Life Tuning With PrimaSounds®

This spiritual chakra field creates, among other things, an electromagnetic vibration in the cortex of approximately 12 hertz. As mentioned, Yogis and Zen masters investigated in the state of Samadhi or Satori were found to all produce brain waves with about the same number of vibrations per second - 12. (There are other reasons for selecting 12 as the base number, instead of other frequencies, such as 10 hertz, that are within the alpha wave range; but explanation of these reasons would lead us well astray.

Prima Sounds can help you attain this peak experience and thereby begin the journey. It requires a sustained effort and dedication. For many it comes by focusing all attention on the energy at the top of the head, thinking of the infinite - GOD - and just letting yourself go, merging into it. With repeated efforts a profound peak experience may come, but this cannot be rushed. Typically you must first master the first two levels of listening - body relaxation and energy enhancement - before "Satori" can be reached.

Enlightenment is just the beginning of life's tuning, not the end, because unless you have fully integrated your consciousness, you will not be able to maintain the alpha vibrations in a pure form. You will go out of tune. Your energy will be completely overlapped by other vibrations. No energy shield, or sheltered life with only nature or other enlightened people can protect you, for you will still be vulnerable to the ill affects of your own consciousness.

Just as the energies affect your consciousness, consciousness effects your energies. Until your consciousness is radically transformed its effects on your chakras will be largely negative. The essence of the transformation needed is to stay in constant atunement with the fundamental tone of the world, the primal Source of All That Is, to bring your consciousness, and thus your energy, into harmonious integration with it.

What is meant by this key phrase "integration of consciousness"? In the ordinary course of human life we experience a series of disconnected consciousness states. For instance the waking thinking self is usually out of touch with and does not remember the dreaming, sleeping self; the left and right brains are not connected. The sensing, sensual energies do not work well with the thinking or willing energies. Feelings are cut off from thoughts, thoughts from action, perceptions from feelings, etc. We are different people at different times, with little or no continuity between our different states of consciousness. We live in a chaotic world where an endless series of things happen to us that do not fit together, do not make sense. Many important things seem to be the result of chance or luck. There is no conscious being there to see the "big picture". The conscious states alternate unconnected by inner silence. It is like hearing foreign words or sentences without any underlying comprehension.

The discontinuity of consciousness can be analyzed from an energy perspective which reflects the disorders. The frequencies of the different primal energies tend to be out of tune by either all being consonant (the same) with each other, or dissonant, inharmonious. The four lower chakras tend towards consonance, with one energy dominant and forcing the others to be like it, distorting them. This follows the domination of one function over the others. For many people today (particularly readers) the thinking function tends to dominate the others, but it can just as easily be another function dominating. For instance, sensing dominating thinking where the parroting of the thoughts of others passes for thinking; or feeling dominating thinking where desires and feelings replace any thinking, and all is rationalization of what you want.

The upper three energies on the other hand tend to be dissonant, out of tune with each other, and acting separately. The mind does not know the body, nor the body the mind, and neither is really in touch with the soul, the personality, who acts independently of both. The mind and body have to be brought together and made to work in concert with the soul.

The way to tune the energies and integrate consciousness is to retain an inner silence. This inner silence is the sacred dimension or pure Awareness which integrates the otherwise unconnected states of consciousness. Prima Sounds can help you to get to this ineffable sacred silence, the OM. Do not try to understand it if you have not had such an experience, try instead to get to it. For you can only understand what we are talking about if you have already had the experience. Words and intellect alone cannot do justice to the sublime.

So the first step on the spiritual journey to tune into life is a profound experience of the highest primal tone, the sound of silence. Then you can start living from this and Prima Sounds can be used to tune your life, to help you on a path towards fulfillment and Wisdom.

Still, even after you are experienced and on your way, the opening and tuning of the chakras produced by a Prima Sounds session will not last. It will always fade away as long as the silent Awareness is not there to prevent the interference of the different frequencies. But as the silent Awareness grows, the person matures and consciousness slowly integrates, the effects of the resonance stimulation from Prima Sounds will gradually last longer and longer, and be more easily induced. The interference between the chakras, the static and dissonance will be decreased and the seven energies will begin to work together in harmony. As you tune into the five Prima Sounds, Wisdom results; you begin to thrive on the chaos of the world and recognize the hidden fractal order within. It all starts to make sense and your actions take on a higher purpose.

THE REDISCOVERY OF ESOTERIC MUSIC

ARNOLD KEYSERLING

Pythagoras called the first type of music Exoteric Music. He found its basis in the cycle of fifths and in the diatonic scale. He called the second type of music Esoteric Music and kept it secret. It is recognizable today by the symbol of the Pythagorean Order, the pentagram. The same tradition is also found in China where the second music is attributed to King Wen, the originator of the I Ching. He recognized that the sixth and seventh tone repeat the first and second to make the octave.

Today there is still some distinction maintained between the two types of music in the differentiation between serious and popular music. Today's distinction however does not go to the essence. Almost all of today's serious music - classical, electronic and new age - is as much Exoteric Music heard from the outside as is popular dance music. No music now in our culture is designed to enable a person to start an inner ascension up to the threshold of death and the inexhaustible Source, and return other people from death, as is told for instance in the myth of Orpheus and in many Shamanic traditions.

We had lost the tradition of Esoteric Music from our culture. But now with Prima Sounds we can regain it, if we understand the meaning of the tones and the intervals and their role in the human organism. It must be understood as getting in tune or in consonance with the origin of the world.

As a young man studying with George Gurdjieff, and the twelve-tone musician, Joseph Hauer, I had several extraordinary peak experiences of tuning into the fundamental vibration. For twenty years thereafter, as part of my work in religious philosophy, I considered the question of whether this state of consciousness could be induced directly by understanding the laws of vibration. My investigations showed that such music had existed in the past, in all of the world's spiritual traditions, most recently with the Sufis, however, none had ever achieved mathematical clarity and exactitude in the calculation of the scale. Only in 1971, after over twenty years of research and study, did new discoveries in the field of brain wave research allow me to discover the long lost chords of Esoteric Music. Only this time the musical scale has been precisely calculated and with electronic instruments can be exactly replicated.

The Esoteric scale is mathematically derived from the only basic tone interval which does not fit into our music system, the natural seventh. Its frequency and harmonics are dissonant when compared to the fundamental tone or the other basic fractions such as the third and the fifth. It is so different from the rest of the tonal frame that in the musical traditions in the West after Pythagoras it was called non-melodic. The natural seventh was either excluded altogether as an unacceptable sour note, or used very rarely as a "leading tone" to set up dissonant tension. This interval is, however, always present as a natural tone, in the seventh harmonic and can be heard in some instruments.

I had long suspected that the seventh harmonic, corresponding analogously to the seven chakras, might hold the key to Esoteric Music, and perhaps even to the chakras themselves. I knew that when the natural seventh was taken as the basic interval, to the exclusion of the others which normally make up our musical scale, that the resulting vibrations would not be in the standard octave relationship. But I did not know what frequency to use to base the construction of such a scale, nor was I sure what the correlation would be with these tones to the chakra energies.

In the late sixties brain wave research of Zen monks and yogis in Samadhi for the first time showed that the alpha brain wave was always produced when they entered this peak experience. This provided me with the fundamental tone on which to calculate new intervals based on the natural seventh. I made the mathematical calculations of such a new musical scale and discovered that if you take the original tone of Alpha as 12 hertz in accord with brain wave experiments (and other reasons), and you use the 7 to 4 ratio of the natural seventh harmonic, that a new five tone - pentatonic - scale results. I named the five notes after the vowels: A, E, I, O, U. The primatonic scale has completely new tones and intervals which have nothing to do with our musical temperament and the diatonic scale.

The new tone frequencies and intervals created by the natural seventh based on alpha waves we now call Prima Sounds. As soon as we created an electronic instrument to play these new tones we knew that this was the Esoteric scale I had been searching for. It is different from the twelve tone and diatonic scale and also completely different from the popular pentatonic scale, the black keys of the piano, which is comprised of the cycle of fifths after the notes of the seven tone scale have been used. This new pentatonic scale opens hearing to the inner Universe and in most ancient civilizations this Esoteric Music was held sacred and kept secret.

The seventh harmonic and brain wave research revealed the secret of the second music, its attunement to the chakras. Prima Sounds is also called "Chakra Music" because when we first played the tones in 1971 we found that the scale was attuned to all seven "chakras". The overtones of the fundamental tone, 12 hertz, stimulated our seventh chakra and our second chakra. The fifth note in the scale-U- was in resonance with the first chakra and the sixth chakra. The second note- E- was tuned to the third chakra, the third note -I- to the fourth, the fourth note -O- to the fifth chakra. By experimentation with the tones we found that a person can attain fullness of consciousness and inner silence, the fundamental spiritual vibration OM, by listening to these new sounds as an adjunct to traditional meditation. The creation of music with these new tones, however, was an entirely different matter. The training in traditional music was counter-productive; a totally new start was required. For various reasons, including our experience of numerous technical problems with the electronic instruments themselves, we did not pursue this as a musical form. For the most part we limited our use to single tones and simple chord combinations as part of yoga and meditation classes

However, Ralph Losey, one of my students in Vienna in 1971 when the discovery was made, took up the challenge on his own upon his return to the United States. Over the next twenty years Ralph explored and developed Chakra Music into a new art form and type of spiritual path which he renamed Prima Sounds. Upon hearing his music performed for the first time in the Spring of 1992 I knew that the Esoteric Music which I had discovered twenty years before was now ready to come out into the open.

This information only appears today from its hidden historical recesses because the ways of ideology and personality cult imitation are coming to an end. If a person thinks he should be able to follow his own way alone and independently, then he cannot follow the consciousness content of another. He must put together, himself, the components of his consciousness and his life in order to find his personal synthesis.

On the one hand a person must understand in thinking the fundamental elements of reality, as I have shown in my books, including my English book with Ralph Losey: Chance and Choice:A Compendium of Ancient and Modern Wisdom. On the other hand a person must find a way to penetrate to the fundamental vibration, to their tone, and to start living from this. Prima Sounds provides such a way.

This essay is an attempt to provide the listener/reader with the fundamentals of the theory and thinking which led to my original discovery of the scale. It also provides an introduction to the practical "know-how" of using Esoteric Music as a tool for inner development. Much of the material in this essay is also found in our book Chance and Choice and Ralph Losey's book, Laws of Wisdom. These books provide a more complete exposition of the philosophy behind the music, the marriage of Religion and Science through the Art of life.

THE SEVEN ENERGY CENTERS

ARNOLD KEYSERLING and RALPH LOSEY

The seven different energies correspond with the seven consciousness functions, their organic points of gravity, and seven areas of potential:

1. Sensing. Sensation relates to the data of the senses: colors, smells, tastes, sounds and tones, and observation of the sense of touch. The point of gravity is in the organs of generation and excretion. It is the base of all energies and is present in most people as sexual energy. Its basic potential is for creative imagination, revelations. Its vocation, how it's applied in society, is that of a "Worker" who has confidence, trust, intuition and an ability to heal. This energy feels like a force emitted from your self in order to do something. Its direction is the East and it partakes of the "Power of Fire".

2. Thinking. Breathing relates to Thinking. Its point of gravity is, however, found near the sacrum near the tip of the spine, which is also the point of gravity of bodily movement. All thinking is based on language which is heard by the vibrations of air. Its basic potential is to discern and affirm the differences and the similarities between all things. Its vocation is that of a "Designer" who adapts and conceives new things, including a unique style of life and a creative understanding. This energy feels like experiencing movement from out of the center. Its direction is the West and its Power is the Minerals

3. Feeling. The function of Feeling has as its contents the impulses, the point of gravity lies in nourishment, in the digestion and de-posination metabolism. Its basic potential is for creativity and inner growth in the synthesis of new forms of understanding and learning. Its vocation is that of the "Helper" who heals through understanding, personal growth and cognition of the underlying archetypes. This energy feels like awakening. Its direction is the South and its Power is the Plants and water.

4. Willing. The Will means the capacity to decide yes and no on the basis of the inner void, the force of attention. You have to get behind the rhythms of the heart, of the circulation, and get to them from being. Its potential is self affirmation, finding your unique "medicine", in the Native American sense, that puts the Ego into a healthy, positive relationship with the greater Self. Its vocation is that of the "Leader", with affirmative energies, strategies and imagination. This energy feels like finding your role. Its direction is North and its Power is the Animals and nature. The contents of thinking, feeling and sensing are conscious. Willing puts them together in being. Their continuity, their putting together, changes the data of the functions into data of consciousness ordered in the three spheres: Body - Soul - Spirit.

5. Body. The Body continuity, steered by the genetic code, has its point of gravity in the spinal cord and in the central nervous system which is activated from the brain stem and cerebellum just above the neck. This is the basis of material experience; movement activities are stored in the memory so that the force of attention can remain free. Its potential is to start new things and become more human, responsible and discerning. Its vocation is the "Friend", who assists in projects and helps others to see the world and themselves more clearly. This energy feels like becoming an expression. Its direction is the center and its Power is the Sacred Earth.

6. Soul. The continuity of the Soul, which puts Man into family in its farthest sense by endogen engrams, conditioned and unconditioned reflexes, has its point of gravity in the limbic system. There all personal relations and memories, as well as those of Man and our whole evolution, are stored and unite Man with the animal realm. The potential is to heal and to synthesize opposing forces into a larger whole through communication and discussion. The vocation is the "Teacher" who helps set priorities and values and who has strong communication skills. This energy feels like partaking of an abundance. Its direction is the South East and Power is the Ancestors.

7. Spirit. The highest Spirit field of the cerebrum or neocortex with its two hemispheres shows the capacity of mental representation of knowledge in its largest meaning - from language up to opinion and world conception. The basic potential is for responsiveness, to take the lead in reacting to the environment. Its vocation is the "Facilitator" who takes action, questions, cajoles, even fights, so that everyone can find their unique potential and resolve conflicts. This energy feels like becoming aware of the physical totality. Its direction is South West and Power is the Nature Spirits.

SUMMARY OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE SEVEN ENERGY CENTERS

7. Spirit - Knowledge - Cerebrum - Responsibility

6. Soul - Instinctual - Cerebellum and Limbic System - Healing

5. Body - Conditioned - Spinal Cord - Initiative

4. Willing - Attention - Blood Circulation - Essence/AWARENESS

3. Feeling - Impulses - Metabolism - Creativity

2. Thinking - Language - Breathing - Discernment

1. Sensing - Sense Data - Sex & Excretion - Imagination

Each of these points of gravity correspond to one of the centers of vibration of the human energy field and are activated in a certain way. All function at once but consciousness can only refer to one or another. This can be understood by means of the flageolet tone: in a vibrating string, not only the first tone, but a whole series of harmonics are resounding according to the law of whole numbers. If the vibration is regular, after the first impulse the vibration returns from the ends of the string and forms string vibration nodes. This can be visualized in an example. If you take a circular pond and throw a stone into the middle, the point of impact will dive in and up. From this waves go out to the periphery, they reflect back, and where they meet the newly emerging waves there will be a proliferation of water, a node.

If you touch a string instrument at one of these places you will hear only the corresponding partial tone as a flageolet tone (on the guitar there are points to mark these places) and the other overtones will remain silent. In the above example, with each fifth only the great major third will resound.

With the fundamental tone C it would be E.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

c c g c e g x c d e

Through the flageolet tone every overtone can be taken as a single tone. The same vibratory phenomena causes consciousness to alternate attention. But with consciousness the correspondences are reversed. The energy emanates from the nodes, the chakra points. Also, in music and acoustics the seventh overtone is out of intervallic continuity with the others - sounds out of tune - in bioplasma the reverse is true. The seventh harmonic is in tune with our consciousness and the bio-energies that go with it.

Our energies are tuned to the seventh, even though our ears are not. The difference arises from the fact that bioplasma is not made up of material vibrations, but of energetical vibrations which keep bodies together, move them, and make them ripe for functions. The pulsating bioplasmic energy is unlike a string which has a potentially infinite number of vibrations. The bioplasmic field has exactly seven points of gravity or vortices of energy and should be steered from those. These seven energy centers exist along the spinal cord.

The existence of these micro-vibrations was well known to the ancient traditions. The Chinese found their points of gravity and their relation to medicine in acupuncture, an art of healing which can prognosticate illnesses out of the disturbances of the relation between Yin and Yang bio-energies. These energy centers have been referred to in the East for thousands of years as the "chakras". Chakra is a Sanskrit word which means simply "vortex of energy".

European scientists have tried to identify the chakras with endocrine glands or with different plexus of nerves. But Chakras are a completely different kind of energy. They are wave fields without particles; pure potential with no content. They are like the other side of Black Holes where the energy is streaming out, not in. They can be initially located and identified as void spaces, pure energy fields. Cosmic energy of immeasurable power, called by the Indians "Prana" and by the Chinese "Chi", can flow through the chakras. Technically speaking the chakras are the fields through which the energies flow, not the cosmic energies themselves. They are like doors and the Prima Sounds can rattle them open a crack.

Prima Sounds work by using resonance and attention in the element of Energy. Our center of attention normally exists in another element, in Consciousness. (There are four fundamental elements or fundamental principals: Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Self Organization. This is explained in detail in Chance and Choice.) As shown before Consciousness has seven basic components: the four functions - Sensing, Thinking, Feeling and Willing; and the three realms - Body, Soul and Spirit. These seven have a natural internal relationship whereby Sensing corresponds with Body, Thinking with Soul, and Feeling with Mind. Willing stands on its own in the center, connected with Attention and Awareness. For example, the senses are sharpest when perceiving the physical world, as opposed to sensing other people (soul) or an idea (spirit). Conversely the Body is most directly apprehended by sensing. Thinking is most acute when in dialogue with other people, as opposed to pure abstract thinking. Conversely the Soul is understood best by thinking. Feeling, and its twin sister imagination, are at home in the Spirit, where free reign is given to it. Feeling in the body or soul is more limited and often negative. Conversely the Spirit is most easily accessed by the Feelings. Thinking about the Spirit frequently leads to erudite nonsense. Spirit must first be felt before it can be seen or put into words.

When these seven components are moved from the scale of Consciousness to the scale of Energy, there is a fractal variation in the internal alignment. In the world of Energy where Prima Sounds vibrate in accord with the seven energy centers, or chakras, there is a new alignment of the original seven. Now Sensing corresponds with Soul, not Body, and Thinking corresponds with Spirit, not Soul. Feeling now acts on Body, instead of Spirit, with Willing remaining the same, in the center related to Awareness, the dynamic Nothingness outside of and underlying the seven. As a consequence of this fractal variation Prima Sounds should be listened to by Feeling the effects of the vibrations on the body, Sensing the energy of soul stimulation, and thinking of the Spirit, of abstract ideas, or no-thinking. See Chapter One for details on listening.

The seven human energy centers (4 + 3 = 7) also correspond to the seven essential criteria of language comprehension, combined as four times three (4 * 3 = 12), to create the basic twelvefold structure of The WHEEL.

As is shown in Chance and Choice and Laws of Wisdom The Wheel is the summation symbol of Arnold Keyserling's creative philosophy. It reflects the structure of number, language, and the mind. With The Wheel we can make sense of the many seemingly contradictory elements of the Human experience and attain coherence in the midst of chaos.

THE ESOTERIC TRADITIONS

ARNOLD KEYSERLING and RALPH LOSEY

......................Sensing

Feeling..............................Thinking

......................Willing

Together with the three realms - Body, Soul, Spirit - we have the seven basic states to be integrated. The awakening and integration of the seven states into Awareness is traditionally referred to as the transformation of the energy layers into steps. The same process and symbolism is described in all esoteric religious and Shamanistic traditions as the seven steps of initiation. These seven steps are found with the same meaning, but with different terminology and iconography everywhere on Earth from Siberia to South America.

Each of the traditions brought a part of this knowledge, but completed it with ideas and myth where understanding was insufficient. Thus in Kundalini Yoga, an Indian tradition which specializes in the chakras, there is an explanation of the meaning of the chakras which comes from a phantasmagorical cosmology. But this did not harm the value of the exercises and Kundalini Yoga adepts have repeatedly shown that the chakras can really be developed and harmonized.

The different traditions have chosen different forms, but in the last analysis they all say the same thing: the seven points of gravity should come into harmony (not consonance). An example is the Hindu tradition of Raja Yoga which, like many others, takes the steps one after the other:

In this tradition the way goes upwards from below. The sensual experience only seems to be conscious. In reality it must be activated with certain exercises. The second stage is conscious, but it acts together with the sixth one to create the danger of the false "I". This is transcended by observation.

Once the thoughts are clarified the feelings can be ordered by dream analysis, or by deepening the force of imagination, which in Sanskrit is called the "exhaustion of the vasanas". With these methods the door to deep sleep is opened. This is also the door which leads to transcendence, overcoming death, and the entrance to real consciousness. The inner silence is at the same time Bliss, Silence and Reality: Sat-Chit-Ananda. The fifth state also has its proper content which only now becomes free: the body with its genetic code demands a certain form of realization which will historically fit into natural evolution. You have to unite your own will with the will of God or of Nature. The kernel of being will only become luminous if both the foundations of the world and the spiritual communion become conscious at the same time.

Once this step is realized you then have to transform the soul's condition from static to dynamic. You look for and associate yourself with those people who have gone further than you on the path of integration. You must treat the realized people of each religion and tradition as the real leaders. ("Ajna" means center of obedience).

The last step is the mystical experience of unity with the cosmos. This Cosmic Consciousness can come as a vision, a dedication, an experience of plenitude, pure Awareness, Spirit, a union with the fundamental tone OM, a state of Samadhi or Satori, Enlightenment, communion with Nature, etc. There are many forms and names to an experience which is essentially formless, nameless - the source of all forms and names.

The way is full of dangers because the awakening of the lower chakras can create an identification with their contents. Instead of the finite "I" in a healthy relationship with the Higher self and others, there is losing oneself in (1) sensuality; (2) curiosity; (3) power impulse; (4) even false leadership if contact with a sage living from the upper centers cannot be retained. There is also a danger of aiming only to get out of reality, to become one with the original vibration, OM. But the Spirit is the beginning, not the end. The old traditions warn that after you have realized the highest stage you should then go back into the world and complete the Raja Yoga of will, the Karma Yoga of acting without looking for rewards, the Bhakti Yoga of loving devotion and the Jnana Yoga of mastering discursive thinking. The Buddhist way of the Bodhisattva requires you to renounce your own achievement of personal redemption until the last being has found their way into Nirvana.

The opposite sequential order where you start with seven - Spirit - is found in the Christian prayer of "Our Father":

SPIRIT 7...........Our Father in heaven.

SOUL 6.............The hallowing of the name.

BODY 5............The demand for the coming of the kingdom.

WILLING 4.......Gods will should be done on heaven and earth.

FEELING 3.......Our nourishment comes daily.

THINKING 2.....Forgiving and asking forgiveness.

SENSING 1.......Seduction changed into deliverance.

Here in the Christian path beyond Raja Yoga you try to attain the union of all seven components as an attitude where the fundamental point of gravity is in the middle stage of willing (Thy will be done on heaven as on earth). The three upper ones are related to heaven, which means consciousness. The three lower ones are related to the will, by which you can overcome the opposition between spiritual ascension and life in the world.

It is not, however, the particular wording which creates this transformation - prayer is a definite historical form and therefore limited - but the integration of the functions and the realms and the seven energies that go with them, and the destruction of the "I" as the final value (in the demand of "love your neighbor" or "do unto others as you would have them do unto you"). Only part of humanity experiences God as divine Father. Other ways, like Scotus Eriugena's penetration into the dark will of the original force, the thundering silence of Bodhidharma, or the work on yourself of the Moslem Brotherhoods, all seem to lead to the same result. Thus effective methods and tools such as Prima Sounds, which allow the pure Awareness state to be experienced directly, may help bridge the cultural limitations and transcend the differences between the many religions and esoteric traditions of the world.

The development and transformation of energy was accomplished in the old traditions through many decades of repetition of mantra, rigorous breathing, and other equally laborious techniques. Now with Prima Sounds the continuity is not just created mentally, but with the help of computers and high fidelity sound technologies, it is also created energetically. In the old traditions the energetical and psychological components were either separated or came later. The addition of these components from the start makes the process easier to get going, and easier to maintain.

Even in the traditions which knew of Esoteric Music, because of the difficulties of tuning, the strict secrecy concerning the correct tones, the inability to record any performance, and other reasons, the apprentice in this discipline had to spend decades, or even a lifetime, "just" to find the fundamental tone. There was great difficulty in the initial stage in tuning into OM, the fundamental vibration of Spirit, and only after they had accomplished this could they play the music in tune, and so fully realize the energetical and dynamic affects of the music. For example, there is a Zen monastery in Japan which still maintains the tradition of Esoteric Music using flutes and martial arts. A monk may spend a lifetime in diligent practice with meditation and flute playing under the guidance of an elder master, all to find and play their true tone.

Now based upon brain wave and acoustic discoveries, this preliminary stage is given, the correct fundamental tones are already known. Thus the energy growth and harmonization process has been improved by technology and somewhat automated. The usefulness of Esoteric Music as a viable tool has thus been considerably strengthened.

Although this new technology makes the energy work easier and removes much of the initial drudgery, like the esoteric traditions of old it still requires intense efforts and concentration to reach the end results. The individual must still choose for himself; neither Prima Sounds, nor any other technology, "secret process", Saint or Guru can do it for you. That would defeat the basic purpose of the Universe. Claims of instant enlightenment or energies are a fraud; that is not the way the Universe works. The reorganization and transformation of the seven energies involves a change in the very chemistry of the body. This necessarily requires significant time and personal effort. Although technology may quicken the initial stages of this process and improve it somewhat, the necessity remains for a sustained Herculean effort over years to complete the transformation.

AFTER-WORDS: SCHOOL OF WISDOM

First established in Germany in 1920, psychologist Carl Jung, sinologist Richard Wilhelm, and Indian guru Rabindranath Tagore were among its first student-teachers. THE SCHOOL OF WISDOM now has branches throughout the world, including Vienna; Paris; Athens; Orlando; Tallinn, Estonia; Alma Ata, Kazakhstan; and the Internet in cyberspace. It is led by European philosophers, Prof. Arnold Keyserling, University of Vienna, Austria, and Wilhelmine Keyserling, both former students of George Gurdjieff and in the U.S. by Ralph and Molly Losey, students of the Keyserlings. The SCHOOL OF WISDOM was originally founded in Darmstadt, Germany in 1920 by the then best-selling author and philosopher, Count Hermann Keyserling (1880 - 1946). It served as an early spiritual beacon of a new age of planetary consciousness. Intellectual leaders of the time participated in the first sessions of the SCHOOL OF WISDOM in Germany until it was closed by the Nazis in the 1930's, only to reopen again after the war with the help of the Austrian government.

The SCHOOLS OF WISDOM, then and now, are private, decidedly "non-academic" institutes for learning "Wisdom". They teach the "Knowledge behind the knowledge" of the human condition. The goal is integration of knowledge into practical "know how", into Wisdom, to make sense of the world. World mythologies, philosophy, science, mathematics, psychology and all of the world's great spiritual traditions are included in an eclectic study of objective systems of Human evolution. Many otherwise esoteric systems are made intelligible, accessible, and given practical application. The SCHOOLS OF WISDOM in the 1990's are based on classic works of the past, and on the new ideas and discoveries of contemporary thinkers from around the world, with an emphasis on the work of Count Keyserling's son, Arnold Keyserling, Arnold's wife, Wilhelmine and their students Ralph and Molly Losey.

The SCHOOL OF WISDOM U.S.A. is unique because it features "Prima Sounds" and manages all cyberspace operations on the Internet and World Wide Web which feature a wealth of constantly updated information. In Orlando there are on-going classes and Prima Sound performances open to the public and periodic lectures and seminars by Arnold and Wilhelmine Keyserling and other instructors from around the world.

This essay and recording are part of the first English Language Publishing Project of the SCHOOL OF WISDOM. The first three volumes of the SCHOOL OF WISDOM series are the School's translations into English from the German original of Keyserling's great works of sacred poetry:Messages From The Being In The Universe, From Dark To Life and, From The Depths Of The Universe. They are published together in From Out Of Chaos: Visions for a New World. This inspirational book provides a beautiful non-technical introduction to the important work of Arnold and Wilhelmine Keyserling.

The Prima Sounds recording and this essay constitutes the fourth volume. The fifth volume is the another book by Keyserling and Losey Chance and Choice: A Compendium of Ancient and Modern Knowledge, the first book written originally in English of Keyserling's over fifty books. Chance and Choice presents a holistic vision of Science and Religion and serves as the basic handbook of the SCHOOL OF WISDOM. The sixth volume is Ralph Losey's first solo book, LAWS OF WISDOM: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NATURAL LAWS OF HUMAN POTENTIAL. This is the best introductory work to the philosophy behind PrimaSounds music and the School of Wisdom. The seventh volume is PRIMASOUNDS. Like the first Audio CD which goes with this book , the PrimaSounds CD contains over 45 minutes of original music and almost 15 minutes of chakra tones.

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English Language Series of SCHOOL OF WISDOM Publications:

Volume Two: FROM DARK TO LIFE. A. KEYSERLING;

Volume Three: FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE UNIVERSE. A. KEYSERLING

The first three volumes are published together in one book, FROM OUT OF CHAOS. Visions for a Ne World.

Volume Four: LIFE TUNING WITH PRIMA SOUNDS: The Discovery of Chakra Music. (Book (this hyper-text) and Audio C.D.) A. KEYSERLING and R. LOSEY

Volume Five: CHANCE AND CHOICE. A. KEYSERLING and R. LOSEY

Volume Six: LAWS OF WISDOM. R. LOSEY

Volume Seven: PRIMASOUNDS (AUDIO CD). R. LOSEY