Hearing the echo of oneness, symbolised by aum, sohang, or the word of god, is easy when you do not expect to experience something hidden.
From Duality Hack #11.4 in Alexius’ Duality Hacks.
Life has no secrets because it takes more than one to hide anything, and life is that which is One. So why do people look for life’s meaning? The answer lies in the previous sentence: life is oneness. So, you are without life in a world with more than one.
However, you can hear or feel an echo of oneness in a world with more than one. Christianity calls it the word of god, and Eastern religions aum or sohang. That said, experiencing something is impossible. There is nothing but that which is One and it takes more than one to be aware of something.
Nevertheless, this hack functions within the belief that it is possible to be and have more than one. So, when you hear or feel the echo of oneness, it is a call from oneness. It is without a beginning and end, so it cannot be written or spoken. Still, it is easy to hear or feel it if you do not expect something definitive.
The original translation of the Hebrew word Elohim was the word of god, a metaphor for that which is One and never ends. But since that makes no sense in a world with more than one, the word’s meaning gradually changed. Nowadays, it means god, an almighty force, having created the world in its image.
However, since oneness is formless, it cannot create a world with more than one. Therefore, such a world and its perceived creator are fake.
The vibration that AUM, SOHANG, or THE WORD OF GOD symbolise
For ages, people have been chanting aum and sohang or speculating about the meaning of the word of god, assuming they contain a secret that miraculously materialises if they keep chanting or contemplating. But oneness does not make miracles or disclose anything because that requires more than one
The sense of being someone definitive vanishes when you hear or feel the echo of oneness. Thus, nobody needs more than one.
Hearing or feeling the primordial vibration that aum, sohang or the word of god symbolises requires no effort if you do not search for an elitist understanding or look for peak experiences of something mysterious and sensational. All you have to do is not focus on hearing or feeling something. Then, one chant is enough to pick up the primordial vibration Alexius refers to as the echo of oneness.
Tuning into the echo of oneness to hear it …
… you very slowly sing AU as one letter sounding within you. Then you add M very softly, so it almost hangs in the air as a whispering sound. This distant humming can neither be written nor said, so do not listen to the sound you sang but the vibe you tuned into. If you cannot help smiling, you have recognised the echo of oneness.
You can also get in touch with the distant humming of oneness by saying sohang – eventually combined with listening to the sound from the breath. When breathing in, you say SO inside you, continue with a silent H and pause on OH until you start breathing out. Then, you continue by saying HA(N). So far, you have tuned into the echo of oneness. But when you remain on (A)NG at the end of breathing out, (A)NG fades out, and you hear the echo of oneness as a distant humming at the top of your head.
Another way to hear the echo of oneness is to stop focusing on different sounds in the world of the outward-facing senses. Eventually, they fuse into one sound: the echo of oneness.
You do not have to sit in a particular posture, endlessly chant or pray, wear unique clothes or be in a specific place with special people to hear the echo of oneness. Neither does there have to be stillness inside or outside you. On the contrary, stillness entails stagnation and life booms. So, just be devoted to hearing what cannot be spoken.
One of the first times Alexius sensed the echo of oneness, he was busy handing out flyers on a pedestrian street. He was so devoted to it that the noise of the road became a distant sound fusing into a humming, which, although remote, cancelled out the feeling of being someone definitive somewhere specific. It was like the sum of all made everything transparent. See Duality Hack #11.3.
You may already have heard or felt the echo of oneness. However, if you are biased towards something mysterious and sensational, you may dismiss the distant humming from nowhere and everywhere as the sound of the neighbour’s vacuum cleaner. [Photo: Alexius]
What does it sound like?
Some people complain that they hear their neighbours vacuum cleaning when they are about to fall asleep. But most likely, it is not the sound of a vacuum cleaner they hear but the distant humming that aum, sohang, and the word of god symbolises.
The vibration is also comparable to hearing the distant sound of the air conditioning in an airport, a wave at the shore that never stops moving upwards, or the sound on the edge of breathing in or out. But since most look for an exceptional experience, they brush off something so simple as the gentle humming coming from nowhere in particular.
Knowing that the echo of oneness is there makes it easier to tune into it
When Alexius was a teenager, he liked to hear the music from a radio station on a frequency between two noisy stations that often obscured his favourite station. But as he knew of its existence and where to look, he succeeded in tuning into his favourite music station with determination and the finest subtlety.
Likewise, since you now know how to get the humming of oneness regardless of the world’s noise, you can tune into it through devotion to your present activity or via aum or sohang. If there appears to be too much noise in the head, join it until it fuses into one sound.
Tuning into the echo of oneness[Photo: Alexius]
To feel the echo of oneness
You can also feel the echo of oneness – especially if you are more emotional than audio-minded. Maybe you already did that when you tuned into the echo of oneness by following the above instructions. If not, tune in again and put more weight into feeling it.
Feeling the echo of oneness can be likened to sensing your body purring like a cat or the bubbling effect that comes from quickly drinking the foam of Coca-Cola. It is also akin to trembling of fear but without feeling anything other than bliss, provided you do not interpret the primordial vibration as scary. Thus avoiding the call to go home.
But responding to the call, the feeling gets more intense. It is as if an earthquake’s vibration touches you or you are touched by the spin cycle of a giant laundry machine You feel no transition between the body and the appearances outside it. Therefore, not frightened by the unknown, you forget about concepts like inside and outside. Thus, no memory of something limited seems to hide the formlessness of oneness.
Alexius is more aware of hearing than feeling something, so it took him a long time to feel the echo of oneness (see Duality Hack #10.4). When he finally did – after several years – it was so intense that the echo of oneness brought him into the Enlightenment of that which is One. There, nobody sees, hears, feels or tastes something since that requires more than one.
Alexius and the echo of oneness
The above is Alexius’ way of communicating how you can hear and feel the echo of oneness. Using aum or sohang as a stepping stone is not a new idea. So far, it has been promoted in mysterious ways by people who did not know the echo of oneness but hoped continued chanting would reveal it. However, hoping for something in the future, they miss the gentle humming from nowhere, present everywhere.
It was not through the words aum or sohang that Alexius heard or felt the humming they symbolise. Since his teenage years, he was, for no specific reason, often ‘lifted’ by this humming – for example, while watching a movie, walking, or sitting in a park. When he was about 40 years old, it suddenly dawned on him that this distant humming is what people try to reach when chanting aum or sohang.
However, it is not about reaching. It is about tuning into something we all have. Therefore, since Alexius can do it, so can you
No need to chant or read scriptures to conjure up the vibration that aum, sohang, and the word of god symbolise – what Alexius refers to as the echo of oneness. It is without a beginning or an end, so when you do not focus on something specific, you hear or feel this unpronounceable vibration effortlessly, regardless of what and where you appear. But you also hear and feel the echo of oneness effortlessly if you focus on something without expecting anything in return.
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