Esoteric Listening

Can we listen without knowing? Can we hear the hidden, the divine, and the forces of nature?<br/><br/>Several religious traditions emphasize the experience that the word of God is a sound — something to be recited and heard. It is through sound that the word becomes alive and can be perceived by the spiritual human being. In many spiritual and occult traditions, there is also the belief that everything in nature is alive and carries its own sound or tone. Nature, as a whole, is understood as an organic network of hidden sonic connections.<br/><br/>But it doesn’t stop there. Certain sounds are said to open portals to other worlds and altered states of consciousness, while some intonations are believed to contain keys to nature’s magical forces — powers through which the world itself can be transformed. It is therefore not only a matter of being able to listen but of learning to listen in the right way.