The Clair Senses 2 - True Listening Is Worship

 This post is part of a series. If you have not read the first post on clairvoyance, you can do so here. There are also two other intro posts on spiritual gifts linked here: 1 & 2.  Enjoy.​

“True Listening is Worship”[1]
 
Just as we see only one percent of the light spectrum, we hear very little of reality as well. Radio technology proves that there are sound waves all around us that can be heard with finely tuned devices. Mystics and spiritual savants tell us they can also hear thoughts and hear the sounds of the chakras and the music of the planets. We call this clear-hearing clairaudience.

For decades, I knew there was something strange about my hearing. When I was 6 or 7 years old my parents had my hearing tested – I guess they had concerns. I asked about the results several weeks after. They told me, straight-faced, that I had “selective hearing.” I now know this was a joke. Selective hearing means I had no medical problem but that I only heard what and when I wanted to. At the time, however, I didn’t know it was a joke I thought it was a medical diagnosis. In fact, I didn’t figure this out till I was almost an adult (we didn’t have the internet back then to google our symptoms). I used to tell friends or teachers seriously that I had “selective hearing” and they would look at me askew and raise an eyebrow or smirk.

It’s a funny story that shows how early my clairaudience was active. I still have “selective hearing” sometimes, and it’s not because I want to ignore my husband or child. It is because I am listening on several levels, often without realizing it. This multi-dimensional listening can become overwhelming when noise from ordinary reality becomes overbearing and jars me back suddenly. I have been labeled too sound-sensitive by my family, but I also have an amazing ability to tune out some things others can’t. It’s baffling, but helps me understand people with sensory processing issues—I realize that many other sense “disorders” may be a a spiritual gift that needs attention.

I have a shaman friend who survived electrocution at age 5. After the accident, her clear seeing and clear hearing became undeniable. She said that while the electrical current was running through her it was like she could see people’s insides. Since then, she hears what people mean to say instead of what they say. Her neighbor might say “my leg hurts,” but she will hear, “I want a divorce.”  This gift caused all kinds of childhood scrapes. As an adult, she felt like an alien for years until she learned more about spiritual gifts, that she was not alone, and how to use what God gave her.
 
Do You Have It?
If you wonder if you have clairaudient sensibilities I bet you do. First, just for fun, I would check your childhood for funny stories, scapes, or “imaginary friends.”  Often the stories we remember or that are told to us are not what they seemed. There is more going on.

You might have clairaudience if answers to prayers or everyday problems come into your mind in words. The voice may sound like your own inner voice, but it’s usually much wiser or more funny or clever than the ordinary mind chatter. You might hear song lyrics as messages. I find that if a song is stuck in my head, there is usually a message trying to come through in the lyrics. Some people hear actual voices that come as if from outside them, though this is less common. It takes an incredible amount of energy for the subtle realms to manifest an audible voice and so they don’t do it as often unless it’s extremely important.

Do you ever say things and afterward people tell you that what you said was meant just for them. I was told this many times before I realized I was “hearing” and then saying these messages aloud for others. I am a teacher and I often sit on a stage and teach to a group. Even when I prepare an exact outline of what to say, I often go on tangents. I am not always consciously aware that these are me listening and receiving special words for others, because it happens so fast. But afterwards several people will tell me that this or that part of my class was just for them. They even wonder if I was reading their mind because it was so specific. To my knowledge, I was not reading anyone’s mind. God, however, was, and my subtle listening and transmitting gift was in action.

Speaking of mind-reading, the gift of telepathy is real. There are many people who can hear your thoughts and can communicate mind to mind with others, as well as with animals. In fact, we are all born with telepathy and it is slowly trained out of us.
When my daughter was young I figured out that she was reading my mind when we played cards because she always knew what color I had or what number. I did some experiments and I used to practice sending her either pictures or words. She often guessed them before I sent them. As soon as I decided what to send, she would know.

If you haven’t found the podcast “Telepathy Tapes” yet, you can listen to how thousands of parents and teachers have discovered that their non-verbal autistic children have telepathic gifts and many other gifts previously unknown by most of the world. And why not these previously marginalized children? Jesus said that the last shall be first and the first last.[2] The scriptures also aver that one does not hide a valuable gift in an ostentatious vessel but in a plain vessel, so that thieves don’t plunder and steal it.[3]  I look forward to seeing how this population will lead us into a new age of spirituality. They can teach us, but we must listen to them.
 
Meditate to Hear the Music of the Spheres
While we are all born with gifts, the world we are born into has been hostile to their survival. This is why meditation is essential, because the outside world is relentless in urgency and stress. We need to meditate to hear the voice of the soul.

John O’Donahuse said, “When you listen to your soul, you come into rhythm and unity with the music of the universe.”[4] That quote may seem like merely nice poetry, but it is fact. The universe is making music. The yogis will tell you it is the sound of God or of Om like a lullabye oozing forth through all creation.

Our own bodies are also full of subtle music and mystical sounds. Only when we quiet the roar of our breath and heart beat and rushing of blood and sloshing digesting can we hear the subtle sounds. This is why saints and shamans fast, and meditate. To quiet the digestion and slow the breath and the heart. 

Once your body is quiet, you can hear things like the heart chakra. The heart chakra is called the anahat, which means “unstruck sound.” I had no idea that this referred to a literal sound, until I heard it myself while deep in meditation. The first time I heard the anahat I was meditating with a friend in the early morning between 4 and 6 am. We were chanting an eight-syllable mantra when I heard a strange bell sound, almost like my cell phone text alert (which has a gong chime) but higher pitched. I did wonder if someone had left a phone at my house, because I knew it wasn’t my phone and my friend didn’t have his phone with him. I heard it again several times. I asked about it later and he lit up when he realized what I had experienced, “You heard the anahat!” I have heard it many more times since then, but it is always surprising, like a cheerful bell.

The other chakras have sounds too. All the mystics and saints describe them similarly.  The second chakra is described like a flute, and the 6th chakra or spiritual eye has a sound like the sound of rushing waters. If you have read your Book of Revelations, you may remember how many times the Holy Ghost is described as the sound of many rushing waters (Rev 1:15, Rev 14:2, Rev 19:6). If it makes you think about everything differently in The Bible, that’s a good thing. There are layers upon layers in the scriptures that are waiting for you to understand at a deeper level. Paramahansa Yogananda asserts that the Holy Ghost works through the awakened spiritual eye. That this spiritual eye has a sound that correlates to the description of the Holy Ghost is very interesting. How can you verify this though, or any of the other supposed sounds until you hear them for yourself?

 It makes me think of the many times Jesus says that the people listen but do not hear. These sounds are not easily heard but by the deeply devoted meditator. But I believe everyone can learn to hear them.

Who's There?
 Another way to develop clairaudience (and other gifts), at least temporarily, is through spiritually intentional fasting. Once, after fasting for many days I heard several people talking about me near my head. I was lying down in my own house and no one was around, but there were clearly people in the room in another spiritual dimension. I listened more intently. The best way to describe them is as angels. They had compassion for me and they wanted to help me. They were discussing my “case.” They felt so loving and warm and I wondered why if they were so close I did not hear them all the time. Later, when my fast ended and I went back to daily life, I couldn’t hear them as easily, and I missed them. I knew there were there though, and I had a reason to keep listening.

Just as with clairvoyance, there are many other gifts that I will list separately later in these pages/posts that crossover or fall under the heading of clairaudience, such as: speaking with the tongue of angels, writing poetry, other writing gifts, the gift of tongues, the gift of translation. For now, however, I will save these gifts for another post where I can cover them in the depth they deserve.

Also, as I mentioned in the post on Clairvoyance, the input that comes from beyond the veil in the subtle realms is not transmitted in words, it’s more in a “style” that we must assign words as best we can from our storehouse of language. This is how when God speaks, everyone can hear the Lord in their own language and even speaking their own name. It’s remarkable. Does the translation get garbled sometimes? Yes and no. That depends on how you see it and how much importance you put into words themselves. A two year old may sit in deep communion with God, and have loads to share with you, however, they may only be able to say a few words such as “Jesus loves Daddy!” An awakened heart can feel the power and truth in his words hit home like an arrow to the heart and nothing else is needed.

More about words another time. So much more.  For now, stay tuned for the next clair sense: smell.

End notes:
[1] – Martin Heidegger
[2] Matt 20:16 (similar scriptures in Mark, Luke and elsewhere in Matthew)
[3] 2 Chorinthians 4:7, Jeremiah 32, Matthew 13:44
[4] John O'Donahue, Anam Cara  p. 71