Entheosonic Whistling Vessels: An Investigation Into Pre-Colombian Civilizations, Sound, Shamanism and Unity Nature

PREFACE

The first time I read Entheosonic Whistling Vessels was years ago, and the manuscript was much thinner than it is today. My first experience actually using these whistles was also long ago. Nevertheless, my interest, both in this treatise and in using the whistles, has never waned. When Denis Casarsa asked me to write a preface to his work, I was deeply touched. Having the honor and the advantage of knowing him personally, I can say what a good man he is and, further, how demanding he is in his role as eternal student. Writing such a preface is not simple, for one hopes to rise to the level of the work itself, which is indeed a difficult challenge to meet. Furthermore, there is so much to say that the preface could quickly become as voluminous as the treatise itself. This being the case, I will be content, as is my wont, to refer only to my own experience, which is surely valuable to only me. Precisely for this reason, I encourage you to seek that experience for yourself if you ever have the opportunity; indeed, I encourage you to create the circumstances to do so if they do not arise spontaneously.

To my mind, the use of these whistles is rich in secrets, since sound is the key to all existence, a truth that today particle physics clearly confirms through string theory. There is indeed a hidden fold of reality to which we have been granted access. These combined sounds are an authentic call to the memory of time, buried in the consciousness of our world, which many traditions call by different names, but that is perhaps best called Gaia. I have felt the vibration of these harmonies beyond the stop imposed on the mind, which grants entrance to the highest vibration of our being when in communion with these intensely creative mother sounds. The call was there, present, entering into syntonization with the primordial sound that is the sacred om, presenting a veritable panoply of the great Possible, both for human nature (which it is when human nature is correctly understood) and for the planetary consciousnesses such as Gaia. This call creates and guides the universe of evolving souls and the forms that they take through the illusory prism of the five kingdoms of nature. The resonance, the echoes, the harmonies of the universal language of sound, which alone builds all the realities of our environment, take shape during an experience with these whistles. The mysticism (in the largest, most universal, and noblest sense of the word) that emanates from them is like a vibrating cradle created in the expectation of welcoming the participants’ focused thought, which will certainly continue to grow until the fulfillment of this thought is peace, the power of love, harmony, and the reflection of the Absolute Light within each of us.

I thank Denis Casarsa for his tenacity, his patience, his evolving determination to acquire a profound understanding of the things whose essence he shares, as we all do, although maybe he does so with a much livelier awareness of this reality than most people. I salute his desire to be one with the living experience carried out through his perpetual quest for the true, the authentic, the noble, and the good. His work, having given rise to this treatise (not to mention the other diverse subjects he has studied), is to my mind fundamental to the reemergence of the knowledge hidden in humanity’s vast, forgotten past. Moreover, the deep intellectual honesty that guides him is proof of a truly academic documentary quality.

Wherever the human adventure has led us, in nearly every corner of the world, from the infinitely large to the infinitesimal, in all the seas, beneath the Earth, in the skies, and to the subquantum recesses of space (thanks to the work of the most advanced modern physics)—all of these explorations have been outside of humankind. The exploration that we have doubtlessly neglected most until now is that of our own inner world, the place where we are all truly joined through the intermediary of the essence of being, which is common to all things, just like the exploration of consciousness and its communion with the infinite facets of all inner realities. We are at the beginning of one of the numerous paths of exploration that are promised to a humanity reinvigorated for the twenty-first century and beyond, a path of the expansion and discovery of consciousness, which is to say, the consciousness of the self as it is interrelated with the consciousness of all. I sincerely hope you will respond to this invitation to explore enthusiastically, but also with humility, simplicity, and a spirit of accommodation and peace.

Eleazar (L.H.M. Namodias Asambhava)

1. INTRODUCTION

Several thousand years ago in the central region of Peru, there existed a lore of sound that has no counterpart in our days. The ancient Peruvians developed a craft (today we would call it a technology) of sound and its utilization for ritualistic and spiritual purposes. Despite a great deal of archeological and scientific research, this ancient knowledge and the circumstances and exact reasons for using these whistling vessels remain matters of mere supposition. In this text, we propose to examine certain aspects of this ancient knowledge and of various fields associated with it. The description of these whistles and of their effects on consciousness and the nature of what is generated by a group participating in a session with these instruments will lead us to a discussion of their origin and supposed place in these pre-Colombian cultures. The mythology and beliefs of these pre-Colombians are, of course, of a different age, but the close connection between these cultures and the forces of nature is of great value to modern humanity. This is not to suggest that we should adhere to some primitive cult of nature but that we should recognize nature as the very essence of life.

Peruvian whistles are instruments tuned to frequencies that correspond to the current evolutionary condition of humanity to this very day. It is difficult to speak of this experience, to characterize it and define it clearly, although it obviously represents something unusual and exceptional for each practitioner.

No discussion or theoretical consideration can capture the experience, so this text is above all an invitation to readers to seek the experience for themselves. Of course what one feels varies greatly from one individual to another, according to each person’s sensibility and receptivity at the time of the session, not to mention a considerable number of other factors that can influence the process. It can be useful to begin with a ritual that creates and supports a feeling of respect for that which transcends linear, logical, and intellectual comprehension. It is important to choose a place where one feels good, whether outdoors or inside, and where one can relax and have an enjoyable time.

The sounds produced by the whistles facilitate a natural modification of consciousness. The whistles are vehicles that lead us naturally and effortlessly to the realization of the vastness of our manifestation, to a new awareness of our inner landscapes, and to the creation of global fields of coherence. The entheosonic whistling vessels facilitate the transcendence of a certain mode of perception, a temporary suspension, or a slowing down of discursive thought. Thus they promote the discovery of our nature and manifestations by inducing a psychoacoustic experience of a very particular type, which remains nonetheless very simple.

The special tuning of these whistles produces their harmonics. These tones and overtones induce a light and brief modification in the usual state of our consciousness, an existential letting go, an outpouring beyond mind and conceptualization. This practice (which is done in small groups) leads to an extraordinary experience, unique and beneficial in its acoustic as well as its spiritual qualities. We will describe in fuller detail the ecstasy and characteristics of this special experience later.

Human consciousness, the making of these whistles, and the tonalities and frequencies that they produce all evolved together. We will deal with certain modern scientific studies that have been conducted on these instruments concerning their psychological effects on consciousness and the best way to benefit from this experience. The history of sound and of its utilization and meaning in human culture is enormous. We will discuss its esoteric wisdom along with modern research on the modification of consciousness through the medium of sound.

The four primordial elements (earth, water, air, and fire) are pictured on the front of Peruvian communicating whistles. We will examine the meaning of these elements in alchemy, Hermeticism, and Initiation Magic, while evoking humankind’s subtle bodies, their relationship to consciousness and spirituality, and the evolution of humanity.

Since entheosonic whistling vessels are shamanic instruments, I will attempt to define this ancient human knowledge and its specificities while maintaining a broad view of the psychological and mythological foundations of the psyche. We will also consider some psychology, especially the way in which the creativity inherent in our realities can help us to better discover what we fundamentally are. We will finish this treatise by invoking the nature of the nondual, or spiritual, experience.

This text and the research that it conveys are the products of individual experience with Peruvian whistling vessels extending over more than fifteen years. It was written above all with the goal of making these remarkable instruments known, that they might be for the readers just what they have been for me: an introduction to the themes that are at the heart of esotericism, the science of consciousness, and hidden knowledge. It is of course evident that, given the enormity and complexity of the subjects treated here, this text is the result of bias as to the diversity of biographical sources. Further, it was inspired by a dictum common in ancient human cultures: that a medicine, a magical gift with spiritual potential, can only help those who use it if its origins are remembered, repeated, recited, or ritually reconstituted.

This text also takes up this challenge: to translate, to give form to and recount an experience whose essence is found beyond the level of verbal language, which is a necessary and unavoidable conceptual sphere and which structures ourselves but generally limits our understanding of a greater reality. Our mind, our conceptual perception of reality, reveals itself to be completely secondary and reductionist during an experience of the whistles. The entheosonic Peruvian whistles give us access to other states of being—other dimensions of consciousness—which can serve as the means to realize individually what we need to experience, thus allowing us to draw near the point where self and other are joined in unity. This text was also written with the wish to invite others to travel on this path of unity, which reunites opposites, in the hope that it will be able to address certain domains of human experience that I consider important for the well-being of our communities. I hope to underscore our essential and fundamental unity.

I would like to acknowledge the collaboration of all my Peruvian whistle friends, players, teachers, and spiritual masters who assisted in the development of this project. I invite you to contact me with your questions about these instruments or this text, and, of course, I invite you to experience them for yourselves.

Denis Casarsa, January 2014.

2. THE DISCOVERY OF PERUVIAN WHISTLES

Peruvian whistles are artifacts of pottery in the form of communicating vessels. Archeologists and anthropologists found great numbers of these objects in South America. A special category of these communicating vessels was found in the tombs of high dignitaries along with the weapons and food they would need for their