The sky and its stars make music in you.

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" The sky and its stars make music

in you. "

Diane: How did you begin using sound as a healing tool?

 

 

Ani: Through many years of playing music—since I was six and more intensely

since I was 15—I noticed that it brought me great joy and did the same for

others. I also saw that music could be a creative medium in that it could bring

you up, bring you down, mellow you out, or de-stress you.

 

About thirty years ago, I began studying eastern traditions. In the Hindu text

called the Mahabharata, it said something to the effect that listening to

sacred sound (shabda) was the quickest path to conscious awakening.

 

Those words really hit me as the truth. I then came across the Sufi teachings

at about the same time, and read a wonderful work called Music, by

Hazrat Inyat Khan. In it, Khan said that the voice is a barometer of the soul,

and by listening to someone's voice you could tell the state of his physical,

spiritual, and mental being.

 

With further study of ancient and indigenous cultures and the Egyptian use of

sound, I found that, indeed, sound could be a way to regulate one's life. Those

people arranged their rituals around nature's cycles, and they had specific

songs and dances to help create celestial and terrestrial harmony.

 

In Egypt, in the temple of Dendera, you have the depiction of music carved in

stone. You have harps, drums, flutes, singers, and Hathor, the goddess of music

and beauty. Then in the same temple you also have the Zodiac portrayed on the

ceiling. And on one wall there is a hieroglyph that translates, " The sky

and its stars make music in you. "

 

Then I became aware of a movement during a period of the 1600s to 1700s in

Europe, where scientists and mathematicians were practicing something called musica

speculativa, which means " music as a mirror of creation. " One of

these researchers, Johannas Kepler, said, " The Greek word Kosmos means a

creation that is harmonically and artistically arranged with elegance and

beauty divinely ordered. "

 

Through my study of these things, I learned that we have some natural speaking

patterns and tones in our voices that come out more than others. Each person

has a unique voice print, and in this voice print there's a story, a history, a

genetic patterning that can be read. It is a pattern of how you are physically

and how you are emotionally. It can even show up creative potential and

blockages. You can also say that the frequency patterns in the energy body or

aura and in the physical body can be read through the voice.

 

What's really, really neat—and the reason I mentioned the musica speculativa—is

that not only is the human voice a mirror of the person's current condition,

it's also a mirror of the Cosmic print at the moment of birth. For instance, if

Saturn is in the east, Pluto is off to the west, and the Sun is overhead at the

moment of somene's birth, you can take all those positions, and the positions

of the rest of the planets at birth, ascribe tones to them, and map the

frequency patterns—and this map will mirror the individual's voice tone.

 

 

Diane: That's wild!

 

Ani: Yes, it is wild. So this whole thing about the Music

of the Spheres is very real. It is tangible and something we can hear in ourselves.

 

Goethe, the famous German mystic philosopher and poet, at one point said that

architecture was " frozen music. " So that's another way of looking at

this celestial sound patterning as it comes into the terrestrial realm. All the

ancient architecture that was built in a sacred way mirrored the Cosmic cycles.

 

Many of the angles of architecture in the temples in Cambodia, the sun and moon

pyramids at Teotihuacan, and the Egyptian pyramids are based on 72-degrees. We

also have the number 72 relating to the human heartbeat and to the cycles of

time. Every 72 years the precession of the observed star patterns drifts one

degree. So again we have the mirroring of the celestial patterns on the Earth.

The number 72 is also very important in astrology.

 

Diane: What about the Bible verse which says " In the

beginning was the Word " ? The idea that God " spoke " the universe

into creation?

 

Ani: If you go to the Bible, it references a Word, but

it's more than a Word, it's a vibratory rate created by ancient mantras and

language—sound plus intention. That's the ancient alchemical formula for

creation, " sound plus intention. " In indigenous cultures, the sound

is always a song.

 

It's really funny that scientists in this modern technological era have reduced

the sound of creation to a Big Bang!

 

Diane: So are you saying that we could actually tone,

chant, and sing our creations into manifestation if we knew how?

 

Ani: Absolutely. Quite a few years ago it dawned on me

that all Creation stories begin with a sound. I thought, What the heck are

we doing going along blindly without utilizing this tool of Creation, this

creative force? So instead of looking at the Creation stories as

something that occurred a long time ago, I began to hold every moment as an

opportunity to choose a new reality.

 

But its interesting. In zero AD, the Druids practiced something called

" perpetual choirs, " where they were constantly feeding harmony into

their realm to maintain the natural order. The same thing was done eons ago in

China. In today's world, The Tibetans, among others, still maintain that

practice.

 

At the time of the changing of the ages from Aries to Pisces, sound became very

important in many different traditions to create a new paradigm for the New

Age. Now we are coming into the Age of Aquarius. In the system I use, the tone

ascribed to the sign of Aquarius is A-sharp, which is related to the nervous

system and the electrical fields. It is also the tonality of 55 hertz of

electricity.

 

So here we are in an age where there is a prevalence of electrical fields in

our environment, and we have that same frequency of A-sharp which relates to

the Age of Aquarius.

 

Each Age has its dominant tone. It all relates to frequency and mathematics.

 

 

Diane: It seems to me as modern technology advances that

the European races have lost their indigenous music.

 

Ani: Yes. And with the decimation and genocide of indigenous cultures, you

also have the destruction of essential principles.

 

For example, when people would come to see a Zulu medicine man, he would not

ask when their symptoms first occurred. Instead, he would ask them when it was

that they stopped singing!

 

The whole cosmology of the Australian aboriginal peoples is arranged around

songs and the landscape and how the hills rise and fall. These songs form wave

patterns which correspond to the sound of that particular place. There's total

harmonious union or " entrainment " between the sound of the place and

the ancestor representing the place—the shape of the land and the shape of the

song.

 

Every ancient culture was based on sacred harmonics. The Ancients understood

that if you forgot the songs, you forgot how to live in the environment, how to

be healthy, how to maintain a harmonious social structure. You forgot

everything.

 

Diane: I've heard so many times about how in order to

attract the essence of a place you must sing its song.

 

Ani: That's how aboriginal women would pull in a

husband—they'd learn his song. But that's delving into some questionable magic.

 

 

Diane: I think the woman who are reading this just perked

up.

 

Ani: (Laughs) I found a study in a tabloid in England

where they were comparing the effect of the song of a male warbler bird to the

popularity of rock stars. The warblers that had the strongest song attracted

the most females. You know, it's a funny way of putting it, but it is actually

true.

 

Also, when people have not been expressing through their voices and consciously

connecting with their bodies and spirit selves, their voices are normally

thinner. They lack depth and resonance. You can hear it in the speaking voice.

If people are not grounded, they can have a thin quality of voice, or even talk

in a higher register. I've worked with people who were victims of severe abuse

or rape and the voice stayed like that of a child. It never matured or

deepened.

 

Japanese monks say that when you chant daily you develop more harmonics and

resonance in your voice, so that every time you use your voice you're healed,

other people are healed, and all your communicative interactions with others

come from a place of more harmony and centeredness.

 

In some of the research we did several years ago at the University of

Washington and Mexico City, we found that within a minute of toning or chanting

a mantra the brain state totally altered and went into deep Theta, which

approximates deep meditation. Even thinking about toning brought on this state.

The colors in the energy field and the aura changed into beautiful, deepening

tones. Where there was imbalance before, now there was a balancing of the auric

field and tremendous changes in the whole system.

 

Toning and singing synchronize the brain rhythms with the heart rhythms, which

ultimately increases immune function. So whether its humming, chanting,

singing, or doing mantras, some kind of toning practice every day is really

essential for health. It's an ancient practice for health and connectedness.

 

Within cultures like the Yaqui of northern Mexico and southern Arizona, it is

said that " song is the intelligence of the universe " —it's the way we

connect with all of creation. The Yaquis used song to make daily connection

with all aspects of nature.

 

The Hopi do this as well. In the summertime, they sing the songs of the rain

for the crops. It's just basic to their lives.

 

Indigenous peoples used to navigate their canoes in the Northwest and the South

Pacific by singing songs. Seven rounds of a particular song or chant might mark

the time it would take to get from one place to another. Also, watching the

stars or feeling the change of water temperature would assist them. They would

use all of their sensory connections with the elements.

 

Diane: How does modern music affect the body?

 

Ani: It depends on what kind of music you're listening

too. Since we're so stressed out in our technological age, there has been a

growing polularity of music for relaxation, a need for quieter, more soothing

sounds.

 

Diane: Would you say that whether a particular kind of

music brings great pleasure might be different from race to race and culture to

culture? I'm thinking about rap music, for instance.

 

Ani: Basically, any music that is coming from the solar

plexus and down to the base chakra is going to awaken and stimulate those

centers. It's going to create anxiety, and it's going to keep the body in a

ready-to-roll state. The brainwaves are in Beta, almost a fight-or-flight mode.

The body is releasing cortisone, which creates high stress and a

ready-for-action state of being.

 

People can listen to any kind of music they want. A depressed person might need

to listen to upbeat music.

 

What we need in the world now is music that will refine the energy centers and

allow them to open—music that opens the heart so that we can change the state

of our world.

 

Diane: How does it affect us that so much of our modern

music is digitally produced? A lot of recordings don't even use instruments any

more.

 

Ani: It's true, and it's an important question. If you

have a digitally produced tone, one that's not from a real instrument, and you

listen to that constantly, and you also listen to rhythms that are mechanically

produced and not naturally varied like those of a human drummer, you can become

an automaton—your moods can be regulated and your body can be regulated. And

that's the danger of a lot of modern music.

 

The most destructive aspect of digital music is that it is arranged

mathematically without the naturally ringing harmonic structure. When we pluck

a string, we have a natural overtone that rings out and essentially—if you want

to consider the mathematical principles—goes on forever.

 

We also have the most perfect harmonic in sacred music, which is the 5th, and

that's also one of the dominant harmonics from a naturally plucked string that

makes it sound so beautiful. The 5th harmonic is what relates most closely with

the harmonic structure of Creation—the shape of sunflowers, branching trees,

and so on. You can't get that sound as precisely in digitally produced music.

They are getting closer to it, but they don't have it yet, and I don't know

that they ever will.

 

So when we are just listening to digitally produced sound, there is a part of

our being that is not getting harmonically hooked up or entrained or embedded

with the natural harmonics of creation.

 

Diane: Also, wasn't there a time in history when the church denied people the

use of their voice, along with denying them music and the theater?

 

Ani: Yes, that was at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD,

when the church fathers got together and decided who was spiritual and who

wasn't. Women were considered not to be total human beings, and were banned

from speaking or singing in church. Also, musicians, artists, and theater

performers weren't allowed to participate in baptism. There was so much

regulation, and it's been there for so long, that at this point it's in our DNA.

 

Even in today's time, we are told not to sing or speak as children and not to

voice our true emotional feelings. When we finally get into school, we're told

we have to be quiet all the time, and then we get into the choir and we're told

we're singing out of tune. And it goes on and on.

 

 

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