embracethevoid said:
I believe that the carrier wave might perhaps be the primordial AUM in nature's unadulterated form. When we say AUM, that doesn't always catch the entire true sound of AUM until we cultivate enough practice to resonate its whole auditory range.
Wow, what a great thread! I have to rush off to work now... but I'd like to quickly touch upon a few of my personal insights about this Sacred tone. I first heard it full throttle when I was 19 years old, under the mesmerism of LSD. It changed me completely and forevermore, which set me upon a path which I am still enthusiastically moving along upon.
Decades later, during my very first experience with vaporized DMT re-awakened me to this magnificent, highly scintillating frequency in tonality. I was wholly absorbed by the sheer power and complexity of this auditory vibration. These sounds were what first awakened me to alternate planes of conscious-awareness, through the vehicles of LSD and psilocybin. I wholly agree with your hypothesis, the Carrier Wave that DMT sometimes attunes our attention towards, is indeed, the Sacred Word we name AUM. Thanks for starting such a fascinating thread,
embracethevoid! I've come to expect extraordinary ideas from your mind. :thumb_up:
I too, feel that the Carrier Wave is the sonic vibration of AUM. We name it in many ways:
"AUM, OM, OMNI, ATEN, AMEN, AMIN, AHUM, HUM, HU, AUM", the Holy emanation of the Word of Divine Mind humming along. That being said, all frequencies of sound are emanating from this same sonic current, so too, all sound is an echo of this powerful force of expression. As you so lucidly describe, this sound is key to the manifestation and causality of all being, thus immanent within all ranges of the spectrum we perceive through our mortal sense of hearing. It can be said to morph and oscillate in an infinite variety of sympathetic tones, while remaining unadulterated by any changes in pitch or frequency.
I believe that what many of us hear, under the enigmatic rush of psychedelics, is what exists always, without our conscious minds even knowing it or hearing it. Our mental fixations and conceptual dialog are largely the reasons that our awareness of this phenomenon, is being drowned out by denser and more relative experiences. I used to call this sound
The Overtone. It is the origin and the full-blown expression of all other corresponding tones and endlessly echoing augmentations.
embracethevoid said:
Has anyone tried meditating by humming the carrier wave over and over again?
Yes, for the last 36+ years I have been internally chanting
ॐ (OM), ever since the late 1970s. Partially as with a mantra, internally chanting this japa behind the surface activity of my daily life... and partly listening intently to the actual sound as an observer, which is naturally perceivable if one quiets the mind. I have, as a direct result of my psychedelic journeys, gotten actively involved with Nada Yoga, Kriya Yoga and later on, with Surat Shabd Yoga and Sufism.
All of these mystical lineages of meditation are connected at one source, that being the initiating, causative force of the Cosmic Logos being made manifest as light emission and sonic vibration, pulsingly issuing forth from the Bindu (that singular point of unmoving, stillness & quiescence, deep within the vacuum of the Insubstantial Void).
At it's most useful level, the meditation on internal light and the sound current, lift one's focus into the point where absolute quietude reigns supreme. What has been labeled before as,
"The Roaring Silence". This expansive emptiness itself, indivisibly inherent, Omniversally/Universally, within the ineffable quietude of the Supreme Godhead in full bloom.
embracethevoid said:
I remember using parts of the carrier wave, the higher frequencies. When I'd hit certain frequencies I'd feel parts of my brain resonating in tune. I had a headache and I hit it with the natural frequency of the headache and it dissolved as if I had blasted a kidney stone with ultrasound.
Another thing I have found is that smoked DMT basically has the effect whether direct or simulated, of blasting your body with oxygen/prana. Hyperventilating for 2 minutes with deep belly breaths is equivalent to smoking ~5mg spice, so I heard. Very trippy; there are pranayamas based on flooding the body with air: rebirth breathwork, holotropic breathwork. Powerful stuff!
So yeah... Carrier wave meditation
WWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeee----...*
The only subtle difference between your well expressed impressions and mine own, are based on semantics and some effects of personal specificity. And our understandings are not by any degree or quantification, incompatible. Namaste, brother. I make a particular distinction in my own mind between the whole spectral tonal range, as being AUM, the opening and closing of the wholly Omnipotent Logos and the HU, being the subtlest tonal extreme of the spectrum. I have a special love for "The Overtone" of this all-encompassing, vibratory issuance. I am drawn towards the highest-ringing scintillation at the top of the our perceivable auditory range, that being the HU vibration. Yogis, Sufis and Eckists worship this word as the awakening note.
The scintillating, shimmering, radiating HU tone, bonds our attention to the realms of our higher being, above/within/beyond all of this physical and intellectually-based one. The higher, singing-ringing-zinging tone that literally "carries" us transcendentally, to a place without the lines of definition and membranes of isolated subjective perception. Such a sound pulls our core essence away form the gross material awareness, towards that of the living presence of raw, undifferentiated spiritual current.
Anyone digging into Eastern metaphysics will be familiar with the Indian Vedantic belief system, which attributes various sounds heard in deep meditation, in resonance with distinct planes of consciousness. So we put special descriptives upon: the sound of rumbling thunder, the roar of the cosmic ocean, the chipping of celestial birds or hyperspace crickets, the buzzing of ethereal bees, the hissing of the formless breeze... or the sound steam makes when boiling water and creating evaporation, the concentric ripples of sound from high-pitched bells... or the even the higher register of the flute.
These earthly descriptions are but symbolic representations and not quite the actual sounds... but we do try to make sense of this stuff (because of our need to communicate). These sounds all correlate to a specificity in finite manifestation and are interlinked to the various ranges of corresponding psychic centers, or chakras, if you will.
Tibetan Buddhism also goes into minute detail about just what these internally-heard tones are, as direct echoes and reflections of the realm of the Supreme Light, which shines like a zillion suns inside of every sub-atomic particle within creation. AUM is the source of all of these auditorialy-perceivable sound waves and is symbiotically interrelated with all other sonic variations.
In quintessentially Zen terms, it has been described by shakuhachi master, Watazumi Doso Roshi, as the
"One Sound". I really, really, really like that phrase! One universal note vibrating with primordial power, so much so that it elicits the effulgence of Divine Light, so to, giving substance to all realities and potential realities. As I attempted to differentiate earlier, the higher frequency of this totality of AUM is the HU tone. One can detect, even with the ringing in the material ears, as with the phenomenon of tinnitus, it's pulsation and enigmatic pull on our sentient awareness.
Gotta go off now to join the work force... but I am most intrigued to hear more from our other members. I feel that I did not clearly express myself, in the above post. sigh... it's surely not an easy subject to casually discuss on the way to earning a buck.
One last thought... I have found in my own sadhana, that any serious study I embark upon, regarding the nature of consciousness, includes the direct perception of this spectrum of internally heard tonalities. A friend of mine once called this ability we all innately possess, to perceive the sound current in altered states, as our listening through our opened-up "Third Ear" (also, the result of an activation of one's Ajna ).
"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
(And the Logos sounds immensely enchanting!) 8) 
