When the Body Forgets to Sing — And How Good Vibrations Call Us Home
In the age before language, before the architecture of words walled off our sense of being, we knew ourselves through vibration. The hum of the earth, the drum of the heart, the breath against bone—these were not background noise. They were identity. They were presence. They were communion.
And once, this was not unique to us.
Dinosaurs like Parasaurolophus carried crests that acted as resonance chambers, amplifying deep, low-frequency sounds that traveled through their bodies, not merely through the air. Tyrannosaurs, it turns out, probably didn’t roar like the movies. Instead, they rumbled—closed-mouth, infrasonic vibrations that would have been felt in the chest of nearby creatures more than heard in their ears. They were their sound.
But while paleontology reawakens these ancient soundscapes, something else is happening in us: the fading echo of a lost connection. How T-Rex sounded.
We, too, are built to resonate. But we no longer do.
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive… so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.—Joseph Campbell
The Modern Dissonance
Our bodies are acoustic marvels—hollow chambers, tuned bones, vibrating tissues. The spine is a staff. The lungs, a bellows. The mouth, a flute. However, we’ve turned these instruments into tools for discussing life rather than expressing the music of life.
Instead of humming with the world, we think over it.
Instead of feeling the tone of truth, we debate its content.
Instead of sounding from essence, we echo from ego.
We have been taught that sound is for communication, not communion. That vibration is a byproduct, not a source. Listening is often considered a passive act, not an embodied one.
We forgot that we are instruments—not metaphorically, but literally. The body is tuned for vibration. It aches when it doesn’t resonate. It contracts when it cannot hum.
And yet—we are still surrounded by beings who remember.
Whales, dolphins, elephants, bats, birds—they still speak in waves.
They vibrate across air, earth, and ocean.
They know that meaning doesn’t need syllables—it needs resonance.
- Whales send infrasonic tones across oceans—songs that travel thousands of miles, entering the bodies of those who receive them.
- Elephants rumble beneath our hearing, communicating through the soles of their feet and the soil.
- Bats navigate and commune through echolocation—vibrational sight.
- Dolphins click, whistle, and pulse in patterns that seem more symphonic than semantic.
- Songbirds, with their syrinx, layer multiple melodies at once, shaping sound into living sculpture.
They are not vestiges of a primitive past. They are reminders of what still lives.
We still live in a world more resonant than linguistic. We just stopped listening with the right organ.
In this world, everything has a pulse or a vibration… this sound… creates a music that no-one can hear. I believe this has a very powerful resonance with, and a deep effect on, our lives.—Mike Oldfield
Good Vibrations: A Path of Return
Good Vibrations: The Primordial Sounds of Existence is not about music as entertainment—it’s about vibration as remembrance. It’s about reclaiming the ancient technology of resonance, which predates language, religion, and even our modern concept of self-awareness.
This is the wisdom behind sacred sounds like HU, OM, AUM, RA, and AH. These weren’t meant to signify. They were meant to tune.
To tune the mind away from contraction.
To tune the body into spaciousness.
To tune the soul into its origin—the infinite.
When you chant OM, you are not performing. You are participating in the original frequency of being. You are stepping back into the river of resonance that shaped stars, stones, and souls alike.
You’re remembering that sound is not something you make.
It’s something you are.
The Body Is Waiting
Under the tension, the shame, the numbness, the body still remembers. It remembers how to open. How to vibrate. How to respond not with thought but with tone.
When you hum softly in the bath…
When you sigh deeply in the woods…
When you weep with no words…
That is not weakness.
That is resonance returning.
You are not broken. You are untuned.
But just as a tuning fork resets the pitch of a string, Good Vibrations can realign your being with the primordial field from which all form arises. It doesn’t offer answers. It offers tone—a way to feel again what it means to be part of the song of existence.
The dinosaurs never lost this.
They didn’t speak. They sounded.
They didn’t define themselves. They resonated themselves.
So can we.
The question is not, ‘What should I say?‘
But instead, ‘What wants to be heard through me?‘
And the answer isn’t found in words.
It’s found in the hum behind them.
The tone beneath the thought.
The vibration before the voice.
Listen closely. You are not apart from the universe.
You are one of its notes.
A Note About the Featured Image
This image is more than artistic—it’s a mirror.
It shows that resonance is not a new age concept or mystical metaphor—it’s ancient, evolutionary, and embodied. It predates language. Predates thinking. It was how the Earth first spoke through creatures.
Every being in the image—from the T. rex to the whale to the bat—is a living reminder that communication began in vibration, not vocabulary. That being once meant sounding.
We didn’t lose this ability because we evolved.
We lost it because we over-identified with the mind.
We traded resonance for representation.
Embodied knowing for mental meaning.
The OM of the body for the echo chamber of thought.
And yet the blueprint remains.
Not just in our past, but in our breath.
In the hum in our chest.
In the stillness before we speak.
This image helps us see—and feel—what we forgot.
We are not isolated intelligences.
We are resonant instruments in the orchestra of existence.
And the song never stopped.
We just stopped vibrating with it.
John Harper is a Diamond Approach® teacher, Enneagram guide, and a student of human development whose work bridges psychology, spirituality, and deep experiential inquiry. He is the author of The Enneagram World of the Child: Nurturing Resilience and Self-Compassion in Early Life and Good Vibrations: Primordial Sounds of Existence, available on Amazon.
Graet Info Thanks John. Book looks very interesting and will look forward to getting it!