SOUND IMAGINATION
The Alchemy of Image and Voice
Sound Imagination, is a psycho-spiritual therapeutic method based on the recognition that the most authentic transformations occur by working with the Imagination, the psychological structure that shapes our life experiences – and through creative work with Sound, the auditory aspect of the vibration that shapes all that exists, whose alchemical properties become potentialized when coming from the human Voice.
This is a transformative method based on Alchemical principles, put into practice through two complementary paths:
Alchemy of Dreams: Instead of applying interpretive logic, we seek to learn how dream images reveal themselves. We aim to go beyond what we think about an image to discover what it reveals, in service of renewal in our daily lives.
Alchemy of the Voice: The human Voice is the “muscle of the soul.” Beyond simple communication, the Voice has the capacity to alter the mental, emotional, and energetic states of both the speaker and the listener, as it operates at a vibrational level that affects all dimensions of our being.
Imagination
“By ‘image’ I mean a psychic reality expressed
in any form, whether a dream, a fantasy, a memory,
an idea, or a perception. The image is the primary
data of psychic life, and the psyche is nothing more
than an ongoing presentation of itself in images.”James Hillman, Re-Visioning Psychology
Images
Images Are Primary.
Modern neuroscience has moved beyond the idea that our brain passively receives information from the external world. Today, the prevailing view is that our brain is an active, predictive machine that constructs our reality.
The images we perceive are not a perfect reflection of the outside world, but rather the brain’s best guess of what is out there.
This constructed reality is based on a constant and dynamic interaction between incoming sensory data and the brain’s existing predictive model.
In other words, things are just as we imagine them to be – so that when we actually imagine them differently, they truly become different!
There is no doubt that the work is with the Imagination.
“The imaginative gaze is the acid that dissolves the rigid structures of the ego.”
James Hillman
Dreams
I have found that without a doubt, “working” with the Images in
our dreams prepares us for working with the Images in our Lives…
always at the service of both orientation and transformation.
Since we can say to ourselves that “it is only a dream”,
we can allow ourselves to experience things that we fear –
or, we think/believe, in our ordinary consciousness, that
we are unable to do.
If we can do it in a dream, we have an imprint that can
inspire us to do it in our waking lives !
So, let us practice “working” with The Imagination by
working with the Images in our Dreams.
Dream images and their telling can bring forth unexpected
VOCAL sounds, giving form to the deepest intentions of the Soul.
Sound
“He who knows the secret of sound knows the
mystery of the entire universe. Vibration is
the current of life that touches all that exists;
nothing remains the same after being touched
by sound, for sound is the breath that
transforms form.”Hazrat Inayat Khan
Sounds
Sound is the auditory aspect of vibration, which gives form to all that exists.
A fundamental property of sound is that it literally has the ability to dissolve, to break up knots (the soprano who shatters the crystal glass with her high note), to open spaces (Masaru Emoto purifying water), and to give tangible form to what is felt, perceived, and experienced internally.
Sound is, in and of itself, an alchemical catalyst, and when it comes from one’s own VOICE, its transformative potential is magnified and activated.
“We can hide behind words,
but not from the sound of our voice.”Sven Doehner
Voice
What we say comes from the mind. How we say it reveals how we feel about what we say.
Something unconscious that we do not control is revealed in the sound of our voice, revealing our true feelings about what we are facing.
Genuinely changing the sound of our voice in relation to something vital in our life truly alters something essential in our relationship with it.
“The Voice is the Muscle of the Soul.”
Alfred Wolfsohn