Chanting as a Light Transmission
I was reading an article yesterday on how cells emit biophotons—tiny packets of light radiated from within the body. Scientists now know this light is not random; it pulses with patterns, synchronizes with neural activity, and responds to intention. We’ve known for a while that the body glows, but this glow isn’t symbolic. It’s literal.
And when you combine this with what Walter Russell called the matrix of knowledge—a field of living intelligence in which the body participates, not merely a collection of cells, but an oscillating center in a cosmic field—you begin to realize something profound:
The body is not just a receiver. It is an emitter.
And it doesn’t emit randomly. It emits light, coherence, and vibration when attended to.
This brings us to sound.
Not just any sound. But sacred sound—HU, OM, AUM—those primordial frequencies said to carry the original signature of Being.
You may have seen those neck-worn earphones that play music through your bones. No earbuds. No speakers. Just vibration. They rely on bone conduction—sending sound through the structure of the body itself. It bypasses the eardrum and enters the deeper hearing.
What if sacred sound works the same way?
When we chant, we’re not trying to reach the ears.
We’re trying to reach the bones. The fascia. The fluids. The cavities of resonance.
The matrix itself.
Your entire body becomes a resonance chamber—a field of sympathetic vibration.
And when that field is attuned through attended-to presence and embodied receptivity, something happens:
- Biophoton emissions increase.
- The nervous system synchronizes.
- The sound becomes light.
- And the body begins to glow.
This isn’t mysticism pretending to be science.
This is where phenomenology and physics meet.
But here’s the subtle pivot—and it matters.
When we speak of attuned awareness, we do not mean tightening the forehead, squinting the mind, or turning attention into a mental spotlight. That’s the ego’s version of focus—contracted, effortful, and separate.
Real presence is never clenched.
It’s felt. Spacious. Open. Permeable.
True chanting isn’t about directing energy—It’s about getting out of the way.
- You don’t “chant HU”—you become the HU-ing.
- You don’t aim for resonance—you dissolve into it.
- You don’t try to emit light—you stop interrupting what’s already shining.
This is participatory presence, not observational.
Not watching the sound, but being sung by it.
Until there is no one left to chant—only chanting.
And then it happens:
- The “I” who was practicing disappears.
- The sound continues—but there is no chanter.
- There is only vibration.
- There is only breath moving sound, light, and presence.
This is not metaphor.
This is the phenomenology of sacred sound—when entered, not performed.
The ancients didn’t chant to express.
They chanted to return.
To tune the body back into its original field.
To become a living bridge of breath, sound, and light, not a self making sound, but sound revealing Self.
So when you chant, don’t chant to achieve.
Chant to disappear.
Let the bones ring.
Let the light shine.
Let the field remember itself through you.
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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.