Hearing the rhythms of nature

Subtle hearing has planes of opening that fan out from the heart through the ears. These different planes interface with each other through rhythm. Just as in music, there’s a plane of hearing and it vibrates when it reaches a certain frequency level. Then it starts to vibrate the next plane and they dance with each other and communicate. In human experience, there are about five or six different levels of these planes. One opens up and it touches the other one, then that one vibrates and communicates with it, and a certain type of rhythm forms. This is what causes all the rhythms in nature, like a waterfall or a bird singing. The rhythms that you hear, the way the frequencies are communicating with other are emulating these planes of hearing. That’s why all the animals are listening to that and then they respond to that in their own natural way. Their job is to bring forward the subtle planes of sound and help them to interface or communicate with one another.

In these very fine levels of silence, there’s a backward movement and a forward movement. The heart opens up and sings to the environment, the ears pick that up and the sounds reverberate in this field, and then the sounds on a subtle level are sent back to the heart. That’s why music can have a certain type of effect, particularly music that has to do with unconditional love or sacred love. When the ears open out into these frequencies, they send vibrations back to the heart, and the language that the heart listens with is love. It’s enriched by the feeling of love. When that feeling comes out from the heart and touches these subtle planes of awareness, you have the experience of listening to your heart speaking its own language of love to you. The language of the heart is talking to you through its own subtleties and speaking love back to you. I think this feeling, unfortunately, gets lost a lot. We get externalized to such an extent that it’s sometimes hard to communicate with our own heart and experience it as the bigness and richness that it is.

The job of those little “conch shells” of opening around the ears is to reverberate subtle sounds, to open them out into the environment and pull them in from the environment too, collapse them back into the ears, bring them back to the heart, and then open back out through the ears and back out into the environment. So you have that flow, that pulsing that goes on. There are big currents coming out and collapsing back and going out again. In each one of these big currents you have these subtle planes which are dimensional expressions of sound.

We’re familiar with how dimensions are captured visually, but they’re also captured sonically. What defines our dimension has to do with these planes of subtle levels of sound all communicating with each other and stabilizing to form a dimension. When the heart opens out into a dimension, it experiences a certain feeling that is associated with that. In human experience, we naturally move from one dimension of feeling to another all the time. In our relations with other people and with ourselves, there’s a constant movement of feeling from the heart, out to the environment, back from the environment, out from the heart.