Drawing on medicine, Eastern wisdom, and the latest research on learning and creativity, Campbell reveals how exposure to sound, music, and other forms of vibration, beginning in utero, can have a lifelong effect on health, learning and behavior.

He shows how to use sound and music to stimulate learning and memory; how to strengthen listening abilities; how to use imagery to enhance The Mozart Effect; and how to harness the power of toning, chanting, mantras, rap, and other self-generated sounds.

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Hey, Bible-believer - do you see some warning words there?

Our power is not only from God, it is God - through Jesus Christ - by the Holy Spirit - with the Word of God - which are the words of God.

Already they want to 'enhance' The Mozart Effect!  Now, they grab ahold of King James Bible Believing people along with many other 'good' people who know better than to listen to rock music, jazz, new age music.  They bring back the pure music; the absolute music days of Mozart, Bach, Handel.  Once they have those people quenching the Holy Spirit and turning to the power of music, then Satan can take them into his next steps.  What are the next steps?  Read the paragraph again - calling music 'forms of vibration'; expanding their 'imagery'; learning 'toning', 'chanting' and 'mantras'; using their own 'self-generated sounds'.

Such a trick!   Such subtlety!  Such a devil!  Satan is using GOOD MUSIC to keep people from finding the true Holy Spirit & thus the True God.  Satan is using GOOD MUSIC to even rob the Bible-believing Christian of the power of the Holy Ghost in their life.

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

Note that I have color noted some key words to see specific comments for a Christian to be especially aware of.

If you've ever wondered why singing in the shower left you feeling somehow better, read Don Campbell's The Mozart Effect. You'll find out that you are instinctively putting yourself back in balance¹. The vocal chords generate frequencies - vibrations - that match the frequencies of your own body², lighting them up and strengthening them. All the molecules of your being resonate to the sound waves set up in your skull and chest cavity. Your intonation and delivery perfectly express whatever emotional condition you're in, giving that energy wave expression and flow. You unblock. You feel³ better because singing integrates mind and body. It doesn't matter how good it is, it doesn't matter if it is at all on pitch. The vibrations and the breath do the work.

While you are finding out that singing in the shower - and in the rain, and at funerals, and in church⁴ and while you are dancing or even while you work - is good for you, you will also find out that the research on the use of sound for healing has progressed a very long way since the first shaman⁵ shook a rattle, danced and sang, following his instincts and leading his tribe in ritual. Today, numerous scientific studies, as well as innumerable testimonies, bear out the effects of sound waves on the human being⁶.

But you don't have to leave this journey in the universe of sound to the intellect and science. The book includes a number of exercises you can do yourself to test out the techniques presented in the text. Nearly all of these "interludes" require access to a record collection of some depth; however, he does give you a few that require only your own voice. And these, perhaps, are the best of all.

As Campbell points out, the human voice is the original sound healing instrument. You cannot make a sound with your voice that does not resonate throughout your entire skeletal structure. Given that each of us, as Gershwin is quoted as saying, has our particular resonant note, you are bound to eventually hit it if you just keep singing long enough⁷. And when you do, you will know it.

The majority of techniques cited in the book rely on the human anatomy's responsiveness to the frequencies of sound waves. You already know sound waves are more "solid" than, say, light waves, because you can feel the pressure of a bass guitar against your rib cage. To make the point even more concrete, see what sound waves do to loose sand sprinkled on a drum head and then subjected to a steady note from a speaker. The grains eventually align themselves into patterns. (This effect, and more, have been studied extensively under the name cymatics.) Now imagine the molecules of your body as grains of sand and you get the basic principle.

As Campbell and a number of the experts he interviews in the book explain, the key is entrainment, the sustained alignment of your molecules and waves to a particular vibration⁸.

But we are more than just molecules. Consider brain waves and sound waves.Both resonate at a certain frequency and it has long been known that certain types of brain waves (alpha, beta, theta) can be evoked by conducive sound waves (or music). We are not only susceptible to sound frequencies on a molecular level, but a thought wave level as well. We can use sound to entrain our thoughts to produce particular waves - frequencies - that in turn are natural means of flooding ourselves with calming or energizing hormones. We have our own "hum" that changes with our moods, our health and our thoughts and we can change that hum with external sound stimuli.

Campbell does not take his inquiry into the physics of sound healing much beyond the empirical evidence gathered by modern science. Other researchers and practitioners have written books that delve extensively into the why and how of sound healing, invariably leading the reader into the world of vibrational medicine. For this is the essence of sound healing: vibrational medicine. We are energy beings. We vibrate. We respond to internally generated vibration and we respond to externally generated vibration. Apply the right vibration, and you can correct nearly any energetic imbalance. It is such imbalances that result in disorder and disease.

There are many amazing stories, and much hard science⁹, and a large number of cautious assertions about the use of sound to move and heal us in this book.

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 Footnoted Preaching Comments from Pastor Paulson

Every second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and never will be again. And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two make four and that Paris is the capital of France. We should say to each of them, "Do you know who you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you."

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.  Romans 12:1,2