1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,844 2 00:00:05,844 --> 00:00:09,740 [MUSIC PLAYING] 3 00:00:09,740 --> 00:00:34,080 4 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:37,190 >> Researchers in the 1960s began noticing that 5 00:00:37,190 --> 00:00:40,550 by introducing music to psychedelic therapy sessions, 6 00:00:40,550 --> 00:00:44,060 the anxiety and emotional stress would alleviate. 7 00:00:44,060 --> 00:00:46,280 They would report that the feelings and visuals 8 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:49,310 of the experience had more profound meaning to their life 9 00:00:49,310 --> 00:00:51,290 and circumstances. 10 00:00:51,290 --> 00:00:53,810 Classical and world music was found to be more 11 00:00:53,810 --> 00:00:55,550 universally appreciated. 12 00:00:55,550 --> 00:00:57,770 However, the preferences had a wide range 13 00:00:57,770 --> 00:01:01,550 due to people's personal history and present mood. 14 00:01:01,550 --> 00:01:04,730 But it's not simply music that causes a profound alteration 15 00:01:04,730 --> 00:01:06,680 of psychedelic states. 16 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:08,960 Simple sounds and vibrations can deeply 17 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:13,050 influence the unfolding of an altered state of consciousness. 18 00:01:13,050 --> 00:01:14,840 What if there were simple sonic techniques 19 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:18,020 we could employ in order to navigate the ever-changing 20 00:01:18,020 --> 00:01:22,220 and often intense phenomenon of a psychedelic journey? 21 00:01:22,220 --> 00:01:24,830 What if the understanding of vibration on the body 22 00:01:24,830 --> 00:01:27,800 could give us a glimpse of why music and psychedelics go 23 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:31,580 together so well and why our shamanic ancestry has 24 00:01:31,580 --> 00:01:35,960 been using sonics and psychedelics together for ages? 25 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:40,430 >> Music and sound can not only enhance psychedelic journeys 26 00:01:40,430 --> 00:01:45,220 but can initiate psychedelic experiences without anything 27 00:01:45,220 --> 00:01:46,020 else. 28 00:01:46,020 --> 00:01:49,250 There are many traditions throughout the planet 29 00:01:49,250 --> 00:01:53,990 that in order to enter altered states of being will simply 30 00:01:53,990 --> 00:01:55,860 use sound. 31 00:01:55,860 --> 00:02:00,770 Whether it is their voice, or drumming, or bowls, or bells, 32 00:02:00,770 --> 00:02:03,950 or some sort of other instrumentation, 33 00:02:03,950 --> 00:02:07,820 this basically alters all sorts of aspects 34 00:02:07,820 --> 00:02:12,170 of the brain and our consciousness. 35 00:02:12,170 --> 00:02:13,820 The instruments that have been used 36 00:02:13,820 --> 00:02:16,520 to achieve altered states of consciousness 37 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,850 have been multitude, myriad, and many. 38 00:02:19,850 --> 00:02:25,040 Probably the most popular, of course, has been the voice-- 39 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:30,200 shaman and priests and various types 40 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,780 of practitioners using different mantras, 41 00:02:32,780 --> 00:02:36,830 making different tones, speaking in different tongues, 42 00:02:36,830 --> 00:02:39,280 altering different states of consciousness, 43 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,540 literally shifting the vibrational 44 00:02:41,540 --> 00:02:45,590 frequencies of the space, within and without, 45 00:02:45,590 --> 00:02:48,650 using their own voice. 46 00:02:48,650 --> 00:02:51,840 >> Vibration plays a role in many of the world's religions, 47 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,550 especially in their stories of how the world began. 48 00:02:55,550 --> 00:02:58,640 In Genesis 1, verse 2, God's spirit 49 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:01,650 moved across the face of the waters. 50 00:03:01,650 --> 00:03:04,610 The Cherokee wisdom-keeper Dhyani Ywahoo 51 00:03:04,610 --> 00:03:06,860 states that in their creation myth, 52 00:03:06,860 --> 00:03:09,040 "from the mysterious creator came forth 53 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:13,790 a sound, the fundamental tone of the universal song underlying 54 00:03:13,790 --> 00:03:16,890 all manifestation." 55 00:03:16,890 --> 00:03:21,190 Native American Peyote Church Roadman Kuauhtli Vasquez 56 00:03:21,190 --> 00:03:23,860 recounts the creation myth of his ancestry 57 00:03:23,860 --> 00:03:27,660 and how sound or vibration played a vital role. 58 00:03:27,660 --> 00:03:32,190 >> They say that in our culture, the creator spirit wanted 59 00:03:32,190 --> 00:03:35,460 the world to begin in motion. 60 00:03:35,460 --> 00:03:37,830 So he told the old coyote to go to the ocean 61 00:03:37,830 --> 00:03:39,560 and take one of those conch shells 62 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,350 out and make a trumpet out of it. 63 00:03:43,350 --> 00:03:45,970 And when he blew it, it started creating 64 00:03:45,970 --> 00:03:51,740 this spiral wave of sound, which sounds kind of like ohm. 65 00:03:51,740 --> 00:03:54,550 So the old coyote blew it, and this 66 00:03:54,550 --> 00:03:58,260 started everything vibrating. 67 00:03:58,260 --> 00:04:02,060 So when you speak, you're vibrating 68 00:04:02,060 --> 00:04:05,560 at a level of the mind. 69 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,790 Like, you understand what I'm saying 70 00:04:08,790 --> 00:04:10,500 if we speak the same language. 71 00:04:10,500 --> 00:04:17,820 Sometimes when I hear people singing songs, I can visualize. 72 00:04:17,820 --> 00:04:21,240 I get a feeling of what they're singing about. 73 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:24,720 So singing is another form of communication 74 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,690 that supersedes the mind. 75 00:04:27,690 --> 00:04:31,020 You don't really have to understand the words, 76 00:04:31,020 --> 00:04:34,410 but you get the feeling. 77 00:04:34,410 --> 00:04:37,350 >> This is where yogis, just like other shamanic traditions, 78 00:04:37,350 --> 00:04:39,910 actually start to use sound. 79 00:04:39,910 --> 00:04:44,010 So there's an understanding that sound is vibration, 80 00:04:44,010 --> 00:04:46,320 and that vibration is at the essence of everything. 81 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:50,760 And usually our awareness is caught in all this noise 82 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,990 and sound of the outside world. 83 00:04:52,990 --> 00:04:54,731 A lot of times, it'll be a mantra. 84 00:04:54,731 --> 00:04:57,105 And what's important to know and understand about mantras 85 00:04:57,105 --> 00:04:59,850 is that mantras are vibrations. 86 00:04:59,850 --> 00:05:01,860 They're not things that we make up. 87 00:05:01,860 --> 00:05:04,890 They're actually sound frequencies and vibrations 88 00:05:04,890 --> 00:05:08,410 that are already part of this physical world. 89 00:05:08,410 --> 00:05:12,930 And so as yogis start to hone their awareness in, detach 90 00:05:12,930 --> 00:05:16,320 from the outside world, the awareness starts to pull in. 91 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,710 You can actually start to hear more subtle frequencies, more 92 00:05:19,710 --> 00:05:22,201 subtle vibrations, more subtle sounds. 93 00:05:22,201 --> 00:05:23,700 And this is where the yoga tradition 94 00:05:23,700 --> 00:05:25,158 will say that we're starting to tap 95 00:05:25,158 --> 00:05:27,550 into different levels of consciousness. 96 00:05:27,550 --> 00:05:31,410 We start to move beyond the thinking mind that 97 00:05:31,410 --> 00:05:33,960 identifies us as this body, as this person, 98 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:35,430 as our experiences. 99 00:05:35,430 --> 00:05:38,520 And we start to drop more into a state that is 100 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,740 beyond the mind, a state of-- 101 00:05:40,740 --> 00:05:42,800 instead of individual consciousness, 102 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,140 we start to merge with universal consciousness, which 103 00:05:46,140 --> 00:05:53,850 is really the essential goal, if you will, of all yoga. 104 00:05:53,850 --> 00:05:57,390 >> Yogis using mantra seems to be different than speaking from 105 00:05:57,390 --> 00:05:58,880 the intellect. 106 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,380 Oftentimes, plant medicine enthusiasts 107 00:06:01,380 --> 00:06:04,260 will structure their ceremony or journey with a focus 108 00:06:04,260 --> 00:06:07,320 on using as few words as possible, as they 109 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,140 can be irritating and distracting except for when 110 00:06:10,140 --> 00:06:11,940 those words are sung. 111 00:06:11,940 --> 00:06:15,720 The vocal apparatus of the human body is very complex. 112 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:17,740 The power comes from the lungs. 113 00:06:17,740 --> 00:06:20,100 The vibration comes from the vocal box. 114 00:06:20,100 --> 00:06:23,710 And the resonation comes from the throat, nose, mouth, 115 00:06:23,710 --> 00:06:25,200 and sinuses. 116 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,780 Speaking comes from the same range of anatomy 117 00:06:27,780 --> 00:06:29,040 as does singing. 118 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,290 But the active use of them is as different 119 00:06:31,290 --> 00:06:33,450 as walking is to dancing. 120 00:06:33,450 --> 00:06:35,970 The greatest difference is the psychological state 121 00:06:35,970 --> 00:06:39,480 one is usually in when singing as opposed to speaking. 122 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,130 The very act of singing, opening the throat 123 00:06:42,130 --> 00:06:44,130 and holding extended notes, directly 124 00:06:44,130 --> 00:06:47,140 affects the nervous system through the vagus nerve. 125 00:06:47,140 --> 00:06:50,150 >> So the vagus nerve, extremely important nerve, 126 00:06:50,150 --> 00:06:51,720 wanders through your entire body. 127 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:53,460 People who are stressed out and sick 128 00:06:53,460 --> 00:06:55,170 have poor vagal nerve tone. 129 00:06:55,170 --> 00:06:59,460 Sound is one thing that can affect it, particularly 130 00:06:59,460 --> 00:07:02,040 vibrations, vibrations created through sound, 131 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:04,830 which means that when you sing, when you hum, 132 00:07:04,830 --> 00:07:06,480 when you chant, when someone around you 133 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:07,980 is singing and humming and chanting, 134 00:07:07,980 --> 00:07:10,020 when you're listening to very good music, 135 00:07:10,020 --> 00:07:13,050 you actually see an improvement in vagal nerve tone. 136 00:07:13,050 --> 00:07:15,270 And an improvement in vagal nerve tone 137 00:07:15,270 --> 00:07:18,870 specifically affects your heart, the electrical signal 138 00:07:18,870 --> 00:07:20,020 of your heart. 139 00:07:20,020 --> 00:07:23,970 And so, absolutely, sound can affect vagus nerve tone 140 00:07:23,970 --> 00:07:26,730 in a very profound manner. 141 00:07:26,730 --> 00:07:29,850 >> In over 25 years of studies coming from HeartMath 142 00:07:29,850 --> 00:07:33,450 Institute, it has been found that the heart sends far more 143 00:07:33,450 --> 00:07:37,200 information to the brain than the other way around. 144 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:40,650 The heart, in fact, influences emotional processing, 145 00:07:40,650 --> 00:07:45,910 attention, perception, memory, and even problem solve. 146 00:07:45,910 --> 00:07:49,140 And under a psychedelic state, all these faculties 147 00:07:49,140 --> 00:07:53,770 are highly influential in the way the experience will unfold. 148 00:07:53,770 --> 00:07:56,040 So how does an act as simple as humming 149 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:59,490 have such a deeply relaxing effect on the body? 150 00:07:59,490 --> 00:08:05,550 >> We found that the hum literally is a sound that is 151 00:08:05,550 --> 00:08:12,660 probably the most powerful vibroacoustic tool that exists. 152 00:08:12,660 --> 00:08:19,220 When you close your eyes and [HUMMING],, it's more powerful. 153 00:08:19,220 --> 00:08:22,570 As soon as you open your mouth-- and of course, 154 00:08:22,570 --> 00:08:25,285 the ohm, if you like, is based on the hum. 155 00:08:25,285 --> 00:08:29,970 If you go (HUMMING) ohm, but it's just to go [HUMMING],, 156 00:08:29,970 --> 00:08:31,740 as soon as you open your mouth, the sound 157 00:08:31,740 --> 00:08:33,720 begins to escape through your mouth. 158 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:35,820 But if you have your mouth closed, 159 00:08:35,820 --> 00:08:39,780 it's totally a vibroacoustic experience 160 00:08:39,780 --> 00:08:43,059 causing a massage on a cellular level 161 00:08:43,059 --> 00:08:47,520 and causing different organs, bones, and tissues to vibrate. 162 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:51,150 And when we project our intention onto the sound, 163 00:08:51,150 --> 00:08:54,060 that can really affect it as well. 164 00:08:54,060 --> 00:08:56,590 So it can really affect our nervous system. 165 00:08:56,590 --> 00:09:00,390 And this type of thing has been used for eons, 166 00:09:00,390 --> 00:09:06,540 ever since, if you like, one made a holy sound, 167 00:09:06,540 --> 00:09:11,610 or one made a sacred sound, or one did a prayer to the divine, 168 00:09:11,610 --> 00:09:14,580 or one did a prayer to the animal kingdom, 169 00:09:14,580 --> 00:09:17,220 or one emulated the sounds of jaguar, 170 00:09:17,220 --> 00:09:20,610 to when one emulated the sounds of all sorts 171 00:09:20,610 --> 00:09:23,140 of different creatures on this planet. 172 00:09:23,140 --> 00:09:26,280 They've been using sound to travel 173 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:28,170 to different states of consciousness 174 00:09:28,170 --> 00:09:30,060 since the beginning. 175 00:09:30,060 --> 00:09:33,570 The voice is our primary instrument. 176 00:09:33,570 --> 00:09:37,440 And I think even before we spoke, we made tone. 177 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:39,390 And in fact there are, if you like, 178 00:09:39,390 --> 00:09:44,310 legends of us singing the language of the birds 179 00:09:44,310 --> 00:09:46,980 before we ever spoke. 180 00:09:46,980 --> 00:09:48,600 >> Researchers like Michael Harner, 181 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:50,130 who wrote "The Way of the Shaman," 182 00:09:50,130 --> 00:09:53,580 focus on animal movements and sounds in shamanic traditions 183 00:09:53,580 --> 00:09:56,170 to enter altered states. 184 00:09:56,170 --> 00:09:58,600 He says that shamans in ecstatic trances 185 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,790 will not only mimic the movements of animals 186 00:10:00,790 --> 00:10:03,160 in their dances but use animal noises 187 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:06,500 to connect with these specific power animals. 188 00:10:06,500 --> 00:10:09,170 And to back up Jonathan Goldman's claims, 189 00:10:09,170 --> 00:10:12,310 Shigeru Miyagawa, professor of linguistics 190 00:10:12,310 --> 00:10:15,550 in MIT'S Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 191 00:10:15,550 --> 00:10:18,070 coauthored a paper showing direct correlations 192 00:10:18,070 --> 00:10:21,400 between bird songs and human speech patterns. 193 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,460 But how can vocalizations induce states of consciousness 194 00:10:24,460 --> 00:10:30,030 that open us up to the nature around us as the shamans did? 195 00:10:30,030 --> 00:10:32,620 Perhaps it must be understood that most everything 196 00:10:32,620 --> 00:10:36,990 we do in our bodies involves movements. 197 00:10:36,990 --> 00:10:39,600 In her TED talk, Amy Cuddy explained 198 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:43,110 how putting hands up in victory pose or hands on hips 199 00:10:43,110 --> 00:10:47,040 like a superhero caused testosterone to increase, which 200 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:49,290 gives a sense of strength and power, 201 00:10:49,290 --> 00:10:53,180 whereas the stress hormone, cortisol, drops. 202 00:10:53,180 --> 00:10:55,670 By using the voice, the throat opens up 203 00:10:55,670 --> 00:10:59,960 and resonates in the chest right where the vagus nerve travels. 204 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:04,010 If singing, and even prosodic speaking, increases vagal tone, 205 00:11:04,010 --> 00:11:08,420 this would affect the heart, lungs, gut, and much more, 206 00:11:08,420 --> 00:11:11,000 causing the nervous system to prompt an altered state 207 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,470 of consciousness. 208 00:11:13,470 --> 00:11:15,900 Even beyond the words that are being sung, 209 00:11:15,900 --> 00:11:18,810 the intention behind them, including how and when 210 00:11:18,810 --> 00:11:21,210 they are used, seem to make all the difference 211 00:11:21,210 --> 00:11:24,530 in the shamanic traditions. 212 00:11:24,530 --> 00:11:28,690 >> So there's a way to communicate through songs not 213 00:11:28,690 --> 00:11:34,690 only among humans but to everything that exists. 214 00:11:34,690 --> 00:11:37,140 So that's why I say you can sing to the sun. 215 00:11:37,140 --> 00:11:38,730 You could sing to the earth. 216 00:11:38,730 --> 00:11:40,440 You could sing to peyote. 217 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:42,870 You could sing to iowaska. 218 00:11:42,870 --> 00:11:45,420 So what you're doing is you're singing gratitude. 219 00:11:45,420 --> 00:11:47,240 You're singing love. 220 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,320 You're singing appreciation. 221 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,920 You're singing the desire for information. 222 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:56,990 You're singing this unifying-- 223 00:11:56,990 --> 00:11:59,670 224 00:11:59,670 --> 00:12:04,770 creating harmony through music, through playing songs, 225 00:12:04,770 --> 00:12:06,930 through singing songs. 226 00:12:06,930 --> 00:12:09,530 This is a language. 227 00:12:09,530 --> 00:12:13,320 Singing and songs, whether they're with your voice 228 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,950 or whether they're instruments, is a vibration 229 00:12:16,950 --> 00:12:19,380 of spirit communication. 230 00:12:19,380 --> 00:12:22,230 It's a whole different sensory perception. 231 00:12:22,230 --> 00:12:24,840 I mean, if you're in a ceremony and you're just 232 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:28,680 sitting there listening to songs, 233 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:31,350 once the songs come from within you 234 00:12:31,350 --> 00:12:34,290 and your voice is activated, you're 235 00:12:34,290 --> 00:12:36,300 like in another dimension. 236 00:12:36,300 --> 00:12:37,800 It's a total new dimension. 237 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:43,680 Then you're, things-- it's like it activates more information. 238 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:47,100 239 00:12:47,100 --> 00:12:49,530 >> Whether the sounds are self-produced or listened 240 00:12:49,530 --> 00:12:53,490 to, ancient civilizations have used sonic manipulation 241 00:12:53,490 --> 00:12:56,070 to induce expanded states of consciousness since 242 00:12:56,070 --> 00:12:58,660 the beginning. 243 00:12:58,660 --> 00:13:01,960 As noted in Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal's book "Stealing 244 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:05,230 Fire," Greek cathedrals were built with walls 245 00:13:05,230 --> 00:13:08,110 close together in order to create a sound that mimics 246 00:13:08,110 --> 00:13:11,410 the flapping of angel's wings. 247 00:13:11,410 --> 00:13:15,220 The 1,100-year-old temple of Kukulkan in Chichen Itza was 248 00:13:15,220 --> 00:13:18,340 built so precisely that if you were to clap at the base 249 00:13:18,340 --> 00:13:21,370 of the pyramid, the echo will come back to you with 250 00:13:21,370 --> 00:13:24,340 the chirping sound of the national bird, 251 00:13:24,340 --> 00:13:26,770 the sacred quetzal. 252 00:13:26,770 --> 00:13:28,930 The ball court on the same temple grounds 253 00:13:28,930 --> 00:13:33,370 would also echo seven times before the sound would escape. 254 00:13:33,370 --> 00:13:37,360 The Greek Telesterion, the Peruvian Chavin de Huantar, 255 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,430 and other ancient underground sites 256 00:13:39,430 --> 00:13:41,140 have been found to be constructed 257 00:13:41,140 --> 00:13:45,010 for their unique acoustic properties. 258 00:13:45,010 --> 00:13:47,920 Even in the 5,000-year-old mortuary temple 259 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:52,330 of Malta's Hypogeum Hal Saflieni is said to have not only housed 260 00:13:52,330 --> 00:13:55,870 elongated skulls and stories of the paranormal, 261 00:13:55,870 --> 00:13:58,570 but this is the oldest prehistoric underground temple 262 00:13:58,570 --> 00:14:03,010 in the world and is said to have been created for sonic rituals. 263 00:14:03,010 --> 00:14:06,580 Archaeoacoustic researchers have found that ritual chanting 264 00:14:06,580 --> 00:14:10,180 in this ancient sonic chamber, which deactivates the language 265 00:14:10,180 --> 00:14:13,930 center and shift's hemisphere dominance in the brain, 266 00:14:13,930 --> 00:14:17,530 effectively causing states of consciousness related to mood, 267 00:14:17,530 --> 00:14:21,070 empathy, and social behavior. 268 00:14:21,070 --> 00:14:23,260 It seems that our ancient ancestors 269 00:14:23,260 --> 00:14:26,620 revered the use of sonics as well as psychedelics in order 270 00:14:26,620 --> 00:14:30,260 to bring about religious-type experiences. 271 00:14:30,260 --> 00:14:33,110 Sound healer Kimba Arem employs the knowledge 272 00:14:33,110 --> 00:14:36,290 of sonic resonance on the body, and even experiences 273 00:14:36,290 --> 00:14:39,290 deeply expanded states of consciousness herself, 274 00:14:39,290 --> 00:14:41,450 with the use of one of the oldest instruments 275 00:14:41,450 --> 00:14:44,480 on the planet, the didgeridoo. 276 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:47,550 277 00:14:47,550 --> 00:14:51,170 >> So the didgeridoo definitely has these very meditative, 278 00:14:51,170 --> 00:14:54,027 calming-type frequencies encoded in it. 279 00:14:54,027 --> 00:14:56,360 I was once involved in some research where they actually 280 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:59,390 hooked me up to a brainwave monitor. 281 00:14:59,390 --> 00:15:01,730 And you can actually see the brainwaves 282 00:15:01,730 --> 00:15:03,350 that you're creating. 283 00:15:03,350 --> 00:15:05,180 And so you can see the feedback. 284 00:15:05,180 --> 00:15:07,610 And there was one that said gamma. 285 00:15:07,610 --> 00:15:09,230 And I was asking them, what is gamma? 286 00:15:09,230 --> 00:15:11,810 And they said, well, we don't see that often. 287 00:15:11,810 --> 00:15:14,390 It's usually Buddhist monks who have 288 00:15:14,390 --> 00:15:17,510 been meditating for all of their life can get it up there. 289 00:15:17,510 --> 00:15:19,030 It's like above 35 hertz. 290 00:15:19,030 --> 00:15:21,110 It's kind of an unusual brain state. 291 00:15:21,110 --> 00:15:22,610 But this technology was so we can 292 00:15:22,610 --> 00:15:25,550 learn the feedback of the brainwaves we're creating 293 00:15:25,550 --> 00:15:28,640 and how to affect them and try to-- 294 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:31,220 like a biofeedback experience. 295 00:15:31,220 --> 00:15:36,560 And while I was playing the didgeridoo, the gamma one, 296 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:41,870 this little ball goes up to the top, showing the highest level. 297 00:15:41,870 --> 00:15:44,694 And then as soon as I stopped playing, it goes back down. 298 00:15:44,694 --> 00:15:46,610 So I start playing again, and it goes back up. 299 00:15:46,610 --> 00:15:48,470 I couldn't touch it otherwise. 300 00:15:48,470 --> 00:15:51,680 So I was able to tap into some frequency, 301 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:53,510 but only while I was doing this breathing 302 00:15:53,510 --> 00:15:54,740 pattern with this sound. 303 00:15:54,740 --> 00:15:58,180 304 00:15:58,180 --> 00:16:02,110 >> As the didgeridoo is believed to be over 40,000 years old, 305 00:16:02,110 --> 00:16:05,200 other wind instruments in Europe have been discovered that date 306 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:06,980 back even farther. 307 00:16:06,980 --> 00:16:09,190 The mammoth-ivory flute was found 308 00:16:09,190 --> 00:16:11,500 in a cave in southern Germany dating back 309 00:16:11,500 --> 00:16:14,740 almost 44,000 years. 310 00:16:14,740 --> 00:16:17,650 In present-day Slovenia, the Divje Babe flute 311 00:16:17,650 --> 00:16:21,980 was discovered and dates back to 67,000 years ago, 312 00:16:21,980 --> 00:16:24,490 making it the only musical instrument associated 313 00:16:24,490 --> 00:16:27,030 with Neanderthals. 314 00:16:27,030 --> 00:16:29,850 Iegor Reznikoff, ethnographer of music 315 00:16:29,850 --> 00:16:32,100 at the University of France, found 316 00:16:32,100 --> 00:16:35,280 that there are cave paintings roughly a kilometer deep 317 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:38,550 and all throughout the Arcy-sur-Cure caves with bone 318 00:16:38,550 --> 00:16:41,460 whistles and flutes found there. 319 00:16:41,460 --> 00:16:44,850 Reznikoff and his team studied the acoustics in caves 320 00:16:44,850 --> 00:16:47,970 across France painted by early man. 321 00:16:47,970 --> 00:16:50,400 They found that up to 90% of the paintings 322 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,800 were directly at places where the acoustics were 323 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:57,540 best for ritual and mind-altering ceremonies. 324 00:16:57,540 --> 00:17:00,800 These dates coincide with Graham Hancock's work on the clues 325 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,110 that we have about ancient rock and cave 326 00:17:03,110 --> 00:17:06,230 art and their connection with shamanic or expanded states 327 00:17:06,230 --> 00:17:07,970 of consciousness. 328 00:17:07,970 --> 00:17:10,490 >> The oldest traces we have are in the range of 30,000 329 00:17:10,490 --> 00:17:12,260 to 40,000 years old. 330 00:17:12,260 --> 00:17:13,700 It goes much younger as well. 331 00:17:13,700 --> 00:17:16,339 There's much more recent rock and cave art. 332 00:17:16,339 --> 00:17:20,900 You can find it in many different parts of the world, 333 00:17:20,900 --> 00:17:23,750 whether you're looking in Indonesia or Europe or South 334 00:17:23,750 --> 00:17:26,680 Africa or Australia, as a matter of fact. 335 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:31,250 And very important, very detailed work 336 00:17:31,250 --> 00:17:32,880 has been done on this imagery. 337 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,360 And I want to pay tribute to Professor David Lewis 338 00:17:35,360 --> 00:17:38,450 Williams of the University of Witwatersrand 339 00:17:38,450 --> 00:17:46,910 in South Africa, who is the originator of the notion 340 00:17:46,910 --> 00:17:51,800 that this art was inspired by altered states 341 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:53,240 of consciousness. 342 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:56,300 David began to put that idea forward 343 00:17:56,300 --> 00:18:01,940 with particular reference to South African rock and cave art 344 00:18:01,940 --> 00:18:04,820 back as early as the 1970s. 345 00:18:04,820 --> 00:18:07,790 There's really no other way, satisfactorily, 346 00:18:07,790 --> 00:18:13,550 to explain them except to say that what we are looking at 347 00:18:13,550 --> 00:18:17,300 is likely the work of ancient shamans who 348 00:18:17,300 --> 00:18:20,600 are doing what shamans still existent in the world today 349 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,220 still do. 350 00:18:22,220 --> 00:18:24,440 Because shamanism, the essence of shamanism, 351 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:27,290 is a deeply altered state of consciousness. 352 00:18:27,290 --> 00:18:29,180 And while there are a variety of ways 353 00:18:29,180 --> 00:18:32,210 of getting into a suitably deeply altered state 354 00:18:32,210 --> 00:18:36,310 of consciousness which don't involve substances-- 355 00:18:36,310 --> 00:18:39,860 for example the Kalahari Bushmen in Southern Africa 356 00:18:39,860 --> 00:18:43,010 achieve an equally powerful altered state of consciousness 357 00:18:43,010 --> 00:18:45,500 by dancing for 24 hours around the fire 358 00:18:45,500 --> 00:18:48,020 and becoming deeply dehydrated and falling 359 00:18:48,020 --> 00:18:51,700 into a rhythmic trance-like state. 360 00:18:51,700 --> 00:18:54,550 >> Vocal and wind instruments are just the beginning 361 00:18:54,550 --> 00:18:58,390 of the instruments used to induce altered states. 362 00:18:58,390 --> 00:19:02,530 The drum-- the earliest known drums are roughly 8,000 363 00:19:02,530 --> 00:19:07,480 to 10,000 years old, with one reference to a 37,000-year-old 364 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:10,630 drum made with elephant hide. 365 00:19:10,630 --> 00:19:12,220 Drumming has been an integral part 366 00:19:12,220 --> 00:19:15,910 of many shamanic rituals dating back many thousands of years. 367 00:19:15,910 --> 00:19:19,300 >> One of the explanations that we have based upon contemporary 368 00:19:19,300 --> 00:19:23,980 clinical research is that people are able to deliberately induce 369 00:19:23,980 --> 00:19:26,640 these kinds of experiences, special people. 370 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:28,630 And when they do, there's a breakdown 371 00:19:28,630 --> 00:19:31,960 in the integration of a specific part of the brain called 372 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,760 the temporal parietal junction. 373 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:38,890 And what the drumming does is it basically overwhelms 374 00:19:38,890 --> 00:19:40,165 this part of the brain. 375 00:19:40,165 --> 00:19:43,780 When the brain gets repeatedly stimulated, 376 00:19:43,780 --> 00:19:45,470 it eventually habituates. 377 00:19:45,470 --> 00:19:48,210 It no longer responds to the signal. 378 00:19:48,210 --> 00:19:50,140 And this part of the brain apparently 379 00:19:50,140 --> 00:19:53,740 habituates by disintegrating these different parts 380 00:19:53,740 --> 00:19:55,990 of the brain that normally all function together. 381 00:19:55,990 --> 00:19:58,240 So all of a sudden, the sense of our body 382 00:19:58,240 --> 00:19:59,884 is no longer tied to the visual field, 383 00:19:59,884 --> 00:20:01,300 the perception of the environment, 384 00:20:01,300 --> 00:20:02,456 or the sense of self. 385 00:20:02,456 --> 00:20:04,870 So we're able to have these experiences 386 00:20:04,870 --> 00:20:07,330 of our body traveling to other places 387 00:20:07,330 --> 00:20:10,600 because the brain is no longer integrating the real body 388 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,010 sensations with the environment. 389 00:20:13,010 --> 00:20:18,100 >> Rhythm may be one of the most powerful sonic tools 390 00:20:18,100 --> 00:20:20,200 for affecting the human organism, 391 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,710 particularly for affecting our nervous system. 392 00:20:23,710 --> 00:20:28,710 Slow frequencies, slow rhythms, basically 393 00:20:28,710 --> 00:20:32,110 cause us to calm down-- 394 00:20:32,110 --> 00:20:35,220 are having our brain waves and our heart rate 395 00:20:35,220 --> 00:20:37,660 and our respiration slow down. 396 00:20:37,660 --> 00:20:40,960 The sound is going into our ears and affecting this. 397 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:44,590 Fast rhythms will cause us to want to get up and dance. 398 00:20:44,590 --> 00:20:46,400 It's really that simple. 399 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:53,290 If you use slightly out-of-tune frequencies, 400 00:20:53,290 --> 00:20:55,780 you find that it really helps induce 401 00:20:55,780 --> 00:20:58,030 deep states of consciousness. 402 00:20:58,030 --> 00:21:01,050 Tibetan bells that people hit together-- tingshas, 403 00:21:01,050 --> 00:21:02,320 as they're called-- 404 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:06,640 if they're well-made, will fall right within the state 405 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:10,870 called theta, which is really one of the really wonderful 406 00:21:10,870 --> 00:21:15,340 states where very much shamanic and deep inner-traveling 407 00:21:15,340 --> 00:21:16,930 work goes. 408 00:21:16,930 --> 00:21:19,000 And yet at the same time, there are 409 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,980 a lot of really fast rhythms that 410 00:21:21,980 --> 00:21:24,415 are used by many different indigenous people, 411 00:21:24,415 --> 00:21:27,925 to including those in Africa, that put people into trance. 412 00:21:27,925 --> 00:21:31,060 413 00:21:31,060 --> 00:21:33,400 >> When listening to a rhythmic drumbeat that goes 414 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,790 on and on throughout the night, usually in a group, 415 00:21:36,790 --> 00:21:39,490 the most common response is for the listeners to get up 416 00:21:39,490 --> 00:21:43,240 and dance, to move their bodies and express the rhythm back 417 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:45,820 to the group. 418 00:21:45,820 --> 00:21:48,280 And to further elaborate on the power of music 419 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,220 to bring groups together, author of "This 420 00:21:51,220 --> 00:21:54,910 is Your Brain on Music," Dr. Daniel Levetin, found 421 00:21:54,910 --> 00:21:57,700 that people who listen to music out loud together 422 00:21:57,700 --> 00:22:00,220 spark stronger relationships, often 423 00:22:00,220 --> 00:22:04,270 causing people to spend more time with loved ones, more time 424 00:22:04,270 --> 00:22:08,470 hugging, making love, cooking meals with one another, 425 00:22:08,470 --> 00:22:11,110 and even close the distance of physical proximity 426 00:22:11,110 --> 00:22:13,630 between housemates. 427 00:22:13,630 --> 00:22:16,000 Perhaps this is why we see a high emphasis 428 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,100 on communal bonding amongst tribes 429 00:22:18,100 --> 00:22:20,260 who take psychedelic plant medicines 430 00:22:20,260 --> 00:22:23,120 and dance and sing as a group. 431 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:27,200 >> In this ancient city, in Tenochtitlan, 432 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,080 people would come from the entire confederation, 433 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:34,100 which was from Canada all the way to the tip of South 434 00:22:34,100 --> 00:22:35,240 America. 435 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:39,940 They knew the same dances, the same beats. 436 00:22:39,940 --> 00:22:43,920 There's thousands of these dances-- 437 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,230 dance to the earth, dance to the rain, dance to the ego, dance 438 00:22:47,230 --> 00:22:49,730 to the corn. 439 00:22:49,730 --> 00:22:53,600 They're the same dances danced by an entire civilization 440 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,210 across an entire continent that were 441 00:22:56,210 --> 00:23:03,060 done at certain precise moments, like the equinox, the solstice, 442 00:23:03,060 --> 00:23:06,860 the eclipses, the new moons, the full moons. 443 00:23:06,860 --> 00:23:10,480 People are doing the same movements 444 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,920 to the same vibration-- 445 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:14,780 humans interacting. 446 00:23:14,780 --> 00:23:16,640 This is very powerful. 447 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:20,360 People are singing and dancing and taking medicine. 448 00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:23,240 449 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:27,730 This is like geometric progression. 450 00:23:27,730 --> 00:23:32,050 451 00:23:32,050 --> 00:23:35,240 >> The fact that music and psychedelics pair well and go 452 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:38,590 hand-in-hand with dance and community gatherings says a lot 453 00:23:38,590 --> 00:23:42,490 about the nature of psychedelic experiences. 454 00:23:42,490 --> 00:23:44,830 Many people express how the world around them 455 00:23:44,830 --> 00:23:46,720 dissolves its barriers and becomes 456 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:51,430 one continuous phenomena under a psychedelic state. 457 00:23:51,430 --> 00:23:53,680 The inside can become indistinguishable 458 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:55,900 from the outside. 459 00:23:55,900 --> 00:23:58,630 This seems to be seen in the complementary relationship 460 00:23:58,630 --> 00:24:02,800 between psychedelics and music, music and dance, dance 461 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,100 and community, community and harmony. 462 00:24:06,100 --> 00:24:10,390 All communities seek to quell disputes and foster cooperation 463 00:24:10,390 --> 00:24:12,610 just as the trillions of cells in the body 464 00:24:12,610 --> 00:24:17,560 cooperate to make up the super organism that is the human. 465 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,780 All these phenomena are seen in culture 466 00:24:19,780 --> 00:24:22,710 since the dawn of the modern era of man 467 00:24:22,710 --> 00:24:25,330 and were not separated into individual categories 468 00:24:25,330 --> 00:24:27,010 like they are today. 469 00:24:27,010 --> 00:24:29,560 And one reason the experiences of psychedelics 470 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:32,170 can be so meaningful when paired with music 471 00:24:32,170 --> 00:24:35,530 is shown in a recent discovery by the neuroscientist Mendel 472 00:24:35,530 --> 00:24:38,560 Kaelen at the Imperial College of London. 473 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:42,340 He found that the interaction between psychedelics and music 474 00:24:42,340 --> 00:24:46,030 increases information flow going from the parahippocampus 475 00:24:46,030 --> 00:24:48,700 to the fusiform cortex. 476 00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:51,790 Once personal memories and contextual associations 477 00:24:51,790 --> 00:24:53,560 from the parahippocampus are sent 478 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,660 to the fusiform, or visual, cortex, 479 00:24:56,660 --> 00:24:59,290 the visions that emerge from the psychedelic experience 480 00:24:59,290 --> 00:25:02,470 becomes much more personalized. 481 00:25:02,470 --> 00:25:05,380 Because music increases this information flow, 482 00:25:05,380 --> 00:25:07,870 the tone of the music may have a dramatic effect 483 00:25:07,870 --> 00:25:11,860 on how those memories are relived in the moment. 484 00:25:11,860 --> 00:25:14,980 Could this be the basis to shamanic traditions creating 485 00:25:14,980 --> 00:25:18,020 music during psychedelic ceremonies? 486 00:25:18,020 --> 00:25:20,830 >> So why is music so important here in the context of using 487 00:25:20,830 --> 00:25:21,930 psychedelics? 488 00:25:21,930 --> 00:25:24,820 We're getting this opportunity to move our sense of self 489 00:25:24,820 --> 00:25:26,890 and being into this visual space that's 490 00:25:26,890 --> 00:25:29,680 provided by the integration of these deep processes 491 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:31,330 of the brain. 492 00:25:31,330 --> 00:25:33,100 Some of the other kinds of effects 493 00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:35,470 that are achieved through the use of psychedelics 494 00:25:35,470 --> 00:25:38,230 have more to do with psychodynamic processing. 495 00:25:38,230 --> 00:25:39,730 So on one hand, the psychedelics are 496 00:25:39,730 --> 00:25:41,920 going to stimulate you to deal with issues 497 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,980 about past trauma, repressed memories, 498 00:25:44,980 --> 00:25:47,620 your emotional concerns and preoccupations. 499 00:25:47,620 --> 00:25:49,360 But what happens with that information 500 00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:52,000 depends a little bit upon the interpersonal dynamic 501 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,010 and the processing of that information 502 00:25:54,010 --> 00:25:56,860 so that you're able to make more effective use of it. 503 00:25:56,860 --> 00:25:59,260 >> As many psychedelic researchers today, 504 00:25:59,260 --> 00:26:02,770 such as Roland Griffiths at Johns Hopkins University 505 00:26:02,770 --> 00:26:05,680 and Mendel Kaelen at Imperial College of London, 506 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:09,070 have created personalized, psychotherapeutic playlists 507 00:26:09,070 --> 00:26:12,500 to amplify personal journeys of the participants-- 508 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:15,940 however, the use of music in some iowaska as well 509 00:26:15,940 --> 00:26:18,280 as other psychedelic ceremonies also 510 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,130 put emphasis on the silence after the song. 511 00:26:21,130 --> 00:26:24,580 And for modern sonic explorers, listening to silence 512 00:26:24,580 --> 00:26:26,500 has taken on new methods. 513 00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:30,170 >> There are even these things called anechoic chambers that 514 00:26:30,170 --> 00:26:33,360 are so quiet there's no external outside noise. 515 00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:37,630 You can literally hear your heartbeat, your respiration. 516 00:26:37,630 --> 00:26:39,100 If you listen hard enough, you can 517 00:26:39,100 --> 00:26:44,390 begin to hear your brain waves. 518 00:26:44,390 --> 00:26:49,120 And in fact, there is a level of yoga 519 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:51,910 called Shabd Yoga, which is-- 520 00:26:51,910 --> 00:26:53,590 or Nada Yoga. 521 00:26:53,590 --> 00:26:56,860 And this is oftentimes utilized. 522 00:26:56,860 --> 00:26:59,530 But there also is just listening. 523 00:26:59,530 --> 00:27:03,550 The yoga of listening is so very, very powerful. 524 00:27:03,550 --> 00:27:08,200 And oftentimes, it is an inner listening that occurs. 525 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,840 So our nervous system is affected by the sounds 526 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:15,670 that we listen to, but it can also be really affected 527 00:27:15,670 --> 00:27:20,020 by the sounds that we don't listen to 528 00:27:20,020 --> 00:27:21,730 and we listen to internally. 529 00:27:21,730 --> 00:27:24,370 530 00:27:24,370 --> 00:27:27,730 >> It has been said by many who enter anechoic chambers that 531 00:27:27,730 --> 00:27:31,610 the silence is deafening. 532 00:27:31,610 --> 00:27:34,090 There is so much noise present internally 533 00:27:34,090 --> 00:27:37,030 that it becomes unnerving for the novice. 534 00:27:37,030 --> 00:27:39,460 However, some long-term meditators 535 00:27:39,460 --> 00:27:44,240 claim to hear harmonics and melody within the silence. 536 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,270 This phenomenon is different from musical ear syndrome 537 00:27:47,270 --> 00:27:50,330 in which faint, musical auditory hallucinations occur 538 00:27:50,330 --> 00:27:52,570 frequently. 539 00:27:52,570 --> 00:27:56,090 Maharishi Shiv Brat Lal wrote that "various sorts 540 00:27:56,090 --> 00:27:59,870 of sound currents reverberate in the human system from which 541 00:27:59,870 --> 00:28:03,740 the initiate has to pick up the right one and listen to it, 542 00:28:03,740 --> 00:28:06,410 otherwise he will go astray." 543 00:28:06,410 --> 00:28:10,340 Swami Vyasanand is quoted as saying, "Only the central sound 544 00:28:10,340 --> 00:28:13,820 has the power to attract the consciousness to the center 545 00:28:13,820 --> 00:28:17,990 and carry the soul to the center of a higher realm." 546 00:28:17,990 --> 00:28:20,150 And even Maharishi Mehi, in his book 547 00:28:20,150 --> 00:28:23,660 "Philosophy of Liberation," warns that there are misleading 548 00:28:23,660 --> 00:28:27,230 sounds due to the gross vibrations in the body. 549 00:28:27,230 --> 00:28:29,510 The true central sound is distinct 550 00:28:29,510 --> 00:28:33,860 and is the same vibratory force that organizes the cosmos. 551 00:28:33,860 --> 00:28:35,960 As many within sacred circles believe 552 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,930 that shamanic traditions and psychedelic experiences 553 00:28:38,930 --> 00:28:41,450 amplify sounds from Mother Nature, 554 00:28:41,450 --> 00:28:43,670 could this inner sound be a wave current 555 00:28:43,670 --> 00:28:46,730 that shamans and meditators tune into in order 556 00:28:46,730 --> 00:28:50,390 to reach expanded states of consciousness? 557 00:28:50,390 --> 00:28:55,770 >> The sound of nature, and it's called the Schumann resonance. 558 00:28:55,770 --> 00:28:57,356 It was discovered in the 1950s. 559 00:28:57,356 --> 00:29:00,080 And it literally is, if you like, 560 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:04,460 the frequency of the ionosphere, the electromagnetic field 561 00:29:04,460 --> 00:29:05,600 of the Earth. 562 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,005 And it's based upon the speed of sound going around the Earth. 563 00:29:09,005 --> 00:29:13,280 And it's around 7.83 cycles a second. 564 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,010 And this falls right within that theta range 565 00:29:16,010 --> 00:29:21,290 that I was talking about that helps induce shamanic states 566 00:29:21,290 --> 00:29:22,240 of consciousness. 567 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,140 And what's very, very interesting 568 00:29:24,140 --> 00:29:27,260 is that, oftentimes, you'll find that crickets 569 00:29:27,260 --> 00:29:30,920 and a lot of other creatures of nature 570 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:32,990 will oftentimes be making sounds that 571 00:29:32,990 --> 00:29:35,240 are very, very close to that. 572 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:36,900 That's quite important. 573 00:29:36,900 --> 00:29:39,140 So what happens is when we listen 574 00:29:39,140 --> 00:29:41,810 to that, or the waves of the ocean 575 00:29:41,810 --> 00:29:46,750 rolling in and rolling out, they're also attuned to this. 576 00:29:46,750 --> 00:29:49,590 And this basically slows down our heart rate, 577 00:29:49,590 --> 00:29:54,800 our brain waves, our breathing, putting us in tune with nature. 578 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,410 And by putting ourselves in tune with nature, 579 00:29:57,410 --> 00:30:01,040 we're able to, if you like, travel to higher 580 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:02,780 realms of consciousness. 581 00:30:02,780 --> 00:30:08,430 582 00:30:08,430 --> 00:30:11,850 >> The music of nature, the harmony of the higher realms 583 00:30:11,850 --> 00:30:18,150 of consciousness, the music of the cosmos might be exactly 584 00:30:18,150 --> 00:30:21,180 what shamanic traditions tuned into during psychedelic 585 00:30:21,180 --> 00:30:25,950 ceremonies, which were always rooted within and surrounded 586 00:30:25,950 --> 00:30:30,240 by the elements and creatures of the Earth-- 587 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,810 all of which are attuned to and harmonizing with the symphony 588 00:30:33,810 --> 00:30:36,890 that Mother Nature composes. 589 00:30:36,890 --> 00:30:39,170 If the set and setting for sacred ceremonies 590 00:30:39,170 --> 00:30:41,480 are carefully constructed, and the sounds 591 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,980 of ritual instruments as well as nature are present, 592 00:30:45,980 --> 00:30:49,130 perhaps the healing capacity of these traditional practices 593 00:30:49,130 --> 00:30:51,050 can be amplified. 594 00:30:51,050 --> 00:30:55,250 And maybe the world will come to understand the power of sonics 595 00:30:55,250 --> 00:30:56,180 and psychedelics. 596 00:30:56,180 --> 00:30:59,580 597 00:30:59,580 --> 00:31:02,360 Up next, our journey into psychedelica 598 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,370 wraps up, exploring how to produce 599 00:31:04,370 --> 00:31:06,290 psychedelic states of consciousness 600 00:31:06,290 --> 00:31:07,790 naturally from within. 601 00:31:07,790 --> 00:31:11,740 [MUSIC PLAYING] 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