unheard sound

Photo by Joel Lee.

To me, trees seem like organic statues depicting a frozen electricity sculpted by the grace of magnetism.

Hearing is not just done with our ears.

The perfect music exists among the air that we breathe, just like static electricity.
And it is only experienced only when we realize and resonate its potential.

From the essay “Yoga and Music” by Sharron Gannon in Arcana V, edited by John Zorn:

“Anahata nadam means ‘unstruck’ sound–it is not heard by just the physical ears, no one can make this sound… Ahata nadam means ‘struck’ sound–it is music that we can hear with our physical sense; it refers to sound that is made by striking two things together, like when a musician strums an instrument or blows through a horn or hits a drum…  The nadam is the vibrational underlying stream that connects all of life; it is the eternal pulse of the universe…”

Hazrat Inayat Khan:

“In all the occupations of life where beauty has been the inspiration, where the divine wine has been poured out, there is music. But among all the different arts, the art of music has been especially considered divine, because it is the exact miniature of the law working through the whole universe.”