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David Hykes/Harmonic Presence Foundation

Resonance and Radiance: Sacred Music, Sacred Mind

About Me


Greetings from this solar time-- some kind of primordial luminous resonance that is here again... here at our French center, the birds are really singing, the glistening light on the lake is like the listening light of harmonic sound. We just concluded a wonderful retreat with three outstanding Lama-Nuns from Nepal (shedrub.org), the same Lama-Nuns with whom we organized a festival in New York in June.
Peace, peace, peace.
I'm a composer, singer and spiritual realist who has developed and shares a form of universal sacred music called Harmonic Chant. I also teach and share the Harmonic Presence work, an integral system of musical spirituality. The work is a blend of musical, spiritual, meditative, scientific, artistic and healing qualities.
The Harmonic Presence work and Harmonic Chant have a strong vibrational, non-verbal dimension, which may people describe as transcendent, healing, transforming.
I see at as helpful in the work to awaken to Reality and to the music in all the spheres of our lives.
A well-known Tibetan incarnate Rinpoché I have tremendous respect for described our Harmonic Chant as "amazing spiritual singing," and "good for the suble body," so I guess we must be doing something right. I see this deep blend of sound and silence, light and space, as real help for subtle attunement to the innermost harmonics of Consciousness itself.
With our Harmonic Presence Foundation , we explore what I call the 4 M's--Mind, Music, Meditation, and Medicine. As a meditative and healing awareness teacher, I'm deeply devoted to how this work can be a path of opening to the heart of the matter.
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My Interests

really trying to understand about Harmony-- inside, outside, and everywhere between and beyond. That all depends on recognizing Reality, and on the Big Three in Life on Earth, in all spheres: attunement, harmonization, and accompaniment.

I'd like to meet:

Yes. Meantime, you can listen to more of this approach to universal sacred music, called Harmonic Chant , read about the related musical spirituality, the Harmonic Presence work , and learn more about the 2007 schedule of teachings, retreats and seminars, and concerts.

Music:

good, true, chant, mantra, sacred, silent, traditional, world, primordial, heart-felt, tuneful, well-intentioned.... birds, chimes, frogs, wind, crickets...the sound of the wave merging with the beach... the dance of the photons and the photones...

Movies:

Films I have had the honor to give music to: "Vajra Sky Over Tibet" (vajra-sky.com), "Travellers and Magicians," "The Yatra Trilogy," "Meetings with Remarkable Men," the biography of G. I. Gurdjieff; "Baraka," "Ghost," "Dead Poets Society"...

Television:

when i was 5 or 6 and we actually got one, there wasn't that much on, as in, no programming, just the swirling particle black and white static, so sometimes in the morning I would watch that, trying to figure out if it was galaxies, crowd scenes, riots from above, the ocean... recently I learned that at least 1% of those photonal vibrations are the 14 billion year-old harmonic echoes of the Big Bang, aka the cosmic background radiation, or CBR-- with which harmonizing remains one of my passionate...past-times...

Books:

and teachings by Buddha, Jesus, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Padmasambhava, Gurdjieff, Garab Dorje, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche, Tulku Thondup, Rumi...

Heroes:

Lord Pentland, G. I. Gurdjieff, Dr. Michel de Salzmann, Milarepa, Buddha, Guru Rinpoche, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, Sheila Dhar, James George, Duksey Rinpoche, HH the Gyalwang Drukpa, HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, HH the Dalai Lama, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Lobsang Lhalungpa, Mallikarjun Mansur, Amir Khan, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Yehudi Menuhin

My Blog

the inward flowing tide

Greetings, reader. I've been working online (the Harmonic Prsence Online Study Program) with a dear person battling life-threatening illness. Having been silenced this week outwardly with bronchitis...
Posted by David Hykes/Harmonic Presence Foundation on Wed, 16 May 2007 05:31:00 PST

more on the Global Warming of the heart... and how to overturn the Convection Infection

I've been thinking further this idea of mine, that what we need is a Global Warming of the heart, and how it can help cool these worsening environmental results of our over-heated minds. It's a speci...
Posted by David Hykes/Harmonic Presence Foundation on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 02:03:00 PST

global warming of the heart to cool the planet's over-heated minds

so necessary... proclaiming to no one but oneself... i really need... and i is a big 'we'... a spiritual ecology, vibrational ecology, a global approach...not just to the globe, but to global being, t...
Posted by David Hykes/Harmonic Presence Foundation on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 07:52:00 PST

Re-entry after Esalen

It was wonderful to be at Esalen again; our Harmonic Presence retreat weekend with 25 of us was powerful and moving-- just like the ocean so magestically displayed before our very I's....
Posted by David Hykes/Harmonic Presence Foundation on Mon, 15 May 2006 11:51:00 PST

oceanside

the sun has set, sky is quiet, darkening; waves still visible and audible
Posted by David Hykes/Harmonic Presence Foundation on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 04:53:00 PST

Check out this event: David Hykes/Harmonic Choir in concert

Hosted By: Cité de la Musique, ParisWhen: Saturday Feb 04, 2006 at 9:30 PMWhere: Cité de la Musique119, av jean Jaures Paris , FRDescription:Cité de la Musique, Paris Click Here To View Event...
Posted by David Hykes/Harmonic Presence Foundation on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:18:00 PST