the two become linked in our minds—and in other Bible verses.?

What Ezekiel Says About Gog and Magog

Chapter 38 and 39 of Ezekiel refer to Gog several times but mentions Magog only twice. God told the prophet Ezekiel: “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, ‘Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I am against you, O Gog'”

The Prophesy went on to say of Gog:

“You will come up from your place out of the far north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army. You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the latter days.” (Ezekiel 38:15, 16).

God also says that He will bring Gog “to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed” for his attacks against God’s people (verse 22).

Ezekiel 39 continues to describe the destruction that will come to Gog and his forces when they make war and attack Israel. Verse 6 mentions Magog again: “And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in security in the coastlands [Gaza?]. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel lived during the time the Jews were carried captive to Babylon. He told his fellow Jewish captives that their exile in Babylon was God’s punishment for turning away from Him. But he assured them that God would restore them when they repented and followed Him faithfully. He prophesied that Gog and his enemies would attack a restored Israel, but that God would destroy Gog and preserve His people. Who was Ezekiel talking about — this “Gog of the land of Magog” (Ezekiel 28:2)?

Ezekiel’s prophecies could not be referring to the characters mentioned in Genesis and Chronicles, as the Babylonian exile took place much later than either Noah’s grandson, Magog, or Ruben’s descendant, Gog. In fact . . . and being more specific . . . looking closely at the two verses from Ezekiel 38 and 39, they suggest that they may not be referring to a person at all but to a place or a nation. Verse 38:2 refers to “the land of Magog,” and 39:6 says that God “will send fire on Magog and on those who live in security in the coastlands.”

There is no historical record of a war or Israel being attached by the forces of a ruler named “Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal” (Ezekiel 38:2). But whoever or whatever Ezekiel may have been talking about, it’s clear that he was talking about a force that was opposed to God and His people—an enemy who would fight against Israel only to be destroyed by God. And that’s what we also find in the last book of the Bible that mentions Gog and Magog. I will cite the entire section in Revelation 20 related to Gog and Magog.

“And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that be loosed a little season. . . . And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison. And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breath of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them . . . .” (Rev 20:1-3, 7-9)

BACKGROUND HISTORY

The phrase “Gog and Magog” has more to do with territorial disputes and conquests than warring between God and Satan or good and evil — land, territories and property ownership. The Jews in Europe had become a people without their own land to occupy as an independent nation. England played a pivotal role in giving the Jews a “homeland” of their own. Here’s a little history from Wikipedia, well worth reading for clarity around how this all emerged out of the ancient dramatic history of the Jewish Nation.

During World War I, the British government issued the Balfour Declaration, favoring the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine, and captured it from the Ottomans. The League of Nations gave Britain mandatory power over Palestine in 1922. British rule and Arab efforts to prevent Jewish migration led to growing violence between Arabs and Jews, causing the British to announce its intention to terminate the Mandate in 1947.

The UN General Assembly recommended partitioning Palestine into two states: Arab and Jewish. However, the situation deteriorated into a civil war. The Arabs rejected the Partition Plan, the Jews ostensibly accepted it, declaring the independence of the State of Israel in May 1948 upon the end of the British mandate. Nearby Arab countries invaded Palestine, Israel not only prevailed, but conquered more territory than envisioned by the Partition Plan. During the war, 700,000, or about 80% of all Palestinians fled or were driven out of territory Israel conquered and were not allowed to return, an event known as the Nakba (Arabic for ‘catastrophe’) to Palestinians. Starting in the late 1940s and continuing for decades, about 850,000 Jews from the Arab world immigrated (“made Aliyah”) to Israel.

After the war, only two parts of Palestine remained in Arab control: the West Bank and East Jerusalem were annexed by Jordan, and the Gaza Strip was occupied by Egypt, which were conquered by Israel during the Six-Day War in 1967. Despite international objections, Israel started to establish settlements in these occupied territories.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian national movement gained international recognition, thanks to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), under Yasser Arafat. In 1993, the Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the PLO established the Palestinian Authority (PA), an interim body to run Gaza and the West Bank (but not East Jerusalem), pending a permanent solution. Further peace developments were not ratified and/or implemented, and relations between Israel and Palestinians has been marked by conflict, especially with Islamist Hamas, which rejects the PA. In 2007, Hamas won control of Gaza from the PA, now limited to the West Bank. In 2012, the State of Palestine (the name used by the PA) became a non-member observer state in the UN, allowing it to take part in General Assembly debates and improving its chances of joining other UN agencies.

My Take: A Land Grab

Essentially the “battle” between Gog and Magog is all about land gabbing: nations coveting border lands for their various riches or just simply to expand their territories. Russian President Vladmir Putin invaded Ukraine for land access to the waters of the Black Sea and beyond, along with its Lithium mines. He’s hellbent on creating an empire. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in an act of retaliation, has laid waste the Gaza strip and pushed its inhabitants into a state of homelessness and starvation, ultimately bent on driving the Palestinians out of Gaza, with eyes set on the coastlands and access to the waters of the Mediterranean Sea and a potential commercial seaport. U.S. President Trump has his eye on the same coastlands for entertainment purposes and to fill his burgeoning coffers. The Biblical battle between Gog and Magog is nothing more, or less, than a land grab, the inhabitants sacrificed to the god of mammon. Money is the god of the mind made world.

It’s a fool’s endeavor, however, as the land cannot be bought, sold, or stolen, as Native American Chief Crazy Horse so eloquently stated when the US offered to buy their land. “How can we sell what is not ours to sell? One does not sell the land upon which the people walk.” He saw and respected the sacredness of the land and the importance of protecting it. As the psalmist proclaims: “The Earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein; for He hath founded it upon the seas and established it upon the floods.” (Ps 24:1).

We live on a water planet, the land providing boarders to contain its seas and floods. Man is a thief for stealing the land from its rightful Owner and Creator for real estate development and for its oil and mineral riches. The subtle serpent operating through the mind of man, male and female, endeavors to steal or destroy God’s Garden of Eden. The Earth is sacred. Let me remove my shoes as I walk with awe and profound respect upon this hallowed ground of our Home among the stars. Until my next post,

Be love. Be loved.

Anthony

Email: tpal70@gmail.com

THE TREE OF LIFE

IF YOU WOULD GO UP . . .

. . . YOU MUST FIRST GO DOWN AND OUT . . . having kept the First Great Commandment of utter love for the “LORD thy GOD.” The second, love of neighbor as self, being like unto the first.

Just as a metaphor, consider the rocket. It goes up as the fire generated by its engines thrust downwards, giving it lift. Your heart is your spiritual engine, so-to-speak, that generates and channels power. This power is available to whatever spirits reside there and seek expression. Spirits of the world, such as hate, envy and resentment, when harbored and expressed, bring us downward and closer to the world and its loud and dissonant voice. Spirits of Love and gratitude, on the other hand, lift us upward and closer to Heaven, where the voice of the world is not heard.

If we would go up and in, we need only express the power of love downward and outward toward our world; the Earth and Her inhabitants . . . keeping the second Great Commandment of love of neighbor as self. If you would go up you must first go down. It’s the experience of “praying unceasingly.” It’s also the experience of fully incarnating as a Creator Being, an aspect of God the Creator of Heaven and Earth. It’s what we do as angels incarnate. We pray unceasingly. In such an ascension, the voice of the world is no longer heard.

I will share a timely story from my legacy work, SACRED ANATOMY. It’s about the “Tree of Life” in the midst of the Garden planted eastward in Eden, where we live and have our being, only oblivious to it. Here’s the story:

“The Great Tree”

       There is a beautiful and relevant story about a “Great Tree” in The Gospel of The Beloved Companion – The Complete Gospel of Mary Magdalene, translated from the Greek by Jehanne de Quillam.  The gospel itself is part of several scrolls of early Christian and Gnostic texts found in a cave near the upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945. 

       Mary Magdalene – or Miriam as Jesus called her – was one of the women who traveled with Yeshua (Jesus) and helped support his ministry. She was probably wealthy.  She rose to the level of “Apostle of apostles” due to her depth of understanding of her Master’s teachings.  He called her “The Migdalah” which means “tower” in Hebrew.  The name also means  “leader, visionary, powerful.”   

       The story tells of an interchange between Mary and Yeshua shortly after his ordeal and resurrection. In the mournful wake of their Master’s ignominious crucifixion, Mary Magdalene comforts a gathering of his disciples and shares with them what, in the author’s opinion, is one of the most profound teachings of this entire Gospel.  Can one, in this noisy world, ever come to a place where one can no longer hear the voice of the world?  My short answer is “Yes.” The story tells the long answer.

     Miriam:  My Master spoke thus to me. He said: “Miriam, blessed are you who came into being before coming into being, and whose eyes are set upon the Kingdom, who from the beginning has understood and followed my teachings.  Only from the truth I tell you, there is a Great Tree within you that does not change, summer, winter, and its leaves do not fall.  Whosoever listens to my words and ascends to its crown will not taste death, but know the truth of eternal life.” 

     Then he showed me a vision in which I saw a Great Tree that seemed to reach unto the heavens, and as I saw these things, he said, “The roots of this tree are in the earth, which is your body. The trunk extends upwards through the five regions of humanity to the crown, which is the Kingdom of the Spirit.”

Yeshua described this Great Tree as having eight boughs that bore their own unique fruits which he told Miriam to fully consume. The fruits, he told her, would grant her “the light of the Spirit that is eternal life.” On each bough stood a guardian at a gate leading to the next bough who would challenge her worthiness to pass. 

Now, the lower boughs were thick with leaves that prevented the light from reaching them and illuminating the way upward. Assuring her that He Himself would provide the light, and that as she ascended the leaves would thin out, allowing more light through from above, Yeshua told her, “Those who seek to ascend must free themselves of the world.  If you do not free yourself from the world you will die in the darkness that is the root of the tree. But if you free yourself, you will rise and reach the light that is eternal life.” 

As the story goes, Miryam’s soul ascended to the very top of the Great Tree where it was consumed by the fire of the Spirit. On the way up she met each challenge and gained access to the fruits. The fruits of the first bough were love and compassion, “the foundation of all things.” To eat of it she had to come free of all judgment and wrath, which she did, allowing her to pass the first of seven guardians, each one tempting her to fall for their lure.

The second bough was laden with the fruits of wisdom and understanding, of which she partook, having freed herself of ignorance and intolerance, which she did and proceeded upward to the third bough. This bough bore the fruits of honor and humility, which she was able to enjoy after coming free of duplicity and arrogance.  She then moved up to the fourth bough as the light increased. Strength and courage were the fruits of this bough, which she was able to enjoy having freed herself from the weakness of the flesh and overcome the “illusion of fear.” The “Master of this world” tried to claim her as his own, but she denied him.

Before moving on up to the fifth bough, Miryam had to reject the “deceiver” in order to pass through what her Master told her was “the hardest gate of all.” Here she partook of the fruits of clarity and truth, and in doing so she came to know herself “for the first time” as a child of the Living Spirit.

As her soul ascended to the sixth bough, the voice of the world became silent, and in the increased light she saw the fruits of power and healing, the power to heal her own soul and prepare it to ascend to the seventh bough.  The seventh bough’s fruits were light and goodness “that is the Spirit.” Consuming them she was filled with “a fierce joy” as her soul “turned to fire and flew upward in the flames.” Her Master then showed her the eighth and final bough, “upon which burn the fruits of the grace and beauty of the Spirit.”

Upon ascending to the eighth bough, her soul and everything she could see dissolved and was absorbed in a brilliant light, in the midst of which appeared “a woman of extraordinary beauty, clothed in garments of brilliant white.” At this climatic point, her soul melted into the extended arms and embrace of the woman in white raiment, and in that moment she was free from the world.  The vision thus ended.

Then from a distance she heard the voice of her Master telling her, “Miryam, whom I have called the Migdalah, now you have seen the All, and have known the truth of yourself, the truth that I AM. Now you have become the completion of completions.”  From that moment on through her remaining days, the story says, Miryam lived in silence, no longer hearing the voice of the world.

“JUDGE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT“

Silence, in my experience, is a state of being rater than of not talking or doing. I can talk from out of the silence in my heart. It’s always here in my heart when my mind is not paying attention to and judging the voice of the world . . . my heart engaged with the Beloved and divorced from the world. I love being here. It’s where I am intimately aware of being an angel incarnate.

Judgment of good and evil is an ever present trap that can get one involved with the world and the abusive ways of men. Jesus taught that we should not judge lest we be judged, for what judgment we cast toward others will come back to find its measured mark in us. He went on to say that if we judge we should “judge righteous judgment.”

I’ve learned an uncommon meaning of that word: right-use — to judge by the right and wrong use of things, which is usually obvious. One would not use one’s automobile for any other purpose than to convey one from one place to another. That’s the purpose for which it was designed and built to serve. Any other use would be abuse.

The inherent design and purpose of anything and everything indicates its right use. Money was invented as a way of measuring and recording the value of exchange of goods and services. Any other use of money would then be abuse, or wrong use.

Closer to home, my mind and heart, as well as my body, have their unique designs that determine their right and proper use. To use them for any other purpose would be abuse or wrong use. When anything created is put to abuse and used for any other purpose than that for which it was created, it will break down and become useless, at best, and destructive at worst . . . as we’ve all experienced and observed in our own lives and in the world where people use and abuse one another and the things they create.

A blatant case in point is how we have created guns and bombs, which serve one purpose only: to kill and destroy the forms of life. I can’t think of any other purpose guns, bullets, bombs and army tanks serve. These are the evil fruits of the wrong and self-righteous use of human intelligence and free will. It is said by those who have been there that war is hell. War makes a hell out of heaven. Hell is here and is the experience of living in the Kingdom of Heaven while ignoring Natural and Divine Laws. “Thou shalt not kill” is an ancient but active Divine Command . . . to which I will add “with bullets or words.” Let those who have ears hear.

I would love to hear your thoughts. Until my next post,

Be love. Be loved. — Anthony

Email: tpal70@gmail.com

“Getting used to God’s love is a delightful experience.“

WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT? I cannot think of anything more important than love. Without love there is really no reason to live. None at all. Love is an irresistible force that draws us into oneness with what we love. What do you love most? Your spouse? Your children? Your career or job? Perhaps your new car? You become that which you love, and that which you love becomes you. It’s simply the nature and power of love. Love cannot be resisted. Try to resist love and you will fail every time.

“WHERE LOVE REIGNS SUPREME”

I received a blog post from Great Cosmic Story this week — as perhaps you may have as well. In this post my dear friend, David Barnes, shares a consideration on the topic of love given by Lloyd A. Meeker (Uranda) back in 1952 entitled “Where Love Reigns Supreme.” His words touched me deeply, in that “secret place” where love for our Lord and King reigns supreme in the heart.

I wish to share an excerpt from Uranda’s consideration in this post, mostly because it is the most important thing I could ever write about and share. I’ll start toward the beginning.

I always feel at a loss for words when I approach the subject of God’s love, the love of the Lord of Love. Our KING so loved the world, the earth and the people in it, His whole creation, that He came into the world to restore that pattern of relatedness, that whosoever believeth in Him, the Lord of Love, might not perish but have everlasting life. What does it mean to believe in the Lord of Love? What is there in your consciousness tonight which will allow you to have a deeper awareness of what it means to believe in the Lord of Love?

What if every question, if every problem, all the things which might be deemed a necessity in any way, shape or form, could be dismissed from consciousness so that the whole attention, the whole of the heart or feeling nature, the whole of the mind and the whole of the body, might be brought to point in this one thing?

When there is love on earth, for instance, between a man and a woman, and it is real and it has a spiritual quality, it has a depth, the mutuality of that love establishes a timelessness. When there is a centering in relationship to that love, other things, though they be essential, are seen as secondary to love, no matter how important they might be, no matter how necessary it may be to do the essential work or consider other matters. It is not that they are set aside as meaningless, but the quality of that which is known and felt, the timelessness, and the recognition that that love is primary, gives meaning to everything else. Without that love what meaning would there be? Without love somewhere, somehow—not necessarily limited to marital love—but without love somehow, no human being can live a normal life. Without love there is only emptiness, coldness, meaninglessness. Whatever else there may be, only love can give it meaning. Whatever the need may be, only love can provide the starting point for filling that need. No matter what problem, without love there is no way of really solving the problem, no matter how much the human being may try. The basic pattern of love open to each and every one, without regard to anything else, is the most precious of all, the most priceless of all aspects of love: the love of God, the love of the Lord of Love.

When that love begins to work in and through the human being, and it is held sacred, the human consciousness and heart remain true to it, changes begin to take place. All changes are fundamentally adjustments either to the pattern of life or to the pattern of decay. Sometimes the human being resists the necessity of adjustment, but without adjustment the true expression of love is impossible, because the means of manifestation must become fitting to the expression of love. The endlessness of love is that which makes eternity desirable. Without love one could rightly abhor the thought of eternity. But love is of sufficient importance so that from God’s standpoint the centering of all things, including God Himself, is established in love. Our KING, Supreme in heaven and earth, is the Lord of Love, the Apex of All. Love, then, is of sufficient importance so that from the standpoint of God’s design, of expression in His own Being, disregarding the human being for the moment, in the Body of God made up of many God Beings the One who provides the apex is the Lord of Love. Not the Lord of Truth, not the Lord of Life, not the Lord of something else in the various aspects of God’s Being, but the Lord of Love. He is the Center, the Supreme One, the Apex.

From the standpoint of God, then, in relationship to God Himself, Love is Supreme. To that end we have the second shortest verse in the Bible. The shortest one was caused because someone failed to recognize the truth of the second shortest. The shortest verse in the Bible has two words; the second, three: the simple statement, “God is love.” The shortest verse in the Bible: “Jesus wept.” Why did He weep? Not for the cause that human beings suppose. Not because Lazarus was in the tomb, not because all the others were weeping. He told them plainly, even before He wept, “Lazarus is not dead, but sleepeth.” But when Mary of Bethany forgot to remember that God is love and that the power of God is supreme, when she betrayed the trust He had placed in her to hold the pattern, when Mary doubted God’s love, when Mary, who to the Master symbolized the centering of all the fulfilments for which He hoped on earth, yielded to the pattern of appearances and broke and became subject to the things to which the world is subject, then He wept; for in that moment He knew that what could have been would not be. He wept because there was not one, not even Mary of Bethany, who remembered “God is love,” who remembered the importance of staying centered regardless of appearances—not one, of those who should have provided the pattern in that hour. I feel the question rise in your mind with respect to the Disciple John. The pattern of which I am speaking had no direct relationship to him. I am not suggesting that John failed to maintain the pattern. I am talking about something else.

“Jesus wept.” Do you think the Master’s life was without love? No. Mary of Bethany was His sweetheart. Mary of Bethany provided the centering, from the standpoint of the negative aspect of Being, for that outworking for which He was on earth, for which He labored. That provision of God’s love we can say should have held—but Jesus wept. Why? Because the one whom He had trusted to hold the centering of the pattern in what we would speak of as the negative response of the world, to provide the key, forgot her responsibility. She forgot God’s love, and “Jesus wept.” Mary yielded to the wrong precedent. Since the fall there was no other precedent but that of failure; but there was a precedent going back beyond the fall of man, and God’s love had to have meaning on earth. There was a keynote of response in the outworking of things, a point where love reigned supreme, where nothing else mattered, and when something else was allowed to matter, Jesus wept.

So from the standpoint of God, from the standpoint of our LORD on earth, love was first. He said the first commandment had to do with love, God’s love: to love the Lord thy God with all that you are. When there is this yielding to God’s love, letting go in it, what happens? In the world there are crystallizations of every sort, distorted patterns wherever one may turn, nothing exactly the way God intended it to be. In the whole realm of humanity there is that which is moving toward that pattern of fulfilment, the Divine manifestation of the Divine Design, in the flesh of human beings, in their minds and hearts, but so often something other than God’s love matters first. “God is love.” The centering of God is love; the expression of God is love; the nature of God is love. If, then, the reality of love is allowed to begin to work through the human heart there is the beginning of the relatedness with God. But the working of that love must do something. It must melt the crystallizations. It must bring about a yielding which allows adjustment to the Divine pattern, so that the delicate factors of the Divine Design may begin to have meaning.

One of the strangest things to me—and, I might mention, to all the angels of heaven—is this: That human beings so often seem to imagine that the essential adjustments are difficult, something to be resisted, something to be avoided as much as possible, that there is somehow suffering in those adjustments. Such an attitude reveals a tremendous ignorance with respect to love and truth and life. One of the greatest joys which any man or woman may know is the joy of going through the patterns of attunement or adjustment necessary to the ever-increasing reality of love, God’s love, in life. Instead of resisting the necessities of change the human being should accept them willingly, gladly.

Why is eternity a reality? Fundamentally because of love. When one begins to know love as it centers in our KING, the Lord of Love, one begins to realize that even eternity can never exhaust the newness, the wonder, the joy of love. Love, true love, is something that never grows old. It is not subject to time. It is not subject to space or distance. It simply is, and it is eternally new. If there is anything which is not showing forth the quality of eternal newness it is because of a lack of love, a lack of centering in the God of Love, the Lord of Love.

How can the body be healed if there be no change in the body according to the Divine Design? It can’t. Only as changes come by reason of the control according to the Divine Design can healing come to the body. Only so can healing come to the mind or heart. These changes are not painful unless the human being makes them so. And if they are painful they are not the true changes; they are partial changes wherein factors other than God’s are allowed to play a part, where human factors are imposed. Getting used to God’s love is a delightful experience. Remaining true to God’s love gives a sense of wholeness and wholesomeness, a consciousness of something holy and sacred. There is such a sweet spirit which pervades, and all fear is cast out, and there is no cause for suffering in any real sense. There is relaxation. There is letting go. There is yielding. There is a response which permits God’s power to make changes. How deep does God’s love go? To the intellectual level, so that one may say, “I love God”? If so, the moment the attention is centered on the necessities of our daily lives God’s love is forgotten. But if it goes deep, deep into the heart, the feeling nature, and penetrates the body, it is there no matter what may demand attention, no matter what one may be under the necessity of doing. It is there all the time.

There is no adequate way to convey in words that which love is. It can be called a fire, and that would be true, but some would be afraid of it. It can be called a consuming fire; not because it destroys, but because it enfolds and contains, because it takes unto itself that which yields—to change, not to destroy it; not to bring it to an end, but to give it meaning. There are so many delicate factors in love, so very delicate, and only as there is an appreciation of delicate design, in truth, can the full beauties of love be known. . . .

If you wish to read the rest of Uranda’s consideration, simply click on this link. I enjoy hearing from my followers and readers. Feel free to drop me an email, or post your comment in the Comment feature. Until my next post . . .

Be love. Be loved

Anthony

Email: tpal70@gmail.com

“I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14)

THERE WAS A SAYING when I was a youngster that when we die our souls ascend unto heaven where we are given a harp and a cloud upon which to sit and play heavenly music. As I matured and came into my field of service as a holistic healer and Attunement practitioner, that belief became a metaphor for the reality of the musical, or vibrational, nature of our incarnating human capacities, our “harps.” Our clouds are our spirit-generated pneumaplasmic fields. In season, and after much exploration, study and practice, I put together a workshop and compiled a manual to teach the art of what I came to call “Attunement With Sacred Sound ~ The magical use of sound in energy work and healing.” Here is the tone-setting piece in my manual . . . which eventually evolved into a book by the same name:

Setting the Tone

I believe in the very core of my soul that music is the essence of life.  For it can lift the heart to heaven’s gate and open this portal to love’s outpouring blessing.  And in the midst of that blessing we find our Self standing upright and beautiful, singing a magnificent world into being, where harmony, rhythm and melody blend together to create perfection and balance in every form… and especially in this human form that gives heart, mind, voice and flesh to God on Earth.  In these instruments we have the tools and the technology that connect heaven and earth and thereby bring the Music of the Spheres into this world to create all things new. This I believe passionately with every fiber of my being.

Here’s a partial listing of the topics I consider in my book:

PART I: THE PRINCIPLES OF ATTUNEMENT AND SACRED SOUND: Harmonics and the Golden Mean Ratio ~ Creating A Unified Sacred Sound Field ~ The Creative Dynamics of Light and Sound ~ Cell Replication in a Musical Matrix of Light ~ The Healing Elements of Sacred Sound

PART II: CREATING SACRED SOUND: Listening to the Silence ~ The Power of Voice and Breath ~ Language and Thought: Matrix of Creation ~ Energy Follows Thought ~ Clothing Spiritual Substance with Words ~ Exercises in Finding, Placing and Developing Your Voice ~ The Healing Aspects of Voice ~ Toning Sacred Vowel Sounds ~ The Power of Your Name ~ Toning to Resolve Dissonant Energy ~ Sacred Sound Instruments

PART III: ATTUNING THE CHAKRAS AND ENDOCRINE CENTERS: Opening Ritual Space ~ Attuning and Balancing Energy Anatomy ~ Grounding the Body’s Energy Field ~

PART IV: TONING MYSTICAL WORDS ~ Using Ancient Prayers and God Names ~ Mantras and Chants ~ Om — Matrix Of All Creation ~ The Healing Hum.

APPENDICES: Introduction to Attunement Technique ~ Steps of Ascent ~ The Elements of Music & Sound ~ The Aramaic Prayer of Jesus ~ Healing Yourself With Your Voice ~ The Music of Life ~ Cymatics ~ A Vision of Things to Come

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I was honored and very pleased to have had Music Master PenDell Pittman, dear friend and Attunement colleague, write the Foreword of my book, which he entitled “Oneness with the Ocean of Motion.” Here’s an excerpt from his substantial contribution:

The book you now hold in your hands, Attunement with Sacred Sound, by fellow musician and Attunement practitioner, Dr. Anthony Palombo, provides a pivotal revelation about the phenomenal connection you and I have to the powerfully grand energies of all creation. The seeming platitude that states, “We are all one,” or “We are one with everything,” is quite true, in fact! Keep reading and you will discover more about just how profoundly this is the case.

Dr. Anthony Palombo (“Tony”) and I have known each other for almost 40 years. Never has there been a time, in my observation, when Tony has not exhibited a conscious attitude that consistently recognizes the connection between “heaven and earth” (the intangible and the tangible, if you will), a core kinship between all people, and the resonance that entrains throughout all of “creation”, with its infinite components. His is a noble stance and vision, to be sure, but why is it relevant to us now? Because, if we are to receive the full spectrum of learning, guidance, and inspiration from studying this book – a work that, I believe, largely distills (without coming close to fully biographing) Tony’s life’s work – we will find ourselves adopting that same outlook as he has – one filled with awe, wonder, discovery, and a sense of privilege to know and work in this precious, delicate, and, dare I say, sacred field. . . .

. . . . The practice of Attunement, as so ably and comprehensively introduced by Tony in this book, helps enrich the sacred resonance of our capacities with the Creator, while helping remove dissonance from the creative fields that penetrate and surround us. Whereas “sound therapy” alone uses the relatively slow-moving (though miraculous) realm of sound itself as the source of upliftment, the overall Attunement process engages a much wider (potentially infinite), higher-frequency spectrum of harmonics, one that encompasses the range of audible sound, plus so much more, while differentiating itself through countless, simultaneous Life processes. Sound healing, and any other process that is in resonance with Spirit, is a harmonious aspect of that Spirit substance, and therefore provides, at least to some extent, a resonant field for the energy and blessings of that Spirit.

Sound acts as a carrier wave of sorts for the Attunement current — toning and amplifying the emanations of the endocrine glands, relaxing and entraining the nervous systems, clearing the mind, soothing emotions, and helping one to release various resonances with external stresses. The playing of sustained sound also can be used by an experienced practitioner as an instrument to amplify his or her perceptions. As the sonic and “Spirit” ranges of energy entrain together during an Attunement session, their synergy — true to the Law of the Octave — also activates harmonics in all frequency ranges, from the infinitely high to the infinitely deep.

We are literally moving in harmonic resonance, in attunement, with all of Creation. We not only live in the “universal ocean of motion”, but we play radiantly conscious roles in the flow of its Currents, as we allow our every action to entrain with the infinitely high and deep Tones of the Creator. We are an integral part of the Cosmic Symphony, for sure. Let’s join Tony now, for an in-depth expose of just how integral we really are!

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Thank you for sharing these few minutes with me reading my blog post and hopefully enjoying it. I welcome any thoughts you may wish to share . . . in the comment section or by email. If your interest has been sufficiently piqued to arouse a desire to own your personal copy of my book, simply click on this link to Amazon Books and place your order. While you’re in the Amazon Bookstore, check out SACRED ANATOMY ~ Temple of the Living God and Instrument for Creation . . . my first book and companion to ATTUNEMENT WITH SACRED SOUND. Until my next post,

Be love. Be love.

Anthony

Email: tpal70@tonypalombo

Relevant posts to read: https://healingtones.org/2025/01/21/when-music-is-sacred/

Credits: The beautiful front cover of my book is the artful expression of my son John. I think it’s quite expressive of the sacred sound waves moving out in all directions from their source, in this graphic a quarts crystal “singing” bowl.

WORKSHOP DEMONSTRATION

IN THIS POST I will continue sharing from Sunreed Foundation of Sound Healing. This article from their website resonates with my own rationale and approach to sound healing as explored and published in my book ATTUNEMENT WITH SACRED SOUND. Sound, in my view and experience, when providing a carrier wave for the transmission of Spirit, is sacred. Let’s read what the team at Sunreed says about it.

“It’s not just about sound; it’s about how you meet the sound, hold space, and grow through it. This integration of sound and consciousness amplifies the depth, authenticity, and resonance of your practice, allowing true transformation to unfold, for yourself and those you serve.”

WHEN SOUND BECOMES A TRANSISSION OF THE SACRED

At the heart of sound, healing, and consciousness work lies something deeper than skill, deeper than knowledge … devotion.

This work, when truly alive, becomes more than a personal journey. It becomes a living offering, an act of service, of reverence, and of relationship. It is not just about healing ourselves or helping others. It is about aligning with something greater, something interconnected, something whole.

It is about placing our gifts, our growth, and our sound in service to the collective field of awakening and care.

Devotion is not about worshiping something outside ourselves. It’s about honoring the sacredness that flows through all things, in every vibration, every gesture, every breath.

To be devotional in your practice means to meet it with a quality of presence that says: This matters. I am here. I offer this not just for myself, but for the greater good.

Whether you are toning a single note or holding space for a group in ceremony, devotion lives in your intention, your humility, and your willingness to listen.

When you place your practice in service to something beyond the self, you enter into alignment with what many call Unity Consciousness, the living awareness that all things are connected, that healing for one is healing for all, and that your vibration contributes to the field of collective coherence.

This is not abstract. It is deeply felt. When you come into a space devoted to sacred sound and healing, you can feel the difference. Something opens. Something stabilizes. Something unites.

Devotion is the bridge that allows sound to move from being a “tool” to being a transmission of the sacred.

It is what allows your voice, your bowl, your drum, your silence to become a vehicle for something far more expansive than the self.

The more we enter into this work with devotion, the more every practice becomes a kind of prayer, not always in words, but in energy. The drumbeat becomes the heartbeat of the Earth. The tone of your voice becomes a vessel of clarity and compassion. The silence between sounds becomes a spacious field where healing can arise.

In this way, your sound is no longer yours alone. It becomes a shared act of rememberi

A ripple that contributes to the reweaving of a fractured world. A call back to wholeness.

Devotion is about being present, with your full self, in full awareness, in relationship to the whole. It’s about aligning your actions, your sound, your practice with your deepest values, your highest knowing, and your most sincere intentions.

It’s what sustains your path when inspiration wanes.

It’s what roots your practice when ego wants control. And it’s what calls forth the unseen allies, ancestral wisdom, and universal intelligence to support the work you’re doing.

To hold devotion is to contribute to the emergence of a new story, one that honors sound as sacred, that sees healing as collective, and that recognizes consciousness as a shared field we are all shaping together.

It means trusting that your voice, your presence, and your intention matter. That when you practice with devotion, you are adding coherence to the whole. You are calling forth a deeper truth. You are saying yes to a world where healing is not only possible, it’s happening, here and now, through each of us.

In the final module of the Foundations of Sound Healing™ program, we take that calling and funnel that yes in a way forward to building a sound healing practice and sharing your service with the world.

Blessings . . . Zacciah & Dorothy, Emissaries of Sound™ and Sunreed™ Team

Until my next post . . .

Be love. Be loved.

Anthony

Email: tpal70@gmail.com

Relevant posts to read: https://healingtones.org/2025/01/21/when-music-is-sacred/

A WORKSHOP DEMONSTRATION

“Your practice shapes your presence. Your presence shapes the space. The space shapes the possibility.“

I RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING from the folks at SUNREED ~ CENTER FOR SOUND HEALING, a supplier of very high quality quartz crystal singing bowls. Their message conveys a very encouraging, as well as accurate, rationale for those of us who use sound in our energy healing practice. So I thought it would be fitting to share it with my readers. I think you will resonate with it and benefit from its content. Enjoy . . . and feel free to share your thoughts and experiences with me by email. Below you will find my email address, as well as a link to Amazon where you can review and purchase my book ATTUNEMENT WITH SACRED SOUND. Check it out. Here’s the article from SUNREED.

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There comes a moment in any sacred journey when inspiration must root itself in practice. When the call that once sparked curiosity asks something deeper of us, commitment, presence, and discipline. The path of sound, healing, and consciousness is no different. It is not a one-time event or a quick realization. It is a lived devotion. A practice. A path.

To walk this path is to cultivate a discipline that is not rigid, but reverent. It is a rhythm you return to, again and again, not because you are lacking, but because you are growing.

We practice not because we need to be better, but because we recognize the sacredness of life deserves our attention.

Whether it is toning with our voice, playing an instrument, holding space for another, or simply listening deeply, each time we show up to our practice, we are refining our capacity to be clear, present, and aligned.

Discipline, in this sense, is not about control. It is about devotion to clarity. It is about tending to our inner landscape so we can be of service to others with coherence, integrity, and care.

Your personal practice is also a seed for collective resonance.

When you ground yourself in daily attunement, whether through sound, breath, movement, meditation, or ceremony, you create a vibrational field that others can feel and trust.

Working with others in sound and consciousness requires us to develop our own resonance first. Not perfection, but stability. A kind of inner holding. So that when others enter the field with us, they are met with presence rather than projection, groundedness rather than distraction, awareness rather than reaction.

We practice to prepare ourselves to be a vessel for whatever needs to unfold, for their healing, their emergence, their sound.

When we work with others using sound, we are not fixing or controlling outcomes. We are inviting a process. Sound is a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious, the visible and invisible. When we offer it with intention, we invite others into a co-created space where something more than either of us can do alone may happen.

This kind of practice requires us to let go of needing to “know” what should happen and instead trust the intelligence of the moment. The more deeply you’ve explored your own sound field, your patterns, your voice, your nervous system, your shadows, the more space you hold for others to do the same.

The more consistently we walk this path, the more we emanate a field of integrity.

People feel this, not through what we say, but through how we are. Your practice shapes your presence. Your presence shapes the space. The space shapes the possibility.

Walking this path is not just about what you practice, but how you practice it, with intention, humility, and respect for the mystery. As we walk, we begin to embody what we hope to offer: connection, coherence, and care.

And over time, we come to realize:

The path of practice is not just a means to an end. It is the path itself that transforms us.

Walk the path with us.

Zacciah & Dorothy, Emissaries of Sound™ and Sunreed™ Team

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You will benefit further studying my book ATTUNEMENT WITH SACRED SOUND, available from Amazon Books. In it I explore ways for using sacred sound as a carrier wave for spirit and intention. Here is a picture of the back and front covers, designed by my artist son John. To enlarge it for a better view, simply click on the picture.

Until my next post,

Be love. Be loved.

Anthony

(tpal70@gmail.com)