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    Magnum Opus of the Gong: Selected Essays Vol 1
    Magnum Opus of the Gong: Selected Essays Vol 1
    Magnum Opus of the Gong: Selected Essays Vol 1
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    Magnum Opus of the Gong: Selected Essays Vol 1

    By Don Conreaux

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    Magnum Opus of the Gong, selected essays from the Master's Teachings on philosophy and practice of Gong Therapy, Sacred Tone Improvisation, Spiritual Quickening and Gong Consciousness, World Peace and global unity. Writings for deep contemplation and meditation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateApr 21, 2016
    ISBN9781483567341
    Magnum Opus of the Gong: Selected Essays Vol 1

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      Magnum Opus of the Gong - Don Conreaux

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      1. THE GONG IS NAMED AFTER THE SOUND IT MAKES

      In learning to play the gong, the musician sees the gong more as an engine that produces a release of resonant power than simply a pleasing musical esthetic. Gong power has universal implications because it symbolizes and releases the all-pervading cosmic rotational force of the universe, called AUM or OM, the mythical word of ‘In the Beginning’.

      HOLISTIC RESONANCE

      In the New Music Science of Holistic Sound, an understanding of the phenomenon of fullness within Resonance is a fundamental pre-requisite to mastering in a broader context the playing of the Great Gong of Life. The musical bronze flat disc called a Symphonic Gong or Tam Tam is known as a perfect source of Holistic Resonance. The Gong, unlike any other instrument known, when struck by a soft mallet, produces multiple tones in an always-present continuum of sound, no matter what the particular gong’s fundamental pitch may be.

      TONE CLUSTERS

      Within the great AUM (OM) background of the gong’s total sound arise spontaneous clusters of overtones with no spaces between the tones. These tone clusters have a fullness and unpredictable independence about them, thus they are called living or organic tones and they are simply the result of two equally struck tones combining together to produce sonal bouquets of offspring or tone progeny. Partials and\or Heterodynes (children) are also used to refer to the resultant tones created by tone combining.

      RESULTANT TONES

      Resultant tones can also be called Summation tones (the result of a higher overtone arising from the combining of two tones of equal intensity of volume when added together). There are also times, depending on the particular frequency ratios of the two combining tones, when a lower tone called a Reduction tone is produced through subtraction. All Resultant tones are a manifestation of organic tone mitosis that reflects elegantly the harmonious cellular reproduction of organic matter. This unique act of holistic tone reproduction is only possible because bronze of a disc-shape has such a powerfully long sustain that this allows multitudinous sonal bouquets of tone clusters to flower and bloom within the sound field of an acoustical environment.

      FEELING TONES

      Because sound travels much faster through metal than it does through air. Thus, the slower absorbing air surrounding the vibrating gong becomes thickly packed with reverberations that are called ‘feeling tones’. Feeling tones are tones heard not just with the ears but felt kinesthetically in a tactile or sensual way. The entire body as a result of prolonged saturation becomes like a collective ear when it is touched and communicated with by the accumulation of the long low waves of full gong sound.

      TOTAL SOUND

      As layer after layer of rolling waves of sound build in volume, the atmosphere (the ‘envelope’) becomes so dense with vibrations that all other sounds in the acoustical environment disappear into a resonant blanket of ‘total sound’. The ancients refer to this as the OM field of the Akashic Ethers.

      THE ETHERIC FIELD OF PHI

      The simple ratio of PHI, the Golden Proportion of the Perfect Spiral that in Science is 1.618033989, in musical harmony is the Minor Sixth of 1.6 ratios. When tones are layered, one on the other, they combine and rise in ratios closer and closer to that of the perfect spiral. Whereas, the natural harmonic rise continues in smaller and smaller increments before becoming inaudible, the resultant series levels off into a congruent series of ratios that begin with the following series of Minor Sixths:

      According to the Fibonacci Series

      As the resultant tones become higher, the ratio begins to weave back and forth around PHI getting ever nearer to the perfect 1.618033989.

      Golden Section in Sacred Geometry, stated in the following formula:

      In the Science of Fractals this PHI ratio is the only ratio where such elegant coherency is found; it is a superconducting line of least resistance and greatest strength; it is the ratio of DNA. AB is to BC, as BC is to AC

      |———|————|

      A         B              C

      DEMATERIALIZATION

      Total gong sound is truly pure holistic resonance. The experience is wrapped in a cocoon or womb that is so charged with powerful wholesome tone cell reproduction that at some point the person seems to disappear completely into the sound field. This is a phenomenon that can be called a conscious dematerialization through sensorial sound saturation. When this happens, the mental, emotional and physical bodies become both super-conducting and super-regenerating, and the strain caused by the normal resistance of the ego-identity no longer exists as a disease factor.

      2. GONG PROPHESY THE RETURN OF MAITREYA AND THE END OF KALI YUG

      The appearance of an ancient musical instrument, the disc-shaped Gong, initiated the beginning of the Bronze Age sometime between 4,000 and 3,000 BCE. Bronze is the first alloy synthesized by Mankind. It is a metallic amalgamation of Copper and Tin. This discovery also hallmarked the birth of Science, as we know it today. The Gong was revered as the incarnation of a great entity, which expressed itself through reproducing the OM Sound of Life. Only a few certain Sacred Gongs had a rare element in their casting melt, that mysteriously dropped from the Heavens in the form of a meteorite. Today we know this sacred element, which expanded the Gong’s cosmic roar, as the element of Nickel.

      SIDDARTHA GAUTAMA BUDDHA

      Some 40 Centuries later, in 600 BCE, Gautama Buddha who lived in Nepal sent his priests, deep into the Orient and Far East with instructions to inscribe on the face of every Gong and Bell the two Mandarin Chinese words Tai Loi. These words originate from a quatrain written by Confucius, Gautama’s contemporary. Fao Kay the unused part of the quatrain’s 4 words is interpreted as The Bad Has Gone, Tai Loi means "The Good

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