O.K. …This is the wierdest thing I have ever posted. :roll: I did a search and came up pretty much dry. Has anyone else ever felt (heard) what they might consider to be something like The Universal Drone? I have stood in certain places around the world where I could almost feel or hear the action of the earth itself (or something) kind of doing its thing. Maybe moving through the heavens with everything else.
It is not like a readily identifieable sound… so to say… It is like a “sound-feeling”. I have experienced this in places like North-Western China, Scandinavia, Northern Ireland, The northern Minnesota/Southern Ontario weilderness etc… It’s hard to put a finger on what I am trying to describe.
I was just wondering if anybody else has ever experienced such a feeling anywhere in the world. Do you think this might be what is sometimes described as the Universal Drone?
Best,
-Paul (Hoping not to sound like a total wierdo)
Well, you don’t sound like a total wierdo to me, but then again most people regard me a totally wierd so that’s probably little comfort.
What you describe is similar to how people in the buddhist or hindu traditions percieve the meditation seed-sylable ‘OM’ or ‘AUM’ – the sound the universe makes. I have experienced this sound when in a place of deep connection to the earth.
Hi Paul, I’ve read quite a few articles and reports from around the world about people hearing,or ‘feeling’ sounds that have been described as hums,drones or buzzing.The term ‘Hummadruzz’ has been coined to describe it.Various theories have been used to account for it, including low frequency radio communications by the military,and movements deep in the Earth/Techtonics.An interesting puzzle.
Paul! I know exactly what you are talking about, and it goes along with something I was starting to research not too long ago(and am still researching)–ley lines, and sounds of the earth. You are not loony , and I’d love to talk to you some more about this! I’d like to hear more about the locations where you’ve heard/felt the sound(s).
Your experiences put me in mind of faerie music and the faerie hills, where the little folk live underground. Hang around too long at the wrong time of day, and you’ll hear the faeries singing, dancing & playing their pipes! Shee Beg Shee More is a fairy inspired tune, to get a bit of whistling into the thread! If you’re not careful you’ll get carried off to live out your days with the fairies.
Actually, I think this may already have happened to Bloomfield, and jim mc really encountered an automaton of Bloomy, which would explain a lot. A new theory in the making.
I was playing my whistle on a wooded hill in Dorset last summer, and scared the skins off a family who heard me and thought they were hearing the faeries!
Seriously, I think we miss a lot of stuff like this because we live in a modern digitalised society, and have tuned out from the rhythms & moods of the earth.
Well, Paul, I don’t know if this is exactly what you’re describing, but I’ll share an experience I had. (I posted this before in another thread quite some time ago, and in the chat room, so please forgive me for putting it in again - it was a deeply affecting experience.)
I grew up in southern Utah, an hour north of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. They usually close the road to the North Rim on Nov. 1 because of snow, but one day years ago I went for a drive out that way in mid-November and realized they hadn’t yet closed the road. I drove out to the lodge area at the North Rim, and when I arrived there was only one other car in the parking lot - the people with the car got in and left just as I arrived, so I was completely alone at the North Rim.
I walked out one of the trails to a main look-out point and stood there, completely alone, for a very long time. The sound I heard was a combination of the Colorado River a mile below, wind, and echoes of those sounds. But there was an almost palpable feeling of a spirit to the earth there.
As I said, this experience affected me deeply. I wish I could more clearly express what I heard and felt that day.
Susan
Boy! You can tell the makeup of this discussion board has changed a lot if I was the first one to make a crystal people reference in regards to this posting.
Susan, I can imagine what a deeply moving experience that must have been for you! I believe Martin is correct that we oftentimes miss these things because we have become so used to a constant noise level, and have become desensitized to the natural sounds around us. Even now as I sit beside an open window the sounds of the wind, the insects, and the birds are being drowned out by the hum of someone’s air/heater unit. You being alone, in a pure, quiet setting allowed you to tap into a wondrous thing that our ancestors got to hear much more often, fortunate beings that they were!
Paul, I totally know what you mean! I saw a show about that a while back. I myself don’t usually go into the countryside or to other countries, because they don’t have TVs, but I am very familiar with the universal drone. Here in New York City is very strong and very pronounced, probably because the corner of West 4th and Charles Street is the center of the universe. And I’d even say it’s a bit stronger than just a sound sensation, sometimes it’s really pretty pronounced. It makes the universe quiver and the ground shake. You can’t hear what you’re saying. I can feel it in my top-floor apartment (when I turn down the TV, like during the news). It’s amazing. Thing is, people here don’t really understand it. They tell me it’s a subway, like trains running in secret tunnels underground. Yeah, right.
You see, I love New York. Because there’s been a place to plug in the TV in every single apartment I’ve been in (not like Hoboken they tell me). But that’s the trouble with New York: You just have too many crazy weirdos running around, telling you stuff.
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Seriously, it reminds me of the hymn that says,
“…to my listening ears all nature sings, and round
me rings the music of the spheres,” and the
passage in Job that speaks of the stars of the
morning singing together at creation.
Paul, a really great book that goes into some of this stuff is Harmonies of Heaven and Earth- Mysticism in Music written by Joscelyn Godwin, published by Inner Traditions. I think you may find some answers to your universal drone in it. I got my copy here in Atlanta, at Phoenix and Dragon…
Paul, I totally know what you mean! I saw a show about that a while back. I myself don’t usually go into the countryside or to other countries, because they don’t have TVs, but I am very familiar with the universal drone. Here in New York City is very strong and very pronounced, probably because the corner of West 4th and Charles Street is the center of the universe. And I’d even say it’s a bit stronger than just a sound sensation, sometimes it’s really pretty pronounced. It makes the universe quiver and the ground shake. You can’t hear what you’re saying. I can feel it in my top-floor apartment (when I turn down the TV, like during the news). It’s amazing. Thing is, people here don’t really understand it. They tell me it’s a subway, like trains running in secret tunnels underground. Yeah, right.
Bloomfield… That’s the New york drone. It’s caused buy the Crystal People moving about underground in their Crystal Cruisers setting up surveillance in high-rise apartment buildings.
I figured that there would be people here who would relate. Andrea and Susan and everyone else who has had similar experiences, What you are describing is what I am talking about. I titled the thread Universal drone because that is the only term I’ve heard that somewhat describes the feeling that I am trying to describe. For me it most often happens in a natural setting, although there have been places with buildings on them where I have felt it before as well. It is a sense that is also somehow a sound but not exactly… It is very hard for me to describe but there is something happening. It is as though there is something highly organized and mechanical going on just beyond comprension and that it involves everything everywhere. It almost makes complete sense, but it is elusive… It seems to linger a moment and then it’s gone but it is truely unforgettable as Susanfx said.
Veg, I have talked to my mom on and off about these experiences and she had the same theory about the Ohm sound.
I have also wondered regarding this if the ability for people to sense or kind of hear this could be somehow related to music. Music, as I understand it, is a mainly human experience but could it connect us deeper to something like I am describing? Our need for music and rythm could be much more complex than many people assume.
Andrea, the Phoenix and Dragon is about 2 miles from our house. I will check that book out. Thanks.
I didn’t see a copy the last time I was in, but maybe they could order it if they’re still out. Don’t look in the regular book sections-- there’s a small glass bookshelf over by the cds, and the music-related books (sound healing, etc.) are there.
“There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Illúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made. And he spoke to them, propounding to them themes of music; and they sang before him, and he was glad.” —J.R.R.Tolkien
In Tolkien’s mythology, it was the Ainur which, inspired by Illúvatar, actually created the world with their music.
You are a weirdo You know i had to infiltrate this place eventually. Hello hello.
The universal drone. i remember going to some REM therapy place here and before stepping into the new- age -decorated- spaceship- like room (its no longer a business) we had to step onto this bridge they had built and place our hands on the handrails, where we could feel the ‘pulse’ of the earth. Rather, that the earth supposidly vibrates at a certain frequency, so low that we dont realize it, but … according to these folks… we’re buzzing.
Again.. thinking scientifically… when Astronomers are looking a new planets .. the one way in which they decide whether there are other planets or moons in their orbit is to look for a ‘wavering’ of the orbit. It actually has a wobbling apperance. Perhaps.. these forces are the vibration we all feel.
Perhaps… this transcends into us… we are unaware… perhaps.. it is the rhythm of the earth that we are feeling when we are feeling the rhytm of our music.
Paul,
I have heard music around me for decades. No, really. I’m a city boy so I hear music in bus doors closing and car transmissions shifting. Air conditioners sometimes hum in harmony and the fans in windows during the summer give a Doo-Wop bass pulse. It’s there, everywhere, even in the big cities if you get yourself receptive to it. I live about a half mile from a freeway. I can hear the drone of traffic if the wind is blowing my way. I like to think that it’s the sound of a waterfall splashing into the gorge that the freway bridge spans.
Mike
I remember discussing this universal done
on the pipe forum last fall. I still hold that
the pipe drones were influenced by this monotone
we hear, be it the busy-signal of nature, or a
carry-over from the big bang–still resonating
through the universe. Science can actually identify
this sound from outer space. Could be a kind of
“solar wind” humming at a low frequncy, but
certainly this alien music is “out of this world.”
By the way, excuse me for digressing here, but there’s a drone that sounds thoughout the universe, perhaps from the “big bang” and can be measured by scientist. Any speculation on the influence this may have had on music, or the human desire for a monotone? Maybe we really do have the “alien pipes.”
And can you imagine what Derek would be like if he get’s to that Nether-Nether land above, hears the universal drone, and decides to lay down his harp and take up the pipes?
Mike, what I am talking about is much more subtle and isn’t readily identifiable as are city rythms i.e. doors and hums of mechanical devices etc. I do think that the fact that we identify these sounds as musical rythms and harmony is interesting and suggests that we are absolutely wired for music. The drone or sense that I am speaking of has to do with the world and universe and everything within it and how they are all moving in synchronicity. It could be resonance from the big bang as Lorenzo suggested but even the big bang is only a theory, right? Since that seems to have rythem and harmony to it I was wondering if the fact that we can sense or hear it may have something to do with why we are wired for music…
Anyway I just thought it was something interesting for everyone to ponder especailly considering everything at hand.
Paul! I know exactly what you are talking about, and it goes along with something I was starting to research not too long ago(and am still researching)–ley lines, and sounds of the earth. You are not loony 
, and I’d love to talk to you some more about this! I’d like to hear more about the locations where you’ve heard/felt the sound(s). 
You being alone, in a pure, quiet setting allowed you to tap into a wondrous thing that our ancestors got to hear much more often, fortunate beings that they were! 
Since that seems to have rythem and harmony to it I was wondering if the fact that we can sense or hear it may have something to do with why we are wired for music…