Goldman - Healing sounds: the power of harmonics

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Healing, Sounds has been a special work for me. The use of overtones as transformative and therapeutic tools has been a major focus since I first became aware of them over a decade ago. I have met, worked with, and learned from some of the great pioneers who are using sound and music for health and change. Many of these people are cited in this book, but others are not. I would like to dedicate this book to the Masters of the Sound Current, who have allowed this work to manifest, and to Shamael, Angel of Sacred Sound, whose continued guidance is a blessing. I would also like to dedicate it to the various pioneers, musicians, teachers, and scientists whose work has been an important contribution to the field of sound and music for health and transformation. In addition, this book is dedicated to Andi Hilgert, whose gifts of love and compassion continue to inspire and amaze me; to my son, Joshua Goldman, great friend and teacher, whose very essence brings joy into my life; and to Karen Anderson, whose manuscript rewriting and support for this project allowed me to bring it to fruition.

Thanks to John Beaulieu; Sarah Benson; JoachimErnst Berendt; Don Campbell; Rinchen Chugyal and the Lamas of the Drepung Loseling Monastery, including Chant Master Ngawang Tashi Bapu; Kay Gardner; Steven Halpern; Barbara Hero; David Hykes; Peter Guy Manners, M.D.; the Gyume and Gyuto Monks; and Alfred Tomatis, M.D., for their harmonic transmissions. Special thanks to Debbie and Eddie Shapiro for the impetus to write this book and to Jon Graham and Inner Traditions Bear & Company for recognizing the importance of Healing Sounds.

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION

Its been over a decade since Healing Sounds: The Power of Harmonics was first published. Since that time, the awareness of the uses of sound and music as healing modalities continues to expand. The psychic Edgar Cayce predicted that sound would be the medicine of the future. We are indeed now in the future.

When it was first published, Healing Sounds was one of the first of a handful of books on the subject of sound healing. It continued to gain recognition and audiences throughout the planet, being published in numerous editions and numerous foreign languages. Now, in this new millennium, it again emerges into the sound healing arena.

Not having done so in a very long time, I recently took the opportunity to reread Healing Sounds. Quite frankly, I was a bit surprised. Not only was the information and material in the book as relevant, fresh, and important as the day it was first published, but there were things in the book that I had for gotten. It was quite startling to be reintroduced to my creation in such a powerful manner. I give thanks.

Healing Sounds keeps resonating with readers desiring knowledge and exercises on the uses of sound and music for health and transformation. These readers have been neophytes who want a little taste, having heard that there actually might be something to the idea of sound healing, and worldrenowned specialists in sound or healing, who received an idea or a concept that they could add to their already extensive sound work.

As I am composing this preface, the phone rings. It is a writer who is coauthoring a book of inspirational stories on the healing power of music. Would I like to contribute? What an interesting synchronistic occurrence this phone call isparticularly because my next sentence was to be, More and more people are writing books on the healing and transformational power of sound and music." What a blessing that the world is now reawakening to sound!

I truly believe that one of the key ingredients with regard to the longevity of Healing Sounds is that it incorporates both the scientific and spiritual aspects of sound; it ignores neither element and at times combines both, creating a unified field theory of sound healing with formulas such as Frequency + Intent = Healing or Vocalization + Visualization = Manifestation. These formulas have influenced and effected so many.

Contained within the pages of this book is not only material about the scientific and spiritual aspects of sound healing, but also exercises that you can learn and apply to your daily life. Through this book the world of sound healing becomes more than merely a good idea. Sound as healing and transformational tool becomes a reality, and an important one at that.

The combination of both the scientific and the spiritual approaches to sound is mandatory for true discovery and exploration of the ability of sound to heal and transform. In order for us to truly resonate with the immense and important subject of sound healing, it is important that information about sound is coupled with personal experiences with sound. I do not believe I've ever encountered a scientist or doctor working to discover and validate the power of sound to heal and transform (as opposed to merely measuring some aspects of sound) who has not become somewhat of a mystic as he or she progressed on the journey through sound. And rarely have I encountered someone using sound as a spiritual discipline who has not absorbed some knowledge of the physics of sound as he or she continued along the path.

I am blessed to be able to report that literally thousands of people have had their lives changed by reading this bookand this continues to be true. I give thanks for this and am grateful that you have chosen to be one of those who has undergone a genesis through sound to become part of those who have received transformation. Sound really will change your life.

Enjoy this new edition of Healing Sounds.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

NEW HORIZONS

Welcome to the second edition of Healing Sounds. The original edition was published by Element in 1992 and has since become a landmark in the field of sound healing. It has been translated into German, Portugese, Dutch, Spanish and a number of other languages. The publishers have requested that I contribute a new introduction to this edition. It is with pleasure that I do so.

Since the first printing of this book, it has been my great honor to travel the world presenting Healing Sounds seminars. I continue in wonderment at the power of sound and its ability to transform people's lives. Sometimes it is through mental, emotional or spiritual changes. Through these seminars, individuals are empowered with sound. They explore new horizons in human potentials. They realize a new aspect of their being. They experience themselves as vibration, as being sound. Through this, they experience transformation.

Since the first publication of Healing Sounds, the field of sound and music for healing has greatly expanded. This is in part due to the pioneering efforts of many who are initiating others into the experience of sound. It is also due in part to the great changes in consciousness which we are now undergoing.

SHIFTING FREQUENCIES

We are living in extraordinary times; times of enormous shifts in awareness, times of great changes in culture and society, times of planetary evolution. Some would say that vibrational modulations are occurring. Others would say that it is earth changes. And yet others would say that it is the end of the millennnium blues. I like to talk about frequency shifts and their relationship to people and the planet. For many different reasons, we are waking up, becoming aware. About ourselves. About human potential. About creating a better world. About changing reality. Sound plays a key role in these times, for sound is helping us adjust to the frequency shifts that are occurring on so many levels.