Common steps and sub-activities
Hearing sounds and music
The very specific case of hearing voices is described separately, here we investigate the ‘hearing’ of other sorts of sound through spiritual experience and not via our ears!
The phrase used for sounds which are not perceived with the ear is ‘Inner sound’. The 'Inner ear' may be able to pick up a whole host of different sorts of sound - the noises as of bells and other instruments, of animal and human noises, of water and thunder and music.
The Hindus in Shabda yoga associate some sounds with ‘various energy centres in the body in which they seem to occur as one's practise progresses’ - chakras. “Some sounds are not of this world and bring ineffable states with them. Others represent the action of vast cosmic forces into which one's self is absorbed.”
In effect, there are two sorts of sound which people experience:
- Mundane sounds - the replay of sound which was ‘captured’ as part of everyday life. They come from Perceptions.
- Not mundane sounds - music and other sounds which appear to have no equivalent on earth having a very unearthly quality.
Mundane sounds
Anything which is clearly a sound which could be earthly, probably is earthly! The replay of sound which was ‘captured’ as part of everyday life.
These sounds come from Perceptions.
They may come from your Perceptions in which case the experience you are having is more correctly called Perception recall; or they may be from the Perceptions of other people and transmitted to you via inter composer communication.
Thus children laughing, animal and human sounds, people singing, birds singing, traffic noises, may all be heard because at some stage they were ‘recorded’ by you or someone else through the 5 senses. You have perhaps inadvertently logged in to someone else’s mind!
This can happen when we form a bridge with someone else – kiss them [saliva] or share blood with them via a blood transfusion for example. If one person prepares food that others eat, then a bridge may be formed. Sweat is another bridge, so if you go to a gym with lots of sweaty people grasping equipment, you are forming a bridge. Wipe your mouth with a hand that has touched that equipment and you could well form a bridge with other people who have used it, if you lick your lips and swallow.
These sorts of sounds are occasionally accompanied by images which then give you a better clue as to where they come from.
Many people on pharmaceuticals hear replays of well-known tunes or songs they have heard in their youth. It can of course become very tiresome if the music doesn’t stop, but I’m afraid this is one of the consequences of drugs and pharmaceuticals.
Not mundane sounds
Even sounds which appear unearthly may in fact be earthly simply because there may be some sorts of sounds we have never heard personally, but someone else, with whom we have formed a bridge, has. In effect with many types of sound it is very difficult to know the true source.
The variety of sounds which can be heard are immense. According to the observers I looked at, everything has a sound, even things which in normal life don’t have a ‘sound’ can have a sound when you are having a vision or hallucination.
There are some sorts of sound, however, that do tell us something:
- Humming and buzzing sounds – Humming and buzzing noises with a similar sound to that bees make can be an indicator that you may be about to go out of body. For more details see this section
- Sounds like an Aeolian harp – an Aeolian harp always sounds unearthly, and in general few people have heard one, so it will not be a case of Perception recall. There are two options for an explanation – firstly it is true celestial music [follow the link], or it is a case of synaesthesia. If you are on any Pharmaceuticals and drugs then it is likely to be synaesthesia – images are being turned into sound, or smells being turned into sound, tastes turned into sound or touches/sensations turned into sound. Both are quite exciting as they are proof of spirit.
- Music – ‘Music’ of a sort with notes that go up and down, but with no obvious ‘tune’ to them may be caused by synaesthesia - – images are being turned into sound, or smells being turned into sound, tastes turned into sound or touches/sensations turned into sound. One should not dismiss this form of experience as it is proof of spirit.
If the music is unearthly, beautiful, tuneful, but using scales and pitches you do not recognise. If it has a great effect emotionally, then it is likely to be celestial music and this is indeed very special. You have touched spirit and come into contact with the universe executing its systems. This music can sometimes sound like it is played on a musical instrument – pipes, flutes, and fiddles or violins, being favourite.
Observations
Please note that the vast majority of the observations are classified under the sub-headings above, but I have provided non-specific examples here.
Observations
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- 'Ginkgo biloba' supplements
- A case of Cushing's disease, hallucinatory paranoid state preceding physical symptoms
- A dead father makes noises in the bed curtains - 'Papa, if that's you, speak or appear to us.' The noise ceased at once.
- A near death from GHB/Xyrem
- A Psycho-Spiritual Experience Ibogaine by KBF
- A unified model of shared brain structural alterations in patients with different mental disorders who experience own-thought auditory verbal hallucinations-A pilot study
- Abberant inverted U-shaped brain pattern and trait-related retinal impairment in schizophrenia patients with combined auditory and visual hallucinations: a pilot study
- Acute psychotic symptoms induced by topiramate
- Andrew Lang - Light, 1912 – The collie dog terrified by the hotel ghosts
- Anita O'Sullivan-Beare - Hears celestial music and composes Love's fadeless Rose
- Antipsychotic agents deteriorate brain and retinal function in schizophrenia patients with combined auditory and visual hallucinations: A pilot study and secondary follow-up study
- Appearance of a little dog during an experimental séance
- Arthur James Hill of Roadwater Farm, Washford hears celestial music as he lay dying
- Asking doctors of no help
- Aubert, Georges – 02 Second Epoch – 03 Strikes and Noises
- Auditory hallucinations after radiation therapy
- Auditory Hallucinations after surgery
- Auditory hallucinations due to voriconazole: Illustration by plasma monitoring
- Auditory hallucinations from silence
- Auditory hallucinations in a deaf patient: a case report
- Auditory hallucinations in childhood common
- Auditory hallucinations, children and heavy metals
- Auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory, and bodily hallucinations in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Auld Lang syne
- Barbara Haslam from Chatham, England hears choral singing with lovely music
- Bayless, Raymond - The haunted house of Mrs. Bruce Ogden in Eagle Rock, California
- Betamethasone and musical hallucinations
- Bingen, Hildegard of - And their sound was like the voice of a multitude
- Bird Chirping Overtones DiPT & Cannabis by Flying Hamster
- Black Sabbath – Tony Iommi experiences the spirit visitors of Bel Air
- Boehme, Jacob – Hears celestial music on his death
- Bouissou, Madame Michael - A shared hallucination of celestial choirs - 'How beautiful those voices were'
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 52 Suddenly, my mother heard a heavenly music
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 53 In the ruins of Jumieges Abbey, four people hear a chorus of many male voices singing Vespers
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 54 The painful wailings of the newborn, combined with the sad singing of a woman's voice, may have their origin in a blood drama
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 55 Joseph Clark’s sister hears celestial music as she is dying
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 56 The patient continued to listen to the transcendental music, and when he woke up, he was much better
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 57 A young woman belonging to the Salvation Army dies as mysterious and very soft music resounds in her room
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 58 ‘I saw an angel flying through the room’ and ‘I have heard an angel sing’
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 59 Mrs L C Gilmour, of Borckville Canada hears celestial music from a dying priest
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 60 The emotion evoked in the participants by this mysterious and divine song was such that their attention was diverted for a few moments from the solemn scene
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 61 Mr. F. H. Rooke De Guildford and his sister hear celestial music on their mother’s death
- Braid, James - The case of the canaries in the bedroom
- Carbamazepine
- Cardiogenic syncope [fainting]
- Carl J Barnes flying at 6,000 feet hears celestial music
- Cash, Johnny – Relates the story of his dying brother Jack
- Cash, Johnny – The ghost of a woman appeared in the dining room when six of us were present. She went across the room toward the closed double doors and went through them without opening them
- Celestial music by the River Tweed – choirs, concerts and bands
- Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis presenting with auditory hallucinations and illusions
- Coleman, Lloyd - The deaf composer
- Cotard's syndrome: analysis of 100 cases
- Creepy things inside his mattress
- Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine – The hallucinations of rabies
- Cytomegalovirus encephalitis in an immunocompetent child: a sceptic diagnosis
- Deaf-mute hears music from Paradise, which he called wonderful, and recovers from serious illness
- Dexedrine
- Do musical hallucinations always arise from the inner ear?
- Dripping Bloody Killing Machines DOC by Noviseer
- Dudley Moore - I can hear the music all around me.
- Elsie Haines hears a full orchestra during a period of depression over her cat's illness
- Emma Powell - Hears a quartet singing, ‘Nearer My God to Thee’
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 05 Dr. Emile Magnin’s dog Creole
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 17 Mrs. H.-L. B and her dog see the ghost of the boy who had died from TB
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 24 Mrs Cowpland-Trelaor, 'howling dogs' prophecy 4 deaths
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 33 Mr. G. de Steigner, a dog, a cat and a canary hear a ghost
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 41 The Count Tromelin described how Mrs Meille has an hallucination of his dog
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 42 Mr. Ernest W. Duxbury’s lady friend’s cat dies, but its ghost still deters mice
- Evagrius Ponticus - A study into his asceticism
- Feed the world
- Fiorinal - eHealthme figures for hallucinations
- Fishing by the lake
- Flies and people
- Foxy methoxy - Rhabdomyolysis after ingestion of foxy, a hallucinogenic tryptamine derivative
- George Barth - Letter to 'Spiritual Magazine' January 1863 – The Death of his son
- Gibier, Dr Paul - Psychism Analysis of Things Existing - Nearly killed by a very evil spirit which possessed the medium
- Goethe - The death of Goethe and celestial music
- H. Mollier’s grandparents hear a noise in the kitchen that marked the death of her brother
- Hallucinations from dental fillings
- Hallucinations in a 15 year old boy
- Hans Buochmann hears a band
- Harner, Michael - The ayahuasca experience
- Harold Dedman of Herts, Great Britain hears comforting music
- Hearing original music
- Hesiod - Theogony - The gods
- Heywood, Rosalind - The Infinite Hive - I heard you unlock the front door and come upstairs and go into the kitchen
- Heywood, Rosalind - The Infinite Hive - The Hum
- Hodgson, Dr Richard – Hearing transcendental music
- I had heard a knocking at the window a second time: it was my grandson's soul saying good-by to me
- I was astonished to find my room flooded with the musical strains of an extraordinary fine orchestration
- Indriðason, Indriði – Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research Vol 57 – 29 – Direct singing – two voices a soprano and bass in harmony
- Jo T gets music, voices, hallucinations and delusions
- Joscelyn Godwin - On Moses, Joshua and celestial music
- Joscelyn Godwin- Harmonies of Heaven and Earth - The Zaddik
- Julian of Norwich - AFTER this the Fiend came again with his heat and with his stench
- Just after Mrs L's death, between 2 and 3 am, I heard a most sweet and singular strain of singing outside the windows
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - How are hallucinations & visions constructed?
- Khristophorous Gallowglaich - Time stood still
- Laubscher, B J F – Try and listen with me, I am hearing the most beautiful music; it seems to be drawing me, but it is far far away
- Lehmann, Rosamond Nina - Then out of this appalling darkness came an extraordinary breakthrough: I had the conviction of her presence
- Lhermitte, Professor Jean - Diabolical Possession, True and False – Sorcerors and magicians
- Limbic system symptomatology associated with colloid cyst of the third ventricle
- Louis XVII of France hears celestial music as he dies
- MacLaine, Shirley - Hearing the ghost of Thomas Jefferson
- McKenna, Terence - First experiments with DMT
- Meeting Morrison and God on the Moon by Rhythm King
- Megatherium, the dog, sounds the alarm he is dying
- Migraine, hallucinations and brainstem damage
- Minds on replay: musical hallucinations and their relationship to neurological disease
- Mirabai - Murali sounds
- Miss Russell from Edmonds, Washington hears a full celestial orchestra in a state of depression
- Morning glory seeds - I almost died
- Mr. Herwig, a distinguished German violinist dies, and provides celestial music after his death, like rays of sunlight turning into sounds
- Mrs Horne – Infant Jamie and his Mother hear the celestial music of the departing spirit
- Mrs Mitchell hears celestial music in the dentist
- Mrs. M. A. Larcombe - You may be sure your friend, Anne Cox, has gone to Heaven
- Mrs. Mason of Sussex, England has a caesarean under local anaesthetic
- Mrs. Revell - As soon as I awoke, the wailing musical noise seemed to be everywhere
- Mrs. Ventresse of Devonshire, Great Britain treasures the exquisite purity of those children's voices
- Music coming from the bedroom of a Salvation Army Worker
- Musical hallucinations and hearing deficit in a young non-psychotic female
- Musical hallucinations and their relation with epilepsy
- Musical hallucinations from acquired deafness
- Musical hallucinations in deafness
- Musical hallucinations in the elderly deaf
- Musical hallucinations: 7 cases
- Musical hallucinations: perpetual music
- Neighbours Drilling through her wall
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder presenting with musical obsessions in otosclerosis: a case report
- Olga Pouchkine - The terrible, thrice-repeated clapping of hands on the death of her grandfather
- Oliver Sacks - Bing Crosby and White Christmas
- Oliver Sacks - Bus conductor and angelic voices
- Oliver Sacks - Congenitally deaf and the music of the universe
- Oliver Sacks - Mrs O'M hears choirs singing
- Oliver Sacks - White noise
- Oliver Sacks - Zyprexa case history
- P H Newnham - Did you particularly think of me last night at ten o'clock? I felt your arms round my waist
- Pete Townshend of the Who hears celestial music
- Primidone - eHealthme figures
- Professor Arthur Lovell - At 2 o'clock in the morning, my father died, two minutes later we began to hear on the outside of the window a wonderful song
- Pythagoras - Iamblichus's Life - Music heard
- Rare effects of stroke – Stroke Association November 2012
- Raymond Bayless hears unearthly and inconceivably beautiful celestial music
- Rene Johany Delestre - It is ended
- Report on Spiritualism of the Committee of the London Dialectical Society, 1873
- Robitussin experience
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The Music of the Spheres
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 21 from The Morals of Dervishes
- Samuel Rogers - Man's going home
- Sarah Jenkins - An extremely lengthy case of celestial music, collectively perceived
- Scary lucid dreams
- Scott, Selina - An interview with Canon Paul Greenwell about his ghost work
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Shelley saw a baby rise from the sea
- Sleep apnea
- Smoke sparkles and yelling
- Smoking crushed hyoscine; scopolamine tablets as drug abuse
- Snell, Joy – Ministry of Angels – Hears celestial music. No earthly music that I have ever heard is half so gladsome
- Snell, Joy – Ministry of Angels – The little crippled girl and her spirit helpers
- Soav - Loud rhythmic tinny sounds
- Socrates - Plato Crito - Hears music and voices
- Spacefrog hears bells and counts rabbits
- Stainton Moses, William - Spirit Identity – I COULD CONVERSE WITH PERSONS WHOSE VOICES WERE IN MY EAR
- Stainton-Moses, William - Proceedings SPR - Hearing Musical sounds
- Stainton-Moses, William - Spirit Identity - THE WHISTLING SPIRITS OF THE DEAD
- Stainton-Moses, William - Spirit Identity - UNCANNY NOISES AFTER VISITING A GRAVEYARD
- Stress stress stress
- Suicide and hearing violent blows
- Szalay, Attila - I was lying in bed when I heard a series of flutelike sounds
- Tactile, olfactory, and gustatory hallucinations in psychotic disorders
- Taylor, Bayard - A long undulating cry of victory and of joy, Vivant Coelum
- Taylor, Bayard - The formidable whispering turned into a choral song, a grand hymn sung by thousands of voices, which spread very quickly from one hill to another
- TED talk: Carrie Poppy: A scientific approach to the paranormal
- Temporomandibular joint dysfunction and tinnitus
- The celestial music played to everyone at Mr and Mrs Parker’s daughter’s funeral in Woodland, USA
- The clinical spectrum of musical hallucinations
- The death of A.L. Danet’s nephew, Ernest Jouard, is marked by distinct blows on the furniture
- The death of Escolan
- The death of Peter Emil Nielsen - The angels are singing! How beautiful it is
- The elderly lady, who had never heard such beautiful music in all her life
- The Expanding Consciousness DPT by TryptamineDreamer
- The ghost who was disturbed about a debt of twenty-eight shillings which had not been paid
- The Haunted Bingo Hall - The Theatre Royal Margate
- The haunting of Hypollite Clairon
- The Lotus Sutra - 18 Benefits of the Teacher of the Law - 2 The benefits of becoming a 'seer'
- The mind with a radio of its own: a case report and review of the literature on the treatment of musical hallucinations
- The music made such a deep and lasting impression that I have never lost its perfect satisfaction
- The room was suddenly filled with the sound of on organ playing and voices singing a hymn
- The sad notes of a wind harp were heard three times by several people as Lily died
- The unrequited love of Monsieur D and Mademoiselle B
- The use of hypnosis in a deaf patient with multiple personality disorder
- Thelmar, E – 02 Hearing bursts of music
- There burst upon my ear from the direction of the church-yard, what seemed to be the splendid roll of a full brass and reed band
- They started with spiders, wasps, flies, that sort of thing
- Thomas Keightley - The Fairy Mythology - Yon Scheele and the little folk
- Thünen, Johann Heinrich von - On October 18, the anniversary of Alexander's birth, particularly beautiful and harmonious sounds were heard - my wife found great spiritual consolation in the phenomenon
- Trental and Pentoxifylline
- Tu Fu - A Song of Music in Brocade City
- Tweedale, Reverend Charles – An auditory hallucination from their dead cat
- Tweedale, Reverend Charles – Sees the ghost of Aunt L and her dog
- Unusual manifestations of premenstrual syndrome
- Very Bizzare Trip - Mushrooms by Faust
- Viscount Adare - Experiences in Spiritualism with Mr D D Home - 14 Adah Isaaks Menken [deceased] possesses Home
- Voices of childhood and hymns
- Voriconazole-induced musical hallucinations
- Youmans, Dr Edward Livingstone - Hearing celestial music
- Young girl hears musical hallucinations