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 wordsof 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,
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.Andthey 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,
. . . YOU MUST FIRST GO DOWNAND 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,
Hexagon storm patter on Saturn’s North pole likely created by sound.
RESONANCE is more easily experienced than explained. I think we all know from experience what it is, so perhaps we could explore some of the implications of resonance as they relate to attunement, and do some experiential exercises.
This Biblical passage speaks to the dynamic of resonance: “The spirit of this world comes and finds nothing in me.” Because the Master had no strings attached to this world that would resonate with the coarse vibrations of man’s world at the time.
Everything has a certain frequency at which it vibrates. This is known as an object’s resonant frequency. Some objects have two or more resonant frequencies, just as we have not one, but several endocrine and chakras centers that resonate differently from or bones and organ tissues.
When sound or light waves, which have their own resonant frequency, hit an object, it will lead to harmonic resonance if that frequency corresponds to the resonant frequency of the object.
When that happens, they are tuned to one another; therefore, both of them will sync together. They entrain.
Sometimes, in order for harmonic resonance to occur, the amplitude of the vibration of an object must increase due to the corresponding vibrations of the other object.
(This has implications and application in the dynamics at work during attunement.)
Imagine that you’re a clock and the universe is also a clock. If you are in tune and your frequencies match, you will start ticking together through harmonic resonance.
The Chakra’s Emitting Tones
Each chakra has its frequency of vibration, sound, color, and symbol to which it is tuned. When it is balanced, cleansed, and energized, then the chakra is in harmony and plays its most beautiful melody, emitting inherent vibrations.
Many aspects of life can affect these chakra frequencies and ruin the harmony, such as chaotic sounds, stress, and unhealthy thoughts and emotions.
On the other hand, things like certain people’s voices, beautiful music, positive mantras, and the vibrational energy of colors and precious stones can help to bring our chakra frequencies back into harmonic resonance.
Entrainment occurs when one rhythmic vibrating object resonates and synchronizes with another object — demonstrated by one explorer who put several Big Ben clocks with swinging pendulums in a room together. In the morning he discovered they were all ticking and swinging together in sync.
In a TED talk Judie Diamond sent to me recently, Dr. Lee Bartel, who works with honey bees, tells the story about a cricket who chirps in sync with a squeaky fan belt on a piece of machinery in his shop. He goes on to explain how he uses sound to entrain brain waves and body cells to 40 Hz, which he discovered affected symptomatic improvement in patients with Alzheimer’s and dementia, even fibromyalgia. He explains how 40 Hz creates Gamma waves in the brain by way of entrainment. This is equivalent to the low E on a piano.
Gamma rays are right on the edge of the electromagnetic spectrum between x-ray radiation and light. They are given off by stars, and by radioactive substances. They are extremely high frequency waves, and carry a large amount of energy. They pass through most materials, and are quite difficult to stop – you need lead or concrete in order to block them out. They are used to kill cancer cells, which, unlike healthy cells, cannot repair themselves once damaged by gamma rays. There is an implication here relating to the impact stars and heavenly bodies radiate vibrations that resonate within our own body-mind-spirit continuum. There is a very high frequency available to us that, when attuned to, can raise the vibrational frequency of cellular oscillations. It is the spirit of the Creators’ world.
Resonance occurs in music. For example, the musical pitch F, when sounded, sets in motion the overtones and undertones A and C, along with an infinite number of other overtones and undertones.
Resonance also occurs in the vibrational terrain of the heart and the mind. For example, when someone speaks, the words convey meaning and intention, both of which are vibrational in nature. When such words are heard by a listener, “heart strings” and “mindsets” are struck and resonate with the words of the speaker, along with the subliminal intention they convey.
Resonance is happening when we laugh, and tear up. We have a “funny or silly bone” that resonates with the tone of a joke or comedian’s act — as well as a tender place that is touched by a beautiful scene, or an act of compassion and extraordinary kindness and generosity by someone.
Just think of the scene of Tim Conway and Harvey Korman on the Carol Burnett Show in the dental office, in which Tim accidentally stabs himself with the Novocain syringe paralyzing his arm and leg. Brings a smile on my face just thinking of the scene? That’s resonance.
Sound-based language has an immediate resonant effect and impact upon the vibrational terrain of human activity without mental interpretation. Music is a prime example of sound-based language; it’s a universal language. The Aramaic, when spoken, is another good example of sound-based language. It’s the language that Jesus spoke with the peasants.
The Aramaic Prayer of Jesus has emerged from out of the past and been revived and set to music and danced to. I’ve learned to articulate it and it was quite easy to wrap my tongue around it. I frequently say the Aramaic prayer during an attunement session. Here is a rendition of the prayer by the San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble. (Be sure to listen to the music after the prayer.)
English translation of the Aramaic Lord’s Prayer
Oh Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos, Focus your light within us. Create your reign of unity now.Your one desire then acts with ours, As in all light, so in all forms.Grant what we need each day in bread and insight.Loose the cords of mistakes binding us,As we release the strands we hold of others’ guilt.Don’t let surface things delude us, But free us from what holds us back.From You is born all ruling will, the power and the life to do,The song that beautifies all, from age to age it renews.Truly – power to these statements – may they be the ground from which all our actions grow. Amen.
RESONANCE IN OUR ATTUNEMENT WORK
PREMESIS: The Seven Spirits named by Uranda are, in essence, vibrational frequencies—music, in other words—inaudible music composed and orchestrated by the invisible light, the Light of Love, the true Music of the Spheres. This is the nature of the Chakra as well. They are energy vortices that emit tones, which I’ve discovered harmonize with the tones of the endocrine centers.
The seven vibrational, or spiritual, essences manifesting and orchestrating the biochemical functions of the seven endocrine glands, nourishing the glands themselves, are sensitive to audible sound and visible light and color, and respond to such by the principle of resonance.
It is my innate sensing that the “Spirit” of each endocrine center is invoked and summoned forth by sound vibrations based on the principle of resonance. That invocation is partly in response to the musical tones of the Chakras.
I firmly believe that this is why and how we enjoy beautiful music, which is sometimes capable of lifting us into a state of rapturous ecstasy. For me it is God listening and enjoying the music through me. Or, rather, I am God enjoying beautiful music. The endocrine glands produce their hormonal chemistry that shapes how we feel physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually as we listen to music that resonates in our soul, heard with our ears, as well as with our Chakras.
APPLICATION OF SACRED SOUND:
As many of you know, I work with sacred sound in my attunement service. I have found that sound may be used to create a carrier wave for spirit and intention. I first became aware of this early in my experience of sharing attunement. The energy in the current resonated in my vocal chords and I had the urge to hum. When I did, the texture of the energy became smooth like silk. From that experience, I went on to explore the use of sound in energy healing.
Each endocrine gland resonates to a specific frequency or pitch, starting with the pineal gland that resonates to F# and ending with the gonads that resonate to C natural—according to my own perceptions.
The Chakras also resonate to musical pitches, according to Tantric Yoga traditions handed down, which I’ve discovered are the tonic tones that give rise to the corresponding Major Fifth harmonic frequency, or pitch, of the spiritual energy focused and expressing in and through the endocrine glands.
For example, the Crown Chakra resonates to a B natural pitch, which is the tonic tone – the Do – of the Pineal gland’s harmonic Major Fifth tone F#. (do B, mi D#, sol F#)
A full list of musical intervals between the Chakras and the Endocrine centers are published in my book Attunement With Sacred Sound, available for $35 plus postage and handling on Amazon.com.
OVERTONES, UNDERTONES AND CYMATICS
Keep in mind that overtones and undertones are set in motion by these pitches as well as they play upon a vast array of tissue cells throughout the body temple.
I can only imagine the cymatic configurations created in the atomic substance that make up the fabric of our anatomy and physiology. Mending of broken parts and renewal of old parts take place. New earth is thusly created.
Cymatics, as you are likely aware, is the phenomenon of sacred geometrical shapes and patterns that sound frequencies produce in matter, such as water.
Our bodies being composed largely of water, some 85% of it, one can only envision the impact sound has on and in them. Here is a clip of Anna-Maria Hefele demonstrating polyphonic overtone chant.
Schumann Resonances were first documented by Nikola Tesla in 1899. A German physicist named Winfried Schumann studied them extensively and began trying to measure them in the 1950s, and got his name attached to them (although accurate measurements weren’t possible until the 60s—and Tesla’s numbers were right from the start.) The resonances arise from lightning storms—of which there are around 2000 occurring planet-wide at any given moment—exciting the cavity of air between the Earth’s surface and the ionosphere. Acoustically speaking, life on Earth arises and exists within a room whose boundaries are these. Due to the ongoing nature of the storms, this torus-shaped expanse that encases us is forever singing, like a wine glass forever flicked by the finger of fate. The fundamental frequency of that song, the do of its tonality, is, on average with slight variations, 7.83 Hz: the fundamental Schumann Resonance. (That’s about 8 trips around the planet per second.)
To say that the fundamental Schumann Resonance has an influence is an understatement: all of life on Earth—including us and our thoughts and feelings—arises within it and its harmonics. That sounds like a world do if I’ve ever heard one—and that’s the frequency associated with C and the Root Chakra in the Muzoracle system. (While 7.83 Hz is far below the range of our hearing, we can hear—and certainly feel—the resonance two octaves higher, at 31.32 Hz; three octaves higher than that we find our middle C at 250.56 Hz.) (Muzoracle.com)
Everything from our brain waves and biorhythms to our states of consciousness are directly correlated to the Earth’s frequencies. “The current Schumann resonance frequency is 7.83 Hz. This is the fundamental frequency, and other harmonics exist at approximately 14.3 Hz, 20.8 Hz, 27.3 Hz, and 33.8 Hz, according to Wikipedia. These frequencies are a set of extremely low-frequency electromagnetic resonances in the Earth-ionosphere cavity. They are primarily excited by lightning discharges according to Patsnap Eureka.” (Google Search) Ω
There’s a lot to take in and ponder here, so I’ll leave you with your musings. Until my next post. . .
“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. . . .
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“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,
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.
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.
“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.
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.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like unto fire, and it sat upon each of them. (Acts 2:2-3)
THE DOVE IS A SYMBOL of the Holy Spirit in Christian iconography. It’s also a symbol of peace. Pentecost is celebrated on the seventh Sunday, or 50 days, after Easter. (The word pente meaning 5 and kosta meaning 10 times.) Tomorrow, June 8th, is “Pentecost Sunday.” I write about this historical event in my book SACRED ANATOMY ~ Temple of the Living God, in which I share some of my thoughts and insights into this rather ecstatic experience the disciples of Jesus had just after their Lord and Master had ascended back to His Father in Heaven. They were gathered in an upper room in the city of Jerusalem where they were instructed to tarry until the Holy Spirit had fully come.
A couple of things stand out to me in this story that have significant bearing on the process of transformation and ascension occurring with these faithful followers of Jesus. This primary condition is described by the phrase, “with one accord in one place.” (Acts 2:1)
These very close friends of Jesus were in agreement in one thing: their powerful love for this One with whom they had just spent three-and-a-half incredible years in what must have been a whirlwind experience that had utterly turned their worlds upside down—or perhaps more accurately, had turnedthem right side up! Undoubtedly they had a difficult time making sense out of the events that had just occurred, leading to the untimely end of life on earth for this beautiful man whom they called “Master,” leaving them with an overwhelming sense of great loss and confusion. All they had left to turn to were each other and the powerful love they were still sharing for the Master in their hearts, as well as the fresh memories of their experiences with him. Everything changed so abruptly and so tragically with his crucifixion, and again, later, so ecstatically with his resurrection and subsequent ascension into heaven. What could they make of it all? Of even greater import to us today, what would be made of it over the ensuing years and centuries? Well, for one thing, Christianity would emerge from it all as a religious movement that would fill much of the world with a belief system unparalleled in recorded history. But what actually took place in that upper room with these men and women?
Their hearts were “in one place,” the place of utter love for their Beloved Lord and abandon to his will for them, and their minds “with one accord,” singularly focused in this One — as well as, without doubt, in what they were going to do now that He was gone. He had instructed them to tarry in the city of Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit had fully come.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like unto fire, and it sat upon each of them. (Acts 2:2-3)
The ascending flame of love became visible to them as they themselves were in the process of transformation and transmutation in their own consciousness, which was being lifted up to a higher vibratory level to be with this One whose love had drawn them together into a place of accord, just as he had said earlier on it would be: “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.” (John 12:32). They experienced attunement (at-one-ment) with the life vibration—the shem in the Aramaic, which is translated into English as the name of their Lord and Master, the Christ–Radiance, and the subsequent release of his love through themselves. And immediately they were in that place he had once told them about when he said, “I go to prepare a place for you…so that where I am ye may be also.” (John 14:3) They were “in the spirit on the Lord’s day” — in phase and in tune with the life vibration of the Lord of Love. The transformation he was experiencing that had taken him all the way through seven levels of being into complete union with his Father in the highest Heaven, impacted not only his personal physical form but apparently theirs as well.
The notable thing here is that he was on earth with them at the time he said this, indicating clearly that the kingdom of heaven is to be known and experienced here on earth where we now live and not in some imagined hereafter. This lends meaning to words he had just spoken prior to these: “In my father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so I would have told you.” As we considered earlier on, there is vastly more to the multidimensional context of life and of our makeup than we can observe with our outer senses alone….
FAILURE TO TARRY
….Another thing that stands out in this story relates to what happened to the apostles and hundreds of their followers after this Pentecost. The apostles went out from the upper room — which symbolically relates to a higher state of consciousness — where they had been instructed by the Master to “tarry in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued [clothed] with power from on high.”(Luke 24:49) — and they began to dissipate the collective spiritual substance they had been generating over the years with Jesus and, more currently, within the crucible of their gathering in the upper room. This gathering itself, although likely affected by fear of what might become of them after seeing what had become of their Master, was nonetheless a crucible for change in themselves, for transformation in their consciousness and subsequent transmutation in their physical forms. Physical evidence of this process was appearing in the form of radical and bazar changes that had apparently come over them, even in their manner of speaking. As the story goes, they began speaking “in tongues” so that even those of different dialects were able to understand what they were saying. So astounding was this phenomenon that the people were confounded. They were, for a time, experiencing spiritual communion and communication above the level of human language.
Reading through the account of all this in the book, “Acts of The Apostles,” one can readily see the release of the power that had been building up in this crucible through them. All sorts of healings and extraordinary events took place, both with the apostles and among the people, who were “filled with fear” (awe) at what they were seeing and experiencing. One apostle was reportedly seen in two different locations at the same time. So something of a transformation was occurring in their consciousness resulting in transmutation of their physical forms.
But it was all short-lived as the power, mishandled, gradually went out from them and eventually dissipated altogether. The story ends in utter chaos and tragedy for all of them, and for hundreds of their disciples as well, as they were scattered abroad and many were ultimately put to death by the Romans — except, notably, for John the Beloved who was exiled to the isle called Patmos, where he wrote his Book of Revelation (aka the Apocalypse), the last book of the New Testament, which laid out in mystical language “the things which thou hath seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter.”(Rev. 1:19) From my own personal experience, one needs to be in an elevated place in one’s consciousness to even begin to “see” — with spiritual eyes — what the Spirit of Truth is saying and conveying in and through the words of this sacred scripture.
I’ll close this blog post with an invitation to visit my friend David Barnes’s recent post of June 1, 2025 on his Great Cosmic Story blog entitled “The Lamb,” a service given by Martin Cecil on May 12, 1974. This is a classic presentation of the history of the three “Sacred Schools,” leading up to the fourth currently cycling in the Creative Process of restoration of God’s Presence on Earth in and through the Body of Man, the “Temple of the Living God.” In my view, this presentation is a great teaching for those seeking an overview of the sacred history of humanity’s sojourn on Earth — of what’s really been unfolding in the history of Man.
I will continue sharing from my book in my next post. Until then,
Be love. Be loved.
Anthony ~ Email: tpal70@gmail.com
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I am the Spirit of Love I draw my world together as a playing field for my creativity I and my world are one I seed and father the life of my world.
I am the Spirit of the Womb I provide containment and wisdom for the Spirit of Love I am open to the Father to receive, conceive, nurture and give birth to the seeds of Love I mother the life of my world.
I am the Spirit of Life I bring radiance to my world I am born anew in each moment For I am birthless, deathless and eternally the same I am the life of my world.
I am the Spirit of Purification I protect the life and this temple from harm I bring heaven and earth together as one I give assurance to my world that all is well.
I am the Spirit of Blessing I uplift the elements of my world through my Creative Process so they might become part of my body I provide realization for my world.
I am the Spirit of the Single Eye I bring power to my body, focus to my mind, precision to my movement, tranquility to my world.
I am the Spirit of the New Earth I welcome the substance by which I create all things new in patience and right expectancy I am the spirit of love
Healing Tones 