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From: James Bean
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(This is a new series of posts based on an article I wrote on Sound
in the various world religions.)

The Yoga of Sound -- Listening to the Music of the Universe

By James Bean

PART ONE

Introduction

No doubt, many of you saw the movie Contact, based upon the book with
that same title authored by the late Dr. Carl Sagan. The story was
about SETI -- the search of extraterrestrial intelligence. In this
film, scientists intercepted radio signal emanating from another part
of the galaxy. These broadcasts were being beamed directly at the
earth by an alien civilization trying to get our attention. After
many years they finally succeeded. Their message was eventually
deciphered; it contained schematics for constructing a transportation
device which would allow humans to travel to the distant world where
the signals were coming from.

After viewing this philosophical film, I couldn't help comparing the
parallels between this SETI scenario and one of the world's oldest
forms of yoga-meditation: Shabda Yoga, the Yoga of the Sound
Current. Shabda is an ancient Sanskrit word for divine or cosmic
sound, heavenly music. For thousands of years, human beings around
the world have been tuning into a sound which comes from beyond the
stars. For the practitioners of the Yoga of Sound, this heavenly
music is also a means of transportation. By becoming one with the
holy stream of sound, souls during their meditation practice find
themselves ascending in spirit toward the place where the sound
emanates. This sound connects all souls of the universe to the
timeless world of the Great Spirit.

PART ONE///

Parts Two Three, Four, etc. will be a study of the Path of Sound in
the various world religions including: Islam, the Australian
Aborigines, Native American, Buddhist, Gnostic, Christian, Jewish,
Hindu, and Sikh traditions.

Stay Tuned,

James

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