The Power of Chant
Cultures the world over
utilize chant to invoke and attune to higher powers and transformative
consciousness.
With voice resonating, the purity and integrity of
energies invoked from the subtle realms lifts us, elevates us, to our
highest
potential and clarified realms of consciousness.
It serves to raise our awareness, enliven us, and purify
our hearts and
minds, and physical being, manifesting in our lives in paths of
radiance, joy,
and blessings for all.
The power of
sound with truly focused intention is becoming growingly
apparent to the Western experience, though known to other cultures
throughout
time. With our own voice resonating powerfully through our own
tissue and cells, focusing our awareness on the nature of the Divine
Spirit we call in through our chant, we move the richness and depths of
our own emotional experience ever so deeply into our own body and
conscisousness, and make the experience available to share with anyone
in our listening environment.
Chants are doorways or
portals to unlimited resources of awareness, energies, ecstasy, bliss,
and joy,
doorways to unfathomable love, in its purest form, compassion, wisdom,
insight,
and understanding. Through our desire
to purify our own thought and action, we couple with the purified
(rarified)
essence of the Divine, opening ourselves to its unlimited bounty. The words of the chant allow us to attune to
the purest essence of some quality of the Divine, toning our own
existence in
unison with its.
It is the process of our
own
purification of thought, word, and deed, of our desire for union with
the
Divine, which allows for this doorway to be opened.
The clear heart is the bridge to the Divine,
allowing us to drink of its essence, and radiate it outward to the
world, and
to others, through our own attunement to its, and our, higher being.
We are all
capable of this at
any time.
It is where we place, or
emphasize, our awareness, and intention, that allows us to bridge the
imaginary
gap between us and the Divine. The wise
ones, of all cultures, have told us over and over that the our feelings
of
unworthiness, and of separation from the Divine, are only an illusion.
The chant can be the focal point that allows us
to bridge this gap, to allow this process to unfold, to embrace that
which we
hold as Sacred, and to embody it once again.
Imagine
with all of your heart, focus with all of your soul, and call in that
which the chant embraces, or endears, to allow it to penetrate its
essence into
your life, and awareness, until you allow that Sacred form, or
manifestation of
the Divine, to exude through you.
see below for a chant offering, hopefully more offered in the near
future!
-Zacciah
Blackburn
©
Zacciah 2005. This article may be reproduced and distributed, as
long as the following resource and contact information is intact.
Zacciah
Blackburn is a sound healer trained in classical healing and shamanic
traditions, and sacred sound cultures, and is practicing in Ascutney,
VT, USA. Zacciah
is Director of Education for the New
England Sound Healing Research Institute, a world wide community of
healing
practitioners broadening the awareness of sound healing through
networking,
education, and scientific research. He
is also Co-Founder of the World Sound Healing Organization, a
non-profit
organization joining the efforts of numerous individuals and
organizations
world wide, dedicated to service to this planet, to its healing and
growth, and
to the elevation of human consciousness, embracing the use of sound as
a
healing catalyst in simple ceremony throughout the world.
Contact
information:
Zacciah
Blackburn,
The Center of Light
PO
Box 389,
Ascutney, VT 05030 USA
Phone
and Fax: 802.674.9585
Also:
www.worldsoundhealing.org
, www.neshri.org , www.sunreed.com
Please provide resource acknowledgement if reproduced:
There is an “underground
recording” of a chant circulating
in sound circles currently, of a gentleman singing with a clear, rich,
deep
voice, in a Tibetan style mantra. Whomever the gentleman is, it
is clear
he sings with deep humility and devotion. Many listening to it
get a felt
sense of healing from it. Rumor has it, that the recording is of
the
Dalai Lama. Whether it is or not, the gentleman singing knows how
to move
energy with his voice. It is an enriching experience to listen to
it.
The name of the chant sung by
the gentleman is called Mahamrityunjaya Mantra,
or, Mantra for Healing.
The words to it are:
Mahamrityunjava Mantra
Om tryambakam yajamahe
Sugandhim pushti-vardhanam
Urva-rukamiva bandhanan
Mrityor mukshiya mamritat
from
the Rig Veda
I am told the meaning of the
prayer mantra is:
Om, we pray to the One who sees
all-whose grace manifests everywhere
like sweet fragrance, who
bestows prosperity, and who nourishes all beings.
May the Supreme Spirit free us
from bondage and death, releasing us into
the oneness of our immortal
nature. May liberation unfold as naturally as a
ripe fruit simply falls away
from its branch and becomes free.
A
couple of quote offerings:
Our soul is as the
flute of God, as we tune ourselves to
its Divine breath, we come into harmony with all living things. –Zacciah
"AND
THE WIND WAS IN THEIR WINGS..."
Zechariah
INVOCATION:
Divine Spirit
may we be empty vessels
that you may pour forth your
joy, light and wisdom
through us, in music
may we ourselves
be the instruments
which
you play with your hands, breath, and heart
~Zacciah
