The Importance of Sound

Audio is life.

The universe itself is made of vibrations - super-strings resonating at different levels, defining their existence - different frequencies of energy and existence standing out as forms manifest in the universe. All exist as vibrations, although on subtle and unknown scales - probably stretching to infinity - at the cosmic center of chaos. These waves give things their definition and nature - everything resonates on a certain level, whether distinguishable in the material universe or in a dimension beyond. When waves cease, so does the Existence - it fades into death and nothing. All that exists exist as a combination of waves emitted across the universe. Everything from the tiniest of atoms to galaxies emit these waves and frequencies according to their own nature.

Even you exist with waves. The planets emit waves, though there's no air to transfer sound through - it merely travels as radiated energies, pulsing like silent but active beacons shedding their energy. They emit their own sounds, songs and frequencies as surely as they exist themselves - the natural resonance of the universe and all of it's manifested and fragmented forms (that is, fragmented from the primordial source, the Monad).

As animals, a certain sensory function we have is hearing, which can pick up audible manifestations of these waves. Every sound is a vibration or a combination of vibrations causing something in the world - even hearing a skillet clanging against a frying pan is hearing these vibrations, since it is a physical product of these two things' existences and interactions with each other. We hear sound everyday, and often times we take it for granted - music is humanity's great delight, for it helps us comprehend the rhythms of existence. Like our own breath, the universe's rhythm is a steady pulse, a beat which is eternal and emanated in a million forms, all of different speed and depth. Good music will have synchrony with these things, while bad music is chaotic and often artificial in its conjectured and ephemeral noises that lack a foundation in pure emanation.

When men sit down by the sea and watch the waves come and go, they hear the sounds of the sea, the howling and the waves, but most of all they hear the gentle ebb and flow of the water, the back-and-forth rhythm of the sea. Even the sea, that vast ocean much like the void, resonates on an easily audible level for mankind to hear.

So then, whenever we listen to the sounds of the universe, it is a reconnection with things more ancient than humanity; with the original universe itself. These primordial sounds help us to synchronize our focus into the greater picture, the metauniverse so to speak, on a stage higher than this existence and beyond the pale of human perception. Once the humanist perception is abandoned in favor of the wider one, the natural rhythms are recognized and man can finally become one with everything - through sound, he is able to reawaken, reconnect to that which was once lost to humanity through its ignorance and fallen-ness.

Music has a function too. Like every other medium, it can be used for manipulation of mood changing; the mass media of today often blare loud chaotic music in order to frenzy the consumers up at the cost of their organic spiritual connectivity. Marching music instils powers of pride and morale, even when faced with absurd opposition; Bach's abstract artistry invokes a particular set of mind too. Classical Music is revealed to enable the creative process to a greater degree when exposed to the human mind during infancy; and often times music becomes a man's last and only solace from a world of pain, their only joy in a bleak and joyless world, the only thing keeping them going. Music should be used wisely, to the greatest of our benefit - to reconnect, to understand, to motivate and better ourselves.

Also like media does, with delicate artistry Music can transport people to another world, the world of the song. Enya's Only Time was one of the first songs I heard that really affected me - it transported me to an entirely different reality, removed from the bleak world in which I lived. As a child, my imagination went far off, to far sunny island among crystal blue waters, with turtles and dolphins, with soft sands and cool air, things that in the recesses of my mind I was not afraid to experience, and it was only able to be discovered and accessed by this song. I didn't know it at the time, but I had discovered the power of music on the imagination. I still remember the first time I heard the song, on the crackling radio in a daycare bus. No one really said anything about it, since it was just some hit at the time - but secretly I really liked it, even though I didn't know what it was called. Book's often have the power to transport readers to other fields of experience from which their humanly limitations often prevent from ever knowing, and the same goes for music. With the aid of music, a whole range of experiences are possible.

Audio, as a holy manifestation of vibrations audible to the human ear, is also intrinsic in meditation. This goes for language as well; contrary to the contemporary notion that language was random and relative, language was originally ordered from the issuance of vibrational correspondence to real-world objects and concepts, not the chaotic memorization-system of today. Language was built rather on what people naturally felt inclined to describe an object as, since it's transcripted audible sound was universal - only in this latter day and age, with its degeneration, have languages become a subject of pure relativity with the only vestiges of holy resonance being their dying heritage.

The Vedic school of Hinduism still teaches the importance of sound resonation, and it's also why Sanskrit is considered a Holy Language; it is purer and closer in its sounds to the original vibrations than modern day languages are. The holy sound "aum" is also to be closely inspected here. This goes without saying that sounds have a particular holy value; when strung in a certain way, they resonate and it creates synchrony with certain fluctuations, which is the basis of all magical and meditative acts. That is how spells and incantations worked and why meditation was often associated with certain sounds. Sound a key ingredient in helping meditation.

Listening to natural rhythms is an humbling experience. It is important to the human body, since it responds to sounds the same way it does to the changing of the seasons or the tides of the moon. Sound has the power to help our consciousness to new levels. It is one of the senses that, if used wisely and not self-destructively, can help bring a great advancement in spiritual and mental understanding.

Sound is important, sound is indispensable - it is a way of observing the known universe. Rhythms we can recognize on a primal level - the realities of the cosmos resonate throughout.