The power of
the gong didnt mean much to me, until through another happy
coincidence I met gong-master (my description), Don Conreaux at
the 23rd Mind body spirit festival.
I entered his workshop touched by negativity, I left enthused
with a new confidence, my chakras re-balanced after a few brief
hours within his calming aura.
A flower-child of the first psychedelic revolution, he learnt
the gong from the 3HO and the yogi Bhajan, who he first heard
playing a gong in 1969, in California.
I immediately got one, I played the gong every day for thirty
years, he enthusiastically remembers.
The first gong appeared in 3500 BC in Mesopotamia, present-day
Iraq/Iran, at the end of the agricultural era, when the huge wheat-ovens
got so hot that the copper and tin melted out of the rocks to
form a bronze alloy gong.
It was the first synthesizer, all of our synthesizers today
are simply grand-children of that, he tells me.
It is the elemental nature of the gong, which renders its importance
on both the material and spiritual plane. Having come from the
same furnace as our being, our life-blood, the gong activates
our Third ear in much the same way that visual stimulus is intrepreted
by our Third eye.
Holistic Gong music is drunk by the Third ear, the spiritual
one that encompasses your entire being of mind, body and spirit.
The gongs purpose is to give you safe passage, interdimensionally
and to give you better access to the creative power of Om, which
is the power to decondition and recondition the mental, emotional,
material vehicle of your soul, explains Don.
The workshop helps you to develop your intuition. The left
brain, academic musical education tells us allows us to memorize
rhythms, melodies, harmonics etc. We can by-pass that and allow
our instincts, our love and care to be inducted from us in life.
During his workshop Don demonstrates the healing qualities of
3 gongs played simultaneously, their sonorous frequencies resonating
a deep chord within you.
Each gong supposedly represents the sound of a planet, maybe the
sound they make, the vibration they produce as they plough through
the cosmos.
Scientifically you can transpose them octave by octave so
they fit into our hearing range. When we do this, those planets
carry the same qualities acoustically as they do astrologically.
The gong bouquet (any mixture of three planet gongs) of Sun, Mercury
and Mars, when played together with their tones layered over each
other begin to mix and match their tones and produce progeny which
we call resultant tones.
Two tones of equal amplitude seem to create children called
over and under tones. These extra tones are called unstruck sounds
and theyre really heavenly sounds. Theyre the result
of exterior sounds coming together.
Don tells the workshop group to make an intention to do something
and to affirm that it will come into being whilst they meditate
with the vibrating gong ringing in their ears.
You can use that power of sound to support your intention,
your affirmation or your meditation.
When you mix the three planet gongs simultaneously, out
of that selection comes certain powers carried by the flow of
sound. They operate the same way as the astrological influences
in life.
The Sun in our charts, gives us the lifeforce - it comes
from the solar plexus. The prana is what lives on.
Mercury is the communication process, the artistic part
of us. Were mixing the life-force with the power of the
voice chakra. Mars is the iniatator. Its where we
get our will-power, our strength. It activates everything.
Your intention, your purpose will go into that sound and
its going to nourish that pod and make it grow into the
light.
This happens because of synaesthesia, a mixing of the senses.
It causes you to make an alteration, a shift from here to there,
so a creative force can enter our lives which we can use.
The magic of the gong doesnt complete itself. The
dissonant harmony within the gong causes it to go on and never
ends. Not on the physical plane.
That forces the consciousness to resolve itself on the spiritual
plane and therefore everyone makes the shift into their 4th dimensional
bodies when theyre listening to it, whether theyve
taken drugs or not. Whether theyve meditated or not.
Everybody, even animals make that shift in consciousness
when theyve listened to it
Supposedly the gong takes you to your next level of meditation.
Gurus, saints and masters all bow to the gong because it has a
transpersonal entity within it and this entity is the highest.
The development of holiopathic resonance, the Buddhists
call it the Maitreyan factor. Right now 2,500 years after his
death its come back through the gong, bells, its this type
of tone. One tone layered on another causes unstruck sound, which
brings you into a telepathic resonance with people.
It seems as if theyre not going to become enlightened,
yet the quantum shift is going to happen to make people feel united
as one human being.
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