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Singing the World Awake


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hen I was a youngster, I


clearly remember


reading a book, The Boy Who Sang to the World, although I later learned it doesn’t exist. I read it in


Music and sound are the language and architecture of the cosmos.


some other realm of consciousness and that’s what I became. I sang to the world, sun, moon, stars and all life. I sang in church and choirs and later took up guitar and piano. One day, a visitor to our house said, “You’re going to heal many people in this world with that voice.” When I attended the University of North Carolina, I discovered that neuro- physiology could be used as a language to explain mystical experiences. The whole time I was engaged in scientific training, I was also going deeper into the mysticism of the East, the yoga of India, Taoism of China, Egyptian alchemy and Tibetan Buddhism. I was practicing every meditation from every tradition, sometimes for five hours a day. Without realizing it, I was chang- ing my neurophysiology.


NaturalTwinCities.com Brain research shows


that when we experi- ence pure sound without language, the right side of the brain lights up like a Christmas tree. I’d worked in brain research for about


13 years when, while meditating, I received new information about brain geometry that I recognized as the ge- ometry of consciousness in its relation- ship to sound and emotion.


I understood that if I taught this to


others, I would observe rapid change and improvement in brain function and creativity, which took place when I conducted beta testing at three sites. One day, I was in California doing a workshop when these sounds just came through me. That’s what spawned my current sound work.


I become like a tuning fork to the information that is coming to me. In shamanism, this is called being the hollow reed. I step out of the way. In terms of brain frequencies, I go into an alpha state, in which I can attend to what I need to do vocally, but for


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