Geral Blanchard, LPC, is a psychotherapist who is university trained in psychology and anthropology. Formerly of Wyoming and currently residing in Iowa, Geral travels the world in search of ancient secrets that can augment the art and science of healing. From Western neuroscience to Amazonian shamanism, he has developed an understanding of how to combine old and new healing strategies to optimize recovery, whether from psychological or physical maladies.
MDMA and Sound Healing
Geral T. Blanchard • December 27, 2021
The form of “God” is energy. And the entire universe is alive, literally singing with vibrational forms of faintly audible energy.
Humans are a part of this immense choral group and can more fully unite with it by merging attitudinally and tonally.
Of the primary elements in the universe, each is associated with our many (perhaps 30+) senses: 1) fire is associated with touch and sight, 2) water is correlated with taste, 3) earth is linked with smell, and 4) wind is coupled with touch and hearing. Additionally, according to the Upanishad texts of the Vedic era, there is 5) vibration, the most subtle of all elements which is referred to as akash and linked with hearing too.
Within some ancient cosmologies on up to quantum physics, the thoughts of our minds are said to make sounds. And mind, with these attendant sounds, creates matter. Further, with clean and clear intentions, or desires, we combine with the vibratory chorus of the universe from which all matter arises and which makes our vast home even bigger, better, and more complex.
Ancient philosophy and science contend that the most fundamental sounds of Nature are recorded, or stored, as vibratory codes which were interpreted by the Siddhas (a Hindu word for shaman) as mantras. Chanting a mantra is a very deliberate act with a specific intention for an outcome. And when people chant or hum along with musical mantras, their internal life harmonizes, and with it comes improved physical and mental health. This can create a variety of outcomes from a strengthened immune system to the reduction of pain, including everything from joint and intestinal discomfort to the elimination of migraine headaches.
In recent history, quantum physicists have proposed that there is a supercharged backdrop of energy that fills up space – what was once thought of as empty parts of the universe. Humans sense and interact with all the action of subatomic particles (consciously or unconsciously) and the movement of any one drives the others ahead in what can be envisioned as quantum waves. All of these continuous movements represent an ongoing “memorization of the universe,” information that is never lost in “space.” The emergent nature of the universe – this ever-expanding knowledge repository – keeps everything growing and evolving with a potential for progress we cannot yet fully comprehend.
Amidst this intertwined universe filled with vibratory energy, there are things we can do on an individual basis to sing ourselves, and this tiny planet, forward.
Did you know that hearing music can alter your brain chemistry, increasing norepinephrine levels that are associated with a sense of wellbeing? Add to that effect by intoning (merging) your voice with a group of individuals singing a mantra (sacred sound). Connecting to something larger than yourself, using Tibetan mantras for example, can quiet the mind and take you to alpha or theta brain wave states when, fortunately, the dominant ego produced chatter of our left hemisphere slows down. At that time the right hemisphere increasingly comes online connecting you with the Greater Whole that surrounds the human self.
While humming along or singing the words of an ancient mantra, note the vibratory feeling in your throat, cranial brain, and throughout the body. Once you are more aligned and in sync with everything vibrating around you, inner peace unfolds. This is sound medicine. This is also what is meant by energy medicine or vibrational medicine, according to Richard Gerber, M.D., author of A Practical Guide to Vibrational Medicine. Or as Native Americans would say, it is good medicine. This is healing originating through the power of the mind while being propelled by sound.
If you intend to keep the growth from your MDMA session alive, give a listen, with eyes closed, to the sounds of the soundtrack from Mantras from Tibet. An immersion of as little as ten or fifteen minutes can enshroud an unpleasant day and shift your mind and body (bodymind) into harmonic resonance with the world around you. You will notice it and others will too.
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“We have now discovered that there is no such thing as matter; it is all just different rates of vibration designed by an unseen intelligence.”
- Max Plank, physicist, upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Physics
“A person doesn’t hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body. It permeates the entire being.”
- Hazrat Inayat Khan, Sufi musician, healer, and mystic
“In our culture, one of our biases is that newer information and techniques are always better than older belief systems and technologies. Mounting evidence supports a variety of ancient healing systems based upon views of physiology very different from the current mainstream healing paradigm. Perhaps revisiting ancient wisdom may supply information that could result in a revolution in the field of medicine and healing. Ancient approaches to understanding disease and body healing often viewed illness from the perspective of the human spirit, or the body’s life-force energy. These somewhat mystical viewpoints may hold the key to understanding why people become ill and how they can regain their health.”
- Richard Gerber, M.D. in
A Practical Guide to Vibrational Medicine
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Additional Reading:
Sound Medicine: How to Use the Ancient Science of Sound to Heal Body and Mind by Kulreet Chaudhary
Suggested Audio:
Mantras from Tibet by Sarva Antah
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