Masters of Health Magazine January 2025 | Page 11

The concept of using sound to “heal” the world at first seems quite strange. The idea of using sound to heal anything, in fact, seems quite outlandish. That is until you begin to explore the possibilities—the mysticism and the science behind this notion.

If you examine the basic tenets of the different spiritual traditions on this planet, they all share a commonality—an understanding that sound was the original creative force. Examples of this can be found in the New Testament: “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God” and the Old Testament: “And the Lord said: ‘Let there be Light’.” In the Hindu traditions, it is said: Nada Brahman—The World Is Sound. In various indigenous traditions, life, the universe, and everything in it, occurs through a ‘creator being’ making a sound for manifestation.

Now our quantum physicists are echoing the words of the mystic masters of old, declaring that: “The Universe is Music” or “Everything is vibration.” Sound, we are re-discovering, is an extraordinarily powerful force that can literally change molecular structure and affect us down to our DNA. Sound can also affect our consciousness, shifting and changing our brainwaves, bringing us into attunement with something greater than ourselves, and often altering and enhancing our state of being.

The ability of our individual consciousness, combined with others at the same time, through activities such as group prayers or meditation, is now being studied. The results indicate that the effect of such group activities can influence the activities within local areas and potentially, our planet itself. For example, when group meditations for peace participated in my ‘skilled practitioners’ meditation, there was a decrease in violent and hostile activities, in the vicinity of these meditations. War-torn cities, for example, will for some seemingly unknown reason, will have limited times of peace following such meditations in these cities. These studies have been documented in the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Now, the power of group prayers and meditations—particularly those that are occurring throughout the world are being studied by two different groups—the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), out of Princeton, NJ, and the Global Coherence Initiative (GCI) out of Boulder Creek, CA. The GCP has found a most interesting phenomenon. Utilizing random number generators spread throughout the world, they have found that when events of high compassion occur, the numbers generated by these devices become less random. They can be charted and graphed. Thus, what should be a relatively straight line (due to randomness) becomes a mountainous peak during the measurement of global prayers and meditation.

The GCI focuses on the relationship between the electromagnetic field of the human and that of the geomagnetic field (the ionosphere) of our planet. Are the electro-magnetic fields of human beings acting together in coherence (sympathetically vibrating together) during global meditations somehow interface, influence, and effect the field of the planet? The results seem to indicate that this is indeed both possible and true.

The work of the GCP and GCI indicates that our consciousness, when resonating and synergizing together in harmony, can affect the consciousness of this planet. Thus, we as a species can collectively affect our world.

If you are new to this idea or a skeptic, you may be wondering about the idea of there being a planetary consciousness. How indeed can this be? It is a most ancient idea, that our ancestors have been aware of.

Modern philosophers and mystics have espoused this concept, often referring  to the name “noosphere” or “Gaia Consciousness” to indicate the field of consciousness generated by our planet. Gaia is the name that is usually used for our planet in this context—an ancient Greek name for the energy of the Earth. If this name seems alien to you, use the term “Mother Earth”—they mean the same thing.