Four Powerful Pathways into the Light and Sound of Oneness

by Judith Pennington



The easiest, most exciting adventure in consciousness follows the

lamplit guidance of the still, small voice in each of us. In the

quiet of meditation, we listen to our souls and hear what is most

needed in our lives and how best to obtain it. This wise, kindly

voice never fails us and never falters.



There is no substitute for inner listening, as we grow into the

soul voice which becomes our own. But in our travels, some or all

of these four harmonic pathways open to enhance our joy and draw

us into the Oneness.



See which of these powerful pathways, at any given time,

resonates best with you: thought and word, self-knowledge, inner

peace, or chanting and toning. All will bring you closer into the

transporting power of beauty and music, the light and sound of

Universal Mind, or God.



1. The power of thought and word. When our ideal is peace,

healing or prosperity, and we say or do something out of

alignment with this, we sense, feel or know it. The discord

itself keeps us on track and guides us back into harmony with

ourselves, others and Spirit. The great psychic-healer Edgar

Cayce, who said that thoughts "are crimes or miracles," lovingly

advised everyone to create an ideal by which to live. This is

best done in meditation, so that the soul voice may show us what

is needed most. For you, is it peace, joy, self-discipline, will,

oneness or something else altogether?



If a single word floats up when you ask this question, create

with this word an affirmative phrase or sentence, then go back

into the silence to see if it is good and right for you. When it

is, post your ideal somewhere and, during meditation, use it as a

mantra to draw your busy mind back into the silence. This will

build your ideal into your life. When the words of your ideal no

longer have a "shine," or "go dead" for you, you have incorporated

this quality and it's time to return to meditation for a fresh

ideal.



Every time you think or speak your ideal, you are physically

attuning your body-mind to it, so be sure it's a spiritual

intention that will uplift you! Ideals are blueprints with which

we build our lives, whether we know it or not! If you aren't

convinced that your thoughts, words and emotions influence the

physical world around you, you might find these stories very

interesting.



Last November I attended an historic conference in Virginia Beach

that featured the physicists and U.S. military personnel at the

center of America's research on remote viewing, termed "anomalous

perception" or "anomalous perturbation" (psychic receiving or

influencing) by these methodical thinkers. One of the presenters

was the famous remote viewer and artist Ingo Swann, who reminded

us that thoughts, as vibrations, are heard and felt by all

sentient beings, including house plants!



At a party in New York City, Swann met Cleve Baxter, who later

authored the classic book, The Secret Life of Plants, and visited

Baxter's home to participate in experiments. Baxter had hooked up

lie detector electrodes to the leaves of ordinary house plants,

and every time Swann struck a match, the readout jumped sharply

in reaction. After awhile, the reactions stopped and Swann asked

why. "The plant knows you're bluffing!" Baxter told him. And so

it did, as illustrated time and again in Baxter's landmark book.



In other experiments, Baxter and Swann took skin scrapings and

drops of blood from a man and put them in a vial hooked up to the

same electrodes. The readouts consistently jumped when the man

was poked with a pin, even when he was five blocks away! (See the

February issue of OneWorld for a series of eye-opening articles

and interviews from this amazing conference.)



That we are all one body, one mind is indisputable. Yet we so

easily forget and doubt how our thoughts and words affect

everyone--and everything--else, including our own bodies and

minds.



2. The power of self-knowledge. My still, small voice has said

for the past 16 years that releasing darkness enables us to

attract and hold more light, and recently, DNA experiments

carried out by a Russian scientist proved definitively that this

is true. It's intuitively verifiable as well, and a phenomenon

that we can physically feel as it takes place.



Here's how to bypass your ego, which I call a "hero in its own

mind," and awaken to what you need to know about yourself. Every

time you find yourself angry, frustrated or in conflict with

someone else, "Stand back and watch yourself go by," as Cayce so

vividly advised. "Know Thyself," emblazoned on the temples of

Greek mystery schools, is the key to conscious evolution. If we

do not undertake this journey, we are not really conscious at

all.



I was taught this by my meditative writings, and as I traced my

discordant words and actions back to their source--fear of

inadequacy and a crippling lack of self-love--I was able to see

and correct the destructive patterns of behavior that drove me to

addictive decisions and ways of life. I could actually feel my

burdens growing lighter, as my pain, sorrow and yearning gave way

to increased amounts of light in my body-mind.



What fascinated me most was the correlation of this

"en-lightenment" to sound: with each stride forward, I could hear

my singing voice becoming ever more resonant and beautiful! I can

still hear the difference in my voice, in shifting from one state

of consciousness to another, and especially in singing with other

spiritual seekers, wherein everyone's voice grows more harmonious,

resonant and beautiful. I concluded that the high frequencies of

love bring us into our blossoming literally and in response to

our deepest desires.



3. The power of inner peace. Silent meditation, by building up

the divine currents of energy within us, is the single most

effective way to heal and transform the body-mind. These

currents, containing the light and sound of God, tune up our

bodies through the chakra system, or "wheels of energy," as Cayce

called them. He said, and virtually all medical intuitives have

seen, that these seven energy centers connect the spiritual

dimensions with our endocrine glands, located at major nerve

centers. The chakras, powered-up like frequency transformers

with multi-level circuits, step our energy up or down.



You can feel this happen during meditation, and the longer you

meditate, the more sensitive you become to these subtle energies,

which carry us into the Oneness. I experience this oneness not

only as a sense of love for and connection with others, but also

as oneness with my highest mental clarity, creativity and

intuition. After 16 years of regular practice, I emerge from

every meditation, brief or lengthy, feeling more centered,

grounded and in attunement with my true self. Going within

kindles the divine spark in us so that we may know and speak the

truth of who we are--and, in this, reach out to others in love,

compassion and service.



A calm, peaceful sense of oneness is critical to our evolution;

otherwise, we volley back and forth from one state of

consciousness to another without ever really knowing what is real

and what is not. I experience this shifting consciousness when I

don't meditate every day. The slippage is all too apparent to me,

and unfortunately, to others around me as well.



When I do return to meditation, I am amazed at the consistently

gentle, loving voice of my heart, which does not complain when I

skip my contemplative time, but waits patiently for me to return.

Recently, while in deep meditation, I heard a quiet little voice

say, "I am too hurried." Upon engaging in a pen-and-paper

dialogue with my heart and mind, I learned that both want and

need the restful peace of meditation.



This makes sense, doesn't it? It is in the Oneness that both are

energized and made more vibrant and whole. In this blissful state,

these three notes organize themselves into a chord made of the

proper co-creative partnership: mind serving heart, heart serving

soul, and soul serving what I call the Divine Harmonic.



4. The power of chanting and toning. To comprehend the potential

of sound, we have only to read the Hebrew Bible, which tells us

how the powerful vibration of trumpets and the drumbeat of

marching feet toppled the walls of Jericho. In modern times, we

have seen this same harmonic phenomenon in a California bridge

undulating in resonance with the frequency of wind blowing all

around it. The bridge eventually shattered. Equally unpleasant to

many of us is the deep, rumbling bass of automobile speakers

passing by and thumping our beating hearts into palpitations.



Such "entrainment" sensations can be reversed by a meditative

thought, word or rhythmic sound, all of which will rapidly shift

any frequency pattern. People have always used chanting and

toning to evoke altered states of consciousness and heal with the

power of sound.



I've heard, but can't yet verify the source, that Egyptian

hieroglyphics show adepts using the vibrations of their voices to

heal their patients' energy fields. It makes sense intuitively

that if we fully understood the capabilities of frequency and

vibration, we would be able to heal anything.



The racial memory of these abilities, lost through the ages, has

been restored to us by Cayce and others. Researchers reading of

Cayce's glimpses into the distant past believe that the mastery of

sound technology is how the Mayans, Aztecs and Egyptians moved

100-ton boulders hundreds of miles and up mountainsides to build

megalithic temples and pyramids.



David Elkington's meticulously researched book, In the Name of

the Gods, claims that Egypt's pyramids were not meant to be

burial chambers, but were frequency modulators for spiritual

ascension and for quickening the mummified dead. Like sacred

cairns and stone circles, pyramidal structures amplify the

resonance of chanting voices and may have been used to raise the

frequencies of the crystalline human body into harmony with the

crystalline healing frequencies of the Earth. We know today that

this frequency, 7.8 hertz, is a fundamental brain wave frequency

of meditation and spontaneous healing by hands-on practitioners.



Hindus, Buddhists and many Westerners harmonize the body-mind by

chanting the familiar "Om" or singing the word "Hu," the Sufi and

Eckankar seed sound for God. (Eckankar is the present-day

Religion of the Light and Sound of God.) The vowel sounds in

these words move energy through the abdominal, cardio-pulmonary

and cranial cavities of the body when we focus on feeling this

movement of loving, divine energy, rather than how we sound to

others. The key to chanting and toning is being present to it.



Here's a powerful chant from ancient Egypt, resurrected in trance

by Edgar Cayce and explained in a little book, Music as the

Bridge, published by Cayce's Association of Research and

Enlightenment (edgarcayce.org) in Virginia Beach. I've asked

people, during my talks and workshops, to sing this chant and

always hear beautiful harmonic overtones that carry the singers

into deep meditative states. Cayce said this particular chant

awakens our ability to draw ourselves into the divine and the

divine into us. See if it works for you!



Surrounding yourself with a sacred circle of love, chant the

word ar-ar-r-r--e-e-e--o-o-o--mmm. Fill your pelvis and navel

with this rich, resonant "ar-ar-r-r" (as in ah-r) and with your

whole body sound the "eeeeee" (as in eat) in your solar plexus,

moving the breath upward and directing the "oooooo" (as in oh)

to the heart and throat, then the uuuuuu (as in blue) to the

base and center of the brain, and the "mmmmm" (as in room) to

the forehead and frontal lobe of your brain. You will feel this

last sound vibrating the very bones of your head.



If you sit with this chant for awhile, you'll feel the currents

of spiritual love coursing through your body-mind, and a river of

peace will carry you into the Oneness of perfect love. Share your

peace and healing by visualizing your loved ones and Earth's

people basking in joy.



Joy is the natural outcome of these pathways into the Oneness,

for here we feel the perfection in all things and know ourselves

to be one with the Divine. All pain, loss and sorrow fall away in

this journey toward the Light and Sound of God. In the beautiful

music of this illuminated Oneness, we soar on wings of freedom

and joy, at home in our place of true belonging, forever.



Copyright © 2005 Judith Pennington



About Judith: Judith Pennington is a writer and teacher of

consciousness development and the step-by-step path to

enlightened mastery. She is the author of a critically acclaimed

book, "The Voice of the Soul," and presents workshops across the

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