Personal Notes on Sound

[novapsyche]

Here are some notes from my Spiritual Journal that illustrate my quiet obsession (no pun intended) with the experience and phenomenon of sound. Some of these you may have seen before. I just wanted them collected together.

There is a general frequency we 'exist on'. This is echoed in our voices, in sound.

There is a latent rhythm to which we all sway.

Everything taps into the sounds of one's own stream of thought sometime.

What if the universe is just a collection of all echoes of life; echoes of all thought, rudimentary or otherwise.

It seems the more we say, the thicker reality gets.
The more we describe, the more we fabricate.

We thrive on sound.

The ears bear better witness than their visual counterparts.

It is the act of listening--the air molecules hitting the membranous eardrum--that reminds us of our true nature.

In silence, you hear yourself.

"Speech is an image of Mind"--The Hermetica

I should endeavor to become the silent vowel.

Music is nonmaterial. That is why it can be an agent upon the spirit. Because they are equally immaterial.

Names indeliably etch themselves upon the soul. The sound of your name is of utmost importance to your mental health all your life long.

We live in a tonal world
    a modulating universe

sound created heat
    and struck like sulphurous flame
and the first flickers of cosmos
    came to be,
burst forth from song, the utter heartsong
    of the Most Holy One.

God resides inside music.

Music is a magic spell.

Music is the ambrosia of poets.

Sound is a shadow of time.

All there is in heaven is song and breath;
the eternal chorus hums the pulse of God.

The Ogdoad is a full octave.

Could our voices be the equivalent of divine neurotransmitters, our mouths the vacuous synapses?

Music lives in its own dimension.

Poetry is sound made flesh.

Sound is life.

Music can manifest scenery in the mind.

Rhythm precedes language.

Every language has its own musicality.

Erica Jong says that poetry is "voice music".

Sound is the phantom of the physical.

Noises naturally congregate to places they'll be heard.

Thoughts are originally musical.

Comments

[mylastsigh.livejournal.com]

weird. i have been thinking of sound, too; and it relates to one of my alterations. stay tuned.

[mazecraft.livejournal.com]

Intriguing...I once perceived the wall I was leaning against was sound vibrating at such a low frequency that it created an illusion of solidity. Even as I rubbed my back against it, I felt that solidity itself was an illusion. Mystics have said as much for thousands of years, and now science concurs; but nothing can validate the idea as well as the actual experience in an altered state of consciousness. Also, I have heard rumor that some ancient civilations had a form of technology based on sound that transcends our current understanding. I would love to know more about all of this.