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The Inner Wellthe Living Waters of the Feminine
You are made of water. Not the kind from the tap.
Before there were words, there was the hum.
The first sound a mother makes to a child who cannot be comforted is not a word. It is a tone — low, sustained, offered without explanation. The child settles. The body knows before the mind can follow.
The priestesses of Isis hummed through the rites of Osiris. Celtic women sang at the wells of Brigid and Sulis, in tones that matched the water moving through stone. India kept it as Bhramari, the humming bee breath.
In 2002 a laboratory found that humming raises nitric oxide in the sinuses fifteen fold over quiet breathing, and that the lowest tones do the most work.
What the biochemistry calls a gas, the older traditions called water.
She has always been humming.
Eleven chapters, and every one ends in something to do
She Wears Seven Colors
The rainbow body, and the morning attunement that opens it.
Above and Below
The waters and the light — and the descent into inner water.
The Mirror and the Spring
Soul-warmth, soul-light, soul-sound, and the mirror bath.
The Chamber of Resonance
What the body knows, and the bone hum that asks it.
The Clear Stream and the Muddy
Discernment, and a test for telling one from the other.
The Humming Practice
The full protocol for the inner well, in five steps.
Each one is a room, not a chapter
- FirstYou Are Polarized Water
- SecondOil and the Soul at the Threshold
- ThirdThe Mineral, the Planet, and the Invisible Ocean
- FourthThe Soul That Rises
- FifthThought Is Ice
The Morning Hum
Ten minutes, in Tazo’s voice. Sit down somewhere you will not be interrupted, close your mouth, and press play. The teaching is underneath it, and it waits until afterwards.
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You Are Polarized Water
The one that comes before every practice in the book. Not because it is easier — because nothing else works until it has been sat with. At the end there are eight states, and one of them is yours today.
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The Spring
This book has been the book of the well. The next is the book of the spring.
A well is still. Two people are not, and what rises between them has to be tuned rather than drawn.
Loving Egos · A Tuning Method · Book Three · Coming