Recommended Reading

For those interested in deepening their study of sound, music and vibration as they relate to healing and meditation, the following titles are recommended as points of departure:

  1. Elements of Sound: A Full-Spectrum Exploration of Sound and Consciousness (Adrian DiMatteo)

  2. The Mysticism of Sound and Music (Hazrat Inayat Khan)

  3. This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (Daniel Levetin)

  4. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Oliver Sacks)

  5. Biological Rhythms in Human and Animal Physiology (Gay Gaer Luce)

  6. Music of the Whole Earth (David Reck)

  7. The Kybalion (Three Initiates)

  8. Tao te Ching (Lao Tzu)

  9. The Dhammapada (Gautama Buddha)

  10. Ecclesiastes (from the Hebrew Bible)

  11. Bhagavad Gita (Hindu scripture)

  12. The Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics (Arthur Benade)

  13. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Patanjali)

  14. Raja Yoga (Swami Vivekenanda)

  15. Light on Pranayama (Iyengar, B. K. S.)

  16. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Don Miguel Ruiz)

  17. On Children (poem by Khalil Gibran)

  18. If (poem by Rudyard Kipling)

  19. Desiderata (poem by Max Ehrmann)

  20. The First Heaven of Quetzalcoatl (Domingo Dias Porta)

  21. The 42 Laws of Ma’at (ancient Egyptian teaching)

  22. 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva (Tokme Zangpo)

  23. The Five Remembrances (Buddhist)

  24. Quadrivium (Miranda Lundy, Anthony Ashton, Jason Martineau, Daud Sutton and John Martineau)

  25. Chief Seattle’s Speech (1854)