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We are deeply woven into acoustic ecology. We are beings of silence and of sound, some oceanic consciousness. Sound means “to fathom the depth of the seas”. To be sound is “to be whole”, of sound, body, mind, healthy, intact. Sound is language the natural world speaks to us. I often reminisce about my soundscape revelations within the Ecuadorian rainforest. A special contact in the Amazonas intimately revealed to me that sound shapes the forest ecology. By listening you participate in it. My attention was fixed on various interplays of shifting densities and rich rhythmic intervals.Cicadas unremittingly emerged in dense layers, like an orchestra of syncopating maracas! Scores of species vocalizing at night, neo tropic birds would pop momentary with punctuating rhythms, then disappear and reappear at surprising intervals with shifting layered nuances as the day reached it's cyclicality. Finding one's circadian rhythm and sleeping within the forest canopy was lucid, dreamlike and beautiful. My awareness at dusk was fixed on what moved around me. Raindrops on vegetation gave me the sensation of droplets landing directly on my forehead!The density of the forest continually moves around us, rewires us, opens you up.  When a special contact with nature is created, you feel a physical and energetic depuration, that eliminates and unblocks sensibility. The experiencing body is not a self enclosed object, but a open incomplete entity, it's like various paths diverging from a forest. There are senses that are dormant in us.Once we are drawn deeper into resonance with life itself, it moves us in wonder, to consider the larger mysteries in life. We do not take our perception of the world around us seriously. We are encouraged by our visual culture to construct a visually based reality. We have conditioned our culture by the dominance of the eye. What if we used sound-based metaphors to articulate  something you see and feel, that most people cant?Sounds shape the corporeal. Sounds are determined by wavelengths.In fact wavelengths and ocsillations are what enable our retina to take in the visual spectrum of light. A visually based language is probably the worst in describing the layers of interconnections in which the world is made up of. I say that in a nuanced way, perhaps critical of what our visual culture has become. When we impose our space/time relationships on fixed objects, we limit ourselves from understanding the true interdependence of the web of life. This has serious implications on how we relate to our environment and with the people we interact with. When present in the stillness of things, silence becomes the presence of everything. Sound as frequency, vibration, is perhaps the best means of perceiving the inner workings of our mind, as it relates to consciousness and into the realms of the universe. Every culture has some form of music, some form of oral tradition, song and dance. In the archaic world, ritual was the tool to facilitate connection to the sacred. However, in our post-modern society, and at a time of ecological crisis, we have lost ritual. We need an archaic revival to remind us of the sacred. Sound metaphors can provide us means of reminding us of our physical connection to the woven tapestry of the biosphere. Air, water, trees, soil bind the social fabric. These tangibles where gifts given to us, we did not earn them. Listening to the natural world is different from looking at it. Deep listening should be a conscious experience. Our eyes are conditioned to place boundaries within phenomena, our notion of color and our rational minds, define separate contours in space. Sound blends things together, there is no inseparability between phenomena. In fact, the natural world, is a micro-cosmos shaped by sound. Bio acoustic habitats emanate frequencies not audibly perceivable to the human ear. Scientific tools such as geophones can detect ground movement, because the earth shakes bellow us. Mathematics in western culture was born from the sense of sound, not vision. Pythagoras heard the ratios of the monochord vibrating, from that perception came arithmetic. There’s also ample evidence in the field of archeo acoustics that suggests acoustics were closely linked to architecture. Many of the sacred sites around the world, including the pyramids at Giza in Egypt, Stonehenge in the U.K. and Epidavros in Greece, where conceived primarily as resonate chambers, sound proportions being the medium in mapping the heavens and understanding the stars . Additionally these sacred sites would facilitate healing and ritual, as science can attest to geo-resonance within and around proximity. Trees resonate at very low frequencies, in fact, during the wet seasons, early spring, they amplify. Annular rings in trees are dead cells being pushed out each year by osmotic pressure. Osmotic pressure can be detected by  hydrophones.A hydrophone is sensitive to pressure waves in liquids. When trees resonate, insects and birds are  drawn to the trees subtle frequency. Consider a humpback whale song-There like fugues, divided into themes, and a new theme is introduced every couple of years during the mating season. They depend on these songs to feed and communicate. Some orca vocalizations can carry for up to twenty five thousand miles,the circumference of the entire earth! It’s an earthly resonance, and who isn’t drawn to such resonance. Contrary, cities fill us with noise pollution, chaos, intrusions and cognitive dissonance. Ships, sonar and seismic surveys are interfering and displacing our species within the oceans.  The same applies to a number of other species due to geopathic stress lines, EMI, 4G and newly developed 5G towers.We’ve lost the importance of quiet in our lives and are out of touch with the reciprocity of nature. How do we reclaim one square inch of silence when our world has been encroached by development and by modernities technological ambiguity? Silence is our greatest teacher.Silence evokes deep contemplation. Contemplation leads us to ponder greater mysteries in life. Silence and active listening bonds us to our lovers. To listen in silence is about expanding one's spirit. Music, song and dance also means of expanding the spirit. Our acoustic ecology today defines us as people. Nobel prize recipient Robert Koch said: “The day will come when man will have to fight noise as inexorably as cholera and the plaque.” We need to fall back in love with the sensuous sounds of the depth world. Preserving natural silence is essential and should be sought for, reclaiming spaces that where once reserved for solitude. Silence cannot be imagined, you have to let your soul swell in the wonder of silence. And if our vanishing natural quiet disappears, how do we expect to tackle more complex environmental and social issues?

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                       Listen carefully as to what the earth is saying,

                       Keep praying.

                       Some mystic revelation,

                       my interpretation.  

                       Figuratively speaking,

                       keep Breathing.

                       Let's listen in time,

                       eternally to each other,

                       a plea to a star, a journeying God, to a flower,

                       love is power.

                       Present in the moment,

                       the inner poet,

                       Your shades of colors show it,

                       Now you know it​

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                       -Dimitri Katsouli