When Patrick Ray, one of the writers here at Energy Healing Info, first heard the sound of quartz crystal singing bowls, he experienced a vision. The vision was very clear to him, although confusing as to what it meant. Patrick experienced himself as a planet with the rings of the planet harmonically vibrating with the music of the crystal bowls.

At the time he didn't know what the vision pertained to, but he knew he was hooked. He immediately went out and purchased a full seven chakra set of bowls.

In the years since then Patrick Ray described his first initiation with the crystal bowls to countless groups of workshop attendees and clients. It seems at every event someone always asks why he got started playing the bowls. When referring to the experience he has always mentioned his vision, but it continued to puzzle him. It sounded so strange.

Then one day Patrick became aware of the phenoma called "The Rings of Uranus." Turns out Nasa made recordings of the sounds of space with the Voyager Space Craft. It created recordings of general space sounds, along with specific recordings of the different planets.

The recording of Uranus is very interesting. The Voyager picked up and recorded sounds from the charged electromagnetic particles (ions) in the surrounding magnetic field of the rings of Uranus. The Nasa Recording sounds like Tibetan singing bowls.

Upon hearing of this planetary/crystal bowl connection, Patrick discovered the research of Dr. Jeffrey Thompson, the director for the Center of Neuroacoustic Research. In the doctor's own words:

"In 1989 I came in contact with an aerospace engineer with sound recordings from the Voyager spacecraft. These recordings were taken as Voyager passed by the outer planets of our Solar System - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. These NASA recordings from outer space, which were of charged electromagnetic particles (ions) in the magnetic fields of planets vibrating within the range of human hearing, sounded remarkably like ocean sounds, dolphins, choirs of voices singing, crickets and birds. There are also other sounds too strange to identify, but which seem very familiar. Interestingly enough, the rings of Uranus produce sounds like Tibetan bowl recordings that have been slowed to reflect their subtle harmonics. Could this be a deeper, vaster level of the collective unconscious mind...?"

This amazing connection between Patrick's first singing bowl vision of a ringed singing planet and the later discovery of the Nasa Uranus recording have offered credence to a strong cosmic connection to the powers of sound and the fundamentals of our universe.